Jiang Zhou originally thought that the so-called "emotional fine-tuning" would require the use of a series of equipment such as laser scalpels, nanogrids, and atomic force controllers.
In his own day, microsurgery or electrical synapse therapy proved to be effective treatments for mental illnesses such as depression.
Before Jiang Zhou joined the Olympus Group, most of his energy was focused on persuading the public to change their attitude towards brain neurosurgery as a treatment for mental illness.
At that time, he spared no effort to explain that the fine-tuning surgery of cranial nerves was not the infamous "frontal lobotomy" more than a hundred years ago, and would not create madness or retardation.
In his opinion, the human brain may be 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.
Similarly, self-awareness, or the operating system of the soul, has no inherent sanctity. For those ancestral curses that are no longer needed in the current society, but are tormenting everyone like maggots attached to bones, according to engineering thinking, they should be iterated and optimized.
In fact, compared to the convenient life in modern cities, the human brain is more adapted to chasing buffalo with a spear and naked buttocks 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 millions of years of accumulated evolution of Homo sapiens, humans have only entered the industrial age in just a short period of time. More than a hundred years. Compared with the rapid iteration of technology, the speed at which humans continue to evolve through genetic natural selection is too slow.
Of course, later Jiangzhou took a different approach and decided to accelerate the adaptive evolution of human beings to industrial society by changing the way of carrying hardware. That is a story later.
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 hanging headphones and VR glasses that Bai Dong handed him, as well as the respirator placed on the table, with an expression of "Are you serious?"
"Of course I am serious. I am a mental adjuster with medical qualifications."
The other party replied with some pride.
"So, I just need to listen to music, look at pictures, and take a puff of hallucinogens? I don't need... uh, inserting electrodes for stimulation or anything like that?"
Jiang Zhou, who originally planned to use a more professional explanation, stopped the car in time and asked according to Liao Qi's character.
"That's all your thinking a hundred years ago."
The other party rolled his eyes at himself, and then continued:
"Inserting electrodes for stimulation has happened when you install brain-computer interfaces, or when you make adjustments and modifications, and they are more sophisticated than what we can achieve. Those are drastic changes to neural networks. Modification. What our mental adjusters need to do is to let the treatment subjects inhale carefully prepared potions, guide you to listen to some sounds in the correct order, adjust the geometric ratio of the images in your sight... and finally trigger a series of chain reaction."
"Many neural remodeling can be carried out in non-invasive ways. I heard that some companies will hire mind tuners to design the color tone and background music of their employees' working environment, and quietly implant it into their brains. Include instructions such as loyalty and dedication to the company."
At this point, Bai Dong seemed a little impatient and pushed the headset and VR glasses in front of him.
"In short, don't waste any more time and start quickly. Don't worry, *** has been in this business for a long time and there is absolutely no chance of anything going wrong."
When Bai Dong said this, his tone always had a hint of pride.
In a sense, mind adjusters are artists rather than doctors.
And what they practice can be described as a "meta-art".
Painting, sculpture, architecture, music, literature, dance, drama, film, games, simulation.
In the traditional sense, all the emotional experiences that the top ten arts can induce are just in their work.
as an extension of the basics.
Because they edit emotions directly.
There is no need to study staffs or learn perspective skills. Mental adjusters directly summarize what kind of rhythm and geometric figures can induce what kind of basic emotions.
Just like the colorful world in human eyes, it is composed of three primary colors. All complex emotions that humans can feel are composed of several basic "emotion" changes.
The word emotion is put in quotation marks here because in a general sense, basic emotions such as joy, anger, sorrow, and fear are already composite products, rather than being reduced to the smallest cornerstone.
Mind adjusters track the subtlest changes in electrical potential and neurotransmitters when an emotion is generated, and then use Fourier transform to peel off the indivisible basic elements.
Finally, they use these real "meta-emotions" as notes and the representations of other art forms as instruments to compose a magnificent emotional symphony in the therapist's brain.
And this is the fine-tuning of emotions.
Bai Dong feels conceited about the skill he has mastered.
Her talent in this area is unparalleled among her peers. Even if she encounters some veteran doctors with more than 20 years of experience, she does not think that her skills will fall behind.
Just like once there is a flaw in a symphony performance, it will be as tragic as a car accident. When fine-tuning emotions, if something goes wrong, it will be a hundred times more terrifying experience for the patient than a nightmare.
And since Bai Dong obtained the qualification as an adjuster, she has never overturned in the countless fine-tuning of her emotions.
There may have been a few minor missteps, but she never caused her healers to end up feeling uncomfortable.
And this is the reason for her pride!
Jiang Zhou looked at the other party's extremely confident expression, shrugged, and put on the equipment as she said.
…………
Tartarus, the third deep dive chamber.
With the sound of "chi", the front cover of the deep-diving sub-cabinet, which was previously known as his eternal prison, slowly opened.
Jiang Zhou returned to basic reality from cyberspace.
Cold and sticky.
This was his first feeling.
The cold air spread all around, and the nutrient solution like glue was smeared on his naked body.
"Is this the person?"
A voice like a plaster statue asked.
"That's right, this is the man, the only native found in this deep dive salvage."
Because his eyes were blinded by the nutrient solution, Jiang Zhou couldn't see clearly 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 was the leader of Cerberus, who had brought their team back to the Abyss Dark Web.
He had heard 136 mention it before that Cerberus was the code name for the Offensive Security Defense Coordination Center.
Known as the Three-Headed Dogs of Hell, they are equivalent to the spy organization of Pluto Deep Diving Company and are directly responsible to the company's board of directors.
If one day, Pluto Deep Submersible Company sends Cerberus' troops down to the bottom of the settlement area, it will mean that the organization is completely finished.
136 finally concluded like this.
But fortunately, there are more important things in this world than the bottom of the resettlement area, and they need to deal with them.
Just like in Jiang Zhou's time, there was no need to dispatch fighter jets to fight against terrorism.
But now it sounds like they are looking for me.
As for the voice that answered later, there is no need to say more.
Ye Qian, the third deep dive warehouse manager who brought them here to mine.
"Then, except for him, all the people who participated in this deep dive operation will be brought here."
The plaster statue-like voice commanded.
"Okay, Mr. Wutou-1."
"Speaking of which, this native has
Name? "
The person called Wu Tou-1 suddenly asked.
"He said he had forgotten it. To make it easier to call him, I gave him the codename 'Theseus'. "
Ye Qian replied.
At this time, a third voice intervened.
"Ha! "Theseus", Ye Qian, are you still holding on to your incomplete upgrade path? "
The person who spoke this time was the Wutou-23 who brought the river boat up earlier.
After Ye Qian heard this taunt, he just laughed twice without replying.
But this conversation made Jiang Zhou's heart sink.
Ascension path: Theseus, the one who needs to install a puppet circuit?
When they interrogated the shadow leader of the Brain Lobe Gang earlier, they obtained some information about the upgrade path Theseus.
From what they said, combined with the effect of the puppet circuit, it seems that the upgrade of this path requires other people as a pavement to succeed?
For example, a high-level adjuster needs to control a low-level adjuster through a puppet circuit in order to exert his full strength?
If that's the case, wouldn't he be...
Recalling the playful and joyful attitude when the other party was willing to let me dive for mining, plus giving myself such a symbolic code name.
what to do?
If he was allowed to become a puppet who obeyed the other party's words, Jiang Zhou would rather die here.
"Tsk, tsk, you are quite good at choosing people. Look at this guy's Hongqiao. It's only been a while since he installed the brain-computer interface, and he's already grown so well.
"After a month, I'm afraid I won't have the potential to reach the "Wizard" level. "
Ye Qian laughed a few times after hearing this.
Coincidence coincidence...
He said so.
"What's the use of a dead person having potential."
Wu Tou-1 said suddenly.
Ye Qian was obviously stunned, and Jiang Zhou heard him say "Huh?"
"Is this any surprise? This "Theseus" has to go with us too. "
The plaster statue-like voice said without any emotion.
"Wait a minute, Mr. Wutou-1, didn't you just say besides him?"
Ye Qian's voice seemed a little anxious.
"The boss said to take everyone except him..."
It was Wutou-23 who answered. At this moment, he said in a gloating voice:
"It means that this "Theseus" needs to be interrogated by him personally. "
Ye Qian suddenly stopped talking.
"certainly……"
The man continued 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 that echoed in the deep dive cabin seemed to announce Jiang Zhou’s future fate...
