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Arthurslin instinctively swung her sword before realizing her mistake. She quickly opened her eyes and looked at the man she thought was crazy. Seeing that Wang Yang, who had collapsed on the ground, had not been killed by her sword, she breathed a sigh of relief.

She didn't want to get a red name at level 2. If she did, she would be arrested and thrown into prison as soon as she entered the town, which would be fatal for her development in the early stages.

Speaking of which, Wang Yang's heart-wrenching scream had indeed startled her.

"Are you even a man? You screamed so loud for a mere ten percent touch setting." After feeling relieved, Arthurslin began to disparage Wang Yang's previous scream, believing Wang Yang was not a man.

Wang Yang felt like crying but had no tears. Would I scream so miserably if it didn't hurt?

Sword Art Online had a setting for pain receptors that could be adjusted up or down. The maximum setting was sixty percent, barely within the limit that an adult could endure, while the minimum was zero, meaning no sensation at all. However, every player who entered the game had a default setting of ten percent. Most players did not change it because a virtual game needed touch sensation to be realistic. Only a few who pursued realism would adjust the touch setting to the maximum. Under such a setting, one could even clearly feel the sensation of the wind blowing across their cheek.

Even so, few people would set their pain receptors to the maximum because fighting monsters would be pure torture. Therefore, Arthurslin believed that players in the wild could not have their touch settings set very high. Most people would even set their pain sensitivity to zero, so they wouldn't feel pain when hit by monsters. Thus, she never expected that the body Wang Yang had taken over would have its touch setting adjusted to the extreme. As a result, the pain Wang Yang felt from being hit by a sword was as real as it could be. It was no wonder Wang Yang screamed so miserably. After all, as an otaku whose injuries usually only resulted in fractures, merely screaming out loud was already a remarkable performance.

"Wh-what is a touch setting?" Wang Yang was paralyzed and found it difficult to even speak. He lay on the grass, tilted his head up, and asked in confusion.

It did hurt when he was hit, but it wasn't continuous. Therefore, Wang Yang still had the energy to ask such a question at this moment. Moreover, the cold female voice from before still echoed in his ears, making him very concerned.

Could this really be SAO?

"How did you enter SAO?" Arthurslin looked at Wang Yang in surprise. Hearing Wang Yang's question, which showed autonomy, she knew Wang Yang was not a lunatic.

Wang Yang thought, would you believe me if I told you I just fell asleep and inexplicably arrived in the game Sword Art Online?

Suddenly, before Wang Yang could even rejoice that this was the world of SAO, he thought of a serious problem. If this was Sword Art Online, would the logout button be gone? And in what way did he exist in this world? Was he also a person, perhaps through body snatching? If that were the case, wouldn't he be in great danger? He knew that on the first day in the anime, there were 213 unlucky people who, because their families ignored their advice and forcibly pulled the power plug, had their brains burnt to a crisp. Could I be that unlucky and become one of them?

At this moment, Wang Yang couldn't bother to consider his real-world identity. He anxiously muttered to the system, but the virtual system menu he imagined did not appear. He had never read the manual that came with Sword Art Online, so he could only refer to virtual MMORPG novels he had read before. He tried it, but it didn't work. He looked up at the sky and saw that it had already turned a dim yellow. This meant that the time for the forced teleportation was probably approaching.

Thinking of this, Wang Yang felt a wave of despair in his heart...

He really wanted to play a virtual MMORPG, but he didn't want to play one where he couldn't respawn infinitely. Rather than calling SAO a virtual MMORPG, it was more like another real world.

Wang Yang felt like crying but had no tears. He looked at Arthurslin, the first player he had encountered, with a pleading gaze. "Um, may I ask your surname?"

Arthurslin rolled her eyes and said impatiently, "My in-game name is Arthurslin, but I don't have time to bother with you. Bye-bye."

With that, she turned around, waved her hand, and walked towards the Town of Beginnings.

How could Wang Yang let go of this opportunity to meet another player before the game officially started? He shamelessly screamed loudly, "Someone's attacking me! Someone's killing me! Help!"

Arthurslin stomped hard on the grass as she walked, stopping her steps. Hearing the screams in her ears, her face instantly darkened. She held her forehead and sighed, "Why am I so unlucky?"

After sighing, Arthurslin, with a dark expression, turned back and quickly walked to Wang Yang, who was lying on the ground. Seeing her approach, Wang Yang immediately shut his mouth obediently.

"Speak, what do you want?" Arthurslin squatted down with her legs together and asked coldly.

Wang Yang glanced at her legs, which were closed with only a sliver of a gap, and thought it a pity. Then he remembered his predicament and showed a bitter smile.

"Um, Arthurslin, could you tell me how to open the system menu?"

Arthurslin was stunned. "It's that simple?"

Wang Yang nodded vigorously.

Arthurslin's expression immediately fell. She felt like she'd been tricked and wanted to stand up and stomp on him, but then she remembered Wang Yang's health was very low and suppressed the thought. After sighing and holding her forehead, she stood up gritting her teeth. In that instant, Wang Yang saw a flash of pink beneath her battle skirt.

Instantly, several black lines appeared on Wang Yang's forehead.

There are safety shorts in the game too???

Before he could think, he saw Arthurslin extend her index finger and draw a line downwards through the air. A nearly transparent system menu immediately appeared before her.

"It's that simple?" Now it was Wang Yang's turn to be stunned. He had indeed watched anime, but he hadn't expected the way to open the menu to be the same as in the anime. His preconceived notion was that the gesture was just for added realism. However, this also indicated that the world they were currently in was the same as the anime, and it also meant that when the clock struck five-thirty, Kayaba Akihiko would forcibly teleport everyone to the starting town's Spawn Point, which was the Grand Plaza in front of the Black Iron Palace.

This meant Wang Yang didn't even need to open the menu to know the Logout Button was gone. He was trapped in this dangerous world!

"Huh? The Logout Button is gone." Arthurslin exclaimed softly. She hadn't intended to demonstrate how to open the system menu to Wang Yang. She had just thought it was getting a bit late and planned to log off to eat. She hadn't expected the Logout Button at the very bottom to have disappeared.

Just as I thought!

Lying on the ground, Wang Yang's heart turned cold. The paralysis status had worn off at some point, and he didn't know if the owner of this body had turned off the Health Bar display, so he couldn't see his health recovery at all. He could only wait anxiously, which was torture.

"Is the game malfunctioning? But this didn't happen during the Beta Test," Arthurslin muttered to herself, frowning.

"Um..." Suddenly, she heard a rather embarrassed voice from below. Looking down, she saw the Weirdo lying on the ground with a fawning smile.

Arthurslin calmly took several steps back.

"..." Wang Yang was discouraged by her reaction.

"I just wanted to ask if you had any health recovery items. Do you have to react like that!"

"Who knows what you perverted freaks want? Besides, it's the early game. Who would spend their limited Kael on health recovery items!" Arthurslin pouted.

The word "pervert" struck Wang Yang's heart like a Sharp Sword. He silently thought that a good man doesn't stoop to the level of a Vicious Woman.

"What time is it then?" With no recovery items, Wang Yang reluctantly changed the subject and asked about the time.

Hearing this, Arthurslin subconsciously glanced at the time displayed in the bottom right corner of her vision and casually replied, "It's exactly five-thirty."

"What!?" Wang Yang exclaimed. At that moment, a clang-clang Bell Sound came from afar without warning, grand and resonant.

Arthurslin was startled by the bell sound, thinking it might be a GM making an Announcement because of the missing Logout Button. Wang Yang, however, felt his heart leap.

No one knew the meaning of this Bell Sound better than he did!

The bigger problem was, was he going to appear in the middle of the crowd while still lying on the ground?

I don't want that!

Wang Yang let out a scream in his heart, and a burst of blue light appeared out of thin air, enveloping him and Arthurslin.

Before the two could react, they had already appeared on the plaza in front of the Black Iron Palace.

Looking at the familiar scene before her, Arthurslin said in surprise, "This is teleportation, but..."

She immediately shut her mouth before finishing her sentence, because streams of blue light appeared on the plaza. As the blue light faded, figures materialized out of thin air, filling the entire plaza in just a few breaths.

She didn't doubt for a moment that there were nearly ten thousand people on the plaza. At the same time, she didn't notice that someone she considered a pervert was crawling at her feet, in a very advantageous position, able to see the spring scenery beneath her battle skirt without even looking up.

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