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

Joker chuckled, casually tossed out a gift box, and then vanished from Yuna's sight. Yuna didn't turn around; instead, she immediately activated Eagle Vision and discovered that Joker was actually inside the large gift box.

After confirming Joker's exact location, Yuna pretended to turn around to search for him, then in the next instant, she turned and unleashed a powerful slash. This strike was incredibly precise, heading straight for Joker's chest. Joker initially thought it was a brilliant surprise attack, but faced with such a fierce counterattack, he had no choice but to use his other performance dagger to block Yuna's strike, while simultaneously releasing the dagger with his right hand and retreating.

This judgment was quite accurate and wise, because the relatively inferior performance dagger was directly cut in half by Yuna's kodachi, and the cold blade light kept rushing towards him, eventually leaving a light red mark on Joker's chin.

"You actually...! You actually saw through my magic trick? That's interesting. You actually have such strong combat power... My employer didn't tell me about this beforehand."

Joker's tone remained exaggerated, but he was genuinely surprised that Yuna had almost managed to hurt him, which made him consider backing down. However, he quickly reconsidered. Although the girl in front of him was very skilled in combat, she was probably still just a child at heart. He thought he could probably use some trickery to complete the mission in a simpler way.

Thinking of this, he suddenly changed his tone, and his words became like those of a persuasive conman.

"Well then, Miss Yuna, you see... I'm just a mercenary, there's no need for me to fight you to the death. Let me be frank, I don't want to fight anymore. If you're willing to let me go, I can even give you some information about my employer. What do you think?"

However, Yuna didn't take this guy seriously at all. Although she wasn't very good at thinking about the scheming and maneuvering between people, there was one thing she understood very clearly. This person claimed to want to kill Mo Yulan when he appeared, so he was definitely her enemy, without a doubt.

Then the Joker saw Yuna nod first, and then charge forward wielding two small katanas, still with swift and fierce slashes.

"What the fxck! My dear lady, what have I done to offend you... Nothing I say will work, you just want to kill me—is that what you mean?"

Joker deliberately used a dramatic, theatrical tone to exclaim for a long time before his voice suddenly turned somber. He once again pulled out two daggers from his waist, and with a flick of his wrist, the two daggers attacked Yuna at a very strange angle.

Yuna stared intently at the trajectory of the dagger. She realized she had no way to effectively dodge it because she simply couldn't predict its path. Parrying, on the other hand, would only be possible at the very last second before the dagger struck, which presented a considerable challenge for her.

And just then, the Joker himself rushed up, wielding two more, slightly longer clown knives, intending to take advantage of Yuna's unpreparedness to expand his gains. He watched as Yuna suddenly closed her eyes, but what happened next was something he never expected.

Yuna casually swung her sword with both hands, knocking the two daggers down. With her left hand, she parried the first slash with her sword, while with her right hand, she threw away the katana in her main hand and pulled out Mo Yulan's sidearm from under her nightgown—the Moroccan hand cannon—and aimed it at Joker.

"That line must have gone something like this... Hesitation leads to defeat."

255. Disconnection Kill

No one would believe that a shot could miss at such close range. However, the moment Yuna pulled the trigger, the person in front of her suddenly vanished into a cloud of smoke once again, leaving only a box behind.

"Is it still that clumsy trick? You should know that it won't work on me."

Yuna's words were cold. She activated Eagle Vision again, but this time Joker did not appear in Eagle Vision, as if he had really disappeared from the spot.

She paused, considered for a moment, then raised her hand and fired a shot from the Moroccan hand cannon at the eerie box. However, after being hit, the box only emitted a puff of black smoke, and then the entire room was plunged into darkness.

"what happened?"

Yuna stood there warily, scanning her surroundings, ready for any attack that might come from any corner. However, the expected attack did not occur; it seemed that Joker had indeed escaped. But just then, a furious shout, powerful and imposing like that of a raging deity, pierced through the walls from the bedroom.

"Damn it! Who the hell unplugged the network cable?!"

The one who shouted was Mo Yulan. He took the AmuSphere off his head and hurriedly walked into the living room. Looking at the mess in the living room, he looked completely bewildered. Kirito, standing behind him, also looked at the living room with curiosity, but was pushed back into the bedroom by Mo Yulan and the door was closed.

"What's going on? Did some troublemaker just come to our door to assassinate us?"

“…Although there’s something subtly off about what you’re saying, you guessed right.” Yu Na thought for a moment and suddenly realized that Mo Yu Lan’s subconscious chuunibyou this time was actually not wrong in a certain sense. “That guy was wearing a Joker cosplay outfit from DC and claimed to be the Joker as well. But from his words, you can tell that he has a lot of connections with Death Gun, and may even be the mastermind behind the Death Gun incident.”

"And then what? If he comes here... it can't be that Death Gun shot Kirito with Death Gun in that battle royale, so this Joker came here to kill Kirito, but ran away because he couldn't beat you... it's that simple, right?"

"No, as you guessed, he was just some troublemaker trying to assassinate you. That guy said he didn't want you to continue hindering the Dead Guns' plans, and he'd leave if you could log out of the game and disconnect, otherwise he'd kill you. After I forced him to retreat, he left a loot box. As for the current situation... well, his parting gift probably cut off the power in the vicinity?"

“I remember we should have a backup power supply. Let me check if the network is still working properly. Call Ivy and Vector back and pause their mission.” Mo Yulan made this decision without hesitation. “Even if there are some petty thieves or troublemakers outside, you can handle them here. Have Ivy come back and help me connect back to the BoB final server… I hope no one passing by picks up my kills and steals Kirito and me for loot.”

“But honestly, if you two are still out in the wild, the chances of someone picking off your kills are actually quite high.” You Na sheathed both swords at her waist, then gently hugged Mo Yulan and whispered in his ear, “If you can’t reconnect, you might as well rest for a while. This shouldn’t be our only chance.”

“But I have a feeling, Yuna, if we don’t seize this opportunity, it will be difficult to find a better breakthrough in the future.” Mo Yulan sighed softly. Although he did not want to stop tonight’s operation, whether or not to stop the operation was not really up to him.

"Okay... Ivyxin? You're done? Come back quickly, we need to reconnect to the BoB finals, we just got disconnected."

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"Okay, we've found a car here. Light two smoke bombs nearby, get in the car, and drive off. We won't have to wait too long at the airport."

Sinon continued her explanation earnestly. Her style always leaned towards explaining the content, which, to put it bluntly, was quite hardcore. As a result, her audience naturally split into two groups: one group consisted of viewers focused on learning the techniques or drawn to Sinon's skill, while the other group consisted of... hardcore otaku who just wanted to listen to the girl talk and chat.

[Speaking of which, why does Sinon hate Zoro so much?]

[Suddenly I've become curious about the love-hate relationship between Sinon and Mr. Z.]

"Logically speaking, there's no way any guy would be blocking the bridge here for no reason, so we can just floor it and drive out... I have nothing to do with that idiot! What are you all thinking?"

As Shino watched the endless stream of comments from onlookers in the live chat, she suddenly felt a little annoyed. However, she didn't intend to get angry with these viewers; or rather, as a semi-professional streamer, she was used to all sorts of comments and criticisms.

Of course, habits are one thing, but the right attitude should still be shown, even though in the eyes of the fans, this is mostly a case of saying one thing but doing another.

I feel like things are getting a little tricky.

There's nothing particularly subtle about it; anyone could guess that the conflict between Sinon and Zoro is definitely more than just a one-for-one exchange.

[Didn't Zoro trick Sinon into thinking Kirito was his sister? Then Sinon brought Kirito into...]

"Moderators, please mute those few people. What exactly are you guys concerned about...?"

Shino sighed and rubbed her forehead, complaining about the strange focus of these viewers. Then she felt even more disgusted with Sorin's actions. Even if Sorin was related to the person who saved her back then, or might even be that person, one thing is one thing. Deceiving herself into being seen changing clothes by a strange boy was enough for her to shoot Sorin hundreds of times over.

She refocused her attention on driving. After all, if you're not paying attention while driving, all sorts of strange accidents could happen at any time, and you might even end up on a rooftop dozens of kilometers away. Fortunately, nothing strange happened during this time, or rather, nothing happened to her, so she successfully drove out of the airport area.

Just as Shino was looking at the map and driving, trying to find a better spot, she suddenly noticed a jeep with two people in it in the middle of the road, which was stopped and motionless, as if it had gone offline.

"What's going on... wait, why are there two people in the car?"

256. Disconnection and Reconnection in progress

Sinon slowly approached the strange-looking jeep in the middle of the road, cautiously peering inside. She did recognize the two people inside, or perhaps it could be said that she was familiar with them—yes, the two people inside were Kirito and Sorin, and they didn't react excessively upon seeing Sinon… or rather, they didn't react at all.

"It's like being asleep... but full stealth is essentially a game played while in deep sleep, isn't it?" Sinon moved closer, scrutinizing the two of them, the muzzle of her Bison gun never leaving Sorin's upper body. "Is this considered looting corpses? The problem is, this is almost the first time the safe zone has shrunk, and the end of the flight path is an airport... are there really any corpses for me to loot?"

No, it's just that Uncle Suo inexplicably went offline.

[News from the neighboring livestream: Uncle Su's screen went black.]

[Just take them, both of them have fallen.]

“I see. But I don’t intend to take advantage of their vulnerability. Let’s take care of these two now and take their equipment… or rather, we should be able to do something more interesting.”

Sinon glanced at the comments in the upper right corner, nodded knowingly, and then suddenly had a different idea. She walked to the other side of the car and entered the jeep.

Some of the settings here are different from the original "PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds". One is that you can shoot the front passenger from the back seat while inside the vehicle, and another is that the UI notification for the current occupant in the vehicle has been removed. These two settings are just to make the simulation game more realistic, but some players have developed some rather unconventional ways to play, like Sinon doing now, infiltrating the opposing team and then eliminating them all just as they realize there's an extra person in their vehicle.

However, Shino's choice of this method was partly due to her own plans. She wanted to find an opportunity to ask Sorin about everything in person; the failed sniping attempt on the elevated highway was also because of this. After all, the answer to this question was... quite important to her.

"Hopefully those two can reconnect, otherwise it won't be very interesting."

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Ivy stood in front of the three men who looked like thugs, pointing an FN-57 at them. Vector, standing beside her, fiddled with the three Tokarevs and three stun guns he had just captured, then looked at Ivy with interest and asked...

"These guys are amateurs as expected. What do we do now? Miss Yuna told us to try not to kill them, otherwise it would be troublesome. The problem is... we can't really send them to the nearby police station."

"No, even from the perspective of amateur terrorists, these three guys are way too amateurish, or they might just be three thugs that Death Gun temporarily hired... Wait! If Ivy and Vivi both come out to fight, only Mom will be left at home! There's danger over there!"

She hurriedly looked up at her window upstairs and saw a small plume of black smoke coming out of the window. Then, a figure that looked like a man suddenly darted out of the window, landed on a nearby air conditioner unit, and disappeared from her sight using parkour techniques.

"What is that thing?" Ivy Xin muttered to herself. She then zoomed in on the image she had just seen, but even after zooming in, she could only see a guy who looked like a clown. She couldn't see any specific facial features or other information.

“I don’t know, but I think the only meaningful thing we can do right now is… just wait here. I reckon the next order will be coming soon.” Vector patted Ivy’s head reassuringly, his tone unusually gentle. “Miss Yuna is a very capable person. Even if someone sneaks into your house without going through the two of us, she won’t be in any danger. We might have to worry about the intruder’s safety.”

“Okay, Vivi, you’re right… It’s a communication from Mom.” Ivy squinted her eyes contentedly, then answered the call from Yuna. “There were three intruders in total, and they were all dealt with non-lethally. Ivy is pretty amazing, isn’t she?”

"You're done? Come back quickly, we need to reconnect to the BoB finals, we just got disconnected."

Yuna's tone was quite anxious, and it sounded like this was indeed a very urgent matter. Vivi thought for a moment, then pointed to the three people still lying on the ground, too afraid to move, "Vivi, could you please help deal with these three? I need to go back and help my parents."

“Okay, Ivy, you go ahead. I’ll be fine here.” Vector patted Ivy’s shoulder, took out the Vector from his waistband, pointed at the three of them, and his tone turned cold and emotionless once again. “You go first, I’ll watch you from behind… You should know how to get to the police station, right?”

"We know, we know... We know we were wrong, young lady, please spare our lives..."

Vector was getting annoyed by the thugs' panicked pleas for mercy. She waved her hand and saw that Ivy had already activated her electronic angel mode and flown towards her window. She then showed no mercy to the three thugs. But that's another story. Let's shift our focus back to Ivy.

The electronic angel's flight speed was quite high; at least it only took Ivy Xin about ten seconds to fly back to her home from the ground. She gently climbed in through the window and frowned as she looked at the mess in the living room.

"Was this... caused by that guy just now?" she asked, looking down at the charred area.

"I suppose so. This thing blew Kirito and me out of full-dive. We've got our power back, but because the internet isn't working, we can't reconnect to the BoB finals to continue my mission, Ivy."

Mo Yulan said this with a hint of helplessness, but it was much better than his outburst of profanity when he first disconnected from the internet. After all, the person standing in front of him was his eldest daughter.

"Hmm. Ivy will split off a thread and temporarily transform herself into a Wi-Fi network, which will make things simpler."

Aiweixin nodded, then sat on the sofa, suddenly closed her eyes, and stopped moving. The television screen, which had been displaying static, suddenly returned to normal.

"Well done, Ivy. Kiritani-kun, prepare to reconnect."

257. A rare opportunity for exchange

With Aivisin's help, Mo Yulan and Kirito reconnected to BoB's final match once again via AmuSphere. There were still five minutes left before the safe zone shrank for the first time, which made him feel quite fortunate.

"You know what, Kirito? If the circle has already started to shrink and even reached the bridge, then the two of us will definitely be wiped out by the people coming out of the airport who don't want to block the bridge."

This was the first thing Sorin said after logging in. After confirming his current location and the status of the safe zone, he drove straight to the location he had marked earlier. It was a small two-story building located in the city center of the map—specifically, on the outskirts of P City.

This location has several advantages as a base, making it a golden spot that's easy to attack, defend, and escape from if all else fails. However, the reason Sorin chose this small second floor is simply because one of the windows on the second floor faces Pochinki. If the final safe zone isn't in Pochinki, this window would allow Sorin to trap everyone on that side.

However, even now, Solin still hasn't noticed that there are three people in his car instead of two. This has to be said that reliance on past experience is a killer, because when Solin used to play PUBG, he would habitually check how many people were in the vehicle and who they were. But in this game where you can't see vehicle details, Solin's first reaction wasn't to turn around and carefully check how many people were in the car—in fact, he simply ignored it altogether.

Meanwhile, Kirito knew there was someone behind him, but he didn't dare to speak because the unidentified guy behind him was pointing a gun at the back of his head and occasionally flicking his long hair with the gun to warn him not to tell Sorin next to him.

At this moment, the situation in both live streams became even more delicate. Since most people wanted to see Suo Lin get humiliated and make a "rua" sound, rather than seeing the lovely Shino suffer such treatment, almost all the viewers did not go to Suo Lin's live stream to reveal that "there is a Miss Shino in the back seat of his car".

This situation continued until a bored "emperor" in Sorin's livestream started a guessing game in Shino's livestream with the question, "When will Grandpa Sorin finally discover Shino-chan?" Because this guessing game involved so many big shots and wealthy viewers, eventually a traitor returned to Sorin's livestream to issue a warning.

Of course, these warning comments were immediately deleted by the moderators, and the person who posted them was also banned. Although a few warning comments would persist for a longer period of time due to the constant stream of traitors, Solin, who was focused on both looking at the map and driving, simply didn't have time to pay attention to them. This meant that he was kept in the dark for a long time.

"Um... Solin, how much longer until we get there..."

Kirito desperately tried to hint to Sorin, having asked him this at least five times along the way. When Sorin impatiently replied for the fifth time, "Drive for another five or six minutes at most, and keep a close eye on your surroundings," he finally realized that Kirito seemed to be trying to express something.

"...Kirito, is there something you can't just say?"

Sorin looked at Kirito with a puzzled expression, then suddenly noticed that Kirito's eyes were glued to the rearview mirror. Generally speaking, since driving in the game provides a fairly wide-angle view directly ahead, Sorin usually doesn't look at that seemingly decorative rearview mirror.

However, when he followed Kirito's gaze to the rearview mirror, he saw a faint, icy blue shadow that had appeared in the mirror, and something was also placed behind his head.