What exactly has this Station Master done?
He designed the Herta Space Station in a month, personally participated in its construction, witnessed its launch, and after its launch, he laid out the preliminary framework for the Herta Space Station's system.
A system from over nine hundred years ago is still in use today—what does that even mean?
Perhaps as early as when the Space Station was first established, this Station Master already foresaw the present situation!
Even without mentioning these, his other experiences are legendary enough.
He casually gave a lesson to the Space Station's personnel, which benefited them for life—this was personally admitted by the renowned Stark and Conrad in their professional fields.
Afterward, he even sacrificed himself and went missing to seal the Stellaron.
Every researcher who boards the Herta Space Station inevitably encounters two names: one is Ms. Herta, and the other is Bai Luan.
In such circumstances, Bai Luan suddenly came back to life and returned to be the Station Master.
What's the difference between this and a historical figure from a textbook suddenly coming to life and working beside you?
Of course, not everyone accepted this without question.
After all, it sounded too incredible, so it was only natural for some to doubt its authenticity.
However, these doubts suffered a fatal blow not long ago when Xiu ascended to the Space Station!
Holy crap, a mechanical creation comparable to a sentient lifeform! It nearly brought the relevant professionals at the Herta Space Station to their knees.
Those guys looked at Xiu as if they were admiring a work of art.
Others not in related fields didn't understand its amazingness, but seeing how these few reacted, they were also filled with awe.
Everyone's expectations for this Station Master were already very high due to Xiu's appearance, but they didn't expect Bai Luan's entrance to be even grander.
Over a thousand Oddities…
If you saw one a day without repeats, it would take several years!
This, this… what more can be said?
The title of Station Master is well-deserved, indeed.
Who would dare question him?
After listening to this researcher praise him for over ten minutes, Bai Luan finally understood the current situation.
To be honest, he stood there, his scalp tingling with awkwardness, but he could only grit his teeth and listen to the end.
In short, his prestige at the Herta Space Station was very high now; he was the foremost person after Herta.
Although Bai Luan didn't feel much about this, from his perspective, these people were no different from those who'd say, "I choose Lu Xiaobu; he's the one everyone wants."
But what's wrong with that?
Everyone was quite happy.
At least now, if he wanted to upgrade the Space Station's firepower facilities, no one would dare object.
Of course, he would pay for it himself.
It was a fine tradition for the Station Master to spend his own money on the Space Station, and it needed to be maintained.
Bai Luan spent a large sum of money to buy a lot of armaments, upgrading all the equipment of the Defense Department to the most advanced available.
This move made the Defense Department personnel exclaim it was like New Year's; in this place where culture flourished and military declined, they hadn't upgraded their equipment in a long time!
Bai Luan's arming was truly like a timely rain after a long drought, directly taking off with a 'woohoo!'
Afterward, Bai Luan compiled a bunch of Antimatter Legion data and distributed it as common knowledge to every researcher, mandating them to study it.
Anyway, no one dared to question Bai Luan's decision; when faced with Bai Luan's regulations, he didn't even have to explain, these researchers had already explained it for him.
The Station Master must have his far-reaching plans for doing this.
Some groups even speculated this was a future key research direction and had already opened several topics to study how to deal with the Antimatter Legion.
On the right track.
Although the derivation process was messy, at least the result was correct, no mistake.
Bai Luan also added emergency first-aid kits in many locations on the Herta Space Station to increase survival chances during an Antimatter Legion attack.
Since Bai Luan didn't know the exact time the Antimatter Legion would attack the Herta Space Station, he couldn't prevent it from happening; he could only make sufficient preparations to reduce casualties.
Of course, his greatest help to this Space Station was himself.
His presence on the Space Station was its greatest help.
Perhaps at that time, he might even meet the Stellaron Hunters?
He also wondered if he had a role in Elio's script, and if Elio knew about him.
In a sense, he had, by mimicking Elio's identity, scammed his way into the happiest three years of his life.
It truly was emotion.
After arming the Space Station, Bai Luan had completed all the important tasks.
Now, even if the Antimatter Legion attacked tomorrow, the Space Station would not suffer too many casualties.
Moreover, the later the Antimatter Legion attacked, the more the Herta Space Station would understand them, and the fewer casualties the Legion could inflict.
Bai Luan had finished what he needed to do out of his Station Master's sense of responsibility; now he could do some things he was interested in.
For example…
Making a mobile vehicle for Inspiration Shroom.
He couldn't always carry a flowerpot every time he took Inspiration Shroom out, could he?
And without any protective facilities, Inspiration Shroom could easily get hurt.
With the idea of making a mobile vehicle, Bai Luan specially crafted a mount for Inspiration Shroom, its appearance referencing classic UFO disc spacecraft.
It had a silver-white streamlined shell, a built-in thermostatic and humidistatic life support system, and even a miniature energy shield.
Essentially a life pod, it could be freely controlled by Inspiration Shroom.
After creating this, Inspiration Shroom gained the ability to move freely.
Thus, a floating mascot appeared on the Herta Space Station; you could see Inspiration Shroom and Chizuru anywhere.
When Inspiration Shroom flew, it even came with its own background sound, emitting a rhythmic "Gu~ Gu~ Gu~" like radar while flying.
Because the Herta Space Station itself housed enough bizarre things, Inspiration Shroom didn't seem so strange among them.
And because Inspiration Shroom was polite, had a pleasant voice, and carried a vitality that was curious about everything, the Space Station's researchers accepted this mascot.
After solving Inspiration Shroom's problem, Bai Luan then began to work on another matter.
He created a Ms. Herta body for Herta in the Little Black Room.
After all, Herta in the Little Black Room was becoming more and more like Herta herself.
He would make her a Herta body and let her use it as she pleased.
This task was mainly completed in the Little Black Room and, overall, didn't take much time.
However, to perfectly replicate Herta, Bai Luan could only occasionally go observe Herta.
Studying Herta's portraits, collecting everything about Herta as reference…
So much so that for a period, Bai Luan acted like an ardent Herta fan, his devotion even earning recognition from some Herta Puppets.
Hmm…
He seemed to have been a Herta fan all along…
There was even a Herta in the Little Black Room.
It's better not to talk about such things openly, ahem, private discussion.
After spending a good amount of time, it was finally completed.
Inside the Little Black Room, Bai Luan looked at Herta, whose consciousness had transferred to the new body, and nodded in satisfaction.
As expected of me, from the outside, it was identical to the real Herta.
The head, hands, feet, and legs were basically all made by Bai Luan.
As for the private parts, those were made by Herta in the Little Black Room herself.
Since Bai Luan had to be present when the Little Black Room was operating, he couldn't leave when Herta made those parts; he could only stand there facing the wall in the void.
During that time, Bai Luan was quite on edge, always feeling a sharp gaze on his back, with a sensation that if he dared to look back, he'd be head-smashed by a hammer.
Couldn't move, truly couldn't move.
Fortunately, it was all done now.
Herta first elegantly stretched.
Then, her gaze fell on the 'original' Herta body beside her, temporarily unconscious and resembling a delicate puppet.
She walked over with interest, extended a fair finger, and with a mischievous playfulness, gently pinched 'her own' unresponsive cheek. The touch at her fingertips made her eyes narrow in satisfaction.
"Hmm,"
She nodded, as if evaluating an outstanding work of art.
"Even an unmoving me is… eleven out of ten."
"How does it feel?"
Bai Luan's voice sounded from the side.
Herta turned her head at the sound, not answering immediately.
She walked with light steps to Bai Luan, her deep purple eyes scanning him up and down with an interest akin to examining a new toy.
Bai Luan felt a little unnerved by her gaze and shrank back:
"What… are you doing?"
Herta's lips curled into a familiar, slightly smug smile:
"Quite good."
She said, then suddenly extended her hand to measure the space between Bai Luan's head and her own, as if measuring something, then announced with satisfaction:
"At least… this genius doesn't have to look up at you anymore."