Ye Chi opened his eyes.

The purpose is a void.

It is a bit inaccurate to say that it is a void, and there are still sporadic lights in the darkness.

That's starlight, Ye Chi came to this conclusion after a judgment, then- this is the universe.

At least it looks like that.

It's a lonely celestial area, there aren't many stars as far as the eye can see, and the whole celestial area is about the same as the night sky - but there is no atmosphere here!

Ye Chi was very sure that they were not in the atmosphere.

They were now standing on a platform - but that platform did not actually exist, but only gave him the illusion of a very solid one, with an aqua-blue star at their feet, from which it looked like a huge meteorological map, with clouds rising over the land and the sea - that was the Earth.

The platform they were on could be seen as a fully transparent object with physical but no optical properties, in a low equatorial orbit somewhere, as a dazzling morning and dusk line was slowly crossing from right to left in his field of vision.

Looking around again, a dazzling sea of stars, the canopy above their heads seemed a little unreal in comparison, and the stars were really hanging upside down.

As someone may have noticed, I use the pronouns "they" instead of "he".

On this sci-fi-like platform, there is another person.

A teenager who looks like a girl......

At least that's the face.

Ye Chi's comrades-in-arms, which can also be said to be difficult friends-Kazuto Kiritani, a black ghost swordsman in SAO, a white-handed (DNF sword soul, using dual swords...... I respect myself...... ）

The above is the mouth mustache......

Why are they here—obviously not somewhere in the real world?

It all started with an email they received from an unknown source.

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said that on that day, the bad boy Ye Chi abolished the three good students Suxiang classmate and went to rescue Bai Fumei Amena classmate, and the two were very moved after seeing each other, and then ......

Then Ye Chi went back.

You who are looking forward to the royal road plot are really pictures.

How can Asuna's delicate body, which has just woken up, bear the weight of hehehe?

Ye Chi was seriously injured in his left arm, hehehe, in the process, I believe that he is the one who saw the red......

Besides, you guys are just thinking about what's the difference between hey, hey, hey, and salted fish?

In short, thanks to the stubborn resistance of Suxiang's classmates, Ye Chi, who had made an appointment with his father to rescue Asuna and go to school, delayed for a while.

The next day.

At 3 o'clock in the morning, Ye Chi finished dealing with a lot of messes and drove back to his apartment with his injuries.

He didn't even take off his clothes—in fact, he couldn't, and his arms were bandaged—and he fell into a deep sleep, not noticing that he had received a strange email in his e-mail.

To Master Livings Wright:

If you still have more than hatred and fear for this virtual world, but also have nostalgia, then at 1800 o'clock this evening, enter this world again, and draw a complete end at the beginning of everything.

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To be honest, it was already five o'clock in the afternoon when Ye Chi saw this email, plus the things he was considering, etc., when he made the decision to meet Heathcliff, there were only more than three minutes left.

"The starting point of everything" is SAO?

But SAO's servers have been shut down, and in the intervening months he's been secretly trying to log in to find Asuna, but no matter how much he tries to intervene, all he can do is get a hint that he can't connect.

So...... This...... Can I connect it?

“LinkStart！” Ye Chi said the connecting word.

Then his vision was overwhelmed by the light stream of color.

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"Here...... But it's obviously not SAO, Kirito? Ye Chi pinched his teeth and looked a little sour...... This is beyond the limit of fear of heights, and even astronauts can only endure it, and it is impossible to completely shield their fears.

"I didn't expect Heatscliffe to be not only a bit of a middle two, but also so bad......" Kirito also looked at the dish, suppressing his desire to look at the earth.

"Isn't he dead? Do you scan your own head with super electromagnetic waves and finally cook your own head into a pot of cereal? ”

"Don't use cereal as an analogy! How can you tell me to have breakfast in the future! Kirito seemed to be making up for it, but he instantly made himself sick.

"Don't worry, I'm dead." A voice that was very familiar to both Ye Chi and Kirito suddenly spoke—and then both Ye Chi and Kirito showed wary expressions.

It was Heathcliff Akihiko Kayaba, the culprit responsible for the killing of more than 3,000 players, which is the highest number of people in the human race in terms of numbers alone.

Aside from the profession of a bomber pilot of a similar nature, this amount is astronomical for one person - it takes more than 8 years to kill one a day, and that's a person, not a pig......

"I scanned my brain with high-power electromagnetic waves, and I know what the consequences are, and the result is that my brain is burned into a pulp, but my consciousness, at least a part, is still alive in the virtual world."

"You? Survive? Do you have desires and hopes now? Do you still have the motivation to forge ahead? Can you still snap? Ye Chi's first two sentences are still online, and the last sentence is down......

"I admit that I don't, now I'm a network of single-celled organisms at best, I can only continue my previous thoughts, and make simple responses to external stimuli, which is not much different from single-celled organisms, and what I can accomplish is the strong will I had before, I have no agency at all, and I am very slow to receive information, so I really can't be considered alive."

"And what kind of wish did you have for bringing us here for your 'lifetime'?" Ye Chi looked at him playfully, and accentuated the two words before his death.

"How do you feel about this environment?"

"It's good, it's a little dizzy." Kirito expressed his thoughts bluntly.

"Don't have any other ideas? More...... More ......" Akihiko Kayaba, his memory to be exact, made a few gestures to try to express his meaning more fully, but seemed to fail.

"Taller? Metaphysical? Ye Chi understood what he meant and summarized.

"That's right."

"I feel my own insignificance, sigh at the greatness of mankind, and at the same time feel the smallness of mankind, the vastness of the universe and the insignificance of the earth...... That's not it, anyway, I'm a mortal who can think of this. Ye Chi said casually.

"No...... It's already extraordinary to think of this...... Kirito complained as he could......

"By the way, do you still have the ability to connect to satellites?" Ye Chi looked at this world, the exquisite workmanship was unimaginable and human.

"No...... This is a Google Maps sticker, only then the piece on the head is me, I made it myself. "Kayaba, now it's better to treat this as his own, obviously some obstacles in recognizing the self, and a little resistant when saying "I".

"Okay, you won......" Ye Chi ...... with his hand on his forehead, "No wonder this piece of ...... is so sparse above his head", it seems that there are times when the cottage is lazy......

"So, what else is there to call us in? Don't you just want to show us this space? You're not a kid anymore. Kirito asked with a serious expression.

"Well, yes, it's a gift—a gift from the world." He seemed to say casually, and with a stroke of his hand in the void, two lustrous translucent egg-shaped crystals appeared on his fingertips, floating in front of the two of them.

"What? This is. Ye Chi stretched out his hand to catch the crystal, let him spin it in his palm, and looked up to ask him.

"That's the seed of the world."

"What!?" Kirito seemed a little incredulous, but Ye Chi instantly understood.

"When it sprouts, you'll know what it is. Then it's up to you to decide what to do. It doesn't matter if you want to delete it and forget it...... But if you still have feelings other than hatred for that world—"

"The original plan was to make it a little smaller so that one person's NErvgear could be stored, but I had enough time, so I made an enhanced version that required two people to fully fit it, and a perfect version for three people - but the original one person didn't seem to be in a good situation right now, so I'll give you this version, this version is just right, if it's perfect...... I have too much stuff of my own - decompress in sections, will it? ”

This thing is the "framework" of the entire VR world, Kayaba has designed a basic framework, and others can directly produce a virtual world as long as they carry out relatively simple post-editing - Kayaba is the rhythm of the godfather of VR games......

"—then I'm leaving. See you again for a chance, Livingx, and Kirito ......"

"Wait a minute!" Ye Chi stopped him, "What's the point of you doing this?" ”

"Who knows?" He didn't look back, but he did stand still.

"What's in it for you? It's not in your interest! Even if you do contribute to the cause of VR, people will only know about us - if we post anonymously, no one will even know who it is - why the hell are you? ”

"Livingx-kun, I thought you could think of it - I'll show you the meaning of this space."

"It's true that there is no interest to me personally - but it is in the interest of humanity."

"And I, a human being, am a member of the earth's civilization, isn't this normal?"

"Because I'm with my unseemly miscellaneous (Sugo), VR, this other world will definitely be feared by the big guys, right? So, if because of me, humanity has lost this piece of the world......"

"I'm upset......"

"After all......"

"I'm a scientist."

Before the words fell, the virtual body level of the Maochang disappeared into this space, and then Ye Chi and the two were ejected.

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"What's the situation?" Ye Chi opened his eyes and looked at the extra large compressed file in the NERvgear storage a little stunned.

"What is this? Asking for the people's lives? Dare to be the first? Human pioneers? Is there still this model in the Kayaba? ”

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Forehead...... One more chapter is probably over, right? I'm not sure how many chapters I can get in the middle of it......

Originally, there was no such chapter.,But I found that there was no such level as this......

There should still be a hole that has not been filled...... You can guess which one it is, fill in the pit and open the party book Happyend......