Chapter 11

The "cheaters" of SAO are not just Kirito alone.

In the past, everyone was holding the attitude of playing a game; resources, although important, were not necessarily something that had to be snatched.

But the current situation is obviously different from before.

The current SAO is a real death game!

In a game where one can only die once, various game resources are the guarantee for oneself to live better in this world.

So it can be foreseen that the limited resources in the novice village will definitely be snatched by all players!

This is not a question of whether to let or not, but in this game world full of crises, who doesn't want their own strength to be stronger and successfully live to the end!

Kirito, as a beta tester, naturally knows where the resources of the novice village are, so he immediately wanted to pull Shengzai and Klein together.

However, Klein indicated that he entered the game with a good friend.

And he also knows his strength very well; acting with Shengzai and Kirito will only drag the two down, so he chose to quit voluntarily.

Regarding this, Shengzai and Kirito also chose to respect the other party's decision and rushed to a mission resource point closest to them at the fastest speed.

However, facts have proven that there are far more smart people in this world than just Kirito.

When the two of them had already rushed to the nearest mission area at the fastest speed, the mission resources here had already been swept away by others first.

And seeing this scene, Kirito also couldn't help but let out a big sigh.

This is the mission resource land closest to them; if even here they are one step late, then there is no need to go to other places.

"Who said that all the missions have been accepted? Isn't that man with a shrewd face over there a mission NPC?"

Hearing Shengzai's words, Kirito initially looked at the direction he pointed with a look of surprise, thinking it was a mission missed by those cheater players.

However, when he saw clearly the person Shengzai pointed to, a look of disappointment hung on his face: "The person you mentioned is indeed a mission NPC.

But his mission is not that those cheater players don't want to accept it, but that it can't be accepted at all."

Seeing the look of doubt on Shengzai's face, Kirito could only continue to explain: "The name of this NPC is the shrewd merchant Mesi, and the thing that troubles him now.

Is because his goods were looted by a group of 'Hungry Wolves' on the grassland.

If this mission is completed, he will give the player a one-handed sword weapon that is quite rare in the early stage—the Wind Flower Sword."

"Hungry Wolves are monsters inhabiting the grassland; they are much stronger than frenzied boars, and they are also gregarious monsters.

The one who looted Mesi's goods is the 'Dire Wolf Leader,' which belongs to the wild area boss-level monster.

Of course, although it is a wild area boss, I am very familiar with its mechanism; with our two abilities, it is not impossible to take it down.

But the only problem is that to accept this mission from the shrewd merchant Mesi, one needs to pay a deposit as high as one Gold Col."

After listening to what Kirito said, Shengzai also understood why he said before that this mission was not something everyone could accept.

It has already been said before that the initial currency of SAO players is only one hundred Copper Col.

And the deposit of one Gold Col is a full ten thousand Copper Col, which makes those players not know where to find so much money at the start.

During the beta test, if the challenge to the Hungry Wolf boss failed, then the deposit could not be returned.

Now that players only have one life chance, failing the challenge means dying themselves.

Although high risk and high return, just this huge early investment is enough to persuade most players to quit.

Even during the beta test, this mission of the shrewd merchant Mesi was only accepted by people in the later stage.

Because at that time, players had already cleared to the fifth floor or above, and dealing with the wild area boss on the first floor was naturally easy.

"Let's take this mission; anyway, we don't have any other choices now, right?"

Watching Shengzai walk towards the other party, Kirito could only helplessly follow.

Kirito guessed that Shengzai should be trying to bargain with the NPC, but regarding the result, he had already expected it.

Because during the beta test, quite a few people had the same idea, but it is a pity that they were all rejected by the other party in the end.

"Are you also adventurers who intend to help me snatch back the goods from that group of damn hungry wolves?

But because my goods are quite valuable, if you snatch back the goods and run away yourself, I will also be quite troubled.

So you must first pay a deposit of one Gold Col; there is no room for any bargaining on this point."

Hearing what Mesi said, Kirito showed a look of "as expected."

And just when Kirito wanted to tell Shengzai not to waste time, and instead of consuming with this NPC here, it would be better to try his luck elsewhere, Shengzai, under his dumbfounded gaze, directly took out a golden coin that was shining with gold light.

"Mr. Mesi, right? Rest assured, we all understand the rules; unlike those poor ghosts before, we are noble children who came out of big towns to experience the life of adventurers.

A mere Gold Col is nothing to us, and we won't be thinking about your goods."

Shengzai, after throwing a Gold Col to the quite surprised merchant Mesi, then, as if performing magic, directly took out a large handful of gold coins.

And looking at the full handful of gold coins Shengzai took out, let alone the shrewd merchant Mesi, even Kirito beside him was dumbfounded on the spot.

The handful of gold coins Shengzai took out was at least dozens of them, and the wealth of dozens of Gold Col, let alone in a novice village like the first floor, was also a quite astonishing huge sum even on the eighth floor during the beta test.

SAO, as a full-dive virtual game, even the AI intelligence of NPCs is quite high; they don't just say fixed lines.

And the shrewd merchant Mesi, at this moment, after seeing the astonishing wealth displayed by Shengzai, his originally dismissive expression suddenly became different.

"Two adventurer... oh no, two noble young masters, it was my eyes that were clumsy before, treating you as that group of poor and sour adventurers before.

Since the two are willing to help, then the honest Mesi naturally believes in you; the deposit or something is forgotten; I hope the two will patronize my business more in the future, then I will really be grateful."

It's not for nothing that the other party is called a shrewd merchant; when Shengzai displayed astonishing wealth, the other party's attitude and tone were already two styles compared to before.

Finally, Shengzai and Kirito not only successfully accepted this mission, but even the so-called deposit was saved.

And after leaving the small town, Kirito, who had long been unable to suppress the curiosity in his heart, finally looked at Shengzai with an unbelievable look: "You guy wouldn't really be like what Klein said, directly opening some cheating software!"

(End of chapter)