Planetary Museum

Yevgeny only learned about the principle of this therapy from the search and rescue team.

First of all, this kind of treatment does not belong to the earth - on the earth, the drug rehabilitation institute where Duff stayed before is already the world's most cutting-edge drug rehabilitation research institution.

But even the most cutting-edge therapies in the world still cannot guarantee long-term effectiveness in terms of success rate.

The hospital's promotional materials have always only emphasized the withdrawal rate within two years-this figure is indeed not bad.

Then it is conceivable that after more than two years, it will be difficult to say.

In this regard, Yevgeny once consulted experts in this field. He knew that with the current level of technology on the earth, it is almost impossible to solve the problem of drug addiction, especially hard drugs. .What most drug rehabilitation structures pursue is to achieve short-term physical addiction withdrawal.Like the drug rehabilitation institute that Duff stayed in before, they tried to go deeper in this area, and what they pursued was no more smoking in two or three years.

But in this regard, the cure rate of drug addiction is lower than that of many malignant cancers.

It can almost be defined as terminally ill.

In the United States, Yevgeny has seen countless families of drug addicts end up in tragedy.This is different from cancer. No matter how desperate cancer patients are, they can get support from the whole society, and they can get understanding and comfort at the worst level. But drug addiction is different. No matter what country it is, for drug addicts Impressions have always had only one attitude—disgust.

Disgust from the bottom of my heart.

This distaste is of course well founded.

Generally speaking, the biggest cause of drug addiction is the patient himself, the result of chasing pleasure regardless of the consequences, which is caused by his own disrespect for his body.

In fact, apart from drug addiction, people have never had a good look at other types of addiction. In the words of the search and rescue team, it is the culture of the whole planet that does not advocate a personality that cannot complete self-control and culture.

People on earth always think that personality is to some extent the product of self-comprehension and perfection, but there is often a huge gap between the facts and this belief.

For such cases where self-improvement ultimately fails, most of the time, the culture of the region tends to dwarf or even ignore their existence.

In fact, long before drug addiction, human society has become addicted to all kinds of strange things and behaviors-killing, women, eating, drinking, superstition... For the search and rescue team, these behaviors are actually related to drug addiction. There are no absolute boundaries between addictions.

From the perspective of people on earth, being unable to control their own behavior due to drug addiction is very serious in search and rescue teams. This is similar to being forced to eat people or even dirt because of hunger, in terms of behavior.

But it is far from that simple for people on earth.

Duff became addicted to drugs in the third year after graduating from college. Before that, Duff had a relatively normal life.

——Duff inherited Yevgeny's talent in engineering. After graduating from university, he worked as a designer in a machinery company, talked about a girlfriend, and even planned to buy a house and have children.But after attending a colleague's birthday party, his peaceful life was broken.

The middle story is the same as any other addicted family.

Addiction kicks in, jobs are lost, sources of income are lost, and more drugs are needed to deal with the emptiness of life.Can't find a job, his girlfriend leaves, his bank account dries up - and he begins to spiral uncontrollably towards the edge of crime.

The only thing Duff is luckier than others is that he has a father like Yevgeny.

Unlike other parents, Yevgeny knew the horror of drug addiction very accurately from the very beginning.

This is not a real example that he has ever experienced, but a metaphor he heard from a doctor he consulted, and he deeply understood it.

After hearing that Yevgeny himself had a history of alcoholism, the doctor said to him: "Compared with alcohol, the scariest thing about drugs is that you are 100 times or more happy, but you still don't get drunk."

Yevgeny himself was a serious alcohol addict.According to the doctor, his example can already be counted as a lifelong alcohol addict.

Addiction, a simple word, in the eyes of many outsiders, alcohol drinking, smoking addiction-it doesn't seem to be a serious thing, just a kind of adjustment of life.When necessary, take a little bit, and then as long as the situation does not permit - or threaten the health, or threaten the economy... In short, every non-addicted person always believes that these things are controlled by them before they become addicted. What they control, they can choose to ingest it, and they can choose to stop at any time.

But Yevgeny knew that this view of addiction was wrong from the start.

In a long and empty life, people have never been a stable individual. Since the characteristics of creatures determine that people want to pursue pleasure, and this pursuit has no rules and restrictions-this is like irrational numbers in mathematics. Chaos is almost the only ending.Among real numbers, rational numbers are always a minority compared to irrational numbers. Similarly, in the human category, people who can still have a high degree of self-control under various circumstances will always be a small number.

Life is too short, and there are too many possibilities in life—the fate of some people will inevitably be thrown to the bottom.

Yevgeny once thought that when he was in a state of alcoholism, he was already a typical failure in life, but he didn't expect that compared to his son, he was already considered lucky.

After Duff became addicted to drugs, Yevgeny almost spent all his savings trying various treatment options for him—if it wasn’t for lack of money, he would never have traveled thousands of miles from the United States to China. A little-known company.He didn't have the guts at all. Facing a completely unfamiliar force, he began to devote himself to the redesign of nuclear bomb detonation explosives.

From this point of view, Yevgeny and Duff are both lucky. Fate has given them another chance in life—a chance that most people on earth cannot meet.

Yevgeny is not clear about the specific technical details - whether this involves brain science - or the brain science of aliens.As far as the confidentiality principle of the search and rescue team is concerned, such information is strictly prohibited from being disseminated like them.But Yevgeny probably understood the basic principles.

There is already quite enough evidence to prove that, for the civilization to which the manager belongs in the space station, it is completely feasible to perform data-level operations on the brain structure of their carbon-based organisms.

This operation is like a human operating a computer, adding information, modifying information, or even deleting information.In the item of adding information, it is like the scene that Yevgeny and Duff feel now-a separate conscious world can be established for them.

Strictly speaking, Duff was not yet a member of the search and rescue team, so the search and rescue team adopted the strictest secrecy regarding his entry.From entering the space station to leaving with the scalpel, Duff was in a "quasi-hypnotic" state during the whole process.

The hypnosis here does not refer to hypnosis in the traditional sense of the earth, but specifically refers to the special situation in which his brain information loses autonomy-for people on earth, this situation is somewhat familiar and strange.It can be compared to dreaming - but the content and length of the dream are not under one's own control.

The key process of the treatment is actually very similar to what Yan Xiu and the others who lived in the space station had encountered.Since Yanxiu and the others can use this technology to completely delete all information about the space station and technology in his brain, then similarly, this technology can also be used on Duff to delete all information about drugs in his brain.This kind of information does not simply refer to the experience related to drugs, but also includes the pleasure experience and psychological state related to it.On this basis, it is even possible to implant a completely opposite false experience in his brain-associating drug use itself with feelings such as nausea, disgust, and discomfort, so that the behavior that was originally at the level of pleasure and positive feedback becomes Negative feedback.

Duff was not the only one who underwent the operation. According to the plan of the search and rescue team, there were actually four participants in the entire operation.

The first is Duff, treating his drug addiction.

The second was Yevgeny, treating his alcohol addiction.

The third one is Wang Youquan. Although the condition is not serious, after hearing about this technique, Wang Youquan asked himself to receive treatment for gambling addiction.

The last one was naturally Xu Yan. In fact, in the eyes of the search and rescue team, Xu Yan was the most seriously ill among the four.It's just that Xu Yan's illness can't be called an illness in the eyes of others. It is a state implicitly acquiesced by mainstream values ​​- he is addicted to money and success.

The treatment process does not take long, objectively speaking, only a short 20 minutes.

But subjectively, Yevgeny felt as if he had been in that strange world of consciousness for a whole month.

When he woke up, Duff had been sent back to Earth.Wu Xiaoqing just sent him on the plane back to the United States.

Yevgeny originally wanted to speak to Duff to confirm the therapeutic effect of the operation.But soon he remembered what the search and rescue team had reminded him - only when he was in a drug environment could he see the effect of treatment.

Soon, Yevgeny thought of himself again, and then thought of vodka.

As if seeing his thoughts, the search and rescue team used his robotic body to pick up a plastic bag from the side and placed it in front of Yevgeny.

That was the bag Yevgeny used to hold the wine. The last time he drank it before the operation, he drank only one-third of it.

Yevgeny picked up the bag almost habitually, and with the habitual movements he remembered, squeezed the wine into a perfect liquid ball in the air.He stretched out his neck, and gently sucked the ball into his mouth, and a familiar taste instantly spread throughout his body through his tongue.

The next moment, the joy that had been repeated thousands of times did not appear on Yevgeny's face.

He frowned almost immediately - Yevgeny keenly sensed that there seemed to be something wrong.

It's not about the wine, the taste of the wine hasn't changed at all, he is very clear about this, his memory still clearly remembers every detail about the taste of the wine, he can even taste which batch it was produced in.The problem was his body—he slowed down and took a second sip.

This time this feeling appeared more clearly, and Yevgeny almost couldn't believe that in his lifetime, his body would have such an absurd illusion—after this authentic vodka flowed down his throat, Yevgeny could not believe it. Nicky felt nauseous.