When the young girl with lustrous, long pink hair, wearing fitted leather armor and brimming with youthful energy and vitality, skipped up to the verification desk.
A middle-aged recording officer from the Academy of Sciences, seated behind the Control Console, involuntarily froze for a moment, his brows knitting slightly.
He adjusted the tactical scanning eyepiece on his nose and looked Xu Tuantuan up and down several times, a hint of doubt and discouragement in his voice:
"Little girl, judging by your appraisal results, you only just turned eighteen this year, didn't you?"
"Are you sure you came alone today, and that you want to enter 'Karl Genesis' by yourself?"
"This isn't a holographic arcade in the city. The metal monsters inside can tear you apart with a single shot."
"Report your personal data. What's your best result on that 'Great Conquest Path'? Which stage have you reached?"
Xu Tuantuan blinked her large, watery eyes and grinned, revealing two harmless little canine teeth, before giving a shy smile in a show of modesty:
"Reporting, sir! I just barely managed to clear stage 19 a few days ago."
At this answer, not only the middle-aged recording officer handling verification, but even several armed guards patrolling nearby all showed undisguised surprise in their eyes.
In this new era, when everyone could challenge the "Great Conquest Path," there was no shortage of young people who had turned eighteen.
But for the vast majority of youngsters raised in sheltered comfort, clearing the first ten stages of the Conquest Path at this age was already a decent achievement.
This little girl looked like an exquisite doll, yet she had actually defeated stage 19's gatekeeper unit alone?
The recording officer tapped twice on the light screen in rapid succession, his expression growing a little more serious, and