I'm trapped in a cube

But even if you regret it, it's too late. When you see all this, they already "exist".

Before it acquired eyes, the forest was "calm".

After obtaining the eyes, the forest becomes "cruel".

Perception determines its view of things. It truly sees those things, and even if it regrets, it cannot deny their existence.

"What should I do, right?"

Protecting small animals will lead to the death of predators. If you let them hunt, you will feel the despair of those small animals. No matter what you choose, the vines will feel those negative emotions.

No matter what it did, it was wrong. It couldn't figure out this matter in its ignorant thoughts. It could only keep thinking and thinking until its whole body went into shutdown...

Just when it was thinking, a rabbit ran under the vines and sought shelter. The predators were not far away. Just when the vines wanted to protect the rabbit, they thought of the predators who starved to death, so the vines Xu was stuck in mid-air.

"God of vines, protect me quickly, protect me quickly!"

The rabbit circled anxiously on the ground, urging the vines with its movements.

The vine understood its meaning, and the vine whiskers hung down helplessly, and began to dance in the air.

"I can't protect you. If I protect you, the predator will starve to death. It's the same death. I have no choice."

These rabbits are a kind of small animals that the vines like very much. They are very smart and can understand the meaning of the vines. They even regard the vines as gods. They often perform some strange "sacrifice" around the vines, and even give the vines some of their dead companions. The corpse was moved to the vines and the eyes were offered to the vines.

Although childish, the vines are very useful and have been protecting these rabbits.

But now, it began to hesitate whether to protect the rabbit.

"God of vines, can you really not protect me?"

"Yes." The vine thought for a while and answered the rabbit helplessly.

I thought the rabbit would be disappointed with it, but the rabbit lay down next to the vine and rubbed the soft vine.

"It's okay, God of Vine."

"It's all death anyway. I'm very happy to die beside the God of Vine..."

"God of vines, can you take off my eyes?"

Hearing the rabbit's request, the vine was surprised. It had never taken the eyes of a living creature.

"Why?" it asked the rabbit in confusion.

"If my eyes become part of the Vine God, I can see the world with you. I know that I am weak and die easily, but if I follow you, I won't die so easily... I haven't yet Having seen enough of this world, I want to continue to see..."

The rabbit's eyes widened, looking at the soft tendrils.

The red eyes were wide open. The vine, which had seen so many eyes, knew that the rabbit was not lying to it. The eyes could not deceive. The rabbit's eyes were full of sincerity and seriousness.

Looking at the red eyes, the vines slowly stretched up.

"It might hurt."

The vine didn't know what pain was, but it knew that when the flesh and blood of these little animals were torn apart, they would cry out at the top of their lungs.

"That must be pain, right?"

The vines dug out the rabbit's eyes, but the rabbit didn't cry out. It just closed its eyelids quietly and leaned against the vines.

The skinny predator walked over slowly and picked up the prey it had been chasing for a long time. It had not caught a prey for a long time. It thought it would fail again this time, but the vine did not. To protect the prey in front of it, although it didn't know why, it snorted at the vines and took the rabbit away.

The vines swayed and got stuck in mid-air, watching the predator gradually walk away.

The red eyes were still entangled in the vines, and blood dripped on the shadows on the ground.

After being stunned for a while, Fujitsu connected to the eyes that belonged to the rabbit and saw the world that belonged to it:

Not sure, it’s colorful and very exciting...

"I promise you, I will help you continue to see the world."

At this moment, the vine found the meaning of its existence.

Since there is no way to protect all those lives, just keep their eyes, which will take those weak lives to see this cruel and desperate world.

At least among the cruelty, there is still a hint of beauty...

The soft vines wrapped the eyes tightly, and a drop of transparent juice secreted from the vines, crossing the eyeballs and dripping into the shadow.

…

From then on, the vines no longer protected the small animals in the forest, and no longer interfered with the life processes of those weak creatures. It just silently acted as a bystander, watching the sun rise and set in the forest, and the survival of the fittest.

It peels off the eyes of dead creatures and installs them on itself.

Although the practice is the same as before, it now finds new meaning.

There are often creatures that find it while it is still alive and want the vine god to take away its eyes, but it does so.

In the process of understanding the world through these eyes, Vine also realized that this forest is just a corner of the world, and the real beauty lies in a more distant place.

If it were itself, it could stay in this forest forever. As long as it could get sunshine, it would be satisfied.

However, it promised those little animals to see the world with their eyes, so it cannot be limited to this forest.

The vine thought of many ways. In order to leave the forest, it transformed its body so that the vines were no longer attached to the tree and could move freely.

But at this time, it has not found a way to leave the forest.

Until a jelly-like creature found it.

"We're going to go with you, and we're going to go with our eyes."

But the vines searched for a long time, but couldn't find the eyes on these jelly creatures.

"Where are your eyes? Why didn't I find them?"

"Our whole body is covered with eyes, and we can see the changes in synchronization rate..." The jelly squirmed, condensing into a slime ball that looked like an eye.

"What is the synchronization rate?" Vine didn't understand.

The jellies spent a lot of effort to explain the concept of synchronization rate clearly, and also told the vines that only they could see the synchronization rate.

"But what's the point of being able to see the synchronization rate? Our bodies are soft and fragile. If the rain falls a little harder, it will wash us away. We also want to see the more distant world, but we have been trapped for generations. In the deep tree hole, staring at the eternal synchronization rate, waiting for death. "

Vine immediately understood that these jellies were just like the little animals that had offered their eyes before, eager to see more things.

"I promise you, give me your eyes..."

Seeing that the vine agreed, the jellies sent the slime ball to the vine, and the vine carefully wrapped the special "eye".

"Remember, you have to help us see the world." The jellies said wistfully.

"Okay, I promise you."

"Actually, we have seen it a long time ago..."

"What did you see?"

"At the end of that distant time, you tore open the cracks of synchronic chaos, and with countless eyes, you saw this cruel and beautiful world. You did not let us down, nor did you let down the creatures who entrusted their eyes to you. You did everything you promised...Vine God."