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

"Mmm." Yuna replied softly, a little shyly. She didn't dislike the feeling of being cared for by others, so she let Sorin gently take her hand and walk forward.

The comments section was now filled with things like "Eek!" and "Minimum three years," but mixed in with these comments was a rather inconspicuous message.

You received a private message.

"...If he says he's from Rainbow Six again, I won't just block him, I'll start roasting him. You can't mess with people like that."

50. You're making fun of my dad? Your mom's going to explode.

New York, an unknown building, a countermeasures center.

"Grace, you messed up? Both of your accounts got blocked?" The doctor asked, a little curiously, as Grace threw the tablet on the table and slammed it angrily.

“What else can I do? I should say Mox did a good job keeping it a secret?” Grace leaned back helplessly, her hands hanging limply at her sides. “Why don’t you contact Mox? Anyway, his son is the most important part of our plan, so he should have the right to know. Let him tell us himself?”

“I think it’s feasible. Here’s the plan: I’ll contact Mox now, and then Fuze, IQ, and Blitz will go to Tokyo to meet up with Hibana. We’ll start the investigation as soon as things progress.” The doctor said, picking up the phone on the table and dialing a number.

"Mox?"

"So you're finally planning to storm Tokyo and resolve this?" A deep voice came from the other end of the phone.

"There has been no progress, but we have discovered a way to contact the inside of SAO."

“He has no right to know, you shouldn’t do this,” he said. “I’ve already helped him deflect a lot of pressure from the Japanese side. He’s just an ordinary citizen, this is not something he should be concerned with.”

“But he can have it. We do need his assistance now. The problem is that we've contacted him twice but haven't gained his trust. This task can only be entrusted to you, Mox. Follow orders.”

"...Alright then, if this is an order, let me try."

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Sorin didn't want to touch the private message right now because he had a feeling that he would definitely curse after reading it. And he didn't want to leave any negative impression on Yuna. If we use the initial value of 50 and the maximum value of 100, Yuna's current favorability towards Sorin was at least 70 to 80, which was already a victory within Sorin's grasp.

“The main city should be just ahead. If I’m not mistaken, it should be similar in style to Venice,” Sorin analyzed seriously. “So the first thing we should do after entering the city and opening the portal is to find a way to get a ship, otherwise it will be inconvenient to move around in the city or go out to do quests and fight monsters.”

“That makes sense. Then let’s make a four-person boat…” Kirito was startled by Sorin’s dangerous gaze and immediately shut his mouth.

“There are two ships. If you two continue your faction missions on this level, you should move together. I have other things to do.” Sorin was still serious, but Kirito looked at him and then at Yuna, who had changed back into her white and green leather armor, and suddenly nodded with an expression that said, “I understand, I understand.”

As the anchor said a few days ago, brothers are like limbs, women are like clothes, and a person can be disabled but should never run naked.

I even suspect I'm watching a VR visual novel livestream.

"And if it's convenient, would you mind sharing a small boat with me later?"

His voice was still that familiar, incredibly flamboyant, elegant tone, and as expected, it was effective. Yuna didn't reply, only nodded slightly, her slightly flushed face making it difficult for Sorin to look away.

【You're so sexy.jpg】*N

Why are you wearing Pinru's clothes?

He ignored the chaotic comments and looked once more at the main city called [Lobia], a bustling and magnificent water city as vibrant as Venice in reality. The road leading into the city extended only to a dock about thirty meters long outside the city, where various gondolas of different sizes were moored, ranging from small boats for one person to large boats for more than ten people. Sorin led Yuna to a small boat that could carry two people, paid the fare, and headed straight for the teleportation portal, leaving Kirito and Asuna behind.

“It really is a beautiful city. I like it here.” Yuna sat on the gunwale, dangling her legs over the outside of the gunwale, hugging her knees with her hands, looking at the surrounding scenery with a hint of melancholy. “But even this scenery is still an illusion.”

“Yes, it’s almost too beautiful to be real. It’s just a CG image at best.” Solin stood beside her. He didn’t care about the city scenery, because the girl in front of him was the most beautiful sight to him. “But that’s the advantage of the virtual world. At least I rarely see such a sight in real life.”

"Usually? Do you mean in real life?" Yuna asked curiously. "By the way, Sorin, you said you lived in Siberia when you were a child, so you must have seen snow often, right?"

“Snow… to be honest, it’s not that interesting. People who have never seen snow might be excited, but if all you see when you go out every winter is a white expanse, it can be quite boring.” Sorin sighed softly and sat down next to Yuna. “But now, I desperately want to see a heavy snowfall.”

“I understand a little better now, Sorin. So that’s why you fight so hard to bring hope to everyone.” As if sensing Sorin’s sadness, Yuna gently placed her left hand on Sorin’s right hand, her tone carrying a hint of concern.

"Hopefully... well, hopefully."

The ship suddenly stopped. It seemed they had arrived at the portal plaza. Sorin jumped from the ship to the shore and caught Yuna, who tried to disembark in the same way but tripped over the side of the ship.

"Be careful. Should we try opening a portal? You've probably never opened one before."

"Hmm." Yuna helped Sorin regain his footing, then curiously trotted to the portal and gently poked the blue bubble. It was the same peculiar sight as the second floor. Having seen it once before, Sorin wasn't too surprised. He tugged at Yuna's sleeve and pointed in another direction.

"So now we need to find a place to stay with convenient transportation, otherwise it will be inconvenient for our future movements." Solin thought it was about time, so he asked with a serious expression, "Actually, I wanted to ask you before, but I kept putting it off until now. Would you like to join my team?"

"..." Yuna suddenly fell silent for a while. Sorin felt something was wrong, thinking that he had been too hasty, but Yuna's next answer made him breathe a sigh of relief.

"Sure, Solin, now take me to find a place to stay."

——————Ice City, Harbin Institute of Technology, Campus 1, Xuefu MTG Club——————

"Does it feel good to watch your son pick up girls on live stream?" Liu Ziyang leaned against the counter, his face full of "I know, I know" expressions.

"It's definitely enjoyable, but it's a bit of a hassle for them to assign me this job. The main problem is that this kid still hasn't replied to me." Mo Tianfang held his phone, watching Mo Yulan lead the golden-brown-haired girl upstairs to the second floor and then back to his room. "He should be able to reply to me now, right?"

[SorinMarkov: Who are you?]

[Mox: Um... Yu Lan, can you believe what I'm saying?]

[SorinMarkov: Tell me about it.]

[Mox: I am your father. I was marked as killed in action in the military due to a non-disclosure agreement when I joined Rainbow Squad, so I sent you to Vladivostok. Now we need your help to resolve the SAO incident.]

[SorinMarkov: Oh. You're joking about my dad? Your mom's going to explode.]

51. Undercurrents are surging

Over the next ten minutes, the unfortunate Mo Tianfang witnessed a variety of vulgarities he had never heard in his more than twenty years of military service. However, he didn't dare to close the internal message page, so he had no choice but to patiently provide an outlet for his son's frustration.

"You really angered Xiao Mo, didn't you? The way you threw those words out." Liu Ziyang watched from the side, his tone full of schadenfreude. "If I wasn't sure this was Xiao Mo's live stream, I would have thought I was watching Sun Xiaochuan."

"Damn it. Oh well, at least he hasn't blocked me yet, which is a good thing." Mo Tianfang sighed, then looked at the screen in front of him, "Oh no, oh no, oh no, he blocked me."

“It’s good that you blocked him. Now you don’t have to worry about this. Your team should have some negotiation experts or something.” Liu Ziyang patted Mo Tianfang on the shoulder, then took out a can of lemon tea from somewhere and started drinking. “Besides, maybe Mo Tianfang actually believed it. He’s just pretending not to believe it and cursing you to vent his frustration. After all, you haven’t come back to see him for twenty years.”

"Impossible. If he knew, he wouldn't have used hurtful lines like 'Your mom blew up' or 'I'll eat your mom's ashes alive.'" Mo Tianfang put down his phone with a wry smile, looking at the "Live Stream Closed" notification, and said helplessly, "But it's for the best. I didn't want him to get involved too much anyway. We were the ones who held off the pressure from Japan before."

"Come on, stop bragging. You, a mere soldier, have such abilities?" Liu Ziyang clearly didn't believe such claims. "I don't believe you can handle the families of nearly 10,000 people in Japan. A counter-terrorism unit isn't some science program."

"Of course I couldn't handle it, so I directly found two hackers I'm on good terms with to block all of this for Yu Lan." Mo Tianfang said straightforwardly, "Now, devices in Japan that try to send bullet comments in the live stream will be directly hit by [Logic Bomb]... never mind, you wouldn't understand what that is even if I explained it to you."

"Fine, fine, whatever you say goes." Liu Ziyang casually tossed the empty lemon tea can into the trash can, then pointed at Mo Tianfang's hand and cursed, "Don't you dare smoke in my shop, or I'll burn your cards and kill you."

------

After cursing and being blocked three times in a row, Solin shut down the live stream and collapsed onto the bed, utterly exhausted. He had previously suggested that Youna take a nap there, since she had just experienced an extremely dangerous boss battle. He did want to rest, but he and Ya Wang had agreed to meet somewhere after entering the main city to exchange information, so now was clearly not the time to rest.

After further discussions, the simple tripartite meeting was to take place at a restaurant near the portal plaza. Since it was nearby, Sorin didn't leave too early and planned to rest inside for a while.

After all, he's exhausted. Commanding an entire boss battle, plus the physically demanding task of swearing, has left him severely lacking in energy. If he were to embarrass himself in front of Diabel and the Fang King, that would be truly shameful.

So after setting an alarm for half an hour, he lay flat on the bed and closed his eyes. However, after closing his eyes, all he could think about was that troublemaker who had just sent him a private message. So he got out of bed, dressed, and went downstairs to the restaurant where the presidents had arranged to meet.

When he arrived at the agreed-upon restaurant, Ya Wang and Diabel had already been seated for a while. It seemed they had just settled their team members and rushed over for this meeting.

"Actually, there's not much to say, just a few things I need to remind you of. After all, we're one of the three largest guilds in the entire player base," Solin said bluntly. "First, regarding the information I have here about that player from the raid earlier, as he walked past me, he whispered something like this: 'This isn't the last time. I hope you can handle it every time, Guild Leader Solin. It's show time.'"

“In that case, there is indeed a problem. A few people in my team were already talking about you, but I suppressed it.” Diabel nodded, indicating that he understood. “But if it’s just one person, it shouldn’t be worth making such a fuss.”

"The problem is that this isn't a single person. Or rather, I have reason to deduce that this is a secret society formed to hinder the progress of the raid, the specific reasons and motives of which are still unknown," Sorin replied seriously. "Mr. Diabel, you should know that your guild has a player with the ID Mort, right?"

"Morte... he's a player who joined my guild when I was on the third floor. He's pretty strong, and he's currently my second mate. What's wrong?" Diabel asked, somewhat puzzled, but Fang Wang started yelling about it.

"What the heck? Molt? That's the best axeman in the Aincrad Liberation Army, and you're saying he's one of yours?" Ya Wang questioned. "Hey, Sorin, you have to give me some feedback. Even though Mr. Diabel is highly respected, you can't just poach our man, can you?"

“There’s no need for you to argue about this anymore. Mr. Diabel, Molt… he should be a swordsman, right?” Sorin asked, staring at Diabel.

“That’s right, he used the weapon he got on the first floor, the ‘Forged Blade,’ not some battle axe,” Diabel answered Sorin’s question instinctively.

"Now let me tell you about the clues Kirito obtained during the faction mission." Sorin placed his hands on the table in the classic pose of Commander Ikari. "Morte used two skill slots to learn Axe Mastery and One-Handed Sword Mastery, and used this to operate in two guilds at the same time. This is the intelligence on my side."

"Oh, I see. But why is this happening?" Ya Wang nodded to indicate that he understood, but he was still puzzled by this behavior. "I think every player's wish should be to leave this place as soon as possible. Instead of working hard to improve themselves and fight on the front lines, they come here to hold us back?"

"It's a very simple principle. Out of ten thousand people, there are bound to be a few idiots. Do you think you're living in paradise?" Solin didn't comment on this view. He simply offered his own conjecture: "Let's put it this way. Let's assume that these ten thousand people were selected from all of Japan using a systematic sampling method. Then there would be an equal proportion of various groups of people, including children, the elderly, students, civil servants... all kinds of people."

“Indeed, but no matter what kind of person you are, you all want to survive here, right? Your deduction itself…” Diabel felt that something was wrong. He wanted to refute it, but was interrupted by Sorin’s next words, and his eyes widened in surprise.

“But this is still a place where killing won’t be condemned, keep that in mind, and as far as I know… you Japanese don’t have the death penalty, right?” Sorin said with a sneer. “Some people really make you realize the necessity of the death penalty. That’s all I have to say, goodbye.”

52. Hidden Quest?

After saying goodbye to Diabel and Ya Wang, Sorin wandered aimlessly through the streets. He wondered if Yuna, who was taking a nap in her room, had woken up yet, and he would feel bad if he disturbed the sleeping beauty.

So he took advantage of this brief break and went to Kirito's place again.

“I remember you told me about a surprise on the upper floor. Now tell me, what was that surprise?” Sorin leaned against the wall, watching Kirito with great interest. “You ran off with two girls, leaving me in the camp for so long without even coming back to check on me. These young people nowadays…”

"You talk like you're not a young man... Besides, you also picked up a girl while we were away." Kirito retorted, not to be outdone. "The surprise is that we found you a questline with a hidden exclusive weapon. The dark elf older sister we rescued on the third floor is named Kissmare. You should know that name, right?"

"I just found a powerful support for our team, what's with flirting with girls... wait a minute?" Sorin only realized what Kirito meant after he finished speaking. "Wait a minute... I feel like this name sounds familiar."

As he said this, he opened his character panel and pulled up the [Weapon Master] skill.

[Weapon Master lv.4 (987/1000)]

【Effect: 1. You can have different weapon mastery skills, the maximum number of which depends on the current skill level (current maximum number of weapon mastery skills: 5)】

2. As long as you still have an available weapon mastery slot, you can automatically gain the weapon mastery skill equivalent to the weapon mastery skill level when you equip a certain weapon.

3. You can switch weapons in a very short time during combat, and gain a 50% damage increase for 3 seconds after each weapon switch.

4. You can automatically learn all available combat skills for all equipped weapons, and these skills will also switch when you switch weapons. However, at the cost of this, you cannot learn any non-combat skills (including but not limited to cooking, blacksmithing, tailoring, etc.).

5. When you hit a target with a certain weapon, you will apply a weapon-type mark to the target. Hitting the target with a weapon of a different type will remove this mark and deal additional damage equal to 200% of the weapon's damage.

"One Law Understands All Laws – Dark Elf Sword Dancer Kissmael"

"So that Kaldorei NPC is the creator of this skill... or some kind of sect master?" Thorin guessed. "Did she ever say what this hidden weapon was?"

“It’s not clear yet. We just mentioned the Weapon Master thing to Kizumel, and she issued this quest. But the quest line requires that only those with the Weapon Master skill can accept it, so Asuna and I didn’t touch it.” Kirito shook his head and continued, “At the time, we had other quests to do. After completing those quests, Kizumel would be going to the upper levels through the Dark Elves’ internal channels, so I didn’t tell you then. Consider it a surprise for you.”

"What a surprise... This is really good news." Solin thought about it carefully. He had previously estimated that he would carry two long weapons on his back, a one-handed sword on each side of his waist, a hidden blade or something similar on his wrist, and two long daggers on his thighs in a weapon rack style. Even so, it would be impossible to carry eleven weapons on his body after maxing out the [Weapon Master] skill.

However, having this hidden exclusive weapon changes everything. Assuming this skill gains more special effects later in the game, then having more weapons is definitely better. Currently, even at level four, the [Weapon Master] already has a semi-active damage skill; it might be incredibly overpowered when it reaches max level.

"That's enough about the surprise. Share the quest with me later, and I'll prioritize it for the next couple of days." After understanding the situation, Solin moved on to the next topic. "Then there's the ship issue. I don't think there were any ship-related quests during the closed beta, since the terrain here was a desert back then."

“That’s right, so I asked Argo to collect all the mission information in the main city. By comparing them with the missions I remembered from the closed beta, the extra mission is very likely related to the ship.” Kirito answered confidently. “Judging from that information broker’s dedicated attitude, I should have the information by dinner time.”