Sparkle chattered a lot in Zao Wu's mind.
Zao Wu might have listened, or he might not have.
He was concentrating on observing the surrounding scene, looking for a way back to the train.
At this moment, the young man was in a huge circular corridor, surrounded by buildings with a sense of technology, built with black or white composite materials.
Floating platforms formed bridges with energy panels, connecting the buildings to each other.
In a laboratory in the distance, researchers in research uniforms were scattered everywhere. Some were looking down at a display screen, and some were whispering to each other.
And in front of Zao Wu was a magnificent space elevator.
The elevator car door was tightly closed, and an orange-red control device attracted the young man's gaze, making him unable to move away for a long time.
It feels... like I've been here before.
"Hey! Pay attention to me!"
Sparkle's tone was full of grievance. And to think she had made up so much.
Tricking a child is a very hard thing to do, alright!
The gentleness in Zao Wu's bones made him unable to truly ignore this mysterious system big sister.
He walked towards the elevator's control device on one side, and responded in his heart on the other.
"I still can't completely trust you."
"But if everything you said is true..."
"I will never submit to a fate controlled by an Aeon."
The young man's heart did not show too strong an emotion.
But the toughness that was revealed in that softness was reminiscent of a spider's silk.
A spider's silk that is difficult to break no matter how much it is blown by the wind and rain.
Zao Wu hesitated, and slowly raised his hand, and placed it on the control device of the space elevator.
Even Sparkle, who had been observing the young man's actions, was a little puzzled.
This is a control device that can only be used by people with the authority of the space station, right?
Zao Wu was brought here by her, and had no connection with the space station. How could he possibly...
[Authority verification passed. Access granted.]
Sparkle was slightly surprised.
It seems that behind Zao Wu, there are still some secrets that even she did not know.
Next, the screen changed again, and several options were arranged for the young man to choose from.
They were "Containment Zone, Second Floor," "Base Zone," "Master Control Zone," "Support Zone," and "Seclusion Zone."
Zao Wu's gaze rested on the Seclusion Zone for a moment. His pupils, like a clear lake wrinkled by a gentle breeze, trembled slightly.
No one knew why he would react to this area.
It was just that in the end, he still chose the Master Control Zone.
Intuition told him that maybe he could get information leading to the Astral Express from here, instead of sadly still clinging to the past.
The elevator slowly opened, and Zao Wu strode in.
This time, he had no time to admire the scenery outside the elevator's porthole.
Just as there were no longer a sky full of stars.
Soon, the Master Control Zone arrived.
The elevator door slowly opened. Zao Wu, with a fox mask covering half of his face, raised his eyes and happened to meet the gaze of a pink-haired young woman with a side ponytail, who was holding a communication tablet and dispatching the researchers inside the space station at any time.
For some reason, when that young woman noticed Zao Wu's existence, she suddenly showed an incredible expression, covered her mouth in surprise, and the tablet in her hand also fell.
The young woman probably didn't care about the cost of this equipment damage at all.
But Zao Wu caught it for her with a quick eye and a quick hand.
"Please take it, miss."
"If you can, could you please tell me—how to get to the Astral Express?"
"The train?"
Asta seemed very surprised that such a word would come out of the young man's mouth.
Zao Wu, he... shouldn't he be a member of the Stellaron Hunters!
No, no, that's not the important point now.
But, is he really Zao Wu!
Asta took the communicator that the young man handed her, and thought in her heart for a long time without being able to calm down.
She actually really wanted to reach out and take off the fox mask on the young man's cheek, to see his face under the mask, to solve this confusion.
But her upbringing and family education as a young lady prevented her.
What's more, maybe that judgment, even without needing to take off the mask, she could make it on her own.
Asta had indeed not been in close contact with Zao Wu.
At the moment of the crisis in the Herta Space Station, she had to stay in the Master Control Zone to command the overall situation.
But this did not mean that she felt strange to Zao Wu's existence.
The young woman, through monitoring, had witnessed everything that had happened on the platform of the space station.
Among them, of course, was Zao Wu's standing up and his sacrifice.
That young man, who had bloomed and withered as stunningly as an epiphyllum, had deeply shaken Asta's heart.
The sentimental young woman had shed tears more than once just by thinking of him.
And in private, in the deep of the night, Asta would also be alone, with a mixture of appreciation and heartache and other emotions, looking through the video copies he had left behind before he was swallowed by the black hole.
Sometimes Asta would can't help but get close to the enlarged cheek of Zao Wu on the screen, as if in this way she could get closer to him.
When she came back to her senses, she would move away in shame.
She thought, she might never be able to forget this young man for the rest of her life.
And to not be able to get to know him, to get along with him, to be with him, to become a friend, and even a deeper existence... would also become an eternal regret hidden in Asta's heart.
But now, Zao Wu, with a mask, had appeared in front of her alive.
One can imagine how surprised and excited the young woman's mood should be.
And so she gave up her original plan to go to other departments, and instead keenly grasped the key point in Zao Wu's words and stayed by his side.
"If you need a guide, to go to the platform where the Astral Express is docked..."
Asta raised a hand, and with a reserved and elegant gesture, she tucked a strand of hair behind her white-contoured ear.
"Actually, I happen to have some free time, and I can help you!"
The eyes under Zao Wu's fox mask lit up.
"Then thank you, big sister!"
"By the way, my name is Zao Wu. I'm... a passenger on the Astral Express."
"Do you know Himeko? I'm her child!"
The young man smiled brightly. On the one hand, it was to be open and honest with the trustworthy Asta.
On the other hand, it was also a symbol of his great pride in this identity of his.
Zao Wu had no idea what kind of storm his words would stir up in Asta's heart!
First, he admitted that he was Zao Wu.
Second... Miss Himeko! What on earth have you done!
Why, in just a few short days, has Zao Wu gone from being a member of the Stellaron Hunters to your child!
Isn't this a kind of NT... ahem.
In short, it was very difficult for Asta not to feel a burst of sympathy for Miss Kafka of the Stellaron Hunters.
In addition, speaking of Miss Himeko, she had just contacted Asta, asking her for the location of Ms. Ruan Mei's laboratory.
Although it was not clear what was going on between these two, with Miss Himeko's resolute and decisive style, it was believed that at this moment, she had already arrived at the Seclusion Zone where Ms. Ruan Mei was staying.
And that was indeed the case.
At this moment, in the Seclusion Zone, in a secret laboratory, Himeko had broken in without any further ado, and was confronting Ruan Mei, whose expression was dark and unclear.
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