Today's weather seems to be cloudy, but you can still see the sun.

The rays of the setting sun dragged the shadows of the forest long, and the sides of many trees were covered with a golden hazy glow.

When the sun shines on people, they can also feel a burst of obvious warmth, and at this time, ordinary people often have to feel the power of NERvGear, and even the details of body temperature can be simulated in great detail.

However, for a team of players who have spent another whole day in this forest, but also have achieved nothing, this warmth can only make their gradually irritable minds more depressed.

"Boss...... It's going to be dark again. A young man sighed and put on a bitter melon face, "Are we going to continue looking?" ”

“……”

“……”

The leading captain was silent for a moment, and then subconsciously reached into his jacket pocket, habitually wanting to take out the cigarette and lighter, and then he didn't touch the cigarette and lighter, and of course the armor on his body didn't have the design of the coat pocket.

This made him dazed for a moment, and then came back to his senses, this was not in the real world, just in the virtual space inside SAO.

"Let's go back first, and wait until tomorrow...... ...... tomorrow" He let out a long sigh, put down his hand, and said a little dejectedly, as for "tomorrow again", it was not clear.

Because what the following words were, he was never able to say.

Keep looking? More than a week has passed, will they be able to continue to pay for the rest of the time, and accept the results that will remain futile until the end?

Although they are not active in the first-line strategy group players, even if the level equipment or something can't keep up with the first-line lineup, it can't be too bad.

Otherwise, in this world, I'm afraid that they don't even have the power to protect themselves - as a player of the same kind, they are even more terrifying than monsters, and if so many of them are obviously backward in level equipment or something, and they often wander around in the wild, they will definitely be targeted.

For some people with sinister intentions, hunting monsters is more dangerous than hunting players, and the latter is far more oily than the former, and generally lacks the defense of the same kind, and will not be as vigilant as if they saw monsters in the wild.

Although they became more and more convinced that they and others had encountered a real opportunity before, they missed it, so that it seemed that there was no chance to make up for it after that, which made them regret it to the point that their hearts were bleeding.

During this time, they have been feeling sorry for themselves, and they are restless in their sleep, annoyed that they didn't seize the opportunity before they and others, so that they missed that opportunity in vain-

Or if they had made a different choice back then, they might have become a top player by now, right?

People are always like this, always dissatisfied with the status quo and feel that they could have reached a better ending. Especially on some important forks in the road, when you look back on it, you often feel that the other path is actually a better choice.

It is precisely because of this that they are very unwilling, and for more than a week, they have been searching back and forth repeatedly near the portal area of this forest.

At first, it was in the same place at the same time, but now, they basically soak in the forest all day, and they have shifted and expanded the search area I don't know how much.

However, there was still no progress, and they never encountered a white mist again.

Until now, everyone has gone from being hot at the beginning, to gradually semi-cool, and then to complete disappointment, and has no motivation...... It's a good thing to have hope, but they can't afford to give up all the present for one hope, right?

The night sky is full of twinkling stars.

Disappointed and exhausted, the group teleported through the portal back to a nearby town, where they rested.

Although I didn't fight monsters much today, the amount of exercise was not as good as the crazy brushing before, but the mental exhaustion was more devastating than the physical exhaustion...... None of them wanted to speak, but they just said hello to each other and went back to rest.

The captain frowned bitterly, returned to his room, and lay down on the bed with a long sigh.

In the previous time, he actually wanted to grit his teeth and say a bold and decisive sentence categorically-

"Find! Keep looking! If you don't go back today, you have to find it out! ”

However, the reality is always cruel, and they will not be able to afford to pay the ever-increasing price if they continue like this. And as a captain, he must think rationally about the future and not be rash.

So...... Let's give up!

Starting tomorrow, the normal schedule of fighting monsters and upgrading equipment will be resumed, and some opportunities will really be missed, no matter how entangled you are, it will be useless...... They can't stay at this stage forever.

It's just—

"It's really infuriating!" Annoyed, he slammed his fist on the bed, and the man couldn't help but feel annoyed when he remembered the magnificent sight he had seen after walking through the ashes graveyard.

The towering walls, castles, towers, the snow-capped mountains, the bottomless abyss beneath the cliffs......

That scene is even more magnificent than the scenery on the current floor, and the realism is extremely high, if it is said that there are no secrets, it is not a great opportunity, a fool will not believe it!

And yet they just missed it! If you think about it a little, you have to feel the liver pain of qi.

SAO has a lot of convenient functions to assist players, but it's a pity that you don't have a button that allows you to fall asleep right away.

So the captain and his teammates tossed and turned all night and couldn't sleep, and when they really fell asleep, it was already past midnight.

It's just that this is the beginning of his wish -

……

……

In the dream, there was a feeling as if it had fallen straight and rapidly from the sky.

It's an experience that almost everyone has experienced, but no matter how much experience you have, this feeling of falling will never make you get used to, familiarize, and feel relaxed, but no matter how many times you appear, it will only make people feel frightened when you encounter it again.

"Ah——!!h

With a scream, the captain twitched violently, then opened his eyes and sat up.

He gasped violently, feeling extremely flustered, difficult to calm down, and the extremely real feeling of falling was really very scary.

"Damn, how could you have such a nightmare...... Wait, what is this place? ”

He wiped the cold sweat from his forehead, finally breathed a sigh of relief, and felt that the violent beating rate of his heart began to slow down, but at this time, he suddenly realized that the scene around him was not right.

It's not your own room, it's a messy cemetery!

I didn't lie on the bed, but sat up from a dilapidated and rotten coffin?!

"What are you kidding......"

The man jumped out of the coffin with a crawl, his scalp was about to explode, it didn't stench, maybe it was because the corpses in the coffins around him had long been weathered!

But that kind of rotten, damp and gloomy atmosphere makes people feel uncomfortable from the bottom of their hearts, too real, as if they really lie down in the damp rotten coffin for some reason!

Who knows if it's the remnants of the original body of the coffin, and how long has it been in close contact?!

"Phew! Bah! Damn, is Akihiko Ashwaga a lunatic! This kind of disgusting game plot can also be designed?! ”

Desperately trying to spit, and wiping his body up and down with all his might, the man almost exploded, but soon he gradually came back to his senses, and it seemed that he was ...... Yourself back in that ash graveyard?

Wait, what's going on, did you do anything to get back here at this time?

But it's not right, I should have returned to my temporary residence in the safe zone, and then went to bed, why is it in ...... Is it yourself dreaming, or is it the effect of teleportation?

The man who couldn't figure it out at all shook his head vigorously, he felt that he shouldn't be dreaming, he had never had any experience of lucid dreaming, and he had never tried to be able to think clearly when dreaming.

And how could my dreams be so detailed and so real that they seemed to be another world?

He faintly heard a faint sound not far away, and he took a deep breath of air with the characteristic smell of the graveyard, and then felt a faint feeling of twitching in his stomach.

He had clearly overcome the fear of facing monsters, but now he did find the nausea even more unacceptable.

The cemetery is full of decaying coffins, and the branches of the vines are tightly tangled with it, and the ruins of some buildings can be seen in many places, but the difference is ......

The realism of this scene seems to have been further improved, and for no other reason, Chunchun is a feeling.

I used to feel a subtle feeling of being hazy, as if I was dreaming, but now it has completely disappeared, replaced by a kind of "real" and "clear".

The most important thing is that the last time I came over, it was still an empty ash cemetery, and this time there were a lot of monsters, and there were humanoid monsters in tattered black robes wandering around the tombstones, coffins, and broken walls in the distance.

At this time, the man's face suddenly changed slightly, and he looked back at the back, and this time there was no white mist in that direction.

He had no idea how he had come this time, and he didn't know how he was going to get back this time.

Teleportation items are also gray and cannot be used at all.

The man with a slightly gray face was also a person who had struggled in the game for more than a month and was still alive, so he didn't stay where he was, but gritted his teeth and grabbed his weapon and began to explore.

After a few battles in which he was extremely careful to attract a lone monster and concentrate on it, the man felt the pressure mount.

These monsters are not particularly difficult to deal with, and can often kill one with two swords, but they are also dangerous, moving slowly, but attacking very quickly in a split second, if you don't deal with them in advance.

The moment they attack, it is very dangerous, and under the current mainstream level, players who are not highly agile will not be able to dodge at all.

And their attacks are also very painful, and they may explain themselves after a few consecutive blows.

Pouring himself a bottle of potion, the man stubbornly moved forward step by step, and soon saw a motionless body lying on the ground in front of him.

Because he was too familiar, he suddenly let out a "pop" in his heart, isn't this one of his own team members? Why is it ...... Appearing here? And what will it look like?

Killed? But why did the corpse stay? And when is he......

A series of questions made him irrepressibly confused, and the uneasiness in his heart became more and more intense.

It's really a dream, isn't it?

……

……

At the same time.

In this interconnected dream, fireless ashes will come one after another. They are all nameless, unearthly, undead, called immortals.

They had all received the "Apocalypse" before-

Kill the visitors of the other world, take their bodies and souls in the other world, use their existence as a vehicle, and continue to take the other world!