"Wow wow! Brother Wutong has become a nobleman! ”

Little Lori cheered and jumped around the sycamore, and the sycamore himself was very excited to wear the noble badge handed to him by the royal ceremonial officer on his chest, which was a special gold badge, and the shape was his "Flame Seven Leaf Sycamore" emblem.

This pattern represents his unique identity, and it will also be the shape of the noble family coat of arms after he creates a territory in the future, there is no special surname, but wearing this badge can enjoy many privileges and benefits, such as tax exemption, passage and so on.

Even if you commit a crime, you don't have to bear the responsibility for the crime, but only need to pay the ransom, and the nobility of the Duchy of Adele is recognized within the scope of the five human countries, although you can't enjoy the same treatment in Ander in other countries, but you can get the corresponding courtesy.

In addition, wearing this badge, when facing the aborigines, it has an innate rank advantage, which will allow the sycamore to get a lot of benefits when dealing with the aborigines, as for the ability to recruit aboriginal subordinates, servants, servants, maids or something, it is not enough.

"Congratulations! Lord Baron! Lingyue Frost Snow also joked playfully.

Wutong smiled, thanked the royal ceremonial officer, and then left the Anle Palace, before leaving, the royal ceremonial officer also kindly reminded Wutong that after the situation in the principality is stable, he will come to Anle Palace again, the royal family will arrange another formal award ceremony, and he will also be qualified to meet the queen.

Although Wutong didn't have much interest in meeting an aboriginal queen, he had to abide by the rules of the game in the game, so he naturally didn't say anything rebellious, just said that he knew.

With the benefits of being a nobleman, when they left the palace, the knights along the road saluted him, and Wutong also used the aristocratic salute that was different from the mage ceremony one by one, and waited until he left the Anle Palace, then he breathed a sigh of relief, wiped the sweat on his head, and complained: "The nobleman is more tired than the mage!" ”

"Haha!"

Lingyue Shuangxue smiled: "Boss, you are showing off naked!" Others think that nobles can't be been, right? You're not a [Lesser Noble], you're a [Superior Noble]! If you are an ordinary player, I am afraid that it is impossible to obtain this high-level status until the middle of the game! ”

"It's just a quasi-high noble, it's still one order away from the real high noble, if there is no special opportunity, this level is estimated to not be able to rise!" Wutong was "reluctantly" modest.

"Where are we going now? Will Forest? Lingyue Frost Snow smiled.

"Uh, let's take a look at the Knights of the Enforcer's Order!" Wutong remembered the old mage's words and asked him to help the Knights of the Enforcers, he felt that this should be a task, so he planned to take a look, ** Buli Ten should be related to the plague.

The headquarters of the Knights of the Enforcers is also in the inner city of Antian, but it is not far away, and when they appeared at the headquarters of the Knights, they attracted the attention of the head of the Knights of the Enforcers and met them in person.

"Your Excellency, do you mean that you have been commissioned by the Zemmours ** Division to assist us in investigating the plague?"

The knight leader looked at Wutong with some surprise, and looked at the two priest girls beside Wutong, his eyes showed a hint of surprise, the aura exuded by the young mage nobleman in front of him, and the two female priests, made him a little surprised, this is not a powerful aura that young people of their age can have.

"Alright! In that case"

The Knight Commander took out some files and placed them in front of Wutong and them: "Although I don't think these files can reveal any clues, but this is all the content related to this plague that we have collected as much as we can. If you find something or need help, you can always ask me, and I will arrange someone to cooperate with you. ”

Sycamore nodded, looked through the file, and the knight leader recruited a law enforcement knight captain, accompanied by Sycamore, ordered the knight captain to fully cooperate with Sycamore's actions, and then said goodbye to Sycamore and left in a hurry, now Fairhaven City is in chaos, there are too many things to deal with as the head of the Knights of the Enforcer.

The contents of the dossier are nothing more than a detailed plague report, when and where the people infected with the plague were found, and so on, Wutong found that although the plague reports recorded in these files did not seem to have any clues and patterns, and were completely disordered and random, the first few files showed that the area where the plague was first discovered was the slum near the cemetery.

This made Wutong look up at the law enforcement knight captain who was wearing heavy armor and standing expressionlessly, and seemed to sense Wutong's sight, and the old-fashioned knight captain bowed slightly expressionlessly: "What are your orders?" Your Excellency, Master? ”。

Different from the politeness of the captain of the knights of the enforcer, the attitude of this knight captain seems a little stiff, but Wutong probably knows what is going on, compared with the knight nobles who have really accumulated battle achievements on the battlefield and risen to the ranks, the knights usually don't have much affection for mages who can obtain the status of nobility without doing anything, and everyone is completely a two-level crowd.

"Nothing for now"

Wutong shook his head and said with a smile: "I just noticed some minor problems." ”

"For example?" The captain of the knights clearly didn't believe that Sycamore had only a few glances and had figured out what was wrong.

"The first place where the plague appeared seemed to be the slum near the cemetery?"

Wutong didn't bother to make trouble with an aborigine, and briefly recounted: "The source of the epidemic comes from the cemetery? ”

"Apparently." The Captain of the Knight was expressionless.

"Ghouls?" Wutong asked tentatively, and the knight captain nodded, this is not a secret at the top.

"I wonder, how?"

These things have been put on the bright side, there is nothing to do much research, there are many temples, ghouls, such a "little monster", in Fairhaven City, can't set off much storm, the problem now is that the plague can't be cleared, Wutong doesn't believe it, there are so many spellcasters and priests who exist, they can't do anything to clear the plague, the ghoul fever is terrible to say, but in this world, it is not a terminal disease that cannot be cured.

That's why such a serious incident happened, but the people of Fairhaven were fairly stable.

"Clean up the cemetery, move the graves and bones, clean up the ghouls." The captain of the knights said word by word.

After the plague broke out, the root cause was quickly found, so all the cemeteries in Fairhaven City were all moved out of the city, all the bones were also transferred, and all the plague areas were completely purified by the temple.

In the general direction, this is indeed a way to cut the grass and eradicate the root cause and eliminate the source of the epidemic from the root, but now it has appeared, in the absence of the source of the epidemic, there is still an outbreak of the plague, and even in the case of martial law in the whole city, it is determined that there are no ghouls still hiding in the city, and it is still impossible to prevent the plague from appearing, and in many places it is even infected with the second and third degrees.

Wutong scratched his head, he didn't have a clue, he didn't think that a group of great priests, high priests, and high-level mages couldn't do it, he could solve it as a first-order small mage.

"Okay"

Wutong stood up helplessly and handed the file to the knight captain: "If I find anything, I will inform you." ”

The captain of the law enforcement knights took the file, nodded with a bad attitude, and turned around and left with an expressionless face, and Wutong naturally left the headquarters of the law enforcement knights.

"I hate puzzle quests!" The female pastor with a hearty surname muttered.

"I don't like it either!" Wutong was a little worried, and scratched his head: "Let's go, let's go to the cemetery." ”

Lingyue Frost and Snow was stunned for a moment, and reacted that Wutong was talking about the cemetery where they sent the peas and the corpses of the warriors after they came back from the [Wailing Wilderness], although I don't know if this matter is directly related to them, but I just saw from the file that the cemetery they went to was the first source of the plague, and Wutong couldn't help but suspect that it was very likely that they brought the ghoul fever back to Fairhaven City.

At that time, Pea and they were severely infected with the [Ghoul Fever Plague], and after they came back, they were already seriously ill, and at that time Wutong was not very clear, what would happen to people infected by the Ghoul Fever Plague, but now he is "well-read", and his knowledge is much more profound than at that time!

If a person bitten by a ghoul dies after being infected with the [Ghoul Fever], if the corpse is not eaten by the ghoul, there is a slight chance that they will be assimilated into a ghoul and resurrected!

This kind of ghoul, known as the "ghoul derivation", also known as the "ghoul descendant", is the offspring of the ghoul's alternative "breeding"!

At that time, they threw the peas that had not yet "died" directly into the morgue of the cemetery, if one of the peas and those warriors encountered that small chance and transformed into a "ghoul derivation", it is very likely that it is the source of this plague!

In retrospect, the Peas were resurrected from the temple a little too quickly, and they had just thrown them into the cemetery before they died, and over there, Pea had already arrived at the secret shop ahead of them, which was obviously a bit unreasonable.

Even if the corpse is collected, causing the peas to have a short death penalty time, it is impossible to say that they can be resurrected within a few minutes, and the death penalty state has been eliminated, the only possibility is that the peas were actually dead at that time and were transforming into ghouls, and they brought back the peas in that state as "severely infected".

At the thought of this, Sycamore sweated profusely, and they had been with a few corpses for a night! Don't make sure the pea rolls over and grabs him, and nibbles on it! This is the game version of Resident Evil!

The cemetery has been completely demolished and leveled, the tall morgues have been demolished, the wide cemetery has been dug up with holes, and the bones of the old corpses have been dug out and transported out of the newly opened cemetery outside the city for reburial.

Even the grave soil all over the ground has been thoroughly purified by the priests who have splashed a large amount of holy water, and they don't feel gloomy and dark at all, but feel that the abundant holy power is shrouded here, and the ghouls who like to hide in the tomb soil and coffins will not like this place anymore.

After a few turns around the cemetery, this place has been completely destroyed, and there are no clues to be found, so Wutong has to leave here with Xiaoxiao and Lingyue Frost and Snow, and go to the slum not far away to see if there will be any finds.

No matter what the city, no matter how good the country is, the poor always occupy a large part of the population, let alone the country in the context of the Middle Ages, so even a country like Adele, which has a thriving agriculture without war, cannot avoid the existence of large slums in a capital like Fairhaven.

These low-shack areas made of wood did not even look neat as the goblin tribes of the Will Forest, and a large number of yellow-skinned, withered-looking, and glazed-eyed paupers gathered here, wandering like walking corpses from time to time.

This is the poorest place in Fairhaven, and it is also the worst place in Fairhaven, thieves, criminals, evil organizations, use this place as a stronghold and a nest, when they are close to here, from time to time there are aboriginal poor children running over to their thin little hands to ask for coins, and some idlers sitting on the side of the road look at them with ill-intentioned eyes from time to time.

Although it was just a game, such a scene made Wutong and Lingyue Shuangxue couldn't help frowning and covering their noses, and the kind-hearted little Lori looked at those aboriginal poor children with sympathetic and pitiful eyes, and took out snacks and candy from their pockets from time to time to distribute them to them.

"And voila! A young aristocratic lord, and two beautiful priest ladies! ”

A guy with a sharp-beaked monkey's cheeks approached them with a strange smile: "Are you here to investigate the plague?" Oh! Be merciful! Recently, a lot of benevolent lords have come here to inquire about the situation!? When did rich men become so kind-hearted? ”

He looked at the sycamore, and said with a strange smile that was not afraid at all: "Should I call you Master Mage or Master Baron?" Well, that's not important, wonder about the situation with the plague? One silver coin! Give me a silver coin, and I'll tell you all!" ”

"The unbeliever, this is a unbeliever!"

Lingyue Frost Snow frowned and took a step back, a little away from this filthy and sloppy fellow, and lowered her voice to remind Wutong that in the priest's dogma, the unbelievers are untrustworthy liars and degenerates, because without faith, their hearts are only filled with darkness, hatred, and jealousy.

"Yes, beautiful Miss Pastor, I am an unbeliever, because God has no mercy on me, He has made me poor, hungry, sick and low, are you going to put me in the 'wall of the unbelievers'?"

The poor man with the sharp-beaked monkey cheeks smiled, not at all afraid of the aristocratic Wutong and the priest Lingyue Shuangxue in front of him: "You give me money, I will tell you the information, it's very reasonable and fair, isn't it?" ”

Wutong has no prejudice against the unbelievers, because basically the mages are also untrustworthy, and took out a silver coin and threw it to him, and Wutong asked, "I want to know, there is something about ghouls." ”

"Oh! Ghoul! I've seen it, as skinny, as dirty and ugly as me, but the few ghouls that have appeared here have been killed by the knights! Because they bit a few people to death."

The sharp-billed monkey rubbed the silver coin in his hand and stuffed it into his pocket with satisfaction: "I think they should be hungry." ”

"That's all?" Sycamore wondered.

"Yes! That's it! The sharp-billed monkey cheek monster laughed a few times: "What else do you want to know?" There is another question that will be charged separately! Or a silver coin! ”

Sycamore wrinkled, and directly took out a gold coin and threw it to him: "Tell me everything you know, about the plague and ghouls." ”

"Oooo How generous you are! The sharp-beaked monkey cheeks smiled and stuffed the gold coin into his mouth, and bit it with his black rotten teeth, which made the sycamore chill, and the circulating gold coin with a gold content of 5%, what can you bite out?

As the monkey gills recounted, Sycamore was disappointed that he had not been able to get anything useful.

"That's it. Want to know anything else? The sharp-beaked monkey cheeks smiled and said, "Since you are a regular customer, I can give you half the price!" ”

Shaking his head in disappointment, Wutong planned to leave with Lingyue Frost Snow with a smile, it seems that there is no information to be found here.

"Oh! I've seen it."

Suddenly, the sharp-beaked monkey cheeks stared at Sycamore's chest and suddenly screamed, but soon he closed his mouth again, and Sycamore turned his head: "What? ”

"Nothing." He looked at the sky with his eyes, and then said, "Ding! With a bang, he quickly grabbed a flying gold coin.

"This emblem!" He flicked the gold coin in his hand and pointed to Sycamore's chest: "I've seen this emblem on the chest of a ghoul!" ”

Wutong looked down and saw the Adventure Group Emblem of the No. 44 Secret Law Order!

"Yes! That's it! Those big ghouls who were killed by the knight lord have this emblem on their chests! The sharp-billed monkey chuckled wickedly, "Are they your pets?" ”

Sycamore and Lingyue Frost and Snow looked at each other, and there was the emblem of the adventure group, which proved that it was indeed the pea them!

"Wait!" Sycamore seized a loophole: "You're saying the ghouls who were killed were all big guys?" ”

"Yes! Your Excellency, Master! ”

Maybe it's the relationship between the two gold coins, and the sharp-billed monkey cheeks have a much kinder attitude towards the sycamore: "A bunch of ghouls who seem to know that they are mercenaries and adventurers before they are alive, I guess they must have been bitten by ghouls before they died, and then they became ghouls in the cemetery, and came out and bit others to death, you know, although ghouls eat corpses, but they prefer fresh meat!" ”

"Only big guys? No ghouls with little men? Sycamore stared into his cloudy eyes.

The sharp-beaked monkey was stunned: "Little man? How do you know there's a little ghoul? ”

(To be continued)