"We have to change our plan. We can't let this kid watch us do bad things, right?"
"She is very autistic and turns a blind eye to things she shouldn't see!"
"Then we can't let her watch it. What if she wasn't autistic at that time? Then she would really be stimulated to become autistic!"
"Amy, are you thinking too much? This child has experienced the massacre of the village. If he wants to be stimulated, he will be stimulated already. Maybe it is because of the stimulation that he becomes like this!"
"This is different! Those who killed and were killed are all dead, and we have to take care of her from now on. How can we let her see us killing people? Do you want her to be afraid of us and run away?"
"What if she's not afraid? How do you know she's afraid? You're not her!"
"You also play this kind of nonsense, right? Okay, then let's ask her directly!"
Due to this accident, our plan to travel overnight had to be cancelled. Now Yesha is standing beside us in a daze, her head lowered and she doesn't know what she is thinking.
"Ye Sha, sister wants to ask you some questions. If you can answer them, you must answer me, okay?"
I took out a torch and lit it quietly, letting the sunflower hold it to illuminate the area.
"..."
The little animal remained motionless and indifferent to my words.
"Don't want to?"
"Huh~~~"
"...Yanghua, this child actually fell asleep standing up."
"Wow! This kid has amazing bones! How does she keep her balance while sleeping?"
"How do I know? Anyway, this child is definitely not an ordinary person."
I shook Yesha's body, and she woke up immediately. Her big, calm eyes stared at me without any emotion, as if she had no anger or panic at all when she was woken up.
"Yesha, I want to ask some questions about you. Can you please answer them as best I can."
(shakes head)
"Very good. First question, in the previous Dashi Village, did you see the church people cleaning up the village?"
(shakes head)
"Can you tell me a little bit more about what you saw?"
(Staring at me expressionlessly.)
"Are you afraid and don't want to say it?"
(shakes head)
"Yesha, the fact that you can survive until now shows that you are a brave child. Fear of this kind of thing is what drives us to live desperately. There is nothing scary in itself. You are safe now and don't need to be afraid of these things anymore.
It’s over, Sister Yanghua and I will definitely protect you. So tell me what you saw.”
I gently followed the little animal's hair and guided her with as kind an expression as possible.
"Amy, please stop forcing her. She said she was afraid. Isn't that enough?"
"Don't interrupt, is she afraid? Should she continue to be afraid? We don't know how bad things will happen in the future. She may see even more terrifying scenes. What will happen then? She must become brave and not timid in this world.
It’s impossible to survive.”
"oh……"
Yesha stared at me for a few seconds, then took out a notebook from her bag and started writing.
(The knight hacked the villagers to death and burned the village.)
"Anything else? What else did you see?"
(They killed the monk and the nun hid me underground.)
"Sure enough, it is completely consistent with what we judged."
(I'm scared when I can't see the nun.)
"Huh? Is this kid afraid of killing someone, or is he afraid of not being able to see the nun?"
Bai Yanghua raised her eyebrows.
"Yesha, aren't you afraid that so many people have died?"
I tried to dig deeper into the problem.
(nod)
"Why? Aren't you afraid of being killed too?"
(nod)
"Then why did you avoid us in the first place?"
(The nun asked me to do this.)
"So, you're not afraid of being killed, but you're afraid of not having anyone tell you what to do?"
(shakes head)
"Yanghua, it seems that this child is the ultimate enhanced version of you. If no one tells her to live, then she doesn't know that she should live."
"What's wrong with this child! Doesn't she have the instincts that a normal person should have!"
Yanghua was very puzzled as she held Yesha's face and looked at it repeatedly, as if she wanted to rely on her appearance to find out her heart.
"This kid is not a normal person, always remember that."
"So she doesn't know what fear is, and she doesn't have any outlook on life at all!"
"It seems so."
"It's over now. Doesn't that mean we have to be extra careful in everything we do? This child is so pure that she is stupid! All actions will affect her growth!"
"I don't think it's necessarily that bad."
"Why do you think so?"
"Because this child does not have three views, we can seize the opportunity to shape her three views."
"But what we are going to do is not a good thing! Do you want to tell her that bad things are good things?"
"Of course not. I will tell her that these things are bad things, but they are all choices made under certain circumstances and have good sides."
"You are talking nonsense! This child obviously lacks common sense. If you tell her these things, will she understand? Even if she understands, she will only have a partial understanding. That will be even more harmful! Absolutely not, absolutely not!"
"Then what do you think we should do?"
"We'd better find a way to avoid her! Hide her when she does bad things!"
"How can she hide when she's so big?"
"Get a bigger bag!"
"Are you serious?"
"certainly!"
"As expected, it's not reliable at all to find a solution from you."
"What! I also want to tell you a conjecture I just came up with!"
"What kind of unreliable conjecture is this?"
"What does it mean to be unreliable! Am I so unreliable in your eyes? I'm not stupid!"
"You are very smart, but your ideas are too simple and naive, which wastes your IQ. In the past few years, you have become accustomed to being stupid and may have lost your ability to think."
"Damn! You just look down on me!"
"No, no~ tell me what your guess is."
"Amy, what this kid is afraid of is that no one tells her what to do, right?"
"right."
"Is it possible that this child doesn't think about anything or care about anything. She is like a robot and won't deal with things that are not written into the program."
"How to say?"
"The nun told her to live, so she will live. But the nun didn't tell her that dying is terrible, so she doesn't know that dying is terrible, and she doesn't even have the instinct to fear death. In this case, then we are
It’s not that we can prevent her from listening or seeing. In this case, nothing we do will have an impact on her, because her brain will not process this information.”
"Well... this may be possible, but it is risky. What if she is just dull and suddenly comes back to normal when the stimulation is strong enough?"
"There's no point in risking anything! How about we find a way to test it first and do it step by step!"
"How to test?"
"Test it with some small things! Let me think about it!"
"You haven't thought about it yet?"
"Of course! I just have ideas, no plans!"
"Then hurry up, I'll wait."
"You think so too! You are also very smart, okay!"