Honkai: Star Rail: I Developed the Star Rail Mobile Game at the Company Chapter 7

"Miss Himeko, let's be Nameless together for life!"

"reoreoreoreoreo"

On the train, when Himeko saw her weapon, she had a premonition—but even so, seeing her own face appear in the game still caught her off guard.

"Miss Himeko, look, it's your cool entrance!"

March 7th pointed at her phone screen.

"This perfectly matches the ideal image of Miss Himeko in my heart!"

"It seems this game really recorded everything that happened. I had just arrived back then too—luckily, nothing went wrong."

For now, Himeko chalked all of this up to someone recording events by some means. If that were the case, then the next part of the story should be the Star Rail Express's earlier experiences.

Jarilo-VI, the Xianzhou, and now—Penacony, their next destination.

She started to feel curious: if the story moved a little faster and caught up to the Star Rail Express's current progress, how would this game develop?

In the following story, Arlan went to report to Asta first. Himeko introduced Star briefly, then asked if March 7th had caused any trouble along the way.

"Star, think carefully before you answer."

[Never seen such a reckless girl.]

[Never seen such an energetic girl.]

[Then I'll pass on answering.]

"High EQ: energetic. Low EQ: reckless."

Lao Mu looked at the options before him, picked the first one, and wondered what her reaction would be.

"--That's just how I am! I didn't cause any trouble this time... you'll get used to it... Look, Dan Heng's used to it."

With that, March 7th turned to Dan Heng and blinked hard, frantically signaling him to say something nice for her.

"...I have the right to remain silent."

The barrage of comments burst into laughter.

"This time"

"Haha, looks like the goofball act isn't fake after all!"

"Dan Heng: I'm done."

In the story, Himeko let out a soft laugh too.

"Haha, young people just click so easily. Looks like you're already pretty close. Let's go—Asta's been worried about you."

The story paused there, and a trial message for Himeko appeared on screen.

The barrage clamored for a monster to test out Himeko's skills.

Lao Mu had planned the same, but after looking around, he realized this area was probably a safe zone. During the process, he spotted quite a few Herta Space Station researchers he could talk to.

"Why did the Anti-Matter Legion suddenly show up? Am I going to die here? Mom, Dad, my love... I miss you all so much."

"I-I'm still so young! I still want to shine at Herta Space Station! I don't want to die!"

The invasion of the Anti-Matter Legion made the researchers feel death's closeness for the first time. Familiar colleagues fell to the Legion's hands, weighing the station's atmosphere with heaviness.

The barrage was filled with criticism of the Destruction Star God Nanook and his Anti-Matter Legion.

"Nanook is a total lunatic! How can such a despicable being as the Destruction Star God exist in this world!"

"My hometown was destroyed by the Anti-Matter Legion! The whole planet was detonated by the Great-Eradicator—now I'm completely homeless!"

"Sigh, Star Gods are beyond biological concepts. Who knows what's going on in their heads!"

After Lao Mu wandered around and entered the mission's story range, the dialogue automatically triggered.

Asta stood on the command platform, her eyes revealing a calmness beyond her years.

She had to keep monitoring the station's data to ensure it wouldn't crash.

"Projection radar tracking normal. Telemetry signal frequency is too high! Must be kept at average levels!"

"According to predictions, the Legion will launch over ten consecutive waves of attacks. Everyone, hold strong!"

Watching her serious, commanding self on screen, Asta felt like she was falling in love with herself.

"Arlan, contact this game's development company for me!"

"Miss, are you going to..."

Hearing that familiar request, Arlan seemed to guess what Miss Asta planned to do next.

"Of course, open another payment channel for me! 648 and all that—this top-up method is way too slow!"

"...Uh, Miss, how many Credits are you planning to top up this time?"

"Hmm, let's start with two hundred million to test the waters!"

"Understood, Miss. I'll contact them right away."

And so, Lin Guang, who was enjoying dinner, saw that message. He'd only been casually checking his DMs, but ended up getting flashbanged by a rich person's spending habits.

So this is the most ridiculously wealthy woman in the entire universe?

Lin Guang suddenly felt that the game system in his hands wasn't so appealing anymore.

What else could you say—the gap between people was bigger than the gap between people and pigs.

But unfortunately, Lin Guang checked the in-game shop and found no option for custom-defined top-up amounts, so he had no choice but to maintain his official aloof persona and pretend he hadn't seen it.

After waiting a while with no response, figuring the other party might not be checking messages for now, Station Master Asta handed Arlan a black card and told him to top up for her first.

Back in the story, the Train Crew arrived behind Asta, and March 7th spoke up first.

"Station Master Asta, we're back."

After the Train Crew returned with Arlan, Asta explained the current situation at the Space Station and mentioned that Herta was temporarily unreachable.

"I knew it... It's fine, I'll send a message to Herta too, saying we've brought the curios she wanted. At least that'll catch her interest."

"That would be a huge help."

Then the story paused again, and the gacha system everyone had been waiting for finally appeared!

Chapter 10: Gacha System Unlocked! The First PV

As the Warp System representing gacha appeared, the barrage erupted again.

"Hurry up, streamer, check the gacha system—what characters are in it!"

"I can't take it, I need to whale right now!"

"Is Kafka in the character pool? I want Kafka Mom!"

"Wolf Cub! My Wolf Cub!"

"Big Sister Himeko!"

"Finally the main event—a hero can't back down here!"

"I wonder what the gacha price is, probably that 6480 type, right?"

"Depends on the rates too, hope the pity isn't too high!"

"Five-star come... Five-star come... Five-stars from all directions!"

"Alright, let me show everyone this game's gacha Warp System!"

With that, Lao Mu tapped the gacha interface and followed the tutorial for a single pull.

The screen shifted—a ticket slid into the entrance, the Star Rail Express approached from afar, and on the spark-filled platform stood a fluffy, nameless mascot.

A purple light burst from behind, a powerful shockwave rattling the mascot's ears in the wind, before it stepped aside to clear the carriage passage.

Harmony—Asta!

The icon showed a fire-element four-star Harmony character.

"Wow, first pull and we got her!"

Asta sat sideways in an office chair in a uniform skirt, a massive astronomical observation device behind her. The exquisite splash art instantly made the audience fall for this girl.

"It's Miss Asta, I got her too!"

"Same here, looks like everyone's first pull is Asta—this must be fixed!"

"A four-star Harmony, judging by the skills, seems like a support character!"

"It's just that Miss Asta is a Pathstrider of Harmony? You'd never guess from normal life!"

"Game is game, reality is reality, there's bound to be some differences!"

"Lao Mu, hurry up and whale, let's see the five-star characters!"

Lao Mu planned to drop a few 6480s on this game too—not just because the sponsorship would refund part of it, but because the story quality and everything else were genuinely pretty good.

He switched to the top-up shop interface, scrolled through the options one by one, and stopped at Captured Dreamscape.

"Pretty much the same as normal mobile game whaling—6480 and monthly passes and stuff—let's just buy one of each."

With over twenty-six thousand Ancient Dreamscape in hand, Lao Mu returned to the Warp interface and spotted something different.

"This is... Departure Warp—ten-pull at 20% off, guaranteed five-star within 50 pulls—it's the Beginner Banner, bros!"

The interface displayed splash art of seven Standard Characters, and the audience immediately spotted Himeko among them, along with some unexpectedly familiar faces.

"Himeko! It's Big Sister Himeko!"

"So many characters, they all look great!"

"Wait, am I seeing things? Isn't that the Dragon Lady!"

"And the one in the top left—isn't that General Jing Yuan's attendant, the Luofu's strongest swordsman, Yanqing!"

"There are Xianzhou characters! Please, I need General Jing Yuan!"

"White hair, red eyes—I can't, this is a direct hit on me!"

"Clara is so cute aaaaah! Don't you dare pull my Clara (crying)"

"I can't take it, my wallet is whaling itself!"

The announcement of the gacha pool instantly caused quite a stir, as a wide variety of characters appeared before the players all at once, leaving their emotions incredibly complicated.

Excitement over being able to pull their favorite characters, yet anxious about some known figures not yet implemented, curious and eager to see what surprises the game would bring next.

On the internet, trending topics began to feature keywords related to Honkai: Star Rail, and the search heat continued to climb.

Watching his account's follower count grow steadily, Lin Guang decided it was time to add more fuel to the game's popularity!

Game Name: Honkai: Star Rail

Game Version: 1.0

Registered Users: 840,000

Current Online Users: 650,000

Game Discussion Heat: 5,610,000

Taking a look at the game's current data, it had already multiplied several times compared to before.

And the amount of top-ups was climbing nonstop, since a relentless auto-recharge machine was clicking the 6480 top-up without pause.

At this moment, his own game points had already reached an astonishing 7,520,000!

Opening the system's shop interface, Lin Guang checked the prices for PVs, which ranged from 5,000,000 to 10,000,000 points, with varying production costs leading to different purchase prices.

His gaze swept over each PV one by one. Considering they were currently in the launch phase, Lin Guang thought for a moment and finally spent 6,700,000 points to purchase one PV. He decided to keep the remaining points for now and see how things went.

"I choose you, Warp PV—Space Comedy!"

The main content of this PV was a showcase of various characters that would be implemented in the future, making it perfect for dangling a carrot in front of the players at this stage!

After buying the PV, Lin Guang immediately logged into the game's official account and released the PV, also sending a copy to Yan Shi, who was in charge of promotion.

Previously, because there was nothing to work with, advertisements like those played on large outdoor screens hadn't been set up at all. Now that this PV was available, it could naturally be arranged.

Yan Shi, seeing that the game side had messaged him again, accepted the request and quickly provided Aventurine's contact information to the other party, saying that the leadership of his company hoped to establish a deeper connection with them.