Their commission was suspicious.

Kirito originally thought that with a major battle imminent, he should prepare well and work hard to increase his combat strength, so he discussed with Asuna about using that business card.

Asuna suddenly had a brilliant idea: could the two of them use one invitation to enter?

Then I came in.

The bar door that suddenly and miraculously appeared out of thin air further solidified their suspicion that Chen Luo might have some special identity.

Of course, it's also possible that, as the person who stole Kayaba Akihiko's phone said, he was caught up in a magical game, and that game has already begun to change...

Now that we even have murder mystery games, what else is unacceptable?

But whatever the facts are, we should go first and then talk about it.

Then Kirito and Asuna arrived together.

Before entering, the two men placed their hands on their weapons, in preparation for any possible attack.

"Snapped!"

"Snapped!"

Kirito and Asuna were suddenly struck hard on the head! Almost simultaneously, they both clutched their heads and crouched on the ground.

It hurts.

"You guys aren't really treating me like an NPC, are you?" Chen Luo withdrew his hand.

Almost at the same moment Chen Luo struck them, Asuna and Kirito's weapons and equipment vanished completely. It was unknown where they had been taken.

It was only after the two of them had calmed down for a while that they stood up and discovered what had happened.

After searching for a while, the two discovered that apart from their clothes, all their other weapons and equipment had disappeared, and even their clothes had changed from special items with attributes to plain equipment.

Most importantly, although the two can still summon the drop-down menu, almost all the options in the drop-down menu have turned gray, which means they are unusable.

"This is..." Kirito looked at Chen Luo with some nervousness.

Kirito had considered Chen Luo's possible identity, but it was still somewhat unexpected that all of Chen Luo's weapons, equipment, and items would be confiscated as soon as he entered this special shop.

"Don't worry, your weapons will be returned to you in a little while, after you leave Zero Bar." After saying that, Chen Luo turned and walked towards the seats that were not yet occupied.

Kirito and Asuna exchanged a glance and quickly followed.

"Nata, three glasses of juice, please." Chen Luo raised his hand.

"If you can't drink, go to the kids' table." This person is a grown man, and he doesn't even order a drink when he comes to a bar. Even if you are the bar owner, isn't that a bit too much?

"Isn't I at the same table as the kids?" Chen Luo tilted his head.

Theoretically speaking, none of Chen Luo, Asuna, and Kirito combined are adults.

However, if the time jump is taken into account, Chen Luo is considered to have only recently come of age.

But a man is only a boy until he dies, so rounding it off, it's roughly equivalent to Chen Luo being 17 forever.

While Chen Luo was chatting with the bartender, Asuna and Kirito were also looking around the bar.

This bar was not the quiet, secluded shop that Kirito and Asuna had imagined before they came. As a hidden shop, it seemed to have quite a few customers.

However, these guests are not like the players in SAO, or even like NPCs. Although the NPCs in SAO have a set of custom AI logic at this stage, they cannot make enough vivid expressions.

and……

“That is…” Kirito’s pupils contracted.

He saw an old woman, a rather famous old woman!

Although some of the works are very old, Kirito, as a veteran otaku, has actually done some research on them.

"Yukari Yakumo is in this game? Doesn't Kayaba Akihiko worry about copyright issues?" Kirito muttered to himself.

But thinking about it carefully, if Kayaba Akihiko dares to play even death games, why would he be afraid of copyright?

If those copyright holders are so capable, come and fight me in the game world!

"Stop looking at this bar through the lens of a game. Even if you're stupid, you can tell that this bar and I aren't ordinary, right? Yeah, that's right, reality is often more outrageous than you imagine." Chen Luo clapped his hands, attracting the attention of Kirito and Asuna.

"Thinking of me as someone at the level of a mastermind is already difficult enough for your imagination, but you might as well imagine something even more terrifying," Chen Luo said.

"For example... that girl next to you, Yakumo Yukari, who slams your head onto the keyboard and rubs it when someone calls her an old woman, isn't just a simple image or NPC, but a real person, right?" Chen Luo said while rolling his face on the keyboard.

"Yukari Yakumo!" Remilia shouted with a sharp, explosive sound!

Inside the game area, Remilia was using the useless character to fight that damned Golden Tree Guardian in the Elden Ring. She was just one hit away from killing him when her keyboard was stolen.

This was the closest I'd ever come to success, after trying hundreds of times!

What? You're saying the Golden Tree Guardian isn't a necessary boss to fight? You can bypass him?

Even if all else fails, you can use a mage to exploit a bug and kill the Golden Tree Guardian, right?

fart!

A real man uses useless people and cuts them down one by one!

Right now, Remilia is trying to kill Yakumo Yukari with a single keystroke using the keyboard she snatched back from her!

Ignoring the conflict between the two people next to him, Chen Luo rubbed his face, which had been rolling around on the keyboard several times, and continued chatting with Kirito and Asuna as if nothing had happened.

"See? This reaction doesn't look like that of an NPC at all, does it?"

"You're the NPC! Your whole family are NPCs!" Yakumo Yukari took a moment to give Chen Luo the middle finger before continuing to deal with Remilia, the blue-haired dwarf.

"..."

In fact, when the NPC said the three letters "NPC", it already proved that she was not an NPC.

But that's even more unbelievable!

OMG! Purple Mom has broken through the dimensional barrier!

However, breaking through the dimensional barrier would be terrifying for anyone else, but it seems like Yukari Mama could actually do it.

"So... do you two need a moment to process this and get some background information?" Chen Luo asked, resting his chin on his hand as he looked at the child who was a little younger than him.

Kirito didn't stand on ceremony and began telling the bewildered Asuna about the old woman, Yakumo Yukari.

Kirito is panicking because he really knows Yakumo Yukari, so he is worried that he has fallen into some kind of thinking trap. Asuna, who is quick-witted, is naturally the best and only helper.

The technological development and direction of Kirito and Asuna's world are different from Chen Luo's world. In addition to their inherent special powers, the development of literary works in Chen Luo's world is also different.

For example, Sword Art Online was officially released in 2022, but what happened in reality?

Let alone 2022, we won't even see it in 2024!

Chen Luo, who could foresee the future direction of world development, shouted to the heavens!

Damn it, when will we be able to play Sword Art Online without an exit button?

Haven't you already played it?

"……Too."

This morning, when Chen Luo was forcibly sent by the world consciousness to experience the world of Sword Art Online, he had Void Archives record information about this world, and indeed found similar information about Gensokyo.

Similar, but not exactly the same, and apart from Gensokyo, no other similar information was found.

What does this mean?

The idea of ​​bringing games from other worlds into the Star Railway world is really brilliant!

Moreover, its feasibility has already been proven!

"Oh, speaking of which... A game called Sword Art Online will be released in three days at the Interstellar Peace Corporation's game division. Pre-registration is available now. Would you like me to pre-register for you?"

"Hmm?" Chen Luo looked up.

"Is there an exit button? I won't play if there isn't one."

There really isn't an exit button.

"???"

"No, you can still play a game without an exit button?"

【…】

The most crucial question is: who would dare to play a game without an exit button?

[It must be said that Void Repository is a gaming genius. He first exported the anime Sword Art Online from his database, then managed it for half a year, making the anime a huge hit, before finally creating the Sword Art Online game.]

The biggest selling point of this Sword Art Online game is that the first batch of 1 helmets released have no exit button! There are no resurrection items included! Purchasing the game will also include a free nutrient capsule worth 10 credits, which can sustain the player for a month.

[Players who die in the game within one month will be automatically logged out and considered to have lost. The top 5000 players still alive after one month will receive the title "Cheater" and a reward of 10 credits.]

"...He's truly a genius. But won't he lose money?"

We're giving away 1 nutrition capsules worth 10 credits for free, and the first 5000 players will also receive a 10 credit reward...

That's a considerable sum.

Some small game developers can only earn this much money in their entire lives.

[Ha, a loss? These 10,000 Sword Art Online helmets weren't bought, they were won through a lottery! 100 credits per draw! No upper limit! The lottery ends in three days, and the winners will be announced! The more draws you do, the higher your chances of winning! The current prize pool is—800 billion credits. This is after deducting 50% which will be used to aid other worlds—pure profit.]

"???"

"Trickster!"

[Yes, the instigator has cursed... By the way, do you want to guess who the instigator is?]

"..."

Didn't you just say that?

Chapter 1896 Is Zero Point Bar Chen Luo's "World"?

Ever since Chen Luo learned that his underling had inexplicably plagiarized the game Sword Art Online, and even completely plagiarized it, Chen Luo has found it difficult to look at Kirito and Asuna the same way.

You know what, you really shouldn't say it.

The revenue of 8,000 billion credits is only the revenue from opening the card pool for two days.

If nothing unexpected happens, this number will more than double again; that's the power of IP!

Because they inherently possess unique cultural symbols, figurines also carry special value, which is why they are quite expensive.

Moreover, 50% of the proceeds from this gacha pool... or rather, all the revenue from the game department, will be used for disaster relief on planets or even worldwide.

That's true; it reduced some of the resentment from whales and ordinary people.

After all, even if this money were used for charity, it might only reach 1% or even less of those who need to be saved!

I'd rather spend my money on games than do charity!

"How are you two? Have you recovered yet?" Chen Luo looked at Kirito and Asuna with an unusually friendly attitude.

Ever since he learned that these two little darlings had earned him at least several hundred billion credits, Chen Luo has looked at the two children as if they were money trees.

Regardless of whether these two people agree or disagree, the gacha pool still has to be opened, but this shows that these two people are destined to be with Chen Luo.

Whether it's the "yuan" in "yuanfen" (缘分, fate) or the "yuan" in "yuanzi" (元

"Is this really another world?"

“No, this is a transit station in another world. Strictly speaking, you haven’t left your own world yet, which is why you can summon your own game interface. However, it doesn’t completely belong to your world, so these game interfaces are all grayed out,” Chen Luo explained.

As long as no one travels from the bar to another world, then all the customers who come to the bar are not considered to have left the current world.

Now the bar can even connect to Chen Luo's WiFi.

This is precisely why Pam, the memory of the Lost Paradise and the train, was able to come to the bar.

Given Kirito and Asuna's current physical condition, their consciousness would instantly dissipate if they dared to travel to other worlds.

Then he died immediately.

Just like the consequences of dying in a real murder mystery game.

Because their consciousness had lost contact, only their soulless bodies lay there.

"Then what about the game mutation you mentioned?" Asuna asked.

Asuna and Kirito haven't forgotten about this.

"Oh, that's a long story."