Four Hundred and Twelve Different Spiritual Values

The safe area located in the deepest part of the underground labyrinth of the Black Iron Palace is a very complete square room. Not only does it have only one entrance, but the whole is extremely empty. There is no decoration or decoration, and there are only white walls, floors and ceilings.

The only exception is a black cubic stone table in the center of the room.

In the center of the white room, something so dark suddenly appeared, which was quite obvious.

And at this moment, on the pitch-black stone table, there was a white dress.

Yui sat on the stone table, looked at Rozen and Asuna lying on the ground, and smiled softly.

However, seeing Yui's smile, Luo Zhen and Asuna didn't feel happy at all, but their hearts sank.

Just because Yui's smile no longer has the innocence and innocence of the past, but only complex emotions full of intelligence.

That kind of emotion is like sadness and sadness.

Therefore, Luo Zhen and Asuna really couldn't be happy at all.

"Goo!"

"Woo!"

On the contrary, Cai Die and Hua Die, as if they hadn't noticed anything, still cheered as usual, and rushed towards Yui's direction, showing a clear intimacy.

Seeing this, the smile on Yui's face also softened a bit, and he stretched out his hand and touched the heads of Caidie and Huadie.

"Thank you for being with me all this time."

Yui thanked softly.

That appearance is really much worse than the previous Yui.

Rozen and Asuna have already got up from the ground.

"Yuki-chan..."

Asuna looked at Yui, calling the other person's name as if she was afraid, but also as if she was at a loss.

"..."

Luo Zhen remained silent, just staring at Yui intently, without taking any action.

Yui turned her gaze back to Rozen and Asuna.

"Mr. Luo Zhen, Miss Asuna."

The voice was still familiar, but the strangeness in the title, Luo Zhen left aside, Asuna trembled slightly, as if she had received a lot of blows.

I don't know if Yui has noticed this, but she just made a sound with a somewhat illusory smile.

"Although I really want to ask why the two of you are here, but if you think about it carefully, if it is Mr. Luo Zhen, it would not be surprising to find this place at all."

Although Yui's tone became very strange, when talking about Luo Zhen, there was still joy and pride that could not be concealed in the words.

Regarding this, Luo Zhen also didn't know if he had noticed this, so he pretended to be relaxed and smiled.

"After all, you are obviously a little abnormal tonight. I thought that if I followed you secretly, I might be able to know something."

This is what Luo really intends.

"I'm sorry, I didn't intend to leave suddenly." Yui lowered his head and apologized: "It's just that the automatic repair of the program has started to work, and it guided me here to make adjustments, so I left home like sleepwalking and came here."

Yui's words made it impossible for Luo Zhen and Asuna to ignore them easily.

"Automatic repair?"

Asuna was taken aback.

"program……"

Luo Zhen moved his lips slightly, and finally turned all the doubts in his heart into the most critical question.

"Jie Yi." Luo Zhen looked directly at Yu Yi, and asked word by word: "Who are you?"

With the spread of these words, the surrounding atmosphere changed significantly.

Yui seemed to know that he would be asked such a question, the smile on his face gradually disappeared.

But Yui didn't choose not to answer.

"This world——is governed by a huge system.

"

Yui suddenly started such an explanation without any reason.

"It is a system that can control the balance of this world based on one's own judgment. It is designed based on the concept of not needing maintenance by humans. It has two main programs that correct each other's errors, and then uses countless subprograms to make all adjustments to the world——."

———.

That is the system that controls this world, which is equivalent to the existence of laws.

"Such as the AI ​​of monsters and NPCs, the appearance balance of props and currency, the improvement of player's ability parameters, the change of the weather and climate of the floor, etc., etc., are all operated by the program group under the command of , and it can be almost perfect. No one needs to personally adjust and operate to run the entire world."

Yui said slowly like this.

"However, there is a task that must be performed by humans."

What task?

"The troubles caused by the player's mental state can only be solved by humans."

Yui lowered her head, letting only her own voice come out.

"However, the developers of wanted to hand over the task of taking care of the players to the system, so they tried a certain program, using the characteristics of , to monitor the psychological state of the players in detail, visit players with problems, and listen to their voices. In order to prevent the players from feeling incongruous, they also gave the program an emotional simulation function."

Hearing this, Luo Zhen and Asuna had a premonition in their hearts.

As if seeing through the premonition in the hearts of the two, Yui showed a somewhat empty smile again.

"Originally, this program should have started to visit the player on the day the game was officially launched two years ago, and entered the use stage, but the main system suddenly gave her an unexpected order, prohibiting her from interfering with the player's behavior, so that she can only continue to monitor the player's mental state without being allowed to contact the player."

Undoubtedly, that so-called unscheduled order could only come from SAO's only game manager——Akihiko Kayaba.

Yui didn't mention him, but continued to explain.

"Presumably the two of you also know what the mental state of the players trapped here is after this game is officially launched and becomes a death game, right?"

Does that need to be said?

"fear."

"despair."

"anger."

"sad."

"Under the domination of all kinds of negative emotions, the mental state of the players not only becomes extremely unstable, but some even fall into a state of madness."

Yui bit her lip and spoke in a low voice.

"She who keeps looking at the hearts of these people, because she can't actively contact the players, but has a program setting that must go to appease the players' emotions, causing great contradictions, the program continues to accumulate errors, and begins to gradually collapse."

Having said that, Yui raised her eyes and looked at Luo Zhen, the first sincere smile appeared on her immature pretty face since just now.

"Just when her AI program was about to break down, one day, she suddenly noticed that a player had a different mental value from others."

Hearing this, Luo Zhen's heart skipped a beat.

"That is…"

Asuna also understood something, and looked at Luo Zhen.