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

perhaps.

Asuna explained her behavior with a very simple and crude reason: "If something unexpected happens during the battle when I'm not there, I won't be able to sleep."

No, she just wanted to wait for Kirito in the meeting room, but she didn't expect the meeting to end right away. It would be inappropriate to say "I have other things to do and will not participate in the battle" at this time, right?

Heathcliff frowned slightly, nodded and said nothing in rebuttal.

The gate was opened, and due to the terrain, only a few combatants entered the passage. If any accident occurred, it would be difficult for more people to escape back, and if there were fewer people, it would also avoid closing the door too quickly and leaving someone outside.

Every one of the hundred members of the strategy team is an indispensable fighting force, and we must not lose personnel in a place like this.

Asuna, who was supposed to be walking with Heathcliff, deliberately slowed down her pace and kept in line with Kirito, just like she did in the early days of this death game.

But after she approached, Kirito took two steps away from her with some concern, not sure if it was because of the lie of 'killing a child' or her unintentional act of stealing his pants.

"I lied to you about yesterday."

Asuna spoke before the other party moved any further away from her, trying to lower her voice as much as possible so that no one else could hear.

Kirito stopped walking away and asked, "What is it?"

Asuna raised her head. "As for the monster drops, I'm busy with so many things every day. How can I spare the time to kill monsters?"

Asuna said this to express another meaning, that she was suppressed by four levels just because she is not as idle as you, Kirito.

"……Really?"

Kirito paused.

Asuna complained, "That little girl stole my A-grade ingredients this morning and cooked a horrible meal. I promised her I'd teach her how to cook when I get home. If you know her, please think about it. I'm not so heartless as to attack a child NPC."

"Grade A ingredients, wasted?"

"Here we go, follow the plan!"

Without giving them time to continue whining, Heathcliff raised his shield to warn them. Before that, the earth-shaking oppressive feeling of the geo-tracks moving came from under their feet. Fortunately, everyone present was no longer a rookie whose psychological defenses would be easily broken by this oppressive feeling.

Just as he thought, this battle was a failure.

Aside from Lullaby, this boss is not affected by any external factors, and even if he can block for a certain period of time, he cannot create space for others to attack his weaknesses.

"retreat!"

After receiving the order, Clayne decisively turned around and ran: "Is it still not working? Kayaba Akihiko is such a bastard!"

"..."

Heathcliff turned and glanced at him.

This distance is enough for them to run back to the door before the geo tracks crush them. The little girl NPC will only help close the door at specific times, so they leave someone there to guard the door.

But as they watched, the door to the passage slammed shut.

"?"

"Door...who! Don't joke around at a time like this!"

The fastest runner punched the door.

"What are you doing? Who are you? You're not from the Raiders!"

At the same time, the guard's vigilant and angry voice came from the other side of the door.

"Sorry, sorry... Don't attack me, I'm too scared. I'm afraid the boss will come in!"

"Asshole! Catch him!"

"Don't, don't..."

The gatekeeper kicked the guy who was closing the door open without hesitation. Since the gatekeeper position could not be taken up by one person, he handed the suspicious guy over to his companion.

He was able to close the door at an extremely fast speed while they were guarding it, so how could he be an ordinary player?

"Don't panic, open the door."

Heathcliff turned around and raised his shield to barely block the charge of the geo-tracks, but the durability of his shield was also decreasing linearly.

The gatekeeper was only thinking about how to close the door without missing anyone after everyone came in. He had not rehearsed how to open the door, so his movements were a little clumsy. However, with Heathcliff there, he still opened the door without any danger.

Several people involved in the battle hurried in, but it was too late.

The wild area BOSS rushed in through the door!

16

Chapter 16: Shot to death.

A safe zone for players does not mean that it is safe as long as there are no monsters. The most important thing is that players cannot hurt each other, and it does not necessarily refer to the entire town.

The safety zone on some floors may even suddenly exit the area after passing through a tunnel or a certain staircase.

It is obvious that the players of the Orange-named Guild... or more importantly, the Smiling Coffin, have done the most in-depth research on this. Their leader also figured out how to kill people while maintaining a Green-name status.

There is still a considerable distance outside the village that is not considered a safe zone. There is nothing to say about the fact that people can get close to it even though it is guarded. It is really a dereliction of duty on their part.

But after all, the opponent only needs to use stealth skills to get close without being discovered, and then seize the opportunity to quickly close the door. This is also one of the ways to kill people while maintaining a green name, using the monster's mechanism to trick people. This is the most basic harm operation in some games without friendly damage.

Of course, if he didn't escape fast enough, he would have been killed here, but it seemed that he was lucky enough to use the transfer crystal in time.

The man in black tried his best to suppress the urge to laugh wildly and wanted to share this interesting thing with his companions.

"Meow."

But his thoughts were interrupted by the cat's meow, which sounded not so pleasant because the sound was not blocked.

A kitten with fur resembling a panda was lying in the middle of the alley he was about to pass, staring at him intently, its tail wagging gently, as if a precursor to an attack.

Although it looks like a cat, this deliberately designed image makes people subconsciously think it is a wild monster outside. Obviously, such a thing will not appear in the safe zone.

"Hidden elements?"

The man in black took two steps forward, but received a window prompt.

Thinking it was a message from an accomplice, he opened the menu and saw that the prompt was placed in the taskbar. Puzzled, he opened it to check, only to see an even more confusing task:

Mission: Die.

Mission Reward:

"?"

Realizing that something was wrong, the man in black immediately drew his dagger, but saw the cat in front of him suddenly lower its body and dive down, closing the distance of three meters in almost one second, and raising its claws to slap him.

He raised his sword to block the attack, and even though he couldn't react to the speed in reality, the game's correction function helped him block the attack as soon as he raised his hand.

But this weapon above level 50 was like a plastic toy, its durability was immediately depleted, and it was broken into several pieces by the short claws and fell to the ground.

The expression on his face froze for two seconds, and then the bright red spear flashed and disappeared, the system's warning was instantly shattered, and the severe pain in his side seemed to be transmitted along the nerves to his brain, making the man in black look at his blood bar that was draining to the bottom in disbelief.

"you?"

The safe zone is no longer safe?

Why the safe zone is no longer safe!

In the absence of comprehension, the severe pain and the fear of unexpected death paralyzed his mind. The period of time when the blood bar was running out seemed to leave people with the fear of death, preventing anyone from leaving peacefully in an accident.

Yimi scratched his neck with his hind legs and walked out of the alley with elegant steps.

An intelligence dealer who accidentally witnessed everything turned his head away with sweat dripping down his face, pretending to be an innocent NPC.

……

It was not until the geocrawler rushed into the door that everyone could truly see its size. Even though they had already adapted to the feeling of facing a giant beast, they still felt a sense of panic, perhaps because of its long appearance and the bonus brought by the large piece of armor on its back.

As long as there are hints from the NPC, defeating this BOSS is a piece of cake. Kayaba Akihiko even wants to call it a reward BOSS.

Correspondingly, if you want to fight it head-on, everyone will have to experience the oppression of the defensive BOSS above the 56th level on this wild area BOSS which is only at the th level.

As Asuna expected, the bug with two large claws began to wreak havoc in the area after entering the door, and showed strong aggressiveness towards the NPCs.

But is this the opportunity it gives them? No, the passage that hides the belly of the geo-crawler also limits its flexible movement.

Just like the boss in some games who goes berserk after being separated from his environment, it was at this moment that Asuna realized how stupid her previous plan of using NPCs to lure them was.

Seizing the opportunity, Asuna aimed her rapier at the insect's abdomen, but it rolled over and blocked the attack with its back shell. Of course, it wasn't that the insect's reaction speed was too fast, but with so many people attacking, it couldn't just block Asuna's attack.

It just lay down on purpose, because after being out of the environment, it could launch a large-scale attack on the ground like a wooden stake!

"Asuna!"

Kirito immediately launched a charge, carrying Asuna on his shoulders before she could retract her attack, and used his sprint sword skills to escape the insect's attack range.

Even so, he was only touched and still suffered damage that instantly reduced his health to yellow. If he stayed there and was completely rolled over by him, he would definitely not be able to escape. Fortunately, there was only Asuna at that angle.

I just reached the 56th floor and a monster of this level appeared to block my way?

Kirito took out a medicine bottle to replenish his blood.

Does this boss's search for enemies based on distance when rolling? There are obviously more players on the other side, but it rolls in this direction.

"Damn Kayaba Akihiko!"

Klein yelled something without restraint.

"..."

Heathcliff glanced at him again.

The Fenglinhuoshan Guild members quickly covered Klein's mouth. "Keep your voice down! That guy might be watching us! He'll kill you!"

Klein quickly shut up.

Heathcliff turned his head away.

Rolling is a skill that is triggered when someone is outside the passage and next to you. Heathcliff does know a few mechanisms for killing this boss in this situation, but it is completely unnecessary.

As a developer, he certainly wants players to discover the real way to defeat monsters, and then feel relieved and emotional as if "it's so simple, I misunderstood Kayaba Akihiko."

"The difficulty of this monster is unreasonable. There must be another way. We have no other choice. Use the transfer crystal to retreat."

Heathcliff gave the order.

After leaving the channel, this thing's movement speed is obviously faster than that of the player, but as long as it is a BOSS, it has a sense of territory, and it will return to the channel by itself when there is no target to attack.

"no solution anymore."

Heathcliff's prestige was very convincing. Since he said so, there would naturally be no other opinions. With a few flashes of light, the members of the strategy team who were originally guarding behind the door were teleported back to the safe zone.

"Even the most extreme methods don't work. The NPC who showed me the way yesterday is dead."

"Asuna, let's go back too."

"Ah."

Asuna looked down at Kirito who was carrying her, opened her mouth but said nothing.

Fortunately, Yimi did not steal Asuna's transfer crystal early in the morning, otherwise she might have really fallen into this situation.

Heathcliff also took out the transfer crystal, but as the leader, he seemed to want to wait until everyone had left before leaving, so when he looked around, he saw a black and white ball leisurely walking towards him.

After killing the bad guy, he followed the smell and ran to find Kirito, because the delicious food that Kirito promised him had not yet reached the kitten's mouth.

"Ow!"

Apart from Yimi, there were only less than ten people left at the scene. However, according to the distance, the geographical track's enemy detection automatically moved to Kirito and the others' heads, opened its bloody mouth and bit them.

"Meow!"

Seeing his two meal tickets being attacked, the leisurely Yimi rushed forward and raised his claws.

But in fact, her worries were unnecessary, because the moment the geo-tracks approached, the man and woman used the transfer crystal to teleport back to the safe zone.

However, Yimi could not retract her actions. All her movements seemed to be corrected in this world. This was probably the adaptability of this world.

Even a distance of about ten meters was still reached in an instant. As she attacked, the huge claws that matched the special effects of the game slammed the geographical tracks to the ground. The huge pressure attacked the indestructible armor on the back and the weak point of the abdomen, and several blood bars collapsed at the same time.

"Hey, what's this? The village guard?"

Those who hadn't left yet grabbed the transfer crystals in their hands in shock.

There will be guards in the town. If an orange-named player enters, he will be attacked by the guards. This is the main reason why orange-named players cannot enter the town.

But this is impossible, because the health bar shown by this cat almost clearly tells them that this is another BOSS!

Yimi licked his paws in the same puzzled manner.