Honkai Impact 3rd experience, starting with a thousand Herrschers

They collectively shouted for higher-ups to communicate with them, and the base security personnel were unable to take action against these valuable experimental personnel. As for the original supervisor, he was currently tied up in a corner with a gag in his mouth, but there was little anger in his eyes; he was just calmly looking at these naive children.

After a series of discussions, the higher-ups finally communicated with them, and it was none other than Archbishop Otto Apocalypse of Destiny.

“I know you have a strong aversion and disgust towards everything you are doing now, and I don’t think my words can perfectly convince you, so let’s be real.”

The blond man instructed his subordinate to turn on a computer, which then opened a video.

The video showed the Valkyries using their own flesh and blood to form a defensive line to resist the Honkai Beasts. The Valkyries in the video did not have much power; they simply relied on their equipment to forcibly fight against those terrifying Honkai Beasts.

Many Valkyries lacked the physical strength to use their equipment perfectly, and ultimately died at the feet of Honkai Beasts.

The last Valkyrie died, while the Honkai Beast force only lost one-third of its strength. Subsequently, a town behind the Valkyries was completely destroyed.

The researchers, looking at the brutal scenes of war, were speechless for a moment.

Then Otto Apocalypse opened the next video.

Those were experimental subjects who had been treated with gene enhancement fluid and implanted with the artificial stigmata project, which is currently in the final stages of development.

Those Valkyries were able to unleash unimaginable fighting power from their seemingly fragile bodies, and they could perfectly utilize those exaggeratedly designed weapons to defeat Honkai Beasts that were originally invincible, perfectly protecting towns and even cities from those waves.

After the video finished playing, everyone fell silent, because they all knew that the perfection of the gene enhancement fluid and the artificial holy mark project came from this laboratory.

It was at this moment that Archbishop Otto Apocalypse of Schicksal continued, "The data shows that with the implantation of gene enhancement fluid into the various Valkyrie units, our losses have been greatly reduced, and our combat power has also been significantly improved. And when the artificial Stigmata project is proposed and perfected by you, our Valkyries can even take on more than a dozen tank-class Honkai Beasts by themselves."

"This is reality. So now tell me, is this lab going to continue or be shut down?"

The video ends abruptly here, but the result is already quite obvious, isn't it?

"After that, the original supervisor took full responsibility and was sent back to headquarters for investigation on charges of dereliction of duty. Then, on his recommendation, I became the new supervisor here."

The supervisor picked up the bottle of vodka, opened it, and poured some into both glasses. He then handed one glass to Cheng Xing and said, "Have a drink."

"……Um."

Cheng Xing took the cup.

The supervisor picked up his glass and said, "When we drink, we have to toast something, right? Let's toast the Valkyries who died on the battlefield to protect the people, let's toast the test subjects who were forced to sacrifice themselves, let's toast this damn reality... let's toast this world that is not beautiful at all."

The two clinked glasses and then drank the strong liquor in their glasses in one gulp.

Chapter 48: Either remain silent until you perish, or erupt.

“Cheng Xing…after seeing all this, you will understand what we are burdened with.”

After finishing his drink, the manager continued.

“Since that strike, many people here have changed. They used to try to communicate with the children and get along peacefully, but after realizing what they were doing, they all became completely cold-blooded and ruthless. Some people, to satisfy their malice, would even have failed products deliberately bury the bodies of their dead friends... I've seen that person; he used to be a friend who followed me around.”

"He wanted human civilization to continue, but that meant sacrificing those children... In order to avoid being driven mad by his morality and conscience, he chose another path, which was to treat all those children as less than human... This is a very foolish and despicable act of escapism."

"But do I have no other choice? Either one day my conscience and morality will completely crush my spirit and I will choose suicide. Then I will be driven completely insane from the beginning and become a real mad scientist. Since I am already a sinner, why not be a disgusting sinner completely? Only in this way can I convince myself and convince the self that once had morality."

The supervisor poured Cheng Xing another glass of wine.

"The test subjects are now living in cells, each with only the bare minimum of food and water to sustain their survival. During our strike, we strongly advocated that those children should at least have the food, water, and accommodation of normal people."

"Unfortunately, the price of doing this is that the Honkai energy spread in the surrounding area has increased even more... I don't understand why this is happening. We just gave them modern houses that were at least a little more comfortable to live in, but it just made the concentration of Honkai energy in the surrounding area rise... Since then, many people have suffered mental breakdowns and are no longer the hot-blooded young men who joined the Destiny organization to save the world."

"Now everyone is a bunch of scum, villains, mad scientists who put children on the operating table. Even if one day they are devoured by the Honkai and dragged to the execution platform, they are all crazy people who would applaud, without exaggeration. Even I am no exception. I have seen some people abuse those children, but I did nothing because it was meaningless. Anyway, those children are bound to die."

"This world is not beautiful at all; it nurtures evil and suppresses good. Some of us, like me, became numb and indifferent; some, like Croton, became complete scum; and some, like you, still harbored a desire to change things, but to no avail. So most of these people become the second type. And a smaller minority left this place... in the form of corpses."

The two had finished a whole bottle of vodka while chatting and drinking. It was because of the amount of alcohol that the manager's face turned rosy, which made him talk so much.

"Cheng Xing... what kind of person will you become?"

Before the supervisor could even hear the newcomer's reply, he slumped onto the table and fell fast asleep. He wasn't a particularly good drinker to begin with, and after drinking so much, he should have been asleep long ago.

Cheng Xing indeed carried the supervisor outside without changing his expression. His alcohol tolerance is quite exaggerated; otherwise, he wouldn't be able to drink with these Russians here.

He simply doesn't like the feeling of being drunk.

Tan Si had been waiting outside. When he saw the two of them come out, he went up to them, picked up the supervisor, and waved to Cheng Xing to let him leave.

"Tans... what kind of people are you and Jerac?"

Tan Si paused for a moment, then continued carrying the supervisor forward, saying, "Jerak is numb. I... or rather, most of us are the second type of person."

"Isn't the best choice to abandon your moral bottom line to avoid being driven crazy? You'll be like that someday, and you'll become one of us scumbags."

Tan Si's tone was filled with a strange sense of irony.

Cheng Xing returned to his room, sat at the table, looked at the textbooks on the table, and recalled the scene of his conversation with his supervisor, as well as those bloody facts. He felt his body was unusually heavy.

One day I will have to send that child to the lab table, and the time I spend with that child will only drive me crazy in the end... So, should I become that indifferent and callous supervisor, or should I completely abandon my moral bottom line and become one of the vast majority of scum?

Or perhaps...

"To become the last kind of person."

Cheng Xing went back to bed and fell asleep under the influence of the alcohol. He hadn't reached the point where he needed to make a choice yet, so he shouldn't think about it.

The next day, Cheng Xing acted as if nothing had happened and went to find Xilin, the child, with the textbooks. However, the child did not show the usual joy at his arrival and looked very depressed.

"Uncle...she's dead."

Xilin's eyes were filled with tears. Cheng Xing knew who she was, of course. She was the one who died on the operating table yesterday. He had witnessed everything.

He couldn't remember the little girl's name, but she seemed to be one of the little girls he brought back with Sirin, and she had light gray hair.

"Galina...she's dead..."

Cheng Xing wanted to offer some comfort, but he couldn't do anything. He was the perpetrator; what could he say to the victim? Why did he feel that anything he said would be wrong?

"Then an uncle asked me to bury her myself."

Cheng Xing clenched his fist, then put down the textbooks and looked at the crying Xilin with a smile, saying, "Do you remember what that uncle looked like?"

"...He, he was as strong as a polar bear, and he looked very fierce."

Cheng Xing already knew who it was. He took a deep breath and then walked out of there.

He didn't know why he wanted to do it; perhaps it was out of atonement, perhaps...

He doesn't want to become that kind of person.

and so……

"Crack..."

The bullet is loaded.

"I fucking don't care about anything else right now. All I know is that there's some lunatic who made a little girl bury her dead companion's body with her own hands! I fucking don't care about anything else right now, I'm going to fucking fucking kill you!"

Cheng Xing entered the laboratory, looked at the researchers who were like devils from hell discussing data obtained from the deaths of others, and then pulled the trigger on the ceiling.

"Manager, some people will explode in silence."

Chapter 49: Request

Everyone present stopped what they were doing, each looking at the young man standing at the door with a pistol in his hand, with expressions ranging from complex to numb.

No one showed any fear or apprehension; they simply stared calmly at the young man who seemed capable of taking their lives at any moment.

Just as the security personnel were about to do something, the supervisor spoke up.

"Cheng Xing, don't get agitated. What happened? Tell us about it."

Then the supervisor signaled to the security personnel not to make any rash moves. At this moment, Cheng Xing took a deep breath, pointed his gun at the unusually tall figure in the crowd, and said, "Thomas! Tell me what you did last night!"

The burly man named Thomas stepped out from the crowd, calmly observing the seemingly agitated young man, and said, "So that's what it is? I merely had a test subject bury her friend. Are you going to disrupt the experiment's progress over something so trivial?"

"You actually say this is a small matter!"

Cheng Xing felt the veins bulging on his forehead. Had this guy really completely abandoned his moral principles as a human being? Did he no longer treat those children as human beings at all?

"Cheng Xing...right?"

Thomas took a few more steps forward, until the gun was almost pressed against his forehead, but he simply stared calmly at the indignant newcomer.

“I know that because you are new here, you are still not fully adapted to the situation. The deaths of successful test subjects are noble and meaningful because the deaths of these children will bring a bright future to humanity. But it’s different with failed test subjects. Failed test subjects are worthless and just waste our time, energy, and those expensive experimental equipment and resources.”

"This group of losers doesn't need your sympathy at all. What you're doing now is interfering with the progress of the experiment. Do you know how many people on the front lines are waiting for the experimental results to be obtained here to acquire enough power to protect humanity?"

"Do you know how many Valkyries survived because of the success of the artificial stigmata project?"

Do you know how many people survived those Honkai attacks thanks to Honkai resistance reagents?

"Stop your childish behavior and thoughts. Those test subjects are not people to be pitied; they are destined to be sacrificed..."

Thomas was speechless, as the dark muzzle of the gun fired a scorching bullet that pierced his skull.

The angrier Cheng Xing felt, the clearer he tried to understand the words this guy was saying, and the more he realized that this guy had been avoiding a very basic question.

That is, what he did was essentially nothing but abuse.

No matter how much the concept is twisted, no matter how much carelessness is used to cover up the fact, it cannot change the fact that his actions were nothing more than pure abuse.

Cheng Xing killed someone with his own hands for the first time, but he felt little disgust or fear, nor any regret. Even when he saw the security personnel pointing their dark gun barrels at him, he felt no remorse.

This was the first time his hands had truly been stained with blood, yet he felt an unprecedented calm.

Perhaps these are the last moments of her life. Morning Star looked around and found that even though the people around her were dead, the so-called researchers were still staring at her with numb and calm eyes.

Some people even revealed a hint of envy in their eyes, it was unclear whether they envied the young man holding the gun or the corpse lying on the ground gradually losing its warmth.

"Manager, you asked me yesterday what kind of person I want to become?"

Cheng Xing looked at the supervisor standing at the front of the crowd and met his gaze without flinching, saying, "I've been hesitant and confused for a long time. I've always wanted to know if what I'm doing is actually an effort for human civilization, and that the sacrifices of those children are meaningful. I thought that as long as I adapt, as long as I become numb like you, that's enough."

"But I'm really scared. I'm afraid that I'll end up like Thomas, losing the bottom line I want to uphold, losing respect for life, and losing compassion for young lives... I don't want to become like that. I'm really afraid of becoming someone who's neither human nor ghost."

"You chose to continue to perish in silence, but I am different. I chose to erupt in silence."

"Perhaps what I'm doing now will only cause more and greater sacrifices for those outside, but that's not my concern anymore. I've realized that I'm being very selfish. I no longer want to think about the consequences of my actions. Now I just want to be a selfish guy who thinks only of himself."

The supervisor waved his hand, signaling the security personnel who were preparing to carry out their plan to stop temporarily. Then, he turned to the outburst-filled young man and said, "So, what do you plan to do next? Use that pistol you don't know how much ammunition you have left to kill some more people? Or do you choose to kill people and then be shot dead by us?"

“Cheng Xing…you really have acted without considering the consequences.”

"Then I'll give you a choice, another option besides being killed by us."

Gerald arrived outside Sirin's cell and looked at the girl curled up on the bed and the pile of textbooks in the corner.