This time's transmission was obviously much better than before. At least Fang Zheng was not thrown down from a height of 100 meters by the system. On the contrary, when Fang Zheng opened his eyes, the first thing he saw was the endless grassland and the blue sky...

“This is a really beautiful place.”

However, at this moment, a voice sounded from beside Fang Zheng. Fang Zheng turned around and saw a girl with silver hair wearing a white uniform and knee-high socks and a charming girl wearing a black dress with a leisurely smile not far behind him...

"This time it's you two, Restia, Esther..."

Seeing the two people following him, Fang Zheng was stunned for a moment. He had never expected that the system would choose his two sword elves as companions this time, but when he thought about it carefully, it was not surprising. After all, these two sword elves were also living beings, so it was natural for them to be chosen by the system.

"Yes, Master."

Hearing Fang Zheng's sigh, Restia smiled slightly.

"This is the first time we've fought with you in this form."

"I will try my best."

Esther also nodded and whispered. In fact, what Restia said was not wrong. Although they had been fighting side by side with Fang Zheng, they both appeared in the form of weapons at that time. But here, they appeared in human form, which was naturally completely different from before.

"So...what kind of world is this?"

Fang Zheng muttered to himself while looking around. But at this moment, Esther looked at Fang Zheng curiously and asked.

"Master, what is this... in front of me?"

"In front of me?"

Hearing Esther's question, Fang Zheng was stunned for a moment. Then he looked in front of Esther and found that the silver-haired sword elf was standing there in a daze, and in front of her, there was nothing...

"Nothing?"

"Ah, I saw that, too."

However, just when Fang Zheng was puzzled, he saw Restia also shouted, and then she stretched out her hand. Fang Zheng saw Restia lightly point in the air, and then a glowing rectangular screen appeared in front of her, as if a personal terminal was activated.

But... as sword elves, Restia and Esther don't have personal terminals? What is this?

Thinking of this, Fang Zheng quickly retracted his gaze, and then he discovered that there were some strange symbols and things similar to buttons in his field of vision. He reached out and clicked, and soon a similar interface appeared in front of him. It had Fang Zheng's name, character attributes, item bar, experience points, skills...

“Is this an online game interface?”

Looking at the various skills and settings that he was so familiar with, Fang Zheng couldn't help but shout out. He finally understood why Restia and Esther entered this world in human form instead of weapons. In other words, this was a pure online game world?

Fang Zheng certainly knew about virtual reality online games. Although in the world before his rebirth, this was just a concept, the world of The Matrix was strictly speaking a large-scale virtual reality online game. However, in comparison, this world seemed to focus more on "gameplay" rather than "realism".

Otherwise, this kind of thing wouldn't happen.

So that's why this world is used as a test world for "wisdom". Thinking of this, Fang Zheng immediately figured out the connection. In the virtual reality world, his special abilities could not be used, and there was no way to rush in like in the Yharnam world. Everything here was data. Even to defeat the boss or pass the maze, it was not based on simple rushing, but on the calculation of skills, experience, and data. Fang Zheng was of course familiar with this, after all, this was what he did!

Thinking about it this way, perhaps this is why the system did not allow Nymph to come this time. After all, this is a world of information combination. If Nymph was teleported to this world, then Fang Zheng would be able to directly challenge the final boss as soon as he left the Novice Village... Based on the nature of the system, it obviously would not allow itself this loophole.

After opening the system, as Fang Zheng had expected, a series of basic information appeared. Through this information, Fang Zheng finally had some understanding of the settings of this world.

According to the description above, Fang Zheng and others are in an aerial city called "Aincrad", and the players are adventurers who come to this world. They will fight for victory, clear levels one by one, and then reach the top to win - well, at least this is the initial introduction to the game.

Then the player's initial weapon selection appeared. Fang Zheng took a quick look and found that all the weapons available to players were melee weapons. There were no ranged weapons like bows and arrows, nor any magic - could it be that there was no magic in this world?

Although he was a little confused, Fang Zheng thought about it and decided to choose a big sword as his initial weapon. After all, he was used to using the black big sword in reality.

At the same time, Esther and Restia also made their choices. Esther chose an ordinary long sword, while Restia chose a rapier as her initial weapon.

"How's it going? Any questions?"

Fang Zheng looked at the two of them and asked. When they were reading the introduction just now, Fang Zheng also casually gave them some popular science about online games, so they also knew how to face this world.

"No problem, Master."

Facing Fang Zheng's question, Restia smiled and shook her head. Then she stretched out her hand and swung the rapier in her hand through a few graceful and light sword flowers. As for Esther on the other side, she also drew out her long sword and did a few warm-up moves - at least for now, their movements were very skillful. Thinking about it carefully, this was not surprising. After all, these two were sword elves. Apart from anything else, in terms of swordsmanship, they were probably not much worse than Fang Zheng.

"What should we do next, Master?"

"Well... according to the general online game, we should find a place to level up, and then team up to fight the boss..."

As he spoke, Fang Zheng looked around. If that was all, then in Fang Zheng's opinion, this game world had no challenge at all. Could it be that the system's only requirement was to get the first kill on the server or something... This was too boring!

“Ding…ding…!”

However, at this moment, suddenly, a series of bells rang out from afar. Then Fang Zheng and the others saw a flash of light before their eyes, and the next moment, they appeared in a huge square.

At this moment, the square was full of people, all of them were handsome men and beautiful women. Judging from their attire, they should be players like Fang Zheng and his friends. However, the behavior of these players was beyond Fang Zheng's expectations. Many of them looked very frightened, and some even yelled.

"What on earth is going on?"

“Why didn’t the authorities issue a statement?!”

"The person in charge, please find a solution quickly. I need to log off the line!!"

"It's the first day of the public beta, how come something like this happened?!"

Listening to the noises of the players around him, Fang Zheng also roughly understood the current situation - today was the first day of the public beta test of this online game, and as a result, many players were surprised to find that the offline button had disappeared when they were about to log out of the game. Not only that, they were also unable to contact the game's GM...

Now Fang Zheng understood why these players were so terrified. After all, according to the information he had seen before, these players all logged into this world through something like a helmet, but their bodies were still lying outside. If they were unable to log out, it would mean that they would be trapped in this world for the rest of their lives!

“Boom…”

At this moment, the bell rang, and the next moment, the entire sky was suddenly covered with bright red error codes. Then, a strange figure in a red robe slowly emerged from it.

"Gentlemen, welcome to my world..."

The red-robed man opened his hands and his tone became excited.

"My name is Kayaba Akihiko, and I am the only human who can control this world right now... and now, I want to inform you of something."

Having said this, the man in red robe paused, as if appreciating the confused and panicked expressions of the crowd, and then he continued.

"…That is, you can no longer leave this world."