After Christmas Eve, the various floors that had been raided returned to their original state the moment the day came, and the white snowflakes disappeared without a trace in an instant, as if last night was a sweet dream.

On the 22nd floor, Snow Seclusion ......

"Huh...... What is it? ”

Ling Xue looked at the black thing on the table, with black smoke, temporarily called food, and glanced at Asuna with a tight little face speechlessly.

"Food."

Asuna smiled heartily, then slapped the table and said, "This is the result of a busy morning." Eat it, Ling! Snow! ”

"Ugh."

Looking at Asuna's sharp gaze, Ling Xue sighed as if resigned, and then glanced at the colorful and unusually delicious food in front of Yui, the difference between this person and the demon (referring to Yui, in Asuna's opinion) is too great.

"Aha...... What the hell is going on? ”

Yui on the side tilted her head a little confused, and wondered.

As for why this happened, not to mention that Yui was not clear, even Ling Xue herself was not very clear, but he probably guessed why he suffered such "bad luck" today.

The night before, after stopping Ling Xue, Asuna left with only one word. And her words were, "I will go to your house tomorrow morning to deliver breakfast, and if you dare to leave or eat breakfast without permission, this tree will be your end." ”

At the end of the sentence, Asuna drew her sword and cut down a tree. And he left the Lost Forest. It was left to look at the roots. Ling Xue in the wind.

Although Asuna will send early tomorrow. He said it was good. But why is there always a sense of foreboding in my heart?

And now, as expected, the hunch has come true......

"Do you really want to eat it?" Ling Xue tried to make a final struggle, and looked weakly at Asuna.

"Huh."

Asuna didn't answer Ling Xue's question directly, but chuckled, played with a knife in her hand, and ...... Then the skill activation sounded, and the silver knife glowed purple. Then there was a clatter, and it was nailed deep into the wooden tabletop.

"Wow!!"

Ling Xue looked at the wooden board that had been pierced, and suddenly her hair stood on end, I will be careful with my liver. Turning his head, he looked at the pitch-black object that was emitting black smoke from the plate. Alas, in a way, this is much more terrible than the darkness of the world.

Hmph, let you say that I have a small heart.

Looking at Ling Xue's "painful" look, Asuna snorted proudly, this is retribution......

Actually, in SAO. The cooking process has been simplified to the extreme. Just take out the item and cut it. Then prepare the materials, put them in the corresponding stove, turn on the fire, and the rest of the system will do it for you. Generally speaking, there is no scorching, scorching or anything like that. Because no matter how long you set it, at most it will drop to the lowest point of the ingredient level, or disappear. For example, if you use S-grade ingredients, it will be delicious if you cook it just right, but if you go too far, it will be randomly lowered by one or several grades. However, if the level of cooking is sufficient, but there is no approximate concept of cooking time, it is estimated that the S-grade ingredients will be reduced to E...... And if the grade ingredients are not enough to drop, the ingredients will disappear directly.

Therefore, if you want to burn the ingredients, there is only one way, and that is to let people with low cooking levels cook high-grade ingredients, and the time must be very good to burn, which is more difficult than cooking a good dish in this game.

In order to get to Ling Xue, Asuna got up early in the morning and ran to her good friend, and after trading and giving her high-end ingredients, she was guiding and guiding on the side...... How to burn a dish, sweat ......

But Rao is like this, more than ten kinds of A and B grade ingredients only succeeded in scorching the one in front of him......

A farce of breakfast ended with Ling Xue falling.

Sadly burped with a burnt taste, Ling Xue hurriedly brewed a pot of black tea, and after a few sips, it was considered better.

In the open-air corridor of the courtyard, there are three figures drinking black tea, enjoying the warm wind and the warmest sun.

"Whew...... It was only at this time that I felt alive. ”

After drinking the black tea in the cup, Asuna let out a long sigh of relief, looking at the scenery of the wind blowing the green trees outside the window, and couldn't help but sigh with emotion.

"Alive...... Ling Xue was slightly stunned, "Na, Asuna, why are you so obsessed with conquering this world?" ”

"Needless to say? Of course, it's an early strategy, so you can get out as soon as possible. Asuna's eyes flashed with unnaturalness, and then she said.

"Really?"

Ling Xue didn't care, reaching out and pouring black tea into the empty teacup in Asuna's hand, and then said noncommittally.

Yui, on the other hand, took a sip of black tea and glanced at the two of them quietly, as if she wanted to say something, but she opened her mouth and stopped. Because the current setting is that Yui is Ling Xue's demon, even if the AI of the demon is high, except for being able to eat and drink, it can't intervene until the master nods, even if it's a human race.

"What about Ling Xue? Why would Ling Xue be in such a hurry to attack Ayn Grant? ”

"I'm in a hurry? Hehe. ”

Ling Xue paused for a moment, then shook her head with a chuckle and said, "I'm not in a hurry to attack." ”

"Hey? So why? Asuna was stunned for a moment, and hurriedly wondered.

"Why do you compete with the Raiders group, or why do you risk your life to take down the boss alone?" Ling Xue interrupted Asuna, and then slowly said the doubts in Asuna's mouth.

Seeing Asuna nodded, Ling Xue chuckled, "That's just for fun. ”

"Fun?"

Asuna's eyes were full of puzzlement, she really couldn't figure out why anyone would say the word funny when this was already a death game.

"Well...... How to say it. ”

Perhaps seeing the puzzlement on Asuna's face, Ling Xue thought for a moment and said, "It is precisely because this game has become a game of death. Therefore, we must face it with a relaxed mind. Otherwise. What should I do if my mentality collapses before the strategy is finished. Yes, our real world is there, but the place where we live now is here, which is both illusory and real. ”

Speaking of this, Ling Xue paused and stood up. Walked to the balcony, stood on the ground of the sun, took a deep breath and said: "The warm sunshine, the warm majesty, the faint fragrance of the grass, the sweetness of the black tea, aren't all these perceptions real?" As I answered, the reason why I compete with the strategy team is simply because it feels fun. Because in other RPG games, it's not a common thing to grab a boss or something like that. ”

"You ......," Asuna didn't know what to say. Say he has no heart and no lungs. But how can a truly heartless person stand at the very top of the player. He said he was thoughtful, but he seemed to think about nothing all day.

"Don't think too much about it. I'm just enjoying the game. Ling Xue concluded.

"Enjoy...... Game ......" Asuna muttered these words in a daze, her eyes fluctuating from time to time, obviously caught up in some kind of memory.

As an otaku in her previous life, how could Ling Xue not have seen SAO, Asuna, whose full name is Yuki Asuka, is the eldest lady of the Yuki family, that is, the so-called daughter, who does not worry about food, clothing, housing and transportation, and is also very beautiful, which can be described as a model that everyone envies. But who's to say that the children of rich families are not troubled. Since childhood, Asuna, also known as Yuuki Asuna, has received an elite education, and has been arranged by her parents to have a successful life, and she is just a simple, mechanical way to achieve their expectations. And then it was a coincidence that I took NERVGear and came to this virtual real world and became a prisoner of this world.

After learning that you need to complete the 100th floor to log out of the game, Asuna, who does not admit defeat, began to desperately attack the strategy after becoming familiar with the operation of the game, wanting to log out of the game as soon as possible.

"Now, Asuna, I'm not from the Raiders team, but I've heard of your nickname."

As if remembering something, Ling Xue suddenly sneered, "The Raider of the Blood Alliance Knights, right?" ”

"How do you know!?"

Asuna, who had fallen into a memory, didn't recall it at this time, and asked with excitement on her face, as if Ling Xue had done something to her.

"This bad name is obviously only known to those people in the strategy group, why Ling Xue who is not in the strategy group will know, could it be that Sirika told him." Ling Xue raised a finger and shook it, "Hey, that's what you think, right?" ”

Seeing Asuna put on an expression of "how do you know what I'm thinking in my heart", Ling Xue's heart suddenly darkened, she had been guessed by others several times, and this time it was finally her turn to have a "mind reading technique".

"Don't put on that face, you almost don't have those words written on your face." Ling Xue chuckled and said, "I remember that when I was attacking the regional boss on the road to the labyrinth area on a certain layer, I actually lured the boss to the nearby village, and asked the boss to slaughter the name of the village, so as to trip the boss, so that you can kill it smoothly." Did you have this before? ”

"Yes." Although I don't want to admit it, there is such a thing.

"Although I don't think I'm a good person, I'll say a few good things." Ling Xue leaned her back against the wooden pillar, looked up at the sky behind her and said, "We're there, ahem, isn't there always a sentence on TV?" Don't let anything blind you. I think that applies here as well. Going home is your goal, but for the sake of the end by any means, Asuna is not the Asuna I knew at the beginning. ”

"Why don't you try to enjoy it, and maybe you'll find that this game isn't as bad as you think?" Ling Xue smiled.

"Enjoy...... Well......" Asuna muttered thoughtfully. (To be continued......)

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