Different Spirit Values
Located in the deepest part of the Black Iron Palace's underground maze was a very complete square room. Not only was there only one entrance, but the whole room was also very empty. There were no decorations or decorations, only white walls, floors, and ceilings.
The only exception was a black cubic stone table in the middle of the room.
In the middle of the white room, there was a very abrupt appearance of such a dark object. It was quite eye-catching.
And at this moment, on this dark stone table, there was also a white dress.
Yui sat on the stone table, looking at Rozen and Yasna lying on the ground, gently smiling.
However, looking at Yui's smile, Rozen and Yasna didn't feel happy at all. Instead, their hearts sank.
Because Yui's smile was no longer as naive and pure as before. Instead, it was full of complex emotions.
That kind of emotion was like sadness, but also like sadness.
So, Rozen and Yasna really couldn't feel happy at all.
"Goo!"
"Woo!"
On the contrary, Saichou and Hanachou acted as if they didn't notice anything. They still cheered as usual and rushed in Yui's direction, showing obvious affection at a glance.
Seeing this, the smile on Yui's face also eased a bit. She stretched out her hand and patted Saichou and Hanachou's heads.
"Thank you for accompanying me all this time."
Yui softly thanked them.
Compared to the previous Yui, this appearance was really different.
Rozen and Yasna had already gotten up from the ground.
"Yui-chan …"
Yasna looked at Yui, as if she was afraid, and also as if she didn't know what to do, she called out her name.
"…"
Rozen, on the other hand, remained silent. He just stared at Yui without taking any action.
Yui turned her gaze back to Rozen and Yasna.
"Mr. Rozen, Ms. Yasna."
The voice was still familiar, but there was a sense of unfamiliarity in the way he addressed her. Putting aside Rozen, Yasna trembled slightly, as if she had suffered a great blow.
He didn't know if Yui noticed this. She only spoke with an illusory smile.
"Although I really want to ask why the two of you are here, if you are Mr. Rozen, it wouldn't be strange for you to find this place."
Although Yui's tone had become unfamiliar, when she talked about Rozen, there was still unconcealable joy and pride in her voice.
In this regard, Rozen also did not know if he had noticed this, but he pretended to be relaxed and smiled.
"After all, you're obviously acting a little strange tonight, so I thought that if I secretly followed you, I might be able to find out something."
This was Rozen's plan.
"I'm sorry, I didn't mean to leave suddenly." Yui lowered her head and apologized, "It's just that the program's automatic repair has begun, and it automatically guided me here to make adjustments. That's why I left home like sleepwalking and came here."
Yui's words made Rozen and Yasna unable to ignore it easily.
"Automatic repair?"
Yasna was startled.
"Program …"
Rozen moved his lips slightly, and finally turned all the questions in his heart into the most crucial question.
"Yui." Rozen looked straight at Yui and asked word by word, "Who are you?"
Along with this sentence, the surrounding atmosphere changed significantly.
Yui seemed to have known that she would be asked this question, and the smile on her face gradually disappeared.
But Yui didn't choose not to answer.
"This world — Sword God's Domain.
It's controlled by a huge system. "
Yui suddenly began to explain like this without any reason.
"That is a system that can control the balance of this world based on its own judgment. It is designed with the concept that there is no need for human maintenance. There are two main programs correcting each other's mistakes, and countless sub-programs are used to make all the adjustments in the world — Cardinal."
"Cardinal."
That was the system that controlled this world, equivalent to the existence of the law.
"Such as the AI of monsters and NPCs, the balance of items and currency, the improvement of the players' ability parameters, the changes in the weather and climate of the floor, and so on, all of them are operated by the program group under the command of Cardinal, and it can be done almost perfectly. The whole world can be operated without the need for human adjustment and operation."
Yui said slowly.
"However, there is a mission that must be performed by humans."
What mission?
"The problem caused by the players' mental state can only be solved by humans."
Yui lowered her head, and only her voice could be heard.
"But the developers of Cardinal wanted to leave the task of taking care of the players to the system, so they tried to use NERvGear's characteristics to monitor the players' mental state in detail, visit the players with problems, and listen to their thoughts. In order to not make the players feel uncomfortable, they also gave the program the ability to imitate emotions."
Hearing this, Rozen and Yasna had a hunch in their hearts.
Yui, as if seeing through the hunch in their hearts, once again showed a somewhat empty smile.
"Originally, this program should have begun to visit the players on the day the game was officially launched two years ago, but the main system, Cardinal, suddenly issued an unscheduled order to prohibit her from interfering with the players' behavior, so she could only continue to monitor the players' mental state without any specific contact."
That so-called unscheduled order, without a doubt, could only come from SAO's only game manager, Kayaba Akihiko.
Yui didn't mention him, but she continued to explain.
"I'm sure you two also know what the mental state of the players trapped here is like after this game officially launched and became a death game, right?"
Needless to say?
"Fear."
"Despair."
"Anger."
"Sadness."
"Under the influence of all kinds of negative emotions, the players' mental state not only became extremely unstable, but some even fell into a state of madness."
Yui bit her lip and whispered.
"She continued to look into the players' minds because she couldn't take the initiative to contact the players, but she had to pacify the players' emotions, which caused a great contradiction. The program kept accumulating errors and gradually began to collapse."
Having said that, Yui raised her eyes and looked at Rozen. For the first time in her life, a sincere smile appeared on her pretty face.
"Just when her AI program was about to collapse, one day, she suddenly noticed that a player had a different mental state than the others."
Hearing this, Rozen's heart skipped a beat.
"That's …"
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