In fact, after descending the mountain and coming to the brand-new practice area on the second floor, Ling Ze and the others had already made a preliminary estimate of the time it would take to open the second layer.

After all, there is Kirito as a closed beta player.,After confirming that the monsters in the second layer have basically not changed.,Kirito has already understood.,The strength of the boss guarding the level will definitely not change much.,At most, it's like the first layer.,Made some "small、Insignificant" changes,So it's not too difficult for players.。

"This monster is really tenacious!"

Klein retracted his knife and sighed, the six-person group of "Wind Forest Volcano" had just killed three giant bulls in groups, and they didn't suffer much damage, and the difficulty of dealing with them could only be said to be average, and the group of two and two successfully killed them without much effort.

The official name of this giant bull is "Trembling Bull", which belongs to the second layer of specialty, and the reason why it is said to be a specialty is naturally because only the second layer has this kind of cow, and for players who are good at cooking, the meat of "Shivering Bull" is a very common cooking ingredient.

This kind of huge bull-shaped monster with a height of two and a half meters just to the shoulders, in addition to the high defense and high attack power seen on the outside, there is also agility that does not match the huge body, and the most difficult thing about it is that the super long target lock duration and distance, once targeted by this monster, it is basically a never-ending battle.

Unless the targeted player runs to the "town safety zone" in one go, they will have to fight the "shivering bull" to the death.

Ling Ze and the others did not stay here for long, but left directly and rushed to the second main block "Urubas".

Urubas, the main district on the second floor of Al Aingrant, is a city that has been hollowed out of a 300-meter-diameter round table-shaped mountain range, leaving only the outer parts, and it is truly a city built by hollowing out a mountain.

When everyone walked into the street from the south gate of Urubas, the words "safe zone" immediately appeared in their eyes, and their ears also heard the slow-paced street BGM.

Unlike the street districts on the first floor, which are dominated by stringed instruments, the main theme here is the oboe with a sense of melancholy, and the NPCs who come and go on the street have also made some subtle changes in the costume design, making it obvious that they have arrived on a new floor.

Walking forward through the gate, everyone looked around wantonly, and sure enough, they didn't see any green buoys that showed players, I have to say, the feeling at this moment is very cool, there are only nine of them in the entire second floor, and this situation can last at least more than an hour, as long as they don't make the "transfer door" effective.

With such a long period of exclusive time, you should be able to solve two or three missions that would normally require you to compete with people for monsters.

If you're a selfish solo player here, this is certainly a top priority.

But Ling Ze and the others obviously wouldn't do this kind of thing that would make everyone angry, after all, they had already promised Diabel to make the "transfer door" effective, and now maybe there were hundreds of players waiting to enter the second layer.

Therefore, Ling Ze and the others did not delay much, and continued to move north directly from the central avenue of Urubas, and after climbing the wide staircase and coming to a square, everyone walked to a conspicuous "gate" set in the center.

Although it is called a "gate", it is actually an arch made of stones, so there are no door panels or fences, and you can go directly to the back through it.

However, when you look closer, you can see that the space in the center of the arch is shaking slightly, and it looks like a thin film of water is enveloping it.

"Touching that layer of water activates it."

Kirito opened his mouth and answered everyone's doubts, Klein was a little eager to try, and after receiving everyone's encouragement, he slowly stretched out his right hand towards the shaking transparent tulle, and the fingertips wrapped in leather gloves touched the vertically unfolded water, and the vivid blue light began to spill out and expand rapidly, obscuring everyone's vision.

The blue light vibrates in concentric circles and spreads out towards the arch about five meters wide, and when it fills the entire space, the transfer door becomes effective, which is called "town development".

At this point, the same phenomenon should have happened to the arches in the towns on the first floor, so that the first and second floors will be unobstructed, and of course, the other towns on the second floor will have to be activated separately to be connected.

Ling Ze led Kirito and them back, and at this time, a more intense light emitted from the inside of the arch, and the NPC orchestra at the corner of the square also began to play the BGM of "Town Pioneer Horn".

"There should be a lot of players coming, after all, it is a well-known thing for the Raiders group to set out to defeat the first layer of bosses."

Kirito's little reluctant to stay here anymore because he would be very surprised to see players when they reached the second floor through the "transfer door", and he didn't want to be the center of attention in the player group, after all, a month ago, he was a second-year junior high school game otaku with almost zero "human ability".

"Then we'll find a place to hide."

Ling Ze smiled, he actually had a similar idea, there was no need to be in the limelight, and this was also approved by Asuna.

However, Klein and the six members of "Wind Forest Volcano" are more inclined to stay, after all, as the heroes of the boss destruction, it is a natural right to accept the cheers of the players.

"The six of you stay, and the three of us find a place to hide."

This kind of thing naturally doesn't need to be acted in unison, after all, this is a personal choice, and they can't ask Klein and the "Wind Forest Volcano" to give up their own glory.

With Kirito and Asuna, Ling Ze chose a tall building on the east side of the square, which looked like a "church", and the three of them quickly went to the top, where they could see everything in the square without obstacles.

As the "Transfer Door" was activated, countless players formed a colorful rush, spilling out from the blue light arch, filling the area around the "Transfer Gate" in an instant, and the scene was like a flood.

Standing in the middle of the plaza on the second floor, the players looked left and right, some people with parchment in their hands, and immediately ran out after confirming the direction, and some people raised their fists and shouted, "Great! It's finally time to reach the second floor! ”

It stands to reason that the "Raiders Group" that defeated the BOSS at this time should be lined up in front of the "Transfer Gate", waiting for the enthusiastic applause and praise of the players who accept the transfer from the lower level, but this time the "Wind Forest Volcano" six-person group is obviously a little inconspicuous, and it was overwhelmed by the crowd in the blink of an eye.

They were surrounded by the first players to rush in, and only then did they begin to be noticed by the rest of the players.

The six-member group of "Wind Forest Volcano", which was noticed, instantly became the absolute center of the festival atmosphere on the transfer gate square.

Soon, though, a female player jumped out of the transfer door to catch Kirito's attention, and the familiar figure rushed straight down the street to the west.

If that's the case, it looks like the player might be in a hurry to find a weapon or quest NPC, but then two male players rush out, and they look around and see the figure of the female player rushing away, and immediately rush in the same direction, which is an abnormal picture no matter how you look at it.

"It's Argo, someone is chasing her."

Kirito took the initiative to speak, although this is a safe zone, and they don't usually bother with such idle things.

But the person being chased was their acquaintance after all, and of course Kirito would not have been left unseen, and the identity of that person could be known from the golden curls and dull-colored leather equipment.

"What's the situation?"

Ling Ze naturally noticed the unusual chase, because both the fleeing and chasing sides had very fast speed, at least not comparable to ordinary players.

"I don't know, let's go and see, those two men can't even get rid of Argo who is trying his best to improve his agility, and it doesn't look like a simple character, although I haven't seen them in today's strategy group, but the level should be quite high, right, it seems to have bad intentions."

Kirito was a little worried, his relationship with Argo was indeed not bad, and the other party's intelligence was also their main source of intelligence.

The most important thing is that Argo left a really good impression on them, she obviously didn't make any mistakes, and just now she sent a message to apologize for the intelligence problem.

But she has clearly marked the source of information as "closed beta period", and she does not rule out the possibility of changes in the open beta, and she is obviously not to blame for this problem.

"Let's go, let's take a look."

Ling Ze obviously also received Argo's apology, and there was a special thanks, Argo, who had already learned the truth of the incident from the mouth of the "strategy group" who went back, naturally understood that it was thanks to Ling Ze's presence that there were no casualties.

"The plains west of Urubas are dangerous areas where many trembling bulls roam, and it is dangerous to run this way, it seems that Argo is really embarrassed by those two guys, otherwise she would definitely not choose to run to this kind of place."

Following the three people in front of them all the way, Ling Ze, Kirito, and Asuna ran out of Urubas, and the state of the three people in front of them can basically be determined, two people are chasing one person and one is on the run.

After passing through a grassland, followed by the wasteland, this is the danger area of the second layer, the level of the "Trembling Bull" has increased, it is not as easy to deal with as it was at the beginning, of course it is nothing to Ling Ze and the others, but it is quite a threat to ordinary players.

Fortunately, Argo did not go any further with the two pursuers, and they stopped deep in the valley between the two small rocky mountains, as if to begin negotiations.

"Haven't you said it many times?! This information is not sold even if it is not sold! ”

The first thing that came was the voice with a bewitching nasal voice at the end of the voice, which obviously came from Argo, such a distinctive voice, Ling Ze and Kirito would not hear it wrong, but at this time it sounded more angry than usual.

Then came a male voice that seemed to be angry.

"You don't plan to monopolize the information, but you also don't plan to make it public, so that the next generation will think that you just want to take the opportunity to increase the value of the information!"

Apparently they were arguing over a piece of intelligence, but this was normal, after all, Argo was an intelligence monger, and if something happened to her, it must have been because of intelligence.

"Down?"

Such a self-title, which makes Kirito and Asuna look weird, is obviously a relatively rare way of calling oneself today.

Ling Ze and the others did not approach rashly, but decided to listen to what was going on first, anyway, it seemed that they would not be able to fight for a while, Argo was obviously proficient in the "art of talking", which was the basic ability of being an "intelligence peddler".

The three of them climbed the rock wall next to the valley to see the situation, there are a lot of terrain in SAO that cannot be invaded at first glance, but with a little more effort and effort, you can basically find a way to climb or climb up and down, this is the truth of this game.

Kirito had said before that his greatest wish was to one day try to see if he could climb from the outer wall of the floating castle to the next floor, and it was unlikely that he would be able to climb to the next floor, but it seemed that he could still try to climb to the next floor.

After climbing the mountain wall, they soon found a small flat surface in the shape of a platform, and by this time the sound of the two sides arguing was almost coming from directly below them.

"It's not a question of price at all! I've told you all, right?! I don't want to be resented by you for selling information! ”

Argo tried to explain, but the two on the other side apparently didn't want to listen, or rather didn't understand what she meant.

"Why do the inferior people resent you because of this, as long as you are willing to sell the information related to the mission hidden in this layer to obtain special skills, the inferior people are willing to pay any amount, and they will thank you very much!"

The two pursuers were completely incomprehensible to Argo's words, their purpose was to obtain information on "special skills", how could they resent Argo because of this?

"There are hidden skills on this floor?!"

Kirito whispered in surprise, obviously this is something he doesn't know, no, it should be said that this is something that other closed beta players don't know about except for Argo.

The so-called "special skills" are "hidden skills" that only appear after meeting special conditions or completing special tasks.

During the closed beta period, players only discovered one "special skill", which is the "meditation" skill, which increases the speed of HP recovery and increases the chance of destroying ailments through concentrated movements.

But because the performance is quite subtle and the action is quite ugly, almost no one wants to learn.

However, Kirito can be sure that Argo and the two mysterious men who claimed to be below were not discussing the skill "meditation", because the NPCs who taught it only appeared in the sixth layer at the top.

In other words, Argo has a mission on the second level that can lift the seal of "special skills", and the reason why the men who claim to be below are chasing Argo is to let Argo sell them information about the mission.