Starting with the zombie boss that suddenly appeared in the dungeon of Gru Village, and see if you can find out the army of undead that may be lurking in the valley near Gru Village, this is the breakthrough that Rococo thought of that most likely exposed Bekaz's undead invasion plan in advance.

In addition, Rococo is not without other directions. Although he single-handedly planned the undead invasion and created an army of the undead, the full name of the NPC Bekkaz is not a necromancer but a plague mage, which is enough to explain something.

In the game setting of "Redemption", the plague mage is a special advanced branch of the necromancer, not only can he use dead corpses to create his own undead minions like a necromancer, but Bekaz, as a plague mage, is best known for his ability to use the plague to directly transform living people into various types of undead without killing them. Due to the different ways of transformation, these undead who are directly transformed from living people are more resistant to positive energy (such as light attribute or life attribute) than ordinary undead, and some victims are even directly turned into strange monsters that are neither living nor dead at the boundary of the concept of life and death, but have both characteristics.

Although the undead created by plague mages are more powerful, at the same time, the use of plague itself makes their actions often more exposed than other necromancers. Rococo is very clear that, according to the forum records of his previous life, although it is still early in time for the outbreak of the undead invasion, in fact, all parts of the Free Federation, especially in Lancarlos County, which is the main outbreak of the undead invasion, and several surrounding county territories, there are many villages and towns and even medium-sized cities, there have been reports of plague outbreaks.

Although it may seem like an ordinary pandemic that occurs every few years, Rococo, who is familiar with the game's story, knows that these are the secret work of the plague mage. Of course, in order not to arouse suspicion, he used some means to disguise his undead plague as an ordinary plague, but if he had the heart to investigate, Rococo felt that he could not find anything by following the plague line.

With this in mind, Rococo in the tavern took the orange juice she had asked for from the tavernkeeper with an inexplicable expression, and began to talk table by table with the NPC adventurers and mercenaries who spent the night here, the content of the conversation was simple, she basically only asked two questions: "Do you know about the recent outbreak of the plague in the Federation?" Do you know about the recent events in the village of Greug? ”

Although she is also an NPC now, she can't rely on the basic means of keywords in the dialogue to trigger the plot tasks on these ordinary NPCs, but the most basic information can still be done.

These NPCs who just spent the night resting in the tavern were basically just ordinary people on the continent of Emissia, and after the gamification of the whole world, it was naturally impossible for these people to retain a trace of their self-will like those strong people, but they were basically perfect NPCs, and only retained the part of the intelligence that the game system set for them. Because of this, unless it happens that the game setting on her body is related to the two questions asked by Rococo, even if Rococo asks them, they will only answer her with fixed lines in the style of NPCs.

However, Rococo is not worried about this, the second question about Gru Village is a bit out of the way, and it is estimated that it is difficult to meet related NPCs here, but the first question is not. In the early days of the Federation, there were not two places where the plague occurred, and this tavern was the most popular gathering place for NPC adventurers around it, as Rococo observed before he came in.

What if there really isn't one? Ahem, Rococo felt that his face should not be so dark...... Hey the soul, who muttered "The flag has been established" just now, come out and have a buff to send you.

It turns out that although Rococo is not yet European, at least it has not yet been hacked to Africa.

"Oh, you say the plague? We've heard some rumors. ”

After asking about the west side of the tavern for most of the circle, a three-person mercenary team drinking in the corner finally reacted to Rococo's question.

"We don't seem to have heard of anyone in Lancarlos getting infected with the plague, but when we went to Gethaman yesterday on a mission, the epidemic seemed to be quite serious."

Hetaman, a small town around Lancarlos County, because it is currently an NPC mode, Rococo can also directly open the database to search for Hetaman's information, and it was quickly confirmed that there were a large number of undead in the game in the previous life, and then there must be a part of the undead army besieging Lancarros.

However, although it is certain that the town of Gettaman has been fully invaded by Bekaz's undead plague, it is very clear that the plague mage's plan is still in the latent stage, according to the words of these mercenaries, although the plague of Gettaman has indeed caused many deaths, but those people seem to be just as normal as normal deaths, and there is no case of directly turning into an undead monster when they are dying.

Other than that, the mercenaries didn't know anything else, after all, they weren't Hetamans but just passing mercenaries.

"Fortunately, my brothers didn't wander around after they arrived in Hetaman, or we might have unwittingly caught up with the damn plague."

Saying this, a very obscene smile suddenly appeared on the faces of those NPC mercenaries. Rococo was stunned for a moment, and then realized that the other party's so-called "wandering" may refer to those skin and meat businesses that are exclusively for men's pleasure. Before the mercenaries looked like they were about to return to the meat joke character setting dialogue that was very much in line with their rough mercenary temperament before she came to talk to them, Rococo hurriedly interrupted them.

"Excuse me, how are you sure you don't get the plague?"

"What, you doubt us? This is a diagnosis made by the Greenland physician himself, and it can't be wrong. ”

"Greenland doctors? May I ask what it is? ”

Several NPC mercenaries showed a rare and quite humane expression, but they were a little disgusting.

"Even the Greenland doctors don't know? He was one of the most famous doctors in the city of Lancarros, young and beautiful, compassionate, and most importantly, a great doctor who did not lose to those old doctors. Obviously, those nobles and big conglomerates in the city don't know how many want to hire her as an exclusive doctor, but the Greenland doctor has always insisted on staying in the civilian clinic he opened, except for being invited by the city lord's mansion to go to the military camp every month to help those big-headed soldiers do a few days of inspection, the rest of the time is always to receive the civilians in the city. ”

Saying this, the NPC mercenary took a sip of wine, and then spoke with some emotion and respect.

"To tell the truth, after this plague outbreak, the ordinary people in the city and even most of the infirmaries avoided us adventurers and mercenaries who had been to the plague outbreak zone for the entrusted mission, like a flood of beasts, but the Greenland doctor was the first to stand up, saying that her infirmary could help us with the plague quarantine and issue a valid health certificate for us...... She's a saint, and for those of us mercenaries who treat our physical strength as a commodity, it's not an exaggeration to say that this health certificate has saved our lives. ”

"So, the Greenland physician has the ability to detect the plague?"

"Yes, I heard that the Greenland physicians seem to have been paying attention to the plague soon after the outbreak of the plague, and when it comes to the investigation and prevention of the plague, the Greenland physicians' clinic is probably one of the most authoritative clinics in Lancarros."

Greenland Physician ...... Rococo made a note of the name, and it seems likely that the NPC could have been a key player in the plague event that preceded the invasion of the undead.

This time, these NPC mercenaries seemed to have really been drained of all their information, so Rococo also allowed them to return to the routine dialogue set by the original system and began to prepare to find the next target.

"Xiao Ke ~ Come here ~ "

At this moment, Arya's call suddenly came from the side, in NPC mode, Arya can leave her area around Rococo in a state that only Rococo can see, before Rococo Hall on the west side of the hall at the same time, Arya is also on the east side of the hall alone, although you can't talk to the NPCs like Rococo, but you can still get some information from the NPCs' setting conversations.

"Xiao Ke, I just heard the conversation between these two people, and this person here seems to be from Geru Village." As soon as Rococo approached, Arya spoke to her.

Suddenly refreshed, Rococo followed Arya's guidance to the two NPCs dressed as hunters who were drinking and chatting in the corner.

"Hello, do you know anything about Gru Village?"

Arya was right, after hearing Rococo's question, one of the drinking hunters made a move, apparently triggered by the keyword "Gru Village" to trigger the plot point in the character setting.

"Oh, I'm from Gru Village, what do you want to ask?"

"That's right, do you know about the recent incident of the invasion of Demonic Beasts in Gru Village?"

The Hunter NPC shook his head.

"I don't know, I left the village to become an adventurer, and I haven't been back to the village for a while, you said that the village is infested by demonic beasts? Could it be the monster on that nearby mountain? ”

"That's right, it is said that the demonic beasts on the mountains near the village of Gru seem to be unusually active recently, and there have been victims in the village because of this."

Hearing the news of the disaster in his hometown, and not knowing if it was because the superfluous feelings had been suppressed after the NPC or because it was just nature, the hunter didn't show any concern.

"Oh? I hope my dad is okay...... But what you're talking about, is it the bear monster on the mountain who is making trouble? ”

Rococo frowned.

"You said that the monster riot near Gru Village was caused by a bear monster on the mountain?"

"Yes, the ordinary people in Gru Village may not know that much about it, but because I left the village to become an adventurer, I learned a lot of news about the distribution of dangerous magical beasts around Lancarros from the guild. It seems that since decades ago, the mountain near our village of Gru has been used as a lair by a powerful bear monster, although it has not yet reached the level of the mountain beastmaster, but because of the strength of the bear monster, the original monsters in the mountain are also very afraid of it. The monsters on the mountain suddenly rioted, I think the most likely thing is probably that the bear monster in the mountain became irritable because of something, making the other monsters uneasy, so they took the initiative to leave the mountain forest, right? ”

After saying this, the information that the hunter NPC has also said, and no matter how Rococo asks him, he will only say the setting line "I really miss the baked muffins of the old tavern proprietress in Gru Town", and he can't ask anything new.

"Hmm...... Arya, I think I'm probably convinced. ”

"Huh?"

Arya turned her head to look at Rococo and noticed a shallow confident smile on the girl's face.

"If I'm guessing correctly, that copy of Gru Town should be one of the first plot changes for Plague Mage Bekaz...... Judging from the words of this NPC, if this script really exists in the plot direction of the game originally set by your sister, then the boss should not be a zombie but a bear monster in the grumpy period. It seems that the appearance of that zombie is probably not the original plot of the dungeon, but because of Bekaz's undead invasion plan, the boss of the dungeon will change. ”