Two thousand people died in the first month of the game.

In the end, there is still no way to solve the problem from the outside. To make matters worse, there is no information coming in from the outside.

When they finally believed that there was no way to leave this world, the panic of the players was extremely crazy. There were people yelling, some crying, and even people yelling to destroy the game world and prepare to dig up the stone slabs in the streets. Of course, the buildings were all indestructible objects, and their attempts were in vain. I've heard that it's been a few days since all of us accepted this reality and started thinking about our future policy.

The players start out roughly divided into four groups.

First of all, about half of the number of people, who did not believe in the conditions proposed by Akihiko Kayaba and waited for outside rescue.

The actions they take are basically "standby". Completely off the street, relying only on the initial ration of in-game currency - the world is represented by "kol" - using only a little money every day to buy food, live in cheap hotels, and then form a team of several people to live in a mess.

Luckily, the "Beginning Town" is about two-tenths of the ground floor area, which claims to rival a neighborhood in Tokyo, so there is enough space for 5,000 players to live without being cramped.

However, no matter how long they waited, help still did not appear. Every day when I wake up from my sleep, what I see outside the window is never a blue sky, but a gloom covering the upper bottom of my head. And they couldn't live forever with the initial funds alone, and it wasn't long before they were forced to start taking action.

The second group makes up about 30% of all players. This group of about 3,000 people aims to help each other and actively survive. And their leader is the male administrator of Japan's largest online game information site.

Players are divided into groups under his command to manage the items they have acquired and gather intel before heading to the labyrinth area where the raiders lead to the upper stairs. The leader's own group occupied the "Black Iron Palace" facing the central square of the starting town, and used it to hoard supplies and give various instructions to his group.

The huge group didn't have a name at first, but after they began to give all the participants uniforms, they began to be referred to by the sarcastic name "Army".

The third group is presumed to be about 1,000 people, and this is the group of people who wasted Koll without any plan in the first place, but could not afford to fight the monsters to obtain supplies, and their lives were in dire straits.

By the way, even within the Imaginary Realm SAO, there are still two physiological needs: sleep and appetite.

Because the brain has no way to discern whether the sensory information obtained is from the real world or the imaginary world, it is natural that players will want to sleep. When the player wants to sleep, they go to the hotel on the street, choose a suitable room according to their financial resources, and go in to rest. If you have a large amount of Kell, of course, you can buy your own room in your favorite town, but that is not an easy amount to save.

As for appetite, many players find it incredible. Although I really don't want to imagine what the state of the body is like in the real world, I think there is some way to force the body to give the nutrients it needs. In short, even if you eat here because you feel hungry, there is no food in the stomach of the real world.

However, if you actually eat imaginary bread or meat in the game, you will feel empty and feel full. But the principle of these phenomena is estimated to be explained by no one.

On the other hand, as long as the feeling of fasting appears, if you don't eat, the feeling of hunger will never go away. Although it is not enough to die from a hunger strike, it is still a rather unbearable desire, so players still rush into the NPC-run restaurant every day, trying to stuff virtual food into their stomachs. Although it is a bit redundant, it is worth mentioning that there is no need to excrete in the game. As for the problem of excretion in the real world, it is more undesirable to imagine than eating.

Okay, let's get back to the topic –

Those who ran out of money at the beginning, not to mention a place to sleep, because they couldn't eat, most of them chose to join the "army", the common strategy group mentioned earlier, because they couldn't eat. Because as long as you follow the instructions of your superiors, you can get the food rationed.

But no matter what world you are, there will always be people who lack the spirit of mutual assistance. People who had not even thought about joining a group, or who had committed a mistake and were banished, took the slums of the town where they started as a base and began to engage in banditry.

In towns, also known as "inside the safe circle", the system will automatically protect the players, so players cannot harm each other in any way. It's just that there is no such restriction outside the town. These Fallen gather in gangs and hide in areas outside of town or in labyrinths, attacking prey that is somehow more oily and less dangerous than monsters, i.e., other players.

Robbery is robbery, and they are not going to "kill" - the number of people in this group is increasing little by little, as mentioned earlier, and now it is estimated that the number should be about 1,000 people.

At the end of the list is the fourth group, which is simply the rest of the people.

There are about fifty small groups of players who are not part of the huge syndicate but are aiming for the Raiders, and the number of people is about 500. These groups are called "guilds", and they make good use of the mobility that the military does not have, to carry out real raids and combat enhancement operations.

In addition, there are very few people who choose the profession of a craftsman or a businessman. Although they were only about two or three hundred in size, they also formed their own guilds and practiced skills in order to earn the Kol needed for life.

The less than a hundred people left are the group I belong to, a group known as the "Lone Travelers."

This is an egoistic group that believes that the most effective means of survival is to strengthen it alone, regardless of whether it belongs to any group. Almost all of these people were participants in the closed beta. Using their knowledge to sprint from the beginning of the game, they have leveled up in a short period of time, and after gaining the strength to fight monsters and thieves on their own.

The game called SAO, because there is no "magic", that is, "ultra-long-range attack", so it is easy to deal with multiple monsters alone. With skill, solo players are much more efficient at gaining XP than in a group.

Of course, solo travelers also have their risks. For example, if you form a team, you can ask your teammates to help replenish your health, but if you are alone, you may face death as long as you are attacked by "paralysis". In fact, at the beginning of the game, solo players had one of the highest mortality rates of any player class.

The solo players, who monopolized valuable knowledge and leveled up at a violent rate, had serious disputes with other players. So after the situation in the game is relatively stable, each solo player leaves the first floor and uses the higher towns as their base.

In the Black Iron Palace, where the "Resurrection Room" was originally located, a huge metal tablet that was not available during the closed beta was set up, and the names of all 10,000 players were engraved on its surface. It is also very intimate to draw a simple and easy-to-understand horizontal line on the name of the dead player, and the time and reason for the death are recorded in detail next to it.

The first person to be given the honor of being marked with an elimination line appears three hours after the game starts.

The cause of death is not fighting monsters, but suicide.

This man argues that in terms of the structure of the game, if you can cut the connection to the game system, you should be able to automatically regain consciousness. So he jumped over the high fence at the southern end of the starting town, at the outermost observation deck of Ayn Grant.

No matter how wide your eyes are, you can't see the land below the floating castle of Al Nin Grant, all you can see is the endless sky and the white clouds. As many of the spectators leaned out of the observation deck to watch, the man's figure grew smaller and smaller with a long, long-tailed wail, and finally disappeared into the clouds.

Two minutes later, the man's name was succinctly and mercilessly underlined. The cause of death reads "Falling from a height".

Combat in SAO does require some sense and proficiency. I don't move casually, and relying on the system to assist can be said to be the trick of fighting, that is, the skill is born from the heart, so that you can use the skill well, otherwise it is useless to blindly click on the skill with consciousness.

Commit suicide and fight monsters and be defeated. The names that were brutally crossed out are increasing at a very alarming rate.

When the death toll reached a frightening figure of two thousand a month into the game, all the remaining players were gripped by a dark sense of despair. If the death toll continues at this rate, all 10,000 players will die in less than half a year. To break through the 100 layers is simply a fool's dream.

But – humans are creatures of habit.

Everyone gradually understood the truth of surviving in SAO, and began to tend to attack the dungeon-

Morning light fell, a new day began, Mo Huai got up from the bed, and in the month he came to SAO, in addition to following Asuna to brush copies, Mo Huai is cooking at home, to be honest, Mo Huai's current ingredient proficiency has reached the advanced level, which makes Mo Huai speechless, but after upgrading, Mo Huai's attributes have also been greatly improved.

Demon Messenger: Millennium Gong

Grade: 11

Vitality: 100%, debuff: health.

Energy: 240/240, debuff: full.

Fatigue: 100%, debuff: Energized.

Strength: 350 Agility: 341 Intelligence: 240 Mental Power: 605

Equipment: Penglie Ring, Penglie Gloves

Abilities: Primary Heal, Laurent's Eye, Instantaneous, Filthy Realm, Dead Flame, Dead Enchantment (Unknown)

Turning to look at the sleeping girl on the other bed, Mo Huai showed a hint of a smile, in these days, Asuna's strength has also grown rapidly.

ID: Asuna

Grade: 15

Vitality: 100%, debuff: health.

Fatigue: 100%, debuff: Energized.

Strength: 250 Dexterity: 400 Intelligence: 250 Mental Power: 250

Equipment: Silver Rapier

Skills: Quick Sword Technique, Sword Thrust Technique, Imperial Sword Technique.

However, Mo Huai just laughed for a while, and then turned into a bitter gourd face, because Alice was already lying on her shoulder, kneading the soft flesh on Mo Huai's waist with a jealous face, making Mo Huai miserable.

"Stinky brother! Don't you care about Alice anymore? Alice muttered with a look of jealousy, and her big red eyes glowed red, which obviously meant "If you don't give me an explanation, you will die!" ”

Mo Huai looked helpless, picked up the freshly made lo noodles in his hand, and handed it to Alice: "Alice, go eat first, remember, don't let Asuna find out." ”

The people take food as the sky, this is a good saying, coupled with the continuous improvement of Mohuai's skills, Alice soon threw herself into the dark shadow and tasted the delicious lo mein.

After cooking, he put the meal on the dining table, left a note, put on a black trench coat and was about to walk out of the room, but when he saw Asuna's clumsy sleeping position, he helped her cover the quilt and walked out of the door. Today is the day of the most recalcitrant boss on the first floor, and Mo Huai naturally wants to prepare some teleportation sapphire crystals for Asuna, after all, Asuna's safety is the most important thing.

Boom!

As the door closed, Yasna woke up, and in the lower right of her vision, an envelope was lit up, an email from Diabel, reminding her to attend the Boss Strategy Meeting at 4 p.m. on the stage in Torbana Square, which had been sent at 9 p.m. yesterday.

However, Asuna didn't look closely, but looked at the door thoughtfully, and whispered, "Big wood!" ”

After a month of running-in, Asuna found that she began to like Mo Huai more and more, she didn't know how she had feelings for Mo Huai, maybe she liked his human speech, or she liked his exquisite craftsmanship, or she liked Mo Huai's meticulous care for her, Yasna felt a little ridiculous, she actually fell in love with her own demon

Asuna's shy pillow covered her face, "This...... Is it the legendary favorite ......"