"What... what's going on?" Looking at the corpses here, the soldiers who followed the sound all fell into a sluggish state. Most of them knew that Prince Arthas brought a team of Paladin to Stratholme. Some well-informed people also knew that the local nobles had arranged a reception banquet for His Royal Highness.
But looking at the situation before us, could it be that His Highness the Prince was not satisfied with the banquet arranged by the nobles, so he killed them all?
It's no wonder that these soldiers had such out-of-the-box ideas. The situation in front of them was really so impactful that it caused their thinking to collapse, which is why they came up with such thoughts.
"Look over there." Aaron randomly searched around the ground, pointed at a place and said to these soldiers, "Look at this thing first. Do you think this is normal?"
Aaron was referring to a section of the blue-grey body. At this time, the body was still twitching, and a cold air spread from it to the surroundings, condensing a layer of frost on the ground. It was obviously not a reaction that a normal person's body should have.
In fact, this section is the body of Baron Rivendare. Only this body that was smashed into several pieces by Arthas would have this reaction. This is just the right time to prove what Aaron said.
"What is this?" Facts have proved that these soldiers still understand the major events happening in the Alliance, at least they know about Undead. Seeing this abnormal scene, they immediately thought of what this was. But when they saw the black armor remaining on the severed limbs, they showed disbelief. They looked at Arthas and asked, "Your Highness, this... could this be..."
"Yes, Baron Rivendare colluded with Undead and has now been executed by me." Arthas explained with a cold face, and then said to these soldiers, "Now that Stratholme has a problem, do you want to continue fighting for this city? We need to clear out those potential threats."
A group of soldiers whispered to each other and talked about it. After a long while, they finally reached a consensus. The leader of the soldier bowed respectfully to Arthas, expressing his willingness to follow Arthas and solve the hidden threat of Stratholme.
According to the search, there is no one alive in the city lord's palace. The few nobles from before are huddled together with the two mages brought by Aaron, and they seem to be really frightened.
As for those who work and live in the city lord's palace, they have all turned into zombies. According to the inventory, those who are sure to live here are dead. It seems that Baron Rivendare is cruel enough to the people around him.
According to the two mages, these zombies that have been eliminated are obviously not a group. In other words, Baron Rivendare has attacked these people around them very early.
After Aaron heard the news, he felt slightly relieved. It seemed that these zombies were not caused by contaminated food. Maybe Stratholme's situation was not so bad that it was irreparable.
However, after Aaron found a few soldiers to take him into Stratholme's granary, he discovered that the situation was not so optimistic. The batch of problematic grains that Illucia and the others encountered before were indeed still in the warehouse. The bad news was that some of the grains were no longer here.
According to the records of the Stratholme granary, only a small part of the contaminated grain was dispersed, mainly because several grain stores in the city took some of it for sale.
But the clear clues stop here. It is impossible for these stores to record every customer who comes to the store to buy food.
However, with the population of Stratholme City, even if there is a problem in only a part of the city, it is enough to exhaust the current manpower.
After leading people to investigate more than a dozen households, Aaron finally realized the problem. He went to Arthas and said, "Arthas, please find someone to help. We definitely don't have enough manpower."
Aaron A simple calculation of the manpower gathered now, even if Stratholme's soldiers who reacted and were willing to obey their orders, the total number of soldiers gathered in this square was less than 200.
Stratholme is the largest city in Northern Lordaeron, with a permanent population of at least hundreds of thousands. It is a bit difficult to maintain order in this city with just this number of soldiers, let alone tracking down the contaminated food.
"We must ask for help," Arthas made such a decision after hearing what Aaron said. While sending people to trace the whereabouts of the food contaminated by Cult of the Damned, he also sent many messengers, hoping to invite a group of reinforcements as soon as possible to meet the urgent need.
Although Uther wants to bring people here, there is no telling when they will be able to come. We cannot place all our hopes on them. After the delay is too long, Stratholme still doesn't know what the situation will be like internally.
Soon Paladin and Dalaran mages from Lordaeron arrived, and even Ravenholdt and Wildhammer Dwarves sent reinforcements to support Stratholme, with the help of these people, the speed of identifying food and contaminated food has been greatly accelerated. Aaron even discussed with Arthas to arrange for some people to help observe the situation of residents who used contaminated food.
These signs of food contamination are still easy to detect. Not to mention professionals with simple training, even ordinary people can distinguish them if they pay more attention. However, the time it takes to teach these residents to identify them by themselves is about the same as the speed of conducting door-to-door inspections.
With these reinforcements coming from all over the country, the pressure on Stratholme was finally relieved, and things finally got back on track.
Just when things at Stratholme gradually calmed down, another thing happened, which completely disrupted Aaron's concentration. A large-scale earthquake occurred in the south, and the aftermath of the shaking even affected Stratholme.
If it was just a slight vibration, Aaron wouldn't care too much, but the reaction of the Shamans of Wildhammer Dwarves was a bit too much. They put down their work on the spot and began to appease the earth. This move attracted the attention of Aaron, and they asked these Shamans what happened.
"Blackrock Mountain, it's erupting again!" The answers given by Wildhammer Shaman shocked Aaron. Could it be that at this time, Ragnaros also became restless and wanted to start troubles in advance?
"The earth is crying, the flame is going out, no, the flame seems to be going crazy." After communicating with the elements for a long time, the Shamans of Wildhammer came to such a vague conclusion.
Aaron is really worried whether the Flame King will take the opportunity to cause trouble. "It seems that we have to go there Blackrock Mountain."