Chapter 81: Suspicions

Regarding the departure of Kinses, Rococo did not say anything about it.

It's not that Rococo was dumbfounded by his cannonball, but that after a quick consideration, she felt that there was no need.

Among the holders of Godhead known to Rococo, there are both crazy careerists like Bekaz who don't care about the life and death of the world, and black and white dragon kings who are the rulers of the strange realm on the west side of Nanda Road, who have always held a strong faith in the goddess of creation, Arya, who wants to guide the world back to its original state. Possession of a fragment by a person of Kinzes' personality would not be of much positive help to Roco, but it would be much better than a fragment of Godhead falling into the hands of someone like Bekaz.

Since the other party had no intention of getting involved in what was going on, and only wanted to protect the Greenland Doctor, who was hiding in the city of Lancarros, then Rococo felt that he didn't need to forcibly fight for this reliable helper, especially since this guy looked like he had gray hair and was very vicissitudes of age, but somehow he still had a cynical middle two attributes.

Of course, this may also have something to do with the personal experience of this kind of indigenous people who have retained their own will, after all, as Kinsis said, after experiencing the world turning into a game overnight, everyone around them has become a puppet, and it is rare to be able to maintain mental normality...... Thinking about it this way, it seems that people like Bekaz can behave so crazy in this collapsed world, and they will not give up their ambitions even if they know that they will lead the world to a catastrophe.

If Rococo was acting alone, she wouldn't have cared about teaming up with such people, but now that Arya was one with her, Rococo was also worried that if she continued, Quinzes would say something that would hurt Arya...... In fact, just what Kinzes said just now made the archer girl a little worried about whether it would poke the softness of Arya's heart, after all, Rococo still clearly remembered the weakness and sadness that Arya had shown in front of her when she first came to the game as a village girl.

Of course, in fact, Rococo soon knew that she was really worried about this idea, just when she looked at the back of Jinzes and just wanted to comfort Arya in her heart, she didn't expect Arya to speak first.

"Xiao Ke, don't be sad, I know, you are not satisfying yourself with the lives of the people in this world as he said, you have been working hard to save this world."

Rococo blinked and couldn't help laughing.

"Xiaoke?"

"I was thinking that I was going to comfort you, but I didn't expect to be comforted by you in turn."

"Hey, hey...... Well, I did hear him say that the world ...... When it breaks, I feel bad, and if I had just woken up, I might have cried."

Arya's voice sounded melancholy.

"But during this time, I have been with you, and seeing how hard you are trying to help me save and repair this world, I feel that as the goddess of creation, I can't always know that crying is so useless...... Can you?"

"Huh? I'm there?"

"Oh, all of a sudden, it feels like you're in a daze."

「…… No, I'm listening."

Rococo tugged at the corners of his mouth in embarrassment, and repented for a second that he had lied casually.

In fact, just for a moment, Arya said that when she watched Rococo work so hard to help her save the world, instead of making fun of the joys and sorrows of this world, Rococo felt a little confused in her heart.

Is that really the case? In fact, didn't she just make a pact with Arya's sister Mira, and she would do her best as part of the deal?

So the difference between her and the players is just a matter of knowing the amount of information, isn't it? Is she really qualified to say that she didn't treat this real-world crisis as a difficult game to be raided (rescued)?

Rococo didn't think any further, or her instinct told her that there was no good in dwelling on the issue, and the girl shook her head and returned her thoughts to the problem at hand.

"Alright, let's not talk about that, Arya, now the question is, what do we do next?"

After the targeted vigilance of Lancarlos County, the threat of undead invasion can basically be declared eliminated, but the whereabouts of Bekaz himself and the inner ghost he lurks in Lancarlos are now a mystery, and Rococo is not too relieved until it is confirmed that they will not cause any storm for the time being.

The matter is currently being investigated within the Free Federation, but judging from the information obtained from Dicha, Rococo has little hope for this group of guys who just want to fight in the nest. Farouo is indeed suspicious, but the Federal Assembly's approach is simply to use this incident as an excuse to force the city lord to abdicate, and their focus is not at all whether Farouo is an internal ghost, but whether they can use this incident to attack Farouo and the faction of the main city of Lancarlos he represents.

To tell the truth, Rococo herself really doesn't like to get involved in this kind of political factional strife, but she has a reason to participate, because she can be sure that there must be that ghost in the secret.

The reason is simple, in this gamified world, ordinary NPCs who do not have the ability to activate and promote the development of the plot on their own, according to Dicha, after the end of the valley search plot triggered by Rococo, the next enumeration of the Federal Assembly and the no-confidence vote against the city lord Farouo, these plots happened too coherently, and there was no shadow of player participation. It's clear that in Redemption is a game that can trigger a new story or advance an existing story, not only the player, but also the special natives who are self-aware.

She couldn't let that ghost do whatever he wanted, although she hadn't seen what the other party wanted to do, but a chaotic Free Federation and Lancarros County were definitely not what Rococo wanted to see, so she took over the task of investigating the matter from Dicha. Of course, Dicha wanted her to prove Farouo's innocence, but she only wanted to find out the truth, and as for the city lord who had not yet cleared her suspicions, for the sake of that holy spa, she wouldn't mind pulling it if he was really innocent.

"Xiao Ke, in fact, when you talked to Jinzes before, I looked up the information about the Federal Assembly during this period in the database of my previous life."

With that, Arya posted what she had compiled from the database in the Rococo window.

"In the late game in the Federal Assembly, the power of the four counties such as Lancarros was divided, but in the early days, it was basically the Lancarus family that was dominant, but the interesting thing is that the representatives of Lancarus in the council were not from the main city faction that dominated the local council of Lancaros, but from the outer circle faction built by politicians from other towns in Lancaros County. Therefore, the feud between Lancarlos and the Federal Assembly during this period has been a long time, and in fact, it is simply the expansion of the contradiction between the two major factions in Lancarlos County."

Rococo glanced at ten lines, and quickly read the information under Arya's explanation.

"I don't know if it's because the Federal Council has been pressed by the main city faction of Lancarlos County or what, anyway, in addition to the open and secret battles between the two sides that provided players with a lot of assassination and escort tasks in the early stage, the Federal Council of this period does not have much presence on the player side, but after the undead invasion in the previous life, although Lancarus repelled Bekaz but its strength was greatly damaged, especially the main city faction lost a group of cadres led by Dicha, leaving only Farou to support alone, Therefore, the Federal Assembly also rose rapidly after that, and truly became the highest power organization of the Federation that even Lancarus had stepped on.

"It's a pity that after that, the Bundestag and its ally Lancarros's outer circle faction seemed to be a little overinflated, and as a result, in the middle of the game, I don't know what went wrong with my head, and I clashed with the dragons of the Strange Domain and almost killed a dragon, as a result, the black and white dragon king of the Strange Domain was furious, and the opposition within the Federation, led by Farouo, also seized the opportunity to set off a wave of impeachment, that's-"

"Wait a minute!"

Rococo interrupted Arya suddenly, and narrowed his eyes as he looked at the passage on the information about the Federal Assembly's previous life about hunting dragons.

「…… Dragon...... Arya, can you find out what the undead troops were around him in his previous life during the undead invasion of Lancarros and later in Bekaz's rebellion on the continental border and the attack on the holy city of Arya Val?"

"It's easy."

Saying this, Arya soon sent Rococo two lists, and Rococo compared the two lists very carefully, and after a moment of silence, he spoke.

"Arya...... Don't you think it's a little strange why, compared to the time of the undead invasion, when Bekaz's undead army later rebelled on the border and attacked the holy city of Arya Val, it was clear that there were many more advanced troops like the Bone Giants and Death Bone Demons, and most importantly, a few bone dragons. If he didn't have so much time to cultivate the high-level troops of the undead system when the undead invaded, at least the bone dragons could not be created through cultivation, which means that he should have these bone dragons in his top-level undead summoning slot, but even so, he didn't summon them until he was beaten away by Farou and them when the undead invaded."

Arya was silent for a moment.

"Ugh...... Maybe it's because the Undead Invasion is a plot that takes place around the main city with a lot of players, and in order to match the player's level at the time, those high-level undead classes won't appear?"

"That's exactly the problem," Rococo's head snapped up, "If the undead invasion plot is the main game caused by ordinary NPCs, then this explanation is indeed reasonable, but Bekaz is a special being with independent will, he is not too constrained by the system, and there is no need to cooperate with the player's existing level, right?"

"Okay, I think so......

"In my previous life, I didn't exist, and Kinzes eventually failed to expose Bekaz's plot before he died. If Bekaz and his allies really wanted to destroy Lancarros, they could have spent more time cultivating high-level undead troops, and then summoned bone dragons to create a truly terrifying army of undead, instead of driving the primary undead who had just been transformed by the plague to pounce directly on Lancarros...... So could it be that we have gone into a misunderstanding from the beginning, in fact, whether it was in a previous life or this time, Bekaz's purpose from the beginning was not to 'capture' Lancarros, but only to 'attack' Lancarus?"

"What's the difference?"

"Of course it's different! We have now established that Bekaz definitely has allies in the upper echelons of Lancarros, and if Lancarus is destroyed, it will be possible for Bekaz to get more undead army, but what good will this do for his accomplices? But if there is an agreement between the two of them to use Bekaz's undead invasion to create some incidents in a targeted manner, and then his accomplices are to make some preparations in advance to achieve some kind of purpose, it makes sense."

Speaking of this, Rococo's eyes lit up.

"The Federal Assembly has been suppressed by the local main city faction in Lancarlos for a long time, and they are not without strength and heritage, but they can't find an opportunity to turn the tables around...... But if the main city faction suffers a flying disaster and suffers heavy losses, isn't this just an opportunity for the council and the outer circle faction to ascend to power? Come to think of it, whether it was the success of the undead invasion in the previous life, or the fact that the undead invasion was discovered in advance this time, and the plot was obviously rewritten, but in the end, it seems that the biggest beneficiary seems to be the federal parliament, doesn't it feel too much of a coincidence?"

"Hmm...... But Xiao Ke, you're just speculating, aren't you? Besides, how do you explain that army? The army was secretly recruited by the Council, and if they wanted to join forces with Bekaz to seize power, they could have used it as a secret weapon instead of giving it to Bekaz?"

"That's exactly what I'm going to say next, and it's the most contradictory thing in the whole affair that I've just figured out."

With that, Rococo looked at the Lancarus barracks in front of him.

"Since it is an army that has been secretly fed out to be used as a secret card, how can the Federal Assembly allow the army to fend for itself in the valley infected with a strange plague and not take countermeasures? No matter how powerful Bekaz is, he killed the entire army in the valley in an instant, and the council should be able to notice the anomaly when the army in the valley suddenly loses, but in fact, the council seems to have waited until after the valley search plot to suddenly know that its own army was killed in the valley...... This is absolutely not normal!"