24 o'clock on December 24, 0:00 on December 25.

With a loud "boom", the special boss that players are still looking forward to descends on the inside of the Lost Forest.

Because of the fear that the boss would leave, everyone had no intention of entanglement at the entrance of the forest, and they rushed into the interior of the lost forest.

After a little hesitation, Xia Qianshi quickly followed.

The forest labyrinth, known as the "Lost Forest", is not for nothing.

The forest is made up of dense huge trees, divided into hundreds of blocks in the shape of a checkerboard, and after stepping into a block, the correct passage will appear within a minute, and after a minute, the entire forest will move like a formation, and the original correct passage will become the wrong passage.

To leave the forest, you can only break through each block within a minute, or use the high-priced map items sold in the item shop to check the connection between the four directions.

If you are the kind of player who has weak combat power and has not purchased map items, there is almost no possibility of breaking through this maze.

But since it's such a difficult labyrinth, the rewards you get in it should be huge, right?

With this in mind, one player once broke through to the center of the labyrinth, but what ended up in the man's eyes was a huge clearing and a twisted giant fir tree.

In this kind of place, which looks like a boss fight will be triggered, he didn't encounter any monsters, and it wasn't until the information about the Christmas mission spread that he suddenly realized that this was the place to refresh the special Christmas boss.

And the player's name is called Kirito.

The information about the mission location was originally sent out by him, and he only wanted to tell Asuna and Yuki, but accidentally slipped it out when talking to Argo, causing the matter to become known to the world.

In this way, the plan he had originally negotiated with Yuki and Asuna had to be nullified.

With the idea of 'making up for his own mistakes', when he was about to enter the last area of the center of the labyrinth, he resolutely stood in front of Xia Qianshi.

"Brother Qianshi, stop, no matter what, I won't let you take a step forward."

After signaling Asuna and the others to hurry in, Kirito stood alone in front of Xia Qianshi, with a resolute look on his face.

After seeing Xia Qianshi's swordsmanship, he had no grasp of blocking Xia Qianshi at all.

However, the passage of the Lost Forest would change every minute, and as long as he lasted enough for a minute, he would be able to prevent Xia Qianshi from entering the center of the labyrinth.

"Hoo ————"

The cold wind blew, rolling up the snow on the ground, Xia Qianshi and Kirito confronted each other, and the former brothers seemed to be about to face each other in the next second.

And yet—

Xia Qianshi held his forehead with one hand and sighed: "Amazing determination...... But you're going to pull out your interpreter. ”

"The interpreter was given to me by Brother Qianshi, how can I use it to point at Brother Qianshi?" Kirito said with a straight face.

"And what about your spare weapon?"

"I just didn't bring it."

Xia Qianshi: "......"

Kirito: "......"

Looking at the Kirito in front of him, 'I just don't draw my sword, see what you can do with me', Xia Qianshi was speechless for a while.

Indeed, if Kirito didn't pull out his weapon, he wouldn't have been able to force his way through, because he was afraid of hurting Kirito.

But...... Can use such a shameless trick, is it really the introverted but proud Kirito?

"What are you going to do if I don't attack you, but just rush straight at you?" Xia Qianshi asked.

"Then I'll hold Brother Qianshi, although my strength attribute is definitely not as good as Brother Qianshi, but it's okay to hold you for a minute."

Probably because of shame, Kirito's baby face turned a little embarrassed, but he still said such a sentence.

Xia Qianshi: "......"

Kirito, you're broken!

Xia Qianshi sighed silently, "You are sexual harassment, if I turn on the anti-harassment system, you will be sent to the Black Iron Palace." ”

Kirito: "Brother Qianshi, you don't know, right? There is no anti-harassment system for men. ”

"......" This is definitely discrimination against men! Obviously, there are a lot of female hooligans in this world, okay!

Xia Qianshi rarely vomited a groove in his heart, but in the face of Kirito who was blocking in front of him with a rogue attitude, he really had no choice.

And just like that, a minute passed quickly......

"Boom ————!"

With the shaking of the mountains and the movement of the forest, Xia Qianshi knew that the new passage would no longer lead to the center of the labyrinth......

If you want to challenge the maze again, you have to retreat to the entrance of the maze and start again, but this time back and forth is enough for Asuna and them to kill the boss.

His face gradually became cold and ugly, Xia Qianshi came here with a resolute mood, but he didn't expect that it was his friend who trampled on this mood.

“…… If you do this kind of thing, aren't you afraid that I will cut ties with you? Xia Qianshi asked in a low voice.

"Even if we cut off the relationship, we're going to do it!"

“…… All right. ”

Xia Qianshi nodded lightly, turned to leave, and disappeared at the intersection in an instant.

Kirito was stunned.

Why is there something wrong with the script?

Under normal circumstances, shouldn't Brother Qianshi ask the reason before making a decision?

Why did you leave all of a sudden?

"Oops, I messed things up!"

Kirito suddenly screamed out, and quickly chased towards the intersection where Xia Qianshi disappeared, but when he arrived in the next area, where could he see Xia Qianshi's figure?

……

Xia Qianshi didn't know where he had come, so he entrusted everything to his intuition, and walked in the forest blankly.

If there were no accidents, he would have been lost in this forest, but perhaps God couldn't stand his bad luck today.

Dozens of minutes later, he unexpectedly walked smoothly to the entrance of the Lost Forest.

Silently called up the operation menu, switched to the friends page, and looked at the two names at the top of the page, for a while, Xia Qianshi was silent.

After a few moments, he touched his finger to one of the names, and a new action options bar appeared in view.

Hovering his finger over an option, and just as he was about to press it, a voice suddenly sounded behind him.

"If you dare to do this, I will never forgive you for the rest of my life!"

“————！”

quickly turned around, but before Xia Qianshi could see the face of the person who came, the huge impact from his waist knocked him to his back on the snow.

The chestnut-haired girl riding on his waist beat his chest with a pair of small hands, and made a sound that seemed to cry—

"You stupid stupid ————!!!stupid stupid