Attribution

"Calm down."

Liar comforted Mana who looked like a frightened rabbit. The panic in the girl's eyes was so pitiful. She was as helpless as a child separated from her parents. I couldn't continue to tease after seeing her expression like that.

"That guy is like this. If he doesn't pay attention on weekdays, he won't know where he went. It will be fine."

His persuasion seemed particularly weak. Mana didn't have much trust in him, and now she couldn't agree with his jokes.

"But... if you don't even have a cursor..."

Olivier was not as panicked as Mana, but his face betrayed his pretended calmness. In the team of four, Chen was undoubtedly the strongest one, if something happened to him...

Just now, in order to let them not worry, Liar also called up the map to check it out. He has added Chen's friends since he logged in to the game. Friends deleted.

He wanted to hide what he saw, but before he did, the anxious Mana had already seen the map window in front of him, where there was a cursor belonging to that person!

Chen disappeared in front of them as if suddenly evaporated.

"Where did Brother Chen go..."

"Probably found that some mechanism is trapped. It will appear after he escapes. Rather than worrying nonsensically, we might as well go back and wait for him."

"Is it really?"

Mana raised her head wearily, staring carefully at Liar's eyes, hoping to see something, but she failed, Liar was very calm, without any worry about the disappearance of her junior, nor the joy of a successful trick. He is normal.

Sure enough, she thought too much. The moment Mana disappeared at Chen, her first thought was whether Liar was plotting something again...

"Well, it's like some treasure chests or something. Some of them are not treasures after opening, but lock people in a closed space and release a lot of monsters. People from the outside can't find the locked people. Then They are planting very advanced traps, there may be ones in this forest, and those who were hit by Chen by mistake may encounter them."

Liar searched for the knowledge in his brain, SAO is a very ambiguous existence for them, they have a lot of SAO information, some even only the system administrators know, but they also ignore it Lots of little issues, details like traps and the like.

During the beta test, because of some relationship, they didn't need to pay attention to the temptation on the roadside at all, and they didn't even open treasure chests, and they had never been to such a remote forest. What is set in it.

The only thing he can be sure of is that his descendants will not really disappear into this world.

Very sure.

"Then he is not very dangerous?"

"I don't think it's a problem. Brother Chen is so powerful, he won't be bound by the little trap here."

Olivier relaxed a lot after hearing Liar's speculation. Boys and girls are not in the same line of thinking. He knows how strong that person is, so there is no danger.

"There might be some trouble, but this forest really isn't enough to get him into trouble."

Liar patted Mana's head and comforted her with a smile: "So go back and wait for him, sleep with him well at night, and teach him a lesson tomorrow."

Liar glanced at Olivier, who was blushing because of his words, and was in a good mood.

The child must be thinking about something, he must have seen Mana and Chen living in the same room yesterday.

Mana nodded obediently, and the three of them planned to go back to the hotel before making any plans.

During the period, Mana stared at Liar herself and asked him to send a message to Chen, which made her feel more at ease.

Although the cursor cannot be found on the map, the name of Chen in the friend column of Lial is still bright white. Under normal circumstances, if the friend goes offline, the name will turn gray.

As long as it is online, it should be alive and well.

That night, Mana stayed up all night, and Chen didn't come back after all.

The next day, it was just dawn and the sun had not yet fully risen. Unable to bear the anxiety in her heart, Mana left the hotel, ran to the first floor, and returned to the place where she lived and struggled for a month at the beginning.After wandering around the town of beginning in a daze for a while, she stood in front of the Black Iron Palace in the central square of the town of beginning, staring intently at the huge metal tablet until she saw that Chen's name did not represent death. I was completely relieved when I reached the horizontal line.

It's going to be all right, he's a very strong and very smart man despite the mischief, Mana told herself.

When she returned to the second floor, Mana lay down in the room all morning, ignoring Liar's call and Olivier's invitation, because of her sudden relaxation and drowsiness.

Sure enough, she couldn't understand the boy's thinking. There was one person missing, so why were those two guys so calm?

In the afternoon, she appeared in the maze area and joined Olivier.

Olivier, who has reached level 20, does not hold back even if he is with Liar, and even his output is much higher than that of Liar. He deserves the forward position, and Liar, who has a high crit, is on the sidelines. up.

The two of them cooperated and broke through the maze area smoothly. Only the second floor of the maze area has no human-shaped monsters who can use sword skills, but those huge bull-shaped monsters also have the strength of small bosses.

The addition of Mana has made the team more balanced. Although her level is low, only 18, her speed is definitely the fastest among the three, and her skills are also the most suitable for helping teammates in combos.

The battle in the labyrinth always hides various unspeakable crises under the seemingly smooth appearance.It may be that you were walking well one second, but you were trapped by a trap that suddenly appeared the next second.

With Olivier's team, they are not so conservative. They don't stop at the strategy, they start to explore the unknown part of the maze.Some players in the front-line raids will release the map after they return to the town, and Liar does not know who got more than half of the maps that have been raided.

The BOSS room has been found above.

They didn't want to take a look around the boss's room out of curiosity. Instead, they continued to explore the unknown part of the map. Of course, they were careful and vigilant.

"Mana, as expected, are you still worried about Big Brother Chen?"

Olivier's eyes flickered, and he was obviously nervous when he asked this question.

"Of course, aren't you all worried?"

Mana just expressed the doubt in her heart flatly, and did not mean to criticize.

"I think your worries are unnecessary."

Olivier explained while looking around, "Brother Chen said, I don't want to come to the labyrinth area recently."

"He also said something vaguely about the reason. 'Recently they are going to attack the boss on the second floor'."

"Boss Raiders is today, about an hour away, and those Raiders will enter the BOSS's room."

"He seems to hate those guys very much, so he hides and doesn't show up. This reason should be sufficient."

"Then you should at least say something..."

It's a far-fetched reason, but it just explained his disappearance for no reason. All the information shows that nothing happened to him. It should be other reasons for not showing up for so long.

As if really, nothing to worry about.

"If you say it, it's not him."

After explaining everything clearly, Chen is no longer the junior who troubled Liar.

"And rather than worrying or making meaningless guesses, it's more practical to wait for him to appear. When he appears, ask him personally, and then hit him on the head hard."

"If he wants to disappear, it's not something we can find if we want to."

Of course, Liar knew Chen's habits better, and his words eased the atmosphere. After thinking about it carefully, Mana felt that what Liar said made sense.Just try to relax as much as possible.

That night, the boss on the second floor was successfully defeated. After an afternoon of hard work, Mana's level reached 20, which was enough to climb to the third floor. Olivier and Lial were even higher.

That night, the two guys who got along well climbed up to the third floor together, and Mana returned to the small hotel on the second floor because of her anticipation.

The five-day accommodation fee that Chen paid has not been used up yet.

Instead of worrying about going up and down, she chose to make herself stronger.She has already regarded Chen as a friend, that's right, maybe she can only believe it when she has no other choice.

On the third day, Chen still had no news.

The theme of the third floor is the forest. As soon as she stepped on the third floor, Mana felt like there was a stone in her heart. After all, Chen disappeared in the forest, and maybe she is still confronting the troublesome trap.

Lial and Olivier, who boarded the third floor one day earlier, went to form a team to do tasks. There are several tasks with good rewards on the third floor. Mana, who has no desire for advanced equipment, did not participate. To be on the safe side, she should first increase her level and familiarity with this layer, and wait until she is sure that nothing will go wrong before considering the task factor.

She sneaked into the forest near the main street. The thinnest trees have a diameter of one meter, which are much older than the forests on the second floor, giving them a natural feeling of ancient forests.The giant tree stretches as far as the eye can see, and the golden light hits the ground from the gaps in the leaves, like a dream, as if it is the residence of the elves, quiet and beautiful.

Mana found a remote corner, not a good place to spawn monsters, but no one would disturb her in this kind of place, and she could upgrade without any pressure.

Although it is a corner, there is a patch of grass nearby, surrounded by ancient giant trees, which is a safe area.

When they reached the third floor, Liar specially reminded Mana: It seems that some players have become restless recently, so be careful of those aggressive players when you are outside the circle.

Being hacked by players in the safe area will also reduce HP, so even when Mana is resting, she will pay special attention to whether there are people around, otherwise she always feels uneasy.

Sitting on the grass in the safety zone, Mana felt very tired.

Such a beautiful place, but there is no way to enjoy the environment here.

She buried her face between her arms and legs and curled up into a ball.

It's been really, really bad lately.It's like going back to the days when I was locked in the game at the beginning.

The appearance of Chen and Liar brought her a lot of troubles, but they rescued her from the life of the dead.

She stared at the grass in front of her. Occasionally, a few unknown insects would jump over the dark green grass. Because it was written into the system's data, it would appear at regular intervals.

Then, at some point, the dark green of a small piece of grass in front of her suddenly turned black, vaguely forming the outline of a person.She clenched her fists nervously, not daring to act rashly.Her hand slowly stretched out to the sword placed aside.

Someone, who approached without her noticing, was standing right behind her right now.