5:30 p.m., Start Town, Lemon & Salt Bar.

When Wang Shui entered the bar, he didn't expect it to be so lively inside.

Now that it's just getting dark, many players who have the courage to go out and farm the next day are back in town and head to the bar to relax their tired bodies and minds.

Cigarettes and alcohol are cheap and effective ways for adults to decompress, but there don't seem to be cigarettes in SAO.

It didn't take much time for Wang Shui to spot the small figure in front of the bar.

Her curly blond hair was faintly visible on her face, and the tan cloak almost completely covered her body, leaving only a smiling face.

Wang Shui walked to her side in two steps and said straight to the point:

"Important information."

“wow~wow！”

Hearing the words "important information", Argo, an intelligence dealer known as "rat", jumped directly from the wooden high chair.

"This little brother, what kind of information do you want to sell, there are quiet seats behind the bar......"

"It's urgent, send a message to everyone first, all the guys you can contact who are desperately leveling up! Tell them not to use the three free attribute points they get by leveling up! ”

Aqua regia's lowered voice was a little hoarse, and although the effect of the destruction of the upper part of the throat had disappeared, it was still a little tingling.

Argo was stunned for a moment, then looked at Wang Shui's serious expression, and opened the email system without much hesitation.

After all, there is nothing to lose by just keeping the points first.

"Well, okay, it's been sent out in groups, do you need covert communication of information?"

The more serious the communication, the more interesting the peculiar nasal voice of the mouse Argo.

"No, I hope this information can be disclosed through you, I learned about it from the NPC three minutes ago......"

Wang Shui briefly described the things that can be exercised in all four dimensions, and the impact of freedom attributes on wearing high-end equipment.

It can be said that before encountering a training bottleneck, every attribute point invested is an irreparable loss.

The little face of the mouse Argo, who was always smiling, also became serious, and she was keenly aware of the importance of this information, and asked seriously:

"Can the authenticity of the information be guaranteed?"

"I can take you to the NPC who told me the news, although I haven't obtained the attribute through exercise, but the probability of success will not be low, Argo, don't you notice, the NPC after the official operation, the high level of intelligence is scary."

Argo nodded with deep sympathy, opened the mail system again, and wrote a lot of words very seriously, only after sending it in a group that he breathed a sigh of relief.

"Huh~ I've told them seriously, and the news is also spreading through them to other people who rush to the level, but this is not enough, it seems that the strategy manual is going to be put on the shelves in advance."

"Is there a guidebook on the third day? The official operation environment is much worse than the internal test, have you collected enough information? ”

Argo jumped on the high chair, leaned on the bar with some weakness, and said:

"You still know a lot.,Actually, the strategy information is very limited.,Only a few people have verified a small number of tasks.,Fortunately, the monster attributes in the first layer of the field have basically not changed.,These are also very important information.,And your intelligence is worth releasing in advance.,Oh,I haven't thanked you yet, little brother, for your ......"

Wang Shui directly sent a friend to ask for it.

"It's refreshing enough, huh, half a book from heaven? It's such a strange Chinese character name.,Today it's really thanks to half of the little brother you.,If the loss is too big.,It's hard to imagine what those game maniacs will do.。 ”

Wang Shui helplessly supported his forehead: "Please call me "Book of Heaven", the front is a measure word, not a surname!" You have to thank yourself for being in the same starting town as me, otherwise I wouldn't be able to go to the other five towns to find you. ”

"Yes, yes, it's really a rare fate, so Brother Tianshu, how much Ke'er do you plan to collect for this information?"

Wang Shui was a little surprised:

"A guy like you would take the initiative to pay!"

"Wow, how can you say that a girl, honest management is the purpose of this store, rest assured that I will recover the cost from the elite hamsters (liver emperors)."

Still, Wang Shui could feel Argo's gratitude.

"Then, let's charge 100,000 köll."

"Ten...... 100,000 Köll! You're not an ordinary paranoia anymore, after the monster drop modification, even the front-line player, the current deposit will not exceed five thousand, right?! ”

Drop modified?!

"What's the deal with drop modifications?" Wang Shui questioned.

"Huh? Now that you know my existence, you can find me directly in the tavern, and Brother Tianshu is also a test player, right? Didn't you notice that the amount of monsters dropping Koll was ninety percent less? ”

"Well, you're mistaken, I'm not a player in the closed beta."

And he hasn't killed a single monster yet.

"Isn't it?! So how did you know about me? ”

"Argo of the "Mouse", your name is also mentioned in many posts on the strategy forum, of course, the content is not very friendly."

"Ah, ha, haha, in this way, I myself have been looking at the strategy in a targeted manner, and I haven't noticed it."

The two exchanged awkward but polite smiles.

"Because of the drop modification, the total amount of Kele that players have accumulated so far is not much, and many of the materials that were directly lost during the closed beta will now be honestly brought back to the town to be sold." Argo spread his hands, so described.

"Is the reduction of output, a low-level means of extending the life of the game, to cope with the huge player base?"

Wang Shui muttered to himself, not asking Argo questions.

"This kind of thing can't be changed, for the important information of the little brother of Tianshu, the reward is indispensable, well, now I can give 2000 k'er, can the little brother accept it?"

Wang Shui, who was penniless, nodded, and then immediately received a trade request.

After receiving 2000 kol, at least the recent diet has been settled.

"Okay, that's the end of the deal, the NPC I got the information on is the [One-handed Straight Sword] skill mentor in the back street, you can go to him to confirm, the other party thinks this kind of thing is common sense, and he shouldn't hide it. Then goodbye, I'm going to level up. ”

"Night fight? The danger will increase a lot, anyway, does the little brother of Tianshu already need to find a sword skill mentor, your [one-handed straight sword] skill reached 50 proficiency on the second day? ”

"If you want to know this, 500 kol."

Argo, who was robbed of his iconic lines, was stunned at first, and then a little puffed up, turning from a mouse to a hamster.

Wang Shui waved his hand directly and left.

Night fights? Farming "Manic Boar" under the lights near the town shouldn't be considered a night fight.

Argo grossly overestimated the rank of Wang Shui, thinking that he would go to a distant village to do a mission.

Returning to the grassland north of the Beginning Town, the lights on the city wall illuminated a large field area, which was not very bright, but fortunately it was empty enough.

The scarlet-eyed, blue-furred boar is slightly smaller than the real-life boar.

The only skill is to rush.,HP is around 300.,It will float according to the size and level (1~3 levels).,It's a monster for new players in this world.。

However, the attack power is not low.

Wang Shui locked on to the nearest one with his gaze, because the target was a non-active monster, Wang Shui slowly moved to a place three or four meters away from the boar's back, recalling the distance of his charge.

Short body, flat sword.

On the shadowy plain, a thin blue light suddenly flashed.

The manic boar was knocked to the ground and screamed in pain, and Wang Shui kicked the boar in the back that was too close, and then raised his sword and slashed down.

Although the game world has been much more realistic, it is not overly realistic in fighting monsters.

The long wound cut by the [Little Sword] shows a red grid-like effect, and there is no blood spatting.

The boar's head burst out [-62!] ], "-4", "-11".

The first number is larger and more conspicuous, and the font is also red with gold, which is a special effect for critical hits.

Sword skill damage plus critical strike bonus, playing a large damage value.

Wang Shui wanted to make up for the damage all the time, but the boar hurriedly stood up and ran forward a few steps quickly, and then quickly turned to face him and assumed a charging posture.

In reality, if you face a boar that is not small, many people will probably have weak legs.

Wang Shui is different, he has seen the battlefield where mecha hug each other, and he has also been kidnapped by large arms companies to do coolies, he has seen a lot!

So his legs weren't particularly soft.

The boar rushed over at a normal running speed, and Wang Shui took a step back a little embarrassed before he remembered to hide to the side.

Facing the boar head-on is even more pressure than fighting against the skill mentor Seventh Brother.

Because he knew that the seventh brother would not kill him, and he knew that he would be beaten at most. And Brother Qi shot too fast, he didn't have time to be scared at all.

As his heart beat wildly, Wang Shui's body began to become lighter and lighter.

The body of this virtual game character very realistically shows the condition of the body under the influence of adrenaline, and it is reasonable that Wang Shui does not believe that Kayaba Jinghiko has such technical ability, and eighty percent of it is a change under the influence of alienation labels.

In the excitement, Wang Shui directly approached the boar in two steps, slashed down with a sword, and then quickly circled to the side.

「-13」

Without gracefully adjusting the posture of the one-handed sword, Wang Shui stopped standing firmly, and tried his best to exert his strength in a standard manner, concentrating his spirit and swinging the blade.

【-81！ 】

One-handed straight sword basic sword skill: [Diagonal Slash], very lucky to also hit a critical hit.

The boar immediately turned around and lifted the top after eating the pain, and the stubby fangs slashed over the calf of the king water, and a small bright red patch instantly appeared on the coarse cloth trouser leg.

The red grid-like special effect that is the same as the monster's injury, the pain is not as obvious as Wang Shui imagined, at least it is much lighter than when Seventh Brother beat him.

Although there was no bloodshed, the wounds on his body appeared in the field of vision, and Wang Shui still had a feeling of emptiness that something had been lost from his body.

It's like seeing someone else's open, bleeding wound and sending a chill down your spine and feeling like you're bleeding too.

Emptiness, disgusting.

Wang Shui gritted his teeth and quickened his pace, and began to run around the manic boar at high speed, the sword in his hand kept slashing, and a large number of single-digit damage densely appeared.

In the end, of course, the boar fell to the ground and dissipated upwards in the form of blue glass shards.

A system pop-up window appeared in front of Wang Shui, who was short of breath and sat on the ground, and the first line of purple text was 50 experience points, which made his experience bar move a little.

And Wang Shui didn't care about the harvest, and his eyes were a little dull.

Sure enough, I'm not the decisive protagonist of the infinite text.

Wang Shui also doesn't remember how many times this is the first time he has confirmed his ordinariness, and he used to have some delusions such as "maybe I'm just a late bloomer".

Only 3 of K's gold drops made Wang Shui confirm that he had only killed a slime-like newbie monster in other games, rather than defeating the first maze boss.

Afraid? No, the panic after the battle disappeared along with the lightness of the adrenaline.

Glad? No, there is nothing fulfilling about a victory of this magnitude.

On the contrary, the embarrassing process made him a little dazed.

Wang Shui didn't question himself anymore, didn't ask himself why he wasn't born strong.

When there is no feedback on some things, Wang Shui is the kind of person who will give up and will not stay in a certain negative emotion all the time.

He just stood up silently, and then his whole body was covered with the brilliance of sword skills, and he rushed to the next monster.

……

……

The sunlight was blocked by the second layer of "Ayn Grant", and only a ray of light leaked diagonally.

It was already past nine o'clock in the morning, and the transition zone between the grassland and the dense forest was still drowsy.

The little campfire shook vigorously, its weak tongue of fire licking through the flesh that pierced the branches, and a drop of melted fat made a pleasant sizzling sound on the wood.

Aqua regia was as listless as his flames, and he munched on the unsalted roast with a blank face and tears.

SAO's realism enhanced by the Infinite World Key is madly showing itself in this moment.

The slightly charred but delicious-looking roast meat was releasing a wild fishy flesh in Aqua regia's mouth, and it was a good thing that he couldn't vomit, just like he didn't have to go to the toilet.

Don't get me wrong, Wang Shui wasn't forced to forage in the wild like a chivalrous warrior after a whole night of training.

He returned to the city at about one o'clock in the morning last night, and he went out to practice this morning and made preparations.

He bought two [Bronze Sword] as backups, the durability of the initial weapon [Small Sword] was about to fall off, and the attributes and shape made people not want to repair it.

After buying a small recovery potion (10 bottles) with all his remaining savings, an idiot discovers that he doesn't even have money for food.

In fact, at that time, he still had single-digit Kele left, and he could buy a bread for a long time.

But the idiot and self-righteous guy has a whim when he sees a prop called flint - he wants to eat barbecue!

Directly cut down branches have a lot of water and cannot be used to make fires, so you need to use [Gather] on bushes or [Fell] skills on trees to obtain dry firewood.

Without the blessing of skills, the output will be much less.

It took a lot of time to light a small bonfire, and Aqua regia, who had poor fire protection skills, extinguished it several times.

In the end, aqua regia finally got the juicy barbecue that looked charred and cooked, and then quickly spit it out after the first bite.

It turns out that without salt and seasonings, the meat of the wild boar can be so unpalatable...... It is unpalatable to the point that it is physiologically unacceptable.

And barbecue over an open flame is a very technical job, it looks scorched on the outside, but it is still very raw on the inside.

Aqua regia can now swallow skewers with a blank face, not because he got the spices, but because he has developed the [Hunger] debuff (negative status).

The shriveled stomach icon tells him that if he doesn't eat, he will starve to death.

It would take him more than an hour to walk back to the town of Beginning, and there was no village information on the large virtual map covered with shadows, so he couldn't tell what would happen if he didn't eat.

Waste of time, waste of money (meat), waste of life.

But these are not enough to make Wang Shui show such a "heart dead" expression, what really makes him so depressed is that his only two skill columns have been occupied by a skill called [Collection].

Wang Shui tried to detach the skill, but was reminded that he needed 10,000 k'l, and to get the next skill slot, he needed to reach level five.

I'm so stupid, really, I just know that I have a talent for cheating, which will seriously affect the rhythm of mastering skills; I didn't know that I could get skills this way......

Wang Shui had been scolding himself for nearly an hour, but what he could still do now was to rely only on the [One-handed Straight Sword] skill to reach level five.

I thought I had mastered the key points of learning skills, but I didn't expect to be put on the table by this sand sculpture ability again.

After a painful breakfast, Shui Wang started the third day of the game, which was only the second round of monster farming for him.

Speaking of monster farming, although Wang Shui was very embarrassed at the beginning last night, he didn't get enlightened because he killed a few monsters, and he gained strong combat qualities out of thin air.

But there was still some gain, at least he gradually became familiar with the feeling of swinging a sword at a living target.

It's a completely different feeling from slashing the air and stabbing the target, and without using sword skills to inflict exaggerated wounds, normal attacks hit the target will get extremely realistic physical feedback.

Tough fur, tight muscles, hard bones and teeth, and the reaction forces of different parts of the sword wielder at different angles of contact with the blade.

Almost every sword has a different sense of touch, and the force of feedback sometimes causes the sword to bounce upwards, and sometimes it causes the blade to tumble.

If you don't control the sword with your heart, and guide and conceive the next sword with your heart, the weapon in your hand will soon become a burning stick.

It was this experience of attacking living targets that made Wang Shui gradually focus on controlling the sword, and there was a lot less panic and less fear of death.

Maybe those strong people are born with this ability.

One by one, the manic boars fell under the sword of Wang Shui, and there was also an occasional monster named [wolf] in the middle to refresh.

Wang Shui had been hiding before, and when he saw a wolf, he quietly left.

And this morning, Wang Shui, who was in a state of "heart death" and had an extremely empty mind, began to try to challenge the wolf.

The results were unexpected on all levels.

The aggression and agility of the wolf creature was beyond his expectations, and the simplicity of the battle was also beyond his expectations.

It is true that the wolf pounces and bites quickly, but the attack distance is short and the hitpoint is small, making it very easy to dodge.

The wolf's action backswing is indeed very short, and the ability to recover the posture after the end of the action is very strong, and the attack appears compact and dense, which makes it difficult to parry, which is the main reason for the high difficulty of killing the wolf.

However, Shui Wang unexpectedly discovered that monsters like wolves are very susceptible to debuffs.

The first time I noticed it, it was Wang Shui who kicked the wolf's head in a hurry when he was attacked continuously, and as a result, the wolf who was not small stumbled and was still stunned in place for a while.

If you want to hit a negative status, you can also do it by using sword skills with corresponding effects, and you can also do it by directly striking special parts.

And the final picture of the battle is that Wang Shui found an opportunity to kick the giant wolf with a "football kick", and then quickly lowered his body to make a running posture, and the sword in his right hand was closed at his side.

After taking the first step, the blue sword light enveloped Wang Shui's body, and he turned into blue light and pierced through the giant wolf.

One-handed sword rush sword technique, [Angry Assassination].

A three-digit damage fell, and the hint of escalation jumped out, and Wang Shui looked at the dense forest not far away.

It's the third day, do you want to try it?