Abyssal Wanderer

Chapter 68 NO.0043: Fine-tuning emotions

Jiang Zhou originally thought that the so-called "emotional fine-tuning" would require a series of equipment such as laser scalpels, nano-grids, and atomic force manipulators.

In my day, microsurgery or electroshocking of nerve synapses proved effective in treating mental illnesses such as depression.

Before Jiang Zhou joined the Olympus Group, most of his energy was devoted to the popular science work of persuading the public to change their attitudes toward neurosurgery for the treatment of mental illness.

At that time, he spared no effort to explain that the fine-tuning surgery for cranial nerves was not the notorious "frontal lobotomy" more than a hundred years ago, and it would not create lunatics or mentally retarded.

In his view, the human brain is perhaps the most complex and exquisite biochemical machine that can be born naturally. But since it is a machine, it needs to be upgraded and iterated.

Likewise, self-awareness, or the operating system of the soul, has no innate sanctity. For those ancestral curses that are no longer needed in the current society but torment everyone like maggots, according to engineering thinking, they should be iterated and optimized.

In fact, compared with the convenient life of modern cities, the human brain is more adapted to chasing bison with a spear on the African savannah.

This is why, even though the material conditions of life are getting better and better, there are more and more mental illnesses in modern cities-compared to the evolution of Homo sapiens over millions of years, it is only a short period of time for human beings to enter the industrial age More than a hundred years. Compared with the rapid iteration of technology, the speed at which humans continue to evolve through natural selection of genes is really too slow.

Of course, Jiang Zhou later found another way and decided to speed up the adaptive evolution of human beings to industrial society by changing the way of carrying hardware.

All in all, Jiang Zhou originally thought that the so-called "emotional fine-tuning" would be a minimally invasive surgery, or at least a non-invasive electrode stimulation.

but……

He looked at the earphones and VR glasses that Bai Dong handed him, as well as the respirator on the table, with an expression of "Are you serious?".

"Of course I'm serious. I'm a mind adjuster with medical qualifications."

The other party replied with some pride.

"So, all I need to do is listen to music, look at pictures, and take a puff of hallucinogens? No need for... uh, inserting electrodes for stimulation?"

Jiang Zhou, who originally planned to use a more professional term, stopped the car in time, and asked according to Liao Qi's character design.

"That's what you thought a hundred years ago."

The other party gave himself a white look, and then continued:

"Put in electrodes for stimulation and stuff, that happens when you put in a brain-computer interface, or when you do tweaks, and it's much more sophisticated than what we can do. Those are things that are done on neural networks, drastic. Modify. What our mind adjusters need to do is to let the treatment subjects inhale the carefully configured potions, guide them to listen to some sounds in the correct order, and adjust the geometric ratio of the images in their sight... Finally, a series of chain reaction."

"A lot of neural refactoring can be done in a non-invasive way. I heard that some companies will hire mind adjusters, let them design the color tone and background music of the employees' working environment, and implant them into their brains silently. Include instructions such as loyalty and dedication to the company.”

Speaking of this, Bai Dong seemed to be a little impatient, and pushed the headset and VR glasses in front of him.

"All in all, stop wasting time and start quickly. Don't worry, I've been in this business for a long time, and it's absolutely impossible for me to go wrong."

When Bai Dong said this, his tone was always slightly proud.

In a sense, mind adjusters are not so much doctors as they are artists.

And what they practice can be described as a kind of "meta-art".

Painting, sculpture, architecture, music, literature, dance, theatre, film, games, simulation.

In the traditional sense, all the emotional experiences that the top ten arts can arouse are just extensions based on their work.

Because they edit emotions directly.

There is no need to study staves or learn perspective skills. The mind adjustment teacher directly summarizes what kind of rhythm and geometric figures can arouse what kind of basic emotions.

Just like the colorful world in the eyes of human beings, it is based on the three primary colors. All the complex emotions that humans can feel are composed of several basic "emotions" changes.

The reason why the word emotion is put in quotation marks here is because in the usual sense, the basic emotions of joy, anger, sorrow, and fear are already compounded products, rather than being reduced to the smallest cornerstone.

Mind adjusters track the most subtle changes in potential and neurotransmitters when an emotion arises, and then use Fourier transform to strip out the indivisible basic elements.

In the end, they used these real "meta-emotions" as notes and the representations of other art forms as instruments to compose a grand emotional symphony in the healer's brain.

And this is emotional fine-tuning.

Bai Dong has a sense of pride in the skill he has mastered.

Her talent in this area is unparalleled among her peers. Even if she meets some old doctors with more than 20 years of experience, she doesn't think her skills will fall behind.

It's like if there is a flaw in the symphony performance, it will be as tragic as the scene of a car accident. When fine-tuning emotions, if something goes wrong, it will be a hundred times more terrifying experience than a nightmare for the patient.

And Bai Dong has never overturned in the countless emotional fine-tuning she has done since she got the adjustment teacher qualification.

There may have been a few minor missteps, but she never ended up making her healers uncomfortable.

And this is the source of her pride!

Jiang Zhou looked at the other party's extremely confident expression, shrugged, and put on the equipment according to what she said.

…………

Tartarus, the third deepest dive chamber.

Accompanied by the sound of "嗤", the front cover of the deep dive sub-compartment, which was previously called to be his eternal prison, slowly opened.

Jiang Zhou returned from cyberspace to base reality.

Cold and sticky.

This is his first feeling.

The cold air permeated the surroundings, and the nutrient solution like glue was applied to his naked body.

"Is this the person?"

asked a voice like a plaster statue.

"That's right, it's this man, the only native man salvaged by this deep dive."

Because his eyes were covered with nutrient solution, Jiang Zhou couldn't see who was standing in front of him.

But listening to the voice, he still recognized the identity of the visitor.

The person who asked the question earlier was the leader of Cerberus who brought their team back in the Abyss Darknet.

He had heard from 136 before that Cerberus was the codename of the offensive security defense coordination center.

With the name of the three-headed dog of hell, they are equivalent to the secret service organization of Pluto Deep Diving Company, and are directly responsible to the company's board of directors.

If one day, the Pluto Deep Diving Company sends Cerberus' troops down to the bottom of the resettlement area, it means that the organization is completely over.

136 concludes in this way.

Fortunately, there are things in this world that are more important than the bottom of the resettlement area, and they need to deal with them.

Just like in Jiang Zhou's era, there was no need to dispatch fighter jets to fight terrorism.

But now it sounds like they've found themselves.

As for the voice behind the answer, there is no need to say more.

Ye Qian, the director of the third deep submerged warehouse who sent them here to mine.

"Then except for him, bring all the people who have participated in this deep dive operation."

That voice like a plaster statue ordered.

"Okay, Mr. Aconitum-1."

"Speaking of which, does this native have a name?"

The person called Aconitum-1 suddenly asked.

"He said he forgot. For convenience, I gave him the code name 'Theseus'."

Ye Qian replied.

At this time, a third voice cut in.

"Ha! 'Theseus', Ye Qian, are you still clinging to your incomplete promotion path?"

The person who spoke this time was the Aconitum-23 who brought the boat up the river earlier.

After Ye Qian heard this ridicule, he just laughed dryly and didn't reply.

But this conversation made Jiang Zhou's heart sink.

Upgrade path: Theseus, the one who needs to install a puppet circuit?

When they interrogated the shadow leader of the lobotomy gang earlier, they obtained some information about the upgrade path Theseus.

Listening to what they said, combined with the effect of the puppet circuit, it seems that the promotion of this path needs other people as a foreshadowing to be successful?

For example, a high-level adjuster needs to control a low-level adjuster through a puppet circuit in order to exert its full strength?

In that case, don't you...

Recalling the playful and pleasant attitude when the other party was willing to let me dive into the mine before, plus giving myself such a symbolic code name.

what to do?

If he allowed himself to be a puppet who obeyed the other's words, Jiang Zhou would rather die here directly.

"Tsk tsk, you are really good at picking people. Look at this kid's Hongqiao, how long has he had a brain-computer interface installed, and he already looks so good.

"One month later, I'm afraid I have the potential to reach the level of'wizard'."

Ye Qian laughed dryly again when he heard this.

coincidence coincidence...

He said so.

"What's the use of dead people having potential."

Aconitum-1 said suddenly.

Ye Qian was obviously stunned, and Jiang Zhou heard him say "ah?"

"Is this any surprise? This 'Theseus' has to go with us too."

The voice like a plaster cast said without any emotion.

"Wait a minute, Mr. Aconitum-1, didn't you just say other than him?"

Ye Qian's voice seemed a little anxious.

"The boss said to take everyone away except him..."

The one who answered was Aconitum-23. At this moment, he said in a gloating voice:

"It means that this so-called 'Theseus' will be interrogated by him himself."

Ye Qian stopped talking immediately.

"certainly……"

The man went on to add.

"If this person can survive after being interrogated by the boss, and his mental index is still normal. Maybe he can be returned by then, hahahahahaha."

The laughter echoing in the deep submersible seems to announce the fate of Jiang Zhou...