Argo didn't say the answer, but Kirito also had his own guess: "A neutral city outside the circle, isn't it?"

There are some places outside the circle that can prevent hostile forces from using crystal items and communication. If you accept the task of making the two players confront each other, this will happen. If it can be used for a long time, it must have highly difficult epic tasks. Taking the area occupied by the neon server and the density of epic tasks in the service area as a reference, two European and American servers are also the limit.

Argo: "This matter cannot be attended by people with a completely oriental face, Tongzi. If you can continue to know combatable npcs through story missions, you should find a way to take more similar missions and get friendly npcs. The rest will know what to do Let's report safety first and let them stop being impulsive, and it's better to concentrate on improving their strength first."

At this moment, Argo's [Find the Enemy] reacted.

"It's okay, it's Fei who is back." Kirito reached out and stopped Argo, who was subconsciously putting on a defensive posture. Unlike himself, who had personally obtained the permission of the original fallen fairy goddess, even if Argo did not get the direct consent, even if he could ride Fei, the system is still hostile. , and the object cannot be identified in advance due to the level gap.

"Eh? Is Miss Ben coming back late?" Fei changed into a human form, flapping her little wings and gliding to the ground, asking.

"No, I just came back too. So, how?" Argo asked.

"It's almost the same situation as you thought." Fei pointed at the central tower of Aincrad and said, "Sure enough, the guardians of the floors ten floors away have disappeared, and most of them have opened their doors. The gate from the sixth floor to the seventh floor still cannot be activated—that is, the guardians of other floors were attacked by players and city guards during the siege or occupied the town. Now some people have heard the news and went to the fourth and fifth floors Visited the main street. Is there anything between the sixth and seventh floors? Obviously I look like there is no difference except the style."

"So that's how it is." Kirito put on an old man's tone, raised his chin and said, "I think back then, people, including the old man, respectfully called the man who was trapped on the sixth floor of the number puzzle game and gave up the strategy. 'Sudoku', I heard that there will be rewards for solving the puzzles, maybe now it becomes necessary to solve the puzzles to enter and open the door to the seventh floor."

"But the worst thing there is that the puzzles change every day at midnight, and there are no repeats for a month!" Kirito's last words were all emotion, without any performance.

Argo patted Kirito again: "But this is good news, Tongzai, ride Fei up and take care of all the missions above the sixth floor, come on. I will be your full-time intelligence agent temporarily until you rescue Lyfa and Asuna, the price is only 500,000 cols, isn't that interesting?"

"..."

"Tong Zai? Too happy to react?"

"No, that, anyway, let's go on the road after explaining to others first." Kirito couldn't tell, but now Fei Ke as a girl's appearance index is no less than Asuna's human form, and after becoming a dragon, she naturally has no body. Equipped, Argo said that he always felt like riding on a naked girl.

I didn't feel this way in the past, Argo deliberately teased him so, what mood would he have to be a dragon knight in the future?

However, let's contact everyone to report the situation first, it's not good to keep people in the hotel all the time.

In the end, everyone eager to save people came to help.

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Hong Kong ○ Taiwan server, Velutia---

"Xiaoyou...Are you sure this method is okay?"

"It's okay, sister, this place is outside the circle, but it is indeed a fairly safe place, right? The bounty is just right for the ring."

"But I have earned a lot of money in the past few days, but Xiaoyou hasn't forgotten the original purpose?"

"Didn't forget, find a local resident (npc) with the right ability to hire as a helper? It's strange, I also think that in a world where money is earned by fighting monsters, there should be many people who exercise their strength for money in places that are easy to go bankrupt. Woolen cloth.

"

Velutia is not a city, but a wild area between the two casinos. There are flat roads and vast grasslands, and there are no dangerous monsters. Even the monsters here are captured by the casino lord with special skills. A family caught them and threw them into cages and fighting in the Colosseum for people to watch, entertain and place bets.

Of course, there are many other games, and there are quite a few people who have lost nothing because of this, even players who have lost most of their life as a sao medium and have only a pair of big pants left--it should be said that they committed suicide because of this. players exist.

"Apricot"

As for why high-stakes gambling is so popular, besides the fact that the virtual currency here is no different from real money for players trapped in Sao, enough chips can also be exchanged for various kinds that seem to be enough to destroy the balance of the game, increase the survival rate, and even survive once and for all. The final equipment item.

Although there is no one who can win that level of chips~lightnovelpub.net~ Some players think that the system itself determines that once the number of chips is close, it will determine that the failure rate is 100%. This is done, but ordinary players and rich NPCs who are willing to give it a go still exist.

Under the background of this place, Kirito was doing missions in a nearby city according to the information provided by Clampis, and the others went somewhere to do "equipment preparation work", and Yuuki was accompanied by Yuran who was outside the circle Putting up the arena safely, in order to be more like a normal business so as not to be suspected, the challenger will be charged a challenge fee of 5,000 cols, and you can get 50,000 cols if you beat Yuuki—this is not a lot of money for those who can enter the casino , and can discourage the hard-core players passing by.

At present, their team's net worth can scrape together more than a hundred thousand col~lightnovelpub.net~ It's not that they can't afford the bonus.

Ran did not participate in the duel, but only existed as a brake to prevent Yuuki from taking off while watching Yuuki.

The duel rule is "the first strike to win", first use sword skills to hit the opponent once or cut off half of the hp (will lock the blood) to win, and most of the npc's strength is crushed by high attack and high defense - sao can It is impossible to design something whose power surpasses human nerves, so it doesn't matter even if there is an opponent with a slightly higher level than Yuuki.

As a result, after a few days, Yuji was invincible, earned a lot of money, and there were a lot of onlookers who bet, and there was no one who could be hired as a temporary companion.

After a while, a man dressed elegantly and holding a Western sword came across the crowd, expressing his intention to challenge, and threw a money bag at Lan.

Ran put it into the item column, confirmed that there was no increase in items but an increase of 5000 col in the money column, and nodded towards Yuuki.

Yuuki operated the dialogue pop-up window to confirm the start of the duel approved by the system.

(to be continued)