Their commission was suspicious.

"Ring ring!"

Kayaba Akihiko's phone suddenly rang. He glanced at the caller ID and knew who it was.

The only person who knows this private phone number is Rinko Kamishiro, Kayaba Akihiko's junior and girlfriend.

"Kayaba Akihiko, are you crazy?!" Rinko Kamishiro's angry voice rang in Kayaba Akihiko's ears.

"I'm not crazy," Kayaba Akihiko said calmly.

Or rather, Kayaba Akihiko has never been calmer than he is now.

"Trapping 1 people in your death game, you call that not insane? Stop messing around and release them all! You've already caused 213 deaths!"

“This is my dream, and I won’t let it end like this. Besides, I don’t have the only GM privileges right now,” Kayaba Akihiko said.

"Ha, you're kidding me!"

“Miss, I can vouch for Kayaba Akihiko; what he said is indeed true.” A third voice suddenly came through the phone, even though it was only a conversation between the two of them.

"Also, I need to discuss some matters related to Sao with Kayaba Akihiko next. Could you please excuse me for a moment?"

Upon hearing this voice, Kayaba Akihiko's eyes widened instantly, because he could tell that the voice seemed to belong to the person who had stolen his helmet and account.

Kayaba Akihiko quickly examined the environment of the basement where he was, but found no trace of any outsiders.

"Hey, hey, hey, where are you looking? I'm looking at your phone." The voice came again, this time directed at Kayaba Akihiko's phone.

Kayaba Akihiko subconsciously looked at his phone, and then, to his horrified gaze, a ghost-like figure emerged from his phone.

Before Kayaba Akihiko could react, the ghost instantly grew from small to large at an extremely fast speed.

"Snapped!"

The ghost slapped Kayaba Akihiko away, then caught the phone that was about to hit the ground and stood in the basement.

Did someone slap you across the face through the internet cable?

Kayaba Akihiko lay on the ground, completely bewildered.

……

"Phew, I'm exhausted. I didn't sleep in the middle of the night, and I came here to beat people up. This is really too abstract." Chen Luo sat in a chair, drinking milk tea and resting.

The man in the white coat lying on the ground curled up, trying to minimize the contact area between himself and Chen Luo's fist.

Chen Luo didn't want to either. He'd rather spend his time cuddling with the Herrscher of Knowledge and sleeping soundly than beat someone up. But his moral compass kept nagging at him.

Chen Luo was somewhat unwilling to give up without beating up Kayaba Akihiko.

Chen Luo admitted that Kayaba Akihiko, with the talent of an ordinary person, managed to create a virtual reality (VR) device that allows people to play games with extremely high realism, making him a genius. But even geniuses can't kill people at will.

It doesn't matter what kind of person Kayaba Akihiko is, what matters is that he has already caused the deaths of 213 people, and will cause nearly 5000 more to die in the future. His impact on society is extremely negative, so Chen Luo can beat him up with moral imperatives without any psychological burden.

"I wonder if the Friendship-Breaking Fist actually worked." Chen Luo sat on a chair to rest, while also keeping an eye on Kayaba Akihiko.

If Chen Luo wanted to kill Kayaba Akihiko, he could kill him on the spot in less than a second and even scatter his ashes.

However, letting him die on the spot would not be a suitable way to deal with Kayaba Akihiko.

At least the world's consciousness has said that as long as you don't kill him, you can do whatever you want.

However, Chen Luo did not stand on ceremony with the world consciousness. After agreeing to the world consciousness's request, Chen Luo made a deal with the world consciousness that once Kayaba Akihiko turned 30, his soul would belong to Chen Luo.

The world consciousness agreed.

Therefore, Kayaba Akihiko cannot die yet.

He has to work for Chen Luo!

Moreover, Chen Luo will inflict him with the most painful punishment.

One of the most painful punishments for a game developer.

When dealing with someone like Kayaba Akihiko, physical torture is secondary; mental torture is the real torment.

Chen Luo waited quietly for a few minutes, and when he had almost finished his milk tea, Kayaba Akihiko struggled to get up from the ground.

Chen Luo had just used the power of the Friendship-Breaking Fist to beat Kayaba Akihiko, and before that, he had also made Kayaba Akihiko feel like old friends at first sight.

The "Friendship Breaker" has two modes: either it inflicts stronger damage based on the level of affection, or it inflicts stronger pain based on the level of affection.

So Kayaba Akihiko is in pain all over his body right now, but a medical check-up at the hospital won't find anything wrong. He was just lying on the ground because he was in so much pain that he couldn't get up.

In addition, the Friendship-Breaking Fist also comes with a personality correction effect.

This is the reason why Chen Luo beat Kayaba Akihiko up like this.

Kayaba Akihiko is not essentially a bad person; he's just not a good person.

Perhaps this is true of geniuses, because reality cannot satisfy their needs, and emotions fade away from their hearts even more quickly.

Kayaba Akihiko was simply a heartless person.

But if you make a mistake, you have to admit it.

This is the meaning of the moral law.

"Who exactly are you?" Only after the pain slowly subsided from his body was Kayaba Akihiko able to organize his thoughts and ask the ghost in front of him.

“Me? Just a passing traveler,” Chen Luo replied.

What do you want to do?

"What do I want to do? Didn't you hear my declaration in the game just now? I'm going to use the data from the Sao you created as a foundation to create a real, existing Aincrad," Chen Luo said.

"How is this possible?"

"Ha, before I stepped out of the phone and slapped you, did you think it was possible for a person to crawl out of a phone? Since I can do something this absurd, why can't I turn data into reality completely? Don't be so rigid in your thinking," Chen Luo said.

"...Can you really create a real floating castle with Aincrad?" Kayaba Akihiko lowered his head and remained silent for a long time before suddenly looking up at Chen Luo, his eyes filled with a certain hope.

“Sure, while I can’t guarantee it will be exactly the same, the general structure will be the same. However, I need you to provide the seed for the Sao world… that is, all the data packets for Aincrad,” Chen Luo said.

The seed of the world that Chen Luo talked about with the world consciousness was not actually a real seed; Chen Luo needed data from the Sao world.

This differs from the World Seed that Kayaba Akihiko gave to Kirito in the original storyline.

Chen Luo cultivated the World Tree of Moderation, and the worlds born from the World Tree of Moderation have one characteristic: randomness.

The good news is that it's random, and all possibilities can happen.

Bad news is random; any possibility can occur.

After adding some data to the World Tree Fruit, Chen Luo can determine that a game world will be created, but he cannot guarantee what kind of game world it will be. It may develop in a good direction, but it is more likely to develop in a bad direction.

Mutation is like that, and it's often the latter.

The rich rely on technology, the poor rely on mutation.

But if we move the entire Aincrad and hang it on the World Tree to cultivate as a seed, then there will be no problem!

This basically confirms that the newly generated World Tree Fruit will give birth to a world based on Aincrad data.

In Chen Luo's view, the world structure of Aincrad was quite suitable for monster hunting.

The even better news is that Aincrad only has 100 layers, which is not even as big as a planet, let alone a world. Therefore, there is no need to wait for the World Tree Fruit, which is based on Aincrad's data, to mature before it can be used.

Because the world view of Aincrad was too small, the World Tree of the province automatically added various settings to this mature world, causing the floating city of Aincrad to develop in an uncontrollable direction.

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As for the Aincrad packaged data that Chen Luo wanted, that was meant to be left in this world to confuse people.

"If you can guarantee that you can truly create Aincrad in reality, create the floating city that only exists in fantasy, I'm willing to give you all the data in SAO," Kayaba Akihiko said.

In the short span of time, Kayaba Akihiko had thought about many things, including guessing Chen Luo's identity and his purpose...

As a brilliant scientist, he should have been a staunch materialist, but as everyone knows, the end of science is theology.

Finding that dream floating city has been Kayaba Akihiko's dream since childhood, and it is also the driving force that has supported him in his research and development of this game.

Given Chen Luo's incredible ability to even slap himself through the internet and his unpredictable ability to steal his helmet, Kayaba Akihiko decided to trust Chen Luo this once.

“The most important thing is that it’s no use if you disagree, since you can’t resist me at all, right?” Chen Luo said, resting his chin on one hand.

Kayaba Akihiko had to admit that this was the most important reason why he believed in Chen Luo.

We can't beat them, we simply can't beat them.

Kayaba Akihiko is an adult, so he doesn't easily trust others.

But as an adult, Kayaba Akihiko also knew that if he didn't agree to Chen Luo's request, he might get beaten into a pulp.

Furthermore, when Kayaba Akihiko tried to reclaim his account just now, it was clear that Chen Luo possessed a certain level of hacking skills, possibly even stronger than his own.

So if you don't behave now, you'll get beaten to death!

Children make choices; only adults know that there are no choices at all.

“You can certainly kill me. But it will be much easier for you if I'm around,” Kayaba Akihiko said.

For a skilled thief, picking a lock and slipping through a door is no problem, but if someone opens the door from the inside, it's even easier.

"Oh? It seems that quite a few of your game players are children. Someone actually had a mental breakdown and chose to jump off a building because of what you were originally going to say?" Just as Kayaba Akihiko was waiting for Chen Luo's reply, Chen Luo suddenly brought up another topic.

Kayaba Akihiko was surprised that Chen Luo could perceive events happening in the game world in reality, and was also heartbroken by the other's lack of appreciation for life...

Although it may seem contradictory, Kayaba Akihiko did feel a pang of pity upon hearing this news after being thoroughly beaten up by Chen Luo.

This change in mindset surprised Kayaba Akihiko, who couldn't help but suspect that Chen Luo might have done something to him. Even though he felt that this was possible, he still couldn't control his emotions.

“However, I’ve been storing the consciousness of all the dead in the lower level of Aincrad since just now. They won’t die, but they’ll be displayed on the death list to give those players who are still observing a little bit of pressure. Otherwise, I would have come to beat you up a minute ago.” Chen Luo stood up and stretched.

Now that Chen Luo has arrived, although he has decided to give the game players a sense of pressure, he does not intend for them to risk their lives to create that pressure.

Chen Luo deliberately said this in front of Kayaba Akihiko to see his reaction.

However, it seems that Chen Luo's beating of Kayaba Akihiko was a bit too lenient. Under the admonition of the "Friendship-Breaking Fist," Kayaba Akihiko did change, but not completely; he only changed a little bit...

This guy is really stubborn!

Or is it that all those who achieve great things possess this "unrepentant" spirit?

Forget it, Chen Luo was too lazy to continue, because he was really tired.

Let's get straight to the technology and the real work. Let Kayaba Akihiko experience what true surprise is!

Chapter 1767 The Different Treatment Between Biological Mothers and Stepmothers!

"The number of suicides... is quite high." Chen Luo glanced at the few consciousnesses sleeping in the temporary negative 1 level created by Aincrad and said.

Chen Luo understood their mentality. After all, anyone would be devastated if they played a game and were told that they would have to risk their lives to play it.

Are you fucking crazy?

Chen Luo's preparations went beyond simply collecting their consciousness to prevent them from dying.

Chen Luo also used the power of the Herrscher of Corruption to find the other person's body by following the meaning of the network cable, and then personally gifted them a bit of the mark of domination.

That's right, it's the mark of domination, not the mark of a puppet.

The Doll Mark can turn humans into dolls, while the Domination Mark can make them do what Chen Luo asks them to do.

Moreover, once this ability is upgraded to SSS level, it can even enable those people to do things they couldn't do before.

For example, if they jump two meters high, the mark of dominion will help them strengthen their bodies, and so on.

It sounds somewhat like Aponia's Discipline ability, but it's actually a bit more advanced, since it's also part of an SSS-level talent.

However, since most people in the bar don't need this function, Chen Luo has never used it.

For ordinary people in this world, Chen Luo's ability is still quite remarkable.

This time, Chen Luo used the mark of domination to give them an order, which was simply to keep them from dying—a very simple order.

Because of this order, even when they are in a vegetative state, their bodies can gradually become stronger, as if they are undergoing training.

Since each person was only given 0.1 Domination Marks, the strength wasn't very high—Chen Luo did this on purpose, because if someone noticed anything too unusual, it would be difficult to explain.

Even so, conservatively speaking, it could double the physical fitness of these ordinary people... within a month.

Fortunately, the Herrscher of Corruption's ability allows her to send things via the internet; otherwise, these 1 people would have kept Chen Luo busy for quite some time.

"To be honest, I originally thought I could use the open/exit button to get a five-star commission, but now it seems unlikely. Getting a group four-star commission is more probable..." Chen Luo muttered.