Lu Xiu watched the replies scrolling beneath the post, then let go of her ponytail and let it swing lightly behind her head.
She leaned back against the soft sofa and gave Du Shu's video her full attention.
He really looked the part.
Clearly, he'd had some training before.
Of course, it might have been someone else in their group who had the training. As far as Lu Xiu knew, Du Shu had been Sifu's biggest evangelist lately. Whenever anyone cleared it, he would turn up beneath their post and ask whether they were interested in traditional martial arts.
He was practically going door to door.
And he really had recruited quite a few people.
Their group had grown fairly large.
So there might well be another prodigy among them.
Either way, the knowledge hidden in Sifu had finally been dug out—the martial arts she had tucked into the instance.
When Lu Xiu had kept hoping a prodigy would appear, this was exactly what she'd been waiting for them to do.
"In the end, teaching people to fish beats handing them a fish. I hope it actually helps."
Lu Xiu spoke softly. "If we win a few more times in the new version and earn more Survival Points, we'll have more room to try the harder instances. Maybe everyone will have a bright future after all. And even if they don't, at least they can keep things as they are and survive a little more easily."
To be honest,
she could have kept making survival-horror instances, letting more ordinary players clear them through sheer endurance.
But there had to be a limit.
The new version's competitive mode still involved Architects and their instances. What if the next one had nothing to do with their instances? What if it was