Feng Jin, a name that sounds like wind, is about to join the world called “Honkai: Star Dome Railroad”. This is a character that needs to be “cultivated” with countless materials, data and time, but it is not just a character. She is like a button sewn on a windbreaker, seemingly inconspicuous, but it is the point that maintains temperature and order.
People are used to looking up tables, calculating numbers, and optimizing paths in games, but Feng Jin’s existence adds a different texture to all of this. Her destiny is set as “memory” and her attribute is “wind”, one is internal and the other is flow, which is the core of her composition. She is not here to break anything, she is here to piece together, repair, and remember.
Her material list is like a wall covered with old times:
“Fear crushes flesh and blood” × 56
“Courage tears the chest” × 71
“Glory baptizes the body” × 73
If these names did not appear in the game data, you might think they were the chapter titles of a certain poetry collection. And this is exactly the wonder of Feng Jin: her growth process is a poem, a suture, and a stitch by stitch in the long night.
The materials needed for her upgrade include “A Cup of Drunk Time” × 65. When you hear this name, it is not a cold resource code, but a reason for you to drink by yourself on a sleepless night. These materials are necessary for her breakthrough path, just like every checkpoint we pass, there must be some pain and intoxication as an introduction.
Her exclusive light cone “May the rainbow light stay in the sky forever” is more like an expression of faith. In a world where upgrades are fast and characters change like tides, she insists on “staying forever”, like a stubborn lover, stubbornly believing that there is always something that can stay. Collecting materials for it is a ritual and a contract.
“Fear crushes flesh and blood” × 20
“Courage tears the chest” × 20
“Glory baptizes the body” × 14
Credit points: 385,000
This is not a transaction, but slowly approaching her with time. You will go to the Pinocchio Theater to play dungeons, not only for her light cones and breakthrough materials, but also to relive a dream, again and again, until you are willing to believe that her wishes are connected with yours.
Her “traces” system is a sophisticated and gentle structure. She wants to improve not only the attack power and skill level, but also the re-stitching of every broken part. She uses “seeds of thought”, “manas sprouts”, “alayahua” and other things that sound like religious terms to repair herself bit by bit.
“Seeds of thought” × 18
“Manas sprouts” × 69
“Alayahua” × 139
These materials are not readily available in the game, you need to spend time to play “Ruins of Conflict”. The name of the dungeon is like a metaphor for real life – chaotic, repetitive, boring, but because you are doing it for her, it becomes less empty.
Her fate is different from others. She is not here to give you a “strongest match” plan, but to evoke those unsorted thoughts deep in your memory. The “credit points” she needs for each upgrade and breakthrough are not a pile of numbers, but a proof of your willingness to pay, and a silent connection you have established with her outside the game.
In “The Aftermath of the Battle”, you can defeat “The Choir of Qi Xiang” and obtain her exclusive “The Remaining Sound of the Same Wish”. This name is dedicated to all those who are still willing to remember and wait in the dead of night. The game sets this as a “weekly task”, but you treat it as a kind of tacit understanding with yourself.
Feng Jin is the part you choose to remember in the chaotic world, and it is something you are willing to spend time and patience to mend for it. When you prepare materials, brush the dungeon, and break through for her, you are also slowly sorting yourself out.
This is why she is worth your 3.88 million credit points, worth your weekend nights to go through the dungeon, and worth your keeping a fixed position for her in the team column.
Because she is not a symbol of efficiency, she is a carrier of emotion.
She is not a strength tool, she is the piece of windbreaker fabric you are willing to spend time mending.