Reiko Shimizu’s icy coldness just wants to remind us of the reason why we are deliberately ignored

Although Reiko Shimizu has been serializing works in the girl manga magazine under white spring club for a long time, she has a soft spot for some cold stories compared to those love girl manga. Among them, the "Clear Water Cruelty" is probably the "Jack and Avery Series".

Jack and Avery are two high-intelligence robots. Their appearance is no different from ordinary people. They have met all kinds of people in the long years of being immortal, and they have had separate chapters but how many There are little stories that are connected inside. Let's watch some stories.

Story 1: Jack's story "22XX"

1span This is a story that Jack encountered when he rescued a princess from . Because of the mission, Jack landed on the planet where the Fjord from the cannibal tribe lived, and then met Ruby the Fjord by chance.

Ruby, like her people, believes that cannibalism is sacred, and that the one who is eaten and the one who eats him live together. Moreover, in the eyes of the Fujuli, being eaten is the most valuable and least wasteful kind of death. Ruby's mother ate Ruby's father, and Ruby who fell in love with Jack also longed to eat Jack one day. Of course, she didn't know what a robot was, and she didn't know that Jack could not eat, it could only be her unrequited love.

Later Jack was trapped in the ruins during the mission, and he was short of food and water for several days. The robots built at that time sought to be close to real people,Hunger is also set for them. Although eating is not necessary for the robot, if they do not eat, they will feel the same hunger as humans. When Ruby found Jack, he was already starving to death. Ruby went to contact the rescue visually for several days. Without knowing that Jack was a robot, in order to keep him alive, Ruby resolutely cut off his left hand and threw it to Jack to satisfy his hunger.

In the end, Jack and the princess were rescued successfully, and rescuers burned the forest in order to force out the terrorists who kidnapped the princess. And Ruby was still in the forest where she grew up. In the end, under Jack’s duress, the rescue helicopter flew back to find Ruby, but because of insufficient fuel, he could not land and stay. Jack could only drop a piece of rope ladder for Ruby to catch. But Ruby, who had lost one hand, was unable to hold the rope ladder with one hand. At the last moment when he let go and fell, Ruby stared at Jack and kept asking: "My left hand, have you eaten?"

For the Fuchuli people who hunt for a living, losing a hand almost loses their hunting ability, which is directly related to survival. So letting Jack eat that hand is equivalent to giving his life to others, so Ruby was so concerned about whether Jack had eaten his hand before he died.

said whether it was out of faith or love for Jack, Ruby took the matter of Jack eating himself for granted. Just like she usually eats birds and beasts, if one day she needs to eat Jack, she will do it without thinking.

The theme of eating people is not uncommon, but the impact of "22XX" is the kind of habit of eating the weak and making the most of resources. Imagine that we don't hesitate when we eat meat, livestock and poultry, but we are very affectionate for some domestic pets. This is very strange.

In fact, the creatures at the upper end of the food chain eat the creatures at the lower end of the food chain are originally natural laws.If you have the heart, you can eat them clean and don't waste them, and those "loves" for pets are nothing more than a kind of "self-heavy" by humans in order to satisfy their own emotional needs. Just as some parents do things "all for your good" in the name of love, they are all self-satisfaction based on their own spiritual needs rather than the needs of others. Once they stop their "love" behaviors, it is themselves who feel the most uncomfortable.

Therefore, species at the upper end of the food chain have never really attached to the lower end of the food chain, and they are only for their own physical or spiritual needs.

This kind of truth that should have been taken for granted is often blinded by the increasingly complex civilization and the "love" for other species. As usual, if you really love your pet, you should let it mate freely and let it mate at will, instead of being neutered and kept at home. Even the protection of wild animals is because the destruction of the natural balance will endanger humans. Why don't we protect those animals that are not endangered? Those domestic animals are also living in dire straits!

So there is no need to post those romantic and sensual reasons, just as Ruby asks Jack to eat his own hands, or to imagine that one day it is natural to eat Jack by himself.

It is the rule of nature that the weak eat the strong. Who on earth has been gilding some behaviors of human society for thousands of years? As a result, today we are almost forgetting the original colors of these laws.

Story 2: Avery’s Story "A Thousand Nights"

Avery once rescued an 8-year-old boy from Yadaka Naid.It is also a planet where the weak eats the strong, and the laws of nature are straightforward. Only one of the 10 children there will grow up to adulthood smoothly. They have to practice various survival and hunting skills from an early age in order to survive well.

However, the rescued Kanai is an outlier of this race. His IQ is as high as 300, but he is very frail and sick. In the words of the doctor, people with an IQ of 300 are themselves a deformity, but they are There are physical defects. Kanai died in the hospital when he was less than 10 years old.

However, the story does not end. Later, Avery happened to encounter another genius boy from the planet Yadailande, James, who also has an IQ of 300, but this person is physically strong and has no signs of illness. With longing for Kanai and doubts about coincidence, Avery began to observe James secretly, and finally found the truth of the matter: After Kanai died, researchers transplanted his brain to this man named James, making Ka Chennai's brain continues to survive.

Ironically, this new body is the brother of the enemy who killed Kanai’s parents. Since the brothers look alike, Kanai’s residual consciousness mistakenly regarded this body as it was. My enemy, I want to commit suicide every time I see myself in the mirror...

Finally, Ailey clarified the facts to Kanai's consciousness, but also awakened Kanai's memory, and the two finally recognized each other. Afterwards, James returned to his home planet for construction work and died in an accidental fire. Then his brain was transplanted to another person to continue his unfinished business... After several migrations, Avery finally couldn't find Canai again, but still Remember this magical fate.

This story is very flat in the many evocative short stories of Reiko Shimizu.It is the story of the former frontier that relies on Avery's longing and the residual memory of a child. But why is such a common story so moving when I see it? The scene where Kanai, already James, remembered Avery again was very touching.

Here we imagine the mentality of two people. Kanai, who saw his parents die in front of him when he was 8 years old, once regarded Avery as his only support, and Avery, who was immortal for more than two hundred years, also saw enough of the humans around him to leave, so Take every opportunity very seriously. The common reason they long for each other is because they want to grasp their connection with the world.

Loneliness is the most unavoidable torture in the world. Even people with independent personality will sometimes feel lonely. I don't know if it is due to the social instinct of human beings (robots are also made based on human beings). So far, it is difficult to explain why loneliness, which does not harm the body, can harm the subject of consciousness in this way.

, a robot built with high performance in all aspects, Avery obviously looks down on a kid like Kanai who can't even survive independently, but it is Kanai's unique attachment to him that makes Avery moved. As long as you think of someone in this world who can't do without yourself, you will feel how you are needed. This feeling of being needed will in turn prove the value of one's own existence. Therefore, Avery, who has always had doubts about the meaning of existence, found solace in Kanai's dependence.

Many people in our daily life also find satisfaction due to the needs of work and family. A person who is lonely for a long time will doubt his own existence, but if his own existence can be a help for others , You can explain the meaning of your own existence. Many people on the surface complain about how hard work is and the burden of the family, but they are really stripped of other people’s needs for him, and he will fall into endless doubts and uncertainties like Avery...

Many social forms that have naturally existed around us for a long time,All have their long process of formation, and the gradual formation of the state you see today must have its internal reasons.

Story 3: The story of Jack and Avery "The Galaxy Galaxy"

There is not always a story between Jack and Avery. . How did Avery meet Jack? It is the result that Avery deliberately searched for.

Jack's appearance was originally built after a person named Tianlong, and that person named Tianlong was the first owner of Avery. As a robot, Avery fell in love with his owner, Tianlong 230 years ago, and committed suicide once after Tianlong married other people. However, the high-performance Avery was not that easy to die and was an attempted suicide. Later he committed suicide again when Tianlong died, again without success. Later, Avery fell into a cycle of habitual suicide, committing suicide again and again but never dying again...

until one day he learned that there was a robot that looked like a dragon, He desperately found Jack. Of course Jack is not a Dragon, just the same appearance, but just because of this makes it easy for Avery to like Jack. At the same time, Jack also has a substitute for first love -Louise. Jack fell in love with humans 170 years ago, but humans are dying after all. Later, Jack met Louise, who was very similar to his first love. It happened that Louise also liked him, so he became a couple and lived together.

So Avery's intervention formed a very wonderful triangle relationship.

Later, Jack took Ellie to travel on the star of Pestmiva 230 light-years away. Since the image of the earth will not be transmitted to that planet until 230 years of transmission, it can be seen through light and shadow afterimages. The situation on the earth 230 years ago. As a result, Avery just glanced at the image of Tianlong still alive and was moved to tears...

Yes, this is a love story.

In fact, the relationship between Jack and Louise was originally not strong, otherwise there would be no room for others to intervene. Jack regards Louise as a substitute for his first love. Naturally, this is not a healthy motive, and robots and humans cannot last. But Louise was wholeheartedly devoted to Jack, and she didn't hesitate to know that he was a robot. She even used Denon's frozen sperm for artificial insemination in "Angel Evolution" to give birth to a child who looked like Jack.

And also the one who paid unconditionally for love is Avery, who committed suicide repeatedly after the death of Tianlong, until he met Jack who looked the same as Tianlong.

Jack failed to get his first love, Avery failed to get Denon, and Louise failed to get Jack in the end. This bunch of emotional entanglements actually tells a story called "begging, but not".

If the world’s love is when I love you and you happen to love me, what sorrow and sadness is there? Isn’t it just because there are too many when I love you and you don’t love me, so you have all kinds of abuse?

Compared with other girl comics in Baiquansha,Reiko Shimizu's story is even colder, but this is also the true face of many loves. There is no such good thing. Just because I love you deeply, you have to take into account my feelings. In this world, even good people do not send cards, so turn your head and leave. 'S abound.

And this kind of need is not only in love, but also in the communication between friends and relatives, and the demands for all kinds of things. You are fancy a job, but other people may not fancy you; you participate in a selection, but they will kill you in the first round; you fancy an item, but its high price is not willing to condescend... this world There are so many things that you can't ask for, no matter how hard you try, even if you kneel down and beg, what you can't get is nothing, and there will be no dramatic reversal.

It’s just that when I think of these things, some people are used to it and don’t cry for their fathers and mothers, while others need Reiko to pour cold water: What’s so hypocritical about your grievances? This is how things in the world are. In fact, in the end, Jack and Avery’s companionship was only a second choice. Jack still lost his first love, and Avery did not get Denon. Although it sounds cruel, this is common sense. If, on the other hand, someone likes you to seek life and death, and use all kinds of dedication to kidnap you morally, you will also be very embarrassed.

Some people say that Reiko Shimizu's works are soft science fiction. Once linked to science fiction, the story will inevitably become tough. But Shimano felt that this kind of statement was untenable. There are countless people who preached love under the signs of science fiction. The works that incorporate science fiction elements may not necessarily be "hard". Shimizu's early "Moon Son" is the best example. , Dressed in a sci-fi coat is actually an out-and-out love story.

So the coldness of Reiko Shimizu has nothing to do with science fiction,She did it deliberately. Even if she is allowed to write stories without soft science fiction today, she will still maintain this tone.