If there was one person whose method of clearing the instance came close to Lu Xiu's.
That person had to be Jian Li.
When the others entered the instance right after Lu Xiu went online, there was at least a bit of a prankish feel to it.
But Jian Li had planned it long in advance.
And she lived up to her name as a genius. Her clearing process was different from everyone else's.
She did not end up a complete mess after Zhao Heng's blind confidence, nor did she grope forward step by difficult step like Wang Huai.
While others were still falling over, she had already entered the first stage.
While others were collapsing in the first stage, she was already running around to save BT.
When Wang Huai was in the cause-and-effect stage, marveling at the wildly imaginative time-travel gameplay.
She was already moving through the later stages like a dragon through water.
And as the instance process advanced, this icy little girl seemed to finally recover the human warmth that belonged to her.
When she crossed the abyss in a perfect, zero-mistake display and heard the Resistance NPCs in the control room exclaim things like "Only a madman would jump like that" and "You really are a top-tier Pilot."
When BT calculated the wind direction and gravity, said that flat yet weighty line to her—[Trust me]—and hurled her toward the sky as she felt the wind roar past her ears; when she slipped and fell off a cliff, only to be caught steadily by BT, and watched this enormous steel beast clumsily imitate humans by giving her a thumbs-up—
On Jian Li's face, which seemed forever lacking any activity in its facial nerves, an extremely faint, extremely slight smile would appear.
It was really interesting.
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