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Completely stealthy, one of the VR technologies.

Unlike traditional VR technology, when fully stealth, the connection between the brain and the body is converted to a fully stealth device. So it can be said that in complete stealth, people are already completely in the virtual world.

The β test of the game Sword Art Online is over.

As the first fully stealthy device NERvGear to be released, ARGUS has high expectations.

And Akihiko Kayaba, the developer of NERvGear, was promoted as a star by ARGUS.

After this almost perfect β test, the game of Sword Art Online can finally be said to be developed.

Next, it's time for some trivial pre-release preparations.

During this time, it was a time for Akihiko Aoba, Chu Yue and others, who were developers, to be more idle. At this time, it is really a war for the sales department.

However, Chu Yue and the others were not completely fine.

As the first fully stealthy VRMMORPG Sword Art Online, ARGUS released only 10,000 games, including β beta.

In other words, during the open beta of Sword Art Online, only 10,000 people will be able to be online at the same time.

Although Sword Art Online had to be played with the expensive NERvGear, it still attracted a large number of players in society. After all, whether you are a game lover or not, you will be interested in such a completely stealthy game.

Therefore, it is said that if you want to get your hands on Sword Art Online, you have to queue up three days in advance!

At the same time, in order to cooperate with the promotion of this open beta, players will also be given a promotional brochure for the introduction of the game after getting their hands on Sword Art Online.

In this manual, there is a brief introduction and interview with the game developer.

Chu Yue and the other developers had nothing else to do at this time, just to accept this interview.

The first person to be introduced and interviewed at large lengths is, of course, the founder of Sword Art Online, Akihiko Kayaba.

Although Akihiko Aoba is a low-key person and does not appear in the media much, he was able to develop the game Sword Art Online, and his name is destined to remain in the history books.

Other developers don't have a lot of space like Akihiko Kayaba, and those who are in charge of one of the modules like Chu Yue generally only have a few sentences of interviews and introductions.

However, Chu Yue is also relatively good, after all, she can play the gimmick of a genius and beautiful boy.

"It's a game, but it's not a joke." This is what Akihiko Kayaba said in an interview.

And Chu Yue looked at the camera and said, "Sword Art Online, it's not a game, it's a world. ”

October 31, 12 p.m.

A video of the unprecedented situation of Sword Art Online's official release last week is playing on the Internet, and at the same time, the promotional PV of Sword Art Online is circulating over and over again.

Chu Yue's family.

Chu Yue sat in front of the computer, looked at the NERvGear helmet in his hand, and smiled.

"Chu Yue, are you ready to go?" Shen Wu asked beside Chu Yue.

"Hmm." Chu Yue nodded, "After the open beta of Sword Art Online, there will be an accident, and all players will be forced to stay in Sword Art Online." ”

“SAO…… ......" God did not say.

Sword Art Online is SwordArt Online in English, and it is abbreviated as SAO on TV.

"Hmm." Chu Yue nodded, "I don't know how long I'll stay." ”

"Then, why did Chu Yue still go to ......" Shen Wu asked.

"Because SAO is the main line of this world." Chu Yue said, "And...... In a game of 10,000 people, about a small half will die......"

"Chu Yue...... Do you care about this? Kanna's words seemed to be a little surprised, but they were said with a blank face.

"Well, it's probably when I was in the CLANNAD world, and I've changed a little." Chu Yue smiled and said, "However, more than that, it should be a self-developed game." I can't wait for a fully stealthy VR game! ”

The god didn't speak, but looked at the computer again.

"Oh, it's almost time." Chu Yue noticed that the time on the computer was almost a little closer. One point is the opening time of the Open Beta of Sword Art Online.

"Then, my body will be handed over to you, Kanna." Chu Yue said with a smile to Shen Wu.

"Hmm." Shen Wu replied, "Chu Yue's body, I will protect it." ”

Chu Yue put down the NERvGear helmet and kissed Shen Wu, before picking up the helmet again and checking the network cable interface, power interface, etc.

After the examination, Chu Yue put on the NERvGear and lay on the bed.

"Goodbye, Kanna." After Chu Yue finished speaking, she activated the Sword Art Domain.

LinkStart! Chu Yue thought silently in her heart.

NERvGear began to replace the signals between Chu Yue's brain and body into the game Sword Art Online......

"Chu Yue......" looked at Chu Yue as if she had lost consciousness, Shen Wu climbed onto Chu Yue's bed, hugged Chu Yue, and closed her eyes.

The gorgeous and familiar opening animation immediately appeared in front of Chu Yue.

Because Chu Yue had participated in the first two tests, there was Chu Yue's previous character information in the server, so he omitted the stage of pinching his face and entered the game directly.

On the birth square, as one player after another entered, the blue flames flickered again and again, and more and more players entered the Sword Art Online!

For the vast majority of people, the first thing they experience when entering SAO is not the battle, but the life system in this SAO.

Although it is the first level, the town of the beginning, it is also a large place that can accommodate 10,000 people.

In the first layer, the player's living needs are basically complete. And just the birth square is enough to accommodate these 10,000 people online at the same time.

Watching these players rush in excitedly one after another, Chu Yue, as a developer, couldn't help but bow his head and smile.

Walking out of the birth square, Chu Yue looked at the vast street.

"So, first ......of all," Chu Yue said, "let's go see Yui!" ”

As the developer of Yui, Chu Yue certainly left a small channel for herself.

Walking into a grocery store, taking advantage of the owner's NPC's inattention, Chu Yue quietly entered the basement warehouse of the grocery store.

At the end of the warehouse, there was a brick that looked like a trap, and Chu Yue pressed this brick down.

For a few seconds, nothing seemed to have happened here, but Chu Yue knew that this was the system verifying Chu Yue's identity.

A few seconds later, the wall in front of Chu Yue opened from the middle like a door, and inside was a data-like hole made of blue and white.

This is a control backend in SAO, the first layer of the Beginning Town, a channel that only developers know.

At first, Chu Yue was worried that this channel would be closed by Akihiko Kayaba, but now it seems that it is still here.

In the deepest part of the cavern, there was a large dark room, surrounded by a multitude of blue and white intersecting straight lines.

It's a place that simulates a development engineering room, with a keypad on the desk where you can enter code, and the rest of the place is a display.

Chu Yue quickly entered the start command on the platform, and the entire room immediately lit up.

On the display screen in front of Chu Yue, a "welcome" sign was displayed.

Chu Yue continued to type commands on the keyboard, wanting to directly call up the AI system, Yui.

But......

Insufficient permissions!

This logo is displayed on the display.

"How is that possible!" Chu Yue said immediately.

I'm the administrator who developed Yui, so how can I not have the authority to call the Yui program system?

That's right! It must be Akihiko Kayaba!

Because he was not familiar with other modules in SAO, Chu Yue didn't know how to change the permissions.

But since I thought that Akihiko Kayaba had modified the game data, then ......

Chu Yue continued to type the code on the keyboard and turned on some cheat codes.

Failed to enable!

The logo was displayed on the display again.

Chu Yue tried the cheat codes she knew one by one, and sure enough, they all failed. Akihiko Aoba actually disabled all of these codes!

Chu Yue checked all the permissions of his administrator again, and found that he now basically had almost all the permissions except for the identity of an administrator.

"It's too ruthless, hey!" Chu Yue shouted directly at the ceiling: "Grass Field! Hurry out and get out! I know you're there! Come out! ”

It's a pity that no one responded to Chu Yue.

"Ouch! Give it back to me! Chu Yue saw that Kayaba Jinghiko still pretended not to know anything, and directly began to enter the code on the keypad.

Chu Yue is preparing to write some internal intrusion programs on the spot to destroy the internal data.

Sure enough, before the program was written, Akihiko Kayaba appeared.

"Chu Yue!! What are you doing?!!! Kayaba Jingyan's figure actually appeared directly in front of Chu Yue.

"Sure enough." Chu Yue was not surprised at all when she saw Aoba Jinghiko who suddenly appeared, "You deleted the permissions of all the other administrators, right?" Only ...... remained. You're on your own, super admin! ”

"It's my job." Akihiko Kayaba said, "In order to ensure the normal operation of Sword Art Online, it is necessary to prevent cheaters like you during the open beta. ”

"Can it be called cheating if you enter here with your ability?" Chu Yue said, "The developer's business can't be called cheating!" ”

Kayaba Jingyan looked at Chu Yue and shook his head, "I have already given you face by leaving your status as an administrator!" If you just want to experience the game, I'm welcome, but you've just ...... It's already destroying the world. ”

"Please! How can I say that I'm also an administrator, you deleted all my permissions! How else can I play! ”

"Normal game! Like a normal player! Akihiko Kayaba said.

"Cut." Chu Yue turned her head disdainfully, and said in her heart that you won't see you play normally when you open the GM number "Heathcliff" in the future.

Seeing that Chu Yue didn't seem to take his words to heart at all, he said, "You have also seen that your administrator status no longer has permission. Get out of here! Don't enable admin status again in the future, otherwise it will ......"

"Otherwise?"

"I'll have to delete your admin account." Kayaba said.

"You don't have that right!" Chu Yue said, "If you say this, I have the right to report to the board of directors to impeach you." ”

"Then you can go." Kayaba Akihiko said indifferently.

Of course, Chu Yue knew that it was impossible to report Akihiko Kayaba or something. Because there is no one else who can develop the game SAO anymore but him, the board of directors fires him? It's pretty much the other way around.

"Okay, I see." Chu Yue said a little helplessly, "But, I still have to ask, what happened to you Yui?" ”

"Yui...... Akihiko Kayaba said, "it's fine, and you didn't write the initial emotions on her in the first place, although the intelligence is higher than all the NPCs, but now I guess it's just enough to be able to talk." ”

"It's not because β testing time is too short." Chu Yue complained, "I haven't had time to write her emotional ...... yet."

"That's fine." Kayaba Jinghiko suddenly interrupted Chu Yue's words, and then waved his hand.

A blue flame suddenly flashed in front of Chu Yue, and when the flame disappeared, Chu Yue found that he had returned to the birth square.

This Kayaba Akihiko let herself be born again!

Chu Yue was a little crying and laughing, and Akihiko Aoba was still pretending that nothing would happen, and still let Chu Yue stay in SAO.

"Then ......" Chu Yue opened the game menu, wanting to see if the option to quit the game had been deleted.

Sure enough, there was no option to quit the game at all.

Akihiko Kayaba deleted the menu item to quit the game before the open beta.

In this way, SAO players can only enter the game, but not quit.

In that case, it seems that he has become one of the 10,000 people who were killed.

However, because he knew what was about to happen from the beginning, Chu Yue didn't have much fear.

"In that case...... Chu Yue walked towards the outside of the Origin Town, "Let's raise the level first!" ”

The combat system in SAO is for the player to make the initial action of the skill, and then there will be a system to guide the skill to hit the enemy, and after becoming proficient, you can use the skill very efficiently.

In addition, there are only skills and no magic in SAO, so it can be said that it is truly the "world of swords".

Because this time is still a new time into the game, there are not many people fighting monsters in the wild area of the current starting town.

Chu Yue looked at the empty plains, and occasionally refreshed new wild boars, pheasants and other mobs.

After all, with the experience of the first two tests, Chu Yue immediately started his own rapid journey of fighting monsters.

After killing a few monsters, Chu Yue's level also quickly increased.

Because the level is low now, it is easier to upgrade, so Chu Yue decided to go to a more advanced area to upgrade.

There were also many villages in the Beginning Town, and Chu Yue began to fight monsters in the next village.

Of course, those who know this path must be those who have taken the β test. It's a pity that Chu Yue didn't meet anyone else along the way.

When it was finally time to go to the next village, Chu Yue was already at level twelve.

Because there is no profession in Sword Art Online, of course, there is no transfer or anything, everything depends on the personal level and skill level.

Sometimes, even if you don't have a sword in your hand, as long as you have the right posture, you can use the corresponding sword technique.

"Level twelve......" Chu Yue muttered to herself as she opened her personal information and looked at her skills and current attributes.

"I think I can try to fight the boss of the first layer." Chu Yue said.

The boss of the first layer is of course the easiest, Chu Yue thought about it for a while, and found that although his level is not high, he should be able to kill the boss through technology.

After looking at the potions and equipment that had been exploded by fighting monsters, as well as various props, Chu Yue decided to break through.

Anyway, if you can't beat it, you can also use the Quick Teleportation Crystal to immediately return to the nearby main city.

"Good! Just do it! Chu Yue shouted in the deserted village, and then ran outside again.

But......

It's a pity that Chu Yue didn't find the boss room.

Originally, β test, and even the α test, it was a boss room in the same location, but now it is just an endless grassland, and there is no shadow of the boss room.

When Chu Yue arrived at this grassland, it was already afternoon, and under the light of the setting sun, the originally green grassland seemed to be a little black and yellow.

"Kayaba ......," Chu Yue muttered to herself a little.

That's right, there is no doubt that this is a change from Akihiko Kayaba.

Since the boss of the first layer has been changed in this way, the boss of the later layer will definitely not be the same as in the test.

Combined with the plot in the anime "Sword Art Online", in the SAO world that is now in open beta, the bosses of each layer must have been modified by Akihiko Kayaba.

Is it to make the advantage of closed beta players not so great......

Chu Yue guessed in her heart.

Chu Yue swiped the system menu again, and glanced at the option that was supposed to exit the game.

Still the same as at the beginning, nothing.

Since it is already afternoon, it should be almost evening in the real world at this time, and there should be many people who plan to eat offline at this time, but find that they have not withdrawn from the menu.

At this moment, the bell of the birth square suddenly rang.

Knock, knock, knock......

Every deep bell rings gives people an ominous premonition......

As the bell rang continuously, all the players were teleported to the birth square.

This is the third time that Chu Yue has come to the birth square.

The crowd began to clamor, and everyone was discussing what was going on.

Because Chu Yue has been alone since he started the game, no one has talked to Chu Yue at this time.

Moreover, because Kayaba Jinghiko has not yet restored everyone's body shape and appearance to the data of real life, Chu Yue does not know anyone in this square.

Even the protagonist of the anime "Sword Art Online", Kazuto Kiritani, the male protagonist of the game, Kirito, and Chu Yue don't know it, let alone other characters who are not as good as the heroine Asunado.

However, Chu Yue knew that soon, he should be able to recognize many people.

In the crowd, someone suddenly pointed to the sky and shouted, "Look! What is that! ”

In the sky, a hexagonal red area that looks like a system prompt is constantly flashing, and the word "WARING" is displayed on it.

After flickering a few times, as if infected, the hexagonal area began to spread rapidly.

After a few seconds, the entire sky was covered with red hexagons, each with a warning of "WARING".

While everyone was staring at the changes in the sky in amazement, a red blood-like liquid seeped out from the hexagonal gap.

However, instead of falling to the ground, the liquid condensed again in the air and turned into a huge red cloak.

However, the inside of the cloak is black, and the face of the person wearing the cloak is not visible.

Although the scene was a little scary, everyone was still more curious about what was going on.

"Fellow players, welcome to my world." Akihiko Kayaba said.

"Minecraft...... Isn't it a pixel block? Chu Yue complained there alone, but unfortunately he didn't pay attention to Chu Yue.

"My name is, Akihiko Kayaba." Akihiko Kayaba said, "He is the only person who can control the world right now." ”

"Nonsense, the other admin permissions have been deleted by you......" Chu Yue still complained to herself.

"I think you've noticed the logout button disappearing from the menu, right?" "However, it's not a game problem. ”

"Again, it's not a game problem." Akihiko Kayaba said, "It's the original setting of Sword Art Online." ”

", I've seen all the Sword Art Online setting episodes, how come I don't know." Chu Yue said, clasping earwax.

"You can't quit the game, and you can't stop or dismiss NERvGear by someone else." "If someone does this, the NERvGear signal element will emit high-frequency microwaves that will destroy your brains and stop your life activities. ”

Many people are beginning to wonder if this is true.

However, Akihiko Kayaba quickly gave everyone an answer.

He directly showed the interface of the coverage of NERvGear on various news websites in the real world.

The death toll from the forced removal of the NERvGear alone is already 213.

However, because of the sacrifice of these 213 people, no one dares to help players forcibly remove NERvGear.

"But there's one more thing I want to tell you. That is, from now on, all resurrection methods in the game will be ineffective. The moment your HP drops to 0, your characters will disappear forever, and at the same time, your lives in real life will disappear at the same time! ”

This means that to die in SAO is to be truly dead.

"There is only one condition that frees you from the game." Akihiko Kayaba slashed the menu in the air again and summoned the map, "Now, you are at the lowest level of Ayngrant, that is, the first layer, attack the maze of each layer, and defeat the boss of this layer, you can enter the upper layer." Defeat the top layer, the final boss of the hundredth floor, and everyone will be considered cleared. ”

However, this was immediately said by many to be impossible.

After all, the difficulty of the boss in Sword Art Online is notoriously, and most of the combat players in the β test have only hit the fourth or fifth floor.

However, Chu Yue knew that the strongest player, Kirito, had reached the eighth layer.

Although Chu Yue herself has reached the twelfth layer, it is because Chu Yue's body in reality is a strengthened body, which has surpassed ordinary people, and she has also participated in the α test that got up earlier, so it has no reference value.

"Finally, I've got a gift in your inventory, so please take a look."

Hearing this, everyone opened their inventory and looked at it.

It was a mirror, and whoever looked at it would be covered with a blue glow, and ...... Transform back into real-world appearance and figure.

In an instant, the light filled the entire birthplace.

Chu Yue didn't take a mirror to look at it, but her body still shone brightly.

"So, it's not the role of a mirror at all......" Chu Yue complained.

It must be this Akihiko Kayaba, and at this time the program of restoring the reality of the appearance and body of all players was launched.

"In that case......" Chu Yue looked at the crowd arguing in the square.

"You can be honest with each other." Chu Yue said.