Honkai Impact 3rd experience, starting with a thousand Herrschers

"Child, have you been feeling something strange lately? Like someone is whispering in your ear."

Sirin's small body trembled slightly, but she remained silent.

“I have personally killed many, many children, some of whom possessed strong aptitude and talent, just like you. I even saw an exception; her resistance to Honkai energy surpassed that of everyone else in the past. And during my conversation with her, she told me that it seemed like someone was speaking in her head. However, the voice was always very indistinct.”

"Later, through my continuous experiments, after I constantly tormented the child's body and ravaged her mind, the girl died."

"Later, I came to a conclusion by constantly comparing the experimental data with the database from the Tianming side and constantly investigating the cause."

"That girl was already transforming into something else at that time, but because of our torturous experiments, she didn't have time to change before she died on the operating table... and was dissected by us."

"I recorded that set of data and kept it to myself without anyone knowing. Guess what happened to your data?"

"She is almost identical to him."

"However, I didn't report your situation to the authorities, so I hope you can do me a favor."

Gerald took a solid-state drive containing data from his pocket, threw it on the ground, and stomped on it until it was crushed.

He then took out a cigarette, put it in his mouth, and walked towards the back, saying...

"Kill us, kill us beasts!"

Chapter 50: Taking the First Step

Cheng Xing arrived at Xilin's room. Looking at the girl lying on the bed, he felt a strange sense of peace.

“Cirin, I killed that guy, that bastard who insulted you before. I thought I would die there, or be captured and used as a new test subject.”

Cheng Xing's words made Xilin sit up in bed and look at Cheng Xing, whose face was full of smiles but also had a suffocating sadness.

"As a result, the supervisor gave me a new option. He told me that you have exceptional talent and could act as a guarantor, allowing me to leave here with you and go to the headquarters of Schicksal. You will be trained to become the new Valkyrie, and I will be your family member."

“We can leave this hell now. I can’t protect the others, but I can protect you now. I can take you away from here. I can protect you alone.”

Xilin got off the bed and came to Cheng Xing. Looking at Cheng Xing, who was laughing and about to cry, she reached out her hand. In Cheng Xing's small palm lay a candy that had not yet been peeled off.

"Uncle, if you're unhappy, have a piece of candy."

Cheng Xing knelt down and took the candy from the girl's hand, then looked into her pure eyes and said, "Shall we leave here right away?"

Xilin unexpectedly shook her head, which surprised Cheng Xing greatly. However, the latter did not react with any agitation or irritation, but simply asked in confusion, "Can you tell me why you did this?"

“An uncle came before and told me that I might be about to transform, and he begged me to destroy everything here in the end. There’s been another person talking in Celine’s head lately, and she keeps telling me that I should destroy everything.”

Xilin looked at Cheng Xing with a somewhat bewildered and helpless expression, nervously twisting the hem of her clothes with her small hands, and said, "Uncle, what should I do?"

Cheng Xing knew what was going on with the girl. When he came into this laboratory, he made a point of looking at a lot of past materials and learning a lot about the behind-the-scenes stories of this world.

Sirin is gradually becoming civilization's strongest enemy, namely the Herrscher.

“...Listen to the child.”

Cheng Xing cupped Sirin's face in his hands and said with a serious tone, "You are gradually becoming one of the most powerful beings in this world, a being called a Herrscher."

"Once you become that kind of powerful being, you can do anything you want, you can change everything! At that time, you can do anything."

After hearing this, Xilin's eyes sparkled. She felt that her uncle would never lie to her, so once she became such a powerful being, she would definitely be incredibly strong.

"Then, can I build a candy house out of candy, and eat lots and lots of candy every day? I can also bring everyone who died back to life, and then we can eat candy together! Then we can all listen to Uncle tell you a story, okay?"

Cheng Xing had a very happy smile on his face. He nodded firmly and said, "Okay, I will definitely tell you a story when that time comes. You can hear any story you want."

"Great! Uncle is the best!"

Xilin hugged Cheng Xing with great joy, feeling a happiness she had never experienced before. But after hugging the girl, Cheng Xing's smile became stiff, and his eyes held an indescribable sadness.

"Listen, Sirin, will you promise your uncle something?"

"Ah."

"When you become a Herrscher, you must never forget what you have to do. You absolutely must destroy everything here and kill everyone here. Everyone here except the children is a bad person. You must defeat the bad people, understand? Uncle is being punished by many bad people because he fought bad people here."

"Hmm! Uncle, how will they punish you? Shouldn't Celine come with you? That way you won't be punished, right?"

“No, Sirin, if you hadn’t become a Herrscher, you should have left, but this place is the best breeding ground for your growth... Your uncle is fine, he’ll just be locked up in a cell, and his living conditions will be the same as yours, so don’t worry.”

"Uncle, Sirin, will I really ever see you again?"

Young Sirin, including the Herrscher consciousness within her mind, sensed that something was amiss.

[Hey kid, grab him! If he leaves, we'll never see him again!]

The voice in his head was shouting loudly at this moment. "Listen, your uncle is just locked up. When you become a Herrscher, you can do anything, right? Rescuing your uncle will be a piece of cake, and then we can meet again, right?"

"Okay! I'll listen to Uncle!"

Cheng Xing left, and in Xilin's eyes, that figure seemed especially distant, especially unattainable.

[You foolish little brat!]

The voice in my head was calling again. She must be lying to Xilin, trying to make me become a bad child. I can't break the promise now. Uncle said we can meet again when I'm fully grown up, so I have to be a good child and be obedient now.

Xilin climbed back into bed, wrapped her small body in the thin blanket, and began to search for a bright future in her dreams.

And Cheng Xing...

He approached the supervisor and extended his hands.

"Arrest me."

The supervisor sighed helplessly and didn't ask any more questions. He didn't know why the young man had ultimately chosen the most incomprehensible path.

But what he needs to do now is show respect.

Cheng Xing was stripped of his researcher status and became an experimental subject of the Stigmata Project, and was thrown into the laboratory.

The former seniors and colleagues all watched Cheng Xing being thrown into the incubation tank filled with Honkai energy liquid. No one gloated, no one was in pain, and no one felt sad. They were all numb and indifferent.

Looking at this group of guys, Cheng Xing felt they were even more pitiful than himself. The experiment started, and unimaginable pain began to spread throughout his body. A feeling that could drive him completely insane was constantly assaulting his nerve signals.

Is this the suffering those children endure?

Cheng Xing was overwhelmed by endless pain. He recalled the scene of him and the purple-haired girl confiding in each other in that cold prison cell.

He tells beautiful stories woven by humankind, while the places they inhabit are cold realities created by humankind.

Cheng Xing felt death approaching. In his final moments, he looked at everyone present with his completely beast-like eyes, and a ferocious smile appeared on his silicon-based face.

"Everyone, I'll be going now!"

Meanwhile, in her cell, Sirin felt a huge void in her heart.

[You idiot, you've been fooled! He lied to you! He's dying in your place!!!]

The Lawyer's personality was exceptionally angry.

Chapter 51: Postscript to the Simulation

It's been a year or two since that experiment.

In the past year or two, the little purple-haired girl has stopped suffering the torment of experiments because a fool has taken all the suffering for her.

Even those who have abandoned their moral conscience will occasionally meet with the little girl and tell her the truth.

At first, they really enjoyed watching the girl break down and cry, but later she stopped crying and laughing, and everyone gradually got bored and stopped paying attention to her.

People even tried to get her to bury her friend herself again, but she simply dug the hole calmly, buried the friend, and then prayed like a priest.

Everyone was getting increasingly bored, thinking that the girl must have gone mad. Since there was already a fool who sacrificed his life for her, they might as well keep her as a nobody and wait until everyone had forgotten what that idiot had done before dragging her back to experiment on her.

From then on, Gerald lived his life as usual, except that whenever he met someone, he wore a gentle smile, but his eyes were devoid of any emotion, like a puppet being manipulated.

Today, people have finally forgotten everything that fool brought about, and have put the purple-haired little girl back into the experimental chamber, injecting her with a large amount of Honkai energy right away.

A large amount of powerful Honkai energy was injected into the girl's delicate body. Unlike the other test subjects, she did not scream or cry out. She just silently bit her lip and looked at the indifferent and numb crowd as before. But she could no longer find the person who was gritting his teeth.

"My other self... I'm entrusting everything to you. Please bring Cheng Xing and everyone else back."

I will.

The Herrscher personality didn't show much joy at the prospect of acquiring this body. She was about to devour that annoying, weak personality, but for some reason, she felt a strange sadness.

The girl closed her eyes, and when she opened them, the golden pupils in them stunned everyone present. A sense of encountering a natural enemy arose in everyone, and a terrifying aura emanated from the petite girl.

"I will give you all an equal death."

No special power was needed; a simple wave-like impact containing Honkai energy was enough to kill almost everyone present, leaving only a few scattered individuals who, due to special consideration, still retained some consciousness.

Gerald watched as the girl, who had originally worn a white dress, donned a purple gown. The smile on her face was the most genuine she had shown in recent years, and the emotions in her eyes were finally revealed without any need for suppression.

Where was he buried?

"Cilin looked at the middle-aged man lying on the ground, his face full of arrogant smiles, and asked..."

"His body was buried in a small grove of trees next to the cemetery for the test subjects, and there's a tombstone on it. You can see it as soon as you get there."

Celine nodded, then opened a spatial rift and traversed away, leaving only Jerak, Tans, and the much older-looking supervisor in the entire laboratory.

"Hahahaha! I personally brought about the birth of a monster, an enemy of civilization. I have become a sinner for all time! Hahahaha!"

Gerald burst into maniacal laughter.

"Tch! You old codger, you've really gone all out. I thought you were the most callous one, but I didn't expect you to be even crazier than that kid. But whatever, we don't have time to argue or discuss these issues anyway. Do you think we'll see those people in hell after we die?"

Tan Si felt his body lose sensation, and his vision became extremely blurry.

"What are you thinking? Letting us meet those children in hell. No way! We're going to the deepest part of the world, how can we possibly meet those children there?"

Perhaps because he was near death, the supervisor seemed unusually energetic. He said to the two of them in a joking tone, "With our crimes, we will definitely be subjected to the most severe punishments. Let's make a bet and see who can stop crying and calling for their mother first!"

"It's definitely me! After all, I was responsible for the birth of humanity's greatest enemy! Those devils below would probably shout that I'm the real demon when they see me!"

Gerald appeared extremely proud at this moment.

The three of them closed their eyes in what could be considered a joke.

Yes, it's ridiculous, but that's how it should be.

After his death, Jerak didn't know if it was a hallucination in the last few seconds, but he felt his soul leave his body. He saw a light appear in the sky, and a girl with short, light golden hair, wearing a white dress, with a pair of white wings unfolding behind her, flew towards him.

He looked at the girl, her smile radiating warmth, redemption, and sweetness, as if she wanted to greet him.

But Gerald simply shook his head, then with a satisfied smile on his face, he turned and walked gracefully toward the pitch-black abyss, where a group of people in white coats were waving at him, and one of them, a scoundrel with a cigarette in his mouth, was even giving him the middle finger.