"I should have someone waiting." Ye Chi pushed open the glass door and said to the waiter who came up, "There should have been two of them...... Or one, the first one is a middle-aged man with glasses, and the second one should be a ......" Ye Chizheng didn't know how to describe his companions who had fought side by side, but the waiter suddenly pointed to a position inside" - there are already two gentlemen, please here. ”

Ye Chi nodded slightly—and then strode over directly.

It's a café in Ginza, a space that reverberates with the melodious sounds of elegant classical music, and the Victorian-style décor seems to stand still in time in a modern metropolis – but it can be summed up in one word: moats......

Yes, there is nothing but the local tyrant style, the designer seems to want to design a British style decoration, and it does look like that, but a closer look at the various patterns and decorations is not a thing at all, just a simple combination of things that look very high.

It seems that the same way......

It's very suitable for those who don't have anything in their heads and want to be elegant......

Ye Chi couldn't help but have a great grudge against someone who chose this place, and Gao himself seemed to have a lower taste...... Although he himself is a small common man, he has no so-called taste at all......

And if it's a girl, forget it...... But it was two men......

Ye Chi became more and more unhappy......

The two who arrived first seemed to be concentrating on the food in front of them, and they didn't notice Ye Chi's arrival.

"Hey, don't eat it!" Ye Chi knocked on the table.

"Hmm, Ye Chi, are you here?" The black-haired young man swallowed the food in his mouth and glanced up at Ye Chi.

The middle-aged man with glasses on the opposite side also raised his head from his food pile, "Hmm, Ye Chijun?" Please sit down, whatever you want, I'll invite you this meal. ”

"Needless to say, this is a great opportunity to stand on the Japanese government's cheap, if I miss it, I will be scolded as a traitor." Ye Chi was not stunned at all, and sat down to open the menu that had just been handed by the waiter.

"A maple syrup cream chiston cake, chestnut chocolate mousse cream cup......" Ye Chi flipped through the menu, and casually burst out a long list of dish names, as if none of them would be cheap.

“…… Two cream puffs, a cup of Earl Grey, that's all for now. ”

The waiter seemed to be taken aback by Ye Chi's momentum, his expression was a little sluggish, and he checked it twice before placing an order......

Ye Chi's bill was not more than 10,000 yen, and he still looked unsatisfied.

"You...... Can you eat it? Kirito was a little dumbfounded, and glanced at the three plates in front of him, feeling that he was almost weak.

"No problem, if you spend your taxes, you can eat as much as you want." Ye Chi wiped his hands with the wet towel that the waiter had just served.

"That's a ...... You are really a patriot...... "The glasses on the other side, Oji-san, an official of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, Seijiro Kikuoka, is the second office of the Advanced Communications Network Promotion Division of the General Communications Infrastructure Bureau of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, and the name of the province is the head of the Hypothetical Space Management Division in the Telecommunications Network, or "Hypothetical Division" for short.

An out-and-out senior civil servant - and Ye Chi's observation, this guy should also receive a salary of the same level in the Self-Defense Forces.

According to himself, he was beaten into a place where birds don't poop and waited for mold, but as far as Ye Chi is concerned, this product is clearly receiving a golden arrow, probably to make a big news in this field on behalf of the Japanese government or the Self-Defense Forces......

"Really, you want me to make a special trip to Ginza - I'll beat you up if there's nothing important?" - Ye Chi is not joking, when he was just able to move, he really almost beat him up in order to ask about Asuna's whereabouts.

"Really...... I finally wanted to invite everyone to a meal, but I was so cold...... Even the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications doesn't have much of a budget for such a conference......"

"Really? …… In the news, it was said that a huge deposit of some rare metal had been found at the bottom of Sagami Bay - it seems to be manganese nodules, right? The dignitaries of the relevant departments were all dancing happily in Oklahoma...... You're making a windfall again, right? Ye Chi watched the waiter serve his own meal - it was quite fast.

As a result, Kikuoka raised his head and blinked his eyes several times before he smiled and said, "Oh, no matter how much profit you can get, it won't be the turn of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications that has nothing to do with it...... So the financial crunch has always existed......"

"It's rare, is the Japanese government actually short of money?" Ye Chi said coldly, "What about the world's third largest economy?" And there aren't that many of them...... It's tragic that we only climbed to second place on a per capita basis......"

"Taxpayers have to save every penny of their taxes......

"Then, Ye Chi, you eat first...... Let's get to the point. Go without saying...... It should be another search related to virtual crimes, right? Kirito wiped out about half of his share and took the initiative to speak.

"You speak first, I'll eat first and don't speak." Ye Chi immediately stated that he would carry out the work of wasting Japanese taxes to the end.

Mr. Seijiro Kikuoka, a high-ranking civil servant whose identity is a mystery, is currently conducting an investigation into the entire VR world, and Kirito is the target of his management - between a closed beta player and an informant.

"Mmmm, Kirito, you're so smart, so I'll save a lot of trouble."

After Kikuoka replied in a hurry, he took out a very thin tablet from the briefcase placed on the chair next to him.

Well...... Kirito shouldn't have fallen that deep, right? Once "this side" is touched, it is not something that can be easily retreated.

But...... If you're just looking into something in-game, it shouldn't be a big problem.

Ye Chi was picking up a piece of cake coated with syrup and cream with a small fork and stuffing it into his mouth, just thinking like this-"Huh? Said that it tastes good. ”

Talks over there have already begun.

"Oh, this one...... Recently, there have been more and more crimes related to virtual space......" Ju Gang said as he dotted on the tablet for a while.

"Really? Specifically? Kirito looked indifferent.

"Hmm...... In November alone, more than 100 cases of robbery and destruction of imaginary property were reported. Moreover, there are thirteen real-world injuries caused by disputes in VR games. There is also one thing in it that hurts to death...... This case has been heavily reported by the media, and I think Kirito, you should know about it. It was an incident in which he sharpened the decoration with a Western sword, and then swung it around Shinjuku Station, causing two deaths. Wow - the blade is 120 centimeters long and weighs three or five kilograms. You can swing such a thing. ”

The data is quite amazing - the average sword is about 1.5kg if it is a little heavier, and if it is 3.5kg, it should be a half-hand sword, right? A Western sword that is universal with one hand and two hands, even if it is only a blunt-edged high-carbon steel handicraft, is a worthless industrial product that is quite deadly, not to mention that after rough polishing, it is enough to become a murder weapon that takes human life.

Ye Chi roughly calculated, a murder weapon of this weight should be enough to cut off a person's thoracic vertebrae, and even directly cut a person into two sections.

The cultivation of combat consciousness is indeed a shortcut through VR, but the problem of physique is not so easy to solve, and the current game terminal is no longer the old-fashioned NERvgear, and even if the pulse transmitter of the device is completely connected, there is no way to exercise the physique and reflex nerves as before.

So that madman can only kill two people but can't hurt even one person, because his wrist should have been dislocated by then, and he can only be captured.

"I heard that the player who went crazy had a delirium after taking drugs...... Just looking at this one piece does make people feel that the sin is unforgivable, but when you look at it as a whole, this number of pieces ...... "Kirito still looks indifferent......

Ah, it's normal if you knock the medicine......

"That's right. It is true that the number of injuries that have occurred in the country is insignificant, and I will not conclude that VRMMO games will cause social unrest. But didn't you say it before......"

- VROMMO games will reduce the psychological barriers that can hurt people in the real world. I admit it. Kirito straightened his attitude a little and said seriously.

“…… Some of the PK behaviors in the game have been made routine, and in a sense, this can be said to be a drill when killing people in the real world. In some of the more extreme games, if you cut your wrist, you will spurt blood, and if you cut your stomach, you will even run out of your inner muscles. I've heard that heavy gamers who are obsessed with these games even commit suicide instead of pressing the logout button. ”

Ye Chi almost squirted out at this time-this taste is a little heavy......

"If you repeat that behavior every day, there will always be people who want to try it out in the real world. I also think that we have to come up with some countermeasures to prevent this kind of thing. It's just that using legal norms doesn't work......"

"Okay, don't talk about what you don't have, let's talk about what the hell is, if you continue like this, the only thing you get is the conclusion that VR is harmful, it's not interesting." Ye Chi shook the teaspoon and interrupted their conversation.

"Oh, yes...... So, Kirito-kun, Ye Chi-kun, what do you think, the bullets in the game ...... Can it kill people in real life? ”

"Roar?" Ye Chi was slightly interested.

"Hmm...... Last month...... On November 14th. Inside an apartment in Nakano-ku, Tokyo, the landlord who was cleaning smelled a foul smell. He pressed the smelling room intercom but there was no response. And no one in there answered the phone either. But the lights in the room were still on. So the landlord unlocked the electronic lock and entered the room, only to find the man...... Twenty-six-year-old Shigemura has died inside. It was later analyzed that he had been dead for five days at this time. The room was messy but it didn't look like it had been smashed, and the body was lying on the bed. And then the head ......"

"Wearing an AmuSphere...... "Kikuoka has an unfathomable expression," and the cause of death was heart failure. ”

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It's time to go back to school......

Take a day by train......

Let's overdo it...... I found that Kawahara often said thousands of words of nonsense, and it would be too much if he said it all......