Honkai: Star Rail: I Develop Star Rail Mobile Games at the Company Chapter 2

"She is so beautiful!!!"

"Honkai: Star Rail, right? I'm downloading it now!"

"Up there, it's Honkai: Star Rail!!!"

Seeing the game's quality was decent, the livestream's viewership began to climb slowly, and the big spenders also grew curious about what would happen next.

Lao Mu was surprised by this turn of events. Was this game developer designing backgrounds based on real people? If so, then later on...

With that thought, he continued progressing through the story quest.

"The futures Elio sees are never wrong. What was that explosion just now? Is it in his script too?"

"Yes. At system time 23:44:59, the explosion's pulse caused a large-scale paralysis of the main control system."

"Did you do it?"

"The Anti-Matter Legion did. They launched a full-scale invasion of the Space Station two system hours ago."

"Do we need to engage the Legion?"

A light, flippant whistle flowed from between crimson lips.

"Don't know. Elio didn't say, so it's not important."

"Understood~ Then from now on, I'm taking over the operation."

Up to this point in the story, Lao Mu had read every single word, but honestly, he didn't quite get it...

What was all this? What script? What were the Stellaron Hunters here for?

Who was the protagonist? And who was he?

A whole string of thoughts swiped across his mind, yet nothing really stuck...

So Lao Mu decided to order some takeout first! Then he continued with the story.

"Roger. Can you make this one fun for me? The last few operations were so boring."

"Sorry, today's mission is extremely dull: just putting the target inside. But if you want to find some amusement, I won't stop you. After all, anything Elio didn't write in the script is irrelevant."

As she spoke, Kafka drew her weapon, facing several Anti-Matter Legion Voidrangers head-on. Then the screen froze, and streams of shattered cracks spread across it.

"Oh! We're in the battle screen!"

Seeing the fight begin, Lao Mu finally got interested. The screen shifted, and Kafka stood with her back to it, elegantly holding a purple longsword.

"Holy crap, Kafka is actually a playable character!"

"This game developer's got guts, aren't they afraid the Stellaron Hunters will come knocking for a 'warm visit'?"

"And you can try her for free in the story? Perfect, let's see how strong she is!"

"I'm starting to look forward to the other characters later!"

"But looking at this battle screen... is it a turn-based game? That's such an ancient mechanic from decades ago!"

"What the hell do you know? Gameplay isn't about good or bad, it's all in how it's made!"

The combat system didn't seem too complicated. The character could perform three types of actions.

Q was a Basic Attack, which could recover one Skill Point. E was a stronger Skill that consumed one Skill Point. After charging up, you could also unleash an Ultimate attack.

The tutorial difficulty was basically nonexistent—one Basic Attack plus one Skill finished the fight.

After the battle ended, the player could finally control the character and walk around the map. Lao Mu immediately started fiddling with curiosity.

"Wow, bros, Kafka's model is really good!"

Lao Mu made Kafka walk and sprint, and the whole process was clear and smooth, not a single stutter. He occasionally let out an exclamation of awe.

Plus, the character model was very detailed. Standing still for a while triggered an idle animation.

This was something those cheap reskinned idle mobile games couldn't even compare to!

After enjoying himself for a bit, Lao Mu was about to follow the main quest and advance the story when suddenly his phone buzzed—his takeout had arrived.

"Bros, hold on a sec, I'm grabbing my food, be right back!"

With that, Lao Mu pushed his chair back and turned to leave, planning to eat while streaming.

But during the process, he accidentally bumped the mouse, and the game camera on the screen shifted because of it.

On the screen, Kafka's long, shapely legs filled the entire display. Tight, glossy dark stockings were bound with several leather straps, adding an extra layer of inexplicable charm.

Meanwhile, the barrage went wild.

"Bro, seriously?"

"Bro, what the hell?"

"?° _/"

"L?°⊥"

"I'm done, Dad"

"Holy shit? Streamer, what are you doing! Creep!"

"What can I say?"

"That's so shrimp-headed!"

"So Lao Mu, you're this kind of shrimp-headed streamer? Time to really pour it on!"

"So this is how you're supposed to play this game? Your Honkai: Star Rail is wrong again, again, again, again, again!"

"Reoreoreoreoreo"

"Big fool Chun! What are you doing!"

"What do I do? I feel like I've suddenly stepped onto the Path of Propagation!"

"Now Lao Mu's really getting a taste of the good stuff!"

The stream's popularity began to skyrocket, surging from two hundred thousand viewers to five hundred and seventy thousand—more than doubling!

When Lao Mu came back with his takeout, the first thing he saw was a screen flooded with danmaku and a wildly inflated viewer count.

"Holy crap, what's going on!"

The barrage of danmaku was so thick that Lao Mu didn't even notice his own game screen. He stared for a long time without understanding how he'd become a shrimp-headed streamer!

Only after he adjusted the danmaku to play on one side did a mouthwatering scene appear before his eyes.

In that moment, Lao Mu felt like he'd unlocked the game's hidden gameplay!

Chapter 3: Edo Star Specialty

After savoring the view with an artistic eye for a while, Lao Mu switched the camera back to normal.

If he kept this up, his stream might not survive.

He quickly controlled Kafka to push the story forward again.

Meanwhile.

With the injection of promotional resources, more and more people began to notice this newly released mobile game.

Silver Wolf, as a veteran online gamer, naturally spotted this game that had suddenly climbed the rankings.

"Honkai: Star Rail... Is it a game related to the Star Rail Express?"

And the character icon looked familiar too—had she seen it somewhere before?

Intrigued, she decided to download it and give it a try.

The game finished downloading quickly, and Silver Wolf immediately tapped the icon to launch it.

In the opening screen, the familiar Star Rail Express appeared before her eyes.

"Hmph, interesting!"

Silver Wolf pursed her lips with a light hum, registered an account, and entered the game.

Right from the start, the opening CG stunned Silver Wolf.

"Isn't this... what happened back at the Space Station?"

The Kafka on screen was lifelike, her appearance and figure perfectly matching—Silver Wolf knew it was Kafka without even reading the introduction.

And the story that followed sent chills down Silver Wolf's spine.

In the cutscene, a virtual screen suddenly appeared before Kafka's eyes, and her own voice came through it.

This was exactly the communication footage from when she and Kafka had infiltrated the Space Station!

Who could have secretly recorded all of this? And who would have the ability to do so?

With that thought, Silver Wolf handed her phone to Kafka beside her and said, "Kafka, take a look at this."

Kafka hesitated for a moment, but still took it and began to watch.

The screen paused at the moment she was contacting Silver Wolf, and Kafka immediately saw the clue.

"It seems someone has turned our actions into a game. Interesting."

"Who do you think it is? Or rather, which faction?"

Kafka handed the phone back to Silver Wolf and replied, "For something like this, only a Memokeeper from the Garden of Recollection could pull it off. I didn't sense anything at the scene at all—their strength must not be underestimated."

The Garden of Recollection, the Memokeepers.

This faction is a sect in the universe that believes in the Memory Aeon. They believe that in the torrent of all things, the memories that prove people's existence are the only treasure.

They dedicate themselves to preserving and sharing memories, turning the memories they collect into Light Cones, waiting for the day they can be handed over to Fuli to be compiled into the Heaven of Perception.

Enlightened by the Memory Aeon Fuli, the Memokeepers shed their physical bodies and exist in the form of memes.

This energy-like life form makes the Memokeepers' movements utterly mysterious—perhaps there's a Memokeeper right beside you, recording everything you do.

"Memokeepers, huh? Then I'm curious just how much they recorded."

Hearing Kafka's conclusion, Silver Wolf grew even more curious about the game and began to play through the story.

This feeling of watching oneself was also quite novel for Silver Wolf.

Aboard the Star Rail Express.

A girl let out a startled cry.

"Ah! Dan Heng, Stelle, come look at this!"

Dan Heng, who was reading in the Think Tank, was startled by the shout. He sighed helplessly and closed his book.

"What is it, March? What happened?"

Stelle looked at March 7th with some confusion. Was she seeing things?

"Look, isn't this that Stellaron Hunter, Kafka!"

The two of them looked at March 7th's phone together. On the screen, Kafka indeed looked exactly like the real one.

"Is this... a game?"

Dan Heng noticed the dialogue box displayed on the screen. It was just like a game's storyline.

"Did someone make Kafka into a game character?"

"That's not all. In the opening cutscene just now, I saw myself and Dan Heng too! And the game's opening animation was the Star Rail Express!"

"What, even I'm in it?"

Dan Heng frowned slightly, while Stelle pointed at herself.

"What about me? Did I show up?"

"Ah... I haven't played much yet. I haven't seen Stelle so far."

"March, keep going through the story. I have a bold guess."

So March 7th continued the story. During the process, Dan Heng gradually confirmed his speculation.