Moreover, she also liked to act like a rich young lady, and would often call out terms like "gui'an," "zayu," and "fensi shang" (a derogatory term for someone of low social standing).

I wonder if this country girl could handle the noble people of Yuezhi Forest if she really went there.

"You wretched brat!"

"Hmph! But since you do have some taste, Grandpa Zhen and I will let you off this time. Didn't you want that game console when you came? You can borrow it for a while!"

Kazuma said that, but when he heard someone praise his cooking, he was so proud of himself that his nose almost reached the sky.

However, the skill level is another matter. Since there is enough money, and the ingredients are all bought from the most expensive sources, as long as they are not messed up, the food will not be too bad.

Satoko was overjoyed to hear that she could bring home Kazuma's PS5, which she hardly ever played, but she was immediately met with a blow from Rika.

"Satoko, no way! Didn't you promise me? We're going to get into Tsuki no Mori together, aren't we?"

Although there are still three years left, our previous coursework is inadequate, so we need to catch up now.

Pear Blossom, a centenarian, has lived in the village for many years and has a strange longing for the life of a city girl.

However, she is an even more significant figure than the Nagasaki lady who is obsessed with Xiangzi every day. After a hundred years of reincarnation, her obsession with the people around her has become the same as that of a middle school student in black stockings who has been reincarnated in this world for the little pink hair.

She has to take Satoko with her wherever she goes, but she is always thinking about herself. So when she wants to go to the Moon Forest, she forces Satoko to study hard and go to the Moon Forest with her.

Unfortunately, the blue-haired teacher in Hinamizawa, who looks like a church representative who likes curry, is not very good at teaching. Even Keiichi, an outsider student, has to help the teacher teach others.

She happens to be a middle school student, which only proves once again the correctness of the theory of a certain extinct race that all middle school girls are superhuman.

"Oh dear! The pear blossoms are ruined!"

"I'm doing this all for your own good!"

Seeing this precocious little cat-like man skillfully manipulating the golden retriever, Kerry and the others remained silent.

The joyful night ended quickly because a typhoon was approaching, and everyone rushed home to close their windows and lock their doors.

People all over the world have a habit of naming typhoons, and this typhoon is named after the ancient Egyptian North Star. If translated into Chinese, it could be called "Tianlong Youshu," which was the brightest star in the north 3000 years ago and is also a star in the constellation Draco.

The name itself symbolizes its enormous size.

Even though we were still far away, just on the edge, it started pouring rain all night long in Tokyo.

Dark clouds churned in the sky, and a strong night wind swept away the early summer heat, causing the windows to flap back and forth against the window frame with an unpleasant "bang! bang!" sound.

The trees were bent over by the strong wind, and the last remaining cherry blossoms of spring were scattered all over the ground.

Raindrops, accompanied by a fierce wind, pounded the earth at a speed that even Eastern players couldn't avoid, splashing up sprays of water.

The entrance to the underground Live House in Shimokitazawa, owned by the store manager named Ijichi, was completely flooded. Fortunately, the interior doors were waterproofed, so there was only a slight leak. However, once the water recedes, it will be impossible to enter the store.

This typhoon is not only testing Tokyo's underground waterproofing system, but also the durability of the belongings in every household above ground.

Clothes that had been drying in many homes were swept away by the strong winds and blown around everywhere. Even fish from the sea and seabirds from the coast were swept into the city.

Even...maybe not just those, perhaps some deep-sea creatures also rode the raging storm to land, searching for things to inhabit and eat along the way, crawling and wandering through the deserted city streets.

The night passed, and when everyone woke up the next day, it was still not suitable to go out. The TV station even broadcast an emergency evacuation news report. Flights had already been suspended, and the wind was getting closer and closer to Tokyo from Fukushima.

The TV said not to panic if there is a power outage or signal cutoff.

Kazuma was worried that the two little ones living across the street would starve to death without food, so he carried the storm and delivered some food to them. When he returned, he was soaked to the bone and looked utterly disheveled.

Most companies and schools in Tokyo have suspended classes and work, but of course, there are still many companies that will force their employees to come to work even when it's raining knives.

This is the kind of feeling that comes from paying employees their due monthly wages.

In this kind of weather, there's no point in going out to forage for food. They figured the sewers would be flooded anyway. All they could hope was that any rats they hadn't killed before wouldn't come out onto the surface because of this.

The other two squatted next to the TV, listening to the news broadcast while playing games.

Kerry, meanwhile, lay alone on a chair next to his desk in his room, holding a glass of water, watching the clouds in the sky move rapidly like an army on a march, enjoying the deathly silence that made one want to raise a flag.

This continued until the morning of the third day, when the typhoon changed course and moved away.

Tokyo gradually settled down.

Everyone went out early in the morning to check.

The once clean street was now in ruins, if not completely destroyed. Furthermore, because the elderly people living there were either dead or arrested, no one was helping to clean it up, and they could only wait for the sanitation department to come and deal with it.

"I heard that the government was secretly discharging nuclear wastewater before. Won't this just pour all that water on everyone's heads?"

Kazuma looked outside with some worry.

"Hard to say."

Kerry said it was hard to say.

Satoko and Rika went out to buy groceries early this morning because school was still on holiday.

Xiangzi, with a stern face, went to check on her father's situation again.

Since they figured Kirito would be hungry in less than a week, they decided to split up and go out to find food.

But at that very moment, someone came knocking on the door.

"Suguha?"

Kirito felt a little lost when he saw his half-sister knocking on the door with a bag of groceries.

Didn't I tell you not to come looking for me?

Kirito was a little angry.

Kirigaya Suguha pursed her lips, but still spoke with a cold expression.

"Something's come up this time. Didn't you say you encountered something strange or supernatural and wanted to tell you?"

Kirito's expression changed.

"What happened to you?"

"It wasn't me, it was my friend. Are you just going to leave me standing at the door like this?"

These two siblings seemed quite aggressive, but Kirito still awkwardly stepped aside to let his sister in.

165

Chapter 165 How strange!

Kazuma poured barley tea from the refrigerator for the guests.

Xiangzi happened to return from next door, so Keli, Xiangzi, and Zhen sat at the square table in three different directions.

Kirigaya Suguha sat in the last seat.

Kirito stood somewhat helplessly behind his sister.

"Oh...oh...I didn't expect Kirito's little sister to be so cute."

Kazuma nodded.

This kind of direct praise is not common in Japanese social settings, but Kirigaya Suguha was not shy at all. Instead, she looked around at where her brother lived and his friends.

Apart from the room being filled with gaming equipment she hated and several beanbag chairs, it was quite clean overall, indicating that the resident maintained it regularly.

So Kirigaya Suguha took a deep breath.

She started talking about her situation.

"Here's the thing, I made a friend in the game, and I don't really know if this counts as a supernatural event."

Kirito was a little uneasy at this opening line. In her memory, her younger sister hated games. However, Suguha had played that Pokémon game before, and she didn't expect that she was still playing it after that incident.

However, he did not interrupt his sister.

Suguha rolled her eyes at Kirito. The main reason she hated games was that she didn't know that Kirito became depressed because he found out he wasn't her biological son. She thought her cheerful and outgoing brother had neglected his kendo and become withdrawn because of playing games, and then he was in a coma for so long because of the game.

I don't know how much everyone cares about him. As a result, he woke up and went to play a new game, which made her, who used to escape reality, also get hooked.

"My friend was perfectly normal before, and very cheerful, but suddenly he started acting strangely over the past few days."

She had previously told me she wanted to set up a challenge on the 24th-floor ginseng tree observation island, but since the day before yesterday, when I logged on and saw her, she seemed completely distracted. I was worried about her and kept asking her what was wrong, and she told me she had never logged off…

At this point, Kirigaya Suguha paused for a moment, then a look of worry appeared on her face.

However, for the group of people who had never actually played a full-dive game, many parts of what she said were completely incomprehensible.

Only Kirito understood.

"You mean your friend plays ALO 24/7?"

"Ah."

Kirigaya Suguha nodded.

"She told me that when she and her sister were born, their mother had an accident and needed a blood transfusion, but due to a hospital error, she was given blood from a Hiv patient, which caused her whole family to be infected with Hiv."

Previously, her condition suddenly worsened, developing into drug-resistant HiV. Because her body was unable to move due to treatment, she voluntarily signed up for a development project, using a specially designed hibernation pod to permanently log into the game and live within it.

Kirito was stunned. If it were normal HIV, long-term use of drugs to suppress it would allow one to live almost like a normal person. But drug-resistant HIV basically meant that the victim's life could be in danger at any time due to a minor illness.

Although this world has developed fully immersive games, which essentially transfer a person's mind into the electronic world, there has been little progress in the medical field.

However, it is clear that the sick girl was just the beginning of this incident. Judging from Kirigaya Suguha's description, it seems that the girl had concealed this matter from the beginning, probably thinking that if she left one day, her friends in the game world would think that she had quit the game without saying goodbye.

But even under these circumstances, the other party suddenly agreed to tell Suguha everything.

That means the problem the other party is facing must be very serious.

When Kirigaya Suguha said this, a hint of fear appeared on her face.

She said that two days ago, she had been having hallucinations and could see fish with several legs crawling on land, right outside the hospital where she was, in a place she had seen before.

I asked her if there was a problem with her equipment. She said that she had contacted her attending physician through the back-end system, but the doctor had no clue either. He said that everything was normal for her, and the equipment and network were working properly. He hoped that she could rest assured.

She knew that her attending physician was under a lot of pressure because of approving the experiment, and she didn't want to continue to put pressure on the doctor, so she kept it to herself. But she said the hallucinations were getting more and more obvious. She pointed to a normal garden in the game and told me that there was a fish there, poking its head out and staring at her like a game texture. And no matter where she went in the game, she could see that thing.

But neither the doctor's perspective from the external game link nor my perspective could see that thing.

She said if things continued like this, she would give up the experiment and return to reality, but I could tell she didn't mean that, and I was a little afraid of her…

At this point, Kirigaya Suguha choked up a little.

Kerry and the others roughly understood what was going on.

However, this immediately touched upon a blind spot in their knowledge.

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