However...
Ideals were beautiful, but reality was cruel.
Lu Zhou spent the entire afternoon in the underground laboratory, soloing the "Void Memory B" instance.
Yet no matter what he tried, he remained helpless in the face of its unfriendly difficulty.
The drone section especially had beaten him to the point of questioning his life. He could not help wondering whether this was where the memory ended. Perhaps the soldier he was playing had died in that firefight, and the Void had never intended to let him see what came next.
Just like in Void Memory A last time, he had merely fished a Rubik's Cube out of the pool before the memory was cut off, without even giving him a chance to study it further.
Besides that, he had tried plenty of unconventional approaches.
For example, trying to shoot his comrades and seize the ship while aboard the starship, or attempting to slip away from the team right after leaving the space elevator—in short, refusing to follow the plot's intended route.
However, the results had been quite tragic.
The first time, he had barely disengaged the safety and raised his gun before a quicker-reacting teammate beside him tackled him to the ground. The second time was even worse. The moment he left the team, the tracking device on his exoskeleton located him. After ignoring two warnings, he was immediately shot dead by that tall, burly "Captain Sains."
Yes, that ruthless.
They had simply shot him dead in broad daylight, without even giving him a chance to stand trial before a military court. It was hard not to worry about the human rights situation of extraterrestrial civilizations.
After his thirtieth attempt, Lu Zhou had nearly been tortured sick by the hellish difficulty.
Still, it was not as if he had gained