Winlessa felt that she had been on the battlefield a few times, and had seen bloody scenes; When she was in the Dammod Fortress, although Wen Lesa had never seen the scene of flesh and blood flying in the cave of the city gate, she had at least witnessed the scene of the entire courtyard being soaked in blood and reddish-brown between battles. But even so, when she saw the picture in front of her, Wen Lesa couldn't hold back her physical discomfort, held Arthas's shoulder, and retched.

Frost Grief naturally wouldn't let go of any opportunity to mock Wen Lesa, but in Arthas's eyes, the little demon sword was aggrieved and didn't let himself laugh out loud. Arthas caressed Winlessa's back, who was already half-crouched on the ground, and looked ahead—the bloody scene that made Winlessa unable to hold herself.

Not far ahead, there is a small stream left behind from the mountains, and because of its proximity to the source, the flow of the stream is very slow. Because of this, the entire stream visible in the field of vision of Arthas and the others has been dyed a faint red, and the source of this red is a fish-man village by the stream.

The world of Azeroth is home to many races, dwarves and humans, High Elves and goblins, to name a few. Fish-people are also a humanoid intelligent creature living in this world. No one knows where the fish-people came from, but some scholars speculate that they came from the ocean to land.

It has been established that the fish-people are aquatic. Between their fingers and toes, a thin webbed membrane grows, and at the backs and joints, there are fins that have not completely degenerated. Most of the fish-people live by the sea, but the current fish-man village at least shows that the fish-people can also live inland.

However, it was only the former fish-man village, and the houses built of wood and aquatic plants had been burned down, leaving a handful of charred ashes; The fish people who were supposed to live here have been ...... Arthas was unable to find a single intact fish-man, or rather the corpse of a fish-man.

Fish-people are about the same size as humans, as they tend to be a size smaller than humans because they are always on their backs. But now Arthas was covered with only broken corpses all over the ground—yes, broken corpses, as if they had been shredded by a sharp axe and then bitten by some wild beast.

Mograini took a few steps forward, crouched on the ground, looked through a broken bone on the ground with his iron gauntlet, and then turned back to Arthas and said in a heavy tone: "Your Royal Highness Prince Arthas, it seems that some wild beast has attacked this village. Arthas continued to reassure Winlessa as he shook his head and said, "It's not like ...... At least not just beasts. ”

Mograine was stunned for a moment, but then realized - although the tooth marks and paw prints on these corpses must have been left by beasts; But there are also obvious marks of being chopped by knives and axes on these corpses, so they must not have been left by wild beasts.

"Orc...... It must be an orc. "Although he did not expect that there would be such a fish-man village in the orc-occupied area, Mograine felt that such a brutal slaughter of a fish-man village and feeding the meat on the corpses to the beasts would be such an act that only those orcs could do - besides, who can guarantee that the tooth marks and paw prints on these corpses were not made by the group of green-skinned cubs who had a beastly attack and gnawed on themselves?

After squatting on the ground for a while, Winlessa felt a little calmer, and stood up a little awkwardly, but still didn't dare to look at the place covered with broken bones of the fish-men. Arthas was very bold, and even if it was a little bloodier, it would not be much more disgusting than the abomination and ghoul-infested Icecrown Fortress.

After wandering around the fish-man village for a while, Arthas made his own judgment - this village was raided at lunchtime, and it may have been less than an hour since now. The houses in the village were burned down, but outside, some of the overturned clay pots of fish and shrimp were poured on the ground, the soup still warm, like the bones that had not been cold.

Soon, Arthas discovered another problem, which gave birth to an idea in his heart that was both motivating and chilling. The little prince walked briskly to the outskirts of the village and said to Mograine, who was standing there, "I think we may be very close to Grimbaatar. ”

Mograini raised an eyebrow and did not speak, waiting for Arthas's next step. The little prince pointed to the ground in the village and said, "Mograine, you see, these bones, although they have just been killed, except for the head and limbs of the fish-man, all the bones have been scraped clean; Except for the fins, there was not even any minced flesh on the ground. ”

When Mograini turned his head to observe the ground of the village, Arthas pointed to the burned houses and said: "This place was attacked, it must have been not long ago, the blood on the ground has not dried up, and the corpses have not yet been completely cold; But these houses have burned down...... It's not like a simple fire, it's like ......"

"Red Dragon's Flames?" Mograini replied - he had to admire His Royal Highness the Prince of Arthas's ability to observe, and he would certainly not pay attention to such details if he were his own. Arthas nodded and said, "I think we are very close to Grimbaatar, and this village should have been destroyed by the joint attack of the orcs and the red dragon...... It's just that I don't understand, the orcs shouldn't have set up a base in Grimbaatar on the first day, and this fish-man village can't be just migrated here, why did the orcs choose this time to raid this village? ”

Mograini had no way to answer Arthas's question, and the little prince knew it. Although the scene after the bloody slaughter of these fishmen by the orcs was very tragic, Arthas had no intention of feeling anything sad for them. There is an overlap between the living areas of the fish and the human, and these guys are not very good-natured people.

If there are lone human travelers or small caravans passing through the territory of the Fishmen, don't expect any trade with the humans. Although there is solid evidence that the fish people are capable of language and have their own writing, when they encounter humans, they will only scream and rush up in droves to capture the human traders and travelers. As for the fate of these tragic human beings...... If it weren't for the fact that the wetlands were now occupied by orcs, the overturned crockpots might have contained human limbs.