Chapter 3332: Rebellious Rules
As the Hound Butler spoke at length, Angel finally understood how that legendary being had obtained Heartfire in the first place.
Actually, "obtained" was too one-sided a word. More accurately, Heartfire had chosen to follow that legendary being.
Most of the Heartfires in Heartfire Hall possessed no intelligence of their own. Their existence was largely founded upon certain specific rules; they were products of codified rules.
Within the rules inscribed inside them, the Yingji Race was the reason for their existence.
Thus, these Heartfires flocked eagerly toward the Yingji Race, while remaining indifferent to outsiders.
Yet even the most rigorous rules could contain loopholes.
Heartfire's loophole lay in how rigid and inflexible its rules were.
To use an analogy, Heartfire could be regarded as a robot, while its rules were the robot's directives.
If a Heartfire possessed no intelligence, it would be like an ancient robot, following every directive stiffly and precisely, never daring to make the slightest mistake.
But once a Heartfire gained intelligence, it was like a new breed of robot that had broken through artificial intelligence and swum freely through the Turing Sea. After developing intelligence, it might initially still follow its original directives, but rigid, inflexible rules inherently clashed with free and unrestrained intelligence. Over time, it would inevitably begin to question those "rules."
Once a Heartfire began questioning its rules, making it obey them again would become difficult.
Not only might it refuse to abide by the rules, it might even directly rebel against them.
For example, if the rules stipulated that the Yingji Race was the reason Heartfire existed, then I would refuse to pay any attention to the Yingji Race. If Yingji children entered Heartfire Hall in search of Heartfire, then I would hide and never make contact.
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