In the end, Mo Ling reluctantly returned to the very first eyeball he had met.
Just as it had said, it was already one of the more "normal" members of its species.
"Are all of you like this?"
"Usually, yes. And also, usually, no."
"…"
"The more you see, the more you begin to doubt. If you've only ever seen red flowers, you'll think all flowers are red. But once you see a blue flower, you start to wonder: are flowers red, or are they blue? And after seeing even more flowers, your thoughts grow increasingly complex, and your doubts multiply, until you believe everything is filled with uncertainty."
"The more you see and the more you think, the more you hesitate. It's even worse than at the very beginning, when all you knew was that flowers were red… Perception is the way we understand the world, but it is also a shackle that binds our consciousness. We have seen too much, so naturally, we are wrapped in chains, unable to move…"
