When I opened my eyes again, I saw not the expected ward, but an incredible place.

"Here..."Xiangkong was slightly startled.

Beneath the feet is a thick crystal floor, and under the transparent floor flows clouds red by the setting sun, and when you look into the distance, you can see the sky red by the setting sun stretching to the end, where clusters of clouds can be faintly seen, and in the distance there is a steel castle floating in the sky.

This is the place where Kirito and Asuna met Akihiko Kayaba in the original book.

What will appear here for the sake of Lu is obviously the handiwork of Akihiko Kayaba.

Xiangkong retracted his gaze from afar, and immediately looked at the steel castle not far away, at this time, in the orange sky, the floating castle that had imprisoned tens of thousands of people was crumbling layer by layer from below.

Xiangkong stared wordlessly at the debris that began to fall from the bottom, and could faintly hear the rumbling sound of the wind, he was waiting for Kayaba Jinghiko.

"Now, the SAO mainframe set up on the fifth basement floor of the ARGUS headquarters is using all its memory to completely delete the files, and in another ten minutes, this world will disappear."

Suddenly, a flat voice sounded in my ears.

I don't know when, as if it appeared suddenly, Xiangkong followed the sound and looked at it, only to find that Akihiko Kayaba was already standing beside him.

It's not Heathcliff, it's Akihiko Kayaba, who is a developer.

He was wearing a white shirt, tie, and a white robe, and he was now looking at the crumbling Ayn Grant with a gentle gaze.

Xiangkong just looked at his side face and said calmly, "Have they all returned to reality safely?" ”

"Just now, except for you, all the players who are still alive, a total of 7,965 people, have all completed logging out." Akihiko Ashiba withdrew her gaze from Ayn Grant.

"Oh, more than 2,000 innocent lives." Xiangkong sneered.

Kayaba Jinghiko was silent for a moment, and after a while, he looked sideways at Xiangkong and said lightly: "You are very special, I didn't expect the game to be successfully attacked at the fiftieth floor." ”

"What, regret giving me a chance?" The mockery in Xiangkong's eyes became more and more intense.

"How come..."Kayaba Akihiko shook his head and said calmly, "I never regret the choice I made, congratulations, successful strategy game." ”

Xiangkong but there is no joy, what about the strategy game, he may have little life left in the real world, and he really doesn't want to die...

"It seems that this world has given you more attachment to stay in the world." Kayaba Akihiko glanced at the unwillingness in Xiangkong's eyes.

"Want to live? That's why I left you alone. ”

Hearing this, Xiangkong's face changed, and he turned his head and stared at Akihiko Kayaba, who had his hands in his pockets and looked at Ayn Grant, who was in a state of collapse.

"Yes." Xiangkong replied without hesitation, he didn't want to die like this, he still had a lot of people and things that he couldn't let go.

"The success rate is only 50 percent." Kayaba Jinghiko said lightly.

"What?" Xiangkong wondered.

"Now I, the body in the real world is cold, and there is no sign of life at all, but my consciousness has not disappeared."

There seemed to be a touch of fanaticism on his face, "I used Aingrunte as a carrier to try to stuff my consciousness into the virtual world, and in the end, I succeeded and my soul was preserved. ”

“…”

Xiangkong's eyes slowly widened, extremely shocked.

"This is the only way you can continue your life, if you don't want to die, just live hard, even if it's something you don't agree with." Akihiko Aoba tilted his head slightly, his eyes deep.

Indeed, there is no choice, if the body of the real world realm is indeed on the verge of death, what else can be done but this method?

If you are alive, there are infinite possibilities, and when you die, you are nothing.

Xiangkong took a deep breath, suppressed the agitation in his heart, and said, "Tell me the method." ”

Kayaba Jinghiko smiled slightly, "If you can get the highest authority from the head office, then go find a woman named Rinko Kamiyo, who is my ex-girlfriend." ”

The implication is that if you can't get the head office, it's useless to say anything.

Xiangkong smiled bitterly, take down the head office, this kind of thing...

He didn't know that his family had absolute power, and it was as easy as eating to take down a head office, and Kayaba Jinghiko was skeptical that Xiangkong could take down the head office, even if he knew the way to do it, it would be in vain if he couldn't use the machine on the fifth floor of the basement.

He looked at Xiang Airdrop and said to him, "The premise is that you can have the decision-making power of the head office, and if it becomes a reality, then go to Rinko Kamidai, she knows the method, and she also needs her assistance to implement the method." ”

Xiangkong nodded silently, wanting to say thank you to Akihiko Kayaba, but he couldn't help but be silent when he thought of the more than 2,000 people who died.

"It's time for me to go." Kayaba said suddenly, looking at the end of the boundless sky, his eyes seemed to be full of anticipation.

After he finished speaking, he didn't wait for Xiangkong's reaction, he suddenly disappeared, as if he had never appeared, leaving Xiangkong alone here, and at this time, Aingrunte in the distant sky was about to completely collapse.

………

Xiangkong felt that his eyelids were very heavy and heavy, and he struggled to open them and close them like a spring, and it continued back and forth many times before slowly cracking a gap.

White light poured in from the gap, stabbing the eyes a little painful, and at the same time, the head was abnormally painful, and pictures that did not belong to him flashed in front of him one by one.

"That's me? No, it's not, that's the memory of the owner of this body..."

Thinking groggily, there was a crying female voice in my ear that felt very familiar, who was it?

With this question in mind, Xiangkong opened a slit in his eyes and closed them tightly, falling asleep in the female voice full of worry.

He had a long dream...

For as long as he can remember, he has been lying in bed, even though the room he was in had a floor-to-ceiling glass window that was high to the bottom, but it was only a small part of the world.

The fantasies of the outside world are all learned from books, he can't get out of bed and walk, can't go out, can't go to school, every day when his eyes need to be open, he can only look at one book after another, as he grows older, he gradually understands his own situation, and begins to understand that the expectations in his heart will not come true one day, he can only wait in bed to die...

In order not to worry his parents, he has been forcing himself to be optimistic, and every day he has to act as if he doesn't care at all about his predetermined destiny.

Over time, he became calm, no longer afraid of the imminent death in the future.

Sadly, SAO, who was able to grant his wish, appeared too late, and his life came to an end just a few hours after he entered the game.

The picture suddenly went black, and the appearance of a person flashed quickly, and everyone's information naturally appeared in his head.

That's his family...

At the end, the scene changes to a scruffy dormitory, with a young man sitting with his back to him in front of a computer that is playing an anime.

"That's me... I'm Shenwu Xiangkong, no... I'm Wang Yang! ”

Countless rays of light poured in as if tearing through space, and there was white light in front of them.

Wang Yang slowly opened his eyes, and what greeted him was a beautiful woman with pear blossoms and rain.

"Mother." Almost without thinking, he shouted an unfamiliar title to the beautiful woman.

After saying that, he froze and was confused.

He has the memory of being named Shenwu Xiangkong, is he still Wang Yang?