December 22nd, 2022. It was already past 5:30.
Kirito looked up at the sky that was dyed red by the setting sun. The sunlight shone on the vast grassland with a golden light. This beautiful world of SAO made him sigh.
Today was the fourth day since the game officially started.
After four days of adapting to the game, the players, other than Kirito, were roughly divided into four groups.
The first group consisted of about half of the people. They did not believe in the conditions that Hayaba Kyokihiko had proposed to be rescued, which was to attack the BOSS on the 100th floor and do nothing while waiting for reinforcements from the outside.
Kirito could understand their thoughts. This was because in reality, his physical body was still lying leisurely on a chair or bed, breathing.
To them, that was their true self. The current situation was just an illusion. As long as there was a chance, a small turning point, they should be able to return to the real world.
Perhaps there was no way to log out from the menu now, but as long as the game company discovered this problem, they could log out.
In fact, there was no need to panic at all. As long as he stayed here and waited for a while, he could wake up safely in his room, reunite with his family, and then become a topic of conversation in school or in the company.
Actually, it was understandable that they would think so. In fact, even Kirito, who had transmigrated, had such expectations at the very beginning.
Their actions were basically to wait. They didn't leave the streets at all and only relied on the in-game currency, Cole, that they had been allocated in the early stages of the game. They only used a little money to buy food every day, stayed in cheap hotels, and then formed a team to live muddle-headedly.
Fortunately, the Starting Town took up about two-tenths of the ground floor area, which was said to be comparable to a small district in Tokyo. Therefore, there was indeed enough space to accommodate 5,000 players without being crowded.
However, for four whole days, there was still no rescue.
Every day when he woke up from his sleep, what he saw outside the window was never the blue sky, but a gloomy sky above his head.
And it was impossible to maintain their lives forever with just the initial funds. Soon, they were forced to take action.
The second group accounted for about 30% of all players. This group of about 3,000 people was a group that actively helped each other to survive.
Their leader was the male manager of the largest online game intelligence website in Japan.
The players were divided into several groups under his command. They managed the items they obtained and collected information together. Then, they went to conquer the maze area with the stairs leading to the upper level.
The leader's own group occupied the Black Iron Palace in the central square of the starting town to store supplies and give various instructions to his subordinates.
This huge group did not have a name at first, but after they began to distribute uniforms to all the participants,
It was unknown who started calling them the military.
The third group had about 1,000 people. This was a group of people who had wasted Cole without any plan at the beginning, but they could not muster up the energy to fight monsters to obtain resources. As a result, their lives had fallen into poverty.
By the way, within SAO, there were also two physiological needs, sleep and appetite.
Those who had used up all their money at the beginning, not to mention the place where they slept, had no way to eat. Under the circumstances where they had no choice, most of them chose to join the joint attack group army mentioned before. This was because as long as they listened to the instructions of their superiors, they would be able to obtain the food they were given.
However, no matter which world it was, there would always be people who lacked the spirit of helping each other. People who had never considered joining any group or being exiled because of their mistakes used the slums of the starting town as their base and began to do things like robbing.
Within the town, the so-called safety circle, the system would automatically protect players, so players could not harm each other.
However, there was no such restriction outside the town. These fallen people gathered together to form a gang.
Hiding in the area outside the town or in the maze area, attacking the prey that was more profitable and less dangerous than the monsters, which was other players.
Robbery was one thing, but they wouldn't go so far as to kill anyone--at least for the past four days. The number of people in this group was increasing bit by bit. As mentioned just now, the number of people was estimated to be around 1,000.
Finally, there was the fourth group. Simply put, it was the remaining people.
There were about 50 small groups formed by players who did not belong to a large group with the goal of conquering the strategy. There were about 500 people. These groups were called guilds. They made good use of the mobility that the army did not have to carry out actual raids and combat strength enhancement operations.
In addition, there were also a very small number of people who chose the profession of a worker or merchant. Although they only had about two or three hundred people, they had formed their own guild to cultivate their skills in order to earn the necessary money for their daily lives.
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