"Fold, isn't it better to recess some here?"

With a file in one hand and a brush stained with ice chips in the other, the girl looks both funny and funny with goggles and a mask on her face and a fluffy soft hat on her head.

Although after five days of practice, there are more than a dozen ice sculptures born, but none of them can really be called complete, either there are defects here, or there is a blank there. In contrast, the completion of this one in our hands is the highest, basically only the pelvic fin and the tail fin are not completed, these two parts are the most important, the ice body should be carved very thin, so it is extremely difficult, and the ice will be chiseled or chiseled if you are not careful, so that the previous work will be wasted - this is still the result of my design to fit the pectoral fin and the main body, and abandon the dorsal fin and anal fin, otherwise the difficulty will be increased several times.

I managed to do this far, and I focused almost all my energy on the chisel and hammer in my hand. After hearing Sa's inquiry, in order to avoid damaging the ice sculpture by mistake, I stopped the chiseling in my hand before looking at the position she was pointing. It is the boundary between the belly and the back of the goldfish, and because the belly of the goldfish is bulging, there are obvious signs of depression between it and the flat back. Therefore, the scales in this position are more difficult to carve than the scales in other positions, and the shape to be sharpened into needs to be carefully considered.

"Let's wait there, I haven't figured out what to do yet."

After thinking about it for a while, I decided to finish the work at hand first, and this problem will be solved later. Sasha nodded "oh" and raised the file to polish the rest of the area.

I continued to carve the fishtail, using the flat-tipped chisel against the raised part of the ice, and gently tapping the round end of the back with a hardwood hammer to embed the ice cube in the front of the chisel, and then pry it to chisel the unwanted ice cube off. The tail fin of the fish is only about two or three centimeters thick, and the area is large, which makes it easier to damage, so when the thickness reaches a certain level, it is necessary to change to a planer knife and gently shave away the remaining unwanted ice.

"Fold, Mamura...... Oh no! ”

Just as I was chiseling a raised piece of ice, a sudden shout made my left hand tremble, and the chisel was skewed away, and before I could adjust, the hardwood hammer in my right hand had already been struck.

"Smack...... Click......"

A thin piece of palm-sized ice slipped from its tail and fell to the ground covered with ice ballast, breaking into several pieces. I looked at the tail fin, which looked like it had been bitten off by a dog, at the ice that had broken into several pieces on the ground, and finally at the yarn, and she was also staring at me, her lips open: "What about the broken......

"Broken ......"

The two of us looked at each other, and we could see the frustration in each other's eyes—a wasted morning, in exchange for another failure. I suddenly felt the urge to raise a hammer and smash the ice sculpture to pieces, to vent the decadence and irritability in my heart.

"It's okay, there's still time in the afternoon, and it's still okay to change it here."

I covered my mouth and coughed twice to hide the embarrassment on my face, and then I turned my head to look in the direction where the shouting came from, and I saw Mika waving and shouting dozens of meters away from us, while "clicking" on the broken ice all over the ground and running towards this side - fortunately, the people around who practiced ice sculpture had already gone to eat, and only a few skaters were still competing for speed on the silver mirror-like frozen river in the distance, and they didn't notice this side, otherwise her shout would have attracted a lot of attention.

I don't know what happened urgently, it was obviously a cold day, but there were fine beads of sweat on both sides of her nose, and some pale faces were full of anxiety, and a few short strands of black hair ran out of the orange bud hat, landed on her forehead, and fluttered around playfully as she ran.

She's funny, and I'd be a joke if I put it all down, but the genuine anxious look on her face dispelled me from thinking that while I didn't think anything bad was going to happen to her, what to say in what situation was the most basic skill to be.

Mika ran to the side of Rina and Mamura, and she beckoned to this side: "Ori, yarn, come here, I have something very important to tell you!" ”

"Let's go check it out."

I looked at Sasa again, and each took off the mask, goggles, and iron toe covers that covered the upper half of my face, and put them in the tool pile. But before the two of us could walk over, Mika had already dragged Rina and Mamura over and glared at me, "You two, it's too slow!" ”

"We're going to eat, so we have to clean up."

I shrugged my shoulders and glanced around the faces of Rina and Mamura, and saw that both of them had puzzled expressions, and it seemed that they didn't know what Mika was saying "very important".

"How can I have time to eat!"

After saying this, Mika reached out and grabbed Mamura's shoulder, pulled him between the four of us, and then opened her eyes wide and stared at him with stern eyes: "Say, Mamura, what did you do?" ”

"What did you do? I didn't do anything. ”

Mamura's delicate face was full of confusion, but he didn't dare to make eye contact with Mika's burning gaze, and his dark eyes always looked to the side, giving people a feeling of weakness.

"Then why don't you dare look at me."

Mika narrowed her eyes, her face tightened, the corners of her eyes were as sharp as the tip of a knife, and against the backdrop of red tears under the corner of her left eye, she looked cold and cold, full of age-appropriate deterrence. Her appearance was like that of a queen examining a sinner who had broken the law: "I'm not kidding now, Mamura, have you done something serious against ethics?" ”

The so-called ethical regulations are the norms and regulations established by the town's ethics committee, which are divided into general ethics regulations and special ethics regulations, such as the town's prohibition of using electricity for purposes other than loudspeaker broadcasting; and not to fight with others over disputes, but to be in peace and fraternity; Not to expound deceit, not to deceive, not to insult, not to slander others – these are all general ethical rules.

As for the special ethics regulations, I don't know much about them because I haven't read the "Collection of Special Ethics Rules", but I have heard a few; For example, without permission, you are not allowed to read the books in the third or fourth categories. Do not interfere with targets that cast spells on others; It is forbidden to discuss the rights and wrongs of the two highest authorities, the Ethics Committee and the Education Committee; It is also not permissible to question or slander Buddhism and its teachings.

In the town, the ethics rules are the equivalent of laws, and everyone must abide by them. The consequences of violating ethical rules can be mild or severe, but basically no one can say exactly what the punishment will be.

Adults are also very secretive about it, and rarely listen to them discuss this aspect. It's just that I often tell stories that "scare" people, and if I violate the ethical rules, I will be eaten by monsters, and I will become an extremely ugly thing, and I can't stay in the town, so I can only live alone away from the crowd. Even after death, the soul is not allowed to live in peace, is rejected by the gods and Buddhas, and then has a detailed list of what kind of crimes it committed, and then decides which level of hell to endure according to the crimes—a saying full of Buddhist thoughts.

Everyone in the town is strict with self-examination to see if they have inadvertently violated the ethical rules, and if they occasionally violate the general ethical rules, they must repent to the Buddha and Bodhisattva in order to gain peace of mind. More serious ethical violations are not known to the general public.

I was very concerned about this, but I got very little to gain, except that the punishment must be extremely severe, no less than the "immediate execution of the death penalty" a thousand years ago. I don't understand why adults consider small things to be big sins, but I'm not going to try to break them.

It is precisely because of this atmosphere that not only adults talk about ethical discoloration, but even children have a deep fear of violating ethical regulations, and regard the violation of ethical regulations as a major transgression.

Hearing Meijia's words, my eyebrows jumped, and I couldn't help but wrinkle my brows, and I immediately understood that what Meijia said must be related to the fact that Mamura stepped out of the Eight Ding Biao, is it really exposed?

"I've never done anything like this!"

Mika's words made Mamura's girl-like face turn fiery red all of a sudden, and he bit his lower lip and turned his eyes to look at Mika, his eyes full of anger at being wronged.

Not only Mamura, but even Rina raised her eyebrows suddenly, she looked at Mika, then at Mamura, and finally at Mika: "Mika, what happened, why do you think Mamura has seriously violated the ethical rules?" ”

"Things are ......"

Mika gave Mamura a deep look, intending to explain, but I interrupted her, "Go elsewhere and say that someone will come back soon after eating—this kind of topic is not very appropriate for others to hear." ”

"Let's go, I've got a good place."

Without waiting for them to respond, I took the lead towards the pontoon bridge, the place where I hypnotized the real village, where the view was so wide that there was nothing to hide, and the rapidity of the river below would drown out the sound of conversation.

I walked some distance, and they all quickly followed, and there was no sound of conversation except for the click of my feet on the mass of broken ice.

A few minutes later, we arrived at the pontoon bridge, which was as quiet as last time, with no one in sight visible in a radius of several hundred meters. When standing on the raised bridge, you can faintly see some ice sculptures placed densely arranged on the beach of the frozen river 1,000 meters away, but they all look like small dots. Of course, we can also see that the silver-white frozen river interspersed with the fork river we are in now is located hundreds of meters above the source of its freezing...... Perhaps a little farther away at the fork of the Cross River.

Originally, the water that was supposed to flow into the next section of the Tone River along with the frozen river, because the frozen river naturally flowed towards the southeast inlet of the sea in the southeast direction of this overlapping river, and the water volume of the river below became turbulent, and the water surface that should have been low in winter was also raised a lot.

We climbed the pontoon bridge and came to the top of the middle bridge hole, and looked out in the direction of the estuary to the east, where there are rows of sand dunes similar to the village of white sand, and although it looks desolate, when covered with snow, it has a unique beauty as if looking at the undulating snow-capped mountains.

"Oh, the scenery here is beautiful."

She leaned against the white stone fence carved with Buddha statues, holding her chin with her palms, and she didn't seem overly surprised when Mika asked if it was really an ethical violation.

"It's good, but it's a little worse than the hillock."

I glanced at Sasa, suppressed the doubts that had risen in my heart, and turned to look at Mika: "Mika, you can say it now, what happened?" ”

"Of course, how to talk to Little Cuppy here."

After walking for a while, Mika calmed down, kicked the thin layer of snow on the ground with her fluff-lined leather boots, swept them all into the river, cleared a clearing, sat down cross-legged, and then looked at Mamura: "Mamura, don't you have a blue pajamas with a butterfly pattern?" Where are you now? ”

Mamura was frowning and looking left and right, with a strange expression, as if he was looking for something, and he didn't listen to Mika's words - but it was doomed to be in vain. He may have some kind of impression of what happened in this place, but under my hypnosis, these related memories can be said to have been almost completely swept into the bottom of his consciousness.

Just as people automatically exclude and ignore information that is not important, even if they receive it repeatedly, they will only feel familiar, but it is impossible to find a memory of these messages. Even if he could retrieve these memories, the psychological hints I had planted for him would make him feel that these were just dreams and not real.

Psychological suggestion is complicated to say, in fact, it is nothing more than to lead other people's thinking direction through various ways, and the psychological suggestion I set for Mamura is to preset his thoughts in advance through hypnosis - for example, sometimes, people obviously have something in their hands, but they look for this thing everywhere, and they find it for a long time before they find that the thing is in their hands.

This kind of behavior of darkness under the light is the blind spot that occurs after people preset their thoughts in their hearts, and my hint to Mamura is equivalent to this blind spot. He may be anxious to find that familiarity, but when that familiarity is found, he will ignore the past and focus on finding more familiarity.

Unless someone really tells him the truth, it is almost impossible for him to connect memories into the truth on his own, and the fragments of memories that cannot be connected will only be regarded as hallucinations or dreams.

"Mamura, Mika is talking to you."

Rina behind him patted him on the shoulder.

"Huh?"

After being slapped like this, Mamura woke up like a dream, and the transparent amber ball he was holding in his hand slid to the ground, crushing the snow, and rolled down towards the side of the arched bridge, he hurriedly chased after it and picked it up, wiped it preciously, and finally put it in the left pocket of his jacket.

We all looked at him, and Rina shrugged her shoulders and put down the hand that patted him on the shoulder. Mika sighed, but fortunately she wasn't angry, she just called him over angrily.

"Excuse me, what did you just say?"

Mamura walked back, scratching his head in embarrassment, but only scratching the cap on his head. Mika glared at him and repeated the question.

"Blue pajamas? My mother said the pajamas were broken, so she threw them away for me. ”

Although he looked strange, Mamura still answered Mika's question well. After Mika listened, she showed a look of expectation, she held her chin with her hand, and looked at Mamura scrutinically: "Just now, I saw your pajamas, in the hands of two adults—now that I think about it, they are wearing clothes that look very similar to the adults of an education committee I have seen, and it is likely that ......"

She didn't go on, but the meaning was self-evident, and the two adults were members of the Board of Education. This is one of the two councils in the town, and it belongs to the highest decision-making body of Kamisu 66 Town, and has great power.

In addition to the Board of Education, the Ethics Committee is the Ethics Committee, which is responsible for formulating ethics regulations and making decisions on major matters that occur in the town, and is generally not involved in other administrative matters. The identities of all the members of this body are hidden, and no one knows exactly who the members of the ethics committee are.

The Board of Education, on the other hand, controls the four schools in the town and is responsible for the education and upbringing of children—nominally, but in reality it seems to have greater authority, but in fact, the town office, the library, the safety and security council, the functional council, and the Myoho Farm...... and other institutions must follow the instructions of the Board of Education. Of course, the General Board of Education rarely intervenes in other matters.

In the town, even children know that these two institutions generally do not interfere easily in daily affairs, and if they do, it must represent the seriousness of the incident.

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