Chapter 162: Village Niang's Personal Side Plot
With Alya's help, Rococo finally finds his true "home" in the game world - a small flower shop on the side of a street in Hero Town.
Rococo's original NPC identity was the owner of this small flower shop in Hero Town. In the introduction of the NPC system's character setting, she is actually an orphan who originally ran this flower shop and a lonely old grandmother who didn't know where to pick it up, and now the old woman has been dead for many years, and she, as the only adopted granddaughter of the poor old grandmother who has no children under her knees, inherited the flower shop from the old grandmother, and relied on the store business and the little savings of the old grandmother to maintain a life alone in the town.
Although it is the "home" in the game, in fact, due to the rush to leave when she first entered the game a few months ago, Rococo has almost no memory of this place, the only thing she can remember is that it is a storefront in front and her own residence in the back. In addition, Rococo has almost no knowledge of the layout of the store, the types and inventory of flowers as a product, and the related flower cultivation knowledge.
However, this was not the most distressing thing for Rococo, she clearly remembered that when she left a few months ago, in order to hurry up and scavenge as fast as possible for money and a few clothes in the inner residence of the flower shop, she closed the flower shop and went out. It's fine if it's an ordinary store, but if something like an ordinary flower doesn't do anything to protect it – in fact, it can't be done – and if you throw it in the store for a few months, it will definitely wilt or even rot.
If you have accumulated dust, you can still clean it, but if the flowers that are the most important product of the flower shop are rotten, it will be impossible to reopen the shop. Although even if it is not reopened, Rococo is not unable to release tasks as NPCs, but in that case, it will seem much stiffer in the background connection of some plots, and now Hero Town is full of players who turn on detective mode and try to treat everything abnormal as a clue to the golden dragon treasure to doubt, Rococo is worried that his side is obviously not open yet, but the tasks that can be released are always closely related to the identity and background of the flower shop owner, which will cause some unnecessary trouble.
However, soon, Rococo found that his worries were actually unnecessary, and it was really thanks to the fact that this place had become a game world instead of a real otherworld, if it was a real otherworld, then the things that Rococo was worried about would indeed become a reality, but now, due to Mira's game rules interfering with the original laws of the plane of the Emissia continent, when Rococo, the NPC shopkeeper, chose to close the store and leave for the Radiant King City a few months ago, this was recognized by the game law system as " The storefront building of "closing" has entered a special state of time standstill.
The dust inside will not accumulate, and the flowers and plants behind the head of the Rococo king, who was in a hurry at the time, will not lose their moisture and vitality and wither and die with the loss of time. What Rococo looked like when she left, what she saw when she came back from the door.
This is undoubtedly excellent news for Rococo, and it is rare for her not to complain about the unreasonableness of this, and after simply familiarizing herself with the residence and the store in front of her for the past few days, Rococo quickly sat down and began to carefully understand the side plots recorded in the NPC system about herself.
Different from the previous life game forum database that Rococo has at hand, this description of her own side plot is really brought by the NPC system, and even because of the unknown reason in the previous life game, no one has found the original goblin awakening plot on the character of Rococo, the village girl on this side of Hero Town, so Rococo can't find anything related to her in the game forum information in her previous life, and she can only understand what she needs to do next through the plot description and task settings in the NPC system.
The first stage of the original fairy identity awakening plot is not new, and it may even be a little bloody - as a former orphan, although the village mother Rococo was very happy when she was adopted by the flower shop grandmother in Hero Town, but after the grandmother died, the village mother Rococo became lonely again, and it was during this time that she became very good friends with the mother and daughter of a nearby bakery who gave her a lot of daily care out of kindness.
One day, the female shopkeeper of the bakery fell ill, and it happened that the pharmacy in the town lacked a key herb for the female shopkeeper to treat the disease, in order not to make the female shopkeeper's condition worse, the village lady Rococo took the initiative to take the female shopkeeper's daughter to the field to find herbs, but just when the two of them successfully found the herbs and were ready to come back, but unfortunately with the rogue bandits who came up and wandered outside, in order to save the little sister of the bakery, the village lady Rococo took the initiative to show up and lead away the bandits and was caught and brought back to the stronghold of the bandits, It turned out that this gang was a notorious group of thieves engaged in the slave trade on the border, and they saw the beauty of Rococo, so they wanted to sell her as a commodity for a good price.
At this time, it will be the player's turn to appear, if the player meets the trigger conditions of the Rococo side story, then after the incident, when the player goes to the flower shop again, he will meet a little sister of the bakery who has returned to the town, and the player will receive the task of rescuing Rococo from the young sister.
If the player can successfully find the stronghold of the slave trade gang within the specified time limit, and successfully defeat the bandit leader to rescue Rococo, the mission will be successful, and the first stage of Rococo's identity awakening mission will enter the final high. The tide part - because the bandit leader was defeated, the slave trade gang also fell apart and the camp began to collapse, but what everyone didn't expect was that in the camp I don't know where this group of bandits came from to imprison a powerful chaos monster, just when the chaos monster was about to kill everyone, including the player, the original fairy consciousness that was sleeping in the body of the village girl Rococo, who was eroded by the chaos breath, was finally stimulated and began to wake up, and finally Rococo successfully lifted part of the seal on his body, Burst out with the power of the primordial goblin, solve the chaos monsters that were in trouble, and save everyone, the ending is happy, congratulations, congratulations......
…… Uh, wait a minute......
"Now, Arya, what if the player doesn't find the stronghold of the slave trade gang within the stipulated time frame and succeeds in defeating the bandit leader?"
"Huh? In that case, the player will fail the mission and will not be able to get the final reward. ”
"No, the player is fine, I mean me, if the player finds the stronghold camp to defeat the leader, that chaos monster will not lose control in the stronghold camp and run wild, doesn't that mean that not only will I not recover the original goblin power, but will be sold as a slave just like this!"
Seeing that Rococo couldn't accept it, Arya tilted her head with a natural innocent expression.
"Maybe so...... But anyway, even if you accidentally hang up, you'll refresh back to town like the player, right? ”
Oh, I see, that's good, that's good...... What a spicy person!
Rococo didn't even bother to tell if Arya was deliberately manipulating her or if she was really stupid, she raised her hand and hit Arya's head with a brain crash - the force was moderate enough not to bounce the pocket-sized Arya away, but it was just enough to cause pain to her.
"Ahh......h It hurts...... What are you doing? ”
Rococo ignored Arya, and she turned around and began to make final preparations before opening the store.
In short, fortunately, although she is still just a village girl in NPC mode, she at least has the killer feature of transforming into the original fairy mode, and if there is really no way, she will not really "refresh back".
However, it seems that I really want to pray that the player who triggers his side story mission must be a little stronger.
After a while, after Rococo's tidying up, this small town flower shop, which has been closed at all since the game was just launched a few months ago, quietly reopened on such an ordinary afternoon.
In order for the player to be able to trigger their own quests, the player needs to reach level 40 and have a certain level of Rococo opinion. The favorability here has nothing to do with Rococo's own sensory mood, it is completely an attribute associated with the player's interaction with the NPC characters in the game, in the "Redemption" game, NPCs will obviously be more cordial when communicating with players with high favorability, functional NPCs such as merchant blacksmiths will occasionally give some small discounts to players with high favorability, and ordinary NPCs will allow players to trigger some special story tasks on them if they brush up their favorability, It's like the original goblin awakening side plot on Rococo.
In order to improve the favorability, the best way is to do the sensitivity task well. It's just that if it's an NPC character with status like Farouo, the lord of Lancarlos, or Orlanardo, the papal guide of the Holy City, players are naturally rushing to do their favorability quests, but like the current Rococo, a village girl who runs a small flower shop in a remote small town, the favorability quest released is naturally not too attractive...... After all, who would have thought that this village lady would hide the secret of the primordial goblin, one of the two strongest people in the plane order camp of the Yumesia continent......
Fortunately, although there is no prop reward for the favorability task released by Rococo, it is also a bit of an experience point reward, and the rich Rococo at hand is also a monetary reward that can take the initiative to increase the favorability task, so Rococo is still relatively optimistic.