Kirito stared at the label with this name for a long time.

monitor.People who create, operate, and watch the world.

They, the staff of the start-up company RATH, told Kirito and Lin Mu the only—but at the same time, an extremely huge lie.

It feels as if it is already in the distant past, the real world is June [-].

As testers, Kirito and Lin Mu participated in the next-generation full-stealth machine developed by RATH [Soul t

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】 Long-term continuous operation test.

The testing period is three consecutive days.

With the fluctlight acceleration function of STL, I spent about three to three times the real time in the test VR world, that is, ten days, and then sealed the memory in this world to maintain confidentiality.That's what RATH said at the time.

But that is simply a lie.

What Kirito and Lin Mu sneaked into during the test was not the world used for the test, but the underground world they are currently in.

And the time spent in it was not just ten days at all.

I'm afraid it's more than three hundred times... That's ten years.

That's right.During the three-day test, Lin Mu and Kirito experienced childhood from infancy to the age of 11 in the small village at the northern end of the Human World.

Playing with the flaxen-haired boy and blond girl who are childhood sweethearts every day until the whole body is dirty, the four of them will walk back to the village along the earth embankment next to the river in the evening.

It was a memory fragment that was actually experienced and then erased.

Lin Mu, Kirito, Eugeo, and Alice grew up together in Rulid Village, but they completely forgot about it before today...

Raising his stiff left hand, Kirito touched the button to call the monitor with trembling fingertips.

As a result, a dialog box in Japanese appears with a warning sound.

【Executing this operation will fix the Fluctlight acceleration magnification at 1.0 times.Are you sure to implement it? 】

Kirito pressed the OK button without hesitation.Suddenly there is a feeling of increased air viscosity.

Sound, light, everything is stretched, receded, and catches up with them.

It was as if my actions and thinking were in a super-slow mode in an instant, and the uncomfortable feeling hit me in an instant, and then disappeared immediately.

A black window opened in the center of the screen.The sound level meter is displayed in the middle of the window, and the words SOUND ONLY are flashing on it.

The seven-color instrument suddenly jumped.Then rise in one breath.

There was also a rustling noise reaching the ears.

I think that's the sound of the real world.It has nothing to do with the situation of the underground world, and it is the [opposite] world where daily life is repeated.

Bloodshed, pain, and even death are real world exceptions.

Several emotional storms that were finally suppressed surged from the depths of his body, shaking Kirito personally.

He put his face close to the console, and at the top of his voice he called the name of the man who had brought him and Linshu to the underworld.

"Kikuoka... Can you hear me, Kikuoka!" If Kirito's hand could touch Kikuoka Seijiro or other managers now, he thought, he might strangle them to death.

Kirito hit the marble table with his trembling left fist because he had nowhere to vent his anger, and yelled again: "Kikuoka——!"

Immediately afterwards—some kind of sound came from the screen.

That was not a human voice, but a light and crisp crackling sound like "click, click, click, click".

This voice immediately reminded Kirito of a few years ago, when he was named Gu

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The gunfire sound that I have heard in e's VRMMO game.

But beyond this screen should be the research laboratory of RATH, a small start-up company. Why is there such a sound?

Kirito, who was standing at the scene blankly, heard human voices again this time... it was just a conversation that was shouted in a tense situation.

"—Okay, the A6 passage has been occupied by intruders! We are going to retreat!"

"Find a way to fight in A7! Fight for the time to lock the system!"

There was another rattling sound, and there were scattered explosions in it.

What exactly is going on?Is it a movie...?

The sound of the staff watching video streaming in the research room came over?

But at this time, there was an unfamiliar voice calling Kirito's familiar name.

"Second Zuo Kikuoka, we can't hold it anymore! We will abandon the main control room and close the pressure-resistant partition!"

Then a hoarse sharp voice replied: "Sorry, hold on for another 2 minutes! Now this place cannot be taken away!

"Kikuoka—Seijiro, the only thing that is important to Kirito and him is the man who lured him into this world.

Kirito has never heard him make such an urgent voice, what happened at the other end of the screen?

— Could it be that RATH is under attack?but why?

Kirito heard Kikuoka's voice again.

"Higa, isn't the blockade over yet?" Kirito's familiar voice answered him.

He was a researcher at RATH, Higa Takeshi who was standing by and observing when Kirito and Ryoki were conducting a stealth test.

"It's still eight... No, seventy seconds... Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!" Higa's voice suddenly became hoarse because of some fright.

"Mr. Chrysanthemum! Someone is calling inside! No, it's U

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ld inside!This is...... Ah ah, it's him, Tong Gu! "

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