The world has to exist, so there must be rules.

Humans want to survive, so they have to follow the rules.

What are Rules?

Everything you see in your eyes is a rule.

For example, a man is to live in a leeward place,

For example, if a person is killed, he will die,

For example, people can't help but burn,

For example, if a person drowns, he will drown.

Another example is that the sun rises in the east and sets in the west,

The flow of water is always top-down.

These are the rules.

People live in this rule, and they have long been accustomed to nature.

But no one has ever tried to cross it.

No, perhaps the vast majority of people are not aware of the existence of "rules".

Perhaps someone has spent their lives carrying pain and tried to peep, but they still can't see it.

Or maybe someone is standing in front of the rules and still doesn't dare to take that step in the end.

But what is certain is that there have been attempts to break the rules without seeing them.

So he was put in chains.

......

"What should I do?" the boy asked again.

"I don't know. Shami said.

"You don't know?"

"Yes. ”

"Then what are you talking to me about breaking the rules?

"Do you think the world is impermanent?"

The child nodded.

"Think you're sad?"

The child shook his head.

"Your parents are dead and you are sad. ”

The child nodded again.

"But you have to know that there are no accidents in this world. ”

The child's expression suddenly became serious, and his eyes flickered.

"This is the rule, every word I say to you, every glance I make with you, even every breath of air I breathe is predestined, it has and will only have one result. Everything else can only be called a possibility. ”

But these possibilities don't exist in the so-called rules, it's just that we feel that this possibility should exist, so it exists. ”

"That's the illusion that the rules themselves create to make themselves look fuller. ”

Shami pulled the child to the crooked stone monument that they had set up, and the word "cicada forest" that should have been written on it had long since turned into a small and chaotic red dot.

"I promised it to let it grow its hands and feet, and let it speak. ”

The child blinked, looked at the crooked stone, and then at the novice: "But isn't it a wishing stone?

"When did I say it's a wishing stone?"

"What you said yesterday!"

"I've always said 'it's not a wishing stone,' okay?"

"You, you, you......!" the child blushed and spoke incoherently.

"I, I, I!" said Shami, who was like a child, and was very badly beaten.

"Humph!"

"Humph!"

“......”

"Wait, the stones can talk?" the child woke up suddenly.

"Of course!"

"Impossible, how can the stone speak!"

"That's something you haven't seen. ”

"You must be lying to me again!"

"Hey, Aisin will be pulled down if you believe it or not. ”

"Don't believe it!"

"Forget it. The novice cautiously leaned against the stone tablet, which should have been called a pile of stones.

The current stone monument is afraid that it can be ...... if there is a strong gust of wind

"Whew-"

"Whoa—"

Poured......

"Ahh

The child looked at it from the side and said disdainfully: "That's it, still grow hands and feet?"

Shami smiled: "I'm lucky, the rules are getting weak now. ”

"What?"

"No matter how strong it is, I won't be able to get out of here, and even if I get out of here, I won't be able to come back alive. ”

He pointed to the horrible wound in front of him that was still bleeding.

"This wound ......"

"Fight with someone, lose, but it's okay, I've promised it he's going to kill him. ”

"Who wants to be killed?"

"There are always people who want to, they have faced their fears for eternity, and they will always be tired. ”

"But who doesn't have fear?"

"I didn't, and you won't have it in the future. ”

"Have you forgotten that you were chased for 800 streets in your dreams and your pants were wet?"

"It's in a dream!!" Shami scolded, feeling that his face was not enough.

"Hush. The child was disdainful.

"Think about it, what kind of mood is it when you face the fire in your house?"

The child's eyes moved, and he did not speak, but quietly curled up his knees.

"If, at this time, I tell you that I can try to go in and save your mother, how would you feel?"

The child turned his head and looked at the novice.

"Got it?"

"I understand a little. ”

"Yes, everyone has something curious, but if curiosity is wrapped in a skin of fear, no one dares to move a step, even if they are always feared, they will not try to snoop, at this time, what they need is a person who can replace him to meet fear, a person who can replace him to realize curiosity. ”

The child is thoughtful, but he doesn't know what he is thinking.

"Rules are a thing that is rare for ordinary people to see in their lives, difficult to touch when they are seen by second-class people, and difficult to touch by third-class people. ”

"I'm one of these four people, and I don't look at it, but I want to touch it. ”

The child felt his heart beat violently, and the blood in his chest was a little hotter, but when he saw the appearance of the novice, he was half cold.

"Don't touch it. ”

"No, it's accurate!"

"What if the rules make you think you're accurate, but you're not?"

Shami was stunned for a moment, rolled his eyes for a long time, looked at the child and muttered, "You kid, you still have a little spirituality!"

"It's just a possibility. The child said.

"Of course, anything is possible, but there must be a reasonable explanation for the shackles that suddenly appeared around my neck, and the stone tablets that turned into a pile of rubble. ”

“......”

"It tried to stop me, and then maybe it thought it was more tempting to grow hands and feet, so he let me go, and then it was blown to pieces. ”

"Then I asked a guy what the rules were, and he only gave me a sword. Shami pointed to the hideous wound on his chest, "It really hurts, but I'm used to it." ”

The child looked at the wound seriously, seemed to become empathetic, and said, "Actually, I want to know how you bled for months without dying." ”

"I deserve to die, right?"

"Of course. ”

The novice smiled but said nothing.

The child looked at him, and then suddenly understood.

"It's the rule, you've ......"

"Yes, it has shackled me, but it still can't block all my power, and one day it will no longer be able to restrain me, and I will break it like a piece of paper!"

The child was stunned, his heart pounding.

I don't know where the pride came out of nothingness, he laughed, like a wicked man who had been locked in a cellar all year round, and saw the light of day again.

"But perhaps, I will be killed. ”

The child's smile froze slightly.

"I said that I must kill him, and now, I just want to kill him, as long as I can kill him, it proves that I have completely broken the rules. ”

"Do you know what that means?"

The child shook his head.

This means that the man is already good enough to match the rules of this world. ”

"But as you said, he was afraid of the rules and didn't dare to touch them. The kid asked.

Yes, but it doesn't mean that he is weak, and what he fears is not the rules of this world, but what is higher after the rules. "Asexual said.

"More ...... High?"

"Power is always endless, above the rules, and of course there will be rules. ”

"But ......" the child couldn't say anything more, as if he was gagged.

"Are you scared?"

The child lowered his eyes and looked at the gravel under his feet.

"Why is there such a profound thing?"

Do you think that ants also think that human beings are very far-reaching? Do the little squirrels in the trees think that the end of the mountain is the end of the world, and the tree on the top of the mountain is the apex of the world? Does the old tree, which has never moved, also feel that the world is as big as it sees?"

The child looked up and looked ahead.

At the extreme, there are fireworks in the world, illusory and ethereal.

"It's kind of interesting. The child said with a smile.

"Do you want to go outside the rules?"

The child nodded: "At least you have to see more than everyone else!"

"It's a good idea, but it's a pity you can't. ”

"Why?"

"Because of me. Shami tilted his face up.

"But as long as I step on your bald head, I can see farther than you. The child said.

Asexual thoughtful, his expression tangled: "Could it be ...... You're a philosopher too?"