Playing Stat-Sticks in Honkai: Star Rail Chapter 8

He felt the Silver Cross Pendant glowing, and his clothes were also emitting light, as if... as if they were turning into women's clothes?!

"Damn it, no need to think! This is definitely Aha's doing!!!"

The thought flashed through Liuge's mind, and the light on his body immediately intensified.

Immediately after, Liuge was holding a parasol, wearing a neon schoolgirl swimsuit, with a name tag on his chest clearly displaying the name Liuge.

And the most eye-catching thing was, because Liuge was a boy, he... had a bulge!

"Holy crap!"

Liuge was stunned at first, then immediately deactivated the state.

The three people in front knew nothing about this. The transformation and deactivation only took about thirty seconds, so they didn't notice anything.

However, in the control room, Haxxor Bunny, who was watching everything, spat out her water. After rubbing her eyes in disbelief, she looked at Liuge's normal clothes and thought she had misread.

However, with her good memory, she still felt unconvinced and pulled up the surveillance footage. As she started replaying it, her expression became quite animated.

After a moment of silence, she quietly took a segment of the footage, saved it to her phone, and cleverly concealed this part of the surveillance recording.

Meanwhile, Liuge, completely unaware that Haxxor Bunny had seen everything and had even collected it as embarrassing history, wiped the cold sweat from his forehead.

Although he had felt a powerful amplification after transforming, a power at least dozens of times his current strength, he felt that this was not something he could use.

If he were to use it, it wouldn't just be social death; he might have to flee the universe with it.

Damn it, this is definitely Aha's fault!

As they got closer to the support cabin, the powerful oppressive feeling gradually increased.

Liuge's footsteps had gradually slowed. From a distance, he could see the red figure fighting the Doomsday Beast and Old Yang leaning on his cane at the space station's platform.

"Uncle Yang, Himeko!"

March 7th shouted as soon as she saw them.

At the same moment, she summoned the bow and arrow made of Six-Phase Ice in her hand and began providing supporting fire.

Dan Heng also summoned his spear, Cloud-Piercer, and charged towards the Honkai Beast.

Stelle also grabbed her baseball bat and attacked the Honkai Beast.

Liuge had no weapon, so he didn't rashly join the fight.

However, he did notice several Voidranger: Reavers nearby.

After a moment of thought, he directly activated the skill "Puppetry." In an instant, Liuge felt threads wrap around the Reaver's body. As if a part of his consciousness had separated, it entered the Reaver's body.

As if it were his own limb, the Reaver's body was controlled by Liuge.

No, it could be said that the Reaver was now Liuge's second body.

Liuge was overjoyed.

He had unlocked a ranged combat class.

He could stay hidden in the back and control the Voidrangers to fight, and most importantly, he could use the physical abilities brought by the skill to constantly adjust the Voidrangers' fighting style.

"Get out of the way, let me handle this!"

Liuge shouted to the others who were fighting.

At the same moment, he manipulated the Voidranger and charged towards the Doomsday Beast.

However, in the next moment, Stelle smashed the Voidranger Liuge was controlling with her bat, sending it flying. It collapsed into black particles and disappeared in mid-air.

"???"

Liuge stared at the scene, completely bewildered.

Stelle also gave Liuge a strange look.

"What did you just say?"

Stelle scratched the back of her head, holding her bat as she spoke to Liuge.

"...No, nothing!"

Liuge realized that if he didn't explain his ability to control monsters to these people beforehand, they would probably destroy any monster he controlled the moment he did.

This is too difficult, I want to help but I can't.

Just then, March 7th's attack suddenly paused, revealing a slight opening.

Seeing this, the Doomsday Beast gathered its energy and fired it towards March 7th.

Seeing this, Stelle didn't bother with anything else and pushed March 7th away, taking the massive energy torrent head-on.

Within the torrent of energy, Stelle felt like she was going to die. But at the moment she closed her eyes, she seemed to have arrived in a star field. Opening her eyes, she saw a giant white-haired figure with dark skin and a golden light on its chest...

It was the Aeon of Destruction, Nanook!

In an instant, a terrifying power erupted from Stelle's body. The aura of Destruction immediately dispersed the Doomsday Beast's energy torrent and blasted the Doomsday Beast away with its aftershock.

Before everyone could recover from the powerful aftershock, Stelle directly fainted. However, the Doomsday Beast did not seem to be annihilated by the power Stelle had unleashed, as Liuge had expected.

Seeing this, Liuge sighed, equipped the character stat-stick "Haxxor Bunny" and rushed out.

"Next, leave it to me!"

A crisp and familiar voice made Old Yang, standing to the side, tremble. He looked in disbelief at the Haxxor Bunny rushing out from behind, as agile as a rabbit.

"This..."

His lips quivered slightly.

No way, I came all the way over here and I'm still running into acquaintances?

Before Old Yang could react, Liuge, who had transformed into Haxxor Bunny, directly activated Aether Edit and began to operate.

The small mechanical rabbit hovering beside him opened its hatch and aimed at the Doomsday Beast that was still approaching.

"Precision bombing... commence!"

The moment Haxxor Bunny's finger fell, countless shells rained down on the Doomsday Beast's position, an endless barrage.

These were all created out of thin air by Haxxor Bunny using her Aether Edit ability.

At the same time, Haxxor Bunny herself was a weakened version of the Herrscher, so this ability to create things from nothing, combined with the proper operation of Aether Edit, achieved a terrifying level of 1+1=11.

However, seeing all of this made Old Yang's eye twitch.

It's over, is it really an old acquaintance?

At first, Old Yang thought it was an alternate self of someone he knew in this universe. But now, this display made him somewhat lose confidence.

However, before Old Yang could ask anything, after the Doomsday Beast was reduced to a mere broken core by the bombardment...

He saw Haxxor Bunny turn and run, disappearing into Herta Space Station without giving him any chance to ask...

011 The Gradually Calming Herta Space Station

After quickly removing Haxxor Bunny's character stat-stick, Liuge returned to the platform.

Everyone else, except for March 7th who was still tending to the unconscious Stelle, was cleaning up the aftermath.

Although there were still quite a few Voidrangers around, these stragglers could be handled by the space station's defense forces.

"It's over?"

Liuge cautiously stepped forward.

Seeing Liuge approach, Dan Heng nodded appropriately.

Himeko and Old Yang turned their gazes towards him.

"And who might this be?"

Himeko, acting as the perfect liaison, voiced her confusion.

March 7th, who had already entrusted herself to the rescue team, then walked over and began to introduce Liuge to Himeko and Old Yang, explaining the situation of Stelle who had just fainted.

"I see." Himeko nodded and walked up to Liuge, extending her hand.

"Hello, I am Himeko, the navigator and mechanic of the Astral Express."

"Hello, hello, my name is Liuge. Just an ordinary programmer, my hobby is piloting giant robots!"

Liuge shook Himeko's hand and immediately let go.

Though her hand is soft, it's better to maintain respect for Himeko-jie.

Welt, standing beside them, listened to Liuge's self-introduction and subtly adjusted his glasses.

This kid seems to be a fellow enthusiast!

"I am Welt Yang!"

"Mm, I know, from Anti-Entropy..."

Before he could finish, Old Yang clamped his mouth shut and dragged him into a corner without a word.

"Kid, I don't know how you know these things, but it's best not to talk about my business in front of these youngsters."

"Well, it's not exactly a dark secret, so it's not a big deal if I say it."

"...Please, I'm begging you."

"Then build me a giant robot?"

"You can ask then!"

Although Old Yang could create things with his bare hands, his current abilities were nowhere near what they used to be.

If he were to actually build a giant robot, he'd probably collapse from overuse of his powers on the spot.

"I meant... a model!"

"Deal!"

After reaching an agreement with Liuge, Old Yang smiled and led him back to the group.

"Uncle Yang, what's with you two?"

March 7th looked at Old Yang, who seemed to be on familiar terms with Liuge, with deep confusion in her eyes.

Even Himeko and Dan Heng looked a bit puzzled.

After all, Old Yang had mostly shown himself to be calm and steady on the train, viewing everything that happened with the demeanor of someone experienced.

But now, he seemed a little flustered in front of someone he had only recently met.

This struck them as quite novel.

"It's fine, it's fine. I just confirmed with this kid, and I already know he's from my hometown."

Old Yang calmly told a fib.

However, in his opinion, since they knew his identity and were very familiar with his appearance, they were undoubtedly from Earth.

He could take this opportunity to understand the situation there.

After all, hadn't March 7th said that Liuge had only recently been teleported to the Herta Space Station, meaning he had witnessed the current state of Earth's development?

"Mhm, mhm."

Liuge acted as a nodding machine at this moment.

"Is that so!"

Himeko pondered for a moment before looking at Liuge.

"Then, Liuge, would you be interested in joining us on the Astral Express and becoming a Nameless?"

In her view, since his old acquaintance Welt was already on the train, and Liuge had just arrived at the Herta Space Station and was unfamiliar with the place, it would naturally be better for Liuge to stick around Welt.

"Whoa, that direct? But, choosing to join was the right move for me!"

Liuge smiled and chose to join.

"Speaking of which..."

Suddenly, Old Yang remembered the young girl from the previous battle who was very much like that Bronya girl.

"What?"