From the God of Lies to the Lord of All Worlds

Chapter 426 The Souls of the Thames

"Your Majesty, isn't what you're doing a bit too extreme?" Alvin's words rang in Bai Yang's ears. "Using the entire population of an island as a sacrifice for this wish-power mode, isn't that a bit too much?"

“We don’t necessarily need to sacrifice that many, but we must create fear!” Bai Yang said with a smile. “Only the deepest despair can reveal the most abundant power of will!”

Perhaps because of the depletion of willpower, or perhaps because the connection with the Dylan Continent made Bai Yang feel the urgency, this time he did not use any method of using small details to illustrate a larger point to create a superhuman. Instead, he simply used public opinion to throw out a crisis!
“Make a starting point, then deliver the simplest of prophecies—tell everyone in this country that the curse has been cast!”

Bai Yang chuckled lightly, but his eyes held an unyielding indifference. "It's time for the people of this country to remember who paid the greatest price when they reaped the ultimate fruits of the Industrial Revolution!"

"It can also bring joy to the souls of the dead, allowing them to better integrate into our system!"

"This is a win-win-win situation. Besides the injury to Great Britain, the whole world can have a good time and see what kind of future this kind of evil will lead to. Isn't that great?"

Bai Yang said with a smile, "This can be considered a warning to these people. Heaven is watching what people do. If they really like doing this kind of thing, more crises await them in the future!"

Alvin understood. "So, Your Majesty, someone's going to die, right?"

"Of course they have to die. No one can appease public anger without someone dying. Let these congressmen and capitalists experience the curse of the dead!" Bai Yang nodded slightly and unleashed his power of will.

In fact, when it comes to combat power or energy level, ordinary willpower or even divine power is not much more destructive than modern technology.

After all, humans have been studying boiling water and throwing stones for thousands of years, and have long since reached a state of perfection!

Humans have the power to destroy the surface of this planet, and in some ways, it is not much different from the power that Bai Yang holds in his hands. But the extraordinary is never about the extraordinary power, but about the extraordinary humanity!

The power he possesses is more about deconstructing human nature and controlling the soul. As long as these people are not robots and have their own thoughts, they cannot escape Bai Yang's design.

To reiterate, he never gambles on the nobility of humanity, but rather on its baseness!
And coincidentally, he always guessed right!

……

A day later, in the Royal Library, Prince Harry was browsing through a series of documents and reading records.

He was really curious about what Cú Chulainn meant by the resentment beneath this land.
He didn't actually know much about the country's history. In fact, many members of the royal family were reluctant to let these nobles learn too much.

They generally only learn about the glory of the Victorian era and the greatness of the British Empire, but few people learn about the price of greatness!
Harry was one of them. While his brother was busy seeking comfort from the old king, Harry came here, wanting to find what Cú Chulainn had mentioned, the curse hidden beneath this continent!

“The cries of children, the jealousy of the gods, and the curse of death…” he murmured these words, then began to peruse the thick history book.

He just asked the library staff what stage is the most painful for children.
The other person replied, "Of course it's the Victorian era!"

Hearing this, Harry recalled the information that Parliament had previously discussed regarding Irish retaliation, which was also related to the Victorian era, and couldn't help but feel curious.

What exactly was the Victorian era like? When I was a child, I heard it was the greatest period of the British Empire, but now it doesn't seem to be like that at all.

To ensure impartiality, he did not read the books written by the English themselves, but instead chose the American accounts of this history.

Because America was powerful enough, their scholars would not be intimidated by the influence of Great Britain and would deliberately refrain from writing anything.

Because of their deep historical relationship with Great Britain, these American scholars would do their best to satirize everything about Britain. The relationship between father and son is often so peculiar.

Harry then found the clearest description in a book by an American scholar:

Seeing the book, "The Victorian Era: The Empire's Glory, the People's Darkness," Harry knew there wouldn't be any positive words about his country's "normality" inside. So he opened the book and saw the records inside.

"During the Victorian era, the only nobleman who paid attention to the plight of ordinary people was the Queen's husband, Prince Albert. Apart from him, no other nobleman cared about the people of the time!"

Dickens once wrote: "London is a hungry beast that devours everyone who enters."

"The Industrial Revolution made this city the heart of the British Empire, but every beat of that heart required the lives of countless ordinary people as a sacrifice!"

"The smoke from burning coal swirled in the sky, turning the entire city black. The smell of exhaust fumes, rotting corpses, bacterial contamination from unwashed bodies, and the fishy odor from the seaside formed the backdrop of the Fog City. This city lured people in, and then killed them!"

"Factory workers have to work sixteen hours a day to earn a meager wage that barely keeps them from starving, and this is all the money their whole family has earned working together."

“The workers had no housing or beds. After a long day of work, they would go to a nearby black hotel and rent a rope to sleep on. When it got light, the hotel owner would cut the rope and make them fall off as a wake-up call.”

"The average working age of female workers in textile factories is only five years. It's not that they quit after five years, but that not many of them are still alive after five years."

"Another characteristic of the Victorian era was the rampant opium trade. In order to make huge profits from this drug, the whole of London became a sea of ​​opium!"

“Sometimes, mothers, busy with work, would feed their babies opium and leave them lying at home all day.”

"They would also send children to factories, residential areas, and ships to do things that adults couldn't do, such as cleaning chimneys, doing groceries, or working as coal feeders on ships. The children were already skilled workers before they were even five years old."

"Because they are so small, sometimes they die from exhaustion or starvation on the job site—and their bodies are often only discovered after the chimney or factory has been demolished."

"That's where the 50% child mortality rate in the Victorian era came from."

"Many years after the Battle of Waterloo, when the British government tried to collect the remains of the fallen soldiers, they discovered that the bones on the battlefield had long been dug up by the factory owners, turned into scrap, and sold to the English."

"As for immigrants, foreigners, or any other kind of slaves, they have never been a problem in this country, since none of them survived anyway!"

Upon seeing these things, even Prince Harry, who had made all the necessary preparations, could only take a deep breath to relieve the suffocating feeling coming from his lungs!

This is just so suffocating!
He simply couldn't imagine that the legendary golden age of the British Empire was such a nightmare.
"Is this the origin of the curse?" Harry murmured. He knew the sins of the nobility and the indifference of high society, but he couldn't imagine that a government of a country could go to such lengths!
This is different from the attitude of kindness, benevolence, compassion, and mercy that is promoted throughout Europe!

He had always believed that the countries he belonged to were all kind-hearted, so how could this be...?

“It seems you already know the truth about this world, Harry!” Prince Edward appeared outside the door, causing the prince, who was still unable to let go of his resentment, to look up.

"Uncle, is all of this true? Is it a smear campaign by the Americans?" Harry asked urgently, his worldview seemingly collapsing at that moment.

Prince Edward shook his head. "No, this is the truth, child! You just didn't realize it before, but now you do!"

"I'm here to tell you an even more horrifying reality. Just now, 175 murders have occurred throughout London, and the victims were all members of parliament, businessmen, government officials, or nobles!"

"According to our investigation, they basically made their fortune in the Victorian era, and now, their entire family is dead!"

"And beside their bodies, there was only the water of the Thames—Cú Chulainn was probably right, the ghosts of the Thames have come to claim our lives!"

(End of this chapter)