Honkai: Star Rail: I'm Developing the Star Rail Mobile Game at the Company Chapter 3

"Indeed, this is exactly what we experienced back on the Herta Space Station!"

"What!?"

March 7th and the girl were both a bit startled. Dan Heng then turned to the girl and spoke.

"If I'm not mistaken, the next part of the story should be your scene, girl."

"No... no way, this game can see our past? I'm starting to get scared..."

"Uh, you can still feel fear?"

"Hey, this young lady is just a weak woman, alright!"

"Enough, let's just get through the mission story."

Back in Lao Mu's livestream.

He was controlling Kafka as she walked through the space station, with the sound of a communication device playing as she moved.

"When did the Anti-Matter Legion get this weak?"

"This is all the forces I could lure. You wouldn't want this place to be targeted by the Legion's main force, would you?"

Seeing this oddly familiar format, Lao Mu's gaze shifted to the camera, his expression turning strangely peculiar, caught between holding back and breaking into a grin, desperately suppressing the corners of his mouth from rising.

"This game's writing... has some flavor to it!"

Seeing Lao Mu's expression like he'd been possessed by the spirit of a strongman, the chat couldn't hold back either.

"These story lines, I feel like I've seen them in some kind of film before!"

"This game's writing has some flavor, probably has a side gig on the side."

"A specialty of Edo Star, right? The husband's boss's request, license plate 114514!"

"Lao Mu, you wouldn't want the stream's popularity to drop, would you!"

"Whoa, how did we suddenly hit the highway? I want off!"

"The guy before, your license plate is way too stinky (sad)"

"Huh? What are you all talking about? What Edo Star specialty? I don't get it?"

"Don't worry, just go do your homework."

"So shrimp-headed, I love it way too much!"

The stream's popularity surged again, and the next content only ignited the viewers' curiosity further.

"With just this kind of trash, they can't hold off the Star Rail Express crew."

"Don't worry, a Doomsday Beast is also coming."

This was a game made with reality as its prototype, even the Star Rail Express had appeared!

The chat instantly shifted to discussing the game's story, but the next moment, a CG cutscene began in the game.

Kafka stood still, and behind her, a Voidranger from the Anti-Matter Legion suddenly appeared to ambush her. Yet Kafka calmly adjusted her sleeves without a hint of panic.

Just as the ambush was about to land, the Voidranger's body began to dissolve into a string of virtual code data, vanishing eerily on the spot.

The camera zoomed out, revealing Silver Wolf tapping away at a virtual code program with one hand.

"Wiping someone else's ass isn't my job, right, Kafka?"

Stellaron Hunter—Silver Wolf!

Chapter 4: The Official Makes a Move

"Another Stellaron Hunter has appeared!"

"It's her, the genius hacker with a 5.1 billion bounty from the company, Silver Wolf!"

"So small! I thought Stellaron Hunters were all muscular, chest-haired brutes!"

"So cute! Silver Wolf should be summonable, right?"

On the other side, Silver Wolf had already guessed the story's progression, but watching herself in the scene had its own charm.

The story continued, with Kafka asking the suddenly appearing Silver Wolf.

"Alright, alright, where did you toss it, Silver Wolf?"

"Just a random coordinate I punched in, nothing special. Are you that concerned about where that Voidranger went?"

"Not really~ But no matter how many times I see it, I always think, your methods are truly incredible~"

As the universe's genius hacker, Silver Wolf could directly affect the real world by writing etheric code, which was the method she used to teleport the Voidranger away earlier.

"Just modifying reality data, a trivial little trick."

"What were you looking at so intently just now? Let me see too?"

"Herta's toys, the space station's collection of curios catalog. There are a lot of interesting things in it."

At the mention of Herta, the Herta Space Station researcher who was slacking off and watching the stream widened his eyes.

No wonder he kept feeling the scenes in this game looked so familiar. Combined with the earlier Stellaron Hunters and Anti-Matter Legion, wasn't this exactly what happened not long ago!

Thinking of this, the researcher immediately ran off to find Arlan, the head of the security department, to report on the game.

And the viewers in the livestream also realized this.

"Herta? This isn't the Herta Space Station, is it!"

"Looks like the current map is the Herta Space Station. No wonder it felt familiar earlier!"

"I wonder if there'll be a trial for Silver Wolf later!"

"Silver Wolf... hehe, my Silver Wolf!"

"Don't be a creep here!"

The story continued, with Silver Wolf talking about the curios she'd seen described.

"There's a gun that scores any creature that appears in its sights, from 0 to 100."

"...What's so fun about that?"

"Aren't you curious what score you'd get?... I'd kind of like to know."

"Sure, if it's on the way, let's go check it out~ Where's the target location?"

"Follow the corridor past the left door deeper in. There's a room with some kind of curio."

"Is the Stellaron there?"

"It can tell us where the Stellaron is."

As more and more information was revealed, Lao Mu confirmed that this game not only used reality as its backdrop but also treated past events as the storyline, just from the perspective of the Stellaron Hunters for now.

The scene shifted, and the game let the player control the character's actions again.

This time, Silver Wolf joined the story trial as the viewers had expected.

"Streamer, can you try that again!"

"Yeah, we really want to take a closer look!"

"I want to see if this game's character models are realistic!"

"My Esteemed Ministers, why are you hemming and hawing, dodging the subject!"

Lao Mu was a bit puzzled at first, but after glancing at a few comments, he understood.

Damn! You bunch of old pervs!

I'm a positive-energy streamer!

Then he cleared his throat and said.

"Ah, my throat's a bit dry. I'm going to get a drink!"

With that, he pushed the mouse to a perfect spot, and a pale, gleaming view immediately appeared on the screen.

Meanwhile, Lin Guang looked at his system panel. After this period of promotion, the game's various metrics had started to rise.

Game Name: Honkai: Star Rail

Game Version: 1.0

Registered Users: 80,000

Current Online Users: 50,000

Game Discussion Volume: 360,000

His game points had also reached around 1.2 million. Once the promotional effects gradually kicked in, the game's popularity would continue to grow.

Lin Guang closed the system with satisfaction and prepared to check out the livestreams to see how the game was being received.

Then he immediately spotted the most popular stream with the Honkai: Star Rail tag. The streamer's name was Lao Mu, and his viewership had already hit over a million. It looked pretty lively.

But when Lin Guang clicked into the stream, that pale, gleaming view made him freeze.

"Bro, seriously? That's so shrimp-headed?"

All he could say was that no matter which world you're in, the thoughts of old pervs are always universal!

But this couldn't go on. He was making a positive-energy mobile game, and the characters were still in this world!

So Lin Guang quickly pulled up the system, spent 200,000 game points to make a small hotfix, and also added fog to the character's six-constellation images to keep those shrimp-headed guys from finding new angles. At the same time, he forced all players to log out for the update.

As for the remaining game points, keeping them in hand wouldn't make them multiply out of nowhere. Lin Guang planned to invest them further into promotional resources.

He checked the exchange rate between game points and credits. It was exactly 1:1, meaning 1 million game points could be exchanged for 1 million credits.

There was also a special note: system-supplied, absolutely no after-sales issues.

So Lin Guang exchanged 1 million game points for credits and added another 1 million credits to the promotional budget with Yan Shi.

Yan Shi was a bit curious about which boss was being so generous, but he knew not to ask about things he shouldn't, so he focused on arranging the 1 million credit promotional plan.

Meanwhile, on the other side, the viewers in the livestream all saw a message pop up in the game.

[Server Anomaly]

Below it was only a confirm button. Clicking it would log them back into the game.

The barrage instantly exploded.

"What's going on! Is Tai Xiatou banned?"

"Now he's really become Lao Mu, don't elbow me!"

"Shouldn't be—my game popped this up too, just relog and it's fine!"

The sudden message startled Lao Mu, but seeing it was just a hotfix, he breathed a sigh of relief, though a question arose in his mind—what was being updated that was so urgent it forced a logout?

But when he updated the game and logged back in, he found the problem.

Whenever he tilted the camera downward, the character model in the frame would start to blur until it vanished!

Meanwhile, Lin Guang posted the first update through the game's official account.

[Fixed a bug where character models blocked the view from certain camera angles]

The viewers in the livestream who saw this announcement were struck as if by lightning.

"Damn, a hotfix for this?"

"Wait, how was it blocking the view? That's exactly what I was looking at!"

"Wuwuwu, my ham!"

"How did the devs fix this so fast? Are they watching Lao Mu's stream?"

"There's a traitor among the masses!"

"Peeking screen-lurker! Come out! Return my top-tier ingredient!"

The official post was flooded with wails and howls, leaving passing netizens utterly confused.

"Alright, alright, since it's fixed, let's just play through the story normally."

Then Lao Mu controlled the newly added story character, Silver Wolf, as she walked deeper into the Space Station, soon encountering a battle scene.