Volume 5 The Return of the King 49 The Dead

Do you know what it's like to be wanted? I...... It seems like it's been a long time since I've been chased like this.

Of course they can't catch me, and I'm completely confident of that, just like before.

I took off the mask from my face and sat on the side of the road pretending to be an old man. After a while, a large number of guards appeared on the road, and the crowd who did not know the truth hurriedly dodged to the side.

"What's going on?" A passer-by who was pushed aside and almost fell glared at the guards searching the street with great dissatisfaction.

The guards didn't say anything, but only asked if the people around them had seen a young man dressed in black running past here. Everyone on the road shook their heads, and finally a guard saw a few of us squatting on the side of the road and walked towards us.

"Have you seen a young man hurrying past here?" Sitting with me were all old men, all looking up at the tall guards with their heads up. The old men on my left and right stared at them intently with their big, deep-set eyes. The guard glanced at us, cursed, turned and left.

"Are these guys crazy?" I muttered.

"They haven't been normal lately." An old man said in disgust.

"I've killed so many people in the past two days, and this group of guys is not finished......" I said quietly.

"It's been a hard time for these executioners." An old man on the side said in an extremely hoarse voice.

"Did you find something again?" I snorted.

"Who knows, they can find suspicious at any time and arrest people at any time. Hey, didn't you say you caught a few more a week ago? The old man on the left looked at us, "Are those people you killed two days ago?" Are they judged? ”

"But I don't think I figured anything out." I say. "Do you think the king will come back?"

"Does it matter if he doesn't come back?" An old man spat on the ground.

"How do you think he compares to his father?" I asked.

"How?" Everyone around them snorted.

"I feel like he's a far cry from his father, Ryan." A bald head said.

"That's right, but his dad is also very average, and so is his grandfather." One of the emaciated fellows said, "Baratheon was killed, Ryan was assassinated, and Varian didn't die well, ha!" ”

"How do I feel like House Ureon is cursed?" I pouted.

"I think I've heard of it." The hoarse man said.

"It's possible." The bald head nodded and said, "No one in their family will die well......"

"The throne originally belonged to the Lothar family." I said, "Anduin Lothar." I glanced at the people around me, "Do you remember that man?" ”

"Of course I do." Everyone nodded, "He's a good guy." ”

"He died in Blackstone Mountain, right?" Someone asked.

"Yes, Blackstone Mountain." I said, "The throne was his, and it was taken from the House of Lothar by the House of Urien." ”

"You're saying that House Lothar has cursed them?" The guy on my right asked with interest.

"But Varian is also of Lothar blood." I say.

"That's right! Varian's mother is...... Lothar's sister. The skinny guy said. And ye know this. ”

"Surely the usurper will not be blessed by God." The hoarse voice said, "This time it's a backlash." ”

"Then this little prince is estimated to not reign too long." The bald head snorted twice.

"Now it's Berval as regent." I said, "Bolval now has a lot of troops. ”

"Do you think he dares to rebel?" The bald head shook his head and said.

"He shouldn't dare." I say.

"His daughter isn't in Stormwind, is she?" Someone next to him chimed in.

"He's just a daughter." The bald head nodded.

"Then his rebellion seems a bit ...... Not cost-effective. I laughed.

"It's better to be a king yourself than to be a dog to someone else."

"Do you think he can do it?"

"His chances are the best, after all, the kid is still young."

"I don't think it's that easy, Leo Orik and Grayson absolutely disagree."

"They're not as strong as Boval."

"But the two of them can unite."

"Pull it down, the two of them aren't that friendly."

"Even if it's expedient, you have to join forces first."

"But I don't think it's just Bolval who can fight for the crown." I said lightly, "What's that name now...... Hasn't Katrana's woman been quite popular lately? ”

"Hah! That woman! "Everyone's interest was aroused all of a sudden.

"Does she have a leg with Bolval?" Said in a hoarse voice.

"But I've heard she's not just related to Bolval."

"You're all talking nonsense." I retort.

"You know a!" The bald head said: "That woman is not a good stubble, don't you know?" ”

"She's a person with a head and a face, and she's still a woman."

"The aristocrats play more flamboyant than the rich merchants." The bald head said: "Only we can't think of it, there is nothing they can't do." ”

"But this kind of thing doesn't have a good impact."

"When the power is big enough, all the bad influences become good." The skinny old man curled up, "She's in full swing right now. ”

"That woman is very ambitious." I say.

"I don't think she's a good stubble." Said the bald head.

"Could this woman have something to do with Defia?" I say.

Everyone was stunned for a moment, and then balded their heads and said, "...... you are talking about"

"Who was that some time ago...... What is the king's chief of guard called...... Isn't Coulson just on good terms with her? I said.

"Unlikely." Some people questioned.

"It's not all in order!" Said in a hoarse voice.

"You know who benefits the most from this." I say.

"Nabovar is the most suspicious."

"Is there a possibility that the Brotherhood will be used as a gun?" I say.

"Of course it is!" The man with a hoarse voice snorted. "They must have been taken advantage of, you see?"

"I'm just skeptical......" I said.

"It's best not to talk about it all over the place, if you don't want to be arrested for Defia." The shrivelled old man curled up looked at the guards on duty not far away.

"I heard that Edwin Van Cleve's brother is not dead." I said this softly.

"Really?" The bald head turned to look at me.

"I heard about it from the tavern, too." I say.

"Really!" One guy interjected, "I think it's true." ”

"You're so good? And you think it's true! Why? The bald head asked rhetorically.

"The king lost it, and he did it if he couldn't keep it." The man said.

"That's a bit of an exaggeration." Said the bald head. "You think it's that easy?"

"But Edwin is dead, and didn't there be news some time ago that he's back? Who else could he have? ”

"But I remember this guy was executed before?" I say.

"No, I know the rumors of that guy, he is King Varian's personal guard, and he was arrested after finding out that there was a problem, until he was Edwin's younger brother, and later it was said that he infiltrated the royal city to assassinate Lady Katrana and was unsuccessfully caught."

"And then executed?" The bald head clearly didn't believe it.

"He said he was executed, but rumors from some time ago said he wasn't...... He was ordered by the king to sink into the sea, but he didn't know how to escape. ”

"Could it be that Varian did it on purpose?" I say.

"No, it won't."

"It's also possible, after all, he's still a meritorious man."

"It's hard to say......"

The group of people chatted word by word, and when the sun did not shine, they also got up and left. The conversation ended, but the fall of night did not end the manhunt, but the night became stricter, and even the curfew was directly curfew.

I'm wandering in the alley trying to figure out what to do, Katrana doesn't seem to want to give up, and she must know that the civilians just now know that I'm back, and this time she must find me out, and she will find me out alive and dead. And after being exposed just now, this woman will definitely not continue to live at home, she must be in the palace with better security now.

Squatting on the roof and listening to the patrolmen below passing through the alley, if you can't do it, you have to retreat quickly. This news must have been known to Reggie and the others, not to mention whether any of the people in this group deliberately framed me back then, but now it's hard to say what they think of me and treat me, and it's not fun to say that the army is dispatched.

The next day there were still a lot of soldiers on the street, and I came to a hotel that had just been searched. Some people were driven out because they were searched, there weren't that many people in the tavern, and the bartender's face was obviously not very good when I sat on the edge of the bar.

"These guys are crazy." I say.

"It's not just crazy." The bartender gritted his teeth, "These damn bunches. ”

"The search has been going on since yesterday, what are they searching?" I asked.

"Yesterday there were burglars in Ms. Katlana's house." There is a well-informed person next to him who said.

"Who else dares to go to her house?" I was surprised and said, "Is that guy crazy?" ”

"It is said to be the younger brother of Edwin, the leader of the original Difia." The man next to him lowered his voice and said.

"Who?" I tried to keep my voice as low as I could.

"Edwin's brother. Edwin Van Cleef. The man said.

"Who did you listen to, isn't Edwin dead?" The bartender said.

"His brother." The man said.

"Didn't I remember that his brother was also dead?" The bartender continued, "Recently, there have been rumors of this matter, and I don't know if it's true or not. ”

"I don't think it's possible." I said, "There's no way Edwin's brother is going to her house." ”

"Don't you know? It was he who went to assassinate Katrana and was caught. The man said.

"Are you saying it's revenge?" I say.

"Possibly." The man snorted.

"How do you know?" The bartender asked.

"I have a brother who served in the military, he said." The guy said with some pride.

"But I heard this guy came back from the north, when did he get to Stormwind?" I say.

"North? Lordaeron? ”

"Haven't you heard? Lordaeron has become the land of the dead. I said.

"I just heard something happened in the north."

"It is said that there was a plague in the north, and many people died, and then the dead were raised." I said lightly.

The bartender looked at me with a complicated expression.

"The resurrection of the dead?" The man next to him was a little unconvinced.

"A dead horse was found at the docks some time ago." I said, "That horse came back from the dead." ”

They obviously didn't know the news. "Really?"

"Really." I said, "I thought you all knew that." ”

"I really don't know about it." The bartender said.

"That ship is said to be the Brotherhood of Defia's stolen ship." I glanced at them both.

"Didn't your brother tell you?" I asked the guy.

He shook his head and looked me in the eye and said, "Do you think that guy is also dead?" ”

I left Stormwind a few days later, but before I left Stormwind, news that Edwin's brother would return to Stormwind for revenge had spread through all the taverns. The legend in their mouths is already very similar to the real situation, there is a horse from Lordaeron in the Stormwind Fortress, this horse can only be ridden by the dead, it is a war horse that has come back from the dead. And the owner of the horse is Edwin's own brother, he has a name named Bill Max, King Varian's former Kingsguard, a warrior who helped King Ryan resist the orc invasion, a warrior who followed Anduin Lothar to fight in the entire orc war, and a patriot who helped recover the kingdom of Stormwind.

But everyone didn't know his other name, and no one knew. But it doesn't matter, the main thing is that he is back, and that he is a dead man, a dead man who has returned from Lordaeron, a man who has planned and participated in the disappearance of the king. He's back for revenge! Avenge his brother, avenge his forsaken by the king.

And the first thing he wants to kill when he comes back is Count Catlana Presto, he wants to first get back the revenge of being imprisoned and persecuted from this woman, so he was the one who was searched for in the whole city a few days ago, but this guy is elusive, he will definitely kill that woman.

When the topic became the new talk on the streets, I left the city satisfied, and I was sure that the news would soon reach the town of Shining Gold, and from there it would spread to most corners of the kingdom.

I don't know if it's the right thing to do, but when I feel something different from the upper echelons of the crowd, I feel good. Among those people are gloating, there are those who are not too big to see the excitement, and there are those who are not used to seeing the Brotherhood being hostile to the Brotherhood. But when I learned that not everyone was hostile to the Brotherhood, if not loud support, at least not that annoying. It is as if a seed is germinating, a spark is spreading, and the trend of a prairie fire is forming.

During the few days I spent in the town of Shininggold, I kept arching the fire, and the rest of the story was even more evil, Bill Max almost had three heads and six arms, and some people even worshipped Bill as a hero and idol. People who don't like Katrana seem to be there a lot of people!

There was an investigation team in the town, and they came specifically to deal with this rumor, which in their words was a rumor, but the more people tried to cover it up, the more people believed it. This kind of thing can't be covered!

Then I left Glitter again satisfied. Now that I'm going to Donggu Town, maybe this rumor can spread a little further......