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

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“Daddy’s live streaming! There are lots of people watching him play games outside. How about we say hello to them?” Solin explained to Aiweixin, and then the very sensible director switched the camera to Aiweixin.

"Really? Hmm... how should I say it?" Ivy replied happily at first, then seemed to fall into a dilemma. "I remember there were some ways to greet people in the database... Good afternoon, Onii-chan~ Is that okay, Dad?"

"I think... the effect might be a little too good..."

Chapter 148: Undercurrents (High Energy Ahead) (Bonus Chapter 36/75)

"I've lost count of how many times I've heard your weird requests. You attacked the Olympics with only four people; you went to New Mexico and rescued that young lady when she was barely alive; you sabotaged the Rainbow Squad in Manhattan... and now you want me to get you an elite humanoid body. What exactly do you want, Blank?"

The speaker was a woman, and her tone was full of annoyance.

"What I want to do is none of your business. After what happened in Manhattan, if I hadn't told you to stop and let the Scarecrow and the Alchemist go, the Strategic Homeland Bureau would have already sent people to deal with you by now. Would we even need Rainbow Squad?" A young male voice on the other end of the phone spoke with disdain. "Besides, I just don't understand, Agents. I have so many good things here, and you even have mature mind mapping technology. What do you need my Cardinal System for?"

“I think you’re changing the subject, Blank. Please answer my question directly.” She tried to calm herself down again before replying, “As for the Cardinal System… I just wanted to see how far humanity has progressed in AI technology.”

"My daughter's teammate's son picked up an AI, and I helped her configure a body. Is that satisfactory?" Chu Ziyu paused for a moment, then gave a seemingly complicated and absurd reason to brush it off.

"Are you kidding me? Do you think I'd believe such a reason?" the woman, referred to as the agent, retorted, her tone even more annoyed.

"And what about you? Do you think I would believe such a reason?" Chu Ziyu sneered and asked in return, "In any case, exchanging the Cardinal System for the body of an elite humanoid, and using your best technology, is my bottom line in this deal."

"In addition, we will not interfere with our next action."

"I already said, if I don't call a halt, there are plenty of people to deal with you. Do you think only the United States has a Department of Territorial Strategy? Do you think I don't want you guys around to add some drama for me?"

"You'll get to enjoy our collapse fluid while we run all the way to Berlin to find information on the [Judge] project for you? That's a good enough offer, isn't it?"

"Deal." These were his last words, after which the communication went silent. As for him, he was currently in an underground research institute, in front of a screen displaying Kayaba Akihiko, or rather, Kayaba Akihiko's identity in SAO—Yura.

"It seems you're not afraid of death. The Rainbow Squad can find this place at any time. Aren't you afraid of being accidentally injured?" Kayaba Akihiko showed a rather surprised expression on the other end of the screen. "And I remember that Rinko locked the door completely before she left."

"Don't worry about how I got in, Kayaba-kun. And if I'm not mistaken, Ms. Kamishiro didn't take all the research data, did she?" Chu Ziyu looked at Kayaba Akihiko's surprised expression and suddenly found it a bit funny. "Are you planning to take those things to your grave? Or do you think you can live in the data world until the end of the world? Your level is very high, but you're still a bit behind me."

"Say what you will. I was convinced by that young man's words, and he came to my world as promised. I'm already very content. As for whether I can live forever in the data world, who cares?"

"I don't have time for this nonsense, Kayaba Akihiko. Tell me more detailed information about the Cardinal System, or I'll make you disappear right now." Chu Ziyu's tone suddenly turned icy. "Want to try?"

"...You win. There's a button under the floor tile at coordinates (114, 514) in the lobby. Then find what you need in the server room." Kayaba Akihiko initially tried to confront Chu Ziyu for a while, but when he saw Chu Ziyu take out a portable hard drive and a keyboard and seemed to be serious, he instantly gave in. "Don't let me see you again, you robber."

"Call me Blank, thank you. And I sometimes steal and sometimes cheat, but this is actually my first time robbing someone, congratulations. Vivi, come out and pick up the goods, if you're lucky you won't have to eat instant noodles for another two or three years."

Chu Ziyu left with those words, walked straight to the lobby, found the floor tile, pressed the button, then went to the server room, took out a heavy-looking safe, returned to the room, greeted Kayaba Akihiko, and then left.

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You have completed the mission objective: Escort Edwin VanCleef and his advance survey team to the Stormwind Ruins.

[Mission Objective Updated: Collect the required wood]

“I wanted to build the city wall using a combination of solid wood reinforced concrete and brick and stone structures, but solid wood reinforced concrete technology is not yet mature, or rather, I have only found one material that can be used as the internal network, which is the maze tree that grows on the thirty-fifth layer.”

Edwin threw a thick book of design plans on the table, flipped to the pages about the city walls, pointed to the text, and spoke to Sorin.

"If it's a reinforced concrete internal network... why not use steel?" Solin asked with some doubt. "I always feel that the coefficients of linear expansion of wood and concrete are not very similar."

“I’ve considered this problem too, but currently only that one type of wood and our Brotherhood of Stonemasons’ special concrete have a good compatibility in terms of expansion capacity. As for steel… the first material I tried was steel, but it didn’t work.” Edwin sighed, took out another book from his backpack that was almost as thin as the city design drawings, threw it on the table, opened it, and pointed to the contents.

“You know what, Yuna? That’s why I didn’t choose to major in civil engineering back then. Our chemistry lab reports were never this thick.” Sorin felt a chill run down her spine looking at the two huge volumes of design drawings, her tone tinged with relief. “So now we need to collect this… maze tree wood, right?”

“That’s right. I have a map of the Labyrinth Forest here, which will help you avoid getting lost in that eerie forest.” Edwin said, reaching once again for the four-dimensional pocket that looked like a backpack. Thorin had initially thought it was another thick book similar to the Stormwind City blueprints, but thankfully this time it was just a folded piece of paper.

"Should I be glad I chose humanities?" Yuna looked at the various design drawings that almost filled an entire table, feeling a little panicked as well. "Although I heard we'd be reading such thick books, at least they weren't design drawings..."

"Anyway, let's go first. It's still a question of how your studies will go after you leave. If it really doesn't work out, I can come over and tutor you or something."

Chapter 149: The Temperature of the Heart (Bonus Chapter 37/75)

"Please... Bina... don't leave me alone..."

Two lines of tears slid down Silica's cheeks and dripped onto the large feather on the ground, eventually turning into particles of light that scattered in all directions.

That pale blue feather was a relic left behind by Pina, her only friend and partner for so long. Minutes earlier, Pina had died protecting Silica. She had been fatally struck by a monster's weapon, scattering like broken ice after a mournful cry. Only a single long tail feather remained, which would sway happily whenever her name was called…

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"Is this fucking ridiculous? So, if I can't kill someone with one combo, I can just drink some wine and be fully healed? What kind of weird setting is this? Does the damage reset at the end of the turn?"

Sorin was extremely annoyed after slaying two monsters. He had initially thought that these monsters, known as the "Drunken Ape-men," lacked the protection of the local deity, the "Fearless God Ronas," and didn't possess any particularly special skills, so they shouldn't be too difficult to deal with. However, he hadn't anticipated that being easy to deal with was one thing, but being utterly disgusting was another.

Isn't it common sense that damage is cleared after one round?

[Wasn't the streamer here at the time?]

"This map was probably the most disgusting maze environment back then, and it didn't spawn Hunanese monsters. Besides, I didn't really want to grind monsters in Green God's territory," Solin explained simply, then found another Drunken Ape-Man, unleashed a full combo, and took it down. "Avisin, have you found the next place to farm lumber?"

“I’m sorry, Dad, I can’t fly in this environment.” Ivy’s tone was somewhat frustrated. “There are so many spiders and spider webs here, and every time I try to fly, I get tangled in the webs.”

“…Alright, then you should land. It’s good to save your energy.” Solin shook his head helplessly, walked over to Ivyxin and helped her clean the spider webs stuck to her wings, then looked at Yuna, “Come and help, there’s too much spider web on the child’s feathers.”

Let me pass by, I want to brush the little angel's fur too!

[Hey buddy upstairs, if you go over there, you're probably going to get taken down by old man Suolin in one go.]

"Speaking of which, won't these spider webs be refreshed off? I had quite a few on me just now, but they were all refreshed off in a little while." Yuna said with some doubt, then walked behind Ivyxin, who was crouching with her head in her hands, and helped her remove the spider webs hanging on her wings. "By the way, Solin, I just saw a player using the target acquisition skill."

"So what if I see it? Should I go up and steal his monster or team up with him?" Solin shrugged, looking indifferent, and then continued to struggle with the spider web on Ivy's wings. "I'll bring a raid group over another day and clear out all the spiders here."

“No, Sorin, I mean… that player has passed through the same area three times already, it seems they're lost.” Yuna reorganized her thoughts, then continued, “They might be a player who left the group. If this continues, I'm afraid…”

"Let's go take a look then. We'll lend a hand if we can." Solin sighed again, finally deciding to stop trying to outsmart the spider webs. "Avixin, put your wings away first, and we'll help you clean them up when we get home."

"Mmm." Ivy responded obediently, then made the enormous wings disappear in blue light. "Should we go help her?"

"Her? Is she a girl?" Solin suddenly asked curiously, "Speaking of which, can you see Ivy's location directly?"

“I think it’s unnecessary, Sorin. She’s come into this area again.” Yuna said, pointing to a blue light a little distance away. “It looks like it’s over there.”

"I never thought a player like me, who only loots or signs duels with lone foes, would actually go and rescue someone," Solin suddenly said. "A thoroughbred! Give him a hand! Anyone who runs away is a dog!"

You have a lot of ideas, you're unconventional, and you're really stubborn.

[Buy an eye, and the bird will transform; it's urgent and crucial.]

"I was just saying, where did all these OB toxic players come from?" Solin complained about his viewers again. He had already rushed to the player's location. The player was a girl who looked to be no more than a middle school student, accompanied by a blue familiar that could probably be considered a dragon beast.

However, as soon as he arrived there, he saw the small familiar block what appeared to be a fatal attack for the girl, then let out a mournful cry and vanished in a flash of blue light.

"This is what pure blue rhythm players used to do all the time. It's normal for them to let the Winged Lizard fill in a kick when they're pushed too far." Sorin's thought process is usually quite strange when he's streaming. He switched to a one-handed sword and rushed into the face of one of the drunken apes, then switched to a katana and unleashed his full damage, instantly killing one. Then he took out his war staff and forced back the remaining two drunken apes. At the same time, he took a moment to say something to the girl that was hard to understand, "Next time, remember not to use a 1/1 to fill in a 4/4 monkey with a stomp."

Upon hearing these words, the girl felt utterly powerless and sat helplessly on the ground. Tears streamed down her face, and her previous anger instantly transformed into sorrow.

"Although I don't understand what you're saying, thank you..." She knelt on the ground, barely managing to lift her head to look at Solin. "Thank you... for saving me, sir..."

“Sir. You can just call me Solin. That rapier wielder is my fiancée, Yuna, and their child is Ivyxin. If it’s convenient, please let me know how I should address you.” Solin suddenly realized he was missing a piece of equipment, so he quickly took out a mask from his inventory and put it on, then composed himself. “Speaking of which, that winged lizard’s feathers… they should have their own item name, right?”

“Silica… wait a minute, Mr. Solin, what you just meant was…” The girl who called herself Silica replied subconsciously, then suddenly looked at the feather with some confusion, and gently touched it with her finger, “Ah!”

The prop does indeed have a name: [Pina's Heart], that's the name of the feather. And when she saw this name, tears streamed down her face once again.

"Sorin, can you explain this to us? Why did you make another little girl cry?" Yuna arrived with the confused Ivy, looking at Sorin and Silica kneeling on the ground, tears streaming down her face. "Counting the Black Cat Gang member from the moonlit night six months ago, this is the second one, isn't it..."

"No, no, no, then let me explain. And Miss Silica, that unlucky dragon should be able to use the first blood technique to pull it out of the pit. I'll tell you what happened in a bit. Please help me explain to my fiancée first. Thank you."

150. Yet another strange request.

"Actually, I admire your courage. You're so young, yet you dare to fight monsters alone in the dungeon area. By the way, isn't this game R15?"

The group continued their journey through the maze-like forest. Initially, the viewers in the livestream were excited by the seemingly chaotic scene, even though they roughly knew that Sorin wasn't a lolicon. However, after Silica explained things to Yuna, Yuna finally stopped using it as an excuse to tease Sorin.

[To give a simple example, raise your hand if any underage viewers in the live stream have watched R18 doujinshi or films.]

[Too powerful]

Isn't it a waste to have a zombie-like Farah Winged Lizard?

"The current situation is that this item you have, called [Heart of Pina], can be used to pull your little dragon beast out of the graveyard, but only for three days. If you can't get the familiar resurrection item from the Hill of Memories on the 47th floor within three days, then it will have to rest in peace." Sorin explained the method of resurrecting familiars in the simplest and most intuitive way he could remember. Of course, this information was something he had just obtained from Argo. "If you want to resurrect it, go there and take a look."

“Three days… but I’m only level 44 now. Reaching level 50 and clearing Memory Hill in three days… that’s impossible.” Silica had still held onto a sliver of hope that she could revive the little dragon, but after hearing Sorin’s explanation, even that last bit of hope vanished. She dejectedly picked up Pina’s feather, hugged it to her chest, and felt remorse for her helplessness; tears streamed down her face.

“Um… little sister Silica. Actually, we should be able to help you.” Yuna said, feeling a little sorry for Silica, looking at her helpless state. Then she looked at Sorin and said, “I want to help her, Sorin.”

“Let’s go then. We’re on a trip anyway. But I think we should get Edwin all the wood he needs first. I don’t want to come back to this place.” Thorin agreed without hesitation. “So now we have a new side quest. First, let’s estimate whether we can get enough wood for the rest of the dungeon before we get out of this dungeon. Then we’ll clear the Hill of Memories on the 47th floor, and then continue our quest. Let’s take you to see some uncensored cavalry footage.”

"Why...why would you help me to this extent?"

Silica suddenly asked this question. She really couldn't think of any reason why Solin and the other two would help her. If it was because Solin wanted to flirt or gain favor, that didn't make sense at all, after all, he already had a fiancée who was much more mature and beautiful than her, and even their child was so grown up. But besides that, she couldn't think of anything else. At least in her heart, she didn't believe that anyone in this game would help others out of pure kindness.

"...I'm just a hero for fun." Sorin looked at Silica and sighed, then patted her head. "If I said it was for the sake of the show, you probably wouldn't understand."

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After rummaging through the maze forest for more than an hour, the rather large group finally emerged, carrying with them a good amount of timber.

"We came here to complete a series of quests on the 49th floor, and then... wait a moment while I take this call." Sorin was explaining to Silica why he and his fellow frontline players had come to the 35th floor when he suddenly received a call from Kirito. "Hello? Kirito, what's up?"

"Here's the thing, to make a long story short, a team was attacked on the 38th floor by the orange-named criminal guild [Titan's Hand], resulting in the deaths of four members, with only the captain escaping alive. That captain has issued a request on the front lines to capture them and bring them to the Black Iron Palace prison, so I'm seeing if you have any time."

"Tell me the details, but I have a lot of other things to do and I don't know when I'll have time." When Sorin heard that the request was to capture rather than kill, his interest immediately waned.

"Alright, I'll send you the detailed information. Thank you." Kirito hung up after saying that and then sent Sorin a long message containing images and documents.

"The outpost...is it also on the thirty-fifth floor?" He muttered to himself for a moment, then walked back to the group from the slightly distant spot, silently memorizing the information. He had heard from Silica that she had left her previous team due to some conflict, which was why she was in danger. Many players on the thirty-fifth floor knew Silica, and after hearing that she had left her original team, they all came to invite her to join their party.

“Um… well… I’m glad you were willing to contact me, but I’m already in a team with him.” Silica pointed to Sorin, who was currently covering his face with a mask and a folding fan, and said to the people who wanted to invite her to join their teams.

The players around Silica, who had been waiting for her to join the team, complained with things like "Eek!" and "How can this be?" and then looked at this person who didn't even dare to reveal her true face with suspicion.

"Although I've never met you before, could you please not cut in line? We've been inviting that child for a long time!"

Among those who had been invited, a tall swordsman wielding a two-handed greatsword walked up to Solin, looking down at him, and said this. However, Solin completely ignored him, treating him as if he were invisible, and walked straight towards the teleportation array plaza.

"Hey! I'm calling you! You guy with your face covered!" he shouted, somewhat annoyed, perhaps angered by Sorin's indifference. However, upon hearing this, Sorin immediately sent a duel invitation.