Secret: I can play two paths

Chapter 79 Need a Breaking Point
In the past few days since communicating with Miss Messenger, Star has gone out every afternoon.

He did not choose to take a carriage to a specific location, but just wandered around the factories in the southern area.

As we have seen before, this place is full of numbness, hunger, pessimism and pain, and is shrouded in a thick gloom.

And that's just the part that Star can see.

There are still workers who have jobs to barely make a living here, but the number of unemployed people is even more surprising.

Just like what he had seen in a book describing the Steam Age:
Sixty people sleep in the Great Eastern Railway tunnel at Spitfield every night. From Rotherhithe to the southeast of the British capital, there are more than 60 tunnels under which almost the population of a town lives.

Not to mention that a certain king deliberately gambled on the Poor Law and other issues in order to become a god.

These homeless people are also regarded as "lazy and unwilling to work" and are driven out of the streets and parks, leaving them without even a place to sleep.

I heard that in Backlund, many people tried every means to rent a bed on the ground in order to stay in the city regarded as the "Capital of All Capitals", and lived a life of huddling together, not knowing what tomorrow would bring.

It can be said to be the treatment in a concentration camp.

Star thought about these things, but not simply to arouse his empathy.

After communicating with the messenger lady again, he realized which key part was missing in the performance of his "madman" potion.

The idea of ​​"moderation" is that one needs to restrain one's desires, but there is a more important point.

That's the "outbreak".

Simply fighting against one's own "curse", such as easily losing one's mind and becoming crazy.

It can only be said that it is mastery, not acting.

There also needs to be an opportunity to properly vent these once suppressed desires.

This is the complete way to play the "moderation faction".

The messenger lady has told Star to find the idea that has been hidden deep in his heart and express it in an appropriate way.

It didn't take Star long to figure out what the desire was.

Ever since he came into this world and his mischievous nature was awakened, he has been very clear about his thoughts.

Not going to Xiao Ke to have fun.

That was just to help Klein maintain his humanity in the future.

At worst, he needs an "anchor" that he can identify with enough to maintain his humanity...

Seriously.

Klein is also Star's trusted comrade and companion.

After all, his ideas about this world are surprisingly consistent with those of Star, who comes from a foodie civilization.

Even if someone says "this is a necessary sacrifice", try to change something.

As he himself said, he wanted to bring a little change to the mystery.

Star was already doing this, so that Old Neil could look past the past and face life again; so that Little K would not be so lonely; so that a group of clear-minded students would not have to try to report Heinerson in the name of seeking death; so that the fraud case in which Lanevus defrauded everyone of more than 10,000 pounds would not happen again...

But those were actually far from fitting in with his idea of ​​doing something big.

Glancing at the not-so-clean streets at the moment, and the few people chatting.

Star squatted in front of a starving child, looking at his pale face that had been lacking nutrition for many years, and wanted to say, "There will be bread, there will be milk, there will be everything"...

Costa couldn't do that at the moment. He just silently put down the soles and pennies he had exchanged for, put the change worth several gold pounds in the pie he bought and handed it to the boy.

Then he blessed the boy with the "dice" that combined reality and illusion, and left quietly.

Considering the boy's living standard, he does not need any verbal comfort. It is better to give him change that can be used to buy food directly.

But this is not just a problem of people going hungry. From top to bottom, the entire social ecology is filled with endless exploitation and plunder.

Some of that greed did bring progress to this steam age.

But endless greed will only bring disaster to oneself and others.

This is also a kind of "curse".

In this corner of the social investigation of the steam age, Star walked and stopped, combining the memories in his mind and began to conceive a mysterious framework.

At the same time, the remaining part of the "Whispering Patient" potion in his body was also being digested rapidly.

He already vaguely knew the last rule of acting as the "Mumbling Patient" - the fantasy world, imagining a world that comes from life but does not belong to reality.

Star ignored it, but suppressed all the messy thoughts that arose from the phenomena he saw, and did not think about how much of the "Madness" potion was digested in this "suppression".

Based on the knowledge that I learned before out of interest, I considered how to transplant it in practice.

A booklet is gradually completed in this process.

Perhaps it is crude - but to people of this era, it is nothing short of the ravings of a madman.

In addition to Xiao Ke, the goddess and Adam who also came from that era...

But the latter two are the reasons why Star has not been able to let go.

He did a lot of little tricks under the disguise of reality, but overall they were not too outrageous.

And if you really want to let yourself go, you will always have to endure offline real-person PKs from the "tide of the times" in the process.

Star had no idea what the attitudes of the two men were, and it was hard to know what to do when he could only take care of himself in the "between reality and illusion".

Even if he wants to say that the pen is mightier than the sword, an idea can influence thousands of people and bring collision to the world.

There is also the "Mystery Online" that needs to be taken into account.

By then, Star himself will not be banned by the real person, and the career he has worked so hard to build will be easily destroyed.

Therefore, he wanted an attitude from a fellow time traveler.

Star suddenly felt that his personality was not really suitable for always hiding.

If you think about it, cross-promotion sounds pretty dangerous.

But if he went to Xiao Ke to confess at that time, it would not reduce the danger, unless he was willing to have the goddess listen next to him and make the goddess appear in this euphemistic way.

In the end, Star decided not to do so and to eliminate interference and not pin his hopes of promotion on outsiders.

Just be honest and conspire with Klein alone.

This is not only a recognition of Xiao Ke, but also to leave a unique mark on Xiao Ke, to ensure that after he dies, someone can change the world for him.

After going over the original plot of Tingen City in his mind, Sta thought about how to make good use of this time if he wanted to do something later.

Finally, he let out a long breath and quickly found out how to vent his emotions from all the information about Tingen City.

(End of this chapter)