Nero also looked at Stelle. He freed one hand, pressed the pads of his index finger and thumb together, and made a pinching gesture in front of Stelle.
"Just a little bit, people on the Xianzhou really love eating it! The Xianzhou has a lot of delicious food. If we ever get the chance to go to the Xianzhou together, I'll treat you to soda bean juice."
The boy grinned, his gray eyes narrowing into slits, and his eyelashes, white as snow like his hair, fluttered, like ice crystals.
Looking at a face like this, Stelle blankly nodded, only feeling a sensation like ice and snow just beginning to melt spreading through her heart. She had absolutely no awareness that she had already fallen into a trap.
"Heehee… then it's decided! When the time comes, I'll treat you to a drink, don't you dare go back on it!"
Nero's smile grew even brighter.
Stelle also began to laugh, and patted her slightly flat chest, indicating that she was the Galactic Baseballer, she never refused anyone.
After that, Nero looked again at the Trotter in his hand. He grabbed the little thing's leg and shook it twice, regret written all over his face, "What a pity, Trotters can't be eaten."
Stelle gave a helpless smile.
At that moment, several stones that looked extremely crystal-clear and beautiful fell from the Trotter's body.
After Stelle noticed, she picked them up and looked at them in confusion.
That indescribable feeling appeared again. What she had sensed earlier, the strange thing on the Trotter that was drawing her in, was this.
A powerful intuition jolted Stelle's mind, telling her that this stone could make her stronger.
Nero hugged the Trotter and sniffed. Just one glance and he recognized the thing as Stellar Jade. But the Stelle standing in front of him suddenly stared blankly at the stones, so he asked, "What's wrong?"
Stelle shook her head. "Nothing, just… I feel like this thing can make me stronger."
"Oh! Then just take it."
Nero acted very carefree, and at the same time thought, 'So this was how Stellar Jade worked here.'
Thinking carefully, players using Stellar Jade to pull gacha and strengthen their teams was also something that made their accounts stronger. It did seem pretty reasonable.
Unfortunately, the Stellar Jade quota the system gave him couldn't be taken out and handed to Stelle directly. After a mission or event was set up, the system would give Stellar Jade straight to the players.
After another sniff of the Trotter, Nero directly tossed the little Trotter away.
The moment the Trotter hit the ground, it ran off at top speed, then dived headfirst into a dimensional rift.
But just as Stelle was about to put the Stellar Jade away, she suddenly froze. She felt the flow of power, some kind of spiritual energy from beyond the Stellaron was flowing into her body.
Under Nero's and Stelle's gaze, the Stellar Jade slowly melted, then dispersed into light. In the end, the thin strands of stardust all merged into Stelle's body.
"Ah, why's it taking effect so fast? How do you feel now?"
Hearing Nero's question, Stelle furrowed her brows slightly, then moved her body a little, jumped twice, and felt that her body hadn't changed at all. Not lighter, not heavier, and she didn't feel her strength get stronger.
So she shook her head, "Doesn't seem like anything changed…"
Nero raised his hand and rubbed his chin. Thinking about how much Stellar Jade was spent on gacha, he said, "Maybe because the amount was too small. Next time we run into Trotters, let's catch more and try again."
Stelle nodded, completely agreeing with Nero's opinion.
The Trotters had no idea that their species had been targeted by two villains…
After confirming that absorbing the Stellar Jade had no negative effects on Stelle's body, Nero and Stelle continued walking toward the data room. This time, nothing else happened.
Following the space station's corridors, turning a few corners, and passing through several repulsion bridges, the two entered an office.
Right now, the only person in the office was a young staff member who looked like he wasn't even thirty, working diligently.
Noticing Nero and Stelle entering, the young staffer immediately stood up. His face was full of exhaustion, his eye bags were severe, and most importantly, at such a young age, he already had a Mediterranean hairline.
The Mediterranean uncle didn't seem to care much about his appearance. Seeing Stelle and Nero, his eyes lit up. The murky eyes caused by long-term work suddenly had a bit of lively light in them.
He slid on his knees across the floor and grabbed Nero's hand, hoping Nero would sign something for him.
Nero was a bit stunned by the bald uncle's behavior, but still let him find paper and pen, and signed his big name. While signing, he quietly muttered to Stelle, "Guess I'm a superstar now!"
Stelle watched from the side, itching to try, but after Nero finished signing, the bald uncle did not hand the paper and pen to her.
This made the Galactic Baseballer feel very displeased.
"What about me?" Stelle asked.
The bald uncle paused, looked at Nero, then at Stelle, and muttered quietly, "Wen Shiling didn't tell me to get anyone else's signature…"
But he still handed the paper and pen to Stelle as well, saying, "You sign too, you sign too."
Satisfied, Stelle wrote down the big name of the Galactic Baseballer.
After getting the signatures, the bald uncle carefully stored them away, then messed around with the computer for a while. Finally, he came back with a sheet of paper and handed it to Nero.
"Wen Shiling told me that you two would help recover the Fright Maze. This is all the data on the Fright Maze."
"Thank you." Nero accepted the data and thanked him politely.
"Hehehe, you're welcome, hehehehehe…" The bald uncle grabbed the few remaining hairs on his head and giggled foolishly.
Nero looked at the guy and felt that, just like Wen Shiling, he was weird.
So the boy tugged at Stelle's sleeve. "Let's look at it outside."
Stelle nodded her agreement.
Although she was slightly puzzled by Nero's choice, the sun-flavored kid must have his reasons.
After leaving the data room and returning to the corridor, the little gray hair and little white hair squatted by the wall corner and read the data together.
[Name of the Curio: Fright Maze.]
[Curio Number: #1145.]
[Description: The Fright Maze is a light-cyan, floating, 10×10×10 cubic-centimeter perfect cube. It possesses self-awareness and can move on its own, with the ability to communicate.]
[The Fright Maze will scramble the 1000×1000×1000 cubic-meter space around it and everything inside it, creating a giant maze to protect itself. Individuals inside the maze will be affected by mental interference, usually showing symptoms such as losing their sense of direction or seeing monsters and other terrifying entities inside the maze. Imaginary energy will weaken the Fright Maze's influence on space, matter, and living beings.]
[Containment Procedure: The Fright Maze must be contained inside the designated Imaginary Overflow Storage Container developed by Madam Herta. To recover the Fright Maze, at least five agile combat members are required, and these members must be highly confident in their own abilities and have no obvious fear response toward any object or phenomenon.]
[Before entering the maze to begin the recovery mission, the five combat members must be injected with anti-interference medication. After entering within 500 meters of the maze's center, recovery personnel may install and activate the Imaginary Overflow Interference Field to weaken the Fright Maze and begin the recovery operation.]
[T/N: Do you guys call Nero 'Narrow' or 'Neero'?]
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