Garcia remained silent, not responding for a minute or two, before circling back to the previous topic. His voice carried a touch of astonishment: "Inspector Luo, just three months ago, I knew clearly... his abilities were nothing special at that time. I... I could crush him with one hand."

He paused, sounding even more bewildered, "I don’t know what happened in between, as if I went to the hospital for a while, and when I came back, everything had changed."

"That’s... what a genius is."

Luokuke naturally understood what he meant, "Never be surprised by the growth rate of geniuses, and don’t measure their limits with the standards of the old era. They are born with a halo, crowned with wisdom. In the old era, such differences weren’t as obvious; but in this Extraordinary Era, the gulf between them and us is laid bare."

He sighed and continued, "To climb to the Third-Phase, in the past few years, I’ve spent nearly ten months of each year on the move, visiting almost all the nearby Shelter Cities... Well, let me mention one you know, the Rainbow Light Shelter City in Guang Province."

"I went there the autumn before last, initially hoping to try my luck to see if I could trade for some ’Super Energy-Collecting Photovoltaic Panels’ from Rainbow Light. On the day I arrived there, the Prosecutor of Rainbow Light seemed ordinary, even less competent than you... Well, I mean, even below the average level of our inspection station."

Luokuke almost misspoke and quickly corrected himself, but unexpectedly found Garcia unresponsive.

Completely convinced?

Or finally realizing the boundary of his own abilities?

Without further thought, he continued, "But the next morning, when I went to visit their research institute, do you know what I saw?"

"Nine years old, yes, only nine years old!"

"Their research institute has only eighteen research teams in total, and each team annually receives a terrifying grant equivalent to five hundred thousand Contribution Points in Happiness City, and that nine-year-old child, he is the leader of one of the research teams, leading nearly two hundred people in research."

"What?" Garcia suddenly froze, staring blankly and then incredulously asked, "Could it be just a facade? Deliberately deceiving us?"

"You think I didn’t consider that? A nine-year-old child, how could he be the head of a Super Shelter City’s institute, if this is true, what kind of terrifying talent is this."

"So, I deliberately found an opportunity to get close to him, tested him... and it was somewhat amusing. He seemed to be just showing off to me, didn’t stop me from testing, even let me ask anything I wanted, making me feel like a country bumpkin visiting a city for the first time."

Luokuke pursed his lips, his tone dry, "Yet the fact proved that our lifetime of learning, all our efforts, for these geniuses, are just a few months, barely a year’s learning."

"He started encountering these subjects at five years old, by seven, he had already fully reached the institute’s standard level, and within just a year, his research results brought back over a million Contribution Points of income for Rainbow Light Shelter City, what does this mean?"

"Over a million? What is he researching?" Garcia was completely dumbfounded.

Considering that he’s been at the inspection station for seven years, and to date, his entire fortune merely surpasses ten thousand Contribution Points.

Yet an eight-year-old child brings in a million revenue for a Super Shelter City?

If it were him, if it were Inspector Garcia, wouldn’t reaching the Third-Phase, no, reaching the Fourth-Phase be a piece of cake?

"Heh, you might not believe it, naturally, even to this day, I don’t believe it."

Luokuke sighed gently, "The Rainbow Core, which trapped the Rainbow Light Shelter City for nearly twenty years, that was the super technology they researched, solved by an eight-year-old child."

"Certainly, it was only solving one of the issues, but just that crucial issue allowed the Rainbow Light Shelter City’s technology development route to evolve once more..."

Saying this, there was really no need to say more.

Seeing the dazed expression on Garcia’s face, Luokuke could guess what he was thinking at this moment.

It wasn’t about the genius of Rainbow Light Shelter City, nor about the terrifying earnings after the breakthrough of the Rainbow Core.

"So, you can imagine, if you were the ordinary researcher at this institute, suddenly a seven-year-old child comes to your side, claiming he wants to solve the difficult problem of the Rainbow Core, what would you feel?"

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