Abyssal Wanderer

Chapter 265 NO.0108: Doctor Kate

"Oh, you..."

Picking up the data pad in her hand and putting it down again, the woman in a white uniform with light makeup on her face couldn't help but sigh deeply.

"Doctor Kate, please tell me what is going on with me..."

When the man saw this, the expression on his face was instantly panicked.

He straightened up and planned to move over to take a look at the test results on the data board, but the mind adjuster named "Kate" immediately raised his hand to stop him.

"Mr. Bai, according to regulations, I have to tell your family about this specific situation."

She said this to the man.

"No...if you tell my family about the test results, won't they tell me eventually? This kind of treatment will not only make me more prone to random thoughts, but it will also not calm my emotions!"

Hearing this, the man called "Mr. Bai" became even more anxious.

"Besides, I've just been under a lot of pressure in my life recently. If it does drop, it's most likely just a 'false mental index drop.' I've checked and it can be recovered clinically."

When Mr. Bai said this, he cupped his hands and made a begging gesture towards the other party.

"So you'd better let me have a bottom line...how much did you lose this time?"

Kate stared at the other person for a long time, and finally sighed as if defeated:

"I lost 0.009, and now it has reached 0.975, which is out of the safe value range. If I return 0.005, I will have to go to the Public Security Bureau to register, and for the rest of my life, except for manicures, I will not be able to make any modifications to my body... I I told you to get enough sleep and stop putting pressure on yourself, but you didn't listen at all."

Hearing this, the expression on Mr. Bai's face was involuntarily distorted, and his back became instantly wet with sweat.

He forced a smile out of the muscles on his face and stammered:

"I...I'm listening, and I've also adjusted the number of night shifts. It's just that I've been staying up late recently. After all, the company is short of manpower during the peak season, and our boss..."

"Is work more important or mental state more important? How long does it take to earn back the money you spent here for a mental fine-tuning? I've said it before, don't always think about exchanging mental state for money and then repay it later. If the body is damaged, it can be replaced with a better prosthetic body, but if the mental index drops, it will be difficult to recover even if you spend the rest of your life recuperating.”

In response, the mind adjuster named Kate directly interrupted his self-justification, and then extinguished the data pad in his hand with an angry look.

He looked sad for his misfortune and angry for his inability to fight.

Mr. Bai smiled and then asked cautiously:

"Then Dr. Kate, can you prescribe the same medicine as last time? It's only the last half month. I swear that after the company pays out the year-end bonus, I will quit this unfortunate job and find a more leisurely job." work."

"no."

Kate flatly refused, then frowned and said:

"Taking more opioids will only further aggravate your symptoms in the future. Your body is already implanted with a medium-risk prosthesis. If you commit cyberpsychosis within two years, I will definitely take the association warning punished."

"Then what should I do? I don't have time to fine-tune my emotions in my current state..."

After hearing this, Mr. Bai's expression became anxious.

Kate didn't reply immediately. She tapped her hand on the wooden table for a long time. After hesitating for a long time, she asked:

"Do you like watching simulator movies?"

When the other party heard this question, he couldn't help but be stunned for a moment, but he still answered:

"I like it. I have renewed Aphrodite's SSVIP for three years...but why do you ask me this?"

"I have a new treatment plan here, which is a technology leaked from Olympus Enterprises. It is still being piloted and promoted. Are you interested in trying it?"

Kate asked.

"New treatment plan?"

When he heard that it was Olympus Enterprise's technology, the expression on Mr. Bai's face immediately seemed to be interested - in this era, although everyone scolded the Olympus Order bastards, as long as it was marked with their logo Products must be symbols of high technological capabilities.

"First of all, let me say that this technology is not yet mature enough. The effects after treatment vary from person to person and may not always be very obvious. But on the other hand, unlike emotional fine-tuning, this treatment method can ensure that it is safe enough. Even if the treatment Failure will not have any negative impact on the patient... So, are you going to give it a try?"

Kate said with her hands in a pagoda shape in front of her chin.

"There are no negative effects...so what exactly is the treatment plan?"

Hearing this, Mr. Bai was a little frightened - it sounded a bit like the words of a liar.

"Sensory-like therapy... stimulates synapses and activates the brain's self-healing function by watching special sensory-like movies. If successful, it can significantly improve the mental state of the therapist and make the other person feel reborn. But if it fails, it will only be quite Yu watched an ordinary simulator movie."

After the introduction, Kate continued:

"Several patients who have experienced it before said that after they finished it, they felt as if they were a different person."

Hearing this description, Mr. Bai couldn't help but shudder.

"Like a different person?"

He repeated the last words spoken.

Kate's statement made him think of some urban legends.

After the Great Impact, those malicious programs separated by the Styx Firewall and wandering in the abyss darknet have not actually given up coveting the basic reality. In fact, they are conducting a secret invasion at this moment - malicious programs enter the human brain through the brain-computer interface, erase the host's self-consciousness, and then live in the world disguised as their identity.

When their absolute number exceeds that of humans still alive, they will detonate a second great impact. Completely replacing the ecological status of their former creators - humans.

These are just the crazy words of some morbid apocalypse enthusiasts on the Internet. But for some reason, Mr. Bai just thought of these things.

"It's just an exaggeration."

Kate stood up as she spoke, and then began to look for something in the cabinet.

"What I mean is that those who have effective results feel that they are in good condition after treatment, as if they are completely transformed... But this does not mean that their mental models have changed drastically. After all, after treatment, They still have to pay me with their own 'mandalas'."

The mind adjuster said this while rummaging around.

Kate's explanation made the suspicious expression on Mr. Bai's face fade a lot.

This is the reality, even for the most horrific malicious programs. As long as it originates from the Abyss Dark Web, there is absolutely no way to break through the underlying design and bypass the soul code locked on the "mental model".

Sensing the subtle emotional changes on the other party's face, Dr. Kate took out a piece of memory from the cabinet and struck the iron while it was hot:

"Of course, there are also some patients who do not have any effect after the treatment... If this is the case, then I will only charge the cost price for the use of the equipment."

Having said this, she looked at Mr. Bai seriously.

"What do you think of this?"

In the end, after asking about the price of "sesthesia therapy" and learning that it was only one-third of the cost of a fine-tuning of emotions, Mr. Bai agreed.

After getting a positive answer, Kate took the middle-aged man into a dark inner room. In the middle of the room, there is a home theater-level pseudo-sensory projection equipment and a helmet filled with strange pipelines.

"The helmet is a surveillance device."

Looking at the other party's suspicious eyes, Kate explained:

“It precisely scans your brain movements and then adjusts the projection of the simulacra in real time.”

"So what are these restraints for?"

Mr. Bai pointed to the suspicious structures on the lounge chair and asked with some suspicion.

"This is a horror-themed simulacra. These are just in case you have any overreaction...but don't worry, it will never harm your body."

From Mr. Bai's face, Kate could see that he was not actually that relieved.

However, in the end, the man still put on the full set of projection equipment and lay down. After inhaling sedative drugs that can relax the mood, the other party asked the last question:

"I almost forgot to ask, what is the simulator movie you want to play... maybe I have seen it."

"You definitely haven't seen it."

Kate replied absentmindedly while debugging the equipment:

“This is an old film from 20 years ago, and very few people still remember it today.

"The name of this simulation is called "Double Body"."