Wang Xingjiang has been in Axis for twenty-nine days, but he is still on the first floor like the majority of players.

But thousands of people have already died.

The monster AI in this world is not low, and the desire to attack is very strong, plus they don't have the idea of normal creatures seeking advantages and avoiding harm, and there is no mechanism for part damage, so they are really difficult to entangle, and even Wang Xingjiang almost suffered a dark loss - he has been fighting in reality for a long time, and he is not suitable for this kind of monster that is completely the same as in the game.

Oh no, this is the game world.

The others were well used to the way they fought here, but they weren't at all used to real life-and-death fighting.

In the first two days, some people (mainly Closed Beta players) tried large-scale monster farming, and some people (mainly Closed Beta players) tried to skip the level to fight monsters, but they paid the price for their arrogance - they all died.

After learning that they really weren't going to be born again, those who were willing to act became much more cautious, and the number of those who were unwilling began to increase dramatically.

More than 6,000 people have gathered in the town of Initiation, which is one of the reasons why the current "Raiders Group" is moving slowly.

Wang Xingjiang can act at will in the entire first layer, but he is a road idiot, and the scope of the first layer is the largest......

He wandered around the maze on the first floor for about seven days, and even caused rumors among the players that there were "NPCs in the maze".

However, those who were taught a lesson by Wang Xingjiang claimed that the guy was definitely not a friendly NPC, but a crazy AI with a perverted hobby.

This sentence is not entirely wrong, after all, in order to test some things, Wang Xingjiang did conduct a relatively "inhumane" experiment on them - poking and poking everywhere with a sword.

The test results show that as long as the player does not suffer enough damage to cause a mutilated limb, they will not be incapacitated - because Wang Xingjiang did not mean to "hurt" them, so he did not learn to cut off someone's hand, so it is not known how the player recovered the severed limb.

Ahem, this somewhat curious question is put aside for the time being, and Wang Xingjiang has found a lot of other game features.

The first is that there is no problem with weapon wear here, and the ice sword that Aoki Reika gave him was as sharp as usual until it completely collapsed into a burst of light and shadow effects - the problem was that the weapon still had durability.

Wang Xingjiang found that the ice sword in his hand suddenly disintegrated when he was cutting a big spider, and he also received a claw on the opposite side for this, but there was no wound.

This is the second piece of information he discovered: he is indeed fully integrated into the world, and he must indeed be classified as an NPC......

After several encounters with the players, Wang Xingjiang found that they really didn't see that they were alive.

According to their conversations, they are a humanoid unidentified object with no options or data in the eyes of the player, so there is also a rumor that "there is a bug in this world".

In fact, he and other players can still communicate normally through language, but because the vast majority of players don't regard him as an antagonistic existence at all, they either ignore Wang Xingjiang or want to grab props.

Why! Don't NPCs have human rights?!

However, after carefully recalling his game experience, Wang Xingjiang found that he really did not consider the feelings of most ordinary NPCs in the game.

Is this retribution?

But it wasn't enough to make Wang Xingjiang feel painful, and what really bothered him was the note he received this morning:

Who are you going to choose tomorrow?

He didn't really want any of them......

It's not a safe place to be, and it's unknown whether their abilities can be used here, so self-preservation is a problem.

Second, although the Eastern Han Dynasty at this time has passed the state of a hundred wastes waiting to be revived, it has barely reached the level of "ninety wastes waiting to be revived", and they still need their control.

Third, Wang Xingjiang is afraid that his choice will cause them contradictions.

After so many years of fighting side by side, the relationship between Lihua Aoki and them has become extraordinary-provided that Wang Xingjiang does not appear and does not express his position.

But this time he had to take a stand.

If he doesn't choose any of them, then he will die; But if the choice is made, what will others think?

He is really "greedy enough to swallow elephants", and he actually hopes for a world where no one is hurt.

So die and die......

"Hey! Brother, what are you sighing about here? ”

This is one of the rare players who is completely unbiased against NPCs.

"Klein, what are you doing?"

The brown-haired man in front of him is one of the characters that Wang Xingjiang knows, and he is also a good friend of Kirito - he is currently searching for Kirito's whereabouts.

"I'm here to practice your swordsmanship! I feel like I've got the hang of it! ”

Wang Xingjiang and Klein met in the labyrinth, and he saved Klein's party who were surrounded by monsters, and then they were taken out of the labyrinth.

Because Wang Xingjiang showed combat power far beyond ordinary players, and he was a very talkative NPC, Klein came to him to help as a sparring partner when he had nothing to do.

That's right, even if Klein and they know that Wang Xingjiang has enough emotions, they still think that he is an NPC, but the AI program is more advanced - similar to a real person!

"We can't rely on you to fight all the time, haha."

At the end of the memory, Wang Xingjiang stood up, "That's okay, I'll practice boxing with you today." ”

"Why don't you continue to practice swords?"

"Do you have so many weapons to waste?" Wang Xingjiang could rely on Aoki Lihua's steady supply of ice swords to ensure his weapons, but players like Klein weren't that wealthy—at least in the early stages.

The monster drop rate on the first layer was really outrageously low, and Wang Xingjiang had heard Klein complain more than once that their loot could only barely guarantee the renewal of weapons and maintenance.

"You need to learn to face all kinds of enemies, and you can't use only human-sized creatures as imaginary enemies."

At present, the monsters in the maze are all beasts or kobolds, so many ordinary players think that the boss is just an enhanced kobold at most - to some extent, this is true, but the size of this kobold is a bit exaggerated.

In the strategy manual released yesterday, it "details" the information of the first level boss, so Klein also knew that they would encounter enemies with very different sizes.

But that information wasn't all true.

As a traverser, Wang Xingjiang knew that there was a flaw in that information, but he had no way to explain it to others, after all, he was just an NPC, a program controlled by Kayaba Jinghiko, and the information he said might be a trap!

Klein didn't suspect that Wang Xingjiang was an internal ghost, but they felt that it was impossible for an NPC who didn't even have a mission to get such important information, so they thought that Wang Xingjiang made a summary through understanding and learning from others, and it was just a cloud of people.

Wang Xingjiang reluctantly accepted this fact, and then planned to break into the boss room directly when Kirito and them were attacking, and help them defeat the boss.

This should reduce casualties.

"But you're not that fat, are you?"

"Then let's practice swords today, hehe."