After arriving on the new floor, the things to do are basically the same as the previous two floors, first shopping, changing clothes, supplies, then picking up missions, and finally fighting to level up, and everything will not deviate from their roots, and as long as Kirito is a closed beta player, they will not lose their way forward.

"If you go to the right of this road, you will immediately reach the main block on the third floor, and on the left, you will find a forest, and after passing through the forest, you will reach the next village."

Standing at a fork in the road, Kirito begins to play to his strengths.

"Shall we go straight to the main block, or should we go over here and take on a mission first? This quest involves the main story of the next few floors, and it will not end until the ninth floor. ”

Left or right, Kirito gave a choice, and he himself was inclined to the left, to take on the main quest first.

"Actually, logically speaking, we should go to the main block first to make the transfer door effective, but the current situation is more special, let's not go over, after all, the three boss rewards have been robbed by us, and the glory of making the transfer door effective will be given to them."

Klein complained, now they want to avoid the limelight, so they should not go to the main block to join in the fun.

"Actually, if you want to, you can go."

Although he felt that it might not be necessary, but Klein and their concern for his safety still made Kirito feel very moved, Kirito is not the kind of person who can accept the kindness of others to him with peace of mind, if Klein and they want to enjoy the "glory", he can let them go over and enjoy the "glory" first.

"What do you say?! Kirito, we're companions! Of course, we have to advance and retreat together, what is that little vanity? ”

Klein slapped Kirito dissatisfied, of course they wouldn't leave Kirito here alone for that kind of thing.

"That's it, don't say that, Kirito, we're partners in the battle together, and we all have to advance and retreat together!"

"Wind Forest Volcano" everyone responded to Klein's words,This made Kirito even more moved,This young man who has always been very calm,Finally sensual,Before,He's always been like a "cool light male protagonist",As if he was born without hesitation.,I've always been immersed in the thrill of the game of Raiders.。

"Have you ever regretted it? Regret getting into this game. ”

Kirito wiped his eyes and asked with some emotion.

"Regrets?"

Klein was stunned for a moment, and he scratched his head in some distress.

"Usually you regret it, right?"

Ling Ze glanced at Kirito, not knowing what the meaning of him asking this question was, there shouldn't be anyone who wouldn't regret this kind of thing, right? After all, you're trapped in the game world, and you're at risk of dying at any time.

In the absence of plug-ins, no exclusive systems, and no grandfathers, 99% of the otaku who cross into this kind of world are given for nothing, and it is better to play games at home.

"If I have to say, in the past month or so, although I have been desperately rushing forward all the way in order to strengthen myself, no matter how much I look back on my emotional record, at most there are only two emotions: fear and homesickness, and I have never regretted my choice."

Kirito said his feelings, which made Ling Ze a little surprised, it seems that Kirito this guy really doesn't seem to have much nostalgia in the real world, should he be said to be a 14-year-old rebellious teenager?

"Actually, I've also wondered, am I an abnormal person? Or is there nothing I regret about my current situation? If it's the latter, it's thanks to everyone who has always been by my side. ”

Kirito's sudden distraction caught everyone off guard.

"Don't say that, in fact, everyone is like this, if you always act alone, you will always regret it, it is with everyone's company and mutual encouragement, we can survive in this dangerous world!"

Klein hurriedly stepped forward to appease Kirito, but Kirito was the "Grandpa Kiritoro" after all, and he quickly adjusted himself, and he only occasionally showed a side that was in line with the 14-year-old.

"Let's go! Go to the main quest! ”

Kirito didn't wait for Klein and the others to say anything, he immediately recovered his spirits and led the way towards the forest.

"This kid ......"

Ling Ze smiled, Kirito was not as indifferent as he said, he was just more restrained, the emotional outburst just now was actually the result of being suppressed for a long time, and the young man didn't know how to express his emotions very well.

Everyone followed Kirito all the way forward, and at first they didn't encounter a new monster on the third floor, according to the experience of Kirito's closed beta period, after the floor boss was defeated, the monster's refresh rate would be extremely suppressed in the thirty minutes that the player would effectively transfer the main block door.

This is a very thoughtful design, which avoids the possibility of players who are exhausted in boss battles being wiped out by miscellaneous monsters before entering the gate of the next main block, but this favor is limited to the surrounding towns.

And after Ling Ze and his group walked on the ancient path through the forest for five minutes, they obviously felt that the atmosphere around them had changed, because they were walking outside, and with every step forward, they could feel that the soft and beautiful Fantasy Forest was slowly changing to eerie and terrifying.

"Don't worry, the enemies that appear in this forest are not much different in strength from the guys in the second layer of the maze area, almost all of them are animal or plant-type monsters, so they can't use sword skills, which is an appetizer before the game really starts."

Kirito began to explain, and the sudden emotional outburst just now made him feel a little embarrassed, so his voice was still a little unnatural.

Ling Ze didn't continue to tease him, but nodded very cooperatively, helping the young man to ease his emotions, and he was about to enter a fighting state, they didn't want what happened just now to affect Kirito's performance.

"But one thing to note, all the monsters here have a common mode of action, that is, they will slowly lure us into the depths of the forest during the battle, and if they see the opponent open a gap and desperately use a rush attack, they will often not find the way to come when they win."

The calm reaction of everyone really alleviated Kirito's embarrassment a lot, and he quickly entered the state.

"Wouldn't it? If you look at the map, you can see that the places you have walked are marked, right? How can you not find the way you came? Will this game still get lost? ”

Klein looked incredulous, obviously not quite understanding what Kirito meant by what he said just now.

"Huh?!"

Klein waved his right hand, called out the map window, and then let out a startled "huh", he adjusted the map to a visual state and showed it to everyone around him.

"Is there something wrong with this map? It's so vague that I can't see the way I came. ”

As Klein said, the map he showed at this time, which should have been marked with clear 3D images, was now very faint because of the fog, and no matter how closely he looked, he could not confirm where there was a road, and the map seemed to be useless.

"Is this the fog of war?"

Ling Ze's face was strange, he was quite familiar with this kind of thing, after all, the MOBA games he used to play often were set up like this, and of course he couldn't see it without the fog of war.

"Almost, the official name of the area here is the Misty Forest, in addition to the map is difficult to see clearly, there is often a super dense fog, and it is really easy to get lost, so even in the middle of the battle, in principle, you must not leave this road too far from the team members, this must be noted, otherwise it is easy to get separated."

Kirito nodded, this area is equivalent to a layer of "fog of war", and it is also a "fog of war" with no friendly vision, so it is necessary to hold a good group.

As everyone spoke, the fog had quietly risen, and the view in the forest immediately began to become extremely invisible.

"This is also outrageous, if it is a team of more than twenty people, I am afraid that no one at the end of the team will be able to see where the team leader is."

Klein opened his mouth to complain, the low visibility of this dense fog was terrifying.

"Attention, there's a monster coming."

Ling Ze didn't take care of Klein, but exerted his ability to "seek the enemy", which suddenly gave him a feeling of doing his old job, at the beginning he seemed to be a professional "enemy", but in this SAO game, he relied on the "enemy-seeking skill".

Everyone was alert, and after a few steps of slow progress, they saw what Ling Ze called "enemy".

It was a tree, a slender dead tree, with a pale yellow trunk about fifteen centimeters in diameter and about two meters high, which could be said to be much smaller than the ancient trees around it.

In the two hollows of the trees side by side, a blue and white phosphorescent light like eyes appeared, and the branches that stretched out to the left and right shook like slender hooks.

After a few seconds of staring at each other at the head of Jerome and the dead tree, the root on the right side of the dead tree finally took a step forward from the ground with a grinding sound, followed by the root on the left, and the shaky and unsteady pace had turned into a menacing dash in the blink of an eye.

The third hole opened like a mouth, and from within it came a roar of "oh oh oh", a plant-type monster.

"Plant-type monster dryad seedling, it has several special abilities, one of which is that when it grows on the ground and does not move, the player's enemy-seeking skill cannot detect it."

Kirito glanced at Brother Ling Ze in surprise, he was a little puzzled, how did Brother Ling Ze discover this "Dryad Seedling" in advance?

"Intuition."

Ling Ze's answer was very mysterious, which made Kirito can't help but leave a drop of cold sweat, and he didn't know whether to believe it or not.

A minute later, the branches on the left and right were cut off, and the "Dryad Sapling" that was pierced by Asuna's "Wind Flower Sword +5" in the mouth exploded while letting out a sad roar, and this monster was really not difficult to solve as Kirito said, and it was not much different from the level of the monster on the second layer.

After the battle was over, Ling Ze and the others immediately checked whether there were any fewer people, not to reduce the number of people in the battle, but to see if anyone rushed into the fog, and the result showed that everyone was paying attention.

"I feel a little guilty."

Asuna put her sword into her sheath and suddenly sighed.

"What's the guilt ......?"

Ling Ze's face was inexplicable, it's okay to kill a tree demon with a sense of guilt, this is not the time to kill a monster in the form of a murderer, and if you have to say it, kobolds and minotaurs are a little more like intelligent creatures than this tree demon, right? Why do you suddenly feel guilty at this time?

"Because that dryad just now is a seedling, which means that it will grow up later, so cutting it down is not environmentally friendly at all, is it? Small trees don't usually cut down, do they? ”

Asuna said with a serious face, which made everyone laugh, obviously Asuna was just joking, and this girl was becoming more and more integrated into the group.

"If you've ever seen that guy grow up to be an old dryad, you'll feel like you have to kill it while it's a seedling."

Kirito smiled wryly and shook his head in response to Asuna, "Elderly Dryad" and "Dryad Seedling" are not the same difficulty at all.

Everyone laughed and laughed as they continued along the ancient path in the forest, and soon Kirito began to slow down.

"It should be around here."

Kirito looked around cautiously, but he also reminded his companions to pay attention to the sounds around them.

"What are we going to hear?"

Asuna asked, her ears pricked up, but she didn't hear any special sounds, in fact, she didn't even know what to listen to.

However, she did find some things that she didn't usually notice, and there were actually all kinds of environmental noises in this imaginary world, such as the sound of the wind, the rubbing of leaves, the footsteps of creatures in the background, the chirping of birds, etc., which can be said to be very real.

"Don't tell me it's the sound of a leaf falling."

Asuna waved her small fist to warn Kirito.

"Uh... Don't worry, it's not a natural sound, it's a metallic sound, specifically, the sound of swords colliding with swords, because the NPC spawn location at the beginning is not fixed, I can only be sure that they are in this area, so we need to find their location ourselves. ”

Kirito wiped a cold sweat and quickly explained to everyone.

"Found it, follow me."

As soon as his words fell, Ling Ze had already taken a step, and everyone was stunned for a moment, and then quickly followed the pace.

The source of the sound was from the southwest, and after walking a few steps, Kirito and they also heard a fairly clear sound of weapons colliding, located deep in the forest to the southwest.

"Isn't it okay to go deep into the forest? Won't you get lost? ”

Before leaving the ancient path and going deep into the forest, Klein asked worriedly, they had all followed the ancient forest path before.

"Don't worry, as long as we take the task smoothly, we can get back on the road, and this mission should not fail for us."

Kirito's answer was very firm, so everyone was relieved.