While all the players focused their eyes on the huge red-robed figure, Ye Ran was frowning and patrolling the players around him. He always felt that this scene seemed to have a subtle sense of familiarity, as if he had seen it somewhere.

But this picture seems to be too long, and after digging deep in memory for a long time, Ye Ran only excavated more familiarity, but did not have more impressions.

The red-robed giant in the sky, who called himself Akihiko Kayaba, continued to tell the current situation.

"You will not be free to leave this world, and the outside world will not be able to artificially stop or disarm NERvGear, if you attempt to do the above, NERvGear will emit powerful microwaves to destroy the brains of players."

"I'm sorry to report that 213 players have left the Ayn Grant and the real world forever due to the forced suspension of devices by some users who distrusted my announcement."

"Another point to note is that from now on, all means of resurrection will be ineffective."

Although Ye Ran was also listening, it was obvious that his eyes were constantly scanning the players around him, everything Kayaba Jinghiko said was completely useless to him, he was sure that the crossing to this world was not carried out by some game landing device, NERvGear. Because in his time, such devices were not yet fully used, and even existed only in fantasy.

Without waiting for the crowd to calm down, Kayaba continued his words.

"There is only one condition for your release."

"It's a complete strategy game."

"The place you are in now is the first floor of Ayn Grant."

"Attack the maze of each layer, defeat the boss in the maze and immediately reach the next layer."

"And the ultimate goal is to reach the final boss at the top of the hundredth layer of Aingrunte."

"Defeat him, and you'll clear the level and get the key back to reality."

"Now please open your inventory, where I have a gift for you."

With Akihiko Ashwaga's words, the crowd suddenly rioted. And, immediately after, countless white lights lit up, and the riots in this square became even more serious. People were stunned to find that their appearance had actually turned into reality.

There are also many male players who originally played the female number at the moment when they returned to their original state, and the partners around them showed an expression of disbelief and despair at the same time.

But then people don't have the heart to think about these relatively small things.

This game was famous for its high difficulty during the closed beta.,And according to what Akihiko Kayaba just said.,Now it's lost the most fundamental thing of the game.,Resurrection.。

In other words, now you only have one life, and if you lose it, you will be out of the game forever, whether it is the game or reality. At the same time, Akihiko Kayaba sent out a number of news pages, on which faces that were all too familiar to players showed pain.

In this situation where everyone is at risk, clearing this game has become even more fantastic.

Most people are reluctant to give themselves for the sake of others.

Most people just want to be saved.

It's an instinct that can't be changed.

Ye Ran knew very well how many people this instinct would crush and how much load those who had been living happily and carefree in the peaceful world would be burdened by this.

When Akihiko Kayaba disappeared, countless people sat down with dull eyes, staring blankly at the ground and not speaking.

But at the same time, Ye Ran saw a young boy with a red-haired man who turned around and ran in the direction leading to the outside of the city without hesitation. Not only this man, but also more than a dozen players also turned around and left with firm eyes.

Ye Ran looked around, but did not find the woman who gave him spring water in the afternoon.

"Let's buy a weapon first."

This is a world of cold weapons, Ye Ran found that all players are equipped with a weapon through the observation just now, and there are various types of weapons. Swords, guns, clubs, and hammers, because there are everything.

Games...

Ye Ran suddenly thought of the little girl in the grocery store when he entered the city just now, the sleepiness in the girl's eyes, although the faint but subtle expression reaction, really made Ye Ran unable to understand that this was just a personal game.

Or has the game system of this world reached the point where even emotions can be simulated to the extreme?

"Oops..."

The moment Ye Ran turned around, he felt an attack in his stomach, and subconsciously stretched out his hand to support the player who accidentally bumped into him.

"Ahhh!!!!!hh

The girl let out a scream of collapse, clearly in despair because of Akihiko Kayaba's words. Feeling Ye Ran's strength, like a frightened kitten, he slapped Ye Ran's hand away, stumbled and bounced off his body again, and was about to hit the pillar next to him.

Ye Ran sighed a little helplessly, stretched out his hand again, grabbed the girl's body, pressed her shoulder, and twisted her wrist slightly. The girl was stunned for a moment, and calmed down slightly. Ye Ran's technique is an acupuncture point stimulation method in martial arts, which can make people calm down their excitement as soon as possible.

Seeing that the girl was no longer as frightened as before, Ye Ran let go of the hand that was pressing her shoulder and said, "That, you are fine, right?" ”

"I'm so sorry!"

After this player stabilized his body with the help of Ye Ran's strength, he immediately bent down and bowed, and a crisp voice came out of her mouth, which made Ye Ran a little surprised: "Huh? Is this game still allowed for minors? ”

That's right, whether it is the body or voice, or the immature face, or the ordinary chest, Ye Ran can be completely sure that the girl in front of him is definitely not more than fourteen years old.

"No, no, no, I secretly took Dad's NERvGear to play......"

The girl subconsciously explained, and only reacted later, looked at Ye Ran strangely, and said, "That, you are an NPC?" ”

"Huh?"

"Because it's weird, you don't have a player's green logo on your head......" However, looking at Ye Ran's expression and appearance, the girl was a little unconfident, maybe she made a mistake? After all, it was only her first time playing this kind of game.

"No, I'm not a player...", he still doesn't understand what kind of identity he is living in this world... Ye Ran pondered for a while and replied.

"Huh?"

The girl curiously circled around Ye Ran a few times, and exclaimed with an exclamation on her face: "Although I hate this Kayaba Jinghiko very much, this game is really powerful." ”

"But I'm not an NPC either..."Ye Ran's words continued, and then he saw that the girl was stunned over there, and her brain was rapidly processing this amount of information that was a bit huge for her.

"Ah, forget it!"

The girl gave up and said, "Although I introduced myself a little late, hello, my name is Celica, and I am twelve years old this year, please take care of me." ”

"Oh, I'm Ye Ran."

Seeing the girl's solemn face, Ye Ran also straightened his expression, although there was no expression on his face: "Please take care of me." ”

"Huh, is it Chinese? Your Japanese is good. ”

Celica looked at Ye Ran in surprise, it was the first time she had met people from other countries, and she was also surprised that Ye Ran's Japanese was quite authentic, and she couldn't hear the accent of other countries at all.

"Sirika~~"

The two players ran over, put their hands on their knees, and panted, "Silica, you're fine, we're worried..."

"Ah, I'm fine... Just now...... Hey? ”

Celica turned around to look, but Ye Ran, who was supposed to be by her side, was nowhere to be seen at the moment, tilted her head, and muttered, "What a strange person." ”

As Celica and her companion were talking, Ye Ran caught a glimpse of a familiar gray figure out of the corner of her eye.

Frowning, Ye Ran turned around and chased towards the place where the figure had disappeared.

Strange feeling.

On this figure, he felt a strange smell, a smell so familiar to him, as if it were a deep thought in his bones.

Well? Gone?

Now most of the people in the square are starting to act, after all, they can't be intoxicated with despair all the time, and life still has to go on. It was a split second time difference, and Ye Ran lost this figure.

The strange feeling slowly faded from his heart.

Ye Ran found that he had stayed at the grocery store that appeared in the afternoon, and the silver-haired girl was still sleeping on the counter at the moment, not worrying about her goods being stolen at all.

Call... Ye Ran exhaled, walked to the counter, and knocked lightly on the counter.

"Whew~ It's you again." The girl stretched her waist, and when she just woke up, her eyes were no longer sleepy, and she finally began to have a little bit of the momentum of a grocery store owner: "What do you need this time?" ”

Ye Ran shook his head slightly and said, "I want a weapon." ”

"Weapons... Yes. ”

As soon as the words fell, a translucent screen appeared in front of Ye Ran, and a row of weapons and armor were displayed at the same time.

"Do grocery stores still sell weapons?" Ye Ran was a little surprised. It stands to reason that a grocery store should be a place to sell some recovery items, materials, and life tools, right?

The girl paused Ye Ran with a look that made Ye Ran amazed by this game, and said, "I'm not an ordinary grocery store, look." ”

Pointing to the top of his head, it read, Rune Workshop Chain Three Stores Grocery Branch One.

The girl's eyes narrowed, and a faint smile appeared on her otherwise expressionless face.

That smile is enough to make people's hearts flutter.

"Hello, my name is Karin, and I'm the manager of this branch."