Chapter Eighty-Six: Virtual and Reality

Life has to go on like this.,Kiritani and people are addicted to the game.,It's not just a raid on a game that gets the same pleasure as an achievement.,It's a real experience of the game.,To understand a game.,Although he insists on kendo.,But he's more interested in the game.,This kind of thing is not a proper job in the eyes of many people.,It's alienating relatives.,But he got the approval of the lark.,"Do it if you want to do it.。 Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE。 info" This is the lark's answer.

This kind of life lasted until Kazuto Kiritani was fourteen years old, and of course a lot of things have happened in the past few years, such as Naoba Kiritani who entered the national competition with her own efforts, which really confirmed what she said at the beginning, "I will take my brother's share and work harder." This made the Kiritani family's dojo even more prosperous.

In the past two years, Kiritani and people,In addition to the daily exercise, he joined the game wholeheartedly,Self-taught programming languages、The production of video games and some small achievements,Has found his life goal,One of the topics attracted his attention very much,The development of the first full stealth game,Let him rack his brains to snatch one ten-thousandth of the closed test number,Of course, he didn't forget to apply for the lark privately,In line with the idea of abusing the lark in the game, it mobilized the greatest enthusiasm in his life。

Until one day, when he personally gave the game helmet to the lark, he showed a slightly evil smile.

Sure enough, at the beginning of the game's closed beta, Kiritani and the identity swap between humans and larks in the real world, abused the lark, but until the last week of the closed beta, the lark used his talent to prove what the gap between people is.

Due to the physical limitations in the game, the basic attributes of the player are almost the same, the lark rarely found the passion and blood of his youth in this world of swords, so as to challenge the masters of the game everywhere, a fair battle is what the lark wants most now, which has lost and won, which makes the lark devote himself to the game, and is called a lonely meat eater by the player.

Players have reached an unprecedented height in the closed beta of this game, and many professional game veterans have put forward very valuable opinions, pointing out that one after another vulnerabilities are being encountered in the closed beta, and the game company has received strong support from the government, and many game teams have joined to contribute to this game, and the game company has naturally extended the public beta time, determined to create a game that spans the ages.

During the closed beta period, the game company showed strong strength and scientific research capabilities, conducted a questionnaire on the top of the list, and even threatened to implement the suggestions made by the masters in these games without affecting the balance of the game, including adding new weapons, new skills, new subclasses, some more personalized mini-gameplay, etc.

The next two-month extended closed beta ended, and the system entered an eight-month system update and maintenance, and the game, which was supposed to launch the open beta in the middle of summer, was stubbornly delayed until the snowy winter.

However, this did not affect people's enthusiasm for the game, as the game company posted one new game sticker after another, and the game MV, people's enthusiasm literally melted the ice and snow.

On December 25, 2022, which is the day of Christmas, the game helmets of dozens of marketing points of the game company were sold out within two hours, including 5,000 for the first limited version and 15,000 for the regular version.

The lark put on his helmet and closed his eyes and lay on the bed: "linkstart." Although in reality, his eyes were closed, but a light flashed through his eyes, and then it was like coming to another world, the login page was placed in front of him, entered and confirmed, and an initial character attribute appeared in his eyes, and the system popped up "Consistent with the image of the closed beta" The lark clicked directly to confirm, and a flash of light flashed The lark appeared in the game.

The fingers of the right hand are swiped from top to bottom,Character attributes and backpack are displayed in front of you,Click on the sealed beta package in the backpack,An initial novice duckweed crutch appeared in the lark's backpack,This is the new weapon "crutch" that the lark let the game company add,Anyone can use the crutch,Exercise proficiency,Learn the skills of crutches,So this does not affect the balance of the game,The lark will be equipped without saying a word。

"You don't have to guess what kind of advice you gave to the game company, decisively or with crutches is more suitable for you, is it really okay to just use your real name to make the game character like this?" A male player named Kirito walked over: "But it's really exciting to think about, I'm in this world again." ”

"I am who I am. Skylark answered Kirito's question in four words, of course, Kirita is Kiritani's game character (named the game character with his real name?????? Kiritani and people, you are not qualified to say lark).

The lark is no longer a novice in the game, and the weapon in his hand makes him happy, but as a game, the attack pattern of the weapon, the attack judgment and the weapon skill are the core.

Looking at the current level of the characters, only an inconspicuous little 1 on the far left of the upper left corner is placed there, and it is still very safe to fight wild boars.

A beginner leveling field in the wilderness -

The lark introduced the wild monster into its own attack atmosphere again and again, and the red light flashed on the crouching crutch: "Crutch." The duckweed crutch in his right hand went out.

"Knock" the crutch just knocked on the head of the wild boar, a vertiginous sign appeared on the top of the boar's head, the lark has tried more than ten times and finally showed the special effect of the skill of crutching, I have to say that the game is a game after all, in the eyes of the lark, these so-called skills just look gorgeous, but in reality there is nothing applicable at all. But it's satisfying to be able to do it to this extent, it's kind of something that took eight months to make urgently, and it's amazing to make it what it is now.

After four hours of familiarity,The lark finally has a general understanding of the duckweed crutch in the game,First of all, although it is a two-handed weapon in weight, it is not heavy,The second attack speed is fast,Not as fast as the attack speed of the dagger,It's much faster than the knife used in the sealed test,It's faster than holding a sword with one hand,If the fastest weapon in the game is a dagger,Then it's followed by duckweed.,In terms of attack, because the crutch is a blunt weapon, there are no attributes such as slashing and penetration.,But there is a special attribute of smashing.,Although it can't cause bleeding to monsters, but as long as the attack on the weak point can cause a stun effect. 。

The disadvantage of the crutch is really big.,That is, the attack range of the weapon is too short.,The requirements for the player's game operation are too high.,Like the skill of the crutch when the skill is cast, the game character can't move.,If you want to fully play the skill effect, you need to make a very accurate prediction of the monster.,The skill is cast too fast.,Can't hit the monster.,If it's cast too late, it will be hit by the wild monster in advance.,Thus interrupting the skill.。 In other words, duckweed, this is an artifact of close combat (for masters) and a kind of torture for novices.

I still have to practice.,Glancing at the beautiful sunset in the game and then glancing at the current character level.,The whole person is lazy and lying on the grass.,The sunset is infinitely good.,It's just near dusk.,I'm here waiting for Kirito.,Let's go offline together.。

Is it better to say that he is a bad person or something else, saying that he would go to level up together but was pulled away by a guy named Klein.

The dim light of the sunset, the full turquoise, the clear blue sky and a refreshing breeze make people unconsciously intoxicated in the beautiful environment.

"Dangdang??????" A bell rang, and the lark hurriedly stood up, and then a white light covered the body, and the whole person was teleported to the first place of the game character's birth, "Beginning Town", is it the first official operation of the event, many games do this.

His eyes swept within his line of sight and he found that Kirito was on his side and not very far from him, and from his expression, it seemed that things were not as simple as moving.

"Welcome to the world of swords. A deep male voice came from the sky.

A hexagonal red color appeared in the clear blue sky, just like a texture bug in the game.

"What's that? That's why you can't log out?" Kirito looked at the sky carefully, and the red hexagonal shape said "WARNING" on it, which means "warning".

Warning?Things are definitely not as simple as players think, if it is a game activity, it is necessary to warn?

After a while, red hexagons spread all over the sky, covering the entire game like a virus, and the red viscous liquid seeped out from the gaps, and the continuous convergence gradually formed a person in a red robe.

"Administrator?" Skylark stared at the person standing in the air, who looked clearly the administrator in the game, and it can be said that every closed beta player inevitably went to deal with him in the early stage, although the administrator was just an NPC.

"Welcome to Minecraft, everyone!" said the Administrator, hugging the world with his arms outstretched.

To learn to grasp the keyword, minecraft? It's not like what an NPC said.,And if there is a problem with logging out of the game, the game company should fix it as soon as possible.,The first sentence that appears is to open in my world.,It's definitely not as simple as an NPC.,If something so big happens, the first thing that should be done should be the internal personnel of the game company come forward to apologize.,No matter what kind of activity the game has.,It's a very serious event to be forced to go offline as a completely stealthy person.,Listening to the tone of his mouth, there is absolutely no apology.,So the answer has surfaced.,This is a person in the development team. 。

The lark can't continue to listen anymore, no matter what the development team does, it won't surprise them, it's a bunch of crazy people, at least as far as the scientific researchers that the lark has encountered so far are like this, such as Verdi in the governess, Nirvana in the Grim Reaper, and Kisuke Urahara are normal people.

Sure enough, the red-robed man continued: "My name is Kayaba Jinghiko, and I am the only human who can control this world now. ”

In front of Kirito, the lark walked aisle, and patted him on the shoulder: "Be prepared." "Although the lark never denied the merits of the developers, those people did have problems with their brains, and there was a fine line between a genius and a madman.

Kirito glanced at the lark, things have reached this point, and he can only accept the reality.

"As you all know, the logout button in the main menu is gone, and it's not because of the game system. The red-robed man stretched out his right hand and swiped it in the void, bringing up the menu logout button and disappearing as he said: "Repeat, it's not that the game system is wrong, it's the original gameplay of SwordArtOnline." ”

Kirito is already completely shocked, I can't get out, I can't get out this time, it will take at least a while to accept this reality, but fortunately, the lark made me ready, otherwise I don't know what kind of ugliness I will pose.

"You can't log out, and no one outside can stop or disarm NERvGear, and if you try to do it, the high-powered microwaves emitted by NERvGear's signal unit will destroy your brains, stop your life, and drop the battery level to the warning line. ”

"What is that guy talking about? How could it be, his brain is already broken. Klein shrugged his shoulders and said he wouldn't believe him, but he didn't know the bottom of his heart.

"Can do it (idiot)." ”

Kirito and Skylark replied tacitly, but the latter really took him for an idiot.

"The NERvGear does emit a wave like a microwave oven, a wave that covers the brain, and it's not impossible to burn the brain or something. Kirito explained the principle.

A wave of desperation spread throughout the crowd, and it would not be comfortable for anyone to have their lives in complete control of anyone else, and the feeling of dying at any time was really terrifying, and despair was like a boulder pressing on the chest of the players, suffocating and making it impossible to breathe.

"Unfortunately, there have been many cases where friends and relatives of players have ignored warnings and attempted to contact NERvGear, with 586 players permanently exiting from Ein Grant and the real world. "The red-robed man uses accurate numbers to tell the player that this is the truth.

"I don't believe it, I don't believe it. "Two extreme emotions buried deep under despair, one is crazy ordinary people will be like this, the other is calm, which is only a few people can do, in Chinese words is Mount Tai collapsed on the top and the heart does not move, can achieve this is not a figure who can dominate the world, lark certainly belongs to the latter.

"As you can see, this situation has been repeatedly reported by the media, including the large number of deaths. The red-robed man slid his hands in the air one window after another to reveal in front of everyone's eyes, and the naked reality made it impossible to refute: "Therefore, the danger of NERvGear being removed has been reduced." I hope you can rest assured that the game is played.,But I hope you can pay attention.,In the future, the resurrection means of all games will be invalid.,The moment the HP becomes zero, your characters will disappear permanently.,At the same time, your brain will be destroyed by NERvGear.,There's only one condition for you to get liberated.,Just get through this game.,Now you're at the bottom of the Ein Grant.,The maze area of each layer of the first layer of the strategy knocks down the defending layer BOOS and you can enter the upper layer and knock down the hundredth layer of BOOS to clear the customs.。 ”

"What are you kidding, even during the closed beta period, I didn't make it to the first few floors." Klein asked Kirito.

"Layer 7, this is the result of the efforts of the top closed beta players at the time. Kirito said solemnly: "And the back is getting more and more difficult, and BOOS is getting stronger and stronger." ”

"Finally, there is a gift from me in your storage backpack, so please check it out. The red-robed man continued.

It's so mysterious, it's really just a joke, there must be some surprise in the gift, many people have this idea, click on the gift bag, and what appears in the hand is a paper notice and a small hand mirror.

The first moment everyone got the gift was to look in the mirror, and then a burst of light swept across the square.

When the light dissipates, Kirito looks carefully in the mirror, it is a childish face, this is the real self, looking around the square and everything is in chaos, when the game character tears off the near-perfect virtual shell to show the real self, what kind of state will it be at present, it is full of ugliness, men pretend to be women, women pretend to be men, or pretend to be old, or pretend to be young and beautiful, or become a tall strong man or become a petite girl, at this moment the hypocritical appearance is all gone while being the most true self, the player's personal privacy is torn open a bloody wound。

The other players broke the mirror the moment they saw their real selves, but the lark still maintained his composure, and even brushed his hair in the mirror and nodded "perfect".

"You're Klein!"

"You're Kirito!"

Faced with the surprise of the sudden realization of the game's friends, Klein turned from a powerful and handsome swordsman to a down-and-out samurai, no wonder he didn't recognize him at the first time.

"Why hasn't that person changed in the slightest?" Klein said, pointing to the lark.

"Why hasn't he changed?" Klein said, pointing to the lark.

"He's a game character who lives up to himself. Kirito said with a smile, who can't make him a freak?

But then came the problem

"Why did Akihiko Ashiba do this, and did it do him any good?"

The lark lightly raised his index finger and pointed at the red-robed man: "He will definitely say." ”

"You must be wondering "why", why did Akihiko Kayaba, the developer of SwordArtOnline and NERvGear, do such a thing? My goal has been achieved, I just made SwordArtOnline to create this world to watch and now everything is done, now I end the official operation tutorial of SwordArtOnline, good luck to all players. "There is nothing more to say about this, the existence of the red-robed man has become very unstable, his body has flickered and shattered, how did the viscous red liquid come from and how to go back, and a burst of clear and dusk sunlight in the sky shines on the world.

Everything was like a joke played by God, for the first time I felt so close to death, silent and everyone was silent, the full square of 10,000 people was silent, and the beautiful dusk hid endless darkness.

The lark was the first to turn around, and then Kirito pulled Klein and followed, until they walked out of the square, and the crowd turned from despair to anger and the scene became very chaotic.

Until he walked into an alley, the lark stopped and glanced at it, but didn't say anything.

Instead, Kirito began to explain: "Next we will go to another town, because the leveling point ephedrine around the starting town will be swept away, so we will enter the next town early." "If what he said is true, then strength is everything in this world, and the high level in the early stage will quickly have an advantage in this world, and strength is everything.

"Stupid. The lark casually flipped through the information in his hand, quickly glanced at it a few times, and then threw the information to Kirito.

Kirito took the information and looked at it carefully, if it wasn't a big deal, the lark would never have warned himself, and the more he looked down, the more frightened he became: "It's simply impossible!" The information introduces the effect of the eight-month update, the sub-class, and the entertainment of the tavern in the game, etc., although it seems that it is not a big deal, and it seems to be quite conscientious, but there are two of them that not only increase the power difficulty of the game, but also affect the safety of the player.

First, the game map has become larger and wider, from the original 10 kilometers in diameter to 20 kilometers.

Article 2: Changes to the basic attributes and experience of night monsters, the basic attributes of night monsters are increased from 10% to 50%, and the experience is rewarded with an equal change of basic attributes.

These two items are crucial, first of all, the map is enlarged to 20 kilometers, so the same maze is more difficult to find than before, and if the maze area becomes an equal multiplier, then it is still a question whether the BOOS room can be found.

As for the change of the basic attributes of the night monsters, there will definitely be people who can't withstand the temptation of experience rewards, but it is easy to overturn, and it is completely up to luck for the wasteland development team, and the boat of friendship will capsize if it is not lucky.

From the starting town to the next town, I really don't know what will happen, and now it's dusk and night is about to fall, if there are only two people like Skylark and Kirito, it's okay, if you add a drag oil bottle to just play this game, bad luck is a disaster.