Honkai Impact 3rd experience, starting with a thousand Herrschers

He looked up at the ceiling and once again felt that this place was truly a hell.

Is this really the only way for humanity to save itself? If so, then such a world, such a civilization, might as well be destroyed.

When the experiment ended, Gerald pushed open Cheng Xing's door, which was not closed at all, and sighed helplessly as he saw the latter lying on the bed as if paralyzed.

“I’ve already heard about it from Tan Si… In fact, most people here have experienced what you’re going through. The experiment was successful; the girl’s Honkai energy adaptability is excellent, so apart from causing her some physical pain, the experiment didn’t do anything else. She’s back in her room now; you can go see her if you want.”

Cheng Xing had already run out.

Gerald looked at the room, which resembled a doghouse, shook his head, and closed the door behind him as he left.

When Cheng Xing arrived at Xilin's room and saw the girl lying on the bed with a pained expression, he felt even more guilty and distressed.

Cheng Xing slowly walked forward. The girl heard his footsteps and immediately turned around, looking at him with timid and frightened eyes.

"I'm sorry...I'm sorry...I'm sorry..."

Cheng Xing knelt on the ground, powerless to apologize like this. Even if he mustered the courage to do something, his physical condition would only result in him being knocked down by a single punch.

He can't do anything.

"Uncle...do you have any candy?"

Xilin's voice interrupted Cheng Xing's apology. Cheng Xing immediately took out a handful of candies from his pocket, picked out the one he thought was the sweetest, peeled off the candy coating, and put it into the girl's mouth.

After tasting the sweetness in her mouth, Celine forced a smile and said, "Thank you, Uncle. Eating some candy will make the pain go away, right? Celine saw it too, Uncle wanted to help me earlier... Celine, it's not Uncle's fault."

"I'm sorry...I'm sorry..."

The candy in Cheng Xing's hand fell to the ground. He held the girl on the bed whose body had been tortured, crying and apologizing again and again.

The girl gently patted Cheng Xing's back, and even though she was still in pain, a smile remained on her face.

Chapter 46: Wine

Since that incident, Cheng Xing has come to keep Xilin company every day. He doesn't do anything special, he just takes some storybooks and reads them to her.

Of course, the most important thing is that they always bring some candy.

Some might ask, won't children get cavities from eating so much sugar? But compared to the Honkai energy that could destroy the world, mere cavities are simply impossible for them.

After the second experiment, the supervisor was surprised to find that the girl did not cry or make a fuss, but just quietly endured it. Then he saw that the other experimenter in his group was staring at the girl.

It seems that the girl was brought back by the newcomer, and during the second experiment, because the test subject's psychological state was probably much better, the data obtained was more impressive than before.

The supervisor thought that psychological health issues might affect the test subjects' adaptability to Honkai energy, so he tacitly approved Cheng Xing's behavior of accompanying Xilin.

Anyway, this guy is just a weak and frail experimental subject. Even if no one takes care of him and he runs away with the experimental subject, he probably won't be able to survive in that freezing cold outside.

Therefore, there is no need to worry about this guy doing anything extreme.

With Xilin's company, Cheng Xing's mental pressure has lessened considerably, and he no longer needs sleeping pills to fall asleep.

On this day, Cheng Xing, as usual, brought storybooks and candy to Xilin's place. Before coming, he made a point of removing the smell of smoke from his body so as not to give the little girl a bad impression.

However, his hair was still messy, and he had a lot of beard.

Xilin leaned against Cheng Xing and listened quietly to the story. Only after Cheng Xing finished did she speak, "Uncle, I also want to learn to read. Can you teach me?"

"Silin wants to learn to read? No problem, Uncle will teach you later."

Cheng Xing now treats this little guy like his own sister. As for why not a daughter? Well, he's still single.

After leaving, Celine curled up alone in bed, the voice of that annoying guy echoing in her mind again.

"Let's break free from this damned cage! Let's burn everything to ashes! Let's crush those ants who dare to harm us! Sirin! Accept me, accept your true power, and let's destroy this filthy world together!"

Here we go again. Ever since I participated in that experiment for the first time, I've had a voice in my head.

At first, it wasn't obvious, and many times I thought I was just hearing it wrong. But after the second experiment, the sound became completely clear.

“I will not be bewitched by you, you devil. My teacher told me that our sacrifices are to save more people. We are not being tortured, but simply enduring sacrifice.”

Xilin covered her ears and shook her head, as if she didn't want to hear the voice in her head.

"Hmph! Then why are we the ones who have to sacrifice ourselves and not them? Just because we're more capable? That's a ridiculous excuse. Why should we suffer while they reap the benefits? It's so unfair, isn't it?"

Celine felt like she was about to be convinced by the demon in her mind. She hurriedly shook her head and took out the candy her uncle had given her from her pocket and stuffed it into her mouth.

"Yes, I won't be fooled!"

The little girl puffed out her cheeks and thought to herself.

"You'll accept me someday; we're one person after all."

As Cheng Xing walked back, the decadent aura he used to exude had diminished considerably, and he looked much more energetic than before. At least to outsiders, he didn't appear as a disheartened middle-aged man, but rather as a slovenly young man who didn't care about personal hygiene.

He returned to his room and searched around for a long time but couldn't find a single book suitable for early childhood education. Suddenly, he felt a sense of anxiety.

"Damn it, isn't there even a book with pinyin?"

The storybooks Cheng Xing had previously acquired were actually novels, and it would be very troublesome to use them for early childhood education without pinyin.

More importantly, the text of those novels is entirely in English, while this is in Russian!

"Am I supposed to teach Celine English?"

Cheng Xing is quite talented in linguistics; he can speak Chinese, English, Russian, French, and German.

During my university years, I also took a part-time translation job because of this language talent, and I lived comfortably every month.

Initially, he learned languages ​​purely so that one day he could save enough money to travel the world, and he did indeed achieve that... Unfortunately, before he had visited many countries, he encountered the call of destiny.

Then we arrived at the permafrost of Siberia.

When all else failed, Cheng Xing decided to go find his good friend.

"Gerakan, do you have a way to get your hands on Russian primers?"

Jerac, who was enjoying his vodka in the room, glanced speechlessly at the rude guy who barged in without even knocking and then said, "Cheng, it's not that I want to discourage you, but why are you so concerned about such an experimental subject? Won't it be even more painful when you face the scene of parting in the future?"

"...But at least this proves that I still have humanity in my heart. I don't want to numbly accept the fact that I'm forcing others to sacrifice themselves. That would only make me feel like I've gone crazy."

"As for parting...maybe one day I will finally be able to muster the courage to do something."

Looking at Cheng Xing's relieved expression, Gerald knew what this guy wanted to do... After all, he had tried before, only to fail.

With this thought in mind, Gerald walked to his desk with a nostalgic expression and took out some textbooks from a locked drawer, placing them on the desk.

"this…………"

Cheng Xing looked at Jerack with some disbelief.

The latter shook his head, stopping Cheng Xing from speaking. He lowered his eyes and sat back down as if he had aged many years. He poured himself a glass of strong liquor and then quietly savored it.

Cheng Xing watched his retreating figure, his heart filled with mixed emotions. He picked up the textbooks on the table, bowed slightly, and left.

Jerac swirled the liquor in his glass, and in his daze, he seemed to hear a little girl from the past say something.

"Don't drink alcohol, it's bad for your health."

He smiled, poured the remaining wine from his glass back into the bottle and sealed it, then picked up a sleeping pill, swallowed it, and lay down on the bed.

In his sleep, a smile appeared in the corner of his eye; perhaps he was seeing some beautiful memories of the past.

Or perhaps he was simply drunk.

Chapter 47: This world is not beautiful at all

As soon as Cheng Xing returned to his room, he immediately pushed aside the miscellaneous items on the table, placed the textbooks on the table, and began to look through them one by one.

Despite being a researcher who was already qualified to participate in top-secret experiments, he was now studying his textbook like a student with only a few days left before the exam, and even took out a pen to write something on it.

Before he could flip through much of the book, he saw dense text covering the pages.

There were also some traces of children's drawings.

Cheng Xing suddenly felt his heart being squeezed tightly. He had an urge to say something, which was brewing on his lips, but he couldn't say anything.

All the words he wanted to say turned into a helpless sigh and dissipated into the air. He put down his textbook and looked outside at the world, which still looked snow-white even in the darkness.

"Everyone here has gone through what you have gone through, and some of them have even killed their own children on the operating table."

Tan Si pushed open the door and walked in. Looking at Cheng Xing, who was standing by the window, lost in thought, he said, "The supervisor asked me to take you to see some things."

"what?"

Tan Si took out a cigarette, lit it, took a drag, and slowly exhaled the smoke, saying, "Some things we once tried to change."

Cheng Xing was led by Tan Si into a conference room, where only the supervisor was sitting to one side, with some things in front of him.

A pack of tissues, a bottle of strong vodka, and two cups.

"sit down."

The supervisor patted the seat next to him, and Cheng Xing sat down without much hesitation. Then Tan Si, who had brought him in, left and closed the door behind him.

"You've been having a great time with that girl lately, haven't you? I heard you've been reading stories to her a lot, and your relationship seems to be getting better and better."

"Ah."

Cheng Xing seemed to have no desire to communicate. In his eyes, the guy next to him was a bloodthirsty swindler who had killed countless young lives and orchestrated countless disgusting and rotten schemes.

This is a guy who has no compassion whatsoever and is completely numb.

The supervisor immediately noticed Cheng Xing's undisguised rejection. He didn't say much, but simply started the projector to play some content.

The screen began playing some past stories, and Cheng Xing immediately recognized the group of people in the video as the senior colleagues he had seen in the laboratory, as well as the seemingly young supervisor.

The supervisor at that time didn't seem to be in his current position; he wasn't wearing a supervisor's badge.

“We’ve had enough of these inhumane experiments being conducted on innocent people and so many innocent children! That’s why we’ve decided to strike! We joined this organization for the future of humanity! We joined to protect our civilization and these children, and now we’re being forced to sacrifice these children to save our future!”

"Everything we do is likely to provoke the wrath of the higher-ups, who will kill those of us who disobey orders. So we've recorded everything we're doing, and when we die, it will be uploaded to the internet to expose the truly dark and disgusting reality of this organization!"

The young manager shouted to the people behind him.

“My friends, these past few months with you have been heartbreaking. I’ve seen callousness in some of your eyes, retreat in others, and hesitation in still others. What are you thinking?! When we first joined this organization, wasn’t it because of that ideal, that yearning for the future? What are we doing now? We are sending a group of innocent children to the experimental table, torturing them to death!”

"Why are you so numb? Why are you so hesitant? Don't you even have the will to stand up and resist? So I stood up. If you just lack a leader, then I will stand up! You can push all the responsibility onto me and let me bear all the consequences, but at this moment I just want to stand up. I have to tell the people above my demands."

"I don't want to see a girl, a girl who should be spending her wonderful childhood with her parents and friends at this age, crying with desperate eyes and shouting for my help!"

This speech ignited the emotions of everyone present. Perhaps it wasn't the speech itself, but rather that many researchers simply lacked someone brave enough to step forward like this.