The Advent of the Infinite King

Xie Chen nodded and said, "Sit down, I have something to tell you."

"Is it about Heathcliff?" Kirito's eyes looked anxious.

Xie Chen nodded and said, "Yes, it's about him."

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"Did you find out today that he sometimes feels a little off?" Sister Xie Chenhui asked.

Kirito nodded: "Yes, today I accidentally saw him lowering his head and seeming to be smiling. His smile is a bit strange."

Xie Chen sighed, patted Kirito on the shoulder, and said, "Actually, Asuna, Tiabell, I, and I already knew what was wrong with Heathcliff, very early on."

Kirito's eyes widened slightly, obviously a little surprised, he quickly asked: "Then why didn't you say it?" Why didn't you expose it?Kirito obviously meant this.

Xie Chen shook his head slightly, and said: "But we haven't found out what he did, so we can only pay more attention. But for him, there are already specific methods, so you don't have to worry too much."

Tongren just nodded, and then asked after a pause: "Then do you know why he is so strange today?"

This Xie Chen did not hide it, and said directly: "Because he has achieved the purpose in his plan."

"Purpose?" Kirito frowned, "Then it's a joint strategy?"

Xie Chen nodded: "That's right, that's it."

"Then why did you agree or even facilitate this matter?" Tongren asked directly, looking into Xie Chen's eyes.

Xie Chen's eyes narrowed slightly: "It's because I knew that I made the plan. I will personally participate in the future strategy battles to prevent changes."

Tongren pursed his lips and said worriedly: "This is really too dangerous, is there no other way?"

Xie Chen smiled slightly, and said: "Actually, being violent is not as serious as you think, it's just a symptom, don't worry too much."

Only then did Kirito slow down his expression, but he still frowned, and asked, "Heathcliff, why did he do this? Captain, do you know?"

Xie Chen paused, and said: "Perhaps you know something, Heathcliff's identity is a bit different from ours, because of his identity, his mentality here is also different from other people's, and he will make some What is normal."

In Kirito's understanding, the statement that Heathcliff's identity is different means that his identity in reality is different from theirs, and he may be someone involved in the underworld.He didn't think that the statement that Heathcliff's identity is different refers to the fact that Heathcliff is the creator of the final BOSS and SAO while they are players.

He nodded silently, and said: "In this case, I understand. I will participate in future battles, please don't refuse my request." He looked at Xie Chen with earnest eyes.

Xie Chen actually smiled, and replied: "You don't need to say this, I will drag you if you don't want to go." He lowered his eyes slightly, and continued, "But there is one thing."

Kirito asked with his eyes, what?

"No matter what you see or discover during the battle, you can't act without authorization. I have my own arrangements. Do you understand?" Xie Chen asked with a serious expression.

Without hesitation, Kirito agreed, "Of course, I will do it."

Xie Chen nodded in satisfaction.

After Tongren left, Xie Chen stood up and stretched his waist. He was finally prepared for any unexpected situations, because in the original plot, it was Tongren who discovered Heathcliff's abnormality. And exposed him on the spot, although the current situation is different from that time, but according to Kirito's character, he is likely to do something, if he is allowed to expose Heathcliff early and leave SAO, then it means his The mission was considered a failure, so instead of letting him act on his own, he might as well put it under his nose to prevent accidents from happening.Coupled with the rhetoric and exhortations he deliberately put out, the situation in the original work should not appear again.

Time passed day by day, and a new strategy battle was about to begin, this time it became a joint strategy just as Heathcliff said.Unlike the previous situation, in the early days Xie Chen had to limit the number of raiders because of missions, but now he didn't.So for various reasons, the number of people in the final battle reached 60 people.

The commander of this station, Xie Chen, had no intention of competing with Heathcliff, and at the same time wanted to see what he wanted to do, so Xie Chen handed over the command to Heathcliff, and he was only responsible for directing the details of his own team members. Just act.

At this station, there are many people who are excited and looking forward to it, but there are also many people who are nervous, just like Kirito and members of the Devil Knights Raiders.They quietly watched Heathcliff's every move, but a person's energy is limited after all, and if he pays attention to Heathcliff, he will not be able to deal with the boss with all his strength, so their strength is very little, only their level. 70.00% nothing more.That is to say, there were many people this time, and not many people knew their true strength, so no one felt that there was anything wrong.

Instead, Xie Chen took the opportunity to say a few words to them, although he didn't say it clearly, but a few simple words "concentrate", "if you are at this level, don't come out and show yourself", let them know Xie Chen's thoughts, It seems that the group leader disapproves of their distracted behavior.So these people withdrew their attention from Heathcliff, and began to fight seriously, just glanced over.Of course, they won't try their best at this time, because they don't need it at all, and [-]% of their strength is more than enough.

Xie Chen didn't let them put all their attention on Heathcliff, but he himself was paying attention all the time. With his mental strength, he didn't need to keep staring at all, it would be too obvious.

So it seemed that he didn't look at Heathcliff, but he had already seen his movements completely.This time the battle went smoothly, and the result was similar to what they thought. This time the battle did feel a lot easier than before, but the efficiency was not as high as before.After all, there are many people and they are not familiar with the guild, and the command is not so commanding. In addition, it is the first time for many people to cooperate with each other, so the tacit understanding is still insufficient, and the efficiency has also dropped.

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But apart from this point, other goals such as allowing more people to truly understand the strategy battle have indeed been achieved.After participating in the strategy battle at this time, some people realized how difficult it is to defend the boss. The current boss is different from the ones they have experienced before. The bottom boss and the high-level boss are not as difficult to deal with. Not 01:30.After seeing so many people taking so long to defeat the boss, they increased the danger level of the boss by N levels.

Because they didn't know that the low efficiency was caused by insufficient cooperation, but they simply thought it was due to the strength of the boss. After their publicity, the strength of the boss was exaggerated. I lost my mind.

On the way back to the headquarters, Tongren and the others watched Xie Chen hesitate to speak, but they didn't ask because they were still outside.As soon as they returned to the headquarters, they couldn't help it anymore, and immediately asked, "Commander, did you find anything? There were no accidents or casualties in this raid, it's quite normal."

"It's because it's so normal that it looks abnormal." Yingshan said.

Takuya was only thinking about fighting. Even when everyone else was staring at Heathcliff intentionally or unintentionally, he was the only one who was focused on the boss as before. He complained to Xie Chen sullenly: "Tuan!" Long, can we still attack by ourselves in the future? It’s too aggrieved to fight with so many people. It won’t be like this in the future, that’s really bad.”

Hearing his words, Xie Chen smiled: "It shouldn't work for a short period of time, but except for the final attack battle, the previous attack speed is the same as before, you can let go."

Hearing this sentence, Takuya lost his depressed look and said, "It's not too bad."

The others didn't take care of Takuya, and their focus seemed to be different forever. Shouldn't the focus now be on Heathcliff?

At this time, they had already walked into the headquarters, Yingshan stepped forward and opened the door, and everyone went in.This is a small meeting room, but it can also be used as a meeting room. Usually, when there are few people, they hold a meeting here. Because it is the closest, they walked here directly.

After everyone sat down, Xie Chen briefly explained what he had observed: "This time, Heathcliff didn't make any moves in the strategy battle. The most he can say is that there is a little problem with commanding the battle. , This kind of situation often appears in the battle and can be ignored. I have been watching him from the beginning to the end, and I didn't find any movements or strange behaviors."

"So, there is no problem with Heathcliff?" Kirito couldn't help asking, with an inexplicable expectation on his face.Yes, Kirito still hopes that Heathcliff is fine, because he still doesn't want the president of such a big guild to be the one who does things that endanger them, so how many people will be punished? Injury, so it's best if Heathcliff has no problems.

But what Xie Chen said was obviously different from what he expected.Xie Chen raised his eyebrows, and the corners of his mouth slightly curled up: "No, no movement this time does not mean that he has no problems. Nothing this time does not mean that there will be no problems in the future. There is no rush for this matter, take your time."

Kirito frowned, and said: "Is that so? It seems that my thinking is too simple. Since the leader said so, then I will pay attention to him in the future and try my best to solve the problem in the shortest time. Discover his motives."

In fact, Xie Chen really wanted to say that you don't need to worry about you rushing to take responsibility and fight monsters well, but you can't say this, so Xie Chen just smiled and said: "Well, I believe Tongren will have something. I found it. But I still say the same thing, you are not allowed to act without permission, and you have to report everything to me."

Everyone present nodded and said: "Yes, leader!"

When seeing Asuna again, Xie Chen told her what happened today, which was different from what he and Kirito said. Xie Chen said directly to Asuna: "Heathcliff has started to act."

Asuna's expression immediately became bloody and tense: "Really? What did he do?"

Xie Chen said: "Today's battle doesn't look abnormal, at most there are some small omissions, and the command in some places is a bit rough. These situations are normal for anyone. After all, it is impossible to take care of every place, but in the Heathcliff, on the contrary, explained something." Speaking of this, Xie Chen looked at Asuna, and the meaning in his eyes was self-evident.

Asuna nodded knowingly: "He has already started to test."

"Yes." Xie Chen received, "He has slowly started to try how to calmly lead the strategy battle to the direction of failure."

Asuna frowned: "Then what are we going to do? We can't just watch him make trouble, it will hurt many people! No, we have to do something."

Xie Chen stretched out his hand to hold Asuna's hand and said, "You are right, we are going to do something, but this is not something that one or two people can solve. Don't worry."

Asuna was silent. She looked at Xie Chen with an inexplicable look: "Then, what should we do? How can we stop him, the creator of this world." At the end of the speech, Asuna's voice was a little low. Heathcliff's true identity made her feel powerless.

Xie Chen pursed his lips without wrinkling, and said slowly: "Asuna, don't worry, there will be a solution, trust me." The tone of these words sounded a little heavy, and Asuna thought it was Xie Chen who was just like her. He was worried because of Heathcliff's identity, but in fact, Xie Chen felt a little guilty towards Asuna in these words.

He lied to Asuna about many things, for example, Heathcliff, also known as Akihiko Kayaba, is the boss of the last level, and if you defeat him, you can pass the level directly, and he didn't tell her that he can actually fight Heathcliff right now Defeating him in the field brought everyone back to the real world.

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Xie Chen smiled bitterly, silently put away the thoughts in his heart, and comforted Asuna: "Asuna, don't worry too much, it's fine as before, with me here."

Asuna's frowning brows slightly parted, and she said, "Well, I hope things will develop in a good direction."

"Yes, such a long time has passed, and it doesn't depend on one or two days. No matter what he plans to do, we won't sit idly by, will we? We just need to stop him in time." Xie Chen shot Said while pointing Asuna's back.

Asuna breathed out: "You're right, it's no use worrying now, it's better to prepare earlier." Then she reached out and tapped on the armrest on one side, as if she was thinking.

Xie Chen sighed slightly in his heart, stood up and said, "Then I'll go first, Tia Bellu has something to do with me."

Asuna waved to him: "Okay." The corners of her mouth slightly raised, but there was no smile in her eyes.Xie Chen didn't know how to untie Asuna, I just said what I could say, and the rest won't be able to be done in a while, so that's all I can do for now.Hope it will be better when he comes back.

Xie Chen walked slowly on the road, hesitantly blocking the crowd around him, he just came out of the maze area, he always felt that the current life was a bit boring, he wanted to pass the level directly, but his strength was not enough.It is no problem to deal with the bosses before the ninetieth floor, but after the ninetieth floor, it is a bit difficult to deal with, so this idea has been temporarily put aside by him, at least until his level reaches the full level. , As for his own strength, it is not impossible to use it, but the carrying capacity of this space is limited after all, at most it can only exert about 70.00% of the real strength in reality, so Xie Chen did not think about relying on magic power Come to pass.Moreover, he has studied several missions on him before, and it seems that the more skills that do not belong to the game are used, the lower the evaluation of customs clearance, so for the final reward, Xie Chen will not do things to directly pass the customs.

So now, Xie Chen is a little bored with such a life that is almost the same every day, so boring that he walks slowly on the street, looking at the surrounding scenery and crowds, to pass the time.

Why don't you go to fight monsters?This is because Xie Chen's current level is still useless to fight monsters, and his experience points can be cut by more than half.In addition, there are more and more people on the front line now, so Xie Chen also ran out first, strolling on the street alone.

Not long after walking, he suddenly heard a scream, which caused the crowd around him to turn their heads, and so did Xie Chen.But he didn't see anything. Looking at the crowd running towards the direction of the sound, he raised his eyebrows, and then continued to walk forward. He had no intention of watching the excitement.

But in the next second, Xie Chen stopped leaving because he saw two figures running over the house.The person in front was wearing a black cloak and couldn't see clearly. He was obviously running away.And Xie Chen who was chasing him was very familiar, it was Tongren.

Xie Chen frowned, what's going on?After thinking for a while, he also quickly ran in that direction, because the two people were running in the direction of him, so they quickly appeared in their field of vision.

Seeing that it was Xie Chen, Tongren's eyes lit up, and he shouted loudly: "Captain, help me stop him." The man who was running away saw Xie Chen, he paused slightly, and kept changing directions with his feet. leave quickly.His mouth moved slightly, and he whispered, "Where did this come from? Really."

The corner of Xie Chen's mouth curled up, and he chased in that direction lightly, and quickly approached that person with his speed.

Did the man in the cloak notice Xie Chen who was chasing him quickly? His eyes widened, and he said, "Damn, why so fast?" Then he took out the transfer crystal from his pocket, quickly said a place name, and then his The figure disappeared into a blue spot of light.

It's true that Xie Chen's speed is fast enough, but he couldn't stand the distance at the beginning, and he didn't need to use instant shaving here, so when his hand just stretched out, the man disappeared.

Xie Chen withdrew his hand, the corners of his mouth slightly turned up, his eyes narrowed slightly, and said in a low voice, "It's pretty fast."

Tongren was a step too late, and only rushed over now, frowning and said: "We let him run away."

Xie Chen turned around and asked, "Who is that person? He reacted very quickly, if he was slower, I would have caught him."

Kirito replied: "It's a suspect, he just killed someone."

Xie Chen asked, "PK?"

Tongren shook his head and replied: "No, this is a homicide in the circle, and two people have already died." Tongren's eyebrows were tightly knit together, and he asked Xie Chen with a little hope, "Captain, what did you do just now?" Did you hear what he said during the transfer?"

Xie Chen shook his head: "No, he spoke too fast and in a low voice, plus the wind, so he could only hear a little bit of the sound, but he couldn't tell where he moved. And it's been a long time Even now, it’s too late to catch up.”

Kirito lowered his head in disappointment, and said, "This is going to be troublesome, really!"

Xie Chen frowned and asked, "What's going on? Tell me clearly."

Tongren's expression was very bad, he was silent for a while, and said: "Leader, come with me. This matter may need your help."

Xie Chen glanced around at the people who were looking at this place with strange eyes, thinking that if this was not a place to talk, he left with Tongren.Tongren took him to a hotel, walked into a room, there were two people in it, one was Xing, saw them coming in and rushed to meet them, she saw Xie Chen from the window just now.The other person was sitting on the side, with his head lowered and his body trembling, muttering words without knowing what he was talking about.

Then, Tongren began to tell Xie Chen what happened before, starting from the first murder in the circle.

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