I'm trapped in a block

Chapter 658 Their Eyes

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

The forest is "peaceful" until it acquires eyes.

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

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

"What should I do, right?"

Protecting the small animals will lead to the death of the predator, and allowing them to be hunted will make the vines feel the despair of the small animals. No matter what choice is made, the vines will feel those negative emotions.

No matter what it did, it was wrong. It couldn't figure out what was going on in its confused mind. It could only keep thinking, and thinking, until its entire body went into a state of shutdown...

Just as it was lost in thought, a rabbit ran under the vines and sought shelter. The predator was not far away. The vines were about to protect the rabbit, but then they thought of the predators that had starved to death, so the vines got stuck in mid-air.

"God of vines, please protect me! Please protect me!"

The rabbit was spinning anxiously on the ground, urging the vines along with its movements.

The vines understood its meaning, and their tendrils drooped 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 what the vines mean. They even regard the vines as gods. They often perform some strange "sacrifices" around the vines and even move the bodies of some dead companions to the side of the vines and offer their eyes to the vines.

Although naive, the vines are very useful and have been protecting the 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 about it and answered the rabbit helplessly.

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

"It's okay, God of the Vine."

"I'm going to die anyway. I'm already very happy to die beside the God of Vine..."

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

The vine was surprised to hear the rabbit's request, as it had never taken the eyes of a living creature before.

"Why?" it asked the rabbit puzzledly.

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

The rabbit widened its eyes and looked at the soft vine whiskers.

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

Looking at those red eyes, the vine slowly stretched out.

“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 should be pain, right?"

The vine dug out the rabbit's eyes, but the rabbit did not scream. It just closed its eyelids quietly and leaned against the vine.

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

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

The red eyeball was still entangled in the tendrils, and blood dripped onto the shadow on the ground. After a moment of hesitation, the tendrils connected to the rabbit's eyes and saw its own world:
Not sure, colorful, 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, let's leave their eyes behind. They will take those weak lives to see this cruel and desperate world.

At least there is a hint of beauty in that cruelty...

The soft tendrils wrapped the eyes tightly, and a drop of transparent juice secreted from the tendrils, flowed across the eyeball and dripped into the shadow.

……

From then on, the vine no longer protected the small animals in the forest, and no longer interfered with the life process of those weak lives. It just silently acted as a bystander, watching the sunrise and sunset in the forest and the survival of the fittest.

It peels the eyes off dead creatures and attaches them to its own body.

Although the approach is the same as before, this time it finds new meaning.

There are often creatures that find it when it is alive and want the Vine God to take away their eyes, and it will accept them.

In the process of understanding the world through these eyes, the vines also realized that this forest is only a corner of the world, and the real beauty is still in places farther away.

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

However, it promised the little animals that it would see the world with their eyes, so it could not be confined to this forest.

The vine thought of many ways. In order to leave the forest, it transformed its body so that the tendrils no longer depended on the big tree and could move freely.

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

Until a jelly-like creature found it.

"We will go with you, with our eyes."

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

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

"We have eyes all over our bodies, and we can see changes in synchronization rate..." The jellies squirmed and condensed into a slime ball that looked like an eye.

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

The jellies took a lot of effort to explain the concept of synchronization rate, 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 is a little heavier, it will wash us away. We also want to see the more distant world, but our ancestors have been trapped in deep tree holes for generations, staring at the eternal and unchanging synchronization rate, waiting to die."

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

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

Seeing that the vines agreed, the jellies brought the slime ball to the vine tendrils, and the vine tendrils carefully wrapped up these special "eyes".

"Remember, help us see this world." The jellies said dejectedly.

"Okay, I promise you."

“In fact, we have already seen it…”

"What did you see?"

"At the end of that distant time, you tore open the cracks of synchronous 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... God of the Vine."

(End of this chapter)