Honkai Impact 3rd, what should an ordinary player do at the start?

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The fact that so many important people could put aside their work and stay in one place, residing in temporary accommodations, is already a very important reason for the bishop's coronation ceremony.

It should be noted that because there are still some makeshift organizations on the floating island, even the people from the Far East Branch of St. Freya are temporarily staying on the outer perimeter of the floating island, awaiting inspection and security supervision.

Even though those places are designed to be luxurious and are specifically for receiving high-ranking officials and foreign guests, those people also have their own work to do. Many of the excellent Valkyries who came here received various notices on their first day, asking the staff to return to their missions because there were urgent matters that required their assistance. As for the bishop's... well, let the bishop cause him trouble later.

Since Otto is truly dead, the enthronement must be resolved in a relatively short period of time; otherwise, there would be no reason for Otto to remain silent for an extended period.

Even if Void Archives could be temporarily brought up to replace Otto's costume, the fundamental differences in personality would still allow some people who had contact with Otto to notice something amiss.

Fortunately, there was guidance throughout the process, so I could just relax in the office with my Jizo shrine. The documents looked like they made no difference whether I was actually working or not.

Then, out of boredom, I flipped through it.

Then I saw it...

--sin.

The sins of destiny.

Jiang Cheng once thought that as long as he watched some people not manage or use too much power to enjoy himself, he would not feel guilty. In fact, as long as he could persevere, it didn't matter if he felt guilty as a bad person, just like he could hurt others to survive.

Ahhh...

That's wishful thinking.

It's truly a complete fantasy.

Let him at least randomly open a report—it says that in a certain country, a relatively developed country, with only 400 to 500 million people, more than 200 million people rely on selling blood to make a living. They sell plasma twice a week, and this number is constantly increasing. Moreover, they are really just trying to survive, not to make a living. They have to rely on it to pay for car loans, mortgages, student loans, and even food... and they can't even pay it off by selling blood.

As long as this kind of thing hasn't been discovered or seen, it's like a stranger to you. As long as you don't know everything that stranger has experienced, you can ignore it; it's just a number.

However, if one has seen the stranger's life and knows about the stranger's past, then one must have a strong will to commit the act of killing.

Because only then will you clearly realize that what is being taken from your hands is a life, not just a number or a bug that you stepped on.

"It's truly shocking..."

"me……"

"I really thought I was a bad guy."

The report the boy was opening at that moment contained not only information about selling blood, but also countless similar cases, even including taxation on rainwater falling into the yard.

As for the fart tax... and the fact that single mothers have to go hungry themselves in order to feed their children, and have to sell their blood several times a week, etc.

At least Ling, who had also come to help with the documents and materialized her own body in mid-air, was dumbfounded.

It's truly in a physical sense; the mouth is so wide open... it feels like a human mouth at this moment is even bigger than the fox's mouth used to be.

“Ling… why don’t we leave these tasks to Gray Snake and the others? I feel I’m not suited to be a bishop. I really didn’t expect that things like the Tower of Babel, where little girls are tricked into being test subjects and then tortured at will, are rare cases. At least… at least they’re not common… they shouldn’t be so common.”

Everything he saw made Jiang Cheng laugh at himself – at the thought that he had once casually dismissed as a big bad guy.

Many things are shocking just to look at, and touching once you understand them, just like a sentence I once heard.

When you have super vision and super hearing, you can easily hear a little girl being robbed and pinned down hundreds of kilometers away, crying out.

you……

Can we really pretend we don't know?

When you perceive those clear tear stains through your super vision, what difference is there between you and a bystander?

Today's youth truly feel this way, and they truly stand in the position of bystanders who can intervene to change things. They see little girls being bullied, or even worse, because things like kidnapping people for experiments have become commonplace, and drug trials are conducted on the public, using other people's bodies to test drugs. This kind of thing, which sounds disgusting, is actually a way for many people to survive, live, and raise their children, besides selling blood.

Even on some normal chat platforms, you can see things like: a father who is a soldier sells blood plasma every week to support his child, attends classes during the day and rents a room at a friend's house at night to go to school, and has to work a hard night shift from 12 to 8, and is even questioned about whether he gets any sleep at all.

Because they are in a high position, they can see all the ugliness. As the biggest beneficiaries, all the problems will be exposed to them, with nothing left to hide.

It's like having super vision and super hearing, being able to clearly know all the evil, ugliness, and suffering happening around you.

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"What's wrong with this world?"

The girl, Ling, who had been watching everything from the sidelines, was speechless and could no longer maintain her former composure.

I never imagined it.

I never even imagined it.

Since such ugly things about oneself are just the norm, or even not the norm at all, it is already quite fortunate.

"I never imagined what I've been through..." Ling subconsciously began to express her innermost feelings.

However, the boy immediately rejected all of this.

"No, please don't."

Having had similar experiences several times before, Jiang Cheng knew what the girl was going to say immediately, and he immediately shut her up with that toxic chicken soup that was hard to accept no matter what—following the outstretched finger, he could just see his profile, which seemed to be giving orders at this moment.

"Don't think that your experience isn't bad enough just because there are worse things in the world. Misery is not something that can be used for comparison, and pain varies from person to person."

"However, this kind of thing... although I don't consider myself a good person and don't want to be one, because being a good person has weaknesses and you'll be morally blackmailed, I'll still deal with it."

"It's okay to do evil in order to survive, but if you have nothing to do but walk on the side of the road and have nothing better to do, kicking a cat is just too low."

The boy, who despised heroes, also chose to send this information to the omnipotent Gray Serpent once again with a silent sigh.

I don't ask for anything else, but at least don't hurt Mei's feelings after hurting his.

Complete prohibition is impossible in a short time, but with absolute strength and the power of domination accumulated over the years, it is possible to change things to some extent if one wants to, and to make the world operate according to one's wishes to a certain degree.

These things are unpleasant to look at, like the first thing you see when you travel is bird droppings. Even if you can't smell them, even if you don't step on them, even if there are more beautiful, more delicate flowers nearby, glistening with dew from the night before, sparkling in the sunlight... you still feel like something is missing.

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Chapter 125 Kiana Abandoned

"I really hate being a good person and doing good deeds, because as soon as you become a hero, you'll be taken advantage of, and others will use what you cherish as leverage to threaten you. Only true fear remains. Or, only by living in anonymity can you avoid standing out and quietly hide yourself..."

After Jiang Cheng finished everything, he gently rubbed his forehead and lay down on the chair, which was so comfortable it felt like it was pressed against his skin.

With this order issued, Grey Serpent should be able to stop most of the problems in a very short time.

After all, with absolute strength and absolute power, when one person possesses productivity that surpasses that of society, the society of ordinary people is merely something to be trampled upon. Let alone some invisible hand, the person who has the ability to decide everything is the hand itself, and even their frown is a manifestation of that hand.

After all, the gray snake wasn't a pillar, and in essence, it wasn't even human. He couldn't understand, and was unwilling to understand, the self-destructive behaviors humans engaged in for the sake of self-division.

Therefore, the best option for this kind of thing is actually to not know it at all, not see it, and not be able to find it, or to hand the work over to professionals after you find it.

Nevertheless, I accidentally did a little good deed.

This single order can wash away all past mistakes.

Even if he killed only a small number of people, or even if he killed everyone in the entire Changkong City, this order alone could offset most, or even all, of the sins of killing so many people.

This is not an attempt to beautify or whitewash myself, but rather a realization after witnessing such stark reality—let alone making the world a better place to some extent, even maintaining its current state and preventing it from getting worse would be a great deed, and would be enough for an individual to be indifferent no matter how bad things get.

Even those who consider themselves wicked, and who are really just petty thieves, find themselves surrounded by murderers when they go out. They don't deserve to call themselves evil unless they have taken hundreds of lives.

Ultimately, if Destiny can so brazenly put human experimentation on the surface, how terrifying must the darkness beneath it all be to appear as dark as human experimentation?

Even from the narrow perspective of a reader, it's important to understand that almost every appearance of Schicksal in the early and middle stages is accompanied by human experimentation, whether it's the Tower of Babel, St. Freya's basement, the gems related to the Herrscher of Death, or all sorts of other random things... Even Wendy's case isn't particularly prominent. Just looking at these things, you don't even need to think about how terrifying and dreadful the dark side can be.

Just like how, before the boy traveled through time, he thought that evil was coercing others, breaking the law, and doing things that would make people feel disgusted in reality, until the incident on that island was exposed and his horizons were broadened, he suddenly realized that the evil of pedophilia on that island was the least evil.

In short, when Jiang Cheng saw all this, he almost didn't want to go down the throne anymore—this time he really didn't want to be the bishop anymore.

I want it.

It is entirely possible (II) (IX) for Wu Baqi to anticipate.

Once you actually take on this position, you'll face temptations and witness ugliness firsthand. Even with the Gray Serpent and its agents protecting you, the person in charge of handling official business and work will inadvertently reveal something that could shatter an ordinary person's worldview.

The level of disgust and depravity we witness is often beyond what ordinary people can imagine, just as they cannot imagine how wealthy the lives of the rich can be. Similarly, ordinary people cannot imagine just how shocking the boundaries of depravity and ugliness can be.

"I probably won't drink milk tea for a long time... and I'll have to give up meat for now."

Jiang Cheng, who had only finished half of the report, slumped weakly into his chair.

After setting aside all the rambling and irrelevant details, even a seemingly insignificant detail in the footnotes is extremely horrifying, like a historical account describing a great famine where people resorted to cannibalism.

He stared at the girl floating in mid-air, lying on her back like a salted fish, almost questioning his own existence.

"Ling...do we really count as villains or bad guys?"

"I have to admit, you were right to scold me back then. Even if I hadn't hurt my sister, the fact that I killed so many civilians but left so many high-ranking officials behind..." Ling was more aware than ever of her own incompetence, her own ridiculousness, and her own mediocrity.

The most terrifying thing is not simply the bizarre things that are presented.

Visual bloodshed, visual destruction, and even devastation are not the most terrifying aspects.

The most terrifying thing is that no one thinks human life is important, and no one thinks that the life of a young girl in the prime of her life is worth protecting.

Selling blood plasma is a common occurrence in society, even something to be praised. Recruiting people for experiments is insignificant, and even abducting others as test subjects is merely a trivial matter. It's as casual as simply reporting "good morning" every day.

It's really hard for ordinary people to intuitively accept what they've learned from looking down from the top, since the nature of humans is to succumb to any temptation at lightning speed... at least that's true for the vast majority.

Crossing the line will provoke the disgust of others, but if everyone's line is crossing the line, then those who don't become the odd ones out.

If something bad becomes the norm, then even the most disgusting things will be brought up in the easiest way possible.

For those people, it's essentially no different from eating a chicken leg for breakfast.

They were all either food or toys.

Its status is no higher than that of a weed by the roadside.

"Forget it, let's just hand this part of the work over to someone else from now on," Jiang Cheng finally threw the documents in his hand aside, stretched out his arms and put his palms behind his head as a pillow. "Anyway, Gray Snake has recruited so many people, so why not use them? Someone like me is not suited to waste time on this kind of thing. Just like long-distance runners are not good at math, I am completely unsuitable for management and rule."

The criminal information that he learned about and flooded his mind almost corrupted him mentally.

As long as you can't help fantasizing, can't help thinking, can't help contributing that utterly disgusting image, or even if the slightest bit of curiosity arises...

Ahhh...

My brain seems to be trembling.

“I never thought I would hate myself for my depravity and slacking off, but this time I really feel that if I did those things, it seems that what’s standing here will no longer be Jiang Cheng, but a lump of stinking flesh and blood, and even the soul will rot to the point that I feel disgusted…” He muttered to himself, staring blankly at the ceiling.

I just can't stand it at all.

To rule or something like that.

Having witnessed everything, the boy even felt that his past self had apologized to the killed Valkyrie, and that it was ridiculous that he would still feel resentful about killing someone.

This behavior is probably like praying to a sheep with your hands clasped together after eating – something that is incomprehensible and indecisive to true meat-eaters.

"Let's just shirk responsibility here!"

Ling was the same—only in this matter did the girl pat her chest with lingering fear.

I don't want to watch it anymore.

I don't even want to look at it for a second.

It's utterly absurd—this real world.

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As a result, after experiencing the terrible conditions all day, I almost went crazy from the pollution.

Those difficult tasks were all resolved; what remained were simply areas where favors needed to be bestowed by those in power.

However, this only makes everything more nakedly apparent. Just how miserable must one be to deserve charity and gratitude?

This evil, brewed in the shadows by being ignored and neglected, ultimately requires the higher-ups of the same organization to carry out the so-called cleansing of the filth. Isn't it essentially a so-called automatic merit-collecting machine? It's just that the fish that is constantly being hoisted up and released has been replaced by a person, and the fish that is neither alive nor dead and is constantly suffocating has become a person.

After a full day of trial work, Jiang Cheng returned to his temporary accommodations. Without even preparing to move to the actual bishop's house, he immediately defined his work area.

"No need for all that trouble. I won't be doing any more work or managing all this mess anymore. Let's just dump all the tasks on Gray Serpent."

"Today I carefully experienced what the Bishop of Destiny could see... How should I put it, it really refreshed my understanding. At least now I just want to rest."

Is there anything I can do to help?

Despite this, Raiden Mei could only listen quietly; no matter how much she wanted to hug him, she could only listen first.

Because the boy's complaints were clearly not over. On that profile where you could see his exhaustion at a glance, the shattered worldview he was telling while holding his forehead was not yet finished. Although he didn't say it out loud, and although he didn't want to share his sadness and make others sad, the emotions he tried to hide and conceal were impossible to hide in the subtle movements of his expression.

The silent sigh between his words, and the slightly dilated pupils clearly visible in his eyes, suggested he had encountered something shocking and was unable to recover for a long time. The luster reflecting under the light was no longer...