Queenie sat on the cold bed, staring at the row of glittering gold ratings on her System Panel. She could barely breathe.
She had imagined many possibilities, but she had never expected to see this.
How had Lu Xiu done it?!
She had never heard of Architects using alternate accounts, either.
Could someone really be this absurdly talented?
She looked at the mere four Instances.
Queenie took a deep breath and finally forced down her shock. Her mind began racing.
Four Instances.
Her very first Instance had earned an S rating.
That was terrifying. Failing to kill Lu Xiu at any cost back on Maple Leaf Avenue had been an enormous strategic loss for Prison Rock—perhaps even an irreversible disaster.
But there were two sides to everything.
What had happened could no longer be changed.
For Queenie, the fact that Lu Xiu had only four Instances was now a tremendous advantage.
"That means I can figure out the core mechanics of every Instance she has in the limited time before the new version launches—and do it as fast as possible," Queenie murmured silently, excitement flickering in her eyes.
If Lu Xiu had been an Architect with a heap of Instances of uneven quality,
Queenie would have wasted enormous time and energy just sorting out which offered the best rewards and which mattered most.
And she would have had to do it.
After all, nobody knew how the players here would use Lu Xiu's Instances once the new version launched.
Relying entirely on players' forum reviews would not work either. Those could only provide a rough picture.
As a prisoner,
time was her most precious resource.
But now there was no need to sort through Lu Xiu's Instances! There were only four, all displayed right there on the list, and every