The King of Huayu Science Fiction

Chapter 273 "Sterile Parenting"

"It's about to start! It's about to start! The second episode of "Black Mirror" is about to air!"

He Yinglin greeted her roommates.

He Yinglin is a fan of Chen Jingxing. Of course, according to her own words, she is a movie fan. Whether it is a film and television series or an animation series of DreamWorks, she is the first to watch.

But today I waited for the second episode of "Black Mirror" with my roommates. It's not that all the roommates were infected by her and became fans of Chen Jingxing, but that all of them in this dormitory like to watch movies and TV dramas, and there are group watching dramas My habit, of course, is mainly romantic dramas and idol dramas.

The girls who entered the university finally got rid of the boundless learning in the third year of high school. Sometimes, out of a psychology of vengeful consumption, they want to make up for it all at once by watching dramas, reading novels, and even star chasing in the second and third year of high school.

And because it just happened to catch up with the popularity of the paid playback mode of online video platforms, for students, the membership fees of video websites are still a bit distressing, not because they can’t afford it, but because they can eat something delicious with this little money, or save it up. Wouldn't it be better to buy the clothes and shoes you want, or cosmetics?
Another one is that many dramas now sell exclusive copyrights. It is not enough for you to become a member of a video website. In even more cases, you buy a membership of a platform in order to follow a drama, but apart from this drama, the platform If you don't like the rest of the content, it will feel like money is wasted.

Fortunately, everyone in He Yinglin's dormitory was normal, not as scary as some girls' dormitories uploaded on the Internet. Their family backgrounds were similar, and no one had bad habits or discordant personalities.

Therefore, the atmosphere and relationship in the dormitory are relatively harmonious. After discussing with the sisters, everyone paid some money and bought all the annual members of the four major video platforms such as Huanshi.com and Penguin Video.

It’s also because although everyone’s favorite stars are slightly different, the tastes of chasing dramas are very compatible. Usually, everyone can catch up with a hit drama.

In addition, although 4G has begun to be popularized on a large scale, the school's broadband level is still quite poor. The campus network laid by the operator has just been upgraded from 8m to 20m, which is already the highest broadband level.

If everyone uses their mobile phones or computers to watch the video, the final result is that no one can watch it.

Due to the limitation of objective reasons and subjective like-mindedness, He Yinglin and her roommates like and get used to this group mode of chasing dramas together, and it will be more atmosphere to watch together with someone.

"Why are you still wearing a mask?"

"Didn't I forget? I just put it on and suddenly remembered that "Black Mirror" will be broadcast later, so I can't just tear it off, what a waste. Now I regret that I didn't wear contact lenses."

One of He Yinglin's roommates got down from the bed, put on the mask that covered her face, found out her glasses, wiped the temples with a wet tissue, and was careful not to damage the mask and put it on the bridge of her nose, and squeezed the chair into He Yinglin's room. around.

Four people, three chairs, squeezed into a semicircle, surrounded by He Yinglin's desk, looking at the 27-inch computer screen.

He Yinglin's computer has the largest screen size, so it is honored to be a "dormitory theater".

"In the second episode, is the media going to interview the little girl's family?" The girl wearing the mask asked while pressing the area close to her temples with both hands to prevent the mask from falling off.

He Yinglin and the other two roommates stared at the masked girl with question marks on their faces: "Wake up! "Black Mirror" is a unit drama, and each episode is an independent story. The first episode is over and there is no follow-up. "

"Ah? Is the story of the first episode over? I still want those who killed the male protagonist to get their karma! Is it over? Don't the bad guys get their karma?" The mask girl couldn't help showing a little disappointment.

He Yinglin gave a smirk: "I see, no wonder you usually watch little sweet dramas every day, but you are so concerned about the second episode of "Black Mirror". You are here for the leading actor in the first episode, right? Gameover kiss, Your handsome guy is finished."

Fortunately, there was a mask to cover it up, and the girl in the mask tried to maintain her muscular expressionless face, defending: "I'm not such a superficial person, don't slander me, I'm here for the connotation of the TV series."

After laughing for a while, the second episode of "Black Mirror" came online.

The words "Black Mirror" floated on the white cracks along with the cracking sound of the mirror.

At the beginning, a pregnant woman appeared in the camera.

In the operating room, the puerpera endured tremendous pain, and with the assistance of the doctor, she went through a difficult process and gave birth to a baby.

From the dialogue between the doctor and the mother, the audience knew that this was a premature baby.

The baby was born without crying, which made the mother panic, thinking that there was something wrong with the baby, looking desperately at the baby surrounded by doctors, and kept asking questions helplessly.

"Is there something wrong with the baby?" A roommate asked a little scared.

Getting to the point so early?
He Yinglin, who is also a little nervous, is also a little confused. From the content of the first episode, "Black Mirror" should not be a horror movie.

Soon a cry resounded throughout the operating room, not only the audience was relieved, but the mother also relaxed, snuggling up to the baby who was reported by the doctor to be placed next to her pillow and fell asleep.

The baby grew up quickly and became a lovely three-year-old girl named Sasha.

The mother named Han Li is a single mother. She and her father took care of her daughter and grew up together. Han Li loved and cared for her daughter very much. On the way to and from school, a dog tied by a rope by the side of the road barked at them. , Han Li will pull her daughter away and put her under her protection.

During a visit to the park, Han Li's daughter Sasha disappeared due to negligence while chatting with others.

Han Li yelled her daughter's name in panic and nervously, looking for her daughter's trace.

Just when the audience thought that this was the same as the first episode, the "little girl's disappearance case" led to the topic, and when the nerves began to tense, a kind passerby hugged Sasha and walked towards Han Li.

It turned out that the daughter saw a wild cat. After playing with the cat, she aroused curiosity and followed the cat all the way far away. After being met by a stranger, she hugged Han Li all the way.

He Yinglin and her roommate were slightly disappointed after being relieved. It was another false alarm. Did the director and screenwriter play hide-and-seek with the audience?
Han Li decided to join a protection plan called "Sterile Parenting" launched by a company called Angel after she almost lost her daughter.

Of course, it is not sterility in the literal sense, but a solution for policyholders to protect their children.

The plan made by Angel Company is to implant a biological chip in the brain of the child. This chip can be linked with a software on the computer. Through the chip, the child's location and health status can be monitored at any time.

Han Li felt that with this plan, she would be able to ensure that her daughter Shala would not be lost in the future, and she would also be able to know Shala's physical and psychological conditions. She thought this plan was very beneficial, so she agreed to the plan.

The staff implanted a small, almost invisible chip into Sasha's head through a painless needle while she was watching cartoons.

He Yinglin and her roommates looked at each other, secretly said that a good show is coming, it should be the main topic of the second episode, the story will definitely revolve around the chip.

After the chip was implanted, the staff showed Han Li the function of the chip on the computer.

A thing that looks like a tablet computer is called "Parental Control Center". If the child is lost, it can not only locate it in real time, but also report to the law enforcement department with one click.

In addition, you can check your child's vital signs at any time.

And that's just an appetizer.

The next function not only surprised Han Li in the play, but even He Yinglin and others felt it was an eye-opener, and even... a little scared.

The parental control module is at the heart of this "sterile parenting" program.

It can directly display the picture currently seen by the child through the controller like a tablet computer, that is, it is directly connected to the child's vision.

The visual picture of Sasha watching the cartoon was also displayed on the tablet while shaking.

Not only that, but it can also show Sasha’s emotional fluctuations caused by watching TV, and through the "parental controller", Han Li can limit the pictures that will cause Sasha to have negative emotional reactions, and the criterion for judging is the rise in cortisol levels.

Because the rapid increase in cortisol secretion indicates that the child has seen something that makes her uncomfortable and causes stress.

The means of restriction is to play mosaics.

Once this "filtering" function is turned on, the chip will play a role. When the child sees something that will accelerate the secretion of cortisol, the people or things that cause stress in the picture he sees will automatically be covered with a mosaic of ice crystals. .

Then the staff made a demonstration, replacing the cartoon on the TV with a gunfight scene. Unprepared, Sasha frowned when she suddenly saw the killing scene, obviously frightened, and then the "filtering" mechanism took effect, and the TV In Sasha's eyes, the scene of a person falling down bleeding and screaming after being shot several times was precisely mosaiced.

Han Li is obviously also a normal person. Although she cares a little too much for her daughter, she also feels that this "filtering" mechanism is a bit exaggerated, but under the persuasion of the staff, Han Li still agrees to turn on the "filtering" function. The child is still young, of course. It needs to be protected, and it’s not too late to cancel when you get older, for example, when you reach the age of 11 or 12.

Whether it is the professional rhetoric of the staff's child-rearing experts or Han Li's ideas, although He Yinglin feels a little wrong, she can still accept it.

"I don't think it's a big deal. Her daughter is only three years old, so young. This kind of filtering function can filter things like blood and pornography. Isn't there a grading mechanism in foreign countries? It's true that some things are not suitable for undeveloped minds. Undecided children accept it!"

"I don't think so, this kind of control is too much..."

He Yinglin did not join the debate among her roommates, but she knew that "Black Mirror" could vaguely see its "demented" tone from the first episode, and the subsequent progress of the plot might not be pleasant.

After joining the "sterile parenting" program, Han Li almost always carried the tablet with her, checking her daughter's situation and even the world in her eyes all the time, and was very satisfied with the "filtering" mechanism.

The difference is that when Sasha passed by the shop with a big dog tied to the door of the roadside door when she went to and from school with her mother, the big dog barking at her was a moving translucent mass in her eyes. Mosaic, which makes Sasha, who is only three years old, very curious.

And at home, once there is a bloody picture on the TV or a picture that increases the level of salsa's cortisol, it will be accurately covered with a layer of mosaic.

(End of this chapter)