A Corpse That Moves a Hundred Years Later / Whenever I See a Familiar Face, I Have to Go Say Hi

My Honkai: Star Rail System Arrived Early

Author: White-Haired Isn't an Online Scam

Synopsis:

Honkai: Star Rail, exploiting system bugs, survival

Ji Yuan had transmigrated into the world of Honkai: Star Rail and obtained a system. However, there seemed to be something wrong with his system.

It seemed to have arrived too early.

"You dueled the Luofu Sword Champion and won! You have been rewarded with Mastery of Swordsmanship!"

Ji Yuan looked at the young Yanqing before him and silently accepted the longsword in his hand.

"You defeated the Divination Commission's Master Diviner in her strongest field! You have been rewarded with the Art of Fate Observation!"

Ji Yuan looked at Qingque, who had already lost everything, pushed the Jade Abacus before him forward, and loudly declared, "I win!"

"You defeated the Luofu General..."

The tiny Fu Xuan raised her head, her wide eyes staring upward.

"You instructed one of the Ten-Lords Commission's Ten Kings."

Ji Yuan grabbed Huohuo, whose legs were trembling.

Finally, Ji Yuan viciously punched himself.

"You attacked a corpse in motion. You have been rewarded with Corpse Looting Experience +1!"

Volume One

A Corpse That Would Move a Hundred Years Later

Yanqing felt like he had gone mad. He was actually looking forward to sparring with a Trade Official whose sole responsibility was reviewing foreign trade.

Maybe it was because that man's talent with the sword was simply too high.

Yanqing thought to himself.

Ten days ago, while wandering around Flowing Cloud Ferry, a Trade Official from the Maritime Trade Office had unexpectedly asked to spar with him.

A civil official responsible for trade negotiations wanted to spar with him?

Yanqing had thought the guy was crazy.

Still, considering the possibility that the other party might be a hidden master, Yanqing fought the Trade Official seriously.

Then—

He defeated the Trade Official in a single move.

What?!

That exchange had left him utterly stunned.

Before he could recover, the Trade Official had already sincerely thanked him and departed.

Seeing him leave, Yanqing did not think much of it. Although people who did not understand their own strength rashly challenging others were rare on the Celestial Ark, they were not unheard of.

Just when Yanqing thought the matter was over, the Trade Official came looking for him again the next day to spar.

Wasn't this a little too much?

Seeing the opponent he had defeated in one move yesterday come looking for him again the next day, Yanqing was somewhat speechless.

Maintaining the attitude expected of a swordsman, Yanqing still fought the Trade Official seriously.

The moment they exchanged blows—

He sensed that something was wrong.

The opponent whom he had needed only one move to defeat before could actually block that move now. Moreover, the sword technique used to block it felt strangely familiar to Yanqing.

Although Yanqing still defeated him with the second move, such a dramatic improvement in just one day truly earned Yanqing's admiration.

The next day, the Trade Official came to challenge him again.

This time, he lasted three moves.

The fourth day, the fifth day...

Every day brought remarkable progress.

Today was already the tenth day. Yanqing had come directly to the entrance of the Maritime Trade Office to wait for that Trade Official to get off work.

He was looking forward to today's battle.

At exactly five o'clock in the afternoon, Luofu time, Ji Yuan finally finished handling his work at the Trade Office at the very last second.

Celestial Ark civil servants would absolutely not work even one extra minute.

Lowering his head, Ji Yuan reached beneath his desk and picked up an exquisitely decorated four-foot-long box from beside his feet.

Inside were two of the newest sword models forged by the Artificer's Workshop, gifts he planned to give Yanqing shortly.

A few days ago, while chatting with Yanqing, he had learned that Yanqing spent his money every month buying swords from the Artificer's Workshop, leaving him so broke during the last few days of the month that he had to mooch meals off the general.

I'll help him buy these two swords. Hopefully, this month will be a little easier for him.

Ji Yuan thought to himself.

After all, he knew that going to challenge Yanqing every day was an extremely troublesome thing to do to someone else.

But he had no choice.

Ji Yuan viciously slammed a fist into his own arm. Immediately afterward, a voice rang beside his ear.

"You attacked a corpse in motion. You have been rewarded with Corpse Looting Experience +1!"

After the voice ended, a string of memories surfaced in Ji Yuan's mind—memories of searching corpses across battlefields and obtaining spoils.

As a transmigrator from Earth who had come to the Celestial Ark, he had finally obtained his golden finger after transmigrating into a war orphan, being adopted, and living for over a hundred years.

For humans from other civilizations, more than a hundred years meant an entire lifetime had passed. For a Celestial Ark Native, it did not even count as adulthood.

Ji Yuan's system was very simple. As long as he formed a sufficiently deep interaction with anyone, whether through talking all night or fighting and sparring, he could earn skill points.

As for the specific ability he received, that depended on the identity, strength, and status of the person he interacted with.

However—

While studying his system, he discovered that it had one serious problem.

His system had arrived at the wrong time.

After chatting with several veteran Cloud Knights in his neighborhood for days and understanding his system's abilities, Ji Yuan, wanting to make money, went directly to a wealthy merchant next door to shamelessly learn some business skills.

Because Ji Yuan's adoptive mother held some status in the Cloud Knights, the merchant patiently spent an entire afternoon chatting with him. Yet after that afternoon, Ji Yuan received this prompt from the system.

"You conversed with a bankrupt merchant for an afternoon. You have been rewarded with Park Life Experience +1!"

Ji Yuan felt terrible at the time.

The man was living well as a wealthy merchant right now, yet the system was telling him that he had already gone bankrupt.

What was going on?

Later, in order to verify what exactly was happening, he sought out many more people.

After interacting with many outsiders, Ji Yuan understood exactly what was wrong with his system.

It had arrived early.

About a hundred years early.

For outsiders who were not from the Celestial Ark and whose lifespans did not exceed a century, the achievements Ji Yuan gained from interacting with them were things like "You conversed with a corpse for an afternoon. You have been rewarded with Autopsy Experience +1," or "You conversed with a corpse all night. You have been rewarded with Body Disposal Experience +1."

During that period, whenever Ji Yuan saw someone, he would immediately think about how to dismember and dispose of them.

After further exploring the system, Ji Yuan discovered another way to use it.

The fate determined by the system was not fixed. As long as one knew the future, it could be changed. When that wealthy merchant was making a risky investment, Ji Yuan persuaded him to abandon the idea. When Ji Yuan interacted with him again afterward, he received an achievement instead.

"You conversed with a famous merchant from the Yaoging Star-skiff. You have been rewarded with Merchandise Trade Experience +1!"

Ji Yuan had been immensely proud of this ability and was preparing to make a name for himself on the Yaoging Star-skiff when he accidentally injured himself while practicing swordsmanship.

Then he heard this message.

"You attacked a corpse in motion. You have been rewarded with Corpse Looting Experience +1!"

Ji Yuan's expression changed.

This was not a joke, was it?

He tried several more times and discovered that he had not misheard.

At any time over the next hundred years, he could die. He would not even have the chance to become Mara-Struck.

Thinking about the Yaoging Star-skiff where he was currently living, Ji Yuan found it not entirely incomprehensible.

The other vessels of the Celestial Ark Alliance measured their attacks against the Abundance Followers in years. Only Yaoging measured its wars in months. Out of twelve months each year, at least ten were spent launching wars against the Abundance Followers.

Both his parents had died in the war against the Abundance Followers, leaving not even their bones behind.

It was not impossible that one day, it would be his turn.

Especially since his adoptive mother very much wanted him to join the Cloud Knights and fight the Abundance Followers as well.

To defy fate, Ji Yuan made a decision.

He could not remain on the war-crazed Yaoging Star-skiff.

After leaving two letters behind for his adoptive mother, who was sweeping through Abundance Followers, and his adoptive mother's daughter—his younger sister—who had been sent to a closed school for remedial lessons due to her terrible academic performance, he boarded a Star Skiff from the Maritime Trade Office and headed straight for the relatively peaceful Luofu Starfaring Vessel.

His previous life had involved international trade, and he had also gained plenty of merchant experience. Ji Yuan went straight to the Maritime Trade Office, which handled foreign trade, and passed the examination to become a Trade Official.

In his previous world, that would have been equivalent to graduating and joining customs. He was a proper Celestial Ark civil servant now.

He was merely trying to survive, not trying to cut ties with his adoptive mother's family. Now that he had a civilian government post, did she still have the nerve to make him return and become a Cloud Knight?

Ji Yuan thought to himself.

Just when he thought everything was secure, Ji Yuan punched himself hard once more and received the same achievement again.

"You attacked a corpse in motion. You have been rewarded with Corpse Looting Experience +1!"

Whenever He Saw a Familiar Character, He Had to Get Something Out of Them

Why? Why would he still die after coming to the Luofu Starfaring Vessel?

Ji Yuan was deeply confused.

However, he knew that if he did nothing, he could die at any time over the next short hundred years. He might even be turned into a corpse tomorrow by an attack from an unknown source.

Since running away had no effect, Ji Yuan could only change his approach.

He would fight head-on.

To do that, he had to make good use of the system and find characters he could exploit for benefits.

Unfortunately, although he knew of the game Honkai: Star Rail in his previous life, he had never gotten around to playing it. He had merely seen some beautiful CG images posted online. He knew who the playable characters were, but he did not know much about their specific circumstances.

What was more, this was a hundred years earlier. No one could say what would happen over those hundred years.

Whether the protagonists had even appeared yet was still unknown.

However, Ji Yuan's first target soon appeared.

The disciple of General Jing Yuan of the Luofu Starfaring Vessel, Cloud Knight Lieutenant Yanqing.

I saw his wallpaper image before I transmigrated. He definitely isn't weak.

His current official rank was not particularly high, so even if Ji Yuan shamelessly went to challenge him, nothing should happen.

Thus, after spotting Yanqing that day, Ji Yuan shamelessly went over and asked him for a duel.

Although he was defeated in a single move, Ji Yuan finally obtained an astonishing achievement.