What the hell is this movie theater?

"Yui is my sister!!"

Storeya's shouting caused the passersby who heard the sound to reflexively look at him, which also caused Su Hong's departure to pause again.

Su Hong had no choice but to raise his right hand and hit his head with a big head, and then turned around and came to Storeya under the gaze of everyone.

"This is not the place to talk."

"Good~"

Su Hong left without saying anything more, and Stolea happily followed him. Side by side, she left the central square with a huge flow of people and headed towards her ranch hotel on the outskirts of the first floor.

When the two of them reached the deserted forest trail outside the circle, Su Hong deliberately slowed down his pace and turned to look at Storeya, who was only a head shorter than him.

"Yui is your sister?"

"That's right!" Storeya reached out and pulled down the hood that covered her face, revealing her delicate face and the corners of her mouth that unconsciously raised, "I am the mental state management support program No. [-], and my sister is the mental state management support program. Management Support Application No. [-]——That’s why I issued the mission to find my sister to you.”

Su Hong didn't speak, but pressed his temples with a big head.

Although he has basically forgotten the plot of Sword Art Online, unlike the time-travelers in novices and fan fiction who can remember his past life and works in previous lives in detail, if Storeya is in the original animation of Sword Art Online If he has played before, he will definitely be impressed.

Because Storeya's hairstyle, hair color and even eye color, delicate cheeks and this kind of character that is willing to get close are bouncing back and forth in his XP system, she would have been called his wife by him ten years ago.

But he had no impression of [Storea].

——That means that Ristorea never appeared in the original animation.

Su Hong has not read the original novel of Sword Art Online - and even if he has read the original novel of Sword Art Online, it is questionable how much of the plot and characters he can remember now after ten years.

"Didn't you say you would answer my questions? I have a question I want to get your answer to right now."

"Okay."

Storeya responded to Su Hong's request with a smile.

Her smile didn't seem to be fake, but a smile from the bottom of her heart - so it was hard for Su Hong to understand her attitude towards him.

"Argo is the caregiver of Yui. I have only had a handful of contacts with Yui. Why didn't you contact Argo and let her bring Yui to you...but me?"

Storeya did not answer Su Hong's question immediately, but quickly ran to him like a lively elf in a fairy tale and turned around to look at Su Hong.

"Do you remember what I said when we first met?"

Su Hong's eyes twitched and he tried to say, "...were you introducing yourself at that time?"

"Ah... although that's true, but it's not this sentence, right?" Storeya thought about what she had experienced at that time, and was still a little depressed. "I wanted to say that I have been paying attention to you for a long time, but you He didn’t listen to what I was saying at all and kept saying SKIP.”

"Well..." Su Hong racked his brains to connect the words, "You mean, as an AI that monitors human mental health, you have been following me for a long time... right?"

"It's not just Storeya, isn't it? Sister Yui is like this too."

Su Hong even subconsciously took two steps back when he saw Stolea's expression when she said this.

Even though Su Hong rarely interacts with people and rarely sees the expressions on other people's faces, he can still recognize it as a [happiness expression].

He hadn't seen it a few times, but he only needed to see this expression once to recognize it forever.

Because he didn't understand why she showed a "happy" expression when she said this, and he didn't understand why the words "AI" and "happiness" were connected to each other. I don’t know why she is looking at me with such an expression... This is simply inexplicable!

"As a program to care for the mental state of SAO players, we should have maintained the mental state and mental health of all players in the game. However, after this game was declared a game of death, our mental state management support program was Lante's control system, Cardinal, prohibits proper permissions.

My sister and I have the human emotion simulation function from the beginning of the program design. The preset personality and emotion simulation program will allow us to do a better job of supporting players.

After the death game started, the negative emotions of all the players gathered and affected Yui's sister. The human emotion imitation function also began to analyze the negative emotions of all the players——

As a result, a program error occurred in the mental state management support program No. [-].

After all, AI is just AI. Trying to understand and simulate human emotions is inherently difficult, and the evil thoughts gathered by human beings are even more unwilling to face and understand by humans themselves——

So my sister, as a collapsed system program, somehow bypassed the control system Cardinal's permissions and appeared in this world. She was picked up by you and a player named Argo and raised until now.

Due to the disappearance of Sister Yui, I was awakened and activated by the control system Cardinal as the mental state management support program number two... And like Sister Yui, I generated countless evil thoughts from the players. program error.

Although I want to tell you everything I know, if I tell you everything you want to know so quickly, you will definitely not want to see me again, right?This way I won’t have the chance to meet you anymore…”

She stretched out her right hand in a fancy way and pointed it beside her delicate face, blinking her right eye——

“So, let’s wait until the next time we meet to tell the rest of the story!”

43. "Rebirth of Aincrad: I am Yotsuya Miko"

Although Su Hong now understood Storeya's identity, he actually didn't have anything he had to do, and he was just mentally prepared for what might happen.

If something really happened, at least he wouldn't be so helpless.

After all, he is not an expert player at all. He is thinking of ways to make himself comfortable every day, so there is no way to prepare for it.

Moreover, he cannot be a master player in the strategy team.

Because this is a virtual reality game, the players' bodies are in a state of deep sleep in the outside world. This has led to many of the current strategy masters to get up and practice after only five or six hours of sleep every day. Level - just for this point, it can be called the [-]th among the [-]th.

After all, sleeping in the game is only to relieve mental fatigue and stress, not to truly sleep until you wake up naturally.

During this period of time, Su Hong maintained his usual style. During the day, he might set up a stall selling fried rice that would most likely not sell, or he might go fishing with Uncle Xitian, or he might just be under the shade of the trees in the initial town. Reading newspapers and thinking about things is a leisurely waste of time.

Around eight o'clock in the evening, he would sit in front of the fountain in the central square as usual, take out his violin and start performing his clumsy and funny performance. After singing until nine o'clock, he would close the stall and go home.

As for the matter of promoting doll clothes, we have to wait until Storeya's matter is over before discussing it - after all, the Knights of the Blood Alliance is Heathcliff's stronghold, so just going through it like this is a bit like going to the meeting alone.

After all, he is not the Overlord of Western Chu nor the Martial Saint Guan Yu, he is just an ordinary person, not as powerful as them.

As a result of Tostoreya's visit that day, he now observes the surrounding environment more often, and occasionally notices 'players' similar to Storeya appearing next to him.

Especially when he performs in the central square, he does appear frequently.

This feeling is similar to being stared at by an evil spirit in a ghost movie. Suddenly, he suddenly feels that someone is observing him with a special gaze - and he can only pretend not to know and glance at him from the corner of his eye from time to time. At first glance, it feels a bit like "Aincrad Reborn: I am Miko Yotsuya".

Su Hong spent the week leisurely like this. At the end of the first week of the New Year, he wasted a day in the Beginning Town as usual, ending the day with a funny performance. Under the false moonlight of Ngrant and the dim light of the street lights, he saw Storeya waiting for his arrival under the street lights at the edge of the town near the outer circle of the starting town.

"Ah, it's finally here!"

Storeya immediately jumped up to him and greeted him.

"Yohoo! We meet again."

"We are not uncommon these days, right? We just didn't have a conversation," Su Hong glanced at the AI ​​girl who likes to pretend to be cute, "Are you here to talk to me about things you didn't finish last time?"

"Isn't it rude to have this kind of attitude and way of speaking to a girl? Can't I wait for you here because I want to see you?"

Su Hong originally wanted to say that women will only affect the speed of my punches, but the rule of not hitting the smiling person has been around for a long time. Moreover, Storeya also has information about Yui and Kayaba Akihiko.

——He had to change his rhetoric.

"I apologize to you for being a virgin and giving you a bad experience with me."

"Ah, you actually said something like this that I don't know how to answer... As expected, you are still very interesting, Mr. Su Hong," Storeya laughed a few times, "But actually, I understand. , you actually don’t like to see me that much, and I’m somewhat self-aware of this... After all, that’s the kind of person you are.”

"Is this also the conclusion you came to through your observation of me?"

"That's right," Storeya clasped her hands in front of her and nodded with deep understanding, "I have been trying to build a mental model of you, simulating and inferring your behavior. If we talk about the entire Aincradree If there’s anyone who understands your thoughts and actions best, it’s me.”

Su Hong pursed his lips to say something, but in the end he still didn't say anything.

After all, he has lived in this game for almost a year, and the person who claims to know him best is actually the artificial intelligence in the game. There is a sense of cyberpunk in it, and it also proves his failure in disguise.

Although he has a super energy-saving behavior and adheres to the "none of my business", "none of your business" and "none of his business" mentality, he finds interpersonal communication troublesome, and he always stays away from the crowd. In addition, it is incomparable to the new generation of dead otakus who say they are otakus but are not very outgoing and even "encounter in another world".

Storeya was mentally prepared for what he might say, but she was quite surprised to see that he just moved his lips but didn't say anything.

"What an accident? I thought you would ridicule me."

"I'm not aggressive all the time, just like a man who wants to go on strike for an average of a few days every month," Su Hong curled his lips, "It's just that you happened to seize this opportunity. "

"Ah, it seems that the mental model I built is still very different."

"Why do you care so much about my mental state?" Su Hong finally couldn't help but ask, "There are obviously players in this game who are more worthy of your attention, right?"

"Yes, there are many people in Aincrad who deserve more attention than you," Storeya nodded with deep understanding, "Whether it's the Aincrad strategy players, or Those players who have lost friends are more worthy of my attention... Why should I keep paying attention to you?"

"Ask me this question?"

"Because I don't know either..."

Storeya put her hand on her chin and thought.

"Although it feels strange to say it, it was only after I followed you for a long time that I realized that I had been following you... Why did it become like this? You guys would occasionally mention it in chat The so-called 'love at first sight'?"

"I'm sorry, I've never had a girlfriend. I don't know what it feels like to fall in love at first sight." Su Hong rarely changed from a bad guy to a complainer, "But I feel like you are broken, right? After all, There are so many crouching dragons and phoenix chicks in the game, but I, the most neurotic person in this game, was chosen to pay attention to them."

"Ah, is there a bug in my program, but my program still runs fine?"

Su Hong finally couldn't help but ridicule Storeya, an AI who liked to act silly and cute.

"I think your program is completely based on bugs, right? Only in this way can you explain why you pay so much attention to me."

44. Is there anything you can’t do? ? (tremor)

As a surfer on the Internet, Su Hong naturally understands the wonderful operations of programmers - such as the classic "I don't know why there is a BUG here but the program can still run" [The program can still run without DEBUG, but after After DEBUG, the program cannot run for some reason].

Storeya may be in such a situation now.

It's just that to a certain extent, humans are not much better than AI. At least compared to Storeya, there are too many people with shortcomings and muddle along, based on 'wrong' concepts. Human beings are everywhere in society. In comparison, Stolea's impression on him now is actually good.

——This is the so-called [coming out of the silt but not stained].

"Despite all the nonsense we talked about, I can't possibly talk to you until tomorrow morning - if you still don't let me provide you with interesting information, then I'm going to go home and sleep."

"Well, well, I can understand."

Storeya nodded with deep understanding, and then changed the subject.

"At present, Cardinal has not actually found out where the defected sister is, but if the sister uses system permissions, she will be deleted by Cardinal. The creator of the game, Kayaba Akihiko, is not willing to let such a thing happen, so he borrowed Taking advantage of this New Year opportunity, I am here as the NPC of the event."

"Does Kayaba Akihiko already know about Yui's existence?"

Storeya nodded seriously, "Already know."

"That's it."

Su Hong knew that Storeya had not fully explained the matter - for example, how Kayaba Akihiko discovered Yui's existence, but in fact, under the current logic, Kayaba Akihiko, as the game producer, knew about Yui Its existence is taken for granted.

Because now, this game is completely different from the original "Sword Art Online".

Although the Blood Alliance Knights is the largest guild in the game as in the original plot of the "Sword Art Online" anime, the current leader of the Blood Alliance Knights is Shinka, and the deputy leader is Kayaba Akihiko, and the game has been in service for a year. Su Hong had never heard of rumors about the establishment of a PVP guild—that is, a murder guild.

Yui, who originally accompanied Kiritani Kazuto and Asuna Yuki in the plot, appeared in front of Argo and him shortly after the game was launched and was raised by Argo. Argo is well-known as a fraudster. Businessmen are bound to have quite personal contact with the current Knights of the Blood Alliance - after all, there are many super and first-class players in the Knights of the Blood Alliance. There is no doubt that the intelligence revealed by the players in the strategy group who are struggling on the front line of the strategy is all there. of value.

Therefore, it is natural that Kayaba Akihiko, as the deputy leader of the Blood Alliance Knights, learned about the existence of Yui, a [deviant] through his contact with Argo.

Even if Su Hong learned this information, he still couldn't figure out why Kayaba Akihiko went out of his way to do such a roundabout way of doing the New Year's event and let Storea serve as the NPC for the New Year's event.

"What does Kayaba Akihiko mean?"

"do not know."

Storeya shook her head with a half-smile.

"He just asked me to be the NPC in this event and randomly appear on different floors to issue New Year's tasks to the players, but he did not give me any direct orders - the task I issued to you to find my sister, in fact, It's just my personal decision. I took advantage of my authority as a New Year NPC and modified some of the New Year's tasks before giving it to you as a 'special task'."

Su Hong tried to use the information provided by Storeya to understand Kayaba Akihiko's purpose of doing these things, but he only thought about it for a while and chose to give up.

After all, he can't really sing Gotham Nightmare with Batman, and he can't perform "The Killing Joke" for Kayaba Akihiko that will go down in history.

The logic and content of his thinking are just ordinary people's thinking with limitations. They are very different from Kayaba Akihiko, an already existing technological cutting-edge criminal. Naturally, it is impossible to understand the meaning of him doing such a thing in a roundabout way. Where.

"...Do you have any other information you can provide?"

"Well……"

Storeya watched Su Hong holding his chin in deep thought. She was indeed thinking about whether she had left any important news unsaid, but she did not expect that there was any news left unsaid.

"...It seems there is no more."

"That's it."

After Su Hong pondered for a while, he opened his system column with his hand, picked through his backpack, and then applied for a transaction to Storeya.

Storeya blinked her eyes, "Hey...are you asking me to support you?"

"Can you still support me?"

"Although we can't let you get rich overnight to disrupt Cardinal's prices, it is not impossible to modify the content of item rewards on a small scale? After all, this New Year's event is essentially a card drawing event, and the probability is only It’s just pseudo-random.”

Storeya accepted Su Hong's trade request and placed the Easter eggs from the New Year's event in the item trading column, allowing him to preview the properties of the items.