Huh?
If not with hands, then what else can be used?
Asta’s moist eyes showed a hint of confusion.
Lin Li gently squeezed her soft, tender little foot, his pinky finger tracing the smooth sole, causing Asta’s whole body to tremble slightly.
“Mmm, that tickles~!”
Clearly, the sole of her foot was one of Asta’s sensitive spots.
“Little feet can also hold the gun, you know!” Lin Li smiled as he revealed the answer.
“Huh?
It…
it can be done like that too?!”
Lin Li’s words clearly went beyond Asta’s understanding.
She was naturally quite innocent in this regard and didn’t know much.
“Mmm…
move over a bit, and I’ll teach you!”
Lin Li was quite the enthusiastic teacher.
He had Asta sit a little farther away from him, then took hold of her pair of exquisite, jade-like feet, which were as beautiful as works of art.
Under Lin Li’s guidance, Asta brought her two nimble little feet together and used the smooth, moist soles to grasp the scorching-hot gun.
Once familiar, twice skilled—this was already the third time.
Asta was very familiar with Lin Li’s fine gun by now.
Although today’s new method of holding it was slightly awkward at first, the effect was still excellent.
As Asta gradually mastered the technique and got into the rhythm, Lin Li half-reclined against the headboard, squinting his eyes and letting out a long sigh.
Finally, it was his turn to enjoy!
Herta woke up.
This was the second time she had awakened after falling asleep.
The first attempt at sleep had failed, but she wasn’t discouraged.
Since she had decided to use a clumsy method, failing a few times was perfectly normal.
What pleasantly surprised her was that she succeeded on her second try!
In the Real World, she had fallen asleep in her own bedroom, but this time she woke up in her private office.
She checked the time—it was already past midnight.
After confirming she had successfully entered the NPC World, she first examined her body.
Hmm, everything was normal; nothing strange had been done to her.
When Asta first communicated with Herta, she shared many details about the NPC World, Lin Li’s ability to forcibly control others, and some of his actions.
Thus, Herta had formed a preliminary impression of Lin Li.
He was someone with a strong will, but also a somewhat unpleasant personality, possibly even a bit lecherous!
His strong will was evident from his ability to endure loneliness, while his unpleasant personality and possible lecherous tendencies were inferred from the fact that he had written on Asta’s little rabbit.
As for the punishment involving holding the gun at the time, it was too embarrassing for Asta to mention, so she skipped that part.
Including the events that occurred during her subsequent entries into the NPC World, Asta was too embarrassed to explain them in detail to Herta.
As a result, Herta didn’t know that Lin Li wasn’t just “a bit lecherous”—it was far more than that.
This led to a certain degree of misjudgment on Herta’s part regarding Lin Li.
Moreover, Herta was unaware of the rule that everything resets at midnight every day, so she didn’t realize that her NPC self had already been thoroughly explored by Lin Li, inside and out.
After confirming her condition was fine, she tried to sense the power of the Path of Erudition but felt nothing.
This didn’t come as a surprise to her.
She had already concluded that the existence of the NPC World originated from a power higher than that of an Aeon, so it wasn’t unexpected that she couldn’t sense Path powers here.
Here, she had lost her status as an Emanator.
Of course, the Path of Erudition was different from other Paths because knowledge itself was power.
This was one of the reasons she felt confident enough to actively explore this world.
Furthermore, she had prepared quite thoroughly this time.
She had brought all four mirrors to the space station, and they had been replicated here as well.
However, unlike in the Real World, the AI of the four mirrors in the NPC World was very rigid, lacking any self-awareness.
She had to control them herself.
Her attention then shifted to the Herta doll beside her.
The doll perfectly replicated the one from the Real World, with the [Personality Mapping Module], [Unreasonable Module], [Attack Module], [Refusal to Cooperate Module]…
Hmm…
all sorts of fancy modules were fully present and functioning properly.
Herta nodded in satisfaction.
She gave it a try, and as expected, she could control these dolls with her consciousness just like in the Real World, and she had the highest authority!
This was exactly right!
Even if she clashed with Lin Li and he used that mysterious method to immobilize her body, she could still use her consciousness to control the Herta dolls to launch sneak attacks and counter him!
After all, just to avoid walking, she had placed hundreds of dolls within the Herta space station alone.
All of these dolls had been replicated in the NPC World.
Surely Lin Li couldn’t control all hundreds of them, right?
With this layer of insurance, Herta felt much more at ease and prepared to meet the only living person in this world.
According to the information provided by Asta, Lin Li usually stayed in Asta’s room.
Herta directed the dolls to gather toward Asta’s bedroom along the way.
If viewed from a high-altitude perspective, the sight of hundreds of identical Little Herta dolls converging toward a single location carries a somewhat eerie undertone.
Along the way, Herta encountered many NPC staff members going about their own business.
With Asta’s prior intelligence, she wasn’t surprised and couldn’t be bothered to study these NPCs at the moment.
Soon, Herta skillfully made her way to the door of Asta’s room.
The doors were all electronic locks that required proper authorization to open, but this posed no challenge for Herta, who held the highest authority in the space station.
Asta’s room was divided into several sections.
The living room was empty, the bedroom door was slightly ajar, and faint, strange sounds could be heard from inside—was that Asta’s voice?
Herta frowned slightly and walked to the bedroom door, peering through the narrow gap.
Huh?!
In her idle moments, Herta had imagined various scenarios for her first meeting with Lin Li—filled with vigilance and caution?
A serious academic discussion?
A humorous exchange of banter?
All of these were possible.
But she had never imagined she would witness a scene like the one before her.
Her outstanding student, the direct heir of a vast interstellar family, a noble young lady whose wealth could rival entire planets—Asta!
Was actually doing such a thing?!
The gap in the door was small, but Herta had a perfect vantage point, allowing her to take in the entire scene inside.
The adorable pink-haired girl’s upper body was completely bare, her fair skin tinged with pink exposed to the air.
She leaned backward, her hands braced against the bed behind her.
Her slender, pale legs stretched forward, and her delicate, fair little feet were actually wrapped in…
Even Lady Herta, who had weathered countless storms and experienced untold upheavals, had never anticipated things unfolding in this manner.
Watching her student’s jade-like toes skillfully twisting, pressing, and rubbing up and down, she couldn’t help but feel a sense of absurdity.
She was indeed knowledgeable, a top-tier genius, but her focus had always been on profound challenges.
She had never paid attention to such matters.
The same thought that had initially crossed Asta’s mind now surfaced in her own.
Could it really be played like this?