Zongman started from grabbing girls with Wuhe Shidao

The button of Tual Labo (out of the imaginary laboratory)] is emitting a faint light.

"That's it...!" She whispered softly, and then touched the button again.

A new window then appeared above.

There is [Execute log-off seque] on the small rectangle

se? (Are you sure you want to log out?)] and the buttons of OK and CANCEL.

God—— While she was muttering desperately in her heart, she stretched out her right hand to touch the OK button——

"Mom be careful!!" Yui who was hidden in the hair behind Asuna's shoulder suddenly reminded loudly.

But it was too late, at the moment when Asuna's fingers were only a few millimeters away from Ok, she turned her head slightly.

Suddenly, a gray tentacle wrapped tightly around Asuna's right hand from behind.

Then——Yui rushed out of Asuna's shoulder and bumped her head against the OK button.

Yui, whose ontology data is stored in the local storage of Asuna's helmet, is one with Asuna in a sense.

And because of this oneness—

The figures of Asuna and Yui faded at the same time, quickly dissipating into particles of light.

"what!?"

"shit!!"

Two panicked voices echoed in the space, but no one else heard them except the two of them.

On the hospital bed, Asuna opened her eyes, and what she saw was the snow-white ceiling.

Asuna's eyes widened, panting heavily.

Then without saying a word, she took off her helmet, broke free from the electrodes and infusion tubes attached to her body, and rushed out the door.

……

……

At the end of the first half day of the journey, when Kirito went offline to rest, he saw a push news on his mobile phone.

【The continuation of SAO's nightmare, the daring criminal——Nobuyuki Sugo】

Seeing the keyword SAO, Kirito subconsciously clicked on it.

30 seconds later, the chopsticks in his hand fell off at some point...

Swallowing the food in his mouth, Kirito frantically clicked on the dialing interface...

After connecting, Kirito held his breath and made a trembling voice: "Asuna?"

"... Kirito-kun?"

It was that familiar voice, but there was a bit of desolation and sadness in that voice.

Kirito was taken aback by this voice: "You... are you okay?"

"...I'm fine, what's the matter with you?"

"Ah... Did you read the email? I should have sent you a lot of emails before..."

"Sorry, I just got my phone too, so I haven't had time to look at it yet."

"Oh, so that's it, that, I actually saw Zero."

"...What did you say?" Asuna's voice showed a bit of disbelief, but also a bit of sternness.

At this moment, she clenched the phone tightly with both hands, and her pupils shrank suddenly. She believed that if Kirito dared to make fun of this, she would never forgive him.

"Ah, you heard me right, I saw Zero, it was in ALO, and you should have been imprisoned by Nobuyuki Sugo as mentioned in the news before, Zero and I were already on the way to the World Tree in order to find you It's been two days on my journey."

"Where is he now!?" Asuna asked with hope and excitement.

Kirito scratched his cheek: "That... the situation is a bit complicated, can you enter ALO now?"

"ALO? Wasn't it temporarily shut down just a few minutes ago?"

"Huh?!" Now it was Kirito's turn to be surprised.

……

Time rewinds to a few minutes ago.

After Kirito left behind the dead flame and temporarily went offline, Lin Mu and Lyfa looked at each other, and when they were about to take the flame and continue to set off——

Lyfa suddenly paused, and then showed a hint of doubt: "Suspension announcement?"

"Huh?" Lin Mu looked suspiciously at Lyfa beside him.

But before Lyfa could speak again, in Lin Mu's sight, Lyfa's figure turned into particles of light and dissipated. Similarly, the flame of Kirito in his arms gradually became illusory, and finally disappeared.

Lin Mu blinked with a question mark on his face, he looked down at his body, it was a little unbelievable that he was also blurring!

"Fuck..."

Leaving a beautiful Chinese quintessence, Lin Shu's body turns into light particles...

Lin Mu only felt that the changes in the world in his eyes before and after he blinked, with only one eyelid closing, were too much.

In the last second, it was still a painting style full of fantasy, and in the next second it became a modern urban painting style...

That's right, what appeared in front of Lin Mu was a group of high-rise buildings...

And the location I was in was a familiar alley...

Well, if I'm not mistaken, this should be... Earth.

Then came a gust of cold wind.

Lin Mu shivered.

But he was expressionless.

Looking at the clothes of pedestrians coming and going outside the alley, one can understand that the world is also in winter.

And he still has the T-shirt on his body, the one he wore in Gabriel World... The clothes he wore after the world battle were not brought with him.