forget the soul

It stands to reason that summer has passed, but the cicadas in Osaka are still noisy and the weather is sultry.It was morning, and after walking out from Chaiyuan Station and following the navigation map, Yu Rong was sweating all over. When he saw the main entrance of Osaka University, Yu Rong couldn't take it anymore, took off his coat and stuffed it into his backpack.He took a look at Lin Wangyue, he was wearing short-sleeves, black short-sleeves, the one given by A Peng, holding a tripod in his arms, no sweat on his nose and forehead, walking very easily.Ginkgo biloba is planted on both sides of the main road behind the main entrance. In this season, the ginkgo leaves grow sparsely, light green like green onions.

The school is open to the public. Apart from young students who look like students, there are also some old people exercising in the open space. Occasionally, two cats pass by, and everything is very quiet.

Walking along this main road, Lin Wangyue asked Yu Rong: "What is your favorite Japanese cartoon?"

"Cowboy Bebop."

"What do you like about it?"

"It's quite romantic." Yu Rong asked Lin Wangyue, "What about you? Do you watch cartoons?"

""Detective Conan"."

Yu Rong was surprised: "Conan?"

Lin Wangyue looked at him and asked amusedly, "Why? Otherwise, what should I like? Hayao Miyazaki or Mamoru Hosoda? Toshi Kon or Keiichi Hara?"

Yu Rong licked his lips: "Masaaki Yuasa..." He asked him again, "Then what do you like about it?"

Lin Wangyue tied her hair behind her ears and said, "Because every death inside can find the perpetrator."

"Then you also like to read mystery novels?"

Lin Wangyue shook her head: "I just like to know who the murderer is."

"Don't care about motives?"

"I'm not a prosecutor, nor a defense lawyer, nor a jury." Lin Wangyue raised her right index finger, "Besides, don't all murderers have only one motive, and it's nothing more than to satisfy themselves."

He added: "Killing people because of jealousy, killing people because of revenge, killing people out of self-protection, all of them are satisfying selfish desires, aren't they?"

Yu Rong thought about it for a while, and said, "It doesn't apply on the battlefield." He said, "Soldiers attack each other almost without any autonomy."

Lin Wangyue nodded slightly, and said: "Maybe one day, war robots will replace all soldiers." He added, "So, those who go to the front line either love their country very much, or hypnotize themselves love their country very much, or believe in A thing, like a god, or a belief."

He smiled: "Humans are too fragile. Humans are also really powerful. They can build ships, cars, airplanes, and a god, because they want to be forgiven and loved."

He looked forward: "Because he wanted to dominate, he started building robots." He poked Yu Rong, "Isn't the professor you mentioned earlier who used his own daughter as a mold to make a robot and was also keen on taking hyaluronic acid? "

Yu Rong frowned: "Professor has gone to Europe. I didn't think I would come here like this, but it's okay..." He told Lin Wangyue, "There is a researcher who can speak Chinese in the research institute. Wait, don't speak so rudely." You're welcome."

Lin Wangyue continued to poke him, raised her eyebrows, and said winkingly: "Now you know that you are completely, completely useless, have I become particularly ugly?"

Yu Rong raised his eyes, saw the library building, and asked, "Would you like something to eat?"

Lin Wangyue laughed softly, and Yu Rong continued: "I ordered a sushi restaurant tonight, and I will eat there whenever I come to Osaka. The tuna there is quite good."

Lin Wangyue still smiled, watching Yu Rong smile, it was bad enough.Yu Rong surrendered, so he had to answer him: "I don't."

Lin Wangyue pretended to be stupid, and specially asked, "Nothing?"

"I don't think you are particularly hideous." Yu Rong cleared his throat, "It's just that you didn't seem to eat much all the way."

"Eat too much, think too little, and you will age prematurely."

"If you eat too little and think too much, your brain may suffer from insufficient blood supply," Yu Rong said.

Lin Wangyue replied in surprise: "You actually require a fashion practitioner to have both a slender figure and a vigorous brain?"

Reluctantly, Yu Rong glanced at the building of the Ministry of Basic Industry beside the road, pointed in that direction, and crossed a row of bicycles diagonally.

"This is it," he said.

Xiaoling, a Chinese-speaking researcher in the laboratory, made an appointment to meet him at the gate of the building at 10:30, and they arrived 5 minutes earlier.Lin Wangyue and Yu Ronggan stood for a rest. Five minutes later, at 5:10, a tall girl with fair skin and long chestnut hair came out of the building.Seeing Yu Rong, the girl smiled and waved, and she led Yu Rong and Lin Wangyue into the building.

"This is the cameraman I brought this time." Yu Rong introduced Lin Wangyue.

"Director Yu is finally not fighting alone." Xiaoling said, shaking hands with Lin Wangyue with a smile, then walked to the front to lead the way, and said to Yu Rong: "There is also a volunteer today, please fill in the information first. , may have to wait a while."

After hearing this, Yu Rong asked, "Is it convenient to get in touch with that volunteer? Or can volunteers not meet each other?"

"There is no such regulation, but for the sake of privacy, I can ask for you." Xiaoling said.

When they arrived at the research room, they were led to the reception sofa combination chair, Yu Rong and Lin Wangyue sat down side by side, and Xiaoling went to make tea.There were two other male researchers in the research room, both staring at the computer, with no expression on their faces, typing quickly. When they saw someone coming in, they moved their chins and nodded in greeting, before returning their eyes to the computer screen.

On the wall behind them were bionic faces, the faces of smiling young girls and crying young girls.

Xiaoling sent two cups of hot tea and a personal information update material that Yu Rong should fill in.Yu Rong took out his mobile phone to take a picture, Lin Wangyue took out his camera and faced the coffee table, Yu Rong changed places with him, he looked at the picture from the camera, the light was suitable.Lin Wangyue picked up the pen, poked the tip of the pen on the paper, and asked him, "Is the angle okay?"

Yu Rong nodded, he and Lin Wangyue switched back, he filled in the information, and Lin Wangyue took pictures.Xiaoling also went to the computer to type, and she also became expressionless.

There are a lot of questions to fill in and answer, involving many details. It took a long time for Yu Rong to fill out half a sheet of paper. Lin Wangyue leaned over to look at it, and whispered: "Weight, degree of myopia, food storage in the refrigerator..."

"Are you looking for housekeeping?" he asked.

Yu Rong pointed to the camera, which was recording.Lin Wangyue stuck out her tongue and shut up.

I have a question: Is there any change in employment, and if so, what is the reason for the change.

Yu Rong glanced at Lin Wangyue, Lin Wangyue looked at him with her face cupped, and patted him.

Yu Rong bit the bullet and filled in: I have resigned.change to freedom...

He crossed out the word "freedom" and changed it to be unemployed.

Yu Rong continued to tick and fill in the blanks.Has the bed sheet been changed recently? Has the rent increased? If it is a house purchased by myself, whether the house price has fallen or increased. This personal information update material is detailed, just like a questionnaire on the living conditions of single male youths .

Finally, Yu Rong finished filling it out, and he took it to Xiaoling.Xiaoling glanced roughly, nodded her head and whispered, "The weight seems to have changed."

She then asked, "Are you still single?"

She glanced at Lin Wangyue, and Yu Rong followed. Lin Wangyue was propping her chin up, showing a lazy smile, and waved her fingers lazily to greet them.

Yu Rong nodded: "Still single."

Xiaoling picked up the pen, wrote a few words in Japanese at the back of this line, and asked, "Is there anyone you like?"

"This..." Yu Rong pondered, thinking, Xiaoling looked up at him, and he said, "I don't know, I'm a little confused now..."

"confuse?"

"There's a thing about love."

"Ah, so." Xiaoling tapped her chin with a ballpoint pen and said, "Let's record it as the stage of being confused about love."

At this time, a thin old man wearing a woolen flat cap, a checked suit and a polka-dot shirt came in from the research room.When the researchers saw him, they all stood up to pay tribute. The old man waved to everyone, smiled broadly, bowed and said something, which seemed to be a farewell word, and he wanted to leave.Xiaoling hurried forward, grabbed the old man and said a few words, and looked at Yu Rong while talking.

Yu Rong walked back to the sofa and said to Lin Wangyue, "It might be the other volunteer mentioned earlier."

Lin Wangyue held up the camera to take pictures of the ceiling of the laboratory, and asked Yu Rong, "How did you find this place to be a volunteer?"

Yu Rong said: "I was looking for my mother, and I found this place after looking for it."

Lin Wangyue chuckled, and the camera pointed at Yu Rong: "The update material you filled in just now, did you fill in the fact that your sense of humor has gradually increased recently?"

"I filled in my recent confusion about love."

Lin Wangyue smiled at him through the camera, and said to him: "It's a good thing to be confused. It means that you are thinking, and you don't even think about it. If you find someone to jump on and love to the death, that's a suicide attack."

"Then you admire the first love you fell in love with without even thinking about it when you didn't know anything?"

"This is my contradiction." Lin Wangyue rolled her eyes with a smile.Yu Rong rolled his eyelids, and wanted to say something, Xiaoling came over, attached to Yu Rong's ear, and said to him: "Mr. Saito said there is no problem. He is very happy to chat with you and can communicate in English."

"Really? That's really great!" Yu Rong beamed with joy.

Xiaoling smiled and said, "The three of you can move to the next-door laboratory first, where we need to enter the information you filled out earlier, and debug the system. I will come and notify you when it is completed."

She took them to the laboratory next door.

There is only one robot in the laboratory. Its head is a human head, neither like a woman nor like a man. It has a bald head, only half of the body, no hands, and its body is completely a metal frame. Full of wires of various colors.

There were two stools in front of the robot, and a hanger behind it, on which hung several women's coats, men's shirts, and even a cape.There are two tall spotlights standing behind the clothes hanger. The lights are on, and the two lights hit the robot, and its head is shining.

The indoor environment is very suitable for shooting.

Lin Wangyue set up a tripod in the dark, Yu Rong shook hands with Mr. Saito, and Mr. Saito handed over a business card. Yu Rong was embarrassed and kept saying sorry.Saito said generously: "It doesn't matter. Things like business cards are meaningless. They are just a waste of the earth's resources."

Yu Rong took a look at Saito Hayabusa, a columnist.

He was even more embarrassed, embarrassed to sit, and stuck in place, Saito unbuttoned his coat, sat down, and said to himself: "When I was young, I stayed in New York for a while."

He opened up and chatted.

Yu Rong looked at Lin Wangyue, Lin Wangyue made an OK gesture with him, and Yu Rong asked, "Are you studying abroad?"

"No, it's for the pursuit of love, hahahaha." Saito laughed loudly, "I like American women with plump breasts! But don't take me as an apprentice, I was born after the war, so I like plump breasts stuff, do you understand?"

He shook his hands up and down on his chest, and said: "I can't take it when I'm in high school, I'm tired of girls who are as thin as firewood, so I sneaked to the Seto Inland Sea, touched a big boat, At that time, I was so stupid, I thought that all boats could go to the United States, but I didn’t expect that it was a fishing boat going to Brazil. Well, the Brazilians on the boat thought I was Chinese and sent me to work in the kitchen. The Chinese in the kitchen know that I am Japanese and hate me so much, there are Koreans, Vietnamese, in short, everyone hates and fights with each other, the cabin space is limited, the sailing time is long, there are no other people Can't you just do other people's things when you can do them?"

Speaking of this, Saito waved his hands and asked Yu Rong: "Will you silence me? Just like on the TV station, with a beep."

Yu Rong said, "It's not like..."

"Maybe it was because I was still young at that time. Alas, I was actually not young. I was eighteen, but I was malnourished, like thirteen or fourteen. Everyone hated me for a while and then stopped hating me. I learned a lot on the boat. Fewer things, tying knots, catching mice, roasting mouse meat, and more, I still remember," Saito stopped, took a good break, and popped out two words: "What to do."

"It's Shanghai dialect." Yu Rong said.

"Yes, yes, Shanghai dialect. I went to Shanghai last year. China is very different now."

"Why do you want to come here as a volunteer for this experimental project?"

"I'm a writer. I write many stories and create many characters. I try to understand them, and I try to understand myself." Saito pointed at the half-body robot, "This guy is another me."

He smiled, showing his well-maintained white teeth: "Sometimes when I can't figure it out, I come to consult him, and I say, Saito, you went home at nine o'clock last night, how did you see that?" Ryoko was knitting a sweater for her grandson at home, and you suddenly had a big fight with her?"

"I don't understand this matter, let him help me think about it from my standpoint."

Yu Rong laughed: "This is a good way."

"Oh, sometimes people can't understand themselves." Saito took off his hat, scratched his hair, put on his hat again, straightened the brim of his hat, put his hands on his knees, and said, "He thinks about everything." To be clear, he told me that it must be because I was jealous of my grandson! Liangzi has been focusing on his grandson recently! But I can't complain...haha!"

Saito added: "If there are star-chasing children coming here, they will be very happy, and they will have an idol that is completely their own imagination."

Lin Wangyue interjected, "Then if all the information about death in the world is entered into this machine, will a god of death be created?"

Saito shook his head, his expression became a little serious: "It may create a schizophrenic person." Then, the child-like naughty smile returned to his face: "It may be related to entering all the knowledge related to Jesus. The result is the same!"

He touched his chin, but he still smiled: "Death, like life, is unpredictable. We can understand at most, but we can't help but be afraid. Now I think of when my son was born, and I think of the time I was on that Brazilian ship. It was the same feeling the first night on the fishing boat. It was fear."

Xiaoling came to knock on the door, and Yu Rong's information was updated.Hearing this, Saito retreated on his own. Before leaving, he shook hands with Yu Rong again. Yu Rong made an agreement with him that after the editing was completed, he would send the video to him for review first.

After Saito left, Xiaoling fiddled with the computer behind the robot and said, "He's a very cheerful old man."

"Yes, I didn't expect that someone would want to face another self. In fact, this is the purpose of this experiment. Studying robots is also a self-study of human beings. What is a human being in the eyes of human beings?" Rong said.

No one answered.Xiaoling put on a pink woolen sweater for the robot, motioned Yu Rong to sit down in front of the robot, and said: "At first he came with his son's information. Mr. Saito's son was injured in a car accident last year. Passed away."

Xiaoling smiled and said, "Then let's start."

Video recordings were also made in the laboratory. Yu Rong sat in front of the robot, Lin Wangyue's camera came from the side, and the laboratory's camera was facing him.

The head of the simulated robot moved first, and her eyes with two sensor cameras were facing Yu Rong.

"Say something, just speak Chinese." Xiaoling reminded in a low voice.

Yu Rong couldn't figure it out, he rubbed his knees, and after a while, he opened his mouth: "It's been a long time... I haven't seen you..."

His voice was weak.The robot responded immediately, and she replied to him: "You worked overtime late last night, didn't you?"

It was my mother's voice.

That was the tone of the mother's question.

That was one of the things my mother used to say to him when she lived with him in New York.

He always avoided eating at the same table with her, avoiding getting along with her, avoiding her aura and gossip about her.

Yu Rong didn't make a sound.The robot added: "If it's too hard, maybe you can change the environment. It's not a big deal to resign."

Yu Rong looked at the robot, his feet landed on the ground.The robot moved its head, and there was a hissing sound of mechanical drive in the chest cavity.

She asked him: "Are you leaving already? Don't you want some porridge? Or take a banana and eat it on the way."

"Will you come back for dinner at night?"

Yu Rong stood up.He approached the metal frame that wasn't quite human, it was a machine.He doesn't want to talk, he just wants to hug it.But after opening his arms, he found that the robot was very hot under the spotlight, and its shape made it impossible to hug.He changed several positions to no avail.

He couldn't hug her properly.

forget the soul