The next day.
The sun shone through the window of the hotel and shined on the face of Eight-cloud Ink, who was sleeping soundly on the bed.
The nine-tailed fox, Haku, who looked even more beautiful under the sun, was lying quietly beside Eight-cloud Ink's pillow, its furry tail sweeping from time to time.
Eight-cloud Ink's neat, slender and beautiful eyelashes trembled slightly, and he slowly opened his eyes.
In an instant, the room seemed to be a little brighter.
Eight-cloud Ink felt an itch on his cheek, and he turned his head to look at Haku.
The little fox was staring at Eight-cloud Ink with its watery blue eyes.
"Little guy, you woke up so early?" Eight-cloud Ink stretched out his hand and gently teased Haku, then he sat up with a smile on his face.
Eight-cloud Ink felt the lazy feeling of having just woken up, he praised: "As expected of Kayaba Akihiko, it's really amazing … It almost perfectly recreates the various feelings of the real world!"
After getting out of bed, Eight-cloud Ink called up the system panel and directly clicked on the equipment bar. After a flash of light, the "Celestial Fox Robe" appeared on Eight-cloud Ink's body, replacing the original pajamas.
Although the various senses were very similar to the real world, the game was still a game, and there were always some differences.
For example, Eight-cloud Ink didn't have to wash up after getting out of bed like in the real world.
In SAO, the player's body will never get dirty.
Haku on the bed looked up at Eight-cloud Ink and called softly, then he jumped, and his small body landed on Eight-cloud Ink's shoulder, and once again wrapped around his neck like a scarf.
With a folding fan on his waist, Eight-cloud Ink opened the door, walked through the corridor, and went down the stairs to the living room on the ground floor of the hotel.
At this time, many players in the living room had already spent the least amount of gold coins to buy the cheapest breakfast from the hotel's NPC to relieve the hunger in their bodies.
Most of these people were ordinary players.
Eight-cloud Ink's appearance on the stairs inevitably attracted the attention of everyone in the living room.
"Oh my god …"
"This equipment … looks very powerful …"
"Is that a familiar on his neck?"
"It must be a beta tester!"
As the players guessed the identity of the Eight-cloud Ink Beta Tester, countless malicious gazes fell on him.
Jealousy, hatred, and greed.
If SAO was the same as other games, players could log in and out of the game freely, and Eight-cloud Ink's status as a beta tester would not arouse the hostility of other players, only envy.
But now, SAO has transformed into a death game. In this case, beta testers who have participated in the closed beta test and have access to all kinds of information that ordinary players don't know undoubtedly have a huge advantage, and this advantage will allow them to survive better.
When one's life was threatened, all kinds of negative emotions would inevitably be exposed.
Their envy had turned into jealousy and resentment, just like this.
Eight-cloud Ink ignored the hostile gazes of the players. He walked to the counter and said to the NPC waiter behind the counter, "Give me your best breakfast."
With enough gold coins in his backpack, Eight-cloud Ink naturally wouldn't mistreat him.
He wouldn't choose the worst food in order to save gold coins like those players.
"Okay! 20 gold coins! "
20 gold coins, ten times the price of the cheapest breakfast!
It was only the second day of SAO's launch, and even the beta testers didn't have enough gold coins in their backpack to support their luxurious lifestyle.
On the other hand, Eight Cloud Ink didn't even bat an eyelid and spent 20 gold coins just to buy a delicious breakfast!
The players who saw this scene became even more envious.
"You bastard …"
A burly man with a ferocious appearance stood up from one of the seats in the hall and walked up to Yakumo. He then lowered his head and glared at Yakumo, who had just received her breakfast from an NPC.
"It must be those damn beta testers!"
When the players around saw that someone was going to cause trouble for Eight-cloud Ink, they all quieted down, and a gloating expression appeared on their faces.
The hall was so quiet that even a pin drop could be heard.
Eight-cloud Ink saw the expressions of the players in the hall, and he sighed in his heart. "Sure enough, this is the nature of humans …"
Eight-cloud Ink raised his head and glanced at the burly man with a blank expression, and said without a trace of emotion: "So what if I am, and so what if I'm not?"
"Bastard!"
The burly man, who was already nervous because of this death game, was completely enraged by Eight-cloud Ink's slightly arrogant reaction. He directly raised his fist and punched Eight-cloud Ink who was shorter than him!
"Hum …"
A polygonal light shield suddenly appeared and blocked the burly man's fist.
Everyone was taken aback for a moment, and then they realized that in the town's safe zone, players were not allowed to PK other than duels.
"Bastard!! Go to hell!! "
The burly man's eyes were red, and he seemed to have lost his mind and punched the light shield again.
"Pa!"
This time, Eight-cloud Ink reached out his right hand and grabbed the burly man's fist before the system's light shield could take effect again.
"First of all, I'm not a beta tester." Eight-cloud Ink looked at the burly man fiercely, "Even if I am, what can you do?"
"Instead of wasting time here because of these things, why don't I go out and level up and improve my strength so that I can live a better life?"
Eight-cloud Ink turned around and bypassed the burly man, and directly left the hotel.
After Eight-cloud Ink left, the originally silent hotel hall became noisy again.
This time, the content of the players' discussion changed from a variety of topics to Eight-cloud Ink.
White robe, white fox, more beautiful than the cutest girl.
That was the impression that Eight-cloud Ink gave to the players.
I'm a beta tester, so what if I'm a beta tester?
The huge floating city Aincrad was divided into a total of 100 floors.
Each floor had a large labyrinth area. Although it was not large compared to the area of the entire floor, it was still extremely large.
The labyrinth area was different from the other floors.
Unlike the normal towns and cities outside, the labyrinth area's map was not directly displayed in the system map.
If you want to get the labyrinth area's map, you either have to explore the labyrinth area by yourself, or you can get it from other players who have already explored the labyrinth area.
Compared to the monsters outside, the monsters in the labyrinth area were not only more numerous, but also more densely distributed.
Among all the players, there were only a few players who could level up in the labyrinth area alone.
All of these people would become famous among the players in the future.
In every labyrinth area, there would be a hidden room that required players to explore step by step.
In the hidden room, there was the boss of this floor.
It was so powerful that it required all the elite players to defeat it.
After leaving the town, Eight-cloud Ink directly went to the first floor of the labyrinth area.
The monsters along the way were no match for him.
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