Don’t raise unruly people in extreme cold weather

Chapter 79 The temptation of power

After hanging a plantation owner who was having too much fun, Perfectcott felt that he had gained a lot of ideas.

This era is too dark, and there are too many ghosts. She was once just an ordinary noble lady, with no power or influence. The only title in the family was still cared about, and she even wanted to kill herself to get this, which in her opinion was worthless. An unworthy title.

She wanted to resist and overturn it all, but in the end, social discrimination and oppression only earned her comments like "What do women know?"

Purficott heard such comments more than once. During her studies, during her growth, and when she independently supported the family as a direct orphan of the Brandless family, she heard such comments. She has said so many times that others have said this about her.

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 determination and determination to change the entire world. will.

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, and what else? 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 prepared to build an airship to go to the New World just to survive, the appearance of Princess Anne completely changed the direction of things.

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 clearly knew the price 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, it was such a difficult choice she faced.

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, not to mention that the technology was still at its advanced stage. The world during the first industrial revolution.

If Purficott was alone, 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 a dungeon 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 for 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 when it has monetary value, otherwise it is just a rare metal.

What's the point of having a golden city when the whole world is about to be destroyed? Build yourself a gorgeous tomb?

And if you want to save more people, you can't solve the problem simply by having money.

Although money can do many things, 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 didn't experience it in detail. When she was in New Shaker City, she was busy killing people and committing disgusting crimes, and she didn't think carefully about how much power she held in her hands.

But when she left the bloody and rotten city of Xinshak, the fresh sea breeze made her thoughts clear again, and it also made her truly feel how tempting the power in her hands was at this time.

With a single order, a pirate who once roamed the sea and was 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 had her first taste of power, and 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 breeding ground for ambition.

Even if Purficott is not that interested in these things, she clearly knows that as long as she can gain greater power, she can better realize her ideas and save more 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 can't 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 horrific massacre in Xinshang 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 the power is in hand, orders will be carried out. If one day Purficott really controls 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)