Have you ever noticed the growth curve of a character in the game, like a plant quietly taking root in the wild, not fighting or competing, but just growing slowly, tenaciously and truly?
Feng Jin is such a being.
She will debut in the 3.3 version of “Honkai Impact 3: Star Railway”. With wind attributes and memory of fate, her setting is not the kind of character that “explodes” at first sight, but like a word hidden in the wind, she gradually emerges from the softest part of your heart. She needs your time and patience to care for her. Every bit of material, every copy, and every breakthrough you give her is not just a game operation, but also an emotional investment.
Let’s take a look at all the materials she needs to grow:
“Fear crushes flesh and blood” × 56
“Courage tears the chest” × 71
“Glory baptizes the body” × 73
“A cup of drunkenness” × 65
“The seed of thought” × 18
“Manas sprout” × 69
“Alaya” × 139
“The sound of the same wish” × 12
“The footprint of fate” × 8
“Travel experience” × 21
“Adventure record” × 8
“Traveler’s guide” × 287
Total credit points: 3,888,100
These numbers and names stacked together can easily be mistaken for boring data, but if you really get close to her, you will find that these names seem to hide fragments of stories: the fear of flesh and blood, the courage torn apart, the baptism of glory, each piece of material is like an experience in her past, and you are the one who accompanies her to rebuild her life.
For example, “A Cup of Drunk Time”, you can’t get it directly, you have to go to the “Pinoconi Grand Theater”, where you can defeat the phantom and bring back this drop of the shadow of the time. Isn’t this name the best metaphor for the past? Drunk means drunkenness, and time is the wind. Drink it, and maybe you will see yourself in the dungeon.
Look at her light cone again – “May the rainbow light stay in the sky forever.”
This is not an ordinary line, but a prayer against forgetting. In an era of rapid game iteration and character updates, her “May the rainbow light stay forever” is not an external declaration, but a promise from her inner world: I am not dazzling, but I will not disappear.
In order to upgrade her light cone from level 0 to the maximum level, you need to go to the same dungeon again and collect almost overlapping materials. Some people will say “repetition”, but if you enter with warmth, you will find that it is an echo, a tacit understanding quietly formed between you and her.
Her “traces” system is a deep excavation. You need to prepare more “seeds of thought”, more “Alaya”, and more “Manas sprouts” for her. These materials are not ordinary resources. They are like fragments of emotions, a maze in her heart, and the structure of her memory, and you are the pioneer who slowly walks in.
Do you know? The name “Alaya” itself contains a philosophical meaning – it is a symbol of deep consciousness, and it is the things that you think you have forgotten but are actually just sinking to the bottom of your heart. The process of collecting these materials for her is actually the process of your dialogue with your own inner world.
Every breakthrough of hers also requires “a cup of drunken time” as the key material. You may be tired, and you may think “Why do I have to brush this level?”, but perhaps it is the repeated actions that give you the opportunity to stop and reconcile with yourself in the fast-paced task list.
She is not a character prepared for the “strength party”. She does not have the deafening numbers on the burst damage table. But she is the kind of character that becomes calmer as you raise her. She is like a friend who has been stationed in your heart for a long time. She doesn’t talk often, but she is never absent.
You will project your past emotions that were blown away by the wind onto her.
You used to be like her, not strong enough, not fast enough, not eye-catching enough. But you still move forward step by step. Your tiredness when brushing dungeons and your helplessness when materials are insufficient are finally comforted by her gentle smile-“Thank you for being willing to accompany me.”
When you finally raise her to the maximum level and see her dancing like the wind in battle, you may smile, not because of the increase in values, but because you know: this is the flower you planted, watered, fertilized, and finally bloomed by your own hands.
She is a character that needs time to stay with. Not for the top of the battle power table, but to remember, remember that you have gently waited for a soul that grows slowly but will eventually bloom.
Feng Jin will not surprise everyone, but she will move those who are attentive.