Daily News: My 3D Zone Goddess Conquest Log

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Li Pu didn't even have a chance to interject before his cheap apprentice, with his enthusiasm, "pushed" him all the way into the registration hall.

He was somewhat amused and exasperated; he hadn't even formally become Chunli's apprentice yet, and he'd already inexplicably gained a disciple...

But, upon stepping into the main hall of the guild hall, Li Pu truly realized—

The size of this clubhouse far exceeded his expectations!

Just one large hall instantly reminded him of the train station during the Spring Festival travel rush in his previous life!

No, it's even several times larger than the largest station built during that era when China was known as the "infrastructure maniac"!

The crowds surged and the noise was deafening, yet they appeared as tiny as ants beneath the extremely high and vast dome.

This scene gave him a fleeting, absurd sense of dissonance—

Outside the door, it seemed to be a dilapidated and decaying place, but inside the door, it was a magnificent and grand space like the main stadium of the 08 Olympics!

That's so bizarre...

They're still using the Qing dynasty's money; how much of that money is just a drop in the ocean?

The hall was teeming with people, long queues winding like giant snakes across the vast space.

But everyone in the queue looked tired, clearly many of them had been waiting there all night.

Then, under the mixed gazes of envy and confusion from the crowd, Jin Bao'er led Li Pu straight through the crowded throng towards the special registration area.

Li Pu frowned slightly.

At this Demon Sealing Ceremony, the treatment of ordinary people and the agents who have just stepped into the mysterious realm is indeed vastly different.

Those ordinary people who are unaware of this are destined to be mere participants in this arena.

Those who are truly qualified to compete for the top prize are ultimately the extraordinary operators from Tier 1 to Tier 9.

With that thought in mind, he continued walking forward.

But unexpectedly, this walk lasted for more than twenty minutes...

As Jin Bao'er walked, she grumbled discontentedly, "This club is so inconsiderate! They didn't even provide a rickshaw. What kind of hospitality is this!"

Upon hearing this, Li Pu couldn't help but think to himself: Who entertains guests by having them sign waivers and engage in a contest...?

The special registration area was already in sight.

But just then, a familiar figure came into Li Pu's view again—

It's still the elusive Alice.

What's she doing here? Making fried fish?

Alice stood in front of the registration table, her brown hair swaying gently as she tilted her head slightly. Her light red dress and white skirt accentuated her delicate figure.

"Age?" the staff member asked without looking up.

“Eight years old!” Alice answered crisply, with a hint of pride in her voice.

The female staff member at the venue, dressed in traditional attire, frowned. "I'm sorry, you cannot participate in the arena."

The simply dressed female staff member finally looked up, her brows immediately furrowing: "I'm sorry, you cannot participate in the arena."

Li Pu watched from afar and almost burst out laughing—that's right, before the little bean sprout "grew" into Alice, wasn't she eight years old?

Alice was clearly taken aback, her pink lips slightly parted, as if she hadn't expected to be rejected.

After a long silence, she tentatively asked in a low voice, "Then... how can I participate?"

"You need to change your age," the staff member replied expressionlessly.

"?" Alice blinked, and even Lip, who was watching from a distance, was stunned.

change?

The girl frowned, pondered for a moment, as if she had made an important decision, and then, steeling her resolve, declared loudly, "One hundred years old! I am a one hundred-year-old grandmother!"

The staff member scoffed dismissively, "You old codger, I knew you were just pretending to be young—go on in and fight in the ring."

"Ugh!" Alice puffed out her cheeks and widened her eyes, clearly angered by those words.

She was about to retort, but then she pursed her lips and thought for a moment. In the end, she just bit her lower lip, turned her head angrily, and walked into the passage of the ring lounge with slightly hurried steps.

"..." Li Pu was speechless for a moment.

Is it okay to report one's age like this?

But he quickly realized that these extraordinary operators were all different and varied, so the rules didn't need to be too rigid.

There wasn't even a medical check-up; you just registered and went straight into the competition...

So, he had a bold idea!

He walked to the registration desk and, after a series of routine questions, finally arrived at the part he had been most looking forward to.

"Age?" the staff member asked without looking up.

“Sixty-five million years old!” Li Pu replied without changing his expression.

The staff member was visibly taken aback, looked up and sized up the handsome yet composed "brat" in front of him, and cautiously asked:

"From level one to level nine, which level are you currently at?"

"Ninth rank," Li Pu answered truthfully.

The woman opposite me picked up a strange-looking object, looked at herself in the mirror, rolled her eyes dramatically, shook her head, and scribbled a few lines on the registration form.

"Go in, go in, little Tyrannosaurus Rex!"

Chapter 147 Alice in the Lounge (Happy Qixi Festival, brothers, mwah~)

Just as Li Pu was about to turn around and walk towards the passage to the ring lounge, he heard Jin Bao'er's noisy voice behind him.

After he announced the name "Molten Iron Family," the atmosphere on the scene changed abruptly, and the staff's attitude clearly became more scrutinizing and difficult.

“Fill out a form,” the staff member said coldly, with an undeniable air of sternness. “We now suspect you are not human.”

After saying that, a humanity test form was slapped in front of Jin Bao'er.

Li Pu felt that this could only be described as retribution.

After all, in his experience, the Iron Smelting Clan had basically never done anything good.

Jin Bao'er was stunned on the spot.

"Me?! Golden Hairy, the martial arts champion of the entire H district!" He pointed at himself, his voice rising involuntarily, "You say I'm not human? Do you know how amazing it is to win this championship?!"

He became increasingly agitated as he spoke, gesturing and emphasizing:

"The fight is a waiver of life and death!"

"Fists and kicks have no eyes!"

"And the foreign athletes speak different languages!"

He spoke with great confidence, even shaking his head with an air of self-assurance, his blond hair swaying as he did so, giving off an air of "you know nothing."

Li Pu ignored Jin Bao'er's argument with the staff and turned to walk straight to the passage to the ring lounge.

After passing through a heavy iron gate, a steel corridor that seemed to stretch endlessly into the distance suddenly appeared before my eyes.

On both sides are cold reinforced concrete walls, with rows of heavy explosion-proof steel doors, gleaming with the cold, hard luster of metal.

The atmosphere was oppressive and somber; it was more like a military fortress or underground prison than a lounge or changing room.

In the entire corridor, only a guard from the Eastern Continent with a long braid sat at the entrance, wiping something with his head down.

"Please choose any lounge you like." The other person didn't even look up, their voice indifferent.

Li Pu raised an eyebrow, too lazy to walk any further, and casually pushed open the nearest blast door on the left.

The door opened, and there it was again—that charming figure.

"Little Bean" Alice was sitting in the middle of the room with her legs crossed, a half-eaten candied hawthorn skewer dangling from her mouth.

Their eyes met, and they were both stunned for a moment.

Li Pu sighed silently to himself:

No wonder he trained his soldiers since childhood; they're just as lazy as he is, too lazy to even walk a few extra steps inside to choose a room...

Alice's eyes crinkled into a sweet smile. She patted the empty seat next to her and waved vigorously at him, signaling him to sit down.

Looking at her bright smile, Li Pu almost blurted out his classic "Hi, wife" again.

But when I think about how this bright young girl is essentially still that little bean sprout who was "forced to grow up"...

The evil thoughts in his heart were immediately extinguished by most of them.

He sighed, then silently walked over and sat down.

"Why aren't you calling me 'wife' this time?" Alice asked with a mischievous glint in her eyes as she moved closer to the boy after he sat down.

Li Pu glanced sideways at the girl beside him who was laughing somewhat smugly, coughed lightly, and abruptly changed the subject:

"Speaking of which... why haven't I seen you in my dreams these past few days?"

Little Bean has many secrets, especially those related to the resurrected Valkyrie.

Since the competition still had some time to go, he wanted to try to get some useful information out of her.

For example, what exactly is the deal with Chun-Li and the "otherworldly witches"?

Alice blinked, waved the candied hawthorn skewer with two hawthorns left in her hand, and answered in a light tone, though her answer was irrelevant:

"Isn't it enough to just meet in real life? Running around in your dreams is too tiring~"

In a dream? Tired?

Li Pu glanced at the candied hawthorn swaying in her hand, then recalled his own experience of squeezing through the lobby of the guild hall for twenty minutes just to get to the registration desk.

Sure enough, in women's minds, shopping and eating out are "leisure activities" that don't require any physical exertion...

Before he could even ask anything, Alice, like an excited little rabbit, began to share her experiences in the Eastern Continent over the past few days at lightning speed.

As she spoke, she would occasionally bob her head lightly and gesture with her hands restlessly, just like a little rabbit hopping around telling a story with its ears perked up, making it impossible for anyone to get a word in edgewise.

Looking at the overly lively girl in front of him, Li Pu suddenly became a little distracted.

He recalled the "three stages of a younger sister" theory that circulated online in his previous life:

Phase One: "I love my older brother the most!"

Phase Two: "Hey, why don't you have a girlfriend yet?"

Phase Three: "Get out."

Alice, the girl who was unexpectedly "forced to mature," is probably still in the first stage...

"This place is even bigger than I imagined!" Alice continued, looking around like a little rabbit. "How long are we going to have to wait?"

She continued chattering as she swung her legs: "I wonder how many superhuman operators and minions will come to fight in this arena."

Seeing that the boy beside her did not respond, Alice blinked her bright eyes and a sly little smile curved her lips.

She suddenly leaned closer to Li Pu, her voice soft yet with a hint of mischievous teasing: "Are you nervous?"

Li Pu snapped out of his brief daze and gently shook his head: "No."

"Because you haven't said a word since then."

"If you're really nervous... that's okay too."

As she spoke, she pulled out a string of candied hawthorns coated in glistening sugar from somewhere and handed it to Li Pu: "Eating something sweet will help you relax~ Your brows were so furrowed just now."

Li Pu took the candied hawthorn, a helpless bitter smile on his face.

If Tifa is the "Perpetual Motion Girl," then Aerith could easily be called the "Bip-Bip Girl"—her little mouth just never stops chattering.

But then I thought about it again, and considering how long she had spent alone in the ruins, it was understandable that she wanted to talk more now.

"I'd better be a little more nervous," Li Pu said, crossing his arms and feigning indifference, though a slight smile crept onto his lips.

If the resurrected Valkyrie were to be defeated by a second-rate superhuman operator in the arena, he would truly be worried for all those about to join the "Flame Link Alliance"—that would be a huge loss of face.