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With the permission of Kael'thas, the engineering machines that Sharlayan ordered from Quel'Thalas were packaged as quickly as possible and sent directly from the logistics center of Silvermoon City to Shandalar City in the north.

Before leaving Quel'Thalas, the Sarlayan family said goodbye to the three Windrunner sisters, Liadrin, Halduron, Lor'themar and other friends, except Lylas, the younger Windrunner who guarded the northern border. Nothing is known about this matter yet.

As time went by, the news that Archduke Deep Shadow left Quel'Thalas gradually spread to Shandalar. The soldiers who returned from the Drak'saron Fortress to repair heard about it, and it didn't take long for it to reach Lylas. in the ears.

When Sarlayan, who stayed behind in Galakrond Basin and waited for the equipment to be in place to officially start construction, saw Lyras coming with the caravan, he was somewhat surprised.

"Lylas? Aren't you supposed to be in control of Drak'Salon Fortress?"

After several years of military career guarding the frontier, Lyras gradually lost the impetuousness of his youth, and his temperament became much calmer.

After hearing Sarlayan's surprised question, Lyras complained angrily: "You still have the nerve to ask me? Why didn't you tell me in advance that you were leaving Quel'Thalas?"

Sarlayan smiled and shrugged: "I have entrusted Sister Alleria to convey the news to you. Could it be that the person responsible for conveying the message has not arrived yet?"

"The messenger?"

Lylas, who was in a unhappy mood, originally wanted to call for an attack, but after hearing Sarlayan's explanation, his brows suddenly frowned.

Lilas has grown a lot compared to when he was young, but as he grew up wearing crotchless pants, Sarlayan knew something was wrong as soon as he saw the change in his expression, and immediately put away his smile and asked seriously: "What happened? Is there a problem?"

"Um……"

Lilas tidied up his language before explaining solemnly: "My family and I communicate regularly every week, but starting from half a month ago... maybe even longer, Sundala City has not received any more messages from the mainland. Contacted by letter.”

"Not just me, many soldiers are also eagerly waiting for replies from their families."

"Oh?" Sarlayan touched his chin thoughtfully: "Let me ask, have Shandara completely lost contact with Silver Moon City?"

"That's not it."

Lilas raised his hand and pointed at a pile of large engineering machines beside him: "If there is really no contact at all, how could the machine you ordered be delivered so quickly?"

"That's strange." Sarlayan frowned slightly and lowered his head in thought: "Official contact has not been broken, but the private letters are missing..."

Sarlayan is very aware of the concern of the three Windrunner sisters for Lyras. A letter every week is considered restraint. If possible, they would like to hear Lyras say that he is safe every day.

Speaking of which, we have to mention the popularity of arcane base stations and mobile phones.

Both Quel'Thalas and Crystalsong Forest have established their own wireless communication networks.

However, because the construction of cross-sea base stations is too difficult and takes a lot of time, the enclave of Crystalsong Forest has not yet been connected to the power grid of Quel'Thalas.

This resulted in the non-governmental communication between the two places still relying on primitive correspondence.

Note that this is only a private exchange.

The engineering machines that Sarlayan needed were directly transferred from them for special purposes.

Although Crystal Song Forest can remotely call upon the magic power of the Sunwell through the magic network connected to each other, after all, it has experienced long-distance attenuation and cannot be used casually like the local one. Most of the magic power must be used to maintain the pocket version of Bandinori. You form a boundary.

Considering the large amount of magic power required for long-distance teleportation, Shandara City did not open this convenient service to the entire city.

According to predictions from the Cabinet Communications Department, it should take 3-5 years to build a cross-sea base station from Yonge Forest to Jinge Forest to ensure full coverage of the communication network.

The four siblings of the Windrunner family don't want to use public equipment for personal use, so they can only communicate through letters once a week.

Since it was just a delay in correspondence between people, this matter has not attracted much attention so far.

This kind of situation has not happened before, especially in the cold winter, because icebergs of all sizes often appear near the Arctic Ocean. In order to avoid or break them, ships will inevitably be later than scheduled. arrive.

It is already March, but the cold Arctic continent of Northrend has not yet begun to heat up, and Lyras has not taken this to heart before.

For such an important matter as Sharlayan's departure from Quel'Thalas, Lylas's sisters would definitely write a letter and send it to Shandalar as soon as possible after it happened. Such a long delay was inappropriate.Sarlayan did not rush to a conclusion, and looked at Lilas who was frowning and thinking with interest.

"What do you think about this? Do you think it will be a coincidence or an accident?"

"No..." Liras said with a solemn expression: "It may not be without reason. If it is only delayed for a few days or even a week, it would not be surprising, but for more than half a month... I think there is something else behind this matter. reason."

Sarlayan nodded approvingly: "So, what do you think the problem is?"

Lilas shook his head: "Insufficient information, we can't be sure at the moment."

"But I guess..." Lilas narrowed his eyes slightly and said with a stern expression: "It's probably related to the troll."

Private correspondence is delivered by regular ships. With Azshara's Nagas patrolling the seas, it should be impossible to encounter man-made disasters at sea.

If the scheduled ship encounters a natural disaster, Sundara officials will have received news from the mainland long ago, and it will definitely not be as peaceful as now.

In other words, the messengers probably encountered an accident after landing on the continent of Northrend.

Considering the distance across the sea, regular ships from Quel'Thalas all dock in the Howling Fjord area of ​​Kul Tiras to unload cargo.

There are theoretically two ways to go from Howling Fjord to Crystalsong Forest, either through Grizzly Hills or Dragonblight.

Although the dragons have publicly stated that they do not mind having long-term exchanges with Quel'Thalas' caravans, Kael'thas is not the kind of person who does not know his limits.

It's okay to have urgent needs during war. Normally, the caravans in Quel'Thalas pass through the Grizzly Hills and the western territory of Zul'Drak guarded by Drak'saron Fortress, directly to Crystalsong Forest.

Although Drak'Saron Fortress is located in a seemingly dangerous border area, in fact, the frost trolls have been very honest in recent years, and the surrounding area of ​​Drak'Saron Fortress is very peaceful.

After all, he had already endured two rounds of beatings from Quel'Thalas, and the Frost King Malak didn't want to be encouraged by Zandalar to continue being beaten.

"So..." Lilas said with certainty: "The problem lies in the Grizzly Bear Hills. I don't think the furbolgs, who have always had a good relationship with the high elves, will interfere with it. Only the trolls have this motive. .”

Note that Lylas is talking about trolls in a broad sense and does not specifically refer to Drakkari.

Sarlayan was very pleased with Lylas's growth. He knew that his old friend had figured out the key to the problem.

Although there was still insufficient evidence, Sarlayan, who had a lot of intelligence in hand, immediately guessed who was behind it after hearing Lyras' suspicion.

Nothing more than the Zandalar trolls.

According to the intelligence recently returned by undercover Zuldazar's Vol'jin, the once arrogant prophet Zul has completely lost power, and the ruling power of the Zandalari Empire has returned to the hands of the resurrected god-king Rastakhan.

In the past six months, Rastakhan has been preparing to replace the kings Loa, but he has not completely let go in terms of external penetration.

Rastakhan is more radical than Zul in foreign policy. He believes that the so-called three troll feudal empires should have been swept into the trash heap of history long ago.

Zul's foreign policy is to integrate the three feudal empires and make them subordinate to Zandalar again and obey Zandalar's dispatch.

Rastakhan went one step further on this basis. He planned to completely conquer the three feudal empires and bring all the trolls in Azeroth under the rule of the Zandalar Empire.

Crown Prince Talanji does not agree with her father's overly aggressive foreign policy, but at this time she does not have the ability to influence Rastakhan's decision, even if Princess Talanji has joined the Zanchuli Council, it will not help.

Although Rastakhan is temporarily unable to spare any time to fully target the three feudal empires, there is still no problem in making some small moves behind the scenes.

According to Senjin, in the past six months, Zul'Gurub, the capital of the jungle trolls, has captured many spies who secretly fanned the flames.

As we all know, the troll's magic is very effective in interrogation. No matter how hard the prisoner talks, he can't resist the magic induction from the soul.

By interrogating these spies, Sen'jin quickly confirmed their origins - Zandalari.