Seeing that her attempt to recruit him had failed, Aha turned her head away to sulk.
Momoshiki didn't care. He flipped through his novel for a while, and the entire space seemed exceptionally quiet.
He always felt that something was strangely off.
Wait! This bastard next to me hasn't caused any trouble since he came in!
He subconsciously glanced over, only to see Aha with her head down, peeking at him like a thief.
"What are you doing?" Momoshiki frowned slightly.
This expression didn't look like he was holding back a good fart.
Aha didn't speak, just quietly watched for a while.
"Whatever you're thinking right now, I'm telling you! Give up your idea immediately!"
Before Momoshiki could finish, she suddenly stood up, grabbed the remaining round snacks and melon seeds, and ran.
"You son of a bitch!!"
Momoshiki, who had reacted, quickly jumped up from the ground to chase after her, but he was a step too late. Aha had already escaped through a space rift.
"Damn it!!"
Momoshiki stomped his foot.
He had calculated everything, but he didn't expect this guy to have a zero-frame startup!
If it weren't for the fact that she could help him regain his humanity, Momoshiki would have devoured this projection long ago.
Now, the only thing he could use to satisfy his cravings was the unopened peanuts.
This was killing him.
...
Herta had already scanned the two of them from head to toe with her instruments, obtaining a pile of data that interested her.
"It's really strange. To seal this unactivated Stellaron and save Jarilo-VI from disaster, I built an entire space station, but someone returned to simplicity and easily solved it with just a body."
"How exactly was this done?"
"And this... Focalors, right? Her entire body is a superposition of stellar power. On the surface, she's no different from an ordinary person, but in reality, she has multi-dimensional attributes, which can be used at any time."
"Oh my god... has this world been turned upside down like this?"
Looking at Herta's appearance, Focalors and Stelle exchanged a look, both shaking their heads helplessly.
The two had no interest in so-called experiments, and didn't want to participate in anything. They were only staying here for research entirely for Himeko's sake.
"Oh, right, speaking of madness, where are Furina and Momoshiki? I want to see them."
"They're on the open-air platform," Himeko said truthfully, spreading her hands and reminding her, "You should be careful with your words. Momoshiki is only helping because he's currently interested in being a good person."
"I know, I know."
Leaving these impatient words, Herta trotted towards the open-air platform.
"Alas..."
Looking at Herta's back, Himeko, with her arms crossed, sighed with a complicated mood.
She had told her about Momoshiki just to be cautious, but now she really didn't know if letting Herta know about this was a good or bad thing.
"She won't provoke Momoshiki, will she..."
March 7th swallowed nervously, a little unconfident.
...
On the train, Welt had also recovered, and was sitting on the sofa, sipping hot water.
This day was really a torment.
"Yang Uncle, how are you?"
Furina, beside him, asked with a hint of concern.
"I'm fine now."
Welt said this, but his body couldn't help but move to the side.
It was obvious that he had been traumatized.
"Hehe~"
Looking at his appearance, Furina didn't say anything more, just smiled awkwardly.
Train Conductor Pom-Pom was sweeping the floor with a broom, and was about to dump the trash into the trash can when the door beside him suddenly opened.
Herta walked in with an excited gaze, looked around, and directly locked onto Furina.
"Ms. Herta?"
Pom-Pom greeted her with some surprise, but was directly ignored by Herta.
She walked quickly to Furina's side, holding an unknown instrument in her hand.
"Uh... hello?"
Furina greeted her, a little at a loss.
"You're Furina?" Herta leaned over and scrutinized her, "So you're twins."
"On the surface, there's no special aura, except for the pupils and the right palm being a little off."
"Oh? Her physical fitness is also the same as Focalors, a superposition of energy, estimated to be at the level of a small planet!"
"What are you doing?"
Furina was completely bewildered by the sudden situation, and habitually moved to the side, wanting to get away from this mad scientist.
"Cough cough..."
Realizing she had lost her composure, Herta coughed twice to cover up her embarrassment.
"Let me introduce myself, my name is Herta, and I'm the true owner of this space station. I'm too lazy to say the rest of the nonsense. I want to study you, you can name your price."
Furina: "???"
"Momoshiki..."
"..."
The black lines on her palm once again covered half of her body, and Momoshiki looked at Herta with a strange and disdainful gaze.
"It seems you know what I've done. Do you want to study how I devoured the Destruction Aeon's projection?"
"That's right."
Herta nodded without any concealment, directly ignoring Momoshiki's gaze.
Geniuses were always treated with indifference, and the results of their efforts were misinterpreted and denied. This was unavoidable, she thought so herself.
"I have no interest in doing research with you."
Momoshiki decisively refused her, and then got up, wanting to find someone else.
A lower lifeform actually wanted to study the noble Otsutsuki, what a pipe dream.
Thinking of the simulated universe in the game, Momoshiki felt his liver ache.
"Don't be so quick to refuse."
Herta quickly blocked Momoshiki's path.
"Participating in my research is a great honor. Even the Interastral Peace Corporation can't enjoy it even if they pay!"
"That's because the Interastral Peace Corporation isn't interested in being an idiot."
"Don't say that, name your price, how many credits do you want? I can give them to you."
"Do I need money?"
Momoshiki rolled his Byakugan, reached out and grabbed the back of Herta's collar, and lifted her to the side like a chick.
"Hey hey hey?!"
Herta, who was lifted up, flailed her limbs, and after landing, she first tidied up her clothes, then glared at Momoshiki in dissatisfaction.
"Damn it! How dare you lift me like that!"
Unconvinced, she ran in front of Momoshiki again, blocking his path.
"You can't go!"
"I don't need you to participate in the research personally, just give me some samples! The price is still up to you!"
If it were before, Herta would never have begged like this, but the situation was different now.
Devouring a Destruction Aeon's projection! That was something unimaginable in ordinary times!
If she didn't study it properly, she would feel an itchy, restless sensation all over. After all, she didn't know how long it would be before she saw Momoshiki again.
What if Ruan Mei got there first? What would she have to show off then? Although Ruan Mei didn't know about this bizarre existence yet.
"I really don't understand your thoughts."
"Ordinary people certainly can't understand scientific matters!" Herta crossed her arms, her head slightly raised.
"I mean, why do you think you have the ability to stop me? Himeko should have told you that I'm only temporarily interested in being a good person, right?"
Momoshiki looked at Herta with a strange gaze.
"I naturally know that. To be able to devour a Destruction Aeon's projection, even an Emanator might not be your opponent. I certainly have no way to stop you."
Herta spread her hands, her tone exceptionally helpless.
"But I have many Curios here, maybe there's something you're interested in."
"What are Curios?" Furina asked curiously.
The name sounded like items with special functions, which seemed very interesting.
"Curios are items with special abilities, incomprehensible to ordinary people, but particularly useful."
"..."
Momoshiki crossed his arms and lowered his head, thinking for a moment.
"Is there anything about food?"
"Yes, yes."
Hearing that this topic had the possibility of being extended, Herta was delighted and quickly nodded, "There's more than one of this kind of magical item, I have many, you can pick whatever you want, it doesn't matter if you take them all."
Food-related Curios were nothing more than cups that used energy to transform into liquid drinks, or boxes that rearranged the structure of matter to make molecules form food.
Therefore, they could derive things like endless bags of potato chips, all kinds of things, everything you could imagine.
It was just that food-related items had no value, and were rarely used, they could only be used as collectibles for fun.
And now, if they could be exchanged for some samples of the Otsutsuki clan, it would be a huge profit.
"Huff... okay."
Having had so many snacks taken away by Aha, Momoshiki was gnashing his teeth with hatred, but at the same time, he was also craving them badly.
The Rinnegan in his palm reappeared, condensing a chakra pill the size of a billiard ball, and then he injected a trace of the destruction projection's power into it, making it complex.
"This is a pill I condensed by devouring the Destruction Aeon's projection and combining it with my own power. You can study it or take it."
"Remember the price you have to pay. The extent of it depends on your own sincerity."
Chakra was a very versatile thing. As long as it was used properly, whether it was the simplest mountain-splitting and rock-cracking, or the difficult involving fate, causality, and changing time and space, all of these could be done.
It was just that the process was extremely complex, and most of it was quantitative change leading to qualitative change.
"Okay!"
Herta took the pill in surprise, looked it up and down, and then scanned it with an instrument.
Looking at the data and incomprehensible substances displayed on the instrument, Herta was even more delighted. She carefully put it in her pocket, and then pretended to be nonchalant.
"Follow me, I'll take you to find the Curios."
After leaving the train, although Herta tried hard to maintain a calm and nonchalant appearance, her footsteps clearly exposed her inner joy.
The instrument had just displayed detailed data of Nanook, most of which she had never known before.
It seemed that her research would make great progress in the future, and might even create a miracle!
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