"Why, your programming skills are so bad...... Even the data structure can be wrong. ”

"I'm only fourteen!"

In the face of Kayaba Jinghiko's inquiry, Wang Shui argued with reason and did not blush.

How else can you say that?

Say he's 26 years old? Said he was actually just a low-end coder before he was smashed by a mud truck? Or is it that he was a chemical engineer as an undergraduate, and he was bored to death in a chemical factory so he signed up for a crash course to learn programming, and then happened to get into a large factory, and he could barely complete his work under the protection of his predecessors?

What are you talking about, who doesn't have a little bit of an unbearable past.

At present, Wang Shui, who dares to call himself fourteen years old, is not shameless at all, he has already started to read books - the classic masterpiece "CPP from Entry to Soil".

Fortunately, Wang Shui's learning ability is very strong now, and Kayaba Jinghiko also began to teach him more knowledge when Wang Shui was studying, some knowledge that there is no way to define the subject.

Whether it involves physics, mathematics, or algorithmic ideas, Kayaba will teach as long as he thinks about it. This kind of skipping teaching will of course be very ineffective for the average student.

But Wang Shui is different, Wang Shui will immediately take notes when he encounters knowledge that he doesn't understand at all, and then write down (memorize) the words of Maochang, and when he is a little free, he will look up information to complete this part of knowledge.

Time passes quickly in this intense and fulfilling high-intensity study and work, and at this time, players have already finished the second layer, and are even preparing to attack the boss of the third layer.

The number of player deaths increased a bit, and both of the two people in the small laboratory glanced at the casualty figure very indifferently, and then tacitly ignored it.

From the fourth floor that the player has not yet set foot on, a small number of earthen bomb props appeared in the hands of NPCs, and the black powder that appeared inexplicably made the blood pressure of the two people working overtime full.

Previously, Wang Shui made black powder, and recorded the black powder as a recipe through the [Handmade] skill, but the [Handmade] skill, which has no patent restrictions and no unique skill labels, was given by the system to some artisan NPCs, who inexplicably unlocked the ability to make black powder.

In order to complete this part of history, the system automatically generated a legend that a craftsman called [Heavenly Book] made this item, and left behind the [Handmade] skill and related recipes.

Now a large number of Artisan NPCs have begun to praise this legendary ancient craftsman, and some people are even ready to posthumously canonize him.

The Dirt Bomb was created by the NPCs themselves when they were researching black powder, which is progressing too quickly. Maochang didn't mean to blame Wang Shui, but just seriously considered the issue of early update.

So the two put the complicated content on hold first, and when the players set foot on the fourth layer of land, they released a new version -

【Extinguished Starfire】

All players were greeted with a visual window for the update, as well as a short CG gig, and the expansion was filled with oddly styled steel machines and special muskets, as well as an inexplicable image of a bullet being stuffed into the hilt of a sword.

The expansion animation is very short, but it also consumed two days of Wang Shui's time, which he did not draw, but the actual machine demonstration screen that he found a few models to make in the test environment.

As for the picture of stuffing the bullet into the sword at the end, it is a whimsical design that Wang Shui didn't want the hot weapon to cover the smell of Sword Art Online when adding firearms - [Sword Skill Blade Bullet]!

By modifying traditional cold weapons and installing [Blade Bullet Slots] on the handle, the weapon can be filled with special [Blank Sword Skill Blade Bullets]. As the player continues to use the sword, an additional amount of sword skill will be filled into the blade bullet, which will be filled when the blade bullet glows.

At this time, the blade bullet is activated like a gun, and the sword skill amount will be refilled into the weapon, bringing different continuous effects to the weapon, such as "Normal Attack Damage Boost", "Sharpness Attribute Boost", "Position Destruction Attribute Boost", "Slash Boost", "Piercing Boost", "Block Boost", "Bonus Explosion Attribute Gain", "One-Time Mid-Range Burst", and so on.

What's more flexible is that if you don't fire the Blade Bullet, the player can unload the Blade Bullet after leaving the battle, and the charged Blade Bullet will have a different retention time depending on the quality, and the high-level Blade Bullet will remain undeteriorating for more than a month. Players can trade recharged Blade Bullets and directly activate them to get the desired boost the next time they use them.

Of course, the charging of the blade bullet can not be arbitrary, in order to prevent the player from brushing the dummy stacking blade bullet, the water of the king has additionally added the charging condition of the blade bullet - it must be charged in battle, and the charging speed is related to the drop of the monster's health, so it is difficult to stack the low-level monsters.

At present, the probability of the appearance of the blade bullet attribute is random, as for how to adjust the probability of the entry appearing later, he has been incarnated as the king water planned by the dog, ready to count the preferences of the players to adjust, what attribute is easy to use, what attribute likes to use more people, just lower the odds, bring smiles to the players.

Kayaba is very fond of the [Sword Skill Blade Bullet] system, and he was originally very disgusted with the appearance of guns in his own world, but recently he has also become obsessed with the shell throwing action after the blade bullet is activated, and often runs to the test server alone to shake the knife light during the break. And he also created a high-speed charge technique before the players.

It is to throw the used blade bullet directly after activating the blade bullet, replace it with a new blank bullet in the blade strengthening stage, and then actively use the sword technique, so that you can ensure that the next shot has been partially charged at the end of the blade enhancement.

For this reason, the grass field did not hesitate to modify the parameters, adding a hidden setting, in the state of the blade strengthened, the charging speed of the blade bullet will be increased a lot, so that for the blade bullet with bad attributes, there is a way to play quickly and quickly.

Wang Shui also wants to add the existence of multi-bladed slots, and the runner springs nest blade slots! Multi-attribute high-speed burst! Kayaba agreed, but wanted to put this equipment modification technology in the middle and late stages, and at the same time Kayaba also wanted to design sword skills specifically for blade bullets, and many cool ideas burst into the minds of the two game developers.

The purpose of this design is to combine gunpowder with a magic setting that does not exist in the floating city, weaken the presence of firearms, guide ammunition into tools to assist sword skills, strengthen the strength of cold weapons, and strengthen the attributes of monsters to balance the difficulty.

While the two developers and dog planners were having fun, most of the players were confused, and only a small number of still alive closed beta players seemed to have been hit by a bolt from the blue.

Yes? Isn't the fourth layer a dry river valley, how did it become a water town? What is the "Extinguished Starfire"? Is there any mechanical thing about this hanging game?!

The one who was most shocked was Kirita and the intelligence dealer Argo, who was trying to wake up by Asuna in a place where Wang Shui didn't know.

But, what does this have to do with Wang Shui, the plot has completely changed, and Master Tong can only ask for more blessings.

Of the more than 200,000 players, only one person has a different mind.

Wang Shui, who had already been mentally prepared, was already sitting in the corner of a restaurant on the third floor, wasting a rare vacation by waiting, but fortunately his boss was addicted to playing with blade bullets, not saying how long the vacation was, Maochang said that he wanted to set the blade bullet more refined.

The familiar ice-blue figure pushed open the wooden door of the dining room, and the brass bell on the door made a crisp sound, as if it were her appearance.

The conversation doesn't start until the dessert is served.

"New expansion, has something to do with you?" Shino took the initiative to ask.

"I think you can probably guess what's going on, now that I'm a villain boss, be respectful when you talk to me, and besides, you came to treat me today, I don't have so much money on me."

Wang Shui's teasing did not make Shi Nai relax, so Wang Shui quickly put away his hippie smile.

"Okay, I'm being pulled to do coolies, and when we were making black powder before, we were discovered by the administrator, and it caused some bad changes, so I need to pay it back."

"Why don't you take me?" Poetry is pressing step by step.

Why? Because you're really an ordinary middle school student!

"To put it mildly, you're too stupid to be useless, it's better to play the game without heart and lungs, and help me save some resources by the way, and when I finish my hard work, I can play the game with peace of mind."

Wang Shui didn't expand in detail, but part of the information can be regarded as solving Shina's doubts after seeing the expansion film, as for Wang Shui's nonsense, just listen to it casually.

"It's good that it's not life-threatening."

"Safer than you are on the front line."

After that, the dialogue tended to be flat, mostly Shino was talking about what happened on the front line, talking about the strangeness of the third-layer boss strategy, talking about the craftsman who engaged in strengthening fraud, talking about how powerful her new partner Mitt was, and talking about the third-layer boss actually needed the [Flying Sword] skill to raid the strategy, and everyone who had an impression of Wang Shui's absence from the boss battle was very sorry.

Wang Shui listened more patiently, the recent high-intensity study and work made his brain a little axis, simple sleep and rest did not work at all, just go out to change the way of thinking to relax.

After the meal, they chatted for a long time, and after walking out of the restaurant, the two did not go the same way again, Wang Shui transferred to the square on the first floor with crystals, and Shi Nai just quietly watched him turn into light and scatter.

Short vacations are fleeting.

Wang Shui, who originally thought that the work was over, had no choice but to find that this new version of the expansion was just the beginning, and they simply released a small number of clues to guide players to get the early gun and blade bullet slot transformation, which is enough for the player group, but for the NPC world, there is basically no change.

"So, do you need me to talk to the NPC bosses? I've compiled the specific words into a text, which is nothing more than sending knives to the radicals, shields to the conservatives, adding some capital to the depraved elves who are making trouble in the middle, so that they can start a war on the archaeological ruins, and then find some chosen ones to give them powerful blade weapons, this level of hook is not even a strategy. ”

Wang Shui said it easily, in fact, he didn't want to face those NPCs, not that he was afraid of being killed by NPCs of level seventy or eighty, he was now an administrator, although he couldn't kill NPCs on a large scale, he still had the characteristics of immortality.

He just doesn't want to go, and knowing that performing doesn't mean that he likes acting, especially when performing for NPCs, it's too boring.

Fortunately, there are no similar plans in the mouche.

"I used the information you wrote to edit dozens of high-level intelligent NPCs of the bard, and then scattered them to the middle and lower worlds where most of the NPCs are located, and I will monitor the rest of the work, and you will be responsible for the more important item entry work."

Okay, well, it's time to return to the code farmer's own job, the most mechanical and boring data collation and entry, numerical statistics, test interaction effects and BUG checking.

Fortunately, the models in SAO have perfect physics engine calculations, otherwise Wang Shui would have to adjust the polygon structure, adjust the collision function and volume parameters, etc., and the development of a large-scale game is not as simple as writing white code on a black screen.

The flow of time seemed to be slowing down again, and in his spare time, Wang Shui's thoughts couldn't help but drift back to the core of the infinite world, to the place where he really existed.

I don't know when it began, there was a sudden trend in the world that quickly became powerful, and many "Chosen People" could always obtain powers that others could not reach in a lifetime in a matter of years, months, or even days, and those abilities that obviously contained extremely high-tech levels or profound occult knowledge were turned into [skills] that could be easily obtained in their hands.

To be honest, Wang Shui wanted to do the same, he didn't care what knowledge was behind cool spells, and he didn't want to know that black powder was not the most complex chemical technology for modern ammunition.

He didn't want to study magic, he didn't want to make concentrated acid and make his own mercury thunder acid to make a primer, he didn't want to make any marginal fire ammunition, he just wanted to pick up the gun and throw the bullets indefinitely, beckoning to the sky to rain fire.

But his brain doesn't allow it, and neither does his talent.

For others, the infinite world of fast in and out, fast and strong becomes stronger, but under his escape and choice, it becomes a slow journey.

Lines of code, models, sets of data, and a lot of information are formed under the fingers of aqua king, and then immediately tested and efficiently formed into hot patches.

Akihiko Kayaba, who is sometimes distracted, is always amazed at the young man's composure and patience when he sees Wang Shui, who is as rigorous as a machine and keeps working for a long time. A peculiar love for talent sprouted in his heart.

This is a feeling that Akihiko Kayaba has never had, and in his insight, teaching anyone is just a waste of his time, and no one can catch up with him and become his helper.

In less than a month, he saw a middle school student who only knew simple programming and quickly grew into a development workforce.

Akihiko Kayaba recalculated the working hours, and the original working hours of more than 300 people per day were almost compressed to less than 100, and the speed of [self-discipline intelligence] to check and fill in the gaps was completely unable to catch up with Wang Shui's ability to make up stories, and even Wang Shui still had time to read and study.

In the face of Kayaba Jinghiko's praise from time to time, Wang Shui was not very happy, he was just completing the system task at a very slow speed, and now he was almost in touch.

With his current permission, he can extract the more advanced intelligent virtual world in the test environment, and form a data package with the development tools, so as to make the [World Seed] needed to complete the plot by himself. Akihiko Kayaba would not be surprised by such a trivial matter as replicating the test environment.

And then what?

Complete the mission and leave this world?

His boss [Dream System] will probably give him a reward related to the life department, sell the protagonist's information, and those high-level awakened people will probably pay a lot of money, and then what?

Then go back to the garbage dump-like maintenance shop, continue to live for half a year, save money to buy tickets for the next mandatory mission while working hard, and pray in fear to meet the fantasy world that only you are familiar with? Like a dog...... No, live like a bug?

Wang Shui doesn't care much about his dignity, and he is not lazy, he has a simple value that has long been shaped - I put in the effort, and I will get the reward I deserve. He hoped that he could live as a human being through his own labor.

It is a luxury, and in a world dominated by the direct power of force, the weak do not deserve to be born.

So Wang Shui is not ready to go back.

Even if this is just an ordinary world, even if all that can be done here is the [strong artificial intelligence] of the rotten street in the [Dream System], and the inexplicable complete stealth technology, but Wang Shui still has to stay.

He's going to learn, he's going to learn everything he can get, he's going to arm himself as much as he can.

He doesn't want to die in failure and loneliness, he doesn't want to live underground all the time.