Bai Tang: Pom-Pom Is So Cute

Himeko left to tell Pom-Pom about it. Bai Tang looked at her filthy body and, expressionless, raised her hand and pressed her thumb against her middle finger. With a snap, every stain on her body vanished, leaving only clean wounds.

Well, she had so much fur that it would take forever to dry after a bath. Dan Heng used Azure Dragon Cleansing the World to bathe, so using Destruction to destroy all the grime was basically the same thing, right? She looked away.

From now on, Abundance could cook, Destruction could handle baths, Nihility could destroy coffee, and The Hunt could make deliveries. How great was that!

She had suddenly discovered different uses for the various Paths.

"Wow, that's amazing."

"My wounds... unusual... can't be healed."

Bai Tang poked at the wounds on her body, which didn't hurt at all. Even when she pressed harder, she felt nothing. March 7th, standing beside her, sucked in a sharp breath and hurriedly grabbed her hand:

"Hey, don't do that to yourself!"

Her fingers were pressing against the peeled-back flesh, her fingernails even digging in and stirring around. Anyone who saw that would feel phantom pain, okay?

"I'm fine."

The train was already near Herta Space Station. Through the window, the massive space station could be seen floating quietly in space.

March 7th ran to her room to gather her things and prepare to leave for Herta Space Station. Dan Heng also returned to the Data Bank, leaving Bai Tang alone in the parlor car, admiring the view through the window.

Just then, Pom-Pom popped out from who knew where and stood before Bai Tang with a stern (?) expression:

"Himeko has already told me the details. Listen up, newbie, I'll only say the important stuff once. This is the Astral Express, and the passengers aboard all have secrets they can't talk about, to one degree or another.

"Since you've chosen to board, you have to follow the rules here. You're not the only special one. No matter what your past was like, you won't stand out too much here, so make sure you remember that.

"I'm Pom-Pom, the Conductor here. If you run into any problems aboard the train, feel free to come to me."

That was much the same as what Pom-Pom said to the protagonist in the game, with only slight changes. After listening carefully, Bai Tang replied:

"Thank you, Conductor. The food... was delicious. I'll... follow... the rules."

Hearing Bai Tang's halting speech, Pom-Pom fell silent at once, a blush appearing on the Conductor's face, before finally fleeing:

"The Conductor will prepare food now, pom."

Pom-Pom is so cute.

So small and fluffy, and that stern lecture sounded like Pom-Pom was acting cute. Pom-Pom looks so soft to the touch!

"Whoosh—"

Bai Tang's tail suddenly whipped around and coiled tightly around her waist. The sound of crackling, like a faulty electrical connection, came from beside her ear.

"Bzzzt—"

Wait!

Don't tell me there's a system!

Please, no!

A familiar panel appeared before Bai Tang's eyes.

Huh, it doesn't look like a system.

She examined the thing in front of her and recognized it in an instant.

Isn't this the character screen and inventory from Honkai: Star Rail? There's even a team setup icon. I can change the team in it.

She checked and found that the characters she had pulled and built back then were all there, along with the items she had received from quests and obtained from farming Ley Line Blossoms!

I'm rich, I'm rich!

Hundreds of millions of Credits!

Relics that others had to go through the trouble of sending out commissions to obtain were piled up in her inventory like fodder!

She had enough rare Light Cones to sell wholesale!

There was also a pile of things related to Aeons. She had really struck it rich!

Bai Tang wanted to laugh, but her facial muscles had been frozen for so long that the smile she managed looked creepy no matter how she looked at it. She gave up and returned to her expressionless face.

Next, she had to work hard at learning to speak and try to speak fluently!

She also had to exercise her facial muscles so she could smile when she wanted to. After all, she used to love smiling and was quite a chatterbox.

Who could have imagined that she would cosplay her Xianzhou Foxian OC at a convention, deliberately stand at a bridge with wounds all over her body to make other people cry, and even splash fake blood on her tail, only to inexplicably transmigrate as soon as she arrived? She seemed to have walked through a door at the time. Her head had spun, everything had gone black, and she had lost consciousness. When she woke up, she was floating in space.

Don't tell me the wall that door opened in was called the Dimensional Wall.

That's ridiculous.

Still, it was a good thing she could control the energy inside her and had a Cheat. One way or another, she could survive in this universe.

"Herta... Space Station... danger!"

Bai Tang struggled to force out a few words and, without waiting for the others, darted off like the wind. Dan Heng reacted quickly and grabbed her with one hand, asking calmly:

"What's wrong?"

"Antimatter... Legion."

Her ability to speak had gone so far on strike that Bai Tang could only get the key words out, cutting everything unimportant.

"Herta isn't here today. Dan Heng, March 7th, Bai Tang, go talk to Station Master Asta and help out."

Himeko had also noticed the Antimatter Legion nearby and understood how serious the situation was. She needed to bring the Relic to Herta and would be a little late, so she sent the three of them ahead and would follow afterward.

"Okay, Himeko, we'll go right away!"

Bai Tang's wounds looked gruesome on the surface, but they didn't hinder her movements. She ran even faster than Dan Heng, flying off in a flash without her feet touching the ground.

"Wait for us!"

March 7th called out, gasping for breath, and Bai Tang actually slowed down a little. She stared at March 7th for a moment, then said solemnly:

"After we meet... Asta... let's split up. I can... protect... myself."

"Okay, but be careful."

March 7th didn't try to stop her. Although she didn't know what Bai Tang could do, from the time they had spent together, she found Bai Tang steady and a good person, so she must have suggested it because she was confident.

Dan Heng didn't object either. "Remember to be careful."

In the Master Control Zone of Herta Space Station, a short, pink-haired, extremely wealthy young woman was urgently directing the personnel. She was Asta.

"You're... members of the Astral Express."

"Himeko will be here a little later. She sent us ahead to see if we could help. Oh, and this is Bai Tang, the newest member of our crew."

March 7th pulled Bai Tang forward and introduced her to Asta.

Asta wasn't in the mood to chat with March 7th and the others just then. She said anxiously:

"I don't know when the Antimatter Legion infiltrated this place. I'd like to commission you to rescue people from the other zones and bring the researchers here.

"And Arlan—please make sure you bring Arlan back too. I won't shortchange you on the commission fee."

March 7th turned serious in an instant and declared with confidence:

"Don't worry. The passengers of the Astral Express would never stand by and do nothing."

Dan Heng said, "We'll go right away."

After meeting Asta and accepting the commission, Bai Tang had already vanished from the spot.

Just as Dan Heng and March 7th were about to set off, Asta called them back and took out a card, handing it to March 7th:

"Oh, right, take this. It's the Key to unlock the elevator."

March 7th accepted it and casually slipped it into her pocket, then went with Dan Heng to help the people in the other zones reach the Master Control Zone for shelter.