Chapter 373: Don’t Want SAO to Be Conquered

August 31, 2nd year of the Alliance Calendar.

Today, there are a lot of people in Alliance City. After all, it is the day for the Pokémon Academy to register for school. There are also parents who come to Alliance City to play for two or three days in the name of sending their children.

A large flow of people makes it easy for all kinds of things to happen. Although there are fewer incidents such as stealing, molestation, and robbery, they do happen. Therefore, the security team of Alliance City will be busy during this period.

Dak did not enter SAO on this day.

It has been two months since the public beta of SAO, and the living conditions of players have almost been completely finalized.

10% of the players are committed to upward strategy and work hard for it.

35% want to conquer SAO and return to the real world, but they are unwilling to risk their lives to fight monsters and level up.

25% of the players don’t care whether they go back or not. In this group, the players generally have a mediocre life in reality, so they think it’s okay to return to reality, but it’s also good to stay here.

25% are reluctant to go back. They are generally unhappy in reality and have encountered various problems. They want to use SAO to escape reasonably or even want to die in the game without pain.

The last 5%.

Those who have a strong desire not to return to reality.

These people are also some special existences in the game. One type is people who think that this world is very cool and can do whatever they want, and the other type is trainers.

Yes, they are those players who are called "magic".

These people are unwilling to separate from Pokémon, so they have a serious aversion to being conquered in SAO.

Fortunately, most players who can get the friendship of Pokémon are kind-hearted people, so even if these people are unwilling to return to reality, they will not stop other players from conquering.

They will only silently worry whether they can still see their Pokémon after this game is conquered.

The 17th floor.

This floor is the most popular floor for leisure parties and sightseeing parties so far.

Because although this floor is the 17th floor, the level of wild monsters is quite high, but they all seem very bulky. Even people with lower levels can easily escape from such stupid monsters.

This floor is very suitable for settlement and vacation. The terrain of the entire floor is like surrounded by mountains on all sides, and there is a large lake in the middle.

There are all kinds of fruits and yellow-named animal monsters on the surrounding mountains, and there are all kinds of fish in the lake.

It can be said that this floor is like a place specially created by Kayaba Akihiko for this group of players. Many wealthy players have chosen to buy properties on this floor to settle down.

Fu Ye is such an old man.

He is already very old. He originally entered the game to feel the body of his youth, go around and take a look, and relieve his loneliness.

Even when he was trapped in SAO during the public beta period, he was not panicked.

Because Fu Ye can be said to have almost no family in real life. His wife died early, and his two sons were so busy that they could hardly come back for one or two days throughout the year.

Although he is very rich, very, very rich, and belongs to the level of the richest man in the place, his life is very lonely and boring.

After being trapped in SAO, he was somewhat thankful.

He was originally one of the 25%, thinking that it would be nice to die painlessly in the game.

Until that day when he was fishing in a reservoir on the fifth floor and met a duckbill baby, his thoughts changed.

At that time, Fu Ye was not afraid of death at all.

What is death? Isn't it liberation?

With such an idea, Fu Ye dared not go fishing. The reservoir on the fifth floor is a high-level area in the wild, full of various red-named monsters.

But Fu Ye was not afraid at all. What else can you expect a person who wants to die to be afraid of?

Just as Fu Ye sat down by the reservoir, and the fish hook was thrown down for less than five seconds, he found something on the hook.

When he caught it, he saw that it was a strange little duck with a fiery red color and a green name of "duckbill baby" on its head.

Fu Ye didn't know what Pokémon was at that time, and he didn't know what to do with such a small thing.

But he didn't need to think about what to do, because the duckbill baby made the decision for him.

When the duck-billed baby was held in Fu Ye's arms, the wet duck-billed baby cried loudly with grievance, hugged Fu Ye and cried non-stop without letting go.

From this moment on, Fu Ye's mentality changed, and he felt like he had a grandson.

Throwing away the fishing gear that he had spent a lot of gold coins to find someone to make, he rushed to the safe zone without stopping, fearing that he would die at the hands of the red-named wild monster.

That night, Fu Ye and the duck-billed baby signed a "diamond contract".

From this day on, Fu Ye's life was no longer lonely, and he lived a fulfilling life every day. At the same time, he cherished his life very much and would never take the duck-billed baby to a dangerous place.

At this moment.

It was at the edge of the central lake on the 17th floor.

"Baby! Don't get so close to the water! Be careful of being caught by a big fish!"

The person who spoke was not Fu Ye, but a middle-aged man with half white hair who was also not young.

He and Fu Ye were fishing friends who met in the game, and naturally liked the duck-billed baby.

Having a lively and cute Pokémon by your side when fishing can make old guys like them feel a lot younger.

Especially when they caught a big fish and caused the duck-billed baby to jump and jump for joy, their inner sense of accomplishment and vanity were greatly satisfied.

"Porphy~"

The duck-billed baby shook its short tail behind its buttocks and was not obedient at all.

"Hahaha, it's true, this kid really doesn't have a long memory."

Fu Ye shook his head and smiled.

What he was talking about was naturally referring to the time when the duck-billed baby was playful and let him play in the reservoir. If he hadn't happened to catch the duck-billed baby at that time, I'm afraid this little thing would have ended up there.

Fu Ye is not a combat player, but he is not an idiot either. He knows that duck-billed babies are not good at water.

He has been with the duck-billed baby for more than a month. He is also aware of the duck-billed baby's habit of breathing fire when excited. How could such a creature not be afraid of water?

"Master Fu, you know that the strategy team has already conquered the 24th floor, right?"

At this time, the fishing friend next to Fu Ye glanced at the duck-billed baby and said something.

".Well, that's really fast."

Fu Ye was silent for a while, staring at the fish float on the lake, and then responded belatedly.

"Yes, we are almost 1/4 of the way through the game in two months. Who could have imagined that our hope of leaving this game would be so great."

"Well, those young people are amazing."

Master Fu nodded, and couldn't help but sigh in his heart while praising.

Young people are on the front lines, risking their lives to liberate humanity in SAO, but in their hearts they always think, ‘Slow down a little bit. ’

He didn't want SAO to be conquered.

He knew very well that 'ARGUS' and 'Kayaba Akihiko' would definitely be punished by law after doing such a thing. Once SAO was conquered and the players successfully returned, it would be impossible for SAO to restart again.

This also means that he will never see the duck-billed baby again.

Unless Kayaba Akihiko survives, SAO can have other people continue to operate.

But is that possible?

"Porphy~"

Bang bang bang!

The duck-billed baby slapped the lake surface playfully, splashing water and scaring away the fish lingering around.

"You little thing."

Fuye's fishing friend pretended to be angry and patted the duck-billed baby's butt.

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Master Fu clenched the fishing rod in his hand and stared at the float, but his eyes seemed to be looking further away in a trance.

Snapped.

Fu Ye’s fishing friend seemed to know what Fu Ye was thinking, and just silently patted Fu Ye’s knee without saying much.

"Everyone says that the duck-billed baby is just an AI."

The silent Fu Ye suddenly spoke, and the wrinkles on his face could not hide his sad mood at the moment, "I don't understand what AI is, and I don't know much about what young people play, but the duck-billed baby is my family."

"Don't I know whether he loves me or not?"

Fu Ye expressed doubts, seemingly asking a fishing friend, but in fact he didn’t know who he was talking to, “Does AI also understand love?”

At this time, the duck-billed baby fished out a big fat fish from the water.

The big fat fish in his arms kept struggling, but the duck-billed baby always held it and refused to let go, slapping close to Mr. Fu like a little penguin.

"Porphy~"

The duck-billed baby walked up to Master Fu, handed the big fat fish in his arms to Master Fu, and felt happy about taking the credit.

".I have to think of a way."

Mr. Fu reached out and touched the duck-billed baby's head.

"What?"

The fishing friend tilted his head and looked at Mr. Fu curiously, and then his expression suddenly changed, "You're not going to do anything unimaginable, are you? There will be no good end if you stop those people from attacking, especially the 'ghost of attacking', if you stop them He's basically going to get into trouble."

"I'm not stupid, and I'm not bad either."

Fu Ye shook his head angrily, and then said, "I just want to see if the data of the duck-billed baby can be preserved before the ARGUS group is caught, or I can provide money to continue operating this game. ”

"That's a big price to pay."

The fishing friend breathed a sigh of relief and said something at the same time.

He didn't know how rich Fu Ye was in real life.

"worth."

Fu Ye didn't say much, he would do his best to do so.

There will only be more and more people like Fu Ye among SAO's trainers, and there may even be people who may come up with some dangerous ideas because of this in the future.

After all, in reality, most people don't have as much money as Fu Ye and can do a lot of things.

Of course, there are actually some trainers who can look past this matter.

Many people in the Trainers Association want to conquer SAO.