Chapter 52: The Undead Invasion Plan
According to the previous game data recorded in the Rococo NPC system, the plague mage Beckaz, a special NPC that fused the creation godhead, began to fully interfere with the game progress of "Redemption" after the player group reached level 20.
The landmark event is that after the players of the Free Federation forces generally reached level 20, many newly opened level 20 dungeons suddenly appeared many undead spirit monsters, and at the same time, in some wild areas where there were no undead monsters, undead monsters also began to appear in groups, and what is especially strange is that most of these undead spirit monsters appeared very abruptly.
One of the simplest examples, when many level 20 dungeons are triggered by players, the basic dungeon information received from the relevant NPCs is often to crusade against a certain Warcraft lair or defeat subhuman bandits in the dungeon, and it has nothing to do with the undead and there is no hint of this, but after entering these dungeons, players find that the opponents in some parts of the dungeon have inexplicably become a bunch of skeletons or zombies.
In the game of the previous life, although this somewhat unreasonable undead haunt phenomenon caused confusion and confusion among players for a while, but after that, soon a large-scale undead invasion event planned by the plague mage Bekaz occurred in various parts of the Southern Continent, and the undead invasion successfully diverted the attention of players, making everyone think that the previous anomaly was just paving the way for the "main story upheaval" that broke out later - yes, in the game of the previous life, Players who didn't know that Bekaz's actions were completely out of the independent will of this NPC completely regarded this sudden undead invasion as the main story set up in the original game.
In that undead invasion, Bekaz's undead army attacked many of the Free Federation's county forces, causing serious casualties, and even the city of Lancarus was once facing the death of the highest military commander, and the city was about to fall under the invasion of the undead army. In the end, thanks to the efforts of the Federation hero NPCs led by the Lord of Lancarros, Farouo, the Free Federation finally reluctantly repelled Bekaz's undead legion, and successfully forced Bekaz and his undead army to the border between the Federation and the Empire, that is, the border between the Southern and Eastern Continents.
For players of the Free Federation, this simply means that this inexplicable main story is finally over, and they can finally return to their normal game routine. However, Rococo knew very well that although he was forced out of the Free Federation, Bekaz and his undead legion in the previous life did not actually suffer a fatal blow at that time, and because of this, after arriving at the junction of the two continents, Bekaz broke out in his last madness there, and finally created a great chaos involving the forces of the Free Federation, the Radiant Empire, and the Holy City of Aryaval.
Although Bekaz was killed by Orlanardo, the Terran hero guide from the Holy City, and thus lost the Godhead Fragment and became a world-class jungle boss that roamed the borders of the continent and was normally governed by the game system, his series of actions in his previous life also completely messed up the early main story designed by Mira for the "Redemption" game, and caused the war between the two major powers of the Federation and the Empire to break out. Let the players who should have been focusing on accumulating strength and preparing to counterattack the Northern Continent to clear the chaos have spent a lot of energy on the so-called "national war" early.
The reason why Rococo chose to be born as a player of the Free Federation was so that she could rely on her prescient prescience to interfere with Beccaz's actions in the event of the worst-case scenario, which was when she was not able to obtain any Godhead shards early in the game...... For example, before Bekaz launched an all-out attack on the Free Federation, he told the high-ranking NPCs of the Free Federation.
As a superpower that can compete with the Radiant Empire, the foundation of the Free Federation should not be underestimated. Although the Freedom Federation in the previous life seemed to be miserably attacked because it happened too suddenly at the beginning, after coming to its senses, among the four major counties of the Federation, only Lancarros County could force Bekaz away. If he had been able to guard against Beckaz's undead invasion plan in advance this time, Rococo believed that even if Bekaz himself could still get out of the way, he would not have so many undead legions around him this time who could accompany him to make waves.
However, even so, it is not easy to expose Bekaz's conspiracy. After all, even in the game, the speech must pay attention to a real evidence, and now that the whole territory of the Free Federation is peaceful, even if Rococo now wants to find the high-level NPCs of the Free Federation and tell them that there will soon be a plague mage with his plague and undead legion to attack the Federation, most of them will only be ignored by those NPCs as unruly adventurers (players).
It's hard to find evidence, and at the moment, level 20 dungeons haven't been opened, and almost all of the undead creatures that players can find in the wild are because of the historical environment problems in the wild area, and there are no problems that are not enough to be evidence against Bekaz. But fortunately, since Bekaz's actions were of his own will, it means that the conspiracy he planned is not protected by the plot of the system, although it is hidden enough, it is obviously not impossible to catch any loopholes.
After the efforts of the system elves Arya and Rococo to search for the game forum information of their previous lives in the past few nights, they finally determined a breakthrough that was likely to expose Beckaz's conspiracy in advance.
Not far outside of Lancarros, there is a small village under the jurisdiction of Lancarros County called Gru Village, where a level 15 10-player dungeon "The Beast of Gru Village" can be triggered after the player reaches level 15. According to the information of the game forum in the previous life, the background of this copy seems to be that the demonic beasts on a mountain near the village of Gru suddenly became active and began to run out of the mountain non-stop, causing casualties in the village, so the village plans to hire a group of adventurers to go to the mountains to clear the demonic beasts, and by the way, find out the reason why the demonic beasts are active.
The final boss of this dungeon is a zombie according to the forum information.,Because a powerful zombie of unknown origin came to the mountain.,So it caused panic among the monsters who originally lived here.,This is why there are constantly monsters escaping from the mountains and forests.,This explanation is obviously very reasonable in the eyes of players who don't know about the next undead invasion.,But Rococo won't stop exploring so easily.。
In a copy that should have been a Warcraft monster as the main target, the final guard boss suddenly became a zombie monster, maybe this is not a god turn in the design of the copy at most, but at such a sensitive point in time, it is definitely a clue that cannot be ignored. What's more, according to further investigation, Rococo and the others also found that not far from the mountain that served as the site of this dungeon, there is a hidden valley, which was once believed to be the hiding place of the main undead army that attacked Lancarus before the invasion of the undead in the game forum in the previous life, because players found some traces there during their wild exploration.
Before the undead invasion plan was launched, an ordinary zombie in the army of the undead accidentally broke away from the valley where he was hiding, and as a result, he accidentally became the king of the nearby mountain, disturbing the local ecology...... Rococo admits that this is just her brain hole, but I have to say that this is indeed a very attractive brain hole to consider.
Of course, she could have gone directly to the suspicious valley to collect evidence, but considering that the lowest-level skeleton monsters and zombie monsters were also level 20 when the undead invaded, she didn't have the confidence that an archer would go alone and not be discovered. The opponent is not an ordinary NPC, but a guy who has the same intelligence as her because of the relationship between the godhead fragments, or even more sophisticated than her, once her exploration action startles, then the other party is likely to immediately make a response layout that will cause her disclosure to fail. And if her guess is correct, she may be able to find some clues from the zombie boss in that dungeon, and get evidence of the undead invasion without alarming the army of undead that may be hiding in the valley.
Although Rococo really wanted to go to Gru Village as soon as he was promoted to level 15, it was a pity that it was too late after the upgrade, and his teammate Chu Jiajia was still level 14 and could not meet the standard of entering the dungeon, so in the end, Rococo had to put his plans on hold for the time being, and returned to Lancarlos City with Chu Jiajia to say goodbye and went offline separately...... Of course, Rococo just switched from player mode to NPC mode as usual.
However, this time Rococo did not go straight to the hotel as usual, although it had been decided in his heart that tomorrow after Chu Jiajia was also level 15, the two of them would go to the copy of Gru Village to mix in the wild team and take a look, but before that, it is also good to collect more information in other aspects, with this idea, Rococo found a tavern in Lancaros City, which seemed a little empty after the players went offline, and then went in alone to prepare to inquire about information.
If it is a real different world, a village girl like Rococo who is dressed plainly but absolutely beautiful is alone in this kind of tavern full of rough Han mercenary adventurers, it is absolutely inevitable to be harassed and molested by all kinds of harassment, but now these NPC adventurer mercenaries only have the most basic setting intelligence, so even if they see that there is such a person as Rococo in the tavern where they have been spending their usual nights, these NPC men will not care at all, at most look at her, He continued drinking and shouting with his companions.
Rococo was also happy, and took the opportunity to bypass a few tables of lively banquets and sit down directly at the single seat at the front desk of the tavern, which, like other taverns, was for those who came alone, and if you were in the mood, you could talk to the owner who was smoking behind the table.
"Daddy, bring me a drink...... Orange juice! ”
Tavernkeep: ............?