A Saiyan Boards the Astral Express! [5]

[SEAL THE DOOR TO COMPARTMENT SEVEN IMMEDIATELY AND DEPLOY EMERGENCY PROTECTION! STOP THE ANTIMATTER LEGION’S ADVANCE!]

[DAMAGE DETECTED AT PORTHOLE THIRTY-THREE! PERSONNEL IN THAT AREA, DO NOT APPROACH!]

[COMMUNICATIONS! HAS THE SIGNAL STILL NOT STABILIZED? WE NEED TO ELIMINATE THE LEGION’S COMMUNICATIONS INTERFERENCE AT ONCE!]

[SECURITY DEPARTMENT MEMBERS CURRENTLY FIGHTING IN PASSAGE TWO OF COMPARTMENT THREE, YOU MUST HOLD THE LINE! THE NAMELESS ARE ON THEIR WAY TO YOUR AREA TO PROVIDE SUPPORT!]

Although the Antimatter Legion’s sudden attack had plunged the space station into unprecedented chaos, a young woman’s voice, still carrying a trace of girlishness, continued to ring through the communication channels.

It was the voice of Herta Space Station’s acting lead researcher, Asta.

And it was precisely this ability to calmly assess the situation in the face of danger that allowed the station to organize its counterattack against the Legion in an orderly fashion, despite being caught completely off guard, while minimizing casualties and damage to the space station as much as possible.

In the Master Control Zone of the space station, personnel of every rank had gathered. There were not only people who held core responsibilities on the space station itself, but also many who had fled here from other compartments, making the place seem somewhat chaotic.

And before the enormous projection screen in the central area stood a red-haired girl with a side ponytail, her expression grave as she looked at the status of each compartment displayed on the screen.

The girl looked young, and did not give the impression of a manager at all. Yet the ID hanging before her chest had already made her identity clear—Asta, acting lead researcher of Herta Space Station.

On the screen, the sealed-off sections had turned gray to distinguish them. The remaining compartments that were still displaying normally were, with the help of detectors, marked with the detected positions of the Legion and the survivors respectively.

Strange…

Although Asta had already completed the initial deployment for responding to the attack, and what remained was mainly to monitor communications reports across the various channels, as well as the actions of the Security Department members and the Nameless who had happened to lend a hand, this was still not a situation where she could relax even temporarily.

Even so, she set aside the severity of the current situation for the moment and began thinking about the attack from another angle.

Most members of the Legion are creations with no real intelligence, retaining only the most basic ability to obey orders and a desire to destroy. But when it comes to the act of “destruction” itself, they’re extremely skilled.

Normally, if their goal were to destroy the space station, they should be focusing their attacks on the Master Control Zone or the power compartment…

But judging from the coordinates where they concentrated their warps, they seem to have gathered outside those two areas. Even inside the station, they seem to be converging steadily in a certain direction…

Looking at the coordinate distribution of the Legion members inside the station, Asta suddenly realized that the way they were moving was completely different from what she had learned from the relevant data.

Or rather, do they have a target that takes priority over destroying the space station?

The next moment, Asta suddenly realized that there was indeed something in this space station that would be extremely attractive to NANOOK’s claws.

A “Stellaron.”

This object, said to be related to NANOOK the Destruction, would bring all manner of unknowable distortions to the world it inhabited simply by existing—natural disasters, memetic contamination, perhaps even the destruction of a planet through a massive energy leak, as well as interference with interstellar travel. The specific forms varied, but one thing was certain: because the phenomenon known as the “Cancer of All Worlds” was so often tied directly to Stellarons, people inevitably associated them with NANOOK the Destruction.

And the Antimatter Legion, as NANOOK’s claws, would often appear on worlds contaminated by Stellarons. Even without concrete evidence proving that their actions were related to Stellarons, it was still enough to consider it a highly probable hypothesis.

Rather, the space station itself had been built by Herta to seal away the Stellaron, preventing it from affecting the planet nearby “The Blue” or attracting the Antimatter Legion.

It was just that no one had expected that even a seal personally performed by Herta, a member of the Genius Society, would still carry the risk of drawing them in.

Although I don’t know exactly where Madam Herta sealed the Stellaron, it should be in the Storage Zone… and the closest people to that zone right now are… Arlan and the others!

Asta thought quickly, immediately pulling up the feed from that area and connecting to Arlan’s channel.

From the feed, the area around Arlan no longer showed any sign of the Antimatter Legion, so there was no need to worry about it being breached for the moment.

“Arlan, can you hear me? The situation in all areas of the space station is basically under control for now. We’ve entered the phase of clearing out the remaining enemies. You need to hold the Storage Zone. The Nameless will also support you shortly! Whatever happens, do not let the Antimatter Legion break through that side!”

The moment Asta connected to the channel, she called out to Arlan and issued clear instructions—leaving Arlan, who had just watched Potat vanish before his eyes, with no chance to explain his bizarre encounter first.

“Yes, understood. But Miss Asta, I have a situation to report. An unidentified person suddenly appeared here just now, and he specifically said he wanted to meet the person in charge here. I don’t know whether he meant you, Miss Asta, or Madam Herta!”

As soon as Asta finished speaking, Arlan reported to her as quickly as he could.

“I negotiated with him, but he disappeared without listening to a word I said! Miss Asta, you have to be careful! I don’t know what that person’s goal is, and we have absolutely no way of confirming where he went!”

After Arlan finished saying all that, Asta fell silent for about one or two seconds.

Generally speaking, that amount of silence was still normal—thinking over what he had said would indeed make someone freeze for a moment.

But just as Arlan thought Asta would ask for more specific details, or simply say that she would be careful, Asta, on the other end of the communication, asked him in a slightly surprised and hesitant tone,

“A strange person? Mm… Are you talking about someone fairly tall, wearing pale retro armor over a black bodysuit, with short black hair that stands up, and an apparent age close to most adult male station personnel?”

This time, it was Arlan’s turn to fall silent.

After a brief silence, Arlan’s eyes twitched a few times with an unconscious sense of foreboding. Rarely showing his nervousness by swallowing, he asked in return, “Um… Miss Asta, has he… already shown up in front of you?”

T/N: astaaaaaaaaa astaaa anyway vote time!

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