Wanjie: Only I Time Travel Comprehensive Comic

In the current SAO world, including Du Ming, everyone else shows their true faces.

But Kayaba Akihiko is different. His disguised identity "Heathcliff" seems to be recognized by the world. Therefore, although players like Kirito have seen photos and videos of Kayaba Akihiko on the Internet, no player has recognized him.

If Du Ming had not been deeply impressed by Kayaba Akihiko in Sword Art Online, and had not remembered his disguise name, as well as Kayaba Akihiko's conspicuous red sword and shield, and the name "Heathcliff" on his head, Du Ming would not have noticed him.

In the original plot, the character of Heathcliff was given an official health lock by Kayaba Akihiko, making him unable to die.

If this were the world...

Du Ming's eyes flickered slightly, he wanted to see the result.

"Mr. Duel, what do you mean?" Diabel frowned and asked curiously.

Du Ming put Argo's strategy book "Strategy Book for Each Floor" into his backpack, then tapped the back of Yasuna who had been listening curiously, and whispered, "Lend me that cooking book and that 'Strategy Book for Life'."

"...Oh." Yasna was slightly stunned, took out two books and stuffed them into Du Ming's hands, and asked curiously: "Du Ming, what do you want this for?"

"Look..." Du Ming smiled and held up two books: "Everyone, does anyone recognize these two books?"

Of these two books, the first cookbook is none other than Asuna’s beloved Monster Cooking Guide: Aincrad Rice.

As for the other book, 'Life Guide'...

Du Ming looked around. Except for him and Asuna, even Kayaba Akihiko and Kirito all had puzzled expressions.

"Duel, this is..." Kirito asked curiously.

"That's right..." Du Ming looked at everyone and shook his head: "Everyone is a top expert in 'BOSS strategy', but relatively speaking, your understanding of 'life' strategies is limited to the extent that they are useful for BOSS strategies."

No one refuted it. This was a fact and there was no need to refute it.

Du Ming shook the "Life Guide" booklet.

"This is a life strategy book compiled by SAO closed beta players and given to ordinary players for free. In fact, among the players participating in the closed beta, there are not only BOSS strategy players, but also life strategy players who focus on life skills!"

"Mr. Duel, let's stop here for now! Ya Wang has already said that he will temporarily stop asking about the closed beta players." Diabel thought that Du Ming was still struggling with what Ya Wang had just said.

"So, this is the limit of you pure BOSS strategy players."

Du Ming shrugged: "You didn't pay attention to the things I noticed."

"Duel, please explain clearly." Diabel begged.

"Deul..." Kirito rested his chin on his hand, thinking, but nothing came to mind.

In the corner between the two of them, the intelligence dealer Argo showed a curious look, and Heathcliff watched carefully, expecting Du Ming to say something.

"Du Ming..." Yasuna was not a closed beta player, so she didn't know what SAO was like originally, but she knew that the SAO world was made real by the dimensional gate, so she had some ideas.

Du Ming raised his voice: "It is mentioned in detail in the guidebook that to become an excellent chef, one needs to constantly collect various recipes and materials, and constantly improve the proficiency of cooking. But, it's strange..."

Du Ming took out another book: "Aingrand Rice".

“This cooking book was not made by a player, but by… well, in words that everyone can understand, this book is a guide book generated by the former NPC Leo, or the system.

"But the strange thing is that the monster named 'Walking Mushroom' recorded in this book, and the cooking ingredient 'Walking Mushroom Juice' that the 'Walking Mushroom' drops, are not mentioned at all in the 'Life Guidebook'.

"Not only that, the various monsters mentioned in 'Aincrad Rice' that can drop cooking ingredients on the first floor of Aincrad, such as 'Snake-Tailed Chicken', 'Golden Pseudoworm', and 'Wall Ghost Grass', are not mentioned in the 'Life Strategy Book'.

"All of this gave me a guess."

Du Ming said thoughtfully, "Is it possible that these monsters did not exist during the closed beta test, but only exist in this 'official version'?"

Looking up, Du Ming asked, "Among you, there are closed beta testers with excellent observation and memory. Is there anyone who can corroborate my point of view?"

The square suddenly became quiet.

No one answered.

Even though there are many closed beta testers here, they are not willing to show up now.

Du Ming glanced at Kirito.

Kirito was struggling with his mind. He had a good memory for the details of the game and had encountered some monsters that he had not encountered in the closed beta version. Although he had some doubts at first, he did not think too much about it and just thought that these monsters happened not to be encountered in the closed beta.

After Du Ming emphasized this, he remembered all the things wrong with the game, but he didn't want to reveal his true colors.

Do you want to say it... or not?

Kirito clenched his fists and raised his head sharply.

"Let me tell you..."

Just when Kirito decided to say something, in the distance, Argo jumped down from the high wall and walked over.

"mouse?"

"Is it a mouse?"

As an intelligence dealer, Argo is well known to everyone.

"Rat? Do you have any inside information?" Diabel asked.

"It's not inside information." Argo smiled, covering his face with his cloak. "But I can confirm that what Mr. Duel said is true. From my information, these monsters do not exist in the closed beta version."

Heathcliff nodded slightly and imperceptibly. He knew the monsters in the game best. These monsters were not designed by him and should not exist in this game.

Although he was even more curious as to why even he was sealed in this SAO game.

“It’s actually… true?”

"I thought I didn't pay attention... um..."

Argo asked with a smile, "Mr. Duel, do you have any other information?"

Heathcliff listened attentively.

"Of course."

Du Ming handed the "Aincrad Rice" back to Yasuna and opened the "Life Strategy Book".

"Some other things mentioned in this guide are also different from the current game. For example, water. The guide mentioned it in the chapter 'Water Source'. Although the water effect is well done, the movement of water is still very mechanical and can be predicted by human power. But in the current version, you will definitely find that the effect of water is exactly the same as in reality, more realistic and disordered.

"Based on this, it's easy to tell that the current version of the game is very different from the closed beta version..."

"enough!"

Ya Wang couldn't stand Du Ming talking, and shouted in a not very smart manner: "The chattering is so annoying! So what? What does it have to do with our strategy to capture the BOSS?!"

"Of course it does."

Du Ming leaned back and chuckled, "Ya Wang... Use your not-so-smart little head to think about it. We have encountered so many monsters and details that are different from the closed beta version. What about the BOSS? You still want to use the possibly outdated 'Guide to the Kobold Lord Irfangu' to attack the BOSS? I don't care, but if you die in the BOSS room, can you allow me to laugh at you? Let me sing a song and dance?"

“Wow——!”

Du Ming's guess suddenly spread throughout the square, making all the players' faces suddenly become much uglier.