Birthday

"Alas..."

In the safe area of ​​the labyrinth area on the 74th floor, a black-haired and white-robed figure sat cross-legged with his chin propped on his hands, a look of powerlessness flashed through his eyes from time to time, and he sighed softly from time to time. .

"I said, isn't it just a boss? As for the one who sighs so much? He's still a man."

Distraught by Ling Xue's sigh, Asuna turned her head and looked at Ling Xue angrily.

"You don't understand. It feels like the meat is flying from your mouth." Ling Xue waved her hand with an unfathomable feeling. But the following sentence completely destroyed this unfathomable feeling. "You have to know, there are four people in the family now, except for breakfast, I have to provide lunch and dinner ingredients for four people every day."

"Damn it, who is that person in your family?

" Spit out, Asuna blushed directly on her face, then she turned her head and said. Hey, this is the textbook version of honesty and integrity, isn't it true?

"Ahahaha. I'm really sorry." Ling Xue also realized that she had slipped the tongue by accident, laughed twice, and waved her hand to bring this matter to the past. After a pause, he continued: "So, I'm under a lot of financial pressure. This time I finally encountered it, so..."

Before she could say anything, Ling Xue stopped. Because at this moment, a small cake popped out of Asuna's hand.

"This is?" Ling Xue was taken aback.

"Birthday cake." Asuna said as a matter of course.

"Of course I know it's a birthday cake, but..." Ling Xue asked doubtfully.

But before he finished speaking, he was interrupted by Asuna. "Today is your birthday. Ling Xue."

"My birthday?" Ling Xue was taken aback.

"Yeah. Remember the last time we got together, we talked about birthdays?" Asuna nodded, looking at Ling Xue with a soft face.

"When did I... Oh, you said that time." Ling Xue was still confused at first, but after Asuna's reminder, she quickly remembered.

Although Ling Xue originally thought that he would not get drunk no matter how much he drank in the game, but after a round of hard work, he said that he was wrong, and he would still get drunk in the game. Drunk people will have a debuff similar to dizziness at the end of their health. In addition to the fixed potion or food that removes the negative state, there is only a natural waiting time. When I was drunk at the time, I vaguely heard everyone talking about when my birthday was, and then came to arrange the size, holding the hangover idea of ​​mixing fun things, Ling Xue also put her own The birthday was reported.

"Hehe, I didn't expect you to remember what I said so casually at that time." A soft light flashed in Ling Xue's eyes, and she took the cake. She smiled and said, "Thank you."

"Well, although there is no cake candle setting in this game, let's make a wish." Seeing Ling Xue put the cake lightly on the ground, Asuna suggested.

"Hehe, okay." Ling Xue was taken aback for a moment, then nodded with a smile.

Speaking of which, Ling Xue was really moved, because he himself had already become a long-lived species, so including himself and those contract characters, birthdays have long since become meaningless, so there can be But it was selectively forgotten by everyone.

So this time when I go back, do I have to celebrate a birthday for each of them? . . . . .

Putting her palms together in front of her chest, Ling Xue's eyes were closed. After making the wish in her heart, she opened her eyes again, smiled at Asuna, "Then let's eat."

"Yes." Asuna nodded, and took out the silver from the inventory . A quality knife divided the cake.

"By the way, Ling Xue?"

After putting a small piece of cake into her mouth, Asuna's eyes accidentally saw the silver sword hanging from Ling Xue's waist, and the look of doubt flashed in her eyes, "Your What about the black sword?"

"Black Sword? Oh~ you mean the Interpreter?" Ling Xue swallowed the cake in her mouth, and then looked at Asuna.

"En." Asuna nodded, narrowed her eyes slightly, glanced at Ling Xue up and down, and said, "It's okay not to say it, but it's really strange to say it."

Recalling that Ling Xue Time will go to Liz to strengthen the black sword interpreter. Asuna squinted her eyes and said: "Strengthen the interpreter to be like your silver sword, but I have never seen you take it out and use it. It is obviously growing Say, your silver Taidao is enough, but you still need to spend so much energy to strengthen another weapon, and it is a long sword weapon that is completely inconsistent with the attributes of the Taidao. Hey, Lingxue, can you Tell me why?"

"Jiku!!" Lingxue let out a small mouthful.

If someone who is familiar with Ling Xue is here, it will be clear in an instant, because Ling Xue will only reveal her cravings in two situations, one is when she is extremely surprised, and the other is when she is extremely guilty.

Wiping the cold sweat off her forehead, Lingxue laughed dryly, glanced aside, and said, "Sh... who knows.

" Said something meaningful. Seeing that "waterfall sweat" had started to flow from Ling Xue's forehead, Asuna curled her lips, she let Ling Xue go, and said, "Well, forget it. Everyone has a little desire, so I'll let you go this time." "

"Hi, hi. Thank you very much."

Ling Xue sighed speechlessly, when did this Asuna actually have the attribute of black belly. Shouldn't her attributes be a wife, a model worker, a notebook, etc.? Cough cough, the latter two are not.

While the two were chatting and eating cake, the transfer door of the safe area suddenly vibrated, and a few tall and thick men came out of it.

Seeing this, Asuna and Ling Xue immediately put away their smiles and stood up. After all, this is not a safe zone, and pk in the wild is nothing new in this game.

"Ah? Lingxue?" The leader is a middle-aged player who is dressed in red clothes and red armor, with a colorful silk scarf on his head, who looks like a samurai. After seeing Ling Xue. Just froze for a moment. Then speak directly.

"Klein?" Ling Xue was also taken aback. From the start of the game to the present, except for the necessary team formation, he has never met his acquaintances in the maze area. This time is a coincidence.

Seeing that the visitor was an acquaintance, Ling Xue and Asuna also let go of their vigilance, and their tense bodies also loosened.

"It's a coincidence today, it's rare to run into you in the labyrinth area." After greeting the other Fenglinhuo people, Ling Xue's attention returned to Klein.

It is worth mentioning that. Although the Fenglinhuo guild formed by Klein is already one of the four major guilds in SAO, no, it is one of the five major guilds, but except when necessary, Klein's leveling team still only has the first few acquaintances .

"Well~" Klein also nodded, walked over quickly with a few people, glanced at it, and couldn't help wondering: "Is it just you and Asuna today? Where's Yui?"

"Oh, She, Asuna, she said... hiss~~~"

Subconsciously, Ling Xue wanted to tell about the "deal" between Asuna and Yui. But just as the words were spoken, he felt a stabbing pain in his lower back. So he couldn't help taking a breath. Although SAO has a special program to block pain, but this level of pain will not be blocked.

"Oh, you said Yui. I think it's too pitiful for Xiaowei to watch the house alone every time, so I ask Ling Xue to let Yui stay there, so that she can accompany Xiaowei at the same time as looking after the house." While explaining with a smile, Asuna blocked with her body, pinching Ling Xue's delicate flesh with the tip of two fingers in a place where Klein and others could not see.

"Ahahaha, that's right, that's right, that's it." Ling Xue nodded with a "smile", but the smile was really as forced as it could be.

"Speaking of which, since we have encountered each other, why don't we form a team to level up together, and let us all benefit from the light of you, Master Xueyin."

As the leader of a meeting, Klein is also "sharp". Sensing that something was wrong with the atmosphere, although he really wanted to ask, but somehow, his intuition told him not to ask, otherwise he would definitely die ugly, so he wisely changed the subject.

"That's what I said." Ling Xue smiled wryly, nodded, and then sent out a team application. After all, Ling Xue, who has never formed a large team for leveling, feels quite fresh. Anyway, the boss has Asuna, so she probably doesn't expect to knock that guy down. Let's just experience the feeling of forming a large team for leveling. .

The team had just been assembled and ready to go, but the sound of chaotic footsteps approaching attracted their attention.

"That's..." Ling Xue's eyes narrowed slightly, obviously recognizing the identity of the person who came.

"Those people in the army... well..." Asuna also had a flash of displeasure in her eyes, obviously she didn't have a good impression of this guild either.

Army, one of the five major guilds in SAO, its full name is Aincrad Liberation Army. On the twenty-fifth floor, he was severely injured because he challenged the boss who was beyond his control. In desperation, he withdrew from the front line with the slogan of needing to regroup. It is now a huge guild entrenched in the town of the beginning of the first floor.

"Don't they need to regroup? Why did they appear here?" Klein also dragged his chin to play with his taste.

Since that mass casualty, although the army is still as famous as the other four major guilds, the top players in the guild have long been killed and injured, and the front line has long since lost their active presence. The only time I saw them was at Christmas. events.

So it is conceivable how surprised Ling Xue and others were when they suddenly saw these figures who were no longer active on the front line on the 74th floor.