The person standing in front of Le Yuan was Luo Rou, one of the three members of the academy's promoted group. Her appearance in this game has not changed at all, except for the clothing unique to game novices, which makes her look more youthful and energetic. The image of a weak lady changed and she became more like a warrior.
"Hey, I finally found you. This place is really big, and we have no ability at all. It took a lot of effort to find you. But you can't escape this time, right? Xiao Yan , it shouldn’t be Le Yuan’s younger brother.” Luo Rou grabbed Le Yuan’s arm, as if to prevent Le Yuan from disappearing from her side in the blink of an eye.
"Us? Who else did you find?" Hearing Luo Rou's tone, Le Yuan had no time to refute and couldn't help but ask.
"Nuo-" Luo Rou pointed to the street not far away. Le Yuan saw Ke Xuexiu who was waving hello through the crowd. Luo Rou showed a trace of worry on her face at this time: "And I am also connected to the army. After exchanging information, the world is quite complicated, and the situation of all of us is not very good now, but I didn’t expect that little Le Yuan would adapt to the game so quickly. Judging from your equipment, it should be worth a lot of money. ." As he spoke, he wanted to reach out and touch Le Yuan's equipment.
"Tell me about it, I really want to know what information you have." Le Yuan blocked her hand and looked at Luo Rou, who had been on the line with the army so quickly. Le Yuan couldn't help but admire her ability to collect intelligence.
"You should have tried it. We have no ability at all, and both our physical fitness and skills have returned to the state of ordinary people. There is no trace of the system at all, as if we have been abandoned." Le Yuan After hearing this, he nodded. He had already tried all possible methods, and his body was "too normal".
"And judging by your appearance, I should know that we are in a game called "Sword Art Online" now, but we know nothing about this world. It seems to be another world that is not familiar to us. , I don’t know what to do next!” Luo Rou couldn’t help but feel a little frustrated in her tone.
"Actually, it's not bad. As for the game, just beat it. Since the mission has thrown us into this world, there will definitely be a prompt. Before that, we just need to enjoy it." At this time, Ke Xueqiu arrived. Around the two of them.
He smiled at Le Yuan, and then said to Luo Rou and Le Yuan seriously: "I just got new news from there. It seems that there is a problem with this game. The player's logout button has disappeared, and so have we. , it seems like something is going to happen.”
"Is there such a serious problem?" Luo Rou frowned and opened the main game interface and clicked on an option. Suddenly an application interface appeared in front of Le Yuan.
"Luo Rou applied to add you as a friend, do you accept it?" Looking at this interface, Le Yuan pressed his hand on the "Yes" option.
"Hey, Ke Xueqiu, please add him too. I think it's better to keep in touch. Don't you think the atmosphere is wrong now?" Luo Rou looked at the sun that was about to fall into the horizon. The afterglow of the sun was reflected on the white clouds in the sky. , revealing almost golden and orange-red clouds, but people didn't feel any warmth at all. Instead, they felt a more serious sense of uneasiness.
"There is indeed something wrong. This game is the first online full stealth game launched." Seeing that the two of them did not seem to react, Le Yuan changed a word and said: "Well, it is a virtual reality game, and it seems to have released this game The company has always been famous for attaching great importance to the benefits of players, but a major problem like the disappearance of the logout button has not been solved for such a long time, and there is not even a system announcement. This is not like a company that is so dedicated to serving players. Things that come out.”
"Oh, according to what you said, the problem is indeed serious." Ke Xueqiu touched his chin and said: "But it doesn't matter, as long as the promotion task starts soon, I don't want to be told that the task failed before I even touched it. .”
Suddenly, "ding-dong-ding-dong-" sounded like a bell from the central square of the town of Beginning. There was a hint of urgency in the sound, startling everyone on the street.
"What's going on?"
"It seems it's not time to tell the hour on the hour?"
"What happened?"
There were constant discussions on the street, "Hey, you guys!" Ke Xueqiu suddenly pointed at Le Yuan and Luo Rou and said.
"You too!" Luo Rou also exclaimed, and the three people were suddenly wrapped in blue light beams. Not only Le Yuan and the three people, it should be said that people on the entire street encountered the same problem.
"This is teleportation! We'll send a message and meet up later!" Just after Le Yuan said this, the light around him became more intense, making it impossible for him to see anything.
When the blue light gradually dissipated, Le Yuan immediately looked around and found that he was back here again - the central square of the starting town, the starting point of the game full of medieval style. He could see it not far in front of him. A huge palace with black light.
"Le Yuan!" Ke Xuexue's voice appeared behind Le Yuan. When Le Yuan turned around, he found that Luo Rou and Ke Xuexue were beside him. It seemed that everyone was teleporting nearby during the teleportation.
"Did you see it? These guys should all be players." Luo Rou pointed at a large group of handsome men and women around them. They were wearing all kinds of equipment. Although the number of people in the square was not counted, it was a rough estimate. There should be close to 10,000 people.
"What's going on? Is this some kind of activity?" Everything happened so suddenly that some players couldn't help but ask.
But no one could explain all this. Soon the noisy discussions among the crowd in the square gradually turned into loud questions, "What on earth is going on?" "What's wrong with the logout button?" "GM, hurry up. Click here to solve the problem!”
"Ah-" There was a shout first, and then a group of people shouted. Le Yuan followed their fingers and looked up, and he didn't know when there was a red checkerboard pattern in the sky, but he took a closer look and found that It was a string of English words "Warning", and then the pattern split into tens of thousands of the same warning, turning the sky completely into blood color, and the afterglow shot down the blood color light through it.
"Is this how game companies do gimmicks?" Looking at this huge change, Ke Xueqiu was a little confused about the situation. It is undoubtedly the work of a game company to create system warnings.
"A gimmick? This is not a gimmick. Let's just watch it quietly. I don't think the system will be so silent. This is probably an interlude before the mission starts." Luo Rou said.
The players in the square almost calmed down when they saw the system warning, but the next scene broke their illusions again.
A thick, unusually huge drop of blood suddenly squeezed in from the center of the bloody sky, and then slowly dripped downwards. As it fell, it began to deform, and quickly turned into a man about 20 meters tall, wearing a The strange man in a blood-red cloak, his head was covered by the cloak, and only a black hole could be seen under the huge hat, as if he was a ghost wearing a cloak.
At this time, the right arm under the cloak suddenly moved, and a hand with white gloves stretched out from the sleeve, but the gloves and wrist were empty, which further confirmed that the "giant" in front of him seemed to be just a hollow person. shell.
The robe on the face of the "Giant" moved automatically, and in conjunction with his waving hands, it seemed to be saying something. At this time, a deep and clear man's voice came from above the crowd.
"Welcome to my world..." If this first sentence can be regarded as the opening remarks of the game company's speech, then the second sentence that follows further dispels the joy in the hearts of the players.
"My name is Kayaba Akihiko. I am the only person who can control this world now." The man revealed his real name. This may not be a big deal to outsiders like Le Yuan, but to local players it is nothing. It’s all too familiar. This is the developer and producer who created this game world, and is also the basic designer of virtual stealth technology.
The sudden appearance of the game developer made the players even more confused, and Kayaba Akihiko's voice coming from under his large cloak was more like a mockery of the players' ignorance: "I think all players should have noticed that the login The exit button disappears from the main menu screen. But this is not a problem with the game. I repeat. This is not a problem with the game, but with the original version of the game."
Then Kayaba Akihiko explained the basic situation of the current game, and the key points were summarized in one sentence: the game is reality. Everyone's life is just once in reality. If you die here, you will die in reality as well.
In order to further prove the authenticity of this matter, Kayaba Akihiko sent the information of the dead to everyone - 213 players permanently left the game in less than half a day.
If this only made players feel scared, then the liberation conditions announced by Kayaba Akihiko made local players despair. Breaking through the 100th floor, it took this player who had unlimited resurrections during the closed beta two months to break through 6 The level of gameplay is completely broken.
Countless players fell to their knees on the spot, unable to accept the cruel reality in front of them, but Kayaba Akihiko ignored it and continued to explain, and then, as if having a bad taste, he made all the handsome men and beautiful women return to their true colors, including Many beautiful women who were held by men turned into "popular" otakus, making them so disgusted that they almost chopped off their own hands.
"...That's it for the official game description of Sword Art Online. Dear players - I wish you good luck." With a hint of echo, Kayaba Akihiko dropped these words and disappeared, and then the giant in the sky also seemed like a bubble. The square disappeared without a trace, and the originally isolated square was liberated again, and the cheerful BGM music of the town streets was heard all around again.
"What are you going to do next?" Le Yuan asked Luo Rou, ignoring the cries and noises of the local players around him.
"Ding-" Suddenly, the long-lost system prompt echoed in the minds of the three of them. The three of them looked at each other, called up the personal attributes interface at the same time, and started looking at the mission this time.