I, the little cat, am a substitute for others who are starving and thin

I can vaguely recall a similar hint. Before leaving home, when my grandmother was chasing me with a cat bag, Yimi seemed to have seen something similar.

She rubbed her eyes, and the dried tears solidified on her face, making her feel uncomfortable.

I fell asleep when I was tired of crying.

I took another look at the system, and it was still 23% and had not increased. I didn't know if it was stuck here or if it was just that slow. Yimi, who had never used a computer, certainly couldn't understand it.

The system interface could still be accessed, but it was nearly half obscured by the reorganized loading bar. It was opaque and couldn't be moved away, so the main quests couldn't be seen. Only the energy from the system's overdraft compensation and the unchanging 0/6 in the corner were visible.

"Well……"

Yimi sat on the ground hugging her calves, thinking nothing, doing nothing, not even thinking about why the place in front of her that was supposed to be grassland had turned into a forest. She just stared at the trees in front of her in a daze.

Even if she could see the main quest, she just wanted to sit here motionless. Maybe if she slept for a while longer, the progress would be erased and it would all be a dream, and nothing would actually happen.

"Gu..."

But her stomach growled with hunger, as if she had been asleep for a long time. Yimi was very slow to get hungry. In the first world, she sometimes ate only once every few days. Her three meals a day were only because she was not full. It had been a long time since she had been so hungry that her stomach growled.

Yimi remained motionless, transferring her hunger away.

She would never have done this in the past. Just as she rarely tried to distract herself from sleepiness, 'being hungry and then eating' was always an enjoyable process in her eyes.

She held her head with both hands, pressed her ears, and stared blankly at the trees opposite with lifeless eyes.

Sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

Realistic scene interactive sound effects, a guy dressed in a black cloak and looking very gloomy pulls aside the grass and stares at the kitten on the ground in surprise.

"This is……"

"Shh!"

The woman behind who was dressed similarly quickly raised her index finger.

"What are you shushing about? There's no cursor above this girl's head. It's obvious she's not a player."

The man walked out directly and looked down at the girl lying on the ground.

He even said to Yimi: "Those outside the town are usually quest NPCs, right? But there's no NPC cursor. This floor should have been explored thoroughly. How could there be something like this that we haven't heard of?"

Yimi looked up at them, ignored them, and didn't ask about the affairs of this world.

"Isn't that better? Hidden quest items and the like are usually good stuff."

The black woman squatted down: "Hey, are you okay? Huh?"

Yimi still ignored her and was depressed by herself.

But the black woman uttered another questioning nasal sound.

"what happened?"

The woman flipped through it and said, "A new message popped up in the taskbar, but it's all garbled."

"Bug?"

The black man stayed away from Yimi and had no normal game player's desire to explore bugs.

Seeing her companion's nervous expression, the woman shook her hands in amusement. "Calm down. This thing doesn't have any effect. It's probably an NPC that was released before it was properly prepared. It didn't even trigger a dialogue, and it doesn't seem to have any intelligence at all."

The dark-skinned man shrugged. "Kayaba Akihiko is quite something. I've never seen such a good-looking NPC before. As planned, he'll probably be very popular, right? If it were me, I'd definitely vote for the lolita character."

"That madman didn't make the game to sell it, right? As an open-world game, most NPCs can't be harmed. Doesn't that just encourage players to PK?"

The woman stared unhappily at the page of garbled code in the taskbar that she couldn't delete. She bent down and patted Yimi's witch hat. There was not even a 'harassment prompt' that would appear when touched like a normal NPC.

Yimi's little face twisted a little, but given the angle and the witch hat, the woman definitely didn't notice.

The woman eagerly drew her sword. "My only requirement for the NPC is that I can harm them. If there's a quest that requires completion before claiming the reward from the NPC, wouldn't it be better to just kill the NPC and take the reward? Anyway, it's an NPC with a bug, so maybe I can kill it."

The black man quickly grabbed her arm and said, "Hey, wouldn't it be very profitable to sell this undiscovered bug as information? If you really want to try, wait until I'm far away. If you get stuck on a bug, you're doomed."

"makes sense."

The woman turned around and retracted her sword.

Because the black man suddenly intervened, she didn't notice that after she finished saying this, the little girl who had just ignored her suddenly stood up.

But just as she sheathed her sword, she noticed her companion's mouth widen slightly. Although she couldn't see the upper half of his face, she could still picture a look of terror on his face.

Without asking him what happened, the woman immediately reached out and pulled out the sword behind her back, but the next second she saw something that looked like her arm fly out and hit her accomplice directly in the face, then turned into a photon special effect and disappeared.

But it hurts, and that’s the point.

The woman looked at the spot where her broken arm was in confusion, subconsciously confirming the fact that all the players dared not believe or face.

It was clearly the photon effect for injuries in the game, but why—

“I, I—Ah!!”

Why does it hurt so much!

"Are you kidding me?"

Ignoring the woman who fell to the ground in pain, the man frightenedly and decisively took out the teleportation item in the game and evacuated directly.

It was not until this time that the woman, in pain, remembered to turn around and look at the little girl who attacked her.

The delicate little face was slightly twisted. The kitten, who was already in a bad mood, heard the couple in front of her talking with a bunch of specialized words that she couldn't understand, and they were discussing how to kill the kitten in person.

Yimi's eyes regained some spirit and she looked down at her little paws.

The world's adaptability is strange, or rather, nonexistent.

Things that could be transformed into magic power, spiritual power, mental power, and even physical strength in the past, seem to have no adaptive power in this world.

Although she could regain her previous power in each world, she did not use her favorite magic just now. She was just attacking according to the way she had adapted to this world.

"Kakakaka——"

The sound of a shaking balance.

“Ah—ah! Get out of here!!”

The woman's breath was choked, and she stared in horror at the figure covered in sackcloth standing behind Yimi. She was more willing to believe that it was a monster than a human figure.

But compared to this, what really scared her was the little girl herself.

Because she had just been judged as an NPC, the system even skipped the NPC column for the little girl, and a three-dimensional health bar appeared on the side of her body.

Compared to the layers of health bars on some monsters, this little thing really only has one, which even makes people wonder who is stronger between her and the weakest monster, the Manic Boar.

But her health bar is deliberately modified! It can be seen at a glance that she is a floor boss level!

What a joke!

The woman lying on the ground almost had her pupils trembling, if only this game could be that sophisticated.

She looked at her health bar again. The attack just now directly took away more than 90% of her health... She was a vanguard whose level was among the top in the entire Smiling Coffin!

"It hurts...it hurts so much!"

And the pain from the injury continued. No matter how I looked at it, it was completely wrong, because—

No matter how dangerous it is, it's just a game!

2

Chapter 2 Fishing Mission.

Sword Art Online, abbreviated as SAO, is a virtual reality massively multiplayer role-playing game.

Unlike the visual effects of VR, after putting on the helmet, the player will be truly immersed in the game world through consciousness. Except for the pain that is naturally eliminated, consciousness, touch, taste and other senses are all close to real existence.

And the gameplay is not limited to killing monsters and leveling up. Players can freely fish, cook, save money to buy the house they want, forge weapons, do business with others, etc. One can't help but praise Kayaba Akihiko for creating all this, saying he is a genius.

If this was true before November 2022, no one would really think they were playing a game by now, and on average everyone would curse Kayaba Akihiko more than 11 times a day in their hearts.

On the first day of the official launch of SAO, due to limited availability, about 10,000 players entered the game and discovered that the exit button had been removed, trapping their consciousness in this world.

Then, Kayaba Akihiko teleported all players to the square of the initial town and told them that they must complete this large-scale game before they can return to their original world.

If anyone outside the game forcibly removes their helmet, disconnects the internet, or cuts off the power, the player's brain will be damaged by high-powered microwaves. This information was announced by Kayaba Akihiko through the media. However, on the first day of the game's release, 213 players still died in this way because their friends and family ignored the warnings.

In addition, "resurrection", the most critical feature of RPG games, has also been banned. Players who die in the game will also have their brains burned in reality, which is equivalent to fighting with their lives in order to successfully complete the game.

Their bodies in the outside world are lying there like vegetables, relying entirely on nutrient solution to maintain their lives. The food system that satisfies the appetite in the game is naturally unable to feed back the non-existent nutrients into reality.

"Meow."

Yimi didn't understand the difference between the game world and the real world. When Zhijiu came home from school in Madoka World, he would deliberately walk to one side to block her sight to prevent her from suddenly becoming interested in the video game arcade or Internet cafe at such a young age.

With his calves pushing against the wooden stakes by the lake, Yimi used this position to gain leverage and pulled the fishing rod hard, catching a fish with a very strange color.

It lay on the ground and twisted its body in a proper manner, but was grabbed by the ruthless kitten and its head was bitten.

The fish was not bitten off by her directly as Yimi had imagined. The next second, a blue light screen special effect appeared, and the fish disappeared from her hand. It was replaced by raw fish meat that looked completely different from the original one no matter how you looked at it.

Yimi lowered her head and looked at the fish in her hand for a while, then took out the Bagua stove and pot from the storage space. She had originally wanted to save trouble and eat it raw, but after seeing the ready-made ingredients, she changed her mind.

She took out the kitchen knife again and prepared to cut it into small pieces, but as soon as the blade touched the fish, there was another special effect, and the fully processed sashimi was placed in front of her.

This world is a little unreasonable, but it also omits a lot of troublesome things.

Taking another look at the system's reorganization progress, it has reached 26%, but its recovery progress has nothing to do with time, and the intervals between the newly added 3% are different.

As his eyes swept over 0/6 in the corner, Yimi's ears hidden under the hat drooped.

I don't want to do the mission anymore.

When cats first arrive in the new world, there is no one to comfort them even if they cry, so they have to learn to be strong on their own.

"Goo-"

"Shh, keep your voice down, Bina."

In the woods about ten meters away from the river bank, a brown-haired girl with twin ponytails, about the age of a junior high school student, stared at Yimi's back intently.

Yimi's ears, which had just drooped, suddenly stood up and turned to look in her direction.

The girl whose game ID was Silica quickly covered her mouth and leaned against the tree.

I don't know where the news came from, and it's not actually widely known. Anyway, the urban legend of a Bug NPC killing people spread in the middle area.

A boss disguised as an NPC, a garbled text column that looks like a bug, a young girl dressed in a black and white shrine maiden costume, and the power to kill high-level players in one move...

Even if it was most likely fake news used for entertainment, she certainly wouldn't actively look for such a terrifying legend!

But she just happened to run into it. Wasn't it said to be in the Great Forest? Wasn't it said that bosses usually don't leave their territory on their own initiative? Looking closely, there was really no player cursor.

Anyway, leave quietly and let this matter...

"what are you doing?"

Yimi, who had walked next to Silica at some point, looked up at her.

"I was just about to have the raiders attack you..."

Halfway through her words, Silica covered her mouth and instantly broke out in sweat.

"Attack me?"

Yimi pondered the meaning of this word.

"No, no, I mean, the mission! Yes, I came to see if you have any missions for me. It seems that you are not a mission NPC. Sorry to bother you. Goodbye!"

Silica turned around holding her pet dragon and tried to leave this horrible place.

Yimi took a step around and stood in front of the girl who was much taller than him, squinting his eyes and staring at the blue dragon above Silica's head.

"Diego's lackey!"

She was careless. In the last world, Diego swore not to chase her, but Diego hadn't promised not to let his subordinates chase the kitten! And this inexplicable woman called her NPC just like the previous adulterers!

Under Silica's horrified gaze, a bar of the BOSS's health appeared next to Yimi.

"Wait! I really just thought you were a normal NPC!"

Silica quickly protected the little dragon, babbling incoherently as she tried to get the crystal to teleport back to town.

We've run out of it! Because this is supposed to be a safe area!

"Normal NPC? Mission?"

"Ah, because I've never seen you here before. I also like to take a walk here."