Volume IV Reign of Chaos 117 The Walking Dead
The time we were able to talk well was actually very close to Andohar.
Andoral is the largest city in the West Wilder region and is the central city. It is not only an economic and cultural center, but also the largest granary and grain distribution center in the entire West Verde region. With this city as the center, there are plains for hundreds of kilometers, and you haven't been to Andohar! Ha, it's really bustling there. Moreover, there are many more merchants coming and going from the north to the south here than in Lordaeron City.
At that time, it was already autumn, and it was also harvest season, and you should know how solid your heart is when you look at the endless wheat fields. At least that's how I feel in my heart, really! This kind of scene indicates that the people here are prosperous and rich.
Arthas asked me if there was such a sight in the Kingdom of Stormwind, and he didn't say it with a sense of confidence or pride, he didn't. It wasn't until I said that there was no farmland of this size in the Stormwind Kingdom, let alone such a good harvest, that he cocked his tail slightly, and his face was full of pride and rightfully relieved and proud.
But the further I went, the more I felt that something was wrong, and not only did I feel wrong, but Alsace also felt something wrong.
Ripe wheat is unexpectedly untended!
I don't really know when the wheat is ripe, what it has to look like when it is ripe, and what to do during this time when it is ripe. I don't understand. But at least there must be someone in the field! I've seen the walls of Andohar, but the fields are really ...... Not a single one!
Arthas immediately sent someone to the city to inform the governor and the duke that they had come out to meet them. It's not that Alsace is trying to make things difficult, it's just that this scene suddenly makes me feel very abnormal. But left and right could not wait, Arthas finally got impatient, and with a wave of his hand he summoned another herald, and I stopped him just as he ordered the man to report again.
"Something's wrong." I say.
Arthas glanced at me in surprise. "What did you say?"
"I have a feeling something has happened." I say it seriously.
Arthas looked at me for two seconds and shouted, "All on alert! Get ready to go into town! ”
The soldiers instantly came to their senses, raised their shields and tucked their spears under their armpits. As expected! When the gate to the city appeared in front of us, not only was the gate not closed, but the road was full of corpses, and they were all broken corpses!
The first thing that came to my mind was bandits or invasion, because I didn't think of any other reason than Arthas was cursing the army of Andorjar!
Yesterday we were still slowly and leisurely, as if the years were still quiet, but today this contrast is really unacceptable. Looking at the corpses on the road and not seeing the living...... It should be said that you can't see people on the street, it's hard to imagine that this is the main road of a mega city!
Faced with the current situation, we had to bite the bullet and go into the city. There are fewer people to bring! Arthas constantly complains about this problem, but he doesn't blame Arthas for this, who would have thought that such a problem would arise? The number of guards and patrols in the city of Andorhar is not counted, and the number of regular troops must be at least about 2,000 people, how can such a large place be lost, and we have talked and laughed along the way, why haven't we met a single one who came to report the news? Not even a single escape!
Although the gates of the city are wide open, we dare not take it lightly! It's a damn thing! After entering the city gate, we did not pay attention to the corpses on the ground, but first went to check the situation of the city defenses, but we did not know, when our soldiers screamed in terror and rushed down from the city wall, several of them had blood on their faces, and just as we were attracted by these frightened and speechless people, the soldiers around us shouted: "Beware of the enemy! Defensive formations! ”
Looking at the wall of the soldiers surrounding the prince, two soldiers covered in blood slowly walked to the edge of the wall. Although the city wall must be more than ten meters high, I can see the two guys clearly from this distance, they are not only covered in blood, especially near their faces and mouths......
"Be careful!" Someone yelled at them!
A frightened scene happened, the two things actually leaned out of the battlements of the city wall, and then fell from the wall more than ten meters high. With the exclamations of me and our soldiers, the guy really arched his head down, although it didn't seem to be long for more than ten meters, but when you put it up, you will find that this height is already five or six stories high, and jumping from this height is simply looking for death, and it is also landing on the ground with your head!
The two men were smashed to pieces.
We hurried to look at it and found that the broken person did not look like a normal person at all, whether it was skin, appearance, or limb state! The two frightened soldiers pointed to the broken corpse and shouted: "Be careful! That thing bites! ”
The two of them fell to the ground with their brains on the ground, and they couldn't move anymore, but immediately someone shouted to be careful. I looked up and saw several similar creatures coming out of the walls, and they were walking in a weird way. "Watch out for those things! They can't be killed! One of the soldiers said and ducked back.
It was extremely humiliating to hide as a soldier, and these soldiers were the prince's guards, and whatever it might be to make a fool of myself as an outsider, I felt that Arthas himself had to be very angry. Sure enough, he was furious, "Coward! As he spoke, he drew his sword from his belt. Kill them! ”
The prince's roar immediately relieved the soldiers, and they rushed down the stairs to the wall, but the two strange creatures chose to pounce directly from the wall. It's not planted, it looks like it's really the soldiers below with open hands, but this time someone below is picking them up!
Those weird soldiers smashed on the soldiers, and the smashed soldiers died on the spot, but those weird things actually got up!
This scene really shocked me with goosebumps. The soldiers turned their spears and stabbed at the few who didn't fall to their deaths, and the spears pierced their bodies, and I saw that one of them was pierced, but unaffected and opened its claws and grabbed at the soldier.
Are you used to looking at those dead people now? But when we saw this kind of thing, we were really scared and overwhelmed, we had never seen this kind of thing, and our perception was that we would definitely die if we destroyed the heart, but it didn't work at all for that thing.
Arthas swung his sword and slashed off the head of the thing, which went limp when it was detached from its original body.
"Cut off their heads!" The prince raised his sword and shouted.
The next battle was undoubtedly that we won, and the few guys on the other side posed a pitiful threat to us, but the scene in front of us told us that we really had to be careful, since this kind of thing appeared, if we just went into the city, it was very likely that we would not be able to get out.
I looked at the twenty or so people around me, "I suggest alerting Lordaeron and the surrounding area immediately and calling for help." ”
The prince looked at me, "We'll have to go into the city and see." ”
"Send the report first! Your Royal Highness! I said.
"I've got the final say on this." He dismissed my words outright. I frowned, his behavior just now worried me, this kind of behavior is very dangerous, but looking at the prince in front of me, I didn't persuade him again.
This city gate that has been recaptured has been given up by us, and my opinion has always been that at any time, you must be able to escape with your whole body and ensure your life as the first priority, so if you give up the city gate like this, there is no place to escape. But as I walked, I felt that it didn't matter if I didn't guard the city gate or not...... I think these 20 or so people may stay in vain.
Slowly walked into the city, and then found this city...... It's a dead city!
It's not living people walking on the streets, it's things like those things just now! I quickly motioned for our prince to remain silent, and I jumped off my horse and pulled out two weapons, and I glanced back at Arthas, not only to make sure he was safe, but also to see if he would withdraw. But His Royal Highness the Prince obviously has no intention of withdrawing.
I motioned for them not to follow, and I crept up, I don't know if it's ghostly or not, and the walking dead didn't seem to notice me anyway. The hammer in his left hand slammed into the head of the man, shattering the bones and digging the head of the hammer into the head of the unlucky man. Although it tilted its body, it stood still. This action made the walking corpses around me hear me, and I drew my knife and slashed at the neck of the nearest man-shaped thing.
The tip of the knife slashed the man's throat, but the thing only shook a little, and I realized something bad was wrong when his eyes were staring straight at me!
It wasn't too hard for me to deal with these monsters, but I was about to continue chopping melons and vegetables when I was spotted by a walking corpse in the distance. If it hadn't suddenly shouted out at the top of my voice, I would have thought it wouldn't make a sound. The price of this voice was the sudden influx of walking corpses from the house, from the alley, from the distant street in our direction.
"Run!" After cutting one, I shouted at Arthas.
Arthas didn't know if he was stunned or didn't think about running away at all! Contrary to my commands, he raised his weapon and rushed into the crowd on the avenue. Seeing this, I slashed two men and quickly approached the prince, who had given up his sword and replaced it with a war hammer hanging from the side of his horse.
Without fear, the prince rushed to the enemy.
Actually, I can understand what the prince did, but I couldn't understand it at all.
With the encouragement of His Royal Highness the Prince, and with the courage of the soldiers, I feel that the state of these twenty or so people has been brought to the extreme. They formed a group of four to six people, and the two pikemen behind the shield wall and the two men on the flanks were the strength of their group.
Poke, slash! I don't know why Arthas was so excited, he didn't seem to want to retreat at all, and he was much better at picking up a hammer than his teacher.
If someone hadn't reminded me that I don't know how the Prince of Arthas died, I'd look up! Shouting for Arthas to be careful, but it was too late, one of the guys who broke through our defenses pounced on the prince, and one of them broke through the defense and a second, and this chain reaction would collapse the chain of defense we formed in an instant.
That's it, it collapsed all at once! The defense line on our flank was broken by the monsters that pressed down in an instant, and then there was no more.
A claw grabbed the prince's cloak, and I cut it off directly from his claw. The prince looked at me in surprise, but he also saw that we were surrounded. To be honest, I didn't really want to save the prince at this time, I was thinking about where I had to rush out first.
When our defenses were almost gone, we heard a thud from something! Then came the sound of shattering. As a touch of coolness swept across my face, I suddenly saw a blue halo of dazzling light explode in the tide of the walking corpse.
"Gianna!"
When the prince saw the girl who had suddenly appeared in the crowd of walking dead, his voice was not only surprised, but also worried. But I was pleasantly surprised.
Gianna didn't answer Arthas, she was still talking to herself after freezing the corpses around her. In an instant, it was like a divine power descending from the sky, and I saw a large piece of ice falling from the sky directly on their bodies, and they were instantly smashed to the ground.
This situation gave me a great hope in my heart, and I was saved! And the golden light that flashed from Arthas's body at this time made me feel indescribable, not jealousy, not envy, and I had nothing to envy him, but when I felt that this golden light was intertwined with the blue magic power...... I just don't feel harmonious!
Arthas's sledgehammer had formed a whirlwind, and just as the snow melted in an instant as a blazing flame passed, the walking corpses were instantly blown to the ground where the golden light on Arthas's body passed. And Gianna stood in the wind and snow, I was not far from her, and I could fully understand the bone-chilling cold.
"Retreat! Fall back! I shouted.
There are more and more walking corpses, and it's okay to watch this pair of young boys and girls perform here, but if they can't support it, they will be torn apart. The soldiers are still very chicken thieves, they know what the situation is like, how many of their own people have been knocked down and bitten to death, everyone knows in their hearts, now I shout that I am a fool if I retreat and do not retreat, no matter what Arthas says, and he only cares about his own performance now, but for his group of guys who will not release the power of the Holy Light, saving their lives is the most important thing!
"Arthas!" I shouted at the top of my voice, if Gianna hadn't cooperated with us in retreating, I guess our prince would not have died!
We fought and retreated, and when we cleared the enemy behind us, we ran away!
Live, live first!