What the hell is this movie theater?

——It is indeed a good place.

“No matter how many cappuccinos you drink in the game, no matter how many desserts you eat, it won’t really affect reality, and this old Western nostalgic wooden house – I really hope I can always live in this game. "

The female player put down the cappuccino in her hand and let out such a sigh. Lian turned to look at her again, and saw her grinning again and putting her hands on the table, leaning forward. He leaned closer.

"I said, little one, what's your name? Is it just 'Lian'?"

"Ah, yes."

"My name is also my ID, but you can just call me Pito. We are both rare female players in this game. Let's get along well in the future, right?" Pito took his body back again, but the smile on his face His interest did not diminish, "Since the lightsaber user gave it to you after exploding my weapon, you must have a good relationship, right? Is she his girlfriend?"

"No, no, no, no!" Lian instinctively explained to her, "He and I have no such relationship, they are just ordinary friends we met in the game! There is a reason why your weapon is here with me. of!"

Pito showed a very interested expression and continued to question the embarrassed Lian.

"Oh? It sounds interesting... Can you tell me how you met?"

——Not only was she interested in the news about the lightsaber user and wanted to continue to make insinuations, but also because Lian, who was called the [Pink Demon] by other players, blushed and hurriedly explained. Just so cute.

——After all, everyone has a love for beauty.

Lian was relieved to hear that she didn't continue to struggle in the direction of 'boyfriend and boyfriend'. Then she stretched out her hands to pick up the warm coffee in front of her and took a sip before speaking.

"At first, he wore novice clothes, bought a lightsaber in a weapons store and played around with it, but the way he played with the lightsaber was very handsome, it was very much like he chose the lightsaber after transferring from a fantasy game. The swordsman as a weapon attracted me and other players to watch.”

Pito laughed when he heard this and picked up the topic, "In this case, there must be other players saying that he bought the wrong equipment and played the wrong game, right?"

"If it was just like this, he and I wouldn't have known each other... Mainly because after we both expressed our opinions that 'light sabers are useless', he became very angry and... arrogantly cursed and walked away. .”

When Lian said this, she quickly added.

"Maybe it's because of his bad attitude? At that time, some players said that they would expose the lightsaber he just bought after he leaves the main city... I think his attitude is a bit bad, but because of this It was not a big deal for me to receive malicious PK from others, so I chased him in the direction he left, trying to persuade him to return the lightsaber he just bought and buy some weapons like submachine guns, rifles or beam guns."

"and then?"

"Because I was afraid that he really didn't want to listen to my dissuasion, and he didn't know the weakness of the lightsaber in this game - so I asked him to have a competition to let him know where the 'lightsaber' is weak. .”

"Haha, then you must have been defeated by him."

"...This, this is correct."

Lian lowered her head depressedly and sipped her coffee to relieve her embarrassment.

After all, as an old player, she had just entered this game and issued a challenge to a newbie. It was originally meant to 'bully the small with the big'. Even if she wanted to make the [newbie] turn around and choose [better weapons as the starting point] as a reason, it was not It cannot change the nature of [food abuse].

But how could she have imagined that she could still lose after she tried her best.

Although she is now certain that the strange person is not her, but the new player who calls himself Steve Rogers, but this kind of person is so confident when facing new players that he doubts his own game level when he is beaten by the new players. ——

It's embarrassing just to say this.

"Hahaha, no wonder you were restrained in the previous battle, like a newbie - because you cared too much about the result, you started to doubt your own game level, and naturally you couldn't fully display your level."

Although Pito was comforting Lian, the wanton smile on her face felt like she was gloating.

"Actually, you don't need to care too much about this result, right? What's strange is just the player fighting with a lightsaber. It's not that there's something wrong with our game level. Because if I guessed correctly, he should Yes——SAO survivor.”

"SAO survivor?"

Lian's eyes widened when she heard this.

Although she had not had much exposure to games due to tutoring, and "SAO" was the first virtual reality game released before she graduated from high school, the news about death games was overwhelming during that time, and Let her hear something.

After she was admitted to college and came to live alone in Tokyo, she still had all kinds of troubles and pressures in reality, so she could only find a friend to vent her dissatisfaction over the phone, but her friend introduced her to [Complete Stealth] game】.

After constantly trying different games, I finally got the image I wanted in GGO. It was indeed because I liked my current character image too much and started to like this game gradually, so I started to spontaneously learn about the "Total Stealth Game".

From this, [SAO Survivor] became known to her as the basic common sense of the game, or as a term specific to a certain type of player.

Because gamers who are called [SAO Survivors] by other players are extremely powerful in different games. They are given the proper name [SAO Survivors] because of their extremely rich combat experience and powerful abilities and attribute values. It no longer refers to "just players who successfully survived the death game of SAO", but "super players who can survive the death game".

"No wonder, no wonder he was able to use his 'stunt' to survive my full-bullet attack, and he was able to attack me..."

Pito's smile became more aggressive, "Purely physical performance?"

"Well," Lian nodded her head in deep fear, and finally the psychological shadow of being defeated by Mengxin, and even scared to death by Mengxin in the battle, shrunk a little, "It's not relying on 'stunts' 'Skills make extremely complex movements in combat, but rely on pure physical ability to create stunt-like effects..."

"It's exactly what I expected... The lightsaber user you call 'Steve Rogers' is not just a master player among SAO survivors, but a 'strategy group' player among master players. '."

"A player from the strategy team?"

"SAO's floating city Aincrad uses a 'tower' method to change the scene. There are a hundred floors in the tower. Each floor has a person who is called a [floor master] by players or something else. The BOSS exists. The area where the floor BOSS exists is called the maze area. Someone must explore the location of the BOSS room in the maze area, so that the team can be assembled to defeat the floor BOSS and go to the upper level."

Pito picked up the coffee on the table beside him, looked out the window at the neon lights in the city at night and took a sip——

"Because SAO became a death game after the open beta was launched, players who conquer the floor BOSS must be the elite of the elite to deal with the most dangerous floor BOSS. Therefore, there are also divisions between ordinary players, expert players and players in the attack group. The difference - the Steve Rogers you are talking about is probably the player in the SAO strategy team."

"You are so understanding!" Lian sincerely admired her, "I only know the term [SAO Survivor]!"

"No, I only know about SAO out of interest - and if I am really interested in the floating city Aincrad, I will not continue playing in this game, but switch to ALO Beat the floor master."

Pito retracted his gaze from the window and returned his gaze to Lian.

"But back to the topic - the reason why I found that lightsaber user is because he is a master of the SAO strategy team, so I want to have a serious duel with him again, and let me see how I can defeat those who have truly overcome death. How big is the gap between the masters of the game?"

"I understand," Lian nodded seriously, but spoke uncertainly, "Although my relationship with him... should be barely considered a friend, but can I introduce him to you? I’m not so sure…”

"Not sure?"

"Because his character... how should I put it? He is a little out of line in daily life, and his thoughts jump very quickly. He is exactly the type that I am not good at dealing with, so I am not sure whether I can introduce him to you. …”

——She speaks the truth from her heart.

Although her family's education methods for her cannot be said to be too strict, most of the people she comes into contact with in her family environment are not people with this kind of unrestrained style of "thinking comes out as soon as they come up". His character is a bit on the side, and he is still the friend who introduced her to the Total Stealth game in real life - but he is not at all as unrestrained as Steve Rogers.

"It sounds quite personal."

"It's not so much 'quite individual', but rather a bit too individual, right?" Lian complained, "A person with his kind of personality is considered normal in the game... If it is also shown in reality If you look like this, you will definitely be ostracized and laughed at.”

"I can't understand your evaluation of him right now? It would be better to wait until we all get to know him and then discuss this topic as a private matter in our girls' club."

After Pito smiled, he started to change the topic that had gone astray.

"If you really don't have the confidence to introduce him to me, why don't you tell me the location of the meeting after you meet him, and let me get to know him on the grounds that I want to redeem the sniper rifle I dropped. "

"Ah..." Pito's words reminded Lian of the sniper rifle she dropped in her backpack, and Lian hurriedly opened her backpack, took out the M21SWS, put it on the table, and pushed it towards Pito, "Although there are some Shameless...but just think of it as a meeting gift from me?"

"I'm not saying that I care about this sniper rifle, right?" Pito grinned, "I just want to let 'redeem my sniper rifle' as a reasonable reason for me to contact her. As for this gun?" Now that everything has been exposed, I have no plans to take it back.”

Lian was stunned, "Don't you have any plans to take your weapon back?"

"After all, there are many weapons I can use, and this weapon is not too expensive for me. Besides, it is best to put this gun with you, so that I have a reasonable reason to pester you. Use that lightsaber."

Pito laughed boldly and stood up, reaching out his hand to tuck the hanging hair on the right side behind his ear.

"But you are right - as a gift for our first meeting, just buying you a cup of coffee would seem too stingy on my part - come on, Ren-chan, I will take you to a nice place."

Lian tilted her head to the left in confusion, "A good place?"

"You'll know it when you come here," Pito laughed, "That place will definitely satisfy you and make your trip worthwhile."

15. One thousand percent! ! ! ! ! ! !

Before being ganked by Katsuragi Keima——

Mr. Su Hong's life is boring and not much fun, which is probably equivalent to the level in a movie where someone can take his life through his life in just one sentence.

If you put him in a criminal detective film, it would probably be like [the deceased this time was an Internet troll before he was alive], but if you add the sentence [this is his browser record] after this sentence.

——He will be sublimated in the human world in the end because of his browser records.

Although his short and boring life will be sublimated in a dramatic way in the end, it still cannot change that his life is extremely boring. It is even too much to describe his boring life day after day in two sentences. .

[Su Hong wandered alone in the city from morning to night. 】

If you add the sentence "His life is so boring", it will be enough to describe his life.

After Mr. Su Hong paid off his foreign debt, he stayed up late and walked around the city until he couldn't stand it anymore, and then he went back to sleep, thus correcting his disordered biological clock.

But after Su Hong woke up, he was still like himself yesterday, walking alone in the streets and alleys of the city, living like an old man who had entered his twilight years, just strolling around until night.

['LLENN' sends you a video call request. 】

Su Hong had nothing to do, and besides, there was really no memory of this little dwarf appearing in the original animation of Sword Art Online. There was no need to be wary of this kind little man, so he pressed the button to accept the call. Press the confirmation button and speak the traditional greetings from the great eastern country.

"Hey, have you eaten?"

"!?"

Lian Lu looked at Su Hong with a confused expression.

She didn't understand at all why he asked if she had eaten, and naturally she didn't understand the meaning of what he said.

"If you don't eat, just punch me!"

Su Hong raised his right fist and hit the screen directly, which made Lian behind the screen look speechless as he watched him withdraw his fist from the screen.

Her reaction, which was beyond Su Hong's expectation, made Su Hong fall into deep thought.

"There's no other reaction besides being speechless... What's going on? Could it be that this old and bad guy is no longer qualified to interact with others?"

Lian complained speechlessly, "Because you won't hit me at all, right?"

"There's nothing humorous about what you said."

Su Hong Xiaoxiong spread his hands and continued.

"What I did just now was like I told you a bad joke, but you thought carefully about the content of the joke... Although there is nothing wrong with not knowing the joke, but for the joke The content of what was said and the long speech just made people feel disappointed.”

"Since you know this, then don't tell cold jokes." Lian could only raise her hand to support her forehead at this time, "Besides, what you told is not a cold joke."

"Look, it's like you are now."

"..."

Lian was really not good at engaging in 'quarrels of words' with people like him, so she could only ignore this boring topic while holding her forehead, and tell her the purpose of initiating the call this time.

"I'm looking for you this time because I want to reconfirm with you about the equipment and materials you sent me by email - in short, we will meet at the old place in the PK hall to discuss this matter in detail."

"Row."

"I'll wait for you here."

Su Hong hung up the phone neatly after she said this. He did not have the style of being reluctant and procrastinating when making video calls with others.

Because for him, this matter is not a casual chat between acquaintances, but a [work] that needs to be solved and completed. If it is delayed, the efficiency of solving the matter will be extremely low.

Although the creed that Su Hong now believes in is [don’t do the work that can’t be done] [do whatever you have to do] [don’t do things yourself if you can leave them to others], but it’s hard to beg this little man online. It’s really not possible to buy a name change card [just do what you have to do]——

Therefore, solving things in the most efficient way is the most reasonable and appropriate thing to do.

Su Hong hung up the phone and ran down the city streets to the vehicle rental area where motorcycles were rented. He rode the motorcycle quickly in the neon city at night.

It only took him 10 minutes to rush to the vicinity of the PK lobby, return the motorcycle, and rush to the player lobby within 2 minutes. He sat down opposite the dwarf at lightning speed, and also made the man in front of him The little man, who was drinking through a straw, covered his throat and coughed.

Su Hong looked at the little dwarf who was coughing from drinking and thought for a moment, then seriously expressed his rare heartfelt concern to the little dwarf in front of him.

"If you cough even after drinking water, it means that you are indeed not very lucky today. Otherwise, if you listen to the [Great Compassion Mantra] or the [Medicine Master's Mantra] before going to bed, you can at least feel at ease."

"I-I cough because you suddenly rushed out like a mouse and sat in front of me, okay? Could it be that you cough, don't you have any self-awareness?"

When Su Hong heard these words, he straightened his face and said seriously, "Dongfeng Express must fulfill its mission, which is our service tenet. So I have been called, so I must respond as soon as possible."

"……Ugh."

Lian could only sigh helplessly, put down her right hand that was holding her forehead, clutched her left wrist holding the drink, leaned over the table, and spoke weakly.

"Anyway... I want to talk to you in person about your issue of sending equipment and materials via email."

Su Hong nodded seriously when he heard this, raised his right hand to open the system bar, took out a notebook and pen from his backpack, and made a social gesture like recording the key points of the meeting.

"Is it what I thought, that the actual value of the money from selling the equipment and materials is not comparable to the amount of money that needs to be paid for the renamed card?"

After Lian heard these words and saw Su Hong taking notes with a pen, his already tired face showed a complex expression of being speechless and choking and not knowing how to speak.

Su Hong had the experience of successfully working in an idiot company for three months, and he also saw that the loli character player in front of him seemed to have an unspeakable secret, so he said to her thoughtfully.

"Actually, if you have anything to say, just say it directly. I am not the kind of social beast who likes to make twists and turns at work, but I strictly implement the operational policy of "Complete the work faster to get the job done faster", so I won't I don’t care if what you say embarrasses me, just say what I need to do.”

"No...how did you think that the equipment and materials you mailed to me are not enough to repay the value of the name change card I gave you in the first place?"

"But if the equipment and materials I mailed to you are enough to repay the name-change card I borrowed from you, you won't actually have to come to me for another interview, right?"

As Su Hong said these words, he picked up a pen and wrote on the paper, "Is it true that some people are so stupid that they make money cheaply, but insist on sending what they earn cheaply back to others?"

After a moment of silence, Lian said with great resentment, "...Are you scolding me?"