Kong and Fei Angel logged in, and there was a message from neet Ji.
neet Ji: Aozora-san, I wonder if you were in the chat room last night
Aozora: No, I went to bed early last night.
After two days and two nights of not sleeping, Ye You went to bed at just 12 o'clock.
neet Ji: That's it. I wonder if you have read the chat history.
Neet Ji's eyes narrowed into crescent moons in front of the computer. The bell fairy who was bringing tea next to her was so frightened that her two long rabbit ears stood up. The princess's smile was like that dark-bellied loli rabbit.
Aozora: No. Did anything fun happen?
In the past, Ye You would occasionally look through the chat history, but now with more and more things to learn, and sometimes 99 points in three minutes, he no longer has the energy to look through it.
neet Ji: Nothing. I just think you are really an excellent person.
Aozora: You think so too? The heroes see the same thing.
Ye You and Neet Ji are like best friends, they are the type who can talk about anything. But sometimes it's like a bad friend, who takes pleasure in seeing the other person in trouble.
Aozora: By the way, I made an appointment to log in to Sword Art Online.
neet Ji: Yeah. I'm also in the practice room on the eleventh floor.
Qingkong: See you later.
Sword Art Online, Aincrad.
After Kibaou's recording was released at the strategy team meeting, although it didn't cause much turmoil on the surface, secretly the emotions of the closed beta players became very complicated. There is hatred, guilt, worry and fear.
There was a closed beta player who was 'executed' by a new player when he was walking alone outside the circle after his identity was exposed. They held high the banner of justice and the slogan was 'Closed beta players must be responsible for the lives of dead players'.
Although Ye You and other closed beta players have been working hard to improve the relationship, once a person is forced into a desperate situation, the negative mentality that breaks out will be infinitely amplified.
Someone must be held accountable for the suffering we are experiencing now. No matter who it is, there must be an outlet.
Before players with a fragile mentality realize this, they are driven by their cowardly instincts and reveal an ugly appearance that they usually hate.
No one is a saint. As the situation progresses, everyone's mentality changes in a wavy line instead of a straight line. Sometimes it rises and sometimes falls, and all we can control is to control the degree of ups and downs.
In this death game with ten thousand people, Ye You understood this through the various gestures people showed. No, I can’t say I understand, I just saw this situation and tried to understand it. Similarly, in the darkness, the shining point of humanity is infinitely magnified, seemingly shining like the sun.
In front of Ye You is a petite girl with golden brown curly hair. Wearing an earth-colored hooded hood, the breeze blowing through the valley turned over her hem, completely revealing the hooks on her left waist and the thin needles on her right waist.
"Spread the news about the strategy team meeting? Of course, no problem, 200 koels."
The girl continued speaking in a sharp voice with a unique tone at the end. Although there is a recording of Kibao, the public channel can only send voice messages, and it is really inconvenient to use your own account to spread such 'messages that are similar to slandering others' comments.
The grapple user raised two fingers and said. The girl's name is Argo. She is a closed beta player and an intelligence merchant. She is known as 'any valuable information can be bought and sold'. Her nickname is 'Argo the Mouse'. The reason why she has this name is not only because she is well-informed, but also because of her hook. The Claw user has a very obvious feature on his face, which is that he used makeup props to draw three beard-like lines on both sides of his face.
"so cheap?"
Ye You was surprised, this was not in line with Hook Claw's usual shrewd businessman style.
"It has been confirmed through some channels that Kibaou did indeed say this, and he did target Akatsuki at the meeting because he thought you were a closed beta player. There is nothing wrong with spreading the truth."
In fact, Ye You also understood that Argo still had something he didn't say. The Hooker himself is also a closed beta player. In the early stages, he also provided free information to novice players like Ye You. He also funded the printing of the "Aincrad Strategy Guide" and distributed it to novice players. Ye You's so-called 'public channel' for publishing information does not refer to a chat channel, but to letting everyone know by copying it into a newspaper. So when the truth was confirmed, the mouse Argo himself was very angry.
"I'll make a copy of the recording file for you."
"Okay."
The hook user agreed cheerfully, and then laughed shrewdly, "But how much money do you plan to pay me for keeping silent?"
"Hush money?"
"Yes, if someone buys 'Where did this news come from' like me, I will also sell it to him as a commodity."
"That's it."
Ye You nodded in a relaxed manner, "That is to say, if I pay 1,000 kels for the sealing fee, if someone pays 1,100 kels for this news, I will have to face the situation of continuing bidding. If I don't want to be known, the situation will increase. Is it hush money..."
It's almost like stealing money. Ye You said in his heart.
But do I need to pay hush money? Anyone can imagine that Akatsuki's car spread it.
Um? etc.
No one can guarantee that there are real closed beta players among the members of the strategy group. No, rather, there must be. They must also be dissatisfied with Kibaou's words, and Kibaou must be aware of this. And if this news spreads, Kibaou's first target will definitely be towards Akatsuki's car, but what about the second target and the third target? As a smart guy, he would definitely include "personnel with uncertain factors" as suspects. And this easily planted the seeds of breakup.
"Hush money, you really know how to do business."
Hearing this, the intelligence dealer's smile became brighter on his bearded cheeks: "This is the interesting part of this job! When someone secretly releases information, there will be many topics of 'who released the information'" ', and if someone buys the information, there will also be more information about 'Who bought this information?'"
Ye You's face was expressionless, and the mouse chuckled, and continued: "But I can give you a discount. Others need to pay twice the hush fee to buy your news, and as long as it's Kibaou or Kibaou I'm not going to sell the 'you're the one spreading this' message to anyone associated with the union."
"Huh?" Ye You cast a surprised look.
"Don't look at me like that. It's purely because you didn't express curiosity about the beard on my face. It's not that you pretend not to care, but you don't have the slightest desire to find out why this guy has this stuff on his face."
Argo the mouse pointed at his cheek and said.
Indeed, why girls have beard-like ink smeared on their faces makes people curious, and people who have done business with Hook Claw users in the past have also given more or less strange looks. However, merchant Argo can even trade his own information as an information commodity for 100,000 kels. But she has never met anyone who doesn't have the slightest curiosity like Ye You. But that's not because Ye You doesn't want to know, it's just because he has already known the information about Argo.
"I understand. Let's pay 10,000 kels for the hush fee first." If others want to know, they must first come up with 20,000 kels. Then Argo will send a message in time to tell them that someone wants to buy the news. Should the hush fee continue? If Ye You agrees, it will be increased to 11,000 or 12,000. At this time, the opponent will also face the dilemma of continuing to rise. Such an amount is not something that even a large guild can squander at will nowadays.
"Okay. I'll leave first then." Argo was satisfied. This was not much better than his total salary this month.
Then the hook user, who focused all his values on agility, simply squatted down and disappeared into the intricate alley.