Am I the only one streaming Sword Art Online on the entire internet?

When the weathered-looking old man saw Solin approaching to speak, he immediately smiled and recited his pre-programmed lines. At the same time, a message appeared in front of Solin: "Accept the mission 'Noise Pollution'? Y/N"

"Damn it, this has nothing to do with noise. This is just a reference to the toxic milk powder meme!" Solin couldn't help but complain. But despite his complaints, he still accepted the mission and headed straight out of the city.

The distance from the starting town to the first strange area outside wasn't very far, and to his surprise, there weren't many people there.

“I just noticed that this starting town is quite large. I guess there are different NPCs issuing beginner quests and then heading to different monster areas, so there aren’t many people in this field,” Solin continued to explain. “Then, the combat in this game actually has some action guidance. Specifically, after you make a starting stance, the system will help you correct the subsequent actions and then unleash the skill. Of course, right now we can only use normal attacks. In a little while, we’ll have to rely on positioning to kill the monsters.”

This starting town is quite large. You're welcome to come and have fun. If you get tired, you can just go straight to sleep, no problem.

[Upstairs, Tang Tujiexue]

Is the streamer going to teach a wild boar how to grow into an adult later?

"How much more savage do I have to be to teach these wild boars to 'dengduanlang'? You guys are really something else!" Solin complained, then pointed his rapier at a wild boar in front of him, striking what he thought was a cool pose. "You beast! Come here!"

Second, is this your reason for stopping me from rolling GP? Kayako?

Just as Solin had predicted, the wild boar charged at him with a fierce lunge, which he dodged with a small jump to the side, managing to graze him with his rapier in the process.

"The meat of a wild boar is all the same, which is why it's the first monster that beginners in various Monster Hunter series fight. But I really don't know if this game has the concept of meat texture." Sorin explained while dodging the boar cart again, constantly chipping away at the monster's health with his rapier, and it took him about a minute to kill it.

"This experience bar has only increased a little bit. It doesn't seem to be one of those MMOs where reaching the maximum level is just the beginning. This reminds me of games like Legend of Mir and MU Online." He glanced at the bottom right corner and noticed that his experience bar had only increased by 1.5%, which led to this guess.

[The Legend of Mir 2 is revealing my age!]

[So what? There are brothers everywhere these days who can take down my ads. Even people who haven't played Legend of Mir know that such a game exists.]

The combat visuals are pretty good!

"After all, it's a VR game, but it's not like those old-fashioned, hybrid VR games. It's normal that the combat visuals are strong." While explaining, Solin had already found the next wild boar. He lured it forward first and then dodged the boar cart to get close to the knife, killing another unlucky wild boar.

"After all, it's a beginner quest. If it weren't as hardcore as Dark Sword 3, it wouldn't be designed to discourage players right from the start."

Speaking of Dark Sword, when is Brother Que's Dark Sword 22 update planned?

[Why is the person upstairs typing with spaces? Embarrassing.]

"Ahem... So we've already killed nine wild boars, and we only need one more to return to the starting town and turn in the quest. Here we notice that the quest gives 850 experience points, which is exactly 85% of our current level-up experience. So after turning in the newbie quest, we can directly level up to level two."

[I know the following: Here at level two, we simply click on a C and then move upwards...]

[Walk around the minions, C binds them, activates the fire shield, one hit, two hits, three hits...]

"Hey, hey, hey, that's enough! I'm not even streaming Dota, why are you guys so skilled?" Solin complained about the unreliable comments from his fans, then turned around and realized that the boar he had locked onto had been lured away.

"Someone's stealing monsters... I'll go check it out. This game has a PVP system, you'll probably be able to see PVP soon."

"Solin said with murderous intent. He jogged a few steps to the two people who had lured the monsters, and then saw who they were."

One of the guys, wearing a red headscarf, was a handsome man. Sorin had seen countless people of this caliber since he left the town of Beginning, and was already visually fatigued by them. The other guy, on the other hand, looked rather ordinary; he even wondered if that guy's face was just randomly created like his own.

The more ordinary-looking guy raised his one-handed sword and demonstrated it to the guy next to him. The more stylish guy followed suit and struck the starting stance, only to be hit squarely by the charging wild boar.

"Hahaha... No, that's not it. The important thing is the initial movement, Klein."

"I know what you're saying, Kirito... but that guy keeps moving around!"

"So they're both newbies. Let's not jump into the fray right away." Solin said, not in a hurry to kill the last unlucky wild boar, but instead stood aside and watched the two newbies make a scene.

[Liar! Where did that old man Thorin, who would open fire on everyone in the Dark Zone and turn golden in less than a minute, go?]

[Hey streamer, don't back down! Go cut the rope!]

After struggling for five or six minutes, the one called Klein finally managed to subdue the wild boar, and sat down on the ground, panting heavily, looking like he didn't want to move. Just when Solin thought he was going to wait a while before fighting again, he suddenly turned his head and shouted at Solin, "By the way, who are you? You've been following us around for ages."

Sorin stood there in thought for a while, seemingly pondering something. Klein and Kirito, who were opposite him, thought he was preparing some powerful attack and didn't dare to move. However, in reality, Sorin was just trying to translate what the guy was saying in his broken Japanese.

Suolin's Japanese is passable, bordering on being able to have normal conversations with others. He already struggled to communicate with his opponents when he went to Japan for a major competition, so naturally he would have to think for a long time before facing such a question.

"Hello, I am a... electronic host... You can call me Sorin." After struggling for so long, he finally managed to say this. "My Japanese is not very good, please bear with me."

[Wow, the streamer speaks Japanese?]

"I'm Kirito, and this is Klein." Kirito thought for a moment, then introduced himself and Klein in Japanese as concisely as possible. He then turned to ask, "So... what's next? Keep fighting monsters until you get the hang of it?"

"Of course... I really wanted to answer you that way, but I should log off and go get some food. I've already ordered a pizza to be delivered to my house at 5:30." Klein glanced at the time and said to Kirito somewhat reluctantly.

However, Solin was already terrified. He clearly remembered setting his alarm for 4 PM to remind himself to exit the game, but it was almost 5:30 PM and there was still no response.

[You've already missed your flight, haven't you, host?]

"Damn it, you guys didn't even warn me! My alarm clock is malfunctioning!" Solin complained, thinking about quickly logging off and changing his flight ticket. If he was lucky, he could still make it to the GP race in Tokyo before he ran out of Bye. "I need to log off now... or the logoff button will be gone!"

Solin had no time to observe the two newbies anymore; he was preoccupied with quitting the game and heading to Tokyo. However, the harsh reality was that after searching through all the system menus, he finally confirmed that the "Quit Game" button had disappeared.

"What an unreliable VR game," he thought. But given the current situation, getting to Japan before noon the next day was probably impossible, so he simply kept the livestream running and took the opportunity to kill the last wild boar.

"Then let's continue the live stream today and make up for today's time."

[The streamer is awesome! (Songwei failed)]

[Is there really such a weird bug? Could it be something Ubisoft did?]

[Game name: Sword Bug Online - confirmed]

"Thump~ thump~"

Just as Sorin was focused on slaughtering the pigs, a strange bell suddenly rang out in the game interface. The next moment, he and everyone else still playing the game were teleported to the square of the Town of Beginnings.

"What the hell? First the alarm clock malfunctioned, then I couldn't exit the game, and now this teleportation bug has appeared?" Even the well-informed Solin was at a loss for words in this situation. Just then, the sky was suddenly covered with a layer of red.

Upon closer inspection, Suolin saw that the red objects were actually red hexagons with the words "system announcement" and "warning" written inside, resembling a system announcement.

"So with so many bugs, even Ubisoft would release a fix and reparation. It's understandable that the GM of this game, which claims to be the first truly fully immersive game, wouldn't issue an announcement or something." Solin forced himself to comfort himself with this explanation, because he always felt that ever since he discovered that his exit button was not working properly, this game was no longer as simple as he had imagined.

What appeared next in the center of Sorin's field of vision was the GM he had imagined—a giant twenty meters tall wearing a cloak.

"Welcome to my world, fellow players," he said. "My name is Kayaba Akihiko, and I am currently the only one who can control this world."

This plot is getting exciting!

[Don't panic, streamer, go and stab him!]

"I think all players have noticed that the exit option has disappeared from the main menu, but this is not a problem with the game. I repeat, this is not a problem with the game, because this is how the original version of Sword Art Online is."

"From now on, you will not be able to exit this game on your own until you reach the top of this castle. Also, if your character dies in the game, you will die in real life as well."

When Solin heard this, he completely broke down. Of course, what he really cared about wasn't that he was "trapped in the game and in danger," but rather...

"Is this your reason for stopping me from rolling GP? Kayakini?"

Third, now I'm the only one streaming this damn death game on the entire internet.

Of course, it wasn't just the bewildered old man Sorin who was in a state of chaos; all the players still standing in the plaza were thrown into disarray. Kayaba Akihiko's virtual form, still standing above the plaza, seemed unsurprised, or perhaps he had already anticipated this situation when he decided to make SAO a death game.

[I heard SAO has become a death game, so I came to the live stream. Is the streamer in there?]

[The streamer is awesome, I'll send you a virtual gift!]

[The streamer who broadcasts death games is truly amazing, let's get this plane flying!]

"Thanks to Yan Yilan for the five airplanes, okay, Maochang, you're awesome! It's settled! I didn't get it!" Solin shouted angrily, and then began to explain in the professional manner of a professional streamer, "That means that when our character with more than 300 HP dies, we can't respawn, and our brains will also be destroyed."

At this point, he noticed something: even after Kayaba stated that this was the only reality for the players inside, he was still able to contact the outside world through this live stream. Not only that, he also saw through the small window of the live stream that the popularity of his small, run-down live stream had instantly surged from tens of thousands to over a million, and was still trending upwards.

"This is getting interesting. Am I now the only streamer on the entire internet broadcasting this damn death game?" Solin chuckled, trying to ease his already terrible mood.

"Finally, let me show you the evidence that this world is the only reality for you. There are gifts I've prepared in your inventory, please take a look."

"What is this?" Although Solin said that, his first reaction was to take out the suddenly added prop from his inventory—a small handheld mirror.

"What is this thing? Wait a minute... wait a minute, friend, this isn't appropriate..."

A beam of white light suddenly enveloped Solin, and when the light dissipated, Solin found that his appearance had become his real-life, youthful, and handsome face. At the same time, the live stream chat exploded once again.

[Oh my god! Grandpa Suolin finally turned on his camera!]

What is the function of this mirror?

[Grandpa Suolin is live-streaming!]

As I haven't mentioned before, Thorin actually has a very cute face. While not quite androgynous—he still looks like a man at first glance—he's not exactly hardcore. It's a shame, Thorin always wanted to be like Geralt or Kratos, but reality has always been different. That's why he never streams with a webcam on.

Of course, it's too late for him to take the mirror back now. Although he defaults to a first-person perspective, due to some special settings of this VR game, viewers in the live stream can watch from a third-person perspective, which means that Suolin is now practically the same as if he were live streaming with a webcam on.

"Alright, I'll turn on the camera then. Could those of you using third-person perspective please call out my positions?" Solin thought about it and felt relieved. He adjusted the latency of the live stream to zero, thus gaining another source of information. However, he didn't realize that in this world that had become a death game, he had subconsciously made himself serious.

He glanced around the square and realized that it wasn't just him; all those ordinary, handsome men and beautiful women from before had been exposed for who they really were. The two newbies he'd met earlier were now standing behind him, their faces filled with surprise as they looked at each other.

"...This concludes the game introduction for the official launch of Sword Art Online. Good luck, players."

After uttering those last words, the virtual avatar of Kayaba Akihiko vanished, leaving a group of bewildered players in the plaza. Only then did their reactions begin to return to normal… normal panic and fear.

"Are you kidding me? Are we just going to be trapped in this game like this?"

"Damn Kayaba, let me out!"

"I want to go home! I want to log off! Damn it!"

"To be honest, I'm still a newbie. I could die at any time during the early stages, so right now..." Solin said this, but he never actually intended to back down. "So remember this: you can't be a coward. If you're a coward, you won't get a chicken dinner, understand?"

What do you know?

Want to know? I have some good stuff in my room.

[Upstairs, two more abrupt and impolite students]

[The streamer is awesome! (Songwei)]

"Thanks to our viewer A.valon for the five planes! Now, let's go out and explore. After completing the newbie quests, we've reached level two and unlocked a new skill slot. Of course, this new skill slot gives us the [Thrust] skill right away, which should be the only combat skill we can obtain right now." After saying, "Don't be a coward, or you won't get a chicken dinner," Solin became completely absorbed in the game, and his commentary became more professional. "In a bit, we'll need to go outside the city to test the various stats of this Thrust skill. However, judging from the skill name, I guess it's a single-target skill that deals damage and provides a short-range dash. Considering the nature of the game, this skill shouldn't be targeted."

[Suddenly you've become quite professional, that's good.]

He ran towards the outskirts of the city, but he noticed that one of the two newbies had followed him, while the other had disappeared.

"Want to team up? You seemed pretty agile earlier, Mr. Sorin." Kirito patted Sorin on the shoulder and asked.

"We can team up, we can team up, since everyone's a newbie anyway." Sorin readily agreed to Kirito's request. Although he usually played these games as a lone wolf, after Kayaba Akihiko's declaration, this was no longer a simple game, and he had to stay calm.

However, as soon as he agreed and sent a team request to Kirito, his game character suddenly stopped, and he was now watching his character from a third-person perspective.