After the reset and optimization of Higajian, the time difference between the time in the game and the real world is 300:1, so Yi Tiancheng will tell Shino that he will attack this game in three days.

Therefore, when Yi Tiancheng and the four officially entered the game, those players who were trapped in the game had actually spent nearly a month.

During this time, no outside information came in, and there was no indication that the government was able to solve the problem from the outside.

When players who have been unable to accept the reality and stay in the original town waiting for rescue, finally realize that no one will come to save them and that they will eventually be trapped in this world, that kind of mass panic is enough to make anyone crazy.

Yi Tiancheng walked on the streets, and everywhere he could see people yelling, some people crying, and even some people wantonly destroying the building facilities of the game world, trying to dig up the stone slabs of the street, but in vain.

Of course, more people have begun to accept the reality and begin to think about how to live a better life in this world, after all, even in the game world, you need to eat, drink, live and travel every day, even if you know that you won't die if you don't eat or drink, but the feeling of hunger and thirst and sleepiness that appears regularly every day is enough to make people unbearable.

Yi Tiancheng was not even interested in looking at these clowns, and while walking towards the destination at the city gate, he entered the friends page and began to enter the names of Tsumiko, Yuki, and Asuna, and added them as friends.

After completing it, Yi Tiancheng set up a team and brought all the three girls into it, and their current coordinates appeared on the area map.

After pointing out the route to the city gate for the three girls, Yi Tiancheng opened the system page and entered the game information to check the current situation.

After the participation of a large number of industry masters, although the combat mode of today's SAO game is still simple, it is far from being comparable to the scum made by Akihiko Kayaba before.

For example, the list of dead players is not inscribed on the Monument of Life in the Black Iron Palace, but a separate death list page is listed, which each player can view at any time.

The death list shows that the current number of survivors is 7,637, and the death toll has reached 1,988.

Of these, 81 are brain dead, 491 are suicides, 1408 are at the hands of monsters, and 8 are at the hands of players.

"Tsk~! It's kind of interesting. Yi Tiancheng couldn't help laughing, then returned to the main page of the system, and clicked on the player level ranking list.

As a result, the player who ranked first in the sequence was a name that he was so familiar that he couldn't be more familiar with it-

1st place: Kirito, level 11.

Seeing Kirito's name at the top of the list, Yi Tiancheng immediately praised it unabashedly: "It's really worthy of being the protagonist, and I do have a hand in playing games." ”

After confirming the current progress of the first-line players, Yi Tiancheng casually closed the leaderboard page and came to the city gate, waiting for the arrival of the third girl.

"Brother Tiancheng, I'm here."

Three minutes later, with a pleasant and clear call, Yuki, who was wearing a novice suit, ran over from the middle of the street happily and rushed directly into Yi Tiancheng's arms.

Looking at the innocent smile that shone like a child, Yi Tiancheng also chuckled, raised his hand and rubbed the little girl's cute head.

The intimate little action made the little girl can't help but squint her eyes, enjoying Yi Tiancheng's caress like a kitten.

However, a system prompt window suddenly popped up on its own and appeared in front of her eyes.

“…… Huh? The little girl wrinkled her nose in confusion and looked at the information on the system prompt in confusion.

"What's wrong?" Yi Tiancheng tilted his head and asked with some curiosity.

"Suddenly a box pops up asking me if I use the 'Crime Protection Directive'?"

"Tsk~! I forgot that there is still this, select the "No" option on the right, but don't click "Yes". ”

Yi Tiancheng's face suddenly showed an embarrassed but painful dry smile.

The so-called 'crime prevention directive' is, to put it bluntly, the default player security protection system of the system.

Yi Tiancheng's move just now is undoubtedly an infringement of Youji in the eyes of the system, so it directly triggers the 'crime prevention instruction'. If Youji agrees, then Yi Tiancheng will be thrown into the prison of the Black Iron Palace for three months by the system for the crime of 'violating female players' in the next second.

As soon as you enter the game, you can make such an oolong, if you are thrown into the Black Iron Palace prison by the system because of this, and stay in it for three months, this is really ......

"Haha~! I see, that's what happened! After reading the system prompt, Yuki then understood what was going on, seeing Yi Tiancheng's painful expression, the little girl couldn't help but laugh out loud while nodding No.

After a while, the two daughters, Tsunzo and Asuna, finally arrived at the gate of the city.

"I'm sorry to keep you waiting, I've never played a game before, so it took me a long time to figure it out." Tsuiko said a little embarrassed.

Although she has become a trialist, this is her first trial after all, and the world she was in before was still the end of the 20th century, and even computers had just begun to become popular, and she suddenly came to a high-tech world like "Sword Art Online", so it can be said that she has been trying to adapt to the environment.

"It's nothing, even if you operate more, you will naturally be familiar with it." Yi Tiancheng clapped his hands and chuckled: "Everyone is here, so let's start tackling this game." ”

"Great! Fight monsters to level up, destroy bosses, and march to the 100th floor! Yuki clenched his fists and declared with a fighting spirit, with a sense of 'the world is over for me, and the players are for me to save'.

"I can't see that you're still a militant." Yi Tiancheng couldn't help but smile, raised his hand and rubbed the dull hair on the top of her head, and at the same time looked up at the bottom of the second floor in the sky, hidden in the clouds, and smiled calmly:

"Although what you said is true, if you want to penetrate 100 floors, it is not something that can be done overnight, it will take a long time to fight, so we will also live in this world for a long time."

"Next, let's move on to the next village, clearing the monsters we encounter along the way."

After speaking, he took the three daughters and embarked on the journey of the strategy game......

The people live on food.

In any case, eating and drinking enough is the first element of life.

In the game, although the player will not starve to death, they will have hunger pangs three times a day, which can only be eliminated by ingesting food.

The cheapest food is the brown bread sold in the bakery for 1 gold coin; It's dry, hard, and has a rough texture that's hard to swallow, and fits the definition of the cheapest food perfectly.

The in-game currency unit is syntactically pronounced as a kol, but it is also in the shape of a gold coin.

The player's initial capital is only 1000 gold, compared to the black bread that costs 1 gold, even if it is the starting town, the cheapest inn, the cramped single room with only a single bed, also costs 50 gold per night.

If you can resist the life of eating black bread every day and sleeping on the street and the square every night, then it is really not a problem to live for more than half a year with this initial capital alone.

But in fact, even those players who stayed in the "Initial Town" and waited for rescue did not think about thrift at all at the beginning, and spent a few days of that initial gold coin.

Now, in order not to starve, these players who are unwilling to take risks have also begun to go out of the city gates in groups, trying to encircle and suppress the lowest level of monsters, in order to obtain a pitiful economic gain to maintain the lowest level of life.

Long before he was reborn, Yi Tiancheng, who had suffered from poverty and hardship since he was a child, treated treating himself well as a matter of principle since he entered the Lingzi space and became a trialist, otherwise he would not have obtained a career as a chef.

Now that he's making a comeback, he's become a complete hedonist, and naturally it's impossible for him to be like other players, with the attitude of 'anyway, no matter how luxurious the food in the game is, the real body won't even ingest a single piece of sugar', and deal with black bread at every meal every day.

While other players were working hard to fight monsters and upgrade, save money to buy equipment, and improve their combat effectiveness, Yi Tiancheng took the three girls to focus on brushing tasks, improving the quality of life as much as possible while improving.

On the first day, after arriving at the next village, the four of them helped the villagers to continue the 'Counterattack Cow' quest three times.

Each time a rampaging cow is submitted, in addition to gaining some experience, he gets two jars of concentrated cheese from the milking aunt.

With this concentrated cheese, even if it is used on hard and rough brown bread, it can be instantly transformed into a rustic cheesecake.

The sweet, slippery, sweet and sour taste of high-quality yogurt is a wonderful taste that cannot be enjoyed in the real world.

After all, the player's sensory experience in the game is a perceptual signal transmitted directly to the brain's nerves.

So those high-quality foods, the pure and delicious taste they bring, are really hard to resist.

The next day, Yi Tiancheng took his three daughters and went straight to the beekeeper in the suburbs, and brushed the 'Beekeeper's Troubles' task four times in a row, in addition to a lot of experience and gold coins, he also got four high-quality honey from the beekeeper.

After waiting for the third day, Yi Tiancheng and the four finally arrived at "Torbana", which is also the closest town to the labyrinth area on the first floor.

After coming to "Torbana", the four of them spent another two days to complete all the cost-effective tasks in the surrounding area, and finally successfully upgraded to level 5.

In these five days, Yi Tiancheng and his three daughters walked from the southernmost starting town through the grassland forests in the northwest, over the lakes and marshes in the northeast, and through the mountains, valleys and ruins.

During this period, in addition to brushing tasks, it is more important to teach them the basics of the game, as well as to teach Yuki and Asuna the skills of fighting.

The entire grassland area outside the labyrinth, from the lowest-level wild boar, to the slightly stronger grass wolf, from worms, beetles to wasps, swamp man-eating flowers, whether it is an animal-type monster or an insect-type monster, the three girls have been able to deal with it with ease.

At this point, the novice stage has come to an end.

Yi Tiancheng used the money he saved to replace the level 5 equipment for all the members, and prepared to take them to the maze area to experience a more difficult battle......