7. The living dead
Later, they successfully joined Uther, and Uther, of course, did not believe Zhang Li, although this old man was a noble paladin, but like all old men, he was stubborn and seemed a little twilight.
"Just because you don't know doesn't mean it doesn't exist! Your arrogance and ignorance will ruin the world!" the beast's pupils and fangs made him look very hideous, and he yelled at Uther, Zhang Li suppressed his non-existent anger, and tried to make a calm gesture to Arthas: "You will trust me, it won't be long, and then I hope you can make the right choice." ”
Left a sentence and left here.
But in fact, he did not leave, he turned into an eagle and hung far behind Arthas's team, after all, his purpose was to gain the trust of Arthas and others, and then seek the mysterious power of this world.
Next, just like in the plot, Arthas, who was preparing to return to the court, got a new order, and the old king asked him to assist Gianna in investigating the plague incident in Andohar, this father played a good assist, in the eyes of everyone, Gianna is the best wife candidate for Alsace, they are a match made in heaven, not only the two have no guesses, Gianna as the daughter of the ruler of the island country of Kurtilas, is also very compatible with Arthas in terms of identity, and she also has a very amazing mage talent, studying under the archmage of Dalaran Antonidas, and is considered to be a woman who can definitely be promoted to the archmage。
In fact, in Zhang Li's opinion, if Arthas hadn't become one with the Lich King Naozu in the future, he would not be worthy of Gianna at all if he threw away the name of the prince, what is the most talented paladin, Zhang Li has seen his battle with his own eyes, this is obviously a shameful braggart, Zhang Li dares to say that at least half of those young paladins in his team can beat him, they just don't dare to win.
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It can be seen that Arthas and Gianna are very happy to see each other, they are now in the stage of honey blending, Gianna has just handed herself over to Alsace not long ago, if this is a normal love period of young men and women, it is estimated that they can't wait to stick together all day.
Thankfully, the two had not forgotten their mission, and the Alsace army began to move, and then, as in the game, they arrived on the outskirts of Andorhar, where they helped the locals strangle a group of bandits and then repair the broken bridge.
I don't know who cut the bridge, his purpose is likely to prevent the spread of the plague, and those who are familiar with the Scourge know that the reason why they were able to quickly put the plague into all corners of Lordaeron is that they put the plague in the grain, and the grain will be transported to various places through merchants, so this broken bridge actually stopped the plague from a certain point of view, but it can only be delayed for a short time.
"Teacher Uther, there were a lot of priests gathered there before you left Andorhar, right, and the plague must have been brought under control. "Riding on his horse, Arthas didn't pay much attention to this plague, the power of the Light is so strong, he has never heard of any disease that the Light can't solve.
The humans of this world do not have antibiotics, they can still live to be more than 100 years old, and the human body is higher than that of the earth, and there is another reason that the power of the Holy Light is the power.
Of course, most of the people who can enjoy the holy light are nobles, and the difficulty of ordinary people to see a doctor is basically no less than that of the Celestial Empire.
Arthas had expected Uther to laugh and tell him that the plague was easy to solve, but Uther frowned.
"To be honest, this plague is very strange, I observed some patients before leaving, these people have a large number of dark spots on their bodies, and they are very sensitive to light, especially the holy light, some seriously ill people will even be stimulated by the holy light and die......" Uther's words really shocked Arthas, the holy light has always been bright and warm in his heart, and he was stimulated by the holy light to die?
"That's why His Majesty the King has commissioned Dalaran to investigate this plague. At this point, Gianna took over.
"My teacher suspects that the plague is caused by some supernatural force, most likely an evil demon. "The Guardians of Dalaran have captured many demons, and Dalaran's prison is full of all kinds of strange creatures, and since Medivan's death, the Guardians have been disconnected, so they have to send someone else to investigate the strange incident.
"Demons? I haven't seen these legendary creatures, do they really exist?"
"I've seen some demons, they all look very strange......"
Not knowing that the crisis of annihilation was imminent, they chatted in a relaxed tone in other directions, and then ......
"What are these things?dead people?how can they move?Gianna!Is this some kind of black magic!?" Arthas watched in amazement as a group of walking dead in the true sense of the word attacked the local garrison, thousands of living dead forcing the poor garrison to hold on to a narrow area, and it seemed that they couldn't hold out much longer.
The Living Dead...... Arthas suddenly remembered what Zhang Li had said.
Gianna's face was also ugly, but as a mage, she was much more receptive to the situation than Arthas, and she looked at the undead for a few moments, and then concluded, "I...... I don't know, maybe it's some kind of dark spell, this spell is a forbidden spell in Dalaran, and I don't have the qualifications to check it yet......"
"Anyway, save those soldiers first!" Uther spoke, and the veteran gave the order to attack, and the elite troops of Arthas rushed into battle.
After a while, these fresh undead were cleaned up by the soldiers, if the undead could not form a sea of undead, then the strength was average, as long as the fear was eliminated, one-on-one could generally be easily won, the number of troops in Arthas was about the same as this group of undead, so they only paid a very small sacrifice.
These sacrifices are also out of carelessness, dealing with the undead, one thing to be very careful about, the conventional vital point cannot kill them when attacked, even if the body is in half, their upper body can still move, only destroy most of their body or directly hit the head to completely "kill" them.
"Thank you from the bottom of my heart, my Highness, that many of the villagers have suddenly gone mad, they have turned into such monsters and attacked us, and many dead people have crawled out of their graves. "The rescued garrison has a look on his face, and if Arthas were a little late, they would not dare to imagine what would happen to them......
"What the hell is going on, why are they like this?" Arthas asked eagerly.
"Your Highness the Prince, I don't know, they were fine in the morning, and then suddenly it was like this, and I suspect it is because of the recent epidemic of the plague. ”
The Living Dead...... This situation was in the middle of Zhang Li's prophecy, and Arthas's mood was very heavy, and his face was very gloomy.
Arthas ordered the soldiers to search the city for the living, and soon after, a soldier arrives with news that he has noticed that the land near the granary is very strange.
Then they hurried to the granary, where the land was not only strange, almost all of it was dead soil, not burned scorched earth, but black earth that exuded the smell of death.
"This land, it seems to be dying...... Gianna felt everything around her, and if there was a shaman here, they would find that it was the dying wail of the earth element.
"Could it be that the barn is the source of the spread of the plague?" Alsace said.
"Hopefully not, these granaries in Andohar are responsible for the food supply of the entire eastern part of the kingdom, and if there is a problem with these grains, I don't know how many people will be implicated. Gianna said worriedly.
Arthas looked at the ominous granary, and Gianna's words gave him a very bad feeling.
"Burn this granary! Captain! Send someone to tell all the lords in the east and my father about this!