Planetary Museum

Take Xu Yan for example. The dream before he finally woke up was the scene he feared the most in his subconscious mind—Wu Xiaoqing and the search and rescue team were both arrested by the state, and all his illegal gains were confiscated. Unable to survive, he fled to the Flying World with the search and rescue team, but there was another war here, and within a few days of his arrival, he was wiped by a flying sword on his neck...Of course, the root of all these evil results is that he held the company's account. The money was invested, which eventually led to the bankruptcy of the company...

Wu Xiaoqing once watched Inception, and he remembers a concept in that movie very clearly, which is to add a non-existent concept to the original conscious world of people, and finally affect people's thinking and decision-making.

In essence, this "addiction withdrawal" operation is actually this operation.

After the two woke up, Wu Xiaoqing almost couldn't wait to do a test with them and try the results of the operation.

In fact, Yevgeny, who was the first to undergo surgery, had tried it many times before. During this day, he tried to drink more than 20 kinds of alcohol...but none of them could last.In Yevgeny's words, it's like a person who is used to drinking iced Coca-Cola, but suddenly gets completely gassed, and it's still heated Coke.

The taste seems to be the same, but the feeling is completely different.

The side effects of this type of surgery are still obvious, the most notable of which is a shift in interest.

To put it simply, as far as the search and rescue team concluded, one thing is certain about human cognition-if Yevgeny, Xu Yan, Wang Youquan and others are to continue to work normally after the operation, in addition to passing In addition to their original "addiction" through surgery, there are also some other "addictions" artificially created for them.

In the final analysis, people, or, in a more general sense, on earth, all animals with brains are essentially governed by pleasure.

It's just that in animals, the source of this kind of pleasure is relatively simple, that is, during the estrus period, some sexual stimulation can be produced-this kind of pleasure is quite precious, and its biggest purpose is to allow animals to pass on genes regardless of everything. go down.

But when it comes to humans, the pleasure system begins to become extremely complicated due to civilization and technology.

But one thing is for sure, no matter how complex the whole system, some basic elements remain the same—life itself requires a normal balance of pleasure.

For most people, this pleasure system is ideal at the beginning.

There are many sources of pleasure, eating a new thing in childhood, watching a new TV, learning a new knowledge...these can all be sources of pleasure.

With the growth of time, the entire pleasure system, like the economic system, will inevitably become unitary and efficient-because people need to pay more and more negative pleasure for study, work, social and family responsibilities, and In this process, in order to ensure the normal balance of pleasure, their pleasure acquisition quickly became extremely efficient.

Smoking, drinking, gambling... It's not that these behaviors are magical in themselves, but that in many people's life patterns, the acquisition efficiency of these behaviors is often the highest, that's all.In fact, if you change the environment for these people, such as joining the army or changing jobs, the habits of these people can be easily changed.

However, the cost and risk of changing an environment in life increases with age.

At Wu Xiaoqing's age, if he goes out to work normally, he will enter the factory this month, deliver food next month, and learn to cook in two days...it doesn't matter.

The young body itself has a lot of pleasure income - this income is hidden, even if sometimes the work is not very good and the expenditure is large - relying on the high pleasure income, life does not seem so uncomfortable.

But in a few more years, when he reaches Xu Yan's age, he will start to feel a sense of crisis.

On the one hand, the pleasure system itself begins to solidify—people’s preferences and behavior habits begin to be fixed, and life begins to become long and unbearable.Before Xu Yan started MLM, he worked in various factories, and he felt something new in the first month or two. After working too much, he just felt empty.

With Xu Yan's educational level, most of the ordinary jobs he could find were extremely dull and boring.

Either monitoring the disk in the monitoring room, chatting and farting every day, or wearing a suit and talking like a dog.These jobs are generally easy, but do not make much money.

Not reconciled to wanting to earn more, then go to the construction site, down the assembly line, on the construction site in summer, after a day in the sun, the meat on the face is like meat on a barbecue grill, sizzling with oil.The body is comfortable after going down the assembly line, but the brain can’t stand it—although the intensity of long-term single labor is very low, it is not as pleasant as working on a more complicated construction site. Something is wrong.

No matter how old you are, when you reach Wang Youquan's step, with a wife and children, it will be even more tiring.The kids have to spend money for everything, and the wife has to work and make money, and the pressure is even greater than him.It is manifested in life. When they get home, no matter what the two of them say, the topic will eventually come down to money.

The whole process of life is like going from a natural prairie to a plain, to a road, and finally to be limited by the train track, the short distance of one or two meters.In this process, the speed of people walking is getting faster and faster, but the scenery on the side of the road is getting more and more monotonous.Of course, the most ideal situation, of course, is that the train goes well in the end and arrives at the scenic spot on time.

But in reality, the vast majority of the situation is that a large number of people enter the road hesitantly and ignorantly. After walking for several years, they always feel that they have gone to the wrong place-so they keep changing roads.In the end, it was like a ghost hitting a wall, spinning around in a huge space until I was exhausted and could no longer walk.

When Yevgeny reached this stage, let alone leave, as long as he could still breathe, he would be very satisfied.As for the scenery—people who have watched the scenery all their lives have no expectation of the scenery itself.

On the one hand, this operation is equivalent to setting up warning signs on certain dangerous roads, and planting some flowers and plants on both sides of the ideal road to artificially create some beautiful scenery-making it less difficult to walk.

The choice of these flowers, plants, beautiful scenery, and roads can be chosen according to people's actual needs.

This kind of reselection, in the view of the search and rescue team, can be temporarily named as interest deviation, or interest correction.

But from the perspective of those involved in the operation, the feeling...

"It's like being reborn."

Yevgeny answered while looking at the computer and looking at the introduction to C language.

The operation was completed in less than 30 hours, and Yevgeny found that he really did it.He once wanted to devote energy to learning programming, for about ten years or so.To some extent, programming is the biggest engineering of the 21st century, information engineering.But the chaos and inertia of life finally made his attempt fail.Many nights, he would rather drink at home in front of the TV than "waste his life" studying.

But in less than 24 hours after the surgery, he did something he hadn't been able to do in the previous decade.

In the two to three hours after the procedure, there will be a period of dull thinking.This is mainly because the brain has just been through intense "activity".During this time, people hardly respond to external stimuli.

Xu Yan and Wang Youquan are in this state now, Xu Yan is better, after all, he used to have a more active personality, and he knew how to joke with Wu Xiaoqing: "You said that after our brains are developed by aliens, can we take promises?" Bell Award."

"It has nothing to do with IQ."

"Not necessarily," Xu Yan said, "If I love studying in the future, it won't be a few years."

In fact, the search and rescue team has already told Xu Yan about this matter before. The operation can help him, but it can properly improve his interest in learning itself—but considering his current knowledge base and learning ability, if If you really want to learn something in a certain field, it will take about ten years.

But Xu Yan obviously didn't care about this time, according to his words: "I'm still young, ten years is nothing."

Wang Youquan looked rather pale, but he just closed his eyes and rested on the side.When Wu Xiaoqing teased him with poker cards, he basically didn't respond.

After about half an hour, Wang Youquan's condition improved slightly, and he called Wu Xiaoqing himself to try to play two cards with him.

Two people play the simplest way to run fast. A deck of cards is dealt three copies, and then two are selected to play.In order to achieve the purpose of the test, Wu Xiaoqing made an appointment with Wang Youquan to pay 20 yuan for a card.

In the field of poker, Wang Youquan's combined age in poker is older than Wu Xiaoqing's.Of course, he was powerless to fight back - he lost 9 cards and 180 yuan in the first game.

When Wu Xiaoqing transferred the money to Wang Youquan, he noticed that Wang Youquan's expression began to look strange.

He had seen this expression on Yevgeny's face before, but this time, Wang Youquan's reaction was obviously more intense.

No, it was much more violent. Before Wu Xiaoqing could react, Wang Youquan suddenly stretched out his right hand, and then slapped him twice on the face fiercely.After the beating, he began to wake up a little bit: "Don't transfer the money...I feel uncomfortable all over now."

"what happened?"

Wang Youquan couldn't say that it was because of a strong sense of guilt that inexplicably appeared in his body-this was exactly what he strongly requested to add before the operation.He just said that he was not feeling well.

After 20 minutes, Wang Youquan finally got rid of this strong emotion, the first thing he did was to snatch Wu Xiaoqing's playing cards, and then immediately stuffed them into the trash can.