On March 22, 2023, Le Yuan's level had climbed to level 40 in more than five months, and at this time, the strategy team composed of many guilds had successfully broken through the twentieth level.
Dolly Forest on the south side of Eleven Floors—
Le Yuan looked at the five people who had been knocked down by him, and fed each of them a paralyzing potion.
"You nosy bastard, let us go quickly!" one of the spearmen shouted.
"Yes, we have never hurt anyone, why do you treat us like this?" said the heavy armored swordsman, the captain of the five.
"Please let me go, don't kill me, I will give you all the Kol, please..." cried the wandering thief holding a short knife.
"You boneless guy, there's no need to plead with him!" the yellow-haired warhammer roared.
"..." The last person was silent, with despair in his eyes.
"That's enough, you scumbags." Le Yuan interrupted the quarrel between the five of them, took out the Corridor Crystal from the item list and said: "The five of you from the Rogier Guild, you are really capable of pretending to be enthusiastic players to win over you. Players who come up from the lower level join the team, find out the precious props on their bodies, and then attack and threaten to hand over the props. The orange name on your body is the best prop."
"No, I'm not, I'm Lu Ming, Lu Ming!" said the silent man.
"You..." Several other people wanted to retort after hearing the man's words.
Le Yuan turned to the man and said: "Enoch, the think tank of the Rogier Guild, do you think I haven't investigated anything? All of you are guilty, but I won't kill you. You are here Let’s reflect on it in the prison of the Black Iron Palace on the first floor!” After saying that, Le Yuan activated the corridor crystal and teleported away the five people in front of him.
Looking at the five people who had sent away, Le Yuan sighed and said: "People's hearts are really unpredictable. When we were on the front floor, everyone didn't have any good things. Now that the resources are abundant, there are more things that can be obtained, but... It's about cheating, cheating, and evil ways."
Sending orange players to prison is now one of Le Yuan's main tasks. If there were still only a few criminals in the first three months, then after the fifteenth floor strategy, the number of criminals has increased significantly. Although not many people were directly killed, injuries occurred frequently. Le Yuan has sent 27 people to prison so far.
At the end of the forest on the south side of the eleventh floor, Le Yuan had just left the forest area and was planning to return to Tafto, the main block of the eleventh floor, through the plains when he suddenly heard the sound of fighting coming from the front.
"Damn it, Tetsuo!" a man suddenly shouted anxiously.
"Huh? What happened?" Le Yuan quickened his pace and rushed to the scene. When he came to the source of the sound, he saw only five people, four men and one woman, struggling bitterly surrounded by six spear goblins.
"Horizontal slash—" Le Yuan rushed in behind the goblins at high speed and aimed his sword at the two goblins.
"Crack-" For Le Yuan, who is already at level 40, this kind of ten-level monster has no difficulty. Although it is a horizontal slash, it is actually just an ordinary horizontal slash. One sword will result in two, and Le Yuan immediately surrounds him with a horizontal sword. Following this group of goblins, they ran around in a circle.
"Tsk—" The sword blade passed across the Goblin's body. Under the unbelievable eyes of the five people on the opposite side, the remaining four Goblins were all defeated by Le Yuan with one sword.
Le Yuan retracted his sword and looked at the five people in front of him. The four men were ordinary, with nothing special about their appearance and equipment. But when Le Yuan's eyes passed over the last girl, he suddenly stopped. Of course, it was not this one. The girl is a gorgeous beauty, but I think her hairstyle and outfit are a bit special.
The tall man with sword and shield among the five people on the opposite side stepped forward to thank Le Yuan and said, "Hello, thank you very much for your life-saving grace. If you don't mind, can we, the Moon Night Black Cat Group, thank you?"
"Moonlight Black Cat Group?" Le Yuan whispered the name, and the memory in his mind was suddenly locked on one thing. Le Yuan's eyes looked at the girls in the team without leaving any trace, and after comparing them again and again, they faced The tall man said: "Okay, I have nothing to do now, let's go!"
In a tavern in Taft, the main street on the eleventh floor, Shunta, a yellow-haired thief from the Moonlight Black Cat Group, raised his glass and shouted: "Cheers to our Moonlight Black Cat Group!"
"Cheers!" The other four members raised their glasses in response.
Then the thief Shunta said: "Next, let's drink to our savior Mr. Le Yuan!"
Seeing the five people turning their wine glasses towards him, Le Yuan finally ended his observation, raised his glass and said, "Cheers!"
"Thank you!" "Thank you very much!" "Thank you!" "Thank you very much!" After watching Le Yuan finish his toast, everyone in the Moonlight Black Cat Group thanked them again.
"It's nothing, it's just a piece of cake for me. After all, we players should help each other, right?" Le Yuan said.
The only girl was a little embarrassed. She held the wine glass and said, "Sorry, I was so scared at the time, which made everyone panic. When you came to help us, I was really happy!" He even touched his tears of excitement.
Keita, the team leader on the side, saw that Le Yuan was still very talkative, so he leaned down and asked with a smile: "I would like to take the liberty of asking you a question, what level are you at now?"
"Me? I'm close to level 40." Le Yuan thought for a while and decided to answer Keita's question truthfully.
"Forty? Are you one of the strategy team?" Keita exclaimed, and the other four people also looked at Le Yuan with their mouths wide open.
Le Yuan put down his wine glass and said, "That's right, but I usually act alone, and I only have contact with them when they are bosses on the floor."
"I'm very sorry, can you agree to my rude request?" Keita suddenly bent down and bowed deeply to Le Yuan.
"Request? Can you tell me the specific content first?" Le Yuan never agreed to an uncertain request and asked.
I saw Keita patting Sachi on the head and saying: "This guy's name is Sachi. I want to transform her into a one-handed swordsman with a shield who can be an avant-garde. However, she is not very familiar with this aspect, so I think I can ask you to Can you be her coach for a little bit?”
Xing on the side suddenly heard Keita belittling her. He puffed up his cheeks and looked at Keita sideways and said, "What? You're telling people that they have no merit. That's because you suddenly want them to run forward and fight at close range." People will be afraid of fighting!" There was a trace of fear in Xing's eyes, which was the fear of death that ordinary people have.
"Haha, you just need to hide behind the shield." Keita comforted him without seeing the trace of reluctance hidden in Xing's eyes.
"Really, you have always been like this, too timid." Yushu said nonchalantly while spearing.
This round of teasing made everyone in the Moon Night Black Cat Group laugh.
Le Yuan frowned while looking at several people.
Keita smiled and explained for Le Yuan: "We are all members of the computer research club of the same high school, so it's okay to tease each other. How about it, Mr. Le Yuan, are you willing to help us?"
Le Yuan turned his head to Xing, the protagonist of this discussion. After looking at it for ten seconds, Le Yuan shook his head and said, "Sorry, I can't agree to your request."
"What, Mr. Le Yuan, do you have any questions? Or is it interrupting your leveling time? Why don't you designate a time and we can do it at any time." Keita persisted.
"No, it's not that I don't have time, but for your own good, I have a piece of advice." Le Yuan turned to Xing on the side and said, "Xing is the only girl in your guild. Is Shield Vanguard suitable?”
"But, the rest of us have already fixed our attribute development, isn't Yuki the best candidate?" Keita said.
Le Yuan walked to Xing and pulled her to Keita and said: "As her partners, haven't you ever asked her about her wishes? Don't you all know her courage? She can restrain herself. Fear and you have come out to fight until now, and you can already see how much she values the friendship between you."
"Xing, is this true?" Keita and the other three people looked at Xing, hoping she could give an answer.
I saw Xing holding the wine glass tightly, looking down at his feet and Noonuo said: "I, actually I don't want to fight, I'm really scared, woo, woo..." As he spoke, Xing couldn't stop. She shed tears. She had suppressed her inner fear for a long time, which made her really stressed. Now Le Yuan's words gave her the courage to speak out her thoughts.
Le Yuan caressed her head to comfort her, then turned to the other members of the Moon Night Black Cat Group and said: "You are really not suitable for fighting on the front line, Yushu, Shunta, Yuya, you three are too optimistic. Although you won’t be driven crazy by despair, such an out-of-touch personality is really not suitable for fighting. The higher you go, the more cautious you need to be. Have you forgotten that we are in a death game, and death is the end... "
Afterwards, Le Yuan faced Keita again and said: "To be honest, I have been observing you from the time I have been in contact with you until now. Your performance is all in my eyes. Although the contact time is not long, I can also see that you You are very ambitious, which is good, but as a group leader, you did not pay attention to Sachi's true thoughts, which is really a failure, and the blind optimism pervades the team. As the president, you have a responsibility and do not do something. It’s really going to kill them.”
"Finally Xing, can I ask you a question?" Le Yuan looked at Xing who had stopped crying and asked, "I also have many people I know in the Town of Beginning, and there are many children in the Town of Beginning now. They need someone to take care of them, are you willing to help them?”
SAO, as a game, naturally requires the participation of children. At the beginning of the game, there were many children who stayed in the starting town because they were too young. There were also many kind-hearted players who stayed there to take care of them. However, compared to The number of children is still too few.
"Starting Town, can I?" Xing was moved. After all, as a girl, she was more able to accept taking care of children than fighting.
Le Yuan looked at the confused Keita and asked, "You should respect Xing's wishes."
The other members of the Moonlight Black Cat Group looked at each other. After the passion in their hearts was extinguished by Le Yuan's basin of cold water, their expectations of joining the strategy group completely dissipated. Keita took a deep look at Yuki and then chose to let Yuki go. After gaining her freedom, the Black Cat Group under the Moon announced its disbandment that night.