Chapter 79 The Temptation of Power
After hanging a plantation owner who played too much, Perfectcott felt that he had gained a lot of ideas.
This era is too dark, and there are too many ghosts. She used to be just an ordinary noble lady, with no power or power. People still care about the only title in the family, and even want to kill herself to get it. This title was worthless to her.
She wanted to resist and overturn it all, but in the end, social discrimination and oppression only earned her the comment "What do women know?"
Perfect has heard such comments more than once. In the process of her studies, in the process of her growth, in the process of her independent support of this family as an orphan daughter of the Brandless family. She had heard people say this about her too many times when she was at home.
Eventually, she got tired and gave up.
She is not the kind of mentally strong person who can leave her name in the long history. Although she was not mediocre before time travel, she was not a top person. She did not have the kind of courage to face the whole world. The determination and perseverance to change it.
So after predicting the end of the world and warning the government to no avail, she chose to give up.
I no longer think about saving the common people, I just think about letting myself survive first. As for the rest? After I die, I won’t care about the flood!
But fate always likes to joke. Just when Purficott gave up his efforts to save the world and was preparing to build an airship to go to the New World and just focus on his own survival, the appearance of Princess Anne completely changed the situation. The way things are going.
The royal family expressed its full support for her.
This is a very outrageous thing. The full support of the royal family can accomplish too many things and the impact it can have is too great.
So much so that Purficott's original plan was messed up, and she had to shoulder the responsibility of saving the world, or saving more people, on her fourteen-year-old shoulders.
This put great pressure on Purficott.
She knew exactly what the price would be to pay for all this.
If you want to save the majority, it means that you must exploit the minority. Just like the classic trolley problem, should you choose to crush one and save five, or watch the train pass and crush more people?
For Purficott, what she faced was such a difficult choice.
Even in the original world she traveled through, trying to save more people in the face of such a world-destroying disaster would mean at least millions of people would be sacrificed, let alone This is a world where technology is still in the first industrial revolution.
If there was only Purficott, it would be easy to build a shelter.
Her Philosopher's Stone is a miracle of alchemy that can break the principle of equivalent exchange to perform alchemy.
Building a house or digging an underground bunker is no more difficult than eating and drinking water. The only thing that is needed is to plan the structure of the underground bunker to avoid digging a tunnel.
If Purficott really wanted to, she could build an underground city by herself.
In the final analysis, it is just manipulating the soil to change its shape, and then turning the soil into a harder stone. For an alchemist, these are just the basic skills of material transformation.
Compared with turning iron into gold, just changing the shape of soil and turning it into stone is really not too simple.
In fact, for Purficott, if she is willing, the power of the Philosopher's Stone can be fully released and she can even build a golden city.
But that means nothing, gold is worthless. Although it is indeed a precious metal, it can only serve as a general equivalent if it has monetary value, otherwise it is just a rare metal.
When the whole world is about to be destroyed, what's the point of having a golden city? Build yourself a gorgeous tomb?
And if you want to save more people, you can’t solve the problem simply by having money.
Money can certainly do many things, but sometimes many things cannot be solved with money.
But now Purficott not only has money, she also has power, the power to decide countless lives and deaths at will, and the power to leverage the entire Victoria Empire.
The taste of power is so sweet, even though Purficott did not experience it in detail. When she was in New Shaker City, she was too busy killing people and committing disgusting crimes, and did not think carefully about what she had in her hands. How much power it holds.
But when she left the bloody and rotten city of Xinshak City, the fresh sea breeze made her thinking clear again, and it also made her truly feel the taste of power in her hands at this time. How tempting.
With a single order, a pirate who once roamed the sea and is now a domineering plantation owner was hung on the flagpole.
This feeling of deciding a person's life or death with one word is a huge temptation for anyone.
That is to say, when Purficott exercised her power, she was basically in a state of emotional outburst, so that she did not really feel the taste of power.
However, even so, she also tasted the taste of power for the first time, and tasted what it felt like to make a decision with one word and hundreds of people's heads fall to the ground.
This is an intoxicating feeling, and even Purficott can't help but have the urge to seize more power.
Because power is so addictive, and also because power is the best soil to breed ambition.
Even if Purficott is not that interested in these things, she also knows clearly that as long as she can gain greater power, she can better realize her ideas and save more people. people.
This made her feel like there was a villain in her heart constantly persuading her to get more power so that she could mobilize more resources and better realize her plan.
Although she still cannot save everyone, it can still save more people, giving her greater power in the world after the ice.
Even if Purficott is willing, she can even become the savior or even the ruler of the human world after the end of the world!
But Purficott was afraid. She was afraid that she would be corrupted or even swallowed by power.
Because of her experiences in the past few days, she was afraid that she would become a murderous and cruel ruler.
After all, just to achieve her purpose of shocking the New World, she caused a horrifying massacre in New Shake City, and even executed the prisoners she caught in such a cruel way. Although this was a necessary evil, it was also to a certain extent The above reflects from the side what kind of character Perfectcott is.
Once power is in hand, orders will be carried out. If one day Purficott really grasps huge power, will she really not become a tyrant?
She was afraid that she would become an unscrupulous tyrant, but ambition was like a weed, once it took root it was difficult to eradicate.
(End of this chapter)