Chapter 253- The grey line of morality
Added 2019-11-22 05:42:39 +0000 UTCComments
Thank you so much for reading. Yes, your insight is true. I know this is fiction and the story follows similar plots like wuxia novels where mass exterminations and bloodshed is normal. The MC here is a normal individual thrown into this world. The changes are seen after the bandit arc where killing humans becomes normal. Power and a sense of justification back it up. The MC is becoming less human and assuming the role of a fictional character. Do his surroundings and culture erode his modern-day psyche? Probably. Does he need his own Mary Sue to rescue him from a horrifying path of a Dr. Mengele? Definitely. Will he be able to find someone before its too late? Look forward to it. :)
ForestRage
2019-12-11 15:58:11 +0000 UTCKilling the old researcher in the tower ruins was in the moral grey area, and it was enabled by the standard trope of especially chinese webnovels - making the antagonists more or less one-dimensional evil, revengeful or in some way repulsive so that it feels ok for the protagonist to act out a killing. This is arguably in the black area, especially after the first bandit dies, and it pretty much uses the same trope as an excuse (all bandits are very evil, and they should be killed anyway so why not conduct some painful medical research on them for the sake of being able to live longer..., very Dr Mengele). Even more 'impressive', Chu (who should mentally be an adult with some kind of moral compass unless he was an sociopath in the old world) uses the willingness of his child/teenage companions to conduct such experiments under his leadership as a reason to feel better about the whole thing. If the intent with this story arc was to make him less of an Mary Sue, it certainly succeeded.
LBNoSc
2019-12-10 20:08:56 +0000 UTC
