Looking at the puppet in front of her, Herta didn't cause trouble for her.
"I know that anonymous message was sent by you. I'm too lazy to argue about why you lured me here. There's only one thing I want to know now…"
"Tell me, that person calling himself Mr. Cold Feet, who exactly is he?"
What she most wanted to know now was what identity that bold guy actually had.
Most importantly, where he lived.
"Luofu."
The puppet slowly said a place name. As long as a civilization has left its planet before, they all know what kind of place that is.
Seeing Herta thinking, the puppet giggled. "That's all I can say~"
Honestly she only knew this much. As for the other party's specific identity, Sparkle didn't really know either.
While Herta was thinking, the puppet returned into the smoke.
The breeze blew the smoke away, revealing Sampo with his head buried in the ground, and a gravestone that had appeared on the ground at some unknown time.
Seeing Sampo wasn't taken away, Herta was a bit surprised.
She thought the other party came to rescue him, after all that guy called himself an officer.
But he just showed up once, and then… nothing after?
Oh no, there was still something after.
He set up a gravestone for him.
"I only said I would catch him, never said I'd take him away~"
Sparkle looked at the photo in her hand, the smile at the corner of her mouth never stopping.
In the photo, Sparkle herself was squatting in front of Sampo, one hand holding a camera taking a selfie, the other making a V sign.
Putting the photo away, Sparkle looked down at Herta below and chuckled. "As long as there's photo proof that I… oh no, 'Officer Smith' caught Mr. Cold Feet, that's enough."
Her gaze moved away from Herta, glanced at Sampo playing dead, and she pouted.
But she wasn't planning to keep tormenting Sampo.
There were still many scripts waiting for her performance elsewhere.
Sparkle's figure gradually became blurry, until it disappeared into Belobog's cold wind.
Herta still didn't know someone had been secretly watching her. She looked at the words carved on the gravestone.
[The best clown, Sampo Koski, his existence brought joy to Ancestor Sparkle!]
[Remember, the joy of this moment!]
Looking at the words above, recalling what she experienced on this planet, Herta admitted she had a slight smile.
What kind of people are these Masked Fools anyway?
A bit of curiosity appeared in her heart.
Herta shook her head, took the unconscious Stelle and left the scene, leaving Sampo buried there to fend for himself.
———
At this moment, the other members of the train crew found Stelle missing and began searching aimlessly around the city.
In the end Herta messaged the train crew, telling them to come to her place to pick her up.
"Seriously, leaving without even saying where you went, made us search the whole city."
Taking Stelle from Herta, March 7th complained quite a bit.
Glancing at the big bump on her head, March 7th directly pressed it with her finger.
Stelle gave an "Ow" shout, woke from unconsciousness, squatted on the ground holding her head, baring her teeth in pain.
Mr. Yang withdrew his gaze from the two and looked at Herta in front. "Thank you, Miss Herta, for bringing Stelle back."
"You're welcome. I have a question for you… You know why I came here, to find the missing Asta. I heard that guy say he saw Asta together with your train crew…"
Hearing Herta say Asta was with the train crew, Mr. Yang looked at Dan Heng as if asking.
Dan Heng silently nodded.
At this time March 7th spoke up, "Asta was indeed with us, but not long ago she disappeared."
Really disappeared, vanished right in front of everyone.
After hearing March 7th's description, Herta slowly frowned. "Again done by 'Mr. Cold Feet'?!"
'That guy is really treating me, Herta, like a monkey!'
March 7th didn't know who Mr. Cold Feet was. She gestured toward Stelle squatting on the ground in pain.
"You should ask her about that. After all, Asta coming here seems related to her."
Herta's eyes instantly became sharp.
Stelle suddenly felt a chill.
———
[Stelle: Asta! Quickly contact Herta and explain, your disappearance wasn't done by me!]
[Asta: What happened?]
[Asta: Miss Herta? Is she over there with you?]
Asta at the space station looked at Stelle's message in the group, a bit confused.
She knew Miss Herta went out to find her, thought she went to some star system.
Didn't expect she actually went to Belobog.
"But Belobog is in the Jarilo star system?" Asta muttered.
Then she replied in the chat group: [Miss Herta lost contact with our space station before… now it's restored, I'll contact her right away!]
With communication restored, Asta vaguely explained what happened to her.
Although they didn't know exactly what Asta experienced, as long as she was safe, Herta was relieved.
The virus invading the space station was also resolved.
Now the only thing left to worry about was her missing puppet.
"Luofu huh…" Herta clenched her fist, face cold as frost. "Let me see how long you can keep hiding!"
If her puppet was really in Luofu, she had plenty of ways to reconnect that puppet back into her puppet network.
'At that time… Mr. Cold Feet… hehe…'
Herta's two cold laughs explained everything.
At the space station, Ruan Mei and Screwllum sat together.
After learning Herta was safe, the two started discussing the space station intrusion.
Screwllum sighed. "Someone actually made a virus at this level."
A simple virus almost paralyzed the space station.
Screwllum asked Ruan Mei, who was tasting pastries in front of him, "May I ask, Miss Ruan Mei, how did you remove the virus on the space station? I'm very curious."
Geniuses are geniuses because they're curious about everything in the world and willing to spend time exploring it.
The space station said two geniuses worked together to solve the virus, but Screwllum knew the one who truly resolved the crisis was Ruan Mei.
Clearly focused on the life sciences field, yet she solved a virus troubling him, an intelligent machine.
Ruan Mei took a sip of tea and said, "Very simple, just hum along once with the music."
"?"
Meeting Screwllum's eyes, Ruan Mei knew he thought she was joking, but she really wasn't.
That really was how the virus was solved.
"Then the data you input for me was?"
"Encrypted audio data… I don't want to show my singing voice in front of acquaintances."
———
[Levi: Repayment fox! I caught her!]
[Stelle: Slurp slurp slurp…]
[Lumine: You two…]
[Elysia: So perverted!]
[Kiana: ???]
Kiana, who had just been cold-shouldered by Raiden Mei and Bronya, was about to seek comfort in the group.
Then she saw the photo Levi posted and instantly felt worse.
[Kiana: Who is she? Your girlfriend?]
[Stelle: Why do I smell tea?]
[Elysia: I smell sourness, very sour!]
[Lumine: Is there really a smell?]
Looking at Tingyun lying in the star skiff, Levi's purpose for leaving Luofu this time was achieved.
Although Tingyun's life signs were weak now, looking like she might not make it.
But foxians are a race blessed by Abundance. This bit of vitality was enough for her to hold on until treatment.
The only thing Levi could do was speed up the star skiff back to Luofu.
Suddenly, Levi's jade communicator received a message, from Silver Wolf.
[Silver Wolf: I'm at Exalting Sanctum now, come help cover for me!]
[Levi: You being at Exalting Sanctum has nothing to do with me! I'm not at Exalting Sanctum!]