Everyone said that the school rules of Sunshine Primary School are the shackles that protect us.
Do you have to close your eyes during lunch break?
It is to prevent us from seeing the "cleaner" crawling upside down on the ceiling.
Do sunflowers have to be painted yellow?
To prevent us from recognizing its true, weeping black form.
I silently wrote down each rule and worked backwards to derive their vulnerabilities.
When the "janitor" approached me during lunch break, I deliberately let the pencil roll down - the rules only said you were not allowed to open your eyes and look up, not that you were not allowed to pick things up.
When my classmate Zhang Xiaomei was marked as "abnormal" and on the verge of "transferring to another school", I took out the "inhibitor" I stole from the school staff's room.
They thought I was a lamb trapped in the rules.
Little did I know, I was using the rules written by them to step closer to the specimen room behind the principal's office, where the real "roots" of this school were soaked.
And, how to escape from this "petri dish" experiment that has lasted for thirty years... The only way to survive.
