Chapter 863 94. Plague Pandemic
“Yes, these grains have been contaminated by rat men and were sent to every corner of the kingdom along with the caravans.”
At this moment, Annan Feel Shadowsong's sadness.
No wonder a Brotherhood of Shadow assassin wants to be a good person...because she's saving her home.
"You know this kind of thing is not a joke." Annan said to Shadow Song seriously.
"I can guarantee that the food here is contaminated."
Annan turned and walked down the hill: "I need to confirm."
The coachmen had loaded a cart of food, Annan left He went over and took the bat-wing-shaped dagger handed to him by Shadow Song and cut open the sack.
The bursting wheat seeds flowed out of the holes. Annan asked Ilimoyas to apply detection spells and purification spells... but found nothing.
"There is nothing wrong with these wheat." Annan looked at Shadow Song.
"If it were so easy to discover, the ratman's conspiracy would have been exposed long ago."
Shadow Song's serious look did not look like he was teasing himself. Annan said patiently: "Identifying something requires evidence...so how did you do it?" Do you know? I want to know the details.”
Shadow Song recounted her experience:
About five days ago, Shadow Song met a priest on her way back from a mission for the Brotherhood. , being hunted by a group of rat men.
"He told me that the food was contaminated. He asked me to take the news back to Gucheng and lure the rat men away myself."
Shadowsong is not very good at telling stories, and the real situation is much more dangerous than what she describes. Anyway, when the priest drew the attention of the rat people, Shadowsong returned to Valley City.
But she didn’t dare tell the news to the city hall. The nobles here are arrogant and old-fashioned. They can't even accept being saved by civilians... No one will believe what a Shadow Brotherhood assassin says.
“That’s it?”
Is a priest’s warning worth Shadowsong’s racking his brains to contact him? The assassins of the Brotherhood of Shadows are not little elves who believe in everything.
"I am certain that what he said is true." Shadow Song said firmly, "He is a druid."
It makes sense that no one would find out. Priests are the most sensitive to curses and pollution, but the gods have lost contact, and the priests have lost the abilities given by the gods and have become ordinary people.
But Druids have corresponding talents. Their sensitivity to nature is like a warlock's affection for the opposite sex, which is almost innate.
And druids never lie.
The problem is that Annan doesn’t know the priest, or the priests he knows are all dead.
“Boss, it’s them!”
Just when he was thinking about asking for help from the empire, a shout suddenly came from a distance.
The smoker led the gang members and pointed here.
“I shouldn’t have hesitated.”
Worried that his actions would be exposed, Shadow Song let the smoker beg for mercy. Now it seems that the gangster cannot be trusted.
The group of gangsters led by Smoker had several soldiers, but they didn't need Lemon to take action. Shadowsong was like a dancing shadow, getting into the crowd and harvesting their lives.
Shadowsong mastered a special combat skill. She jumped among the crowd and used the bodies of the enemies around her to dodge attacks. Every time the dagger traced its trajectory, a gangster fell to the ground clutching his bloody throat.
Tens of seconds later, only the smoker was still standing around.
He collapsed to the ground, with a pool of yellow stuff gathering under his body: "No...no, sir, please spare me -"
"It's too late, you deserve to die."
Shadow Song thought he was dirty, so he picked up a knife, threw it violently, and stabbed Smoker in the forehead.
"Solved."
Annan didn't say anything, he felt something was wrong. How dare a group of gangsters attack them? Can't you see the lemon standing next to you?
It's just that Shadow Song's movements were too fast and the gangster was too useless, so Annan didn't have time to survive.
"We now have three options." Annan came back to his senses.
The first is to make things as big as possible, but will cause the Rat Man to stop himself like crazy.
The second option is to go to the councilors in Gucheng. But it's impossible to say how deeply the Skaven have infested the land. And the Holy Grail Knights who are fighting off the rat tide in the north are definitely on the side of humans.
The third option is to leave Lesio Valley immediately, return to Liberty City, and then spread the news through "Voice of Liberty" and kick the ball to the big shots.
"It's too late for the third kind." Shadow Song suddenly raised his head and looked in the direction where the gangsters were coming.
“What do you mean?”
A group of guards came running from a distance with the sound of armor clashing.
Annan asked Yingge not to be impulsive and walked forward: "I am——"
"These people are murderers who want to destroy the barn, kill them without mercy!" The guard captain pulled out his long sword. , did not listen to Annan’s explanation at all.
"Elimayas, prepare to break out... No, don't hurt them, take us to the city hall."
Things will be harder to explain if we do it again. Annan has no direct evidence that the food is indeed contaminated, but everything he is encountering now is going in this direction... He smells a conspiracy.
When the guards were frightened, Ilimoyas came into contact with the transformation technique and transformed into a slender blue dragon that stretched out its beautiful dragon body.
Annan took Shadow Song and Lemon onto the back of Ilimayas, ignored the group of guards, and flew to the city hall.
The low-flying Ilimayas passed by with a huge shadow on the ground. People on the street were a little panicked, but they didn't run away - after all, I didn't hear that the rat people, demons and dragons got mixed up. Together.
One blue dragon is not enough to make Gucheng feel like it is facing a formidable enemy.
When Ilimoyas landed in front of the steps of the city hall, the knights leading the team gathered around her.
"I want to see your congressman!" Annan looked down at their captain.
"Who are you?"
"Annan Reeves."
The knight captain showed a trace of doubt, he actually didn't recognize himself.
"Your surname is Reeves...the Twelve Kings of the North?" the knight captain said suddenly.
"Yes, I am the head of the Reeves family."
The guard in the knight captain's eyes disappeared. In the eyes of the people in the north, the twelve kings of the north are much more useful than "champion warlocks" and "magic image masters".
Although the King of the North now exists in name only, their existence for hundreds of years still makes most people in the north respect them.
"I discovered the rat people's conspiracy to invade Valley City. Let me see your congressman." Annan continued.
The knight captain looked much more serious, and asked his men to drive away the crowds and protect Annan, and then returned to the city hall to inform the councillors.
It seems to be good, at least the Valley City City Hall has not been invaded by the rat men.
Soon after, an old man on crutches came out in a hurry.
"I am Watts, the Council Chairman of Valley City." The old Council Chairman was impatient and asked urgently: "I know you, the champion warlock of Middle-earth, what news did you bring?"
Annan glanced at the two councilors who followed him out, and said: "My companion met a druid who was being chased by rat men. The druid said that the food in Valley City was being hunted by rat men. The pollution is being transported out to spread the plague across the country."
"Oh, no..."
(End of this chapter)