Just Arrived in Honkai: Star Rail and Met a Doomsday Beast? System, Save Me!

Sharp sirens tore at eardrums.

Red emergency lights flashed frantically against alloy walls.

Su Chen snapped his eyes open, his head buzzing as if struck by a heavy hammer. He instinctively reached out to brace the ground, his fingers touching cold metal flooring.

"Run! The outer defense line has collapsed!"

A staff member in a white lab coat scrambled out from the corner of the corridor, still clutching a data pad for dear life.

The staff member's shoulder slammed hard into Su Chen.

Su Chen staggered, his knees banging against the nearby metal console, drawing in a sharp hiss of pain. A taste of blood welled up in his mouth.

Where was this?

A second ago, he was still pulling an all-nighter playing video games in his rental room, holding a freshly brewed cup of instant noodles.

Now his vision was filled with shattered holographic screens.

Broken cables spitting blue electric sparks wriggled on the floor like snakes.

The air was thick with the pungent stench of ozone and the smell of scorched rubber.

Before he could figure it out, the alloy ceiling overhead emitted a teeth-gretting groan of distortion.

The deafening roar of tearing steel drowned out the sirens.

A thick metal partition smashed down not far away, directly crushing a white cryogenic pod into a pile of scrap metal. Glass shards splattered across the floor.

Several staff members in the corridor shrieked and fled with their heads in their hands, some even running out of a shoe.

The overhead lights were blocked by a massive shadow.

Su Chen raised his head.

A dark blue giant hand, massive enough to induce suffocation, directly ripped open the space station's specialized outer shell and reached in from the boundless vacuum of space.

That hand was covered in hard, heavy scales, its sharp fingernails resembling black triangular bayonets.

Even just suspended in mid-air, the gale-force wind it whipped up blew away all the surrounding hovering seats and scattered documents.

The Doomsday Beast.

Su Chen's heart skipped a beat.

His fingers clawed desperately into the seams of the metal flooring, his knuckles whitening with force.

As a veteran player, he was far too familiar with the character model of this Antimatter Legion monster.

Yet watching through a screen versus having this thing slam its claws right in your face were two entirely different matters.

The giant hand slightly adjusted its angle, locking directly onto the area where Su Chen was.

The beast's low roar filtered through the damaged bulkhead, vibrating one's chest numb.

At the other end of the corridor, a slow-running staff member was shaken so soft-legged by the roar that they collapsed directly onto the ground, covering their ears and letting out a despairing cry.

The giant hand slammed down.

Three seconds.

Su Chen's brain instantly calculated the countdown to death.

He could not run. His legs were nailed firmly in place like they were poured with lead—that was the instinctive paralysis of living beings facing absolute annihilation.

He did not want to die. Having just time-traveled without even getting to drink a cup of water, he was about to turn into a puddle of minced meat?

At this life-or-death juncture, a completely emotionless mechanical voice exploded in his mind.

[Ding.]

[Myriad Worlds Role-Playing System has been bound.]

A translucent blue virtual screen popped up directly in front of Su Chen's face.

Su Chen opened his mouth, unable to squeeze a single syllable from his dry throat.

The wind pressure had already bent his spine.

He could even clearly see the dark red bloodstains smeared on the giant hand's scales, along with the destructive energy pulsing at the joints.

[Host's life is detected to be in mortal danger, facing fatal blows.]

[Skipping novice tutorial.]

The text on the screen flickered rapidly.

Su Chen bit the tip of his tongue in anxiety, the taste of rust spreading in his mouth.

Stop wasting time! Hurry up! Give me anything that can save my life!

[Initiating forced intervention.]

[Novice blind box opened, randomly drawing an alter ego...]

A rapidly spinning card pool vortex appeared in the center of the screen.

Gold, purple, and blue lights flashed frantically, reflecting on Su Chen's sweat-drenched face.

The giant hand was ten meters away from his head.

The air was compressed, and Su Chen felt all the air in his lungs squeezed out, his face turning flushed.

Two seconds.

The vortex stopped spinning.

A dazzling, blinding golden light burst forth from the screen, instantly illuminating the dim corridor.

This light was too dazzling, completely overpowering even the flashing red warning lights overhead.

[Draw successful.]

A card inlaid with dark gold patterns along its edges hovered before Su Chen's eyes.

The card depicted a majestic, slender figure.

Xuanyan-colored dragon scale patterns, golden eye shadow, holding an ancient-looking spear.

[Congratulations to the host for acquiring the divine-tier alter ego: Rex Lapis (Female Version).]

Su Chen froze.

He stared wide-eyed at the mature, cold, and aloof royal sister imagery on the card with its rather impressive chest size.

Female version?

An old mouthful of blood stuck in his throat.

He instinctively wanted to curse, but the violent wind pressure choked his voice right back down, leaving only a muffled grunt.

One second.

The giant hand was only three meters away from his head.

The massive shadow completely swallowed Su Chen's figure.

The oppressive weight of destruction caused his vision to begin darkening.

[Beginning forced fusion!]

The dazzling golden light instantly enveloped his entire person.

There was no time to adapt to the gender transition, nor time to feel the changes in body structure.

The violent gravity vanished without a trace in an instant.

Replaced by a heavy, ancient sense of absolute power, as if it could shoulder the entire earth.

Su Chen felt his bones creaking.

The height of his vision shifted slightly.

His short hair, which had been blown disheveled by the wind pressure, poured down his spine like a waterfall.

The ends of his hair carried a faint amber luster, dancing wildly in the gale.

A set of silk robes intertwined with black gold fit snugly against his brand-new body, the hem embroidered with intricate rock patterns.

His fingers, which had previously panicked and trembled, now became fair and slender, their tips even carrying a slight icy touch, yet harboring the mighty force to crush stars.

Panic, fear, and despair were replaced in this instant by an absolute calmness and majesty.

That was not an emotion belonging to ordinary humans; that was the divinity belonging solely to the Martial God.

The Doomsday Beast's giant hand had smashed down to half a meter above his head.

The alloy floor, unable to bear the load, emitted a series of explosive crashes in advance.

Su Chen did not raise his head.

She merely slowly raised that arm resembling mutton-fat jade, her five fingers slightly spread.

"As solid as stone."

A cold, majestic royal sister voice echoed through the corridor.

Boom!

A translucent golden geometric shield blossomed outward with her at its center.

Jade Shield.

The Doomsday Beast's giant hand, powerful enough to shatter a cruiser, slammed solidly against the golden shield.

A visible circle of white shockwaves exploded outward along the edge of the shield.

The violent shockwave tore the metal walls on both sides directly into pieces.

The ground of the entire corridor sagged downward by half a meter in an instant.

Shattered metal parts were whipped up by the shockwave, striking the distant bulkhead and punching out dense craters.

Yet that golden shield did not ripple even in the slightest.

The stunning female Archon slowly opened her eyes amidst the dazzling golden light.

A pair of golden pupils, clear as amber yet brimming with endless divine might.

A terrifying pressure far exceeding a Stellarron, akin to the descent of an ancient deity, swept outward in a ring from her center toward the entire space station.

The violent wind stagnated.

The Doomsday Beast's massive body trembled violently, and that giant hand slamming into the shield abruptly froze stiff in mid-air.