"You have to make a cross and then shoot to kill someone, so it feels like a curse or something?"

Killing people in the game is too unscientific in itself, and it's no wonder that Shino would associate it with the supernatural. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info But Levi isn't going to some kind of summer tale to scare girls, although the truth he's about to tell is probably more terrifying to girls than the famous ghost movie that has been a big box office hit recently.

"I don't think those actions were curses, but they were meant to be shown to the audience who witnessed him killing, so that the audience would be more impressed by his actions, to show them that he did have the ability to kill people in the game. ”

"But why did he do it?"

Perhaps frightened by her own imagination, Shino couldn't help but lean a little closer to Levi, who was holding her shoulder.

The real reason why he did that would probably have to be found out by him. But I have a guess right now, and of course, it's just a guess. ”

Levi sat down next to her by holding Shino's shoulders, he had already asked Ryoko Asakura to find the location of the dead gun, but to be on the safe side, according to Ryoko, she had to do some disguise or something first, anyway, so that neither the game's administrators nor the AI noticed that anyone was making a small move on their server. Since it still took a little time, Lévy simply explained it to Shino in its entirety. Sometimes it's more frightening to know a little bit about it, and making it all clear may make it easier for her to accept.

"I came to this game yesterday to investigate the dead gun. And then someone gave me a piece of information, you know, sao, that is, in the famous sword-art-online, there was a guild called [laughing-coffin] at that time. ”

"Laugning-coffin?"

If it was another time to hear this name, Shinon's first reaction would definitely be to use such a secondary school name, and it is estimated that most of the guild is a group of junior high school students and the like. But hearing the name from Levi's mouth at this point in time made my skin tingle.

Then, Levi really said the truth that made Shino creepy out: "Yes, it's the smiling coffin." The number of members in that guild wasn't very large, at least not comparable to the big guilds that were committed to making games as quick as possible to get everyone back into the real world. But their reputation is no less than that of those large guilds, and even people who hear that name will react more than when they meet the upper echelons of those large guilds. Because it was one of the worst red guilds in SAO at that time. ”

"Red Guild?...... Red Guild!"

There is no shortage of red name guilds in GGO, and there are also red name guilds in any other popular game that allows PK between players, but Shinon was stunned for a moment before she reflected what the red name guild in SAO meant.

"In, in that game...... Once the HP is cleared, the player will not die in reality......"

"That's it, the red name guild in SAO is different from the red name guild in other games, to put it bluntly, it is a guild that gathers a group of murderers. ”

Levi pinched Shino's shoulder, and he clearly felt the girl's body tremble slightly. Although they are not playing the death game SAO that they used to be, Shino, who is also in VRMMORPG and has been playing GGO for a long time, seems to empathize more with Levi than Levy.

"Of course, maybe that guild isn't full of perverts who like to kill, and maybe some players don't believe that the death of a character in SAO will affect real players. That kind of person probably thinks that PK in SAO is the same as in other online games, so he can do it. ”

"No, even that's not normal!"

Shino shook her head vigorously, she knew very well what it was like to kill someone, especially unconsciously, or subconsciously in the urgency of the situation, what it was like to kill someone. Lévi sensed the girl's subtle emotional fluctuations, and he found that his speculation didn't seem too far from the truth.

"It's definitely not normal, as long as you know that it's something that can kill people, unless it's a knee-jerk behavior in an emergency that you don't have time to think about, it's definitely not normal to do it consciously. ”

Sensing the possible psychological shadow of Shino, Levi's speech became more and more cautious, for fear of arousing negative associations with the girl. Many times people are much more fragile and sensitive than they think, and a very ordinary sentence will have a very different weight in the ears of those who have not had that kind of experience and those who have had special experiences.

"However, that's what the law does, so none of those who survived after SAO was cleared seem to have been sentenced to heavy sentences. After all, it was impossible for the players who were trapped in the SAO at the time to know what was going on outside, and they had no way to confirm what happened to the bodies of the players who died in the game. It is said that at first, there were even some players who thought that 'death in the game will die in reality', which was a lie that they deliberately told so without breaking away from the game. They thought they were dead and might just quit the game and return to reality, and the braver ones in those players really tried it. It's a pity that everyone knows the result. ”

“…… Are you trying to say that the dead gun is one of the smiling coffins that survived in the SAO?"

Shino avoided the topic of 'death' and refocused her attention on the dead gun.

"Quite possibly. Although none of the survivors of the Red Name Guild at that time were sentenced, some of the particularly egregious circumstances were said to have been kept in a psychological rehabilitation center or something like that. The remaining ones that are not so serious are directly released after a period of psychological counseling. It's just that after all, what happened in SAO, people from the outside world can only rely on listening to the dictates of those surviving players. However, the players who were killed by the smiling coffin man could not speak again, and it is difficult to confirm exactly what they had done. Probably because of the lack of evidence, they couldn't be convicted, not only because the state in the game at the time was an 'unintentional crime' or something. ”

Levi actually didn't just read the information Izumi had collected from the Internet, but later he also asked Ryoko to find some reports on the Internet that couldn't be started through normal channels. The real body of the dead gun is the survivor of the sao red guild's smiling coffin has basically been determined, but which of those players who survived the smiling coffin is he, which is also what Ryoko is now verifying by the way.