"She's so pretty!!!"
"Honkai: Star Rail, right? I'm downloading it right now!"
"The person above, it's Honkai: Star Rail!!!"
Seeing that the game's quality was pretty good, the stream's popularity gradually began to rise, and the big spenders became curious about what would happen next.
Lao Mu was also surprised by this. Had this game developer designed the setting based on real people? Then afterward, could it be...
With that thought, he continued the story mission.
"The future Elio saw won't be wrong. What was that explosion just now? Was it in his script too?"
"It was. At System Hour 23:44:59, the pulse produced by the explosion caused widespread paralysis of the central control system."
"Did you do it?"
"The Anti-Matter Legion did it. They launched a full-scale invasion of the Space Station two System Hours ago."
"Do we need to fight the Legion?"
A frivolous whistle slipped from her red lips.
"I don't know. Elio didn't say, so it isn't important."
"Understood~ Then from now on, I'll take over the operation."
Up to this point, Lao Mu had read every word carefully, but honestly, he hadn't understood much...
What the hell was all this? What was this script? Why had the Stellaron Hunters come here?
Who was the protagonist? And who was he supposed to be?
A whole string of thoughts flashed through his mind, yet nothing remained...
So Lao Mu decided to order takeout first! Then he resumed the story.
"Received. Can you make this one a little more fun? The last few operations were so boring."
"Sorry, today's assignment is extremely dull: we're merely putting the target in place—but if you want to find some amusement, I won't stop you. After all, anything Elio didn't write into the script is irrelevant."
As she spoke, Kafka drew her weapon. Several Anti-Matter Legion Voidrangers rushed at her head-on, and then the screen froze as shattered cracks spread across it.
"Oh! We've entered the combat screen!"
Lao Mu finally got interested when the battle began. As the screen shifted, Kafka stood with her back to the screen, elegantly holding a purple longsword.
"Holy shit, Kafka is actually a playable character!"
"This game developer is really bold. Aren't they afraid the Stellaron Hunters will come knocking to send them some warmth?"
"You can even trial the story for free. Perfect chance to see how strong she is!"
"I'm starting to look forward to the other characters later on!"
"Just looking at this combat screen, isn't this going to be a turn-based game? That's an ancient gameplay style from who knows how many years ago!"
"What the hell do you know? Gameplay isn't inherently good or bad—it all depends on how it's made!"
The combat system looked fairly simple. Characters could perform three kinds of actions in total.
Q was the Basic Attack, which restored a little Skill Point. E was a more powerful Skill that consumed one Skill Point, and once Charge was full, an Ultimate attack could also be unleashed.
The beginner tutorial had practically no difficulty at all. One Basic Attack followed by a Skill ended the battle.
After the fight ended, the player could finally control the character and walk around the map. Lao Mu immediately began fiddling around with it curiously.
"Wow, guys, Kafka's character model is amazing!"
Lao Mu made Kafka walk and sprint around. The visuals were clear and smooth throughout, without the slightest lag, and he let out an occasional amazed exclamation.
The character model was also incredibly detailed. When she stood still, she even had an idle animation.
This was completely incomparable to those garbage reskinned auto-play mobile games, okay!
After enjoying himself for a while, Lao Mu was about to follow the Main Story and continue the plot when his phone received a message. His takeout had arrived.
"Guys, don't rush. I'm grabbing my takeout and will be right back!"
With that, Lao Mu pushed his chair away and turned to leave, planning to eat while streaming.
However, he accidentally bumped the mouse in the process, causing the game camera on his computer to shift considerably.
On-screen, Kafka's slender, shapely legs filled the entire display. Her tight, glossy dark stockings were bound with several leather straps, adding an inexplicable charm.
At the same time, the Barrage went wild.
"Wait, bro?"
"Wait, brother!"
"?° _/"
"L?°⊥"
"I surrender, daddy."
"Holy shit? Streamer, what are you doing! Pervert!"
"what can l say?"
"So perverted!"
"So Lao Mu, this is what kind of pervert streamer you are. Now I'm really going to inject it hard!"
"So this is how you're supposed to play this game? You guys have been playing your Honkai: Star Rail wrong again and again and again and again and again!"
"reoreoreoreoreo"
"You big fool! What are you doing!"
"What do I do? I feel like I've suddenly stepped onto the Path of [Propagation]!"
"Now Lao Mu really got to feast on the good stuff!"
The stream's popularity began to soar wildly, shooting from its original 200,000 viewers to 570,000—more than doubling!
When Lao Mu returned with his takeout, the first thing he saw was the screen full of Barrage messages and the skyrocketing viewer count.
"Holy shit, what's going on!"
With the Barrage filling the screen, Lao Mu hadn't even noticed his game screen. He stared for a long while without understanding how he had become a pervert streamer!
Only after moving the Barrage to the side did a feast for the eyes suddenly appear before him.
At that moment, Lao Mu felt as though he had unlocked the game's hidden gameplay!
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After admiring it with an artistic eye for a while, Lao Mu restored the camera to normal.
If this continued, his stream might not survive.
He hurriedly controlled Kafka and pushed the story forward again.
Meanwhile.
As promotional resources poured in, more and more people began to notice this newly released mobile game.
As an online gaming expert, Silver Wolf naturally noticed this mobile game that had suddenly appeared on the rankings.
"Honkai: Star Rail... could it be a game related to the Star Rail Express?"
The game's character icon also looked familiar. Had she seen it before?
Interested, she decided to download it and give it a proper try.
The game finished downloading quickly, and Silver Wolf immediately tapped the icon to launch it.
The familiar Star Rail Express appeared before her in the opening screen.
"Hmph, interesting!"
Silver Wolf pursed her lips and gave a soft snort. After registering an account, she entered the game.
Right at the beginning, the opening CG of the game gave Silver Wolf a huge shock.
"Isn't this... what happened when we went to the Space Station before?"
The Kafka on-screen was vividly lifelike, with an identical figure and appearance. Silver Wolf knew it was Kafka without even reading the introduction.
And the following plot made Silver Wolf's scalp tingle.
Kafka suddenly had a virtual screen appear before her in the story, and Silver Wolf's own voice came from it.
This was exactly the communication screen from when she and Kafka had infiltrated the Space Station!
Who had secretly recorded everything behind the scenes, and who had the ability to record all of it?
With that thought, Silver Wolf handed her phone to Kafka beside her.
"Kafka, look at this."
Kafka was briefly puzzled, but she still took it and began watching.
The screen was paused at the moment she contacted Silver Wolf, and Kafka immediately noticed something strange.
"Looks like someone recorded our operation and turned it into a game. Interesting."
"Who do you think it was? Or rather, which faction?"
Kafka handed the phone back to Silver Wolf and replied.
"Only the Memokeepers of the Garden of Recollection could probably accomplish something like this. We didn't notice anyone at the scene at all, so the other side's capabilities cannot be underestimated."
The Garden of Recollection. Memokeepers.
This faction was one in the universe that believed in the Memory Aeon. They believed that amid the endless torrent of all things, memories that proved people had existed were the only true treasure.
They devoted themselves to preserving and sharing memories, turning collected memories into Light Cones and waiting for the day they could hand them to Fuli to be woven into Heaven of Perception.
Enlightened by Fuli, the Memory Aeon, the Memokeepers shed their physical bodies and survived in the form of memes.
This energy-like life form made the Memokeepers' whereabouts exceedingly mysterious. Perhaps a Memokeeper stood beside you, recording everything about you.
"Memokeepers, huh? Then I'm curious just how much they recorded."
After hearing Kafka's conclusion, Silver Wolf became even more curious about the game and began playing through the story.
The feeling of watching herself also seemed quite novel to Silver Wolf.
On the Star Rail Express.
A girl let out a startled cry.
"Ah! Dan Heng, March 7th, come look!"
Dan Heng had been reading in the Think Tank when the shout startled him. He helplessly let out a long breath and closed his book.
"What is it, March? Did something happen?"
March 7th looked at March in confusion. Had she seen a ghost or something?
"Look, isn't that Stellaron Hunter Kafka?"
The two looked at March's phone together. The Kafka on-screen was indeed exactly the same as the real one.
"This is... a game?"
Dan Heng saw that the entire screen even displayed dialogue boxes. It looked just like a game's story sequence.
"Someone made Kafka into a game character?"
"And not just her! In the opening animation, I even saw myself and Dan Heng! And the game's opening animation featured the Star Rail Express!"
"What? I'm in it too?"
Dan Heng frowned slightly, while March 7th pointed at herself.
"What about me? Did I appear?"
"Ah... I haven't played for very long yet, so I haven't seen March 7th for now."
"March, keep going through the story. I have a bold guess."
So March 7th continued the story, and Dan Heng gradually became certain of his conjecture.
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