Time dialed back to not long ago, in the Master Control Zone, at the elevator entrance.
Asta had met Zao Wu, and in her excitement and agitation, she had taken the initiative to become Zao Wu's guide, mainly responsible for navigating... for Zao Wu!
To help him find the way to the train on the platform.
If it were just a simple matter of showing the way, it would naturally be a very simple matter.
In fact, even the elevator that Zao Wu had just taken could have taken him to the Support Zone where the Herta Space Station's platform was located.
And then he just needed to continue to move forward according to the instructions, and he would be able to successfully find the docking location of the Astral Express.
But Asta also had her own little schemes~
She and Himeko were both leaders of their respective groups.
It was just that Himeko was already mature and capable, while Asta was still very green, and had a lot of room for learning and improvement.
To be courteous to the worthy and to recruit talent widely is undoubtedly one of the most important abilities of a leader.
This is not to say that Asta plans to "steal" Zao Wu from the Astral Express, ahem...
She just wanted to show off the beautiful environment of the space station, the generous treatment, the five insurances and one housing fund, the beautiful girl boss, the space pets, and so on.
If any of these happened to be able to move Zao Wu, that would be even better!
Even if not... the star gate of the Herta Space Station would always be open to Zao Wu.
After all, he was once the savior of the entire space station.
And you can even expand the scope a little. He was the savior of the entire Azure Star!
However, on the current Azure Star, the vast majority of people were more willing to call him the "Holy Son of Salvation."
If there was a Holy Son, then there would naturally be a Holy Mother.
And who was this Holy Mother... Asta could only say that those who knew, knew. She couldn't explain too much about this. This matter involved too much.
From the Master Control Zone to the Base Zone, Asta spoke in a gentle and soft voice, and with a voice full of emotion, she introduced the structure of the space station and their respective functions to Zao Wu.
The young woman gently held the young man's sleeve, and together with him, they passed through the corridor where the starlight was sprinkled.
"Here, this is the facade of our Herta Space Station, the reception center facing countless admirers."
"To be honest, our space station is named 'Herta' because the predecessor of this space station was just a warehouse that Ms. Herta had built to store her collection of curios and relics."
"It was just that Ms. Herta allowed her followers to participate in the management and research. With the passage of time, this place gradually became a scientific research base."
"Ms. Herta..."
Zao Wu muttered to himself.
After all, from just now, Miss Asta had been mentioning this seemingly very great name in her words.
And so even the young man couldn't help but become curious. What kind of existence was this Ms. Herta?
Zao Wu quickly let his imagination run wild.
He guessed that Ms. Herta was a mysterious, with long, straight black hair, and a full and mature older sister who often held a crystal ball in her hand for divination.
Seeing that Zao Wu had successfully been aroused by her curiosity, Asta, while feeling proud and slightly excited, for some reason, suddenly thought of something, and her light blue pupils suddenly lit up.
The next moment, she suddenly pulled Zao Wu's sleeve and started to run in the bustling reception center.
"Come with me!"
The young woman's personality was a precious bright color like a gem in this space station, which was biased towards a rigorous and cold scientific research style.
Although Zao Wu was surprised, he still obediently followed.
Many researchers were dumbfounded as they looked at the scene in front of them.
"Oh no! Someone has kidnapped our Station Master Asta!"
"Change your glasses! This is clearly our Station Master Asta who has kidnapped a little boy!"
"Quack! I suspect this woman is going to take that young man to a secret room and force him to be her star slave!"
"Although she is the station master, I can't turn a blind eye to this kind of criminal act in broad daylight!" a researcher rolled up his sleeves.
"Don't go! The head of the Defense Section, Arlan, is her little brother!"
Before this researcher's voice could fall, the previous researcher's "righteous words" had been collected by the small robots scattered throughout the space station and reported to the Defense Section.
And then, he was arrested on the spot!
For a time, the entire reception center was shrouded in Asta's pink terror, and the head of the Defense Section, Arlan, was like the Gestapo descending.
However, there were also researchers who shrugged their shoulders and said.
"It doesn't matter. I'm a Herta stan. As long as Miss Herta isn't kidnapped, it's fine~"
At the same time, at the end of the Base Zone, in a secret room full of a sense of technology, a petite young woman with a beret, brown long hair down to her waist, and wearing a foreign dress was standing with her back to the world in an arrogant posture.
"We're here. This is it!"
"Phew, phew..."
Asta finally stopped her steps, a faint pink blush on her cheeks, and she was panting slightly.
I feel like I need to step up my exercise. I'm already out of breath after just running this short distance. It's a bit embarrassing.
In contrast, Zao Wu was unfazed, and his stamina seemed to be very abundant.
He immediately focused his attention on the back of the young woman not far away.
"Excuse me, who is this..."
Before Asta could speak, the back spirit Sparkle, who had been hiding in the fox mask, was already having fun in Zao Wu's heart.
[Hilarious! There's a little Herta here!]
[Long-term mission issued: Collect four Herta puppets and make them line up to dance the "Dance of the Four Little Swans" from Swan Lake! Reward: five Path points!]
"..."
Asta's explanation followed.
"This is the master of our space station. Ms. Herta created this puppet based on her appearance in her childhood, so that she can remotely control the space station at any time."
"For some reason, I can't take you to disturb Ms. Herta's research at this moment."
"So I had to settle for the second best and come here."
"As the saying goes, 'seeing the words is like seeing the person.' Then to see Ms. Herta's puppet can actually be considered to have met her in person!"
"A puppet? How magical."
"So Ms. Herta looks like this."
"But I have to say, she's also very cute."
Zao Wu ignored the strange mission that Sparkle had issued in his mind and responded to Asta with a smile.
At this moment, the two of them had already circled around to the front of the Herta puppet, looking at this exquisite creation.
"There are not many people in this world who dare to praise Ms. Herta as cute. I don't think she herself would like such an evaluation."
"So Zao Wu, you have to be careful... ah!"
Asta suddenly let out a cry of surprise.
Was it her illusion? She seemed to have seen the eyeball of Ms. Herta's puppet turn a little and glare at her with a hint of displeasure, as if to say to her, "Don't be nosy!"
But in the blink of an eye, the Herta puppet was still in a malfunctioning standby state as usual. Where was there any movement?
"What's wrong, Sister Asta?"
"...N-nothing."
"Since you've already met Ms. Herta, next, I'll take you to the Support Zone, which is where the Astral Express is docked."
Zao Wu's excitement was palpable.
"Okay!"
With that, the two left this place hand in hand.
And not long after they had left, the joints of the Herta puppet suddenly twisted strangely.
She turned around and looked at the backs of the two in the corridor, not knowing what she was thinking.
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