I'm trapped in a cube

"You should be swimming higher with the fish."

Zero One said to the little fry, and then looked up at the sky.

What is the higher place?

The little fry looked up and saw that it was a reflective film, just like the one it had seen before.

"Keep going up?"

The little fry also understood that its random thoughts were meaningless, and Zero One was right.

Looking at the school of fish behind him, the little fry shook his head, throwing away those useless anxieties, and flew upwards with the school of fish.

When it came to the membrane, it controlled the fish to turn into a giant dragon and passed through it.

When the dragon passed through the membrane and looked back, he found that the membrane just now was just a horizontal ravine.

"It's still words..."

The dragon looked up at the sky, which was still covered with a reflective film.

"continue."

Layer after layer, each time it crossed the membrane, the dragon would look back.

Sure enough, these films turned into horizontal ravines.

"not enough."

The dragon's speed became faster and faster, rushing through the layers of film and crossing the edges until something different appeared in front of it.

It was also a film, but it did not reflect light and seemed to be transparent. Through this film, you could see that everything outside was constantly changing, and the scenes that had once been in the little fish's dream appeared on the film.

"It may be the real world over there, it won't be as pure as the world of words, so everything is put together." Zero One guessed.

The little fish looked blankly at the combined scenes.

Dream come true?

It controls the dragon and gently touches the membrane between the worlds.

However, the moment it touched the film, the fry stopped.

"What's wrong?" Zero One asked in confusion.

"It's okay." The little fry suddenly felt something was wrong.

"Lingyi, tell me, is there a moon outside?" it suddenly asked.

"I don't know." Of course Ling Yi didn't know either.

The little fry was silent for a moment before speaking again.

"Can I take a look here first?"

"You don't have to ask me." Zero One replied the same way.

Every time the little fry asked it for its opinion, it would always answer like this.

"good."

The dragon just floated like this, looking at everything outside the film.

Compared to the world of words, the outside world is more vibrant. Before long, many creatures that the fry had never seen flashed outside the film, and they looked all kinds of strange.

The combinations of those things were much richer than those in the little fish's dream, and of course they were more beautiful.

The little fry watched and found a ball of light floating in the sky.

"Is that the sun? Zero One."

"should be."

"But it doesn't look as red as we've seen it."

"But it seems to be slowly turning red."

After hearing Zero One's words, the little fry immediately observed carefully and found that the sun was really slowly turning red, and it was setting while it was turning red.

Is it like in the dream, when the sun sets, the moon rises?

Sure enough, when the red sun set, it didn't take long for a faint moonlight to shine in the sky.

It's the moon!

There is a moon outside too!

The little fry was ecstatic.

The moonlight shines through the film and onto the dragon's body, making it extremely real.

"This time it's finally not the moonlight in the text!"

The little fry felt that he had found a new goal.

Looking at the familiar yet unfamiliar moon in the sky, infinite yearning bursts out.

Under the control of the little fry, the giant dragon unconsciously touched the film again, but after the touch, the little fry froze again.

for a long time.

The little fry slowly opened his mouth.

"Zero One, let me ask you a question, okay?"

"sure."

"This time you can't answer from the perspective of a school of fish. I want to listen to your own opinion, your own opinion." The little fish fry suddenly made a special request.

But Zero One still agreed: "You can ask."

The little fry thought for a moment and began to ask:

"If you were given a choice, would you like to transform into a dragon, soar in the sky, and conquer everything, or do you want to be a free little fish, carefree?"

Hearing Xiaoyu's question, Zero One was silent for a long time in a rare moment.

"Of course the fish will turn into giant dragons and soar in the sky..."

"Don't use the perspective of a school of fish, I'm asking you yourself." Xiao Yufiao interrupted Zero One's answer.

Zero One fell silent again.

The little fry has never seen Zero One so hesitant.

In its impression, Zero One never hesitates and is very decisive about anything. Every time the little fry asks Zero One, it always gives a quick answer.

He had never expressed his personal wishes, but he didn't expect that this question would make him fall into silence for so long.

However, even if Zero One didn't answer, the little fry probably understood what it was thinking.

Zero One also spoke slowly at this time: "I am your clone, and all choices are the same as yours."

It still has no direct answer.

But the little fry already understood everything.

"I always thought that you and I were different..."

What's the difference?

The basis of the "swarm" are all small fry, and these copies are all the same, there is no difference at all.

It wants to be free, and so do the other clones.

It likes the moon, and so do the other clones.

It's never any different.

But it always thought that it was out of place.

The little fry regretted very much that it had not had a serious conversation with any clone for such a long time, until now.

"Zero One, I'm sorry."

"Why are you apologizing?" Zero One asked in confusion.

"As the leader of the fish school, I haven't done as much as you." The little fry recalled everything before and found that it was indeed not as good as Zero One.

"You're overthinking."

"No, I didn't think too much. I just realized that freedom comes with a price." Xiao Yufiao murmured.

"You did things for me that I didn't want to do, so that I could have enough conditions to be free."

"You helped me bear the price and responsibility. The entire fish school is working hard for our unified purpose. Only I am still indulging in those useless fantasies."

"Actually, you all want to be free, right?"

The little fry became quieter and quieter.

Only then did it realize that the school of fish had done so much for it without knowing it...

"You're overthinking."

Zero One answered the same way, but this time, its tone seemed much more relaxed.

"Look outside, it's beautiful."

Zero One looked out of the film longingly.

The bright moon was in the sky, and the familiar moonlight covered the dragon's body.

Those clones all looked at the dreamy moon.

The little fry was stunned.

The moonlight shining in their eyes seemed familiar.