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“That makes sense, but let me make this clear beforehand, I don’t think it’s that simple.” Sorin patted Kirito’s shoulder as his condition gradually stabilized. “Go downstairs, hurry up, you still have a chance to spend an unforgettable night with Asuna in reality.”

195. Infiltration (Peerless) (Bonus Chapter 61/75)

——————Five minutes ago, RECT building, upper floor, server room——————

The server room was heavily guarded, with sentries stationed in four locations, as well as countless laser walls and cameras. This made it very difficult for Ivy Shin to infiltrate.

She crouched in the ventilation duct, holding her silenced FN-57 rifle, aiming at the head of a guard below. She didn't fire immediately, because she didn't know how many hidden sentries were inside the machine room.

Aivis stopped what she was doing, gently closed her eyes, and then silently hacked into the security camera inside the server room.

"Four in total... When he returns here via this patrol route next time, killing him shouldn't be noticed." She thought to herself, still crouching there waiting, ready to fire a fatal 57*28mm shot with her FN-5.7 at any moment.

"Three...two...one!" she counted, waiting for the sentry to return to his previous position, then gently pulled the trigger. Only a faint sound came out as the deadly arrow pierced through the gap in the ventilation window and struck the sentry accurately in the head.

"I guess things won't be quiet from now on." Thinking this, she concealed herself behind the server and launched three more attacks, taking out the remaining three sentries and looting an AUGA2 and two stun grenades. This way, at least until the next shift change, she could manipulate the server data to some extent.

Of course, she can't do anything too drastic, since such operations would be quite time-consuming for her, and she wouldn't be able to move or perceive her surroundings during such operations, making it easy for accidents to happen.

She changed the keys to several doors leading to the server room, then connected herself to the server and imported a backdoor program she had written on the way to ALO's server.

"Avishin? Avishin, can you hear me? Can you find a way to let Asuna know what's going on here?"

She suddenly heard Mo Yulan's voice, then switched to the holographic screen to check Mo Yulan's situation. This sudden request was unexpected, but she still had the time to temporarily connect back to ALO ​​as a navigation sprite and inform Asuna of the current situation via system warning; this wouldn't take her long.

"...Ivy will try her best, but I can't guarantee the success rate. Dad, how's the situation on your end?" she whispered, while her program split off a thread and simultaneously infiltrated ALO.

"We've reached the World Tree building. If all goes well, we should break through tonight." Mo Yulan's voice came again, but Aiweixin didn't have time to answer him. She had discovered something even more incredible—the research data on Sugou Nobuyuki's [control of human emotions] was hidden here, or rather, his research itself was conducted in ALO.

She then created another thread to back up the research data, and found the ID 【Titania】 in the system prompts, and tried to send a message.

——————At the top of the World Tree, in the Golden Birdcage——————

"..."

Asuna suddenly heard a faint call in her ear, so she lifted her face from the table. She quickly looked around, but there was no one else in the golden birdcage, not even the little birds that often came here. All she could see was sunlight and the shadow of the fence on the floor.

When she thought she might have misheard and put her hands back on the table, she heard the sound again, this time clearer.

"This is Ivyxin, this is Ivyxin, please respond if you hear me, Asuna, please respond if you hear me."

Hearing that familiar voice, Asuna quickly stood up from her chair. Her memory told her that this was Sorin's daughter from SAO, the incredibly powerful little angel.

"Ivy? Why are you able to talk to me? Where is Kirito?"

"To make a long story short, Dad and Kirito are fighting down below and are expected to reach your area in about half an hour. They will be blocked by a system-set barrier on their way to the upper levels of the World Tree. You need to obtain an ID card that allows you to use administrator privileges and then throw it down from the sky. They will catch it."

"...ID card? You mean this?" Asuna wondered, glancing under her pillow at the things she'd taken from the control panel during her failed escape attempt. "I can just throw it down, right?"

“That’s right, I have other tasks here, so I need to disconnect temporarily. Over.” After saying this, Ivy said, watching Asuna throw the ID card down, and then disconnected. “...All done, Dad. Ivy continued her reconnaissance; it seems she’s discovered something extraordinary here.”

It took her about three minutes to contact Asuna, during which time she also installed the plugin. This plugin is essentially a cheat code that can directly modify the data of the character [SorinTSRMarkov] for Mo Yulan, allowing him to easily pass the World Tree stage. However, the rest is beyond her ability to help.

She took out several C4 plastic explosives and corresponding detonators from the pocket inside her jacket, which was almost like a four-dimensional pocket. She spent some time installing them on several important nodes of the server unit, set them to detonate manually, and then stepped onto one of the servers to return to the ventilation duct, sealing the ventilation window back in place.

Normally, if the next shift of sentries discovered the scattered C4s, they would immediately defuse them, rendering the previous operation futile. However, Aivisin knew that this unfortunate server room would never see another shift of sentries.

"Hurry up, Dad. Ivyxin is planning to bombard the ALO servers in about 40 minutes. You have a cheat engine that can modify your and your teammates' data, so hurry up." Ivyxin connected with Mo Yulan again and explained the situation to him. "After you successfully get the 300 trapped players out of ALO, Ivyxin will manually detonate the servers to buy time for my evacuation."

"...I got it. You son of a bitch Qin Chuan! Stop touching me, we have a cheat code!"

Hearing Mo Yulan's rather imposing shout, Ai Weixin suddenly smiled slightly. She had now emerged from the ventilation duct and was strolling leisurely down the corridor, maintaining her invisibility. Looking at Sugo Nobuyuki's office and the half-dark sky outside, she snapped her fingers.

"Power Failure!"

196. The Chaotic RECT Building (Bonus Chapter 62/75)

The RECT building instantly went dark, with only the emergency indicator lights in the corridors providing illumination throughout the interior. In this dim light, Ivyson activated her unit's built-in infrared vision and then deactivated her cloaking.

At this point, continuing to remain invisible was pointless, as everyone at the top realized that this was the result of an infiltration operation, and optical stealth was nothing special when searching at full power.

"Activate backup generators to prioritize power supply to the server units and the Supreme Master's office, ensuring the Supreme Master's work is not disrupted. Search teams, move out and locate the spy as soon as possible. Over."

The announcement came over the loudspeaker, which was exactly what Ivy had expected; after all, she hadn't expected the power outage to bring the server down. However, Sugo Nobuyuki's office still had power, thwarting her plan to infiltrate it.

She took the AUGA2 she had just found on the server room guard, casually unsealed a magazine, and installed it. The AUGA2 lacked a fire selector, or rather, its fire selector was integrated with the trigger. This design had been widely criticized because recruits might lose control of their hands, leading to significant ammunition waste. However, this was actually a good thing for Ivy, who was already proficient in weapon handling, as it greatly reduced the amount of manual operation required.

"The next target is their database... over here!"

She glanced at the map she had just scanned from the server, then quickly stealthily moved in one direction. The corridor was now full of people, who had all noticed the uninvited guest, so stealth quickly became unstoppable.

Ivy threw the stun grenade on the ground, blinding a large number of Templar Knights. Then, taking advantage of the chaos, she pushed through the crowd and continued running towards the database. She needed to find out as soon as possible what Sugo wanted to obtain from Shigemura Chinatsu's memories, something Mo Yulan had specifically instructed her to do.

"Over here! Towards the archives!" Suddenly, someone in the crowd recovered from their dizziness and saw a dark red figure at the end of the corridor. They quickly raised their walkie-talkie and shouted, "Master Tohsaka, their target is the archives!"

"I know, I know... Damn it, Ayase, take your team to support the data room, the rest of you go find heavy weapons, the server doors are sealed!"

The person who shouted was the same butler who had reported to Nobuyuki Sugo earlier. He was now sitting in front of Sugo, frantically operating the computer in front of him, trying to unlock the server room's key.

“I can’t wake the Grandmaster… No one can take responsibility for interrupting his work…” He thought to himself, and once again activated the broadcast system that covered the entire upper floors of the RECT building, “This is Grandmaster Tohsaka Neji, the Templar Knight, now in charge of emergency command in place of the Grandmaster and receiving all emergency reports. Now, Councilor Ayase, please lead your team to the data room to intercept the intruders; the entire support team is responsible for continuing to crack the server room door, ready to force a demolition at any time; the rest of the personnel are responsible for assisting the researchers in the technology department to evacuate, over.”

"Ayase received, on her way to the archives," a deep male voice replied. He was followed by more than ten people, closely trailing Ivy Xin towards the archives. However, just around the next corner, a cylindrical stun grenade suddenly rolled across the ground, its appearance almost blinding in the dim light of the emergency lights. "Stun grenade!"

However, it was too late. In an instant, blinding light and deafening noise filled the entire corridor. The four Templar disciples standing in the front row, including Ayase herself, went blank, receiving almost no signals from the outside world. The people in the back rows fared slightly better, but they still found it difficult to open their eyes.

Suddenly, Ivyshin rushed out from around the corner, her FN-57 accurately striking Ayase's exposed left hand outside the riot shield, knocking the pistol out of his hand. She then used her AUG in her right hand to spray water directly into the back of the crowd, quickly emptying a magazine and reducing the team by four members.

She slipped back around the corner, changing the magazine on her AUG as she ran. She couldn't care less about walking quietly now; the loud thud of her boots on the floor could be heard throughout the corridor.

"Keep chasing! We absolutely cannot let the intruder get close to the archives!" Ayase tore off a piece of fabric from her uniform with her teeth and roughly wrapped it around her right hand, temporarily stopping the bleeding. "Instead of mourning our fallen comrades, we should kill the intruder now."

Ivy's earlier attack was merely a delaying tactic. She continues relentlessly toward the database, striving to maintain a corridor's distance from the Templar search party behind her.

She added a 57mm round to the FN-5.7's magazine, pulled the bolt, and checked her tactical gear inventory. She hadn't brought much with her on this trip, only enough C4 for a few units and the necessary detonation equipment; the two stun grenades were something she'd found on a sentry.

"This is getting a bit tricky... Luckily we've arrived." Ivy glanced at the map, then leaned against the door, closed her eyes, and successfully hacked through the door in just two seconds, easier than she expected. What she didn't know was that her body's electronic warfare capabilities were among the top three within Ironblood Industries, and Ironblood Industries... that's technology from fifty years in the future.

At this point, a rather peculiar information gap emerged: Ayase assumed the intruder would be stuck at the door for at least half a minute, but Ivyxin entered the archives in just two seconds. This information gap directly resulted in Ayase's team being locked out and unable to access the combination lock left by Ivyxin.

"Master Tohsaka, we're...locked out. The enemy broke through the archives' security in just two seconds and has now locked it from the inside." Ayase's voice was filled with self-reproach.

"Understood. Everyone evacuate the data room area. The data room will self-destruct in one minute and thirty seconds." Tohsaka Neji's indifferent voice came through the walkie-talkie. "If you don't want to come out now... then don't come out. Ayase, bring your personnel back to assist the researchers in evacuating."

He stood up from his seat, picked up the two pistols on the table, inspected them, and then put them back in the holster on his waist.

"If he can still escape, then I'll take action myself."

Chapter 197: Reunion and Lockdown (Bonus Chapter 63/75)

Seven minutes ago, at the entrance to the World Tree instance.

"We wiped out because we weren't prepared enough. This time, let's remember the monster spawn locations and frequency. Shuang-ge and Qin-chuan, make sure your crowd control is on point this time, understand?"

Sorin stood in front of the five people, pointing to the map of the World Tree and beginning to plan their tactics. But at that moment, Ivy's calm voice suddenly rang in his ears again.

"Hurry up, Dad. Ivyshin is scheduled to bombard the ALO servers in 40 minutes. You have a cheat engine that can modify your and your teammates' data, so hurry up. After you successfully log the 300 trapped players out of ALO, Ivyshin will manually detonate the servers to buy time for her evacuation."

"...I got it. You son of a bitch Qin Chuan! Stop touching it, we have a cheat!" Suolin shouted excitedly, then opened the external program. It had an interface for modifying various data, from basic attributes like attack, defense, and health to high-end attributes like CDR and area damage.

He moved his hands rapidly in the air, instantly raising everyone's attributes to the maximum of 99999, and then once again pointed his sword at the World Tree.

"Just rush! Just charge! Forty minutes might be a bit too much."

"I hate trainers... but the situation is special right now, so I'll put up with it." Qin Chuan frowned. As a pure player, he was extremely averse to using trainers, but now was not the time to worry about such details. "Then let's rush it?"

"Don't talk, charge!" Tian Ge, who was standing to the side, looked eager to try. He followed Solin into the World Tree, raised his longbow, and roared, "I'll fucking shoot it all! Shoot it all! Shoot it all!"

Just like in the last raid, a large number of elven soldiers spawned inside the World Tree, but they were all shot down by Wei Tian as soon as they appeared, without even a chance to attack or say a line.

"So the four of us will stay here, and then you guys go open the door, right?" Qin Chuan asked, recalling the wilderness clearing guide he had found earlier.

"That's right. With Brother Tian and Brother Shuang as our two turrets, we can easily clear out all the monsters. You guys just need to stay put and hold your positions." Suolin looked at the current situation and realized that no further explanation was needed. Even though this was a dungeon that wasn't designed for players to successfully complete, it was still a piece of cake for those using cheat codes.

"Leave this to us." Shuang Ge held up his notebook, then turned a page. "The three of us will leave after you go in, to avoid any unnecessary trouble."

“I understand. Kirito! Come with me!” Sorin nodded, turned around and looked at the three of them, including Que Tianshuang, and Leafa, who were standing in their respective positions. She then took Kirito’s right hand.

"...You have to do your best! Brother—fly, hurry up and get through that door!" Leafa suddenly shouted to Kirito from her spot, "Don't stop!"

"What?" Kirito turned around in surprise, watching Leafa's figure grow smaller and smaller in his eyes, and swallowed the question that was about to come out of his mouth.

“That’s your sister, but why didn’t you say so before?” Sorin nodded knowingly. He had always felt that Leafa and Kirito’s relationship was a bit too close, but he didn’t expect it to be like this. “But this line from Captain Olga is really ominous. It suddenly gives me a bad feeling.”

He carried Kirito upwards until the stone gate sealing the top and bottom of the World Tree was within reach. He took out the card representing administrator privileges and inserted it into a slot in the center of the gate. The stone gate instantly emitted a blinding light, teleporting Kirito and Sorin to the other side of the gate, which was the top of the World Tree.

The unique feeling of weightlessness that came with teleportation lingered. Sorin stood still for a moment, then suddenly began to survey his surroundings. What came into view was a vast expanse of plain white panels devoid of any detail or texture, as if he were on the way to some kind of passage. This passage wasn't straight; instead, it gently curved to the right, appearing to be either a long bend or a circular path.

“No minimap…that makes sense, there’s no need to make a minimap for such a simple place.” Sorin nodded knowingly, and led Kirito around for a while, finding something that didn’t quite fit the ALO art style—an elevator.

"This reminds me of the story of four people speed-running through an old lady while one person ran the elevator alone, and the other three people below cursing 'NMSL' (a vulgar expression)." Sorin told a lame joke to lighten the mood, but Kirito didn't react at all. Or rather, his mind was filled with that chestnut-colored figure.

The elevator doors slowly opened. The entire world was a boundless sunset view, and the floor beneath their feet was no longer the crystal floor they had been on before, but rather rather thick tree branches.

"There was no aerial city at all? So that whole concept... was just a lie?" Kirito suddenly felt a little down. The so-called "clearing the World Tree dungeon and being able to be reborn as a Light Spirit" was just a lie. "This is... unforgivable."

"Don't worry about the details. It's like the Hearthstone designers said that Classic cards don't rotate out of Standard." Sorin seemed quite calm about it. "Besides... you should be happy to see Asuna soon."

Of course, he was very excited. However, at the same time, he suddenly felt that something was wrong—Avixin, who had been on the phone with him, had suddenly gone silent.

"What's going on? Ivyxin?" Sorin tried calling Ivyxin, but there was still no response. He kept this in mind and continued walking forward with Kirito, and then he saw the birdcage in its entirety—it was a huge birdcage that could hold even birds of prey, griffins, and sphinxes, but inside the birdcage was only a lonely girl.

She had long, straight, flowing hair, wore a thin white dress, and had a pair of beautiful, delicate wings on her back. She raised her head, her eyes filled with longing and yearning as she looked at Kirito.

"Asuna... Asuna!" Kirito exclaimed excitedly, "Sorry... I'm late."

"No, I always believed... you would come to save me..." Asuna hugged Kirito tightly and cried in his arms. Sorin was about to pull Kirito away and tell him to find a way to get the three hundred trapped people out as soon as possible, but then he thought that there was still plenty of time before Ivy's deadline, so it wouldn't hurt to let the two of them have some time to be together.

However, at that moment, Ivy's voice suddenly rang in his ears again, along with a message sent to his inbox.

"Dad, watch out! You're blocked! Nobuyuki Sugo is still in ALO; he hasn't logged out!"

"What?" Sorin looked up and suddenly felt as if he had fallen into a quagmire. The powerful pressure pressed him to the ground and he could not move. Then a familiar figure appeared in front of him - the Elf King Oberon, or rather, Sugou Nobuyuki.

198. On the Self-Cultivation of Actors