Chapter 11: Unfortunate News and Reality
Bidding farewell to little Pamela, Hiko embarks on a journey to save Pamela and save his own heart with great determination. Pen~Fun~Ge www.biquge.info although he doesn't know much about this world, he doesn't have enough understanding of what the entire Lordaeron Kingdom has experienced. But he was resolute and did not hesitate at all.
No one can imagine what a painful, lonely journey it was. Without little Pamela, Hiko didn't even have a person to talk to. Wandering outside the whole world, he is lonely and empty. But he was aware of it.
Measuring the land of the Eastern Kingdom with his feet, step by step through the land that has been turned gray by natural disasters. Hiko begins to search for the loved ones that little Pamela misses. He couldn't ask those who were alive because no one could hear him. So he could only stay around everyone he met, judging their identity by their conversations with others.
It was time-consuming, but it was the only way he could work. And it was in this way that he gradually penetrated into a special organization, stationed in this land that had been destroyed by the natural disaster, and was committed to expelling the silver dawn of the natural disaster.
It's a relatively pure organization, because as far as Hiko's own observation goes, most of the people here are dedicated guys. Unlike the fanatical Crusaders who liked to wear blood-colored armor, and unlike the soldiers who often ran out of the border to probe their brains to inquire about the situation. These people seem to have only one idea, and that is to fight against natural disasters.
In order to fight those zombies, the undead. There are people in this organization who are sacrificing their lives at every turn. And the reason for this is because most of them have been robbed of everything by the undead natural disaster. Loved ones, loved ones, and even all the things in life that are worth cherishing. For those of them who are alive, it seems that fighting the undead of the Scourge is the only purpose of their lives. Nothing else. And this also made Hiko feel hopeful.
If Pamela's relatives were still alive, they must have been here. They will fight for Pamela, and they will take revenge on the poor little man. That's what he thinks, and that's exactly what it is. It's just that, compared to what he imagined, the gap is still a little too big.
Because he only found Uncle Carlin in Pamela's mouth in the Silver Dawn, a somewhat bald middle-aged man. As for the rest, he didn't find anything. Not because they gave up the idea of avenging Pamela, but because, most of them are dead.
Pamela's uncle, Karin Redpass, was a silent man. He rarely spoke, no matter to anyone. When Hikoko followed him, he found that he spent most of his time fighting the Scourge undead. Taciturn, he only knows how to wield the sword in his hand. It was as if he were a tireless robot, with only one goal in mind: slaughtering the undead.
And after a fierce battle, Carlin, who was drinking alone, was drunk, crying bitterly and confiding in his heart.
His family is completely finished. Aunt Maraine, whom Pamela often talked about, died in a natural disaster, and her mother was killed by an undead attack while visiting her husband. And the most tragic is Pamela's father, the hero she has been waiting for.
The man named Joseph was cast with terrible magic because he led the militia of Talon County to fight bravely against the Scourge and turned into a scourge undead in the hands of his enemies. He became a weapon in the hands of the enemy, a tragic and terrible stain. That's why the inhabitants of Talonshire don't want to talk about him, because he's both a hero and a devil. Like a taboo, people can't help but forget in the corner of memory.
If this was the tragedy of the last generation of the Redpass family, then the death of Pamela Jr. was the greatest pain in their family. The youngest child left the Redpass family with only Carlin and Pamela's sister who fled to another continent with the fugitives. This is tantamount to completely destroying this once happy family. And for Carlin, a silent man, the death of his niece is the saddest thing for him, he really regards Pamela as his own child, his little angel. Losing her made him feel like a walking corpse even if he was alive.
Hiko watched him have nightmares throughout the night, and then chanted Pamela's name in his dreams. And when he wakes up, he will be selfless and thrown into the fight, as if he doesn't care if he will die because of it. He was pushing himself into a corner, into the abyss of death and destruction. But this man is willing.
It was his choice, and Hikoko understood his choice very well. Because they are all the same in their hearts, they cannot let go of Pamela's death. The difference is that Carlin and him have found different ways to vent. He chose destruction, while Hiko chose redemption.
Which is better or worse, no one can say. But Hiko knew that this was the only way to free his conscience.
Leaving Carlin, Hiko hurried back in the direction of the ruins of Talon County. Having been away for a while, he now desperately wants to see little Pamela and tell her what he has discovered. But how do you tell Pamela the truth about what he heard?
The news I got was not good news, especially for Pamela as a child. Moreover, Hiko is sure that it is even more impossible to use this kind of news to bring Pamela to rest. But what else could he do? Yan couldn't think of it! Because of his own powerlessness, he was only confused and frustrated about what was going to happen.
Still, he decided to tell Pamela what he had gotten. Although he couldn't tell her everything he knew, just the news of Carlin and her sister would still make Pamela feel a little comforted.
As soon as this idea came up, Hiko's heart immediately felt motivated. Even the speed of returning with him became faster. He hadn't seen little Pamela for months, and he believed that the lonely child must have been waiting in a hurry. I can't wait to know what I'm asking about.
With a goal, time flies. The journey of a few months seemed to Hiko's senses as short as a week, and when he set foot on the ruins of Talon County again, he immediately couldn't help but shout at the house where little Pamela was.
"Pamela, I'm back. I brought you news from your uncle!"
Hiko had thought that the news would make the poor and cute little ghost run out like a gust of wind, and then chatter around him to ask him about the situation. But the truth was not as he thought, no one answered him, not to mention the lively figure of little Pamela, even the walking corpses that roamed here, had disappeared.
What happened?'s mind immediately crossed the mind, and he began to run towards Pamela's position. And along the way, he obviously saw a lot of strange things.
It seems that the ruins of Talonshire have been damaged again, and many dilapidated houses have been forcibly pushed to the ground. And from the thick ashes, Hiko could clearly see a large, somewhat deformed footprint.
It didn't look like a human footprint, because a human footprint couldn't have been so big, and so bloated and twisted. At the same time, it doesn't look like the footprints of some animal. Because the animal's footprints won't be so heavy, and they won't be this weird shape.
As a Nord person, Yan has already learned how to judge the facts from such details. He stopped at the edge of the footprints and took in a closer look at everything around him. Soon, he found some useful clues.
He found a lot of dirty blood in the vicinity, in addition, there were many traces of forcible destruction. For example, the scratch on a wooden stake not far away, just by seeing this scratch, Hiko can be sure that it must be a very sharp weapon.
In addition, there is an important clue. It was a somewhat sharp plank, and the crack had caused one end of it to warp, and the warped end was right in the path of the footprint. It seemed to have cut through something, so much so that a thick, dirty color had completely impregnated it with another.
Although he can't touch and taste it, of course, Hiko doesn't have this hobby. But he still determined the origin of this footprint through his own judgment and comparison with what he had seen and heard during this period of time.
Abomination, a high-level class of the Undead Scourge. Compared to its primary form, the corpse stitcher, this undead life is more powerful and terrifying.
Whether it's an abomination or a corpse stitching monster, it's a monster that the Scourge undead put together from their corpses. The difference is that Abomination has an advantage over corpse stitchers in terms of size and combat ability. If it's a corpse stitch monster that's just a monster that moves instinctively and wants to devour the corpse with violence. Then the abomination is its enhanced and advanced version.
It is also capable of feeding on corpses, and even evolves a large mouth made of bones and internal organs in its abdomen to facilitate its eating, making it more terrifying and more lethal. Because no one wants to fight this monster head-on, but also beware of being bitten by him or sprayed with a mouthful of highly corrosive acid.
In addition, it already has its own simple thinking. From a moving mass of flesh to a monster that is chaotic but already able to think. This immediately makes it a little more dangerous. At the same time, because of intelligence, it also learned to operate weapons. The Scourge placed a hook chain of more than thirty meters in the body of this huge monster, and once this weapon like a slaughterhouse hooked to an animal was skillfully used by the Abomination, it could instantly turn this behemoth into an extremely terrifying killing tool.
Hiko, who had seen a lot of battles in the Eastern Plaguelands, remembered how the Abomination in the Scourge Legion had used this terrible weapon to hook the distant Silver Dawn soldiers in front of him and feast on them. It would be an absolute nightmare for any living person. So much so that many veterans of the Silver Dawn have warned their juniors like this.
"Watch out for the giant monsters in the shadows, and especially be careful not to face it, or turn your back to it. If you don't want to be an animal in a slaughterhouse, if you don't want to be food. Then it's best to stay away from these damn butchers. ”
Yes, the soldiers of the Silver Dawn gave this monster an apt name, the butcher. And the meaning of the name is enough to make the heart of anyone who can understand its meaning tremble.
And for the Abomination Butcher would actually appear here, a town that has been abandoned. Hiko said that he didn't understand, and at the same time, his heart was inevitably worried.
What about little Pamela? Will she be affected by the appearance of the Scourge Legion?