Nov. 22, morning.

Zilin's life in the Internet Ring Center can be regarded as the official beginning.

His roommate woke up on time at six o'clock sharp, leaning on the biological clock, and had no intention of lying in bed at all, so he woke up and immediately came to his bedside to "wake him up".

Although Zilin was awake, he still pretended not to sleep enough, yawning and getting up lazily.

Then, in the process of getting dressed and washing, the two began to talk.

Zilin's roommate is named Wang Yong; Yes, this name, which is similar in nature to John Smith, is still in use in the twenty-third century, and is still one of the most frequently renamed.

Wang Yong is 17 years old this year, a sophomore in high school, and his body is thin. Because he loves to play games and has poor grades, his parents chose an auspicious day and "tricked" him into this center for "correction"; As for the school, it is naturally temporarily suspended, and he can only go back to study when he is "transformed".

Wang Yong didn't mention much of the above basic information in the conversation, but it didn't hurt, because Zilin had already read his information, and even if he didn't say a word, Zilin knew everything about him.

Compared with his own situation, Wang Yong was more telling Zilin about some things to pay attention to in staying in this center: for example, don't resist the dormitory supervisor, don't talk back, do whatever the dormitory supervisor tells you to do; Don't do anything conspicuous, don't do anything that violates the rules, don't show any intense emotions, etc.

Of course, the most important thing is that there should never be any doubt, disobedience or disrespect for "Professor Tang".

Here, I have to focus on this Professor Tang.

This person's name is Tang Jiucheng, a native of Linyi, born in June 2162.

Before the age of forty, his resume was not very impressive: he graduated from public school, went to a local specialized hospital as a resident, and then spent about 20 years mixing up to the level of department director...... In Zilin's words, typical mediocre people.

It stands to reason that with his academic level and social class, if he persists for another 20 years, he should be able to retire from the position of vice president or even dean.

However, he was clearly restless at that.

At the beginning of 2206, Professor Tang suddenly resigned from the hospital where he worked, and he somewhere got a sum of money to establish the Sunshine Youth Behavior Modification Center.

In the next two to three years, he became a big celebrity in Linyi; Not only has he published a number of academic papers on "Internet addiction" that have been recognized by authoritative institutions, but he has also received various hype and publicity from the federal state media...... As a result, his center quickly became a well-known institution in the entire Dragon County, and parents from all over the country came to visit him.

And Professor Tang's center also lives up to expectations; As of today, he has transformed a large number of "Internet addicted teenagers" into "qualified boutiques".

In all fairness, his so-called "academic views" are not clever or even stupid, but as a service for stupid people at the bottom of the IQ chain, such a set of things is enough.

Tang Jiucheng's "treatment and correction" can be simply summarized as religious brainwashing, combined with animal taming operations.

First of all, he identified "Internet addiction", a term that has no medical recognition, as a disease; Then they used electrocution to force all the teenagers who were sent to their centers to admit that they were addicted to the Internet; Then, using electrocution as a threat, the "patient" was forced to comply with the rules he set and agree with his views......

This set of things is similar to the routine of the Crusades back then, that is, "I have decided that I am the only god, and if you believe in anything else, you should die, so I came to kill you for the sake of justice".

He doesn't believe in that thing in his heart, but you have to approve it, because if you don't approve it, he can't operate it.

So how does it work? It's electricity.

Electric shock is a typical means of "negative reinforcement (i.e., negative reinforcement, that is, punishing behaviors that do not conform to the goals of the organization so that these behaviors are weakened or even disappeared, so as to ensure that the achievement of the goals is not interfered with)".

It is not appropriate to say that this is "taming animals", because generally speaking, training animals is more about "positive reinforcement", or "positive and negative combination"; To explain it with a simple example...... Whipping when you do what you eat right and whipping when you do it wrong is a kind of conditioned reflex.

But Professor Tang doesn't seem to be good at using positive reinforcement methods, he can only play electrocution, after all...... That's going to work.

If you let him lie there and be electrocuted, and if he doesn't admit that he has Internet addiction, he will also admit that he has Internet addiction; As long as the electricity is in place, let alone Internet addiction, let him admit that he is a dog, and the electricity has not been admitted to me for a day.

Of course, relying on this operation alone, his center, or the industry of "adolescent behavior modification", will not be able to operate for a long time; After all, electric shocks are just means, and the means are variable, if you play electrocution today, you can play waterboarding tomorrow...... Anyway, as long as the government doesn't take care of it, it can be operated.

However, in order for an industry to survive and continue, it is not only necessary to have means, but also to look at market demand.

If "prostitution" is a service industry based on instinctive human needs, then the "Internet Rehabilitation Center" is a harbor for "educational losers".

Professor Tang's real genius is not in the means, but here, at the psychological level, he has passed on the blame that should have been borne by his parents to a fictional disease, to the Internet, game companies, and even the whole society; At the physiological level, he used negative reinforcement to complete the transformation of the "patient".

In other words, when consumers send their children to the center, they can avoid their responsibilities and get the "results" they want when they take their children out of the center; In the end, he was at ease and satisfied, telling himself: "I am not wrong, my child is not wrong, it is the fault of various objective factors, and the situation caused by these objective factors has been 'corrected' by Professor Tang." ”

Consumers are naturally satisfied with this kind of "service", and since customers are satisfied, then this business will naturally be able to continue.

As a result, Professor Tang's center has been open for more than ten years, and the professor himself has been regarded as "the savior of degenerate teenagers who have been poisoned by the Internet and society", which can be described as both fame and fortune.

Especially in the interior of the center, Tang Jiucheng is simply like a god-like existence, the staff basically take the initiative to nod their heads when they see him, and the patients see him by "stipulating" that they must bow 90 degrees; If it weren't for the fear of attracting the attention of the government, he might have asked the patient to bow down to him.

"It's time to assemble, all allies please assemble in the corridor...... It's time to assemble, and all allies ......"

Talking to Wang Yong, it was half past six before I knew it.

At that moment, a dull tone of audio broadcast sounded on time, and the loudspeaker was mixed with the strange sound of "buzzing" that could be heard in every dormitory.

Hearing the assembly announcement, Zilin and Wang Yong immediately stopped talking, both went out, and walked quickly to the corridor.

Because there is only a sink in the dormitory without a toilet, and it is convenient to go to the public toilet in the corridor, the electronic door of the dormitory can be opened freely with the fingerprints of the residents of the dormitory; Last night, the housekeeper opened the door with his son, but because the latter had just entered the center, the process of assigning rooms and registering fingerprints had not yet been completed; And now that Wang Yong is awake, he is responsible for opening the door.

Two minutes after they reached the hallway, a housemaster hurried through the hallway, examining the "patients" who were already lined up according to room numbers.

"Hold the hand of your allies and get started...... Walk! When the warden's door to the last room came to the door, he gave the order in a loud voice.

In this center, the "patients" are called "allies", a term invented by Professor Tang, and he also asks all patients and their parents to call themselves "Uncle Tang".

"Pay attention to order! Don't talk to each other! As the queue began to move, the warden followed at the back of the queue, shouting as he went.

Zilin has investigated these daily processes very clearly.

Gather at half past six, and at six forty-five o'clock, the allies of each floor gather in the "activity room" on their own floor to do "knock exercises", or "kneeling exercises"; It is said that when the center first opened, it was used to do this exercise in the playground, but since there were always people waiting for an opportunity to escape when they got outside, it was later changed to the current one.

At seven o'clock, all allies go to the cafeteria for breakfast, and return to their classrooms on their floors at half past seven; It is said to be "class", but in fact, there is no teacher to give a lecture, it is self-study. What do you learn...... It is mainly the textbooks written by Uncle Tang, various internal rules and regulations of the center, and the content of the previous "review class".

After three classes, lunch is time until 12 noon, lunch lasts 45 minutes, and then there is only one hour of free time in the day, of course...... It is said to be free, but in fact, it can only be moved in a limited area.

At 1:45 a.m., I reassembled, and at 2 o'clock I went to the computer room to "surf the Internet" - go to the website designated by Uncle Tang, read the designated content, and strengthen learning, which is also three class hours.

Dinner at 5 o'clock, you must eat all before 6 o'clock, and then return to the dormitory, after 6 o'clock you are not allowed to go out or go to the dormitory except for the toilet, and the lights go out at 8:30 p.m.

This is the basic process of a day in the correction center, except for a "review class" hosted by Uncle Tang himself on Sunday morning, this is the case six days a week.

Of course, the most important point is that at any time and in any place, if you have certain behaviors that make you "have to be treated", you must go for "treatment" immediately.

Because this was Zilin's first day of official admission to the center, he was taken away by the housekeeper alone after doing exercises and eating breakfast.

Not surprisingly, he came to the fifth floor and was brought to "Uncle Tang".

"Sit." After Zilin entered the room, Professor Tang, who was sitting behind the desk, glanced at him casually, and then said this.

Hearing this, Zilin silently walked to the other party's desk and sat down; And the housemaster who was in charge of bringing him in, the "doctor" who was in charge of calling him yesterday, was standing behind him, staring at the back of his head.

Zhou Ming...... Right? Professor Tang looked at the information displayed on the I-PEN virtual screen in his hand and asked absent-mindedly.

Naturally, the son came here with a fake name and a fake identity.

"Yes." He replied.

"Do you know your situation?" Professor Tang said again.

"Know...... Addiction. Zi Lin responded.

"Hmm......" Professor Tang groaned and moved his gaze to his face, "Why didn't you admit it when you first came in yesterday?" ”

"I ......" Zilin thought about what kind of answer was reasonable and satisfactory to the other party, "...... I have a fluke mentality and don't want to be treated. ”

"Hmm." Professor Tang nodded, "Very good, being able to admit that you have a problem shows that you also have the idea of correcting it, but you don't know the way yourself." He paused, "Listen, as long as you strictly follow the rules here and finish our procedures, I promise you will be cured." ”

"Okay." Zilin replied, "I try my best to ......"

"What do you mean by 'best effort'?" In the next second, Uncle Tang suddenly turned his face, "Don't you understand what I said?" When I say strict observance, it must be done, what kind of attitude is it to do your best? In the center, we must do 'orders must be carried out, prohibitions must be stopped', there must be rules for doing things, there must be a high degree of execution, and there can be no so-called 'do your best' such as the idea of getting by. ”

"Understand ......" Zilin immediately pretended to be very scared, and eagerly continued, "I...... I will do it, and I will do it resolutely. ”

Professor Tang stared at him for a few more seconds, thought for a moment, and then said, "Okay, originally you had this attitude, you were going to 'treat', but I thought that you had just come in, and compared to other new allies, it was relatively ...... It's quite a high level of consciousness, so you should go back to the dormitory today, memorize all the rules and regulations here, and start activities with other allies tomorrow. ”

"Yes......" Zilin looked relieved again, "Thank you, Professor Tang." ”

"Hey~" Professor Tang waved his hand, "Don't call me that, I'm very approachable, the allies here call me Uncle Tang, you can call me that." ”

He used words like "can", but in fact...... If you don't, he'll find a reason to call you.

Zilin was also very interested, and quickly called Uncle Tang, and then left with the housekeeper.

Nothing to say all the way.

Back in the dormitory, Zilin found that his fingerprints could open and close the door of the dormitory where he was, so he closed the door, put the stack of paper documents he had received from the office on the table, and began to flip through the pages one by one.

He didn't "read" it, because he had understood and memorized all the contents on the paper before he entered the center; Flip over...... It's just to create traces of "turning over and seeing", in case someone finds out that the pile of information he brought back is "wiped in the melon" a day later, and he is clear about the various terms, isn't that suspicious?

Therefore, Zilin is looking through the paper at this moment, and at the same time thinking about other things.

"When I was doing the exercises, I could only see the patients on this floor, but when I had breakfast, everyone except Professor Tang should have arrived...... The number of wardens and sick people is correct as is written.

"Because I had to follow order and couldn't move around at will, I couldn't see everyone's faces...... But there is nothing abnormal about those who see clearly.

"Came to visit my 'dessert' last night...... Well...... Let's call her 'Miss Dessert'...... Leaving only the sound and smell, and not letting me see the look and figure, I am afraid that it is difficult to recognize her in the cafeteria environment.

"Of course, there's no need to rush to find her, anyway, as long as I'm still here, she'll come to me on her own initiative.

"Faceless...... At this stage, I still can't catch any clues, so I'll have to wait a few more days for 'that thing' to take effect.

"So, the takeaway of this morning is...... Unexpectedly discovered a capable person......

"Although it doesn't seem to me to be a great ability, she herself seems to be quite distressed.

"Huh...... Presumably, the 'Little Pastry Lady' is also here for him. ”