"Mamelo is just a small village, not as well supplied as Urubas, and there are no professional NPCs such as blacksmiths, and even weapon maintenance and repair can't be carried out, so you must be prepared before you go."

Early the next morning, Ling Ze and they gathered on time, as I said before, SAO has a very intimate alarm clock function, there is no need to worry about oversleeping in this medieval world, as long as the time is set, the system will wake you up on time through "soothing" music.

It's half past six in the morning, which is a relatively early hour, so the sky is only cloudy, and even the sun hasn't fully climbed the horizon.

The winter day in December is a short day and a long night, the sun rises at about 7 o'clock, and the sun sets at about 5 o'clock, although they are on a floating island, but the change of seasons, the rise and fall of the moon are no different from reality.

In fact, for Klein and them, it is a very painful thing to get up early and be greedy like a social animal when they come to another world, but with Ling Ze and Kirito, two leveling madmen, they are really embarrassed to hold back.

Especially after Asuna joined, even a girl who played a game for the first time worked so hard, and they didn't dare to slack off.

And in SAO, the hard work of fighting monsters and leveling up,At least you can get very fast positive feedback,Every time you kill a monster,You can immediately see the harvest,See your own growth,This is happier than being a social animal in the real world,So they are slowly getting used to it.。

Of course, leaving the "safe zone" at night is definitely much more dangerous than during the day, and it is not a good choice for most players, but for Ling Ze and Kirito, the SAO world at night is not much dangerous.

As long as you overcome, or get used to the fear of the dark, then leveling up at night will definitely be twice the result with half the effort, because there will never be anything like someone robbing monsters at night.

If I have to say, SAO players now return from the practice area to the "safe zone" to rest at around seven o'clock, which is actually very abnormal in the game.

Because in most games, seven o'clock is the time when the game officially starts to be lively, usually the number of people on the server will start to increase rapidly during this time period, and it will reach a peak at about nine o'clock, and some real "strong people" will even continue to attack until the next morning.

And Kirito as a student receiving compulsory education,Usually no matter how late it is, it's about two o'clock in the morning.,He's always envious of those guys who think that two o'clock is the beginning of the night.,Being able to keep crisscrossing the practice ground at night.,Slowly widen the gap with other players.,It's just like cheating.。

So in the current situation where there is no way to go to school if you want to, let alone practice until two o'clock in the morning, even if you want to stay in the practice field until five or eight o'clock, it doesn't matter to Kirito, as long as you can take a break and keep your mind focused, then he feels that he can stay in the practice field all the time and not go out.

Of course, he definitely can't do this kind of thing, after all, he is still a person, and people need to rest, which is also the reason why as a leveling madman, he will be pulled apart by Ling Ze, after all, Ling Ze is a real "hanger".

"Actually, I think we can be less anxious, I was thinking about that blacksmith Nezha last night, I don't know why, the more I think about it, the more I feel that something is wrong with that guy, I always feel that something is wrong, but I can't think of what is wrong."

Kirito scratched his head, he said his thoughts with a confused expression, he had been holding this question all night, and now he had reached the point where he didn't vomit unpleasantly.

"It's a success rate, isn't it?"

Klein answered, and he instantly understood what Kirito was struggling with, obviously everyone was thinking about yesterday's events, after all, it was really too strange.

"Yes."

Kirito nodded, his face very serious, because he had already thought of some possibilities last night.

"To be honest, his success rate is too abnormal, even the NPC blacksmith in the blacksmith shop shouldn't be of this level, if you really want to say unlucky, it's a bit too coincidental, right?"

From the hammer used by Nezhhar, it can be seen that the success rate of that guy's enhancement is not low, although they don't have a way to test the specific value from the outside, but the actual value will definitely be higher than that of the NPC blacksmith.

Four enhancement failures in a row, or even "weapon destruction", is almost like winning the top prize of the lottery.

"But what if he only has to reinforce failure under certain conditions? Probably for some reason, to put it bluntly, there was some kind of malicious-based trick that he deliberately made the reinforcement fail. ”

Kirito spoke his mind very boldly, without any suspicion, he didn't seem to be worried that his speculations would be regarded as "villain's heart" by Ling Ze.

"What about the evidence? The reason? What about the benefits? ”

Ling Ze concisely asked three questions, and these three questions directly pointed to the missing points of Kirito's speculation, and these were the key to the validity of this speculation.

"No, no, even if it was a ruse, I couldn't find any evidence, and he put all the reinforcement materials into the furnace in front of our eyes, then put the sword into the furnace to heat it, and then moved it to the anvil and struck it with a hammer, in exactly the same order as in the guide, without any strange movements.

And I'm also wondering, what good can he do if he deliberately destroys a particular player's sword, or reduces the performance of the sword? ”

Kirito scratched his head vigorously, these questions had been swirling and tangled in his mind, and he couldn't figure it out at all.

"If Nezha is really using some means to deliberately reduce the strength of a particular player's weapon, or deliberately destroy it, then he must have done it based on the will of some people, and he must have been just the perpetrator."

Klein pointed out the crux of the problem, Nezha is a small blacksmith, and if there is no one to instruct and lure him, then he has no reason to do these things at all.

"Think about it carefully, not long ago, Diabel, the knight who led the raider group, went to great lengths to buy my Sword of Love Sword Tempering +6 through the Tooth King and Argo, wanting to weaken my strength so that I would not be able to win the final blow reward of the Demon King."

Kirito "recalls the old story", and they have received this information related to them for free from Argo before, as one of the thanks for saving their lives.

However, looking at Nezhha's appearance, you can know that he is not the front-line strategy group at all, so it must have nothing to do with the final blow reward of the floor demon king, even if he weakens and destroys the sword of the "sword-wielding brother" Liufior and Asuna, there is no specific benefit or benefit for him.

And if someone instructed him, it would be unreasonable, because he couldn't be sure who would strengthen it, and his mission goal might not be looking for him at all.

"So everything was purely accidental?"

When things get to this point, it's very humane and knotted, and they can't push it any further.

"Of course not, that guy's too big a problem."

At this moment, Ling Ze, who had been listening silently, spoke, which made Kirito, Asuna, and Klein all startled, and the confusion in their eyes instantly became clear, and the eyes of several people were all focused on Ling Ze.

"Here, Asuna, +4 for your Wind Sword."

Under the stunned gaze of everyone, Ling Ze directly took out a familiar thin sword from the inventory and Asuna took it, this is undoubtedly her one, the sword that should have been shattered into slag! It was returned to her hands in perfect condition!

"It's... What the hell is going on?! ”

Klein's mouth was wide open, and he pointed to the "Wind Flower Sword +4" in Asuna's hand, which was already a bit of a language system disorder, and he couldn't organize an effective question at all.

"Yesterday when he was strengthening his weapon, I felt that something was wrong, so I went to the guy again at night, and then unmasked him, let him reveal his true colors, and also pulled out several of his companions, this sword is what I asked him to give me, and that's it, very simple and straightforward."

Ling Ze explained simply, but this obviously couldn't explain the reason why the "Wind Flower Sword +4" was still intact.

After all, this rapier was shattered by the ones they watched together yesterday, so how could it be as if it had never been strengthened today?

"You've all been deceived by him."

Ling Ze shook his head, that little blacksmith is not simple, in front of nine people, he ended up playing a game of stealing beams and changing pillars, but if you have to say it, "Brother Swinging Sword" is the worst one, Nezha played in front of him at least four times, from "+4" to "+3", from "+3" to "+2", from "+2" to +1", from "plus" +1" to "+0" without the opportunity to strengthen, four times, he didn't even find out.

"I thought of it!"

Kirito slapped him violently, obviously his rich knowledge and experience in the game, and he had an unusual effect.

"At first, I thought he was trying to make a profit by destroying a specific player's weapon, but it doesn't seem to be the case, he's the first player blacksmith to appear in Ayn Grant, and he's also the first enhanced fraudster."

Kirito's face was very serious, mixed with some anger, he proposed a new term, strengthening fraudster, can also be called attribute fraudster, forging fraudster, refining fraudster, etc., depending on the game, the title will also change, this is a classical fraud method that has been handed down since the emergence of MMORPG, and now it has finally appeared in SAO.

This kind of scam is actually quite simple, you only need to hang up a sign, show your identity as a player blacksmith, and then take a high-priced rare weapon from the client, and take possession of the equipment by disguising it as "the weapon disappeared due to a failed enhancement".

Even some games that do not have "weapon destruction" in the failure penalty can be disguised as "enhancement failure", and then return the "+ value" to the client with a lower "+ value", just like the situation encountered by the "sword wielding brother" at the beginning.

Of course, it is very difficult to do this in SAO, because SAO is not like the previous non-stealth game played on the screen, when the weapon is handed to the player blacksmith, the weapon will completely disappear from the player's interface, and all the homework will end in the opponent's screen, and there is no way to detect the fraud, and if something happens, you can only admit it.

But in SAO, they are watching the whole process.

"To be honest, I still don't know what his modus operandi is, but before the Wind Flower Sword disappeared from the anvil, it must have been replaced with other props of the same kind."

Kirito frowned, now it was certain that there was indeed something wrong with that Nezhha, but how exactly did he do it?

"I didn't look away from him after I handed him the sword, and the blacksmith held my sword with his left hand, and then operated the stove and hammer with only his right hand, and in that case it was impossible to open the window and put my sword in the inventory and take out a fake instead."

Asuna was also puzzled, they were now very curious about Nezhha's modus operandi, how did he change his weapon in front of so many of them? It's just playing tricks on them.

"Are you sure you really haven't looked away for a moment?"

Ling Ze gave a hint, and this made Kirito seem to think of something, and he suddenly showed a look of sudden realization.

"Hmm...... It was only for a short time, but I did take my eyes off the sword at some point, and when Nezha put the reinforcement materials into the furnace, the furnace began to glow blue, and my eyes were drawn to the burning materials, but it was only two seconds at most. ”

When Kirito said this, everyone looked as if it was indeed like this, and it was clear that in that very brief moment, their attention was attracted.

"Definitely! I was also fascinated at the time, I guess everyone was looking at the stove at that time, right? The enhancement material burns, melts, and then changes to different colors according to the attributes of the enhancement, and this should be the most noticeable climax of the enhancement, if that moment is used as a trick in magic......"

Klein made a look that was indeed like this, as if he had found the answer, after all, their eyes had only left the "Wind Flower Sword" in those short two or three seconds, and Nezha could only do so in those two or three seconds.

"That's right, that guy is actually a talent, he learned the quick switch of weapon skill derivative modules in advance, it's really condescending to use it in this kind of place."

Ling Ze nodded and gave an answer, it was at that moment that Nezha used the "Quick Switch" to complete the fraud.