The black leather shoes were stomping on the dust on the ground, and the crow stood at the top of the bell tower and observed the buildings in the distance with a monocular telescope. In theory, he should not see anything, but he was indeed attracted by something in the telescope.

"Why do you want to enter my side of the world? I thought we had already made an agreement to not interfere with each other's tasks, or did I have some misunderstanding of the previous conversation?"

The woman with a needle appeared on the other end of the top bell tower, with a big bell in between, and neither of them could see each other.

"I just want to see, 'I'' progress."

"Did you clearly realize your incompetence?" The needle-punching woman walked two steps around the big clock. The crow took two steps around the big clock at the same time, always staying above the diagonal with the other party. These two evil things seemed to deliberately not appear in the other party's sight.

"No, I think he did a good job. It's worthy of praise." The lips under the crow's mask squirmed slightly, revealing blood-stained teeth. "This is a good opportunity to exercise. Facing the heart directly sounds like a test of the soul. It would be a very interesting question for 'me'. What makes me curious is what materials are you using and what puzzles are you setting? How do you break through the mind of a 'happy prince'?"

"This is irony, you idiot." The woman covered with spikes sighed. "The phrase Happy Prince itself is a satire of you. People who pursue happiness are often the most unhappy. Judging from his running all the way, what do you want to escape from?"

"Unhappy." The crow stared at the figure in the telescope's vision and replied in a low voice.

—————

Congenital physical problems are indeed difficult to improve.

Su Jing leaned behind the door and gasped violently. In college, he participated in low-intensity exercise in a planned manner, testing and strengthening the heart's load capacity, aerobic exercise, and strengthening his physical fitness in a safe way, but when he exercised vigorously for a long time, he would still have subtle reactions.

He took out his notebook and continued to write his answer.

"What changed is the prince. The protagonist of this story is the happy prince, his self-sacrifice. From the carefree aristocrat in the palace to the happy prince who was a statue after his death, he 'sees' more, so he can no longer be as happy as before. Selectively ignoring the suffering in the world is our social side. Because each of us has his own abilities and limitations and..."

Perhaps we should start with the social nature of human beings as a biological population. Su Jing frowned. If we wanted to explain this issue clearly to the person opposite the notebook from beginning to end, we might really start with our own moral theory.

【Why are we taught to help others?】

"Because the power of individuals is limited." Su Jing walked through the empty corridor of the teaching building, searching for available props while writing in a notebook in sloppy handwriting. Although intuitively, the power of the werewolf was not something he could resist, at least he could come up with various ways to escape. "We, human civilization and survival, are based on society, on mutual assistance and altruism. In ancient times, because the power of individuals was too weak, they needed to be united. And this was the earliest morality, and the earliest morality was produced for survival. It was a group rule. After that, in every era and every country produced various variations of morality on this basis - maintaining the vitality of the ethnic group. But at that time, morality might have used other names: etiquette, law, righteousness... many, many."

"Individuals are protected by groups. Individuals form groups, and groups in turn help each individual. This relationship has built a human society. Without society, there will be no civilization, and there is no even the most primitive economic system of bartering. We may still pick fruits from trees and eat them, be eliminated by the world, or evolve into a beast with strong enough power. Social morality is produced to maintain the cohesion of the group. The etiquette and law in Chinese culture are the external manifestations of this morality, which provides order and maintains the stability of this social group. From this point of view, the "virtue" of helping others and other altruistic "virtues" are actually obligations that people who are protected by groups must fulfill."

[Then why, some people do not follow this rule but live better than those who follow the rules?]

The difficult little guy just wanted to break the casserole when he was buying time. Su Jing kicked open the door of the instructor's office, and the dusty old coat hung on the clothes hanger beside the door. He searched in one pocket at a time, pulling out a bunch of keys from his pocket.

There were many documents scattered on the teacher's desk, and he walked over and looked at it for a moment.

On the desk, under the bookshelf of professional books, were daily office documents. He ignored this fairy tale book for the time being, but focused on the teacher's documents. One of them seemed to have been opened by someone, with black fingerprints on it. Su Jing picked up the document.

This document appears to be a teacher’s record and private evaluation of students.

Su Jing turned over all the way, and the names and the comments below were nothing special. However, the page that the owner of the black fingerprint reader looked through was very interesting. The student's name recorded on that page was blacked out with ink, and the comments below also included many people's names.

[...The classroom is quiet. It may be due to family reasons and is not good at interpersonal communication....The grades are good, but unstable, and there are often major fluctuations....The desire for knowledge is strong. The most he does in school may be reading books. His reading volume and reading level can be compared with adults. If he can guide him, it may develop the habit of self-learning....It is very quiet in normal times, but I suspect that he is related to the occasional fights in the class. Although things were resolved quickly, there are some suspicious aspects of his performance. I can't explain what that is, but sometimes his eyes look at people are quite scary, just like he can see through you......]

"Who is it you? Pencil boy?" Su Jing pulled out a pencil from the pen holder on the desk, covered it with a piece of white paper on the ink black, and gently applied it to the side of the pencil tip. So the hidden words reappeared.

[Student name: Su Jing.]

"...In a church elementary school in a fully English-language Christian cultural atmosphere in a small American town, I appeared, a teacher record of a Chinese growing up in a coastal city in China. Hey! Is this really reasonable?! Can you make up stories more natural?" Su Jing shouted at the silent teacher's office, and no one responded for granted.

"Now I understand, why do you like to ask questions so much... Then I will answer you."

Su Jing bit her lip, sat on the teacher's seat, and opened the album again, feeling full of annoyance. What an obvious thing, why did he only realize it now. He once felt proudly smart, but now he looked like he was really a fool who was so dull that he was unique.

Suddenly meeting his childhood may be a unique encounter in this world. Su Jing reexamined his youth and felt it was a terrible sight. Perhaps everyone's growth process was constantly self-denial. When talking to his childhood self, Su Jing was full of... disgust with the person opposite the album.

"Why do some people do not abide by the rules but live better than those who abide by the rules? That's because... the imperfection of the rules. The question you raised can be said to be the core of the progress of human civilization system for thousands of years. To solve this problem, we invented many strange nouns to refer to various social systems, and produced various moral schools. For the differences in illusory ideas - no, differences in ideas are nothing, what is important is differences in interests - and countless wars have been initiated. Our civilization chooses a balance between justice and fairness, looking for a universal value that can bind the development of social order and productivity in a stable model."

"And why some people break the rules? It is because, no matter how strong the unity we write in genes and instilled in society, our biological nature always puts our personal interests first. Perhaps some people have noble sentiments and put the interests of others before themselves, but from the big numbers of the entire group, we are still selfish, and it is statistically inevitable to find loopholes in the rules to make profits for ourselves."

I vaguely remember that we were discussing a fairy tale at the beginning. Su Jing smiled bitterly. When he was facing "self", it was difficult for him to maintain his peaceful attitude. I could tolerate anyone, but I could not tolerate myself, because I knew that I was, and now, what a despicable and selfish person.

How interesting it is to face yourself. You know what kind of person is opposite the mirror, you know all his despicable thoughts and dirty **, no one in the world can hate himself more truly than himself.

【So, what kind of person should I be?】

Su Jing didn't know how to answer.

He thought of many answers. With the answer he has now obtained, he now knows what kind of person he wants to become, but when facing himself when he was seven or eight years old, this answer is not very suitable. There are also "standard answers" full of light that can make him happy, but the standard answer is not prepared for himself.

So.

“Be the person you want to be.”
Chapter completed!