The timeline is 2022.

The major event was a technological breakthrough of the electronic machinery manufacturer "argus", which successfully developed "nervgear"—

It is a machine worn on the head, which can control the human brain nerves to connect to the virtual world. There are countless signal components buried on its inner side, and the helmet is directly connected to the user's brain through the complex electric fields generated by these components.

Users do not need to use their actual eyes and ears, but the machine can directly give information to the visual cortex and auditory cortex areas of the brain, allowing users to feel the sight and hear.

In fact, in addition to hearing and vision, even touch, taste and smell - the so-called five senses - can all be read by "nervgear".

then……

Human beings have finally realized a complete virtual reality, while electronic machinery manufacturer "argus" calls it "complete stealth" by connecting human consciousness to the imaginary space it creates.

This is really a name that suits the actual situation, because once the connection is completed, the user's thinking consciousness is really completely isolated from the real world.

The commands issued by the user's brain to his body will also be blocked and recycled. This is mainly to allow gamers to run and fight happily in the game world, and at the same time, it will not allow the bodies in the real world to move together.

Otherwise, after just experiencing a hard battle in the game and being offline full of accomplishment and fatigue, I found that during my online launch, Erha entered his room...

That would be bad... Besides, this is just a matter of light.

What's worse is the kind of unlucky guy who just got off the line and opened his eyes, he found himself lying in the intensive care unit of the hospital, with bandages all over his body like a mummy, and his hands and feet were cast, making him unable to move.

——This is the true tragedy.

Therefore, in order to prevent such a situation, the imaginary space of "complete stealth" is absolutely necessary, but... everything has its pros and cons, and it is absolutely impossible to say that there is only one good side.

Perhaps because the hardware is too advanced, the software development is a bit unsatisfactory... "nervgear" can create a real hypothetical world, but most game practitioners are still limited by their previous types and ideas.

It was not until not long ago that a real next-generation game finally made its debut.

It is said to be the first game type in the world, virtual reality online game - "sword art online".

The game's stage is a huge floating castle with a hundred floors.

There are grasslands, forests, streets, and even towns on each floor, and players can only rely on their weapons to break through these floors, find out the steps leading to the upper floor, and knock down the powerful boss, and strive to move towards the top of the castle.

Moreover, the game boldly eliminates the "magic" that has always been considered a necessary element in Fantasy Adventure Online Games, and replaces it with "sword skills", which is set to be a critical skill that is close to an infinite number.

It is said that it is hoped that players can use their bodies and fight with their own weapons, so that players can experience the greatest charm of a completely stealth environment.

In addition to combat skills, there are also manufacturing systems such as smelting or leather craftsmanship, tailoring, and daily skills such as fishing or cooking, and music...

Players not only take risks in a vast area, but also "live" in it as described in the text...

In short, it is like creating another world, with unimaginable degrees of freedom.

These intelligences have aroused the fanaticism of players. If it weren't for the limited number of sales of the first batch of game equipment, I'm afraid that the server would be crowded out on the first day of the server opening.

But even so, it’s good. The number of online users instantly exceeded 9,500 at the first time of opening the server, and the number is increasing every moment!

This was a good thing, but until the players who entered the game found that the logout option disappeared, things gradually began to become wrong, and the suspenseful atmosphere was forced to be transferred to the game start location at the same time.

When I reached the extreme in the central square of "The Town of the Start" it was in the end.

However, this was useless. They jumped up and failed to hit the culprit's knee. They could only listen to the other party's statement of kidnapping like a terrorist.

Whether they want it or not, whether they accept it or not.

The administrator in the game directly announced a terrifying news to them, which was the official operation announcement of the game.

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"I think all players should have noticed that the logout option disappears from the main menu screen. But this is not something wrong with the game, I will repeat it again. This is not something wrong with the game, but the original version of "sword art online"..."

The giant red cape who called himself Akihiko Kayaba said slowly, and naturally condescendingly faced the thousands of players in the square below.

"sword art online" version...the original version?

Everyone's faces were very complicated and they couldn't understand what this meant.

They have basically heard of the name Akihiko Kayaba. After all, there are few people who can enter the game on the first day of the server opening and have also grabbed the limited edition game equipment. I guess there are not many who are not veteran players.

For a game fan, Akihiko Kayaba may not be a person to admire, and interviews about him are very rare, but he has heard of this name anyway.

Because he is the developer and producer of the game "sword art online" and the basic designer of the "nervgear" equipment.

A few years ago, "argus" itself was just one of the many weak game development companies, and now it can develop to the largest game development company in the industry...

The driving force comes from this young genius game designer and quantum physics scholar.

However, he has always been behind the scenes and tried his best to avoid appearing in the media - why do he do such a thing now?

"From now on, you will not be able to log out of this game by yourself before you reach the top of this castle."

The giant red cape who claimed to be Kayaba Akihiko continued to say to herself.

The people in the square subconsciously looked around. After all, they didn't see where the castle was, so where was there a castle here?

But at the next moment, they all seemed to understand.

The castle does not mean that there is a castle in this town, but refers to the entire Ain Grandet. They are now on the bottom first floor, and there are ninety-nine floors above, a huge floating castle that continues to float in the air?

“…In addition, there is no way to stop or remove nervgear from being operated by outsiders, if anyone tries to do this—”

Kayaba Akihiko paused for a moment, and there was a hint of cruelty in her words.

"The microwaves emitted by the nervgear signal component will destroy your brain and stop your life activities. More specifically, the external power supply is cut off for more than ten minutes, the network is disconnected for more than two hours, and try to destroy the nervgear body or unlock the fixed lock - only under the above conditions, the brain damage program will be executed."

"And these conditions have been published in the outside world through our company and the media. By the way, at this point in time, there are already many players' families and friends who ignore our warnings and try to force the nervgear to be lifted, and the result is..."

"There are currently 213 players who have left the game from the real world and Ain Grande forever."

“…”

“…”

The crowd who understood the meaning of these words started to stir up from various places, but the momentary movement was not too big. After all, when people faced such things, their first reaction was to deny reality.

Their subconscious mind did not believe this, and refused to believe it. Unless they had at least two or three days left, they found that they could still not log out, there was no news from the outside world, and no one could come to save them.

Only most people will truly despair and gradually accept reality.

As for now, everyone is only angry and unwilling to believe it, although their bodies are already trembling with fear.

But Akihiko Kayaba didn't care about this. He just announced this matter unilaterally. Players just received the notice and did it, and there was no right to choose or not.

So, just giving the crowd a few seconds of digestion, the blood-red sky came again with his solemn voice-

"There are only one conditions that can free you from this game, that is, I just mentioned that I will reach the highest level of Iron Grandet, that is, the 100th level, and then knock down the final devil who is waiting there..."

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"The list of dead players has been updated. The number so far is 213 people...? Is this number a bit embarrassing?"

In the silver-white, sci-fi-like space, sitting cross-legged on the mercury-like plane, Mo Chen is intercepting the latest data stream and analyzing the information in it.

"Did only more than 200 people die one after another in just over ten minutes? Is this game too difficult, or is it not popular enough and the number of people online?"

Because the information flow is too huge, it is impossible for him to completely parse all the data at once. Therefore, there are only one segment that slowly analyzes those fragmented data.

And from the meanings that you have analyzed, we can piece together the appearance of this virtual world.

But this is a bit troublesome, just like a puzzle. Mo Chen has not even made a corner and has not found any more meaningful information. In addition, he did not know what the internal information was before unpacking the data.

Therefore, it is also a common thing to repeat puzzles.

For example, he always intercepted some large amount of duplicate data just now, often about the player's attribute panel or battle report, and related specific extensions from this aspect...

Including the role of each attribute in combat, the effect of each skill and the degree of performance...

Wait and wait.

At first, he was still analyzing it carefully, but later he found that this kind of report was completely junk data. Apart from letting himself better understand the various attributes and abilities of the game, it was useless afterwards.

In the silver-white space, everything seemed to be unchanged.

However, the seeds of nightmare have been sown, and malice has begun to flow... Chaos is quietly dormant, waiting for the opportunity to come.
Chapter completed!