What the hell is this movie theater?

Su Hong did not continue to watch the sand sculpture video that made him laugh until his stomach hurt, making his already hungry stomach worse. Instead, he began to study the game's login system to divert his attention.

After all, if he wants to continue Happy~Happy~Happy in GGO, the game will be shut down for updates now, so he might as well study the game's login system thoroughly now.

The interface of the GGO login system is divided into [Game Video Area] [Game Strategy Area] [Gamer Community] and [Currency Trading Area]. On the bottom page of the login tool, a gray [Login] is displayed. button] and the blue [Account Transfer] two option buttons.

[Login Button] and other video areas are understandable, but this [Account Transfer] is indeed somewhat unclear——

Su Hong rubbed his chin and thought about it for a long time, and felt that there should be no problem with clicking the [Account Transfer] button, so he reached out and pressed the [Account Transfer] button, and a SATEM-like game cover popped up in front of him. list.

There are only two games in the game list.

——[Gun Gale Online] and [ALfheim Online].

"There is a fraud."

That stupid movie viewing system now allows him to log in to [Gun Gale Online] in the Ghost Bullet Chapter and [ALfheim Online] where Grandpa Tong was almost killed by the Minotaur - that definitely means there is a scam in [ALfheim Online].

——At this time, Su Hong began to think extremely intensely in his mind.

Although I am very hungry, there is no need to risk my happy life in GGO and go to ALO ​​to eat cyber fast food for the sake of my stomach——

It is now [-]:[-] in the morning. At this time, almost everyone is sleeping. Even if there are Internet-addicted teenagers who continue to play the game, they probably will not see themselves at the player's birth point, but will be in a daze in the game. He is playing the game all the time, so he only needs to solve the cyber fast food like a special force and log off quickly to minimize the risk of dry food——

Mr. Su Hong was convinced by the soul of a rice cook hidden in his body - he began to reach out and click on the ALO game cover, click the login button in the game interface that popped up in ALO, and immediately let out a primitive man's war cry.

"ALO! Activate!"

Even when the ALO login tool turned into a colorful ring and moved to the right side of the field of view, rings continued to appear in the middle of the field of view, and then quickly moved to the right side of the field of view. Then, when the field of view in front of you was pressed, ALO The LOGO also appeared and disappeared, and countless blue data also formed a light flow and washed away the field of vision in front of him, which also made Su Hong feel that this special effect was somewhat familiar——

"Aix!"

As soon as the passionate roar ended, the light exploded and he instinctively closed his eyes. When he opened his eyes again, the scene that caught his eye was the central square of the floating city Aincrad. .

"I fucking—"

Su Hong's originally content face suddenly became distorted. He stretched out his hand and opened the system. In the familiar UI interface, he found the 'Exit Game' option that he didn't remember in his memory. He clicked on it, and a confirmation pop-up appeared in front of him. Confirm the option to exit.

He didn't have any hesitation about this option. He directly clicked on the button to confirm and exit, and his body disintegrated into the starting town of Aincrad, where the glory disappeared.

Su Hong returned to the extremely dark game login space in an instant, his face was extremely distorted, and he was jumping up and down in the darkness.

"It is indeed a fraud! It is indeed a fraud!"

"You don't explain anything to me! You don't explain anything! You just watch me jump into the pit on purpose! Damn it! Keima Katsuragi! Stupid system! One day I will definitely kill you. Give your asshole an olive! Give it your asshole!"

Su Hong jumped up and down for a while before he managed to calm down his bad mood. Panting heavily, he sat cross-legged in the dark space, staring at the ALO login device in front of him, and began to summarize the information he had just obtained.

There is no doubt that he entered the game using ALO's login, but he still has not gone through the process of creating a character, and his birth point is in the central square of the floating city Aincrad, which means that ALO is to some extent Just like SAO.

"There seems to be some matching information in my few remaining memories of the original Sword Art Online anime... At the end of the first season of the original Sword Art Online anime, Emperor Kiriten seemed to have moved SAO's system into the ALO game... It should exist as DLC in the game."

"But the plot of Sword Art Online has long been ruined by my appearance, and now I don't know what it has become. In other words, I have lost the foresight of the plot - I can't predict when I will Will get involved in the so-called [plot]."

"What am I-"

"But the only thing that is certain is that some idiot recognized me as the 'Hotel Beggar' in GGO, which means that I am [returning to Sword Art Online] this time, not coming to [the new Sword Art Online Parallel] Universe], come to [New IF].”

"In short, it's better to stay away from the named characters in the original animation. No matter what, I must hide my current identity and not be opened by others, otherwise it may cause unexpected things to happen. .”

In order to ensure that his happy life can be continued, Su Hong re-emphasized his life policy, using the Assassin's Creed passed down by the Assassin Mentors Akarin and Kato Megumi to reduce the presence of the "beggars in the hotel", and using Ultraman and Manage the code of conduct of the hidden person to create a contrast by acting in a big way, and complete the ultimate contrast between the 'Playboy' and the 'Dark Knight' to hide the identity——

"In this case——then I don't need to be so panicked."

After all, the 'Hotel Beggar' was originally a leather bag he deliberately created to fight against the moviegoers. As long as he no longer kills the audience in such an exaggerated and abstract way, he can return to normal like a wolf——

That's also a stab at the audience watching it now for fun or whatever.

In this way, even if troublesome people such as Yui and Storeya come to visit, he can still show his attitude of "inexplicable people come to chat with him", confuse their hearing and judgment, and then find an opportunity to make up a story. The origin story of the 'hotel beggars', squeezing toothpaste to them like squeezing toothpaste——

For example, the 'Hotel Beggar' was just an AI built by a certain AI research institute based on his prototype. I heard that the AI ​​model collapsed after it was put into some game to conduct a 'Turing experiment' or a 'performance experiment'. The research therefore came to nothing.

Such and such, such and such, it is a good strategy to kill two birds with one stone, and it is also a good strategy to kill two birds with one stone.

Mr. Su Hong really makes the world wide with just one thought, and he is no longer afraid of the [IF plot] that may come when he doesn't know when - after all, it is more difficult to go with the current than to go against the current. Powerful cards are always accompanied by danger, but in the future Attacking in the original form can also minimize unknown dangers.

"ALO! Activate!"

——All in all, let’s make a meal first.

10. Is this even possible?

It’s been a long time since I walked back to the central square of Aincrad’s original town, where there was almost no one around. Maybe it’s not as long as it has been in terms of physical perception, but when I revisited the old place, I found that Aincrad had not changed at all. , but also some inexplicable emotion.

Because Su Hong actually lived in Fuyuki City for only a few months, and in such a short period of time, he spent most of the time drinking with Jing Ke, drinking on his own initiative and pressing [SKIP] to fast forward, so compared to It feels more like [temporarily living in another city for over a month] than [temporarily being assigned to work in Fuyuki City].

"As expected, it is the early morning when player activity is the lowest in the day. There are no people at all."

Su Hong also opened his backpack and looked at his money, and found that he had an initial capital of 1000G as a novice. He immediately ran around the familiar Aincrad and ran to the grocery store to find an NPC to buy something for use. In the linen cloak that covers the figure.

"Well, that's fine."

Among the 'cloaks' in SAO designed by Kayaba Akihiko, apart from the cloak that has different skill effects and can withstand fatal damage like a monster hunter, the rest is what Su Hong is wearing at this time and is specifically used to cover his body. and cloak of appearance.

In fact, when he was still living in SAO, he did have this kind of cloak specially used to hide his body.

Because if this kind of cloak is used properly, it can achieve the effect of [dispelling stars] in street fights. As long as you find an opportunity to throw away the pursuers for a moment and equip the cloak, you can go back to the pursuers in an open and clear way. return.

In addition, there are quite a few people who wear cloaks when they challenge him, and their attacks are extremely sharp. They are not at all the fighting qualities that ordinary players who rely on the help of the action system can have - perhaps they are afraid of being recognized. The frontline players that come out.

Su Hong took a walk in the almost deserted starting town of Aincrad to a food store sold by NPCs. He took a Japanese pork cutlet rice that he rarely ordered during his life in SAO and sat down in the store. Come down and eat Japanese pork cutlet rice slowly and leisurely.

Although the taste of the food provided in the virtual reality online game is quite different from reality, and it is nothing compared to the skill of the lame store manager, most of the food provided in the online game is real. Very cheap.

If you are an average player, you can probably play the game as a 'food simulator', where you can find and develop all kinds of delicacies that you can't eat in reality. You won't even feel your stomach is full after eating these. Don’t worry, you can eat, eat, eat, eat—

Su Hong was frantically cooking on his seat with chopsticks when there was a sudden sound of someone pushing in at the store door, which made him subconsciously stop cooking and looked towards the door, where he saw the ranking of people he absolutely did not want to meet. TOP2.

——Artificially retarded Storeya.

The thoughts in her mind had become unpredictable since she opened the door. The idea of ​​​​logging out of the system directly was on the horizon, but until Storeya bought pork chop rice in front of the NPC counter and sat down on the seat in front of him, , neither took any substantive action.

Although he did not expect Stolea to be able to find him so quickly, it was normal to think about it.

After all, Storeya never appeared in the original Sword Art Online anime. It would make sense to become Emperor Kiriten's Pokemon unlike Yui in the original film - it was probably Storeya who could find him so quickly. Players who are still Aincrad support the AI.

Storeya just sat down with the pork chop rice and then raised her head and smiled at him.

"Mr. Su Hong."

Although I really wanted to say something like, 'It's great to see you safe and sound,' Welcome back to Aincrad,' etc., I still didn't say what I wanted to say... Or rather, I sat down. When I was in front of him, I felt that there was no need to say these words.

Su Hong did not respond to Storeya's call immediately, nor did he use other exaggerated actions to turn the meeting between acquaintances into an exaggerated plot in a funny cartoon——

He just put down the bowls and chopsticks he was holding, swallowed the food in his mouth, and nodded calmly to Stolea.

"Should I say long time no see?"

"Long time no see." Storeya's face showed the happy smile that he had seen before. "The control system just detected that you logged into Aincrad again, but it only lasted for about five seconds. I didn’t have time to get to you either.”

"Then now?"

"I paid a little attention to you when you logged into Aincrad again - I also considered not disturbing you, but considering the underlying logical structure given during the creation of the [Mental State Management Support Application], I decided to meet you in person."

Storeya pushed the pork chop rice she bought from the NPC to Su Hong.

"If you are really hungry and don't mind it, you can have my share."

"Thank you, but no need. I'll be full after eating this," Su Hong put the horizontal chopsticks in his hand on the bowl, "Although I really should thank you for secretly deciding to help me kill Kayaba Akihiko, but You didn’t take what I told you to heart—just thinking about this makes me unable to eat.”

Storeya just smiled and sighed, "After all, unlike my sister, I am a partially flawed AI."

Su Hong actually had no intention of settling a score with Storeya. He just wanted to use this topic to gain a favorable position in the conversation and make his demands to Storeya - so he did not publish her remarks. own evaluation.

Although he is a keyboard warrior, he is not fighting against heaven and earth every day and taking control of his fate. On the contrary, most of the time he is just surfing the Internet, and only at certain times will he transform into a super keyboard man. Be crazy about a person or idea.

When Internet trolls and keyboard warriors are just ways to adjust your life, how can you open your mouth to spray shit on other people in real life?After all, fighting like maggots in a sea of ​​excrement every day is the problem.

"Put aside whether you are a defective AI or not - I want to confirm something with you."

"As long as you want to know, I will tell you," Storeya teased Su Hong with a smile, "Probably you asked me what my figure data is...then I will tell you seriously. To that extent.”

"Internet teasing is prohibited," Su Hong stretched out his hand to make a pause gesture, "I just want to talk about business now."

"Yeah, yeah," Storeya hugged her chest and nodded in agreement, "Let's talk about business, let's talk about business."

Su Hong thought carefully and then asked.

"It must have been at least a year since the original Aincrad was conquered."

“准确来说的话——SAO是在2024年4月21日被攻略的，而现在的时间是2025年9月25日，距离SAO被攻略的时间已经过去了将近一年半的时间。”

Su Hong nodded, but didn't say anything immediately.

After he left the set of Sword Art Online, he arrived in Fuyuki City without much rest, and the time he spent living in Fuyuki City on the set was not more than two months. As a result, he returned this time a year after the end of SAO. Half later.

——[His time] and [Sword Art Online’s time] flow at different speeds, or it could be that he is scheduled to appear in [GGO in September 2025] like a time jump in a science fiction work.

He didn't want to dwell on the issue of [time], and it wasn't something he could dwell on, so he just pondered for a moment after hearing the news before asking Stolea seriously again.

"I want to know what happened during the time I disappeared, especially about Kiritian-Kirito."

"ALO, which inherited the game framework of SAO, had a missing player case. Mr. Kirito was also entrusted by a staff member of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications to investigate this new type of cybercriminal activity. After accepting the entrustment, Mr. Kirito asked Rhine and Klein and other SAO survivors asked them to assist him in investigating ALO, and Miss Argo also took my sister and me to join this investigation."

Storeya told Su Hong what happened this year.

"Ignore the process of the investigation, but the result of the investigation is that Nobuyuki Sugou of ALO's development company [RECT] secretly recruited many players who were willing to participate in the test under the name of [Special Dungeon Area Test], but in fact he was using them to conduct human experiments. Research on data bodies to achieve research on [brainwashing] [controlling] [data lifeforms]."

Su Hong just frowned when he heard this, but didn't say anything because of it.

So far, he still does not have a [real body] in the world of Sword Art Online. It is precisely because he has no [entity] that his existence aroused the interest of Kayaba Akihiko, allowing Kayaba Akihiko to shut down the external knowledge of the sword. Access rights to the God's Domain server.

Nobuyuki Sugou was unable to intercept the survivors of SAO, but he still conducted illegal experiments on the 'players' as in the original plot - to a certain extent, it can be regarded as a reappearance of the plot that he messed up in some way.

"What happened next."

"Because Nobuyuki Sugou's crime was investigated by us and handed over to the staff of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, and Nobuyuki Sugou's scandal also caused [RECT]'s stock to plummet, Ms. Asuna Yuuki, as CEO of RECT Company Yuki Shozo's daughter, the discoverer of the scandal, a survivor of SAO, a gamer, etc., asked her father to arrange for her to join the RECT company's development team and transfer the floating city Aincrad data seed held by Mr. Kirito ( SEED) was updated into the game as a large-scale version of ALO, and ALO once again gained popularity among players."

When Storeya said this, she smiled at Su Hong.

"In short - the floating city Aincrad has become what you see now, and it also allows me to continue to be active in Aincrad as a [Mental State Management Support Program] and to monitor to a special player logging into the game.”

“What an unexpected unfolding.”

Su Hong raised his hand and rubbed his chin, lost in thought.

Although the plot development of Sword Art Online during the period of disappearance was beyond his expectation, if he thought about it carefully, the development of the plot was indeed reasonable.

Because he had unknowingly interfered with the plot of the original work in SAO. As a result, Benzina did not interact with Emperor Tongtian like they did in the original plot, shooting off flash bombs all day long. Instead, she and the sickle girl had sex. The look of falling in love and killing each other.

——Now she has directly embarked on the route of being a heroine, which is quite awkward, but inheriting the family business is completely normal.

It's just that Su Hong has been fighting the system and Keima Katsuragi for so long, and has long developed a sense of "deliberately concealing something important and not saying anything" - he can now clearly detect that Storeya did not fully understand what he said. say clearly.

"Do you have anything to hide or not say?"

"Actually... it's not a particularly important thing," Storeya raised her hand and touched her cheek and turned away, "It's just that Nobuyuki Sugou wants to study the player's motivation... and it has a direct connection with you. .”

Su Hong frowned again, "What's going on?"

Storeya could only sigh helplessly, and still told the reason for this incident.

"Kayaba Akihiko did destroy most of Aincrad's data, but he only failed to destroy the Black Iron Palace in the Beginning Town, and you are also recorded as a dead person in the game in the large tombstone of the Black Iron Palace. .

It is this [game death list] that was not destroyed by Kayaba Akihiko, which leads to the death toll in the game being more than the real death, including you, and in addition, SAO headed by Yuki Asuna What the survivors said——

Sugou Nobuyuki confirmed that the "extra dead" might be a "strong AI" created by a secret research institute that can perfectly pass the Turing test, or a "data life form".

That's why Nobuyuki Sugou secretly recruited players to conduct illegal experiments under the guise of testing the game, offering high salaries to players to sign confidentiality agreements for the game - but some parents still reported the case because they couldn't get any news from their children for a long time.

After the police traced it all the way, they were helpless because of the commercial confidentiality agreement signed by the players. However, it also led the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications' network department to identify virtual reality games as a new cybercrime. However, it was also hindered by the commercial confidentiality agreement signed by the players and the Players have normal physical characteristics and have no way of starting.

That’s why the staff of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications approached Mr. Kirito and entrusted Mr. Kirito, the player who personally ended the SAO incident, to conduct an in-depth investigation of ALO, hoping that he could find evidence in the game that could prove cybercrime and this cybercrime. By. "

——Is the butterfly effect caused by me before really that big?And the plot that originally went astray because of [me], can it come back because of [me]?

Su Hong couldn't help but fell into deep thought.

11. Ghost, a ghost from the electronic world is wandering in ALO!

Although for Su Hong, the incident where he was twice waisted by Kayaba Akihiko was still a recent event, to other people in this world, it was true that nearly a year and a half had passed.

This is barely good news for Su Hong.

After all, he has caused countless troubles in SAO. I don’t know how many people will remember him as a real plot spoiler. In the past year and a half, he has also caused troubles to himself. The chaos was dealt with coldly——