"You mean...... Someone is targeting us? ”

"That's right."

…………

The time was the fifth day after the liberation of the SAO.

As the world's first completely stealth game, ALO has not yet been developed today, even if SAO has a huge accident, its success in this area cannot be denied.

So after a brief initial downturn, it didn't take long for players around the world to start another boom in game play.

It's in this context.

When Ye Ming entered the game for the second time, the glasses man found him.

Ayn Grant, first floor.

Central square, fountain.

Sitting on the bench, Ye Ming listened to the man with the eyes opposite, and a trace of surprise flashed in his eyes.

"At first, I just thought it was an accident."

The glasses man's face was a little unsightly: "But in fact, in the past few days of your absence, we have confirmed the deaths of at least three reincarnations. ”

"Once or twice can be an accident, but three times in a row...... That's a little weird. ”

"......" Ye Ming was silent, his eyes flashing with a light of thought.

"I heard that you have reached the eighteenth floor?" Suddenly, the boy spoke, but asked about something else.

The man with glasses was stunned for a moment, but still answered truthfully: "Yes, I just attacked the boss of the seventeenth layer yesterday." ”

"Oh, let's keep going." Ye Ming nodded approvingly, got up and prepared to leave.

"Wait, Your Highness...... You. The man with glasses reached out to grab him.

"I said ......" Ye Ming looked back and smiled: "Don't think of me as omnipotent, I'm not Conan, I can't solve this kind of death puzzle." ”

"Ah...... Is it? The man with glasses was a little disappointed.

It's not that he's saddened by the death of those who are reincarnated.

It's just that there is an inexplicable sense of crisis lingering in their hearts.

In today's world where the game has become extremely unfamiliar...... I always feel that no matter what it is, it is completely out of control.

……

After talking to the man with glasses, Ye Ming left the first floor.

Step on the teleportation array to the twelfth floor.

Leaving the town and walking outside, walking in one direction for about ten minutes, the boy raised his head.

What appeared in front of him was a stone forest.

Walking in, wandering around twice, the boy came to one of the corners, lowered his head, and looked at the ground.

There, there was still a trace of blood.

"......" Ye Ming looked at him in deep thought.

SAO is a game, and although it is real, it also has the characteristics of a game.

For example, things like blood, unless necessary, will be refreshed and disappear after killing monsters.

Except for one case...... That is the blood of their reincarnation.

Unlike the player, they enter the game in real life, and their bodies are exactly the same as they are in reality, so the blood that flows out is not refreshed as in the game.

In other words, there is a reincarnation who died here......

Ye Ming raised his head and swept his gaze around.

"What's so special?" He muttered softly in his mouth, looking at the stone forest around him, his brows furrowed.

It's not a safe area, but it's basically an area where no monsters will spawn.

It is hard to imagine that a reincarnator who can survive in the main god space would be killed in such a semi-safe place.

So it's not surprising that men with glasses would feel that someone was targeting them.

When he thought like this, his back was shocked.

Feeling like something is approaching?

The particle manipulation was activated, and his body became as light as a swallow in an instant, and along with the breeze around him, his movements suddenly became extremely elegant, and floated away strangely.

Almost at the same time, a dagger appeared in place.

If he hadn't moved away, it would have been his heart.

"Reincarnation?" A voice rang out.

The figure with a smiling mask appeared out of thin air, looking at Ye Ming who had moved away, and asked uncertainly.

Ye Ming paused, did not speak, and stepped on his feet.

Click~!

The ground cracked, and a huge thorn appeared from the opponent's feet, piercing through it in an instant...... An afterimage.

didn't hit the body, Ye Ming frowned.

He doesn't team up with anyone right now, he doesn't have stat bonuses, and he can't use much of his particle manipulation ability.

Taking out the pistol, Ye Ming quickly turned his head.

Bang~!

Rumble~!

The heat wave set off and blew away the boy's hair.

The body as light as a feather quickly retreated under the reaction of this breath.

Setting his pace, Ye Ming looked at the unscathed guy over there and pouted.

"Why don't you answer me?"

"I don't have a good impression of the guy who came up with murderous intent in the first place."

Ye Ming sneered, raised the gun in his hand, and aimed at the other party.

He was a little impressed by this guy, after all, there were only two reincarnators at the beginning, and there were only two with smiling masks.

One of them is himself.

"There will be no one in this place except for the reincarnation, but the one who kills people."

A nice female voice, I don't know what kind of face it is under the smiling mask.

She looked at Ye Ming, a hint of surprise flashed in her eyes: "So I'm just testing it a little." ”

"......" Ye Ming didn't speak, just looked at her.

This seems to be a woman with a very cold personality, who can talk so much, probably because of his own charm.

He didn't ask what to do if he made a mistake.

For the reincarnated person, they never mind killing, even if the other party is also a reincarnation...... No, it should be said that it is precisely because they are both reincarnators that they have more conflicts of interest.

In order to encourage them to kill each other, the main god even made a point to indicate that the reincarnation of killing would be rewarded generously.

So for the other party, it doesn't matter if it's a mistake or not.

"I didn't kill them......" said the woman opposite.

She didn't know why she was explaining.

But being able to say so much is pretty much the limit.

She took one last look at Ye Ming, and her body disappeared and disappeared.

"......" The boy put down his pistol and narrowed his eyes.

If the woman is telling the truth...... That can basically rule out the mutual killing of reincarnations.

Because of the rest of the reincarnations, there are only a few of them left.

"Len, can you tell if she's telling the truth?" Ye Ming asked with a puzzled face.

The black cat stepped out of his body, sat on his shoulder, and shook his head slowly.

Well, it's he who thinks too much.

Black Len's ability is nothing more than manipulating dreams.

Shaking his head, he took one last look at the blood on the ground and turned to walk towards another place.

There are three places in total.

If the same person kills the person.

Well, there will be at least some common ground.

As an otaku, Ye Ming's more than 700 episodes of dead elementary school students and more than 300 episodes of Kanedaichi are not in vain.

With a spirit of more than a hundred, he has a very quick mind.

If you insist on making a cameo as a detective...... It's not impossible.

With this in mind, he walked through the fifteenth and sixteenth floors again.

After visiting all three possible places of death, Ye Ming finally returned to the first layer.

Sit by the river and throw the line out.

The function of video playback was called up from the system function, and the videos of the three places were put together, and Ye Ming lay on his side on the edge of the lake and watched carefully.

"It's just a wasted effort."

In the end, Ye Ming sighed.

As it turns out, he doesn't make a detective.

No matter how you look at it, there's nothing strange about these three places.

The common denominator is not nothing, at least on the part of the victims...... They are all reincarnated...... This is nonsense.

Rubbing his eyebrows, Ye Ming was a little suspicious...... Could it be because these guys didn't complete any tasks and were wiped out by the Lord God?

Seem...... Makes sense.

So what is he doing so much for?

Never mind...... Think of it as a fulfillment of my childhood dream of being a detective.