The Age of Heroic Spirits in the Eyes of the Reincarnated.

Chapter 60: The information that remains! (Please read on!)

The decompressed virtual world re-presents the appearance of the floating city "Aincrad".

The place where Li Xia's consciousness was standing was exactly the high-altitude platform from that year.

Below is the huge one hundred-story floating city of Aincrad.

Further down is a vast expanse of land.

Not too far from the floating city of Aincrad, a huge sacred tree that blocks out the sky and reaches the sky stands between heaven and earth. It is the "World Tree", the main line of the "Fairy Dance" chapter.

"It seems that I not only got out Kayaba Akihiko's SAO world seed, but also packed up and brought out the world tree that Sugo Nobuyuki had tinkered with."

"Tsk tsk..."

"I'm back, SAO!"

The excitement in his heart made him open his arms involuntarily:
"Here I come, my SAO!"

The whole world seemed to be at his fingertips.

In his mind.

A thought can turn the world upside down, and a thought can also restart the world.

Now he is the master of this world.

"Let's see what backup plans we have..."

The town where things start.

It means "the place where it all begins".

Li Xia was walking on the streets of the starting town at this time.

Soon, he noticed something unusual.

It turns out that some NPCs in an arc that issue simple quests have only one word in their names.

There are more than thirty such NPCs in this arc.

When Li Xia arranged these more than thirty words in order, he immediately got two sentences.

There are hints in the words.

Tip him on how to find clues faster.

"The NPCs in the floating city of Aincrad were named with one word. So the individual individuals did not trigger the elimination of the secret realm rules?"

Li Xia was the first to realize this.

Then, as a GM, he summoned SAO's "Mental State Management Program No. 1 AI", which is Yui who appeared in the original book's bug. An artificial intelligence responsible for managing and caring for the mental state of SAO game players, and a program with human emotions.

But in the end, only one seed was obtained.

A tear-shaped crystal named "Yui's Heart".

Seeing that it was just a seed, Li Xia frowned slightly at first; after he touched the seed and confirmed that it contained a program, he breathed a sigh of relief.

Although I don't understand why Yui had to be extracted from the main body before leaving the trial copy and preserved in the form of a process condensation, but since he did so, he probably had other considerations.

"I hope I can get something else from Yui..."

While he was talking to himself, he had already clicked on the crystal and, with the authority of a GM, gave life back to the seed.

The next moment, a soft light lit up, and a cute little girl with long hair, the size of a palm, appeared in front of him.

Seeing the little girl, he felt a sense of intimacy, and his eyes unconsciously became much gentler:

"Do you remember me, Yui-chan?"

At this moment, Li Xia stared at the little Loli with full anticipation, and the little Loli also stared at him.

The look in his eyes gradually changed from confusion to surprise:

"Master!"

As she called out, she suddenly jumped into Li Xia's arms and hugged his neck.

If Kayaba Akihiko is the biological father who created Yui's emotional program.

Then Li Xia is her adoptive father who raised her.

"Yui-chan, do you have anything I asked you to keep?"

Li Xia asked.

"some…"

As the little girl spoke, she called out a large amount of program data.

After being arranged and combined several times in a certain pattern, these originally random data actually formed a series of rather blurry pictures. And there were so many of them, so many that even if you played them continuously in the form of a slide show for three to five hours, you might not be able to finish watching them.

The moment he saw those blurry images, Li Xia's heartbeat became a little stronger.

All the characters in the picture are so blurry that their faces cannot be seen clearly, and only the vague outlines of their bodies can be seen.

But just this little detail was enough for him to determine the angle he was at every time.

"Who am I going outing with?"

“This is a photo of us watching the sunrise together…”

"Here we are again admiring the sea of ​​forests..."

"Let's go on a boat trip together"

“Enjoy delicious food and explore the ancient city together…”

The blurry pictures turned into blurry memories that flashed through Li Xia's mind quickly, but he still had no impression of them.

There was no touch either.

It was like something that had been ripped out of his mind.

"Master, I still have a lot of them here, but for some reason they have become so blurry, as if they were deliberately damaged. I'm sorry, Master, I couldn't protect them. Am I useless?"

The elf-like Yui said a little frustrated.

I blame myself for not being able to protect these things. "No, you have done a good job."

Li Xia gently stroked the elf's little head to comfort it.

This isn't Yui's fault per se.

It is not easy to save such a large number of photos.

Calm your mind, and then follow the clues to search one by one.

After a while, he found another monument.

Originally, there should be something recorded on this monument, but now, the monument is unusually clean and has become an empty monument without any words or traces left.

"Is this content erased by the rules of the secret realm?"

Li Xia had some guesses.

Turning to more exciting:
"try to find!

Keep looking!
All the details must be found out!"

He didn't believe that this was all he had.

However, there were no other clues in the starting town, so he began to explore other places outside the town.

For example, he sorted out the names of many towns on the 5th floor and strung them together into a dozen sentences. Another example was collecting information about the NPCs with "one-word names" in all the towns on the th floor. He got more and more information and finally pieced together a short essay of nearly words.

Through this diary-like article, he gradually understood more and more of what happened in the trial copy from the perspective of a spectator.

This feeling is very strange and novel.

As expected, the name "Asuna" appeared in the short essay!

"I really fell in love with that girl!"

At this time, Li Xia's mouth corners had unconsciously curled up into a gentle smile.

But it was soon shrouded by a haze again.

Because in this short article, words like "maintainer" appeared "unexpectedly" and "naturally"!

He learned about one of the real dangers of the secret trial: the maintainer.

There are intelligent people and practical geniuses who can perform well on the spot among generations of human trial-takers. However, even if these people perform very well during the trial and avoid the pitfalls of the secret realm missions, they will often fall into the hands of those maintainers.

Especially when the [Trial-taker] has no idea that there are poisonous snakes like the [Maintainer] lurking in the dark.

Once they are plotted against, a large number of people will die.

And it is difficult to turn things around.

I am an exception among exceptions.

After all, he still retained the memories of his previous life after living two lives as a human.

During the trial, he relied on his foresight to know some of the situations of the male protagonist Kirito in advance. He then noticed something wrong with Kirito who was replaced by the maintainer and became suspicious. Then he quickly killed the other party before he could gain the upper hand.

The exchange of the relationship between the light and the dark was the main reason why he was able to kill the other party.

Replace them with the other trialists in Area 1?
As many as go in, they will definitely die.

"What exactly is a maintainer?"

"What are we trial-takers to the secret realm?"

The more he knew, the more doubts Li Xia had.

...

Inside the seventh-floor library of Aincrad.

There is also a back-up plan here.

Many of the books here can be extracted from a "keyword".

These keywords were combined in the order of the books, and it was also a long essay of several thousand words. The content was similar to the short essay provided by the town and NPC.

In addition, there is a cube-shaped boss guarding the level. The reward for killing it is a bunch of Easter egg photos.

Then there is the laboratory on the other side of the World Tree.

It was originally the place where Nobuyuki Sugo conducted brain experiments.

Later, Li Xia adjusted it to a brain research laboratory targeting only red-named players, orange-named players, and Nobuyuki Sugo in the SAO game world.

At this moment, eighteen artificial intelligence programs are sealed in the room.

It was he who collected the emotions of the red-named and orange-named players and Nobuyuki Sugo and copied the AI.

The numbers of these AIs are very strange, all of them are a bunch of nonsensical codes like "11/4/...", "36/19/...", etc. And there is a long string of numbers like this above the head of each AI.

Eighteen strings of numbers represent eighteen sentences.

With the help of a dictionary in the library, it was only a matter of time to translate these eighteen sentences.

"Although my memory is gone, the diary is preserved through the underlying data of the virtual world."

This was something worth celebrating and being happy about.

"But why, why did the words between the lines also reveal my love for Xia Zhijin?
But I just... replaced her eyes!"

The diary clearly states:

For more than a year, Xia Zhijin has been following him like a little tail, inseparable.

And the reason why the girl opened her eyes was entirely because of him.

The people he designed to open their eyes at the beginning were only Wang Teng, Yang Jie, and Xu Che!
Never including this shy and bashful little girl!
“She opened my eyes?

I stole her eyes?"

For some reason, he felt a lump in his chest.

(End of this chapter)