"Is this punishment or treatment?"

The man in front of me asked me a question in a cold tone. Judging from his expression, he was undoubtedly accustomed to similar processes.

Although I can also answer "treatment" immediately to end the farce, premature surrender and excessive resistance may cause doubts or attract attention.

Even if the other party may not notice anything, I don’t want to create additional risks.

so……

"Then you..." I replied with a swear word.

As soon as he started speaking, the guy turned on the switch of the "therapeutic device".

The next second, the electric current passed through my body, and the severe pain that directly acted on the nerves and the brief heart paralysis made my mind feel refreshed.

If electrocution is an art, then I am Van Gogh in the electrocution world, and the institution I am currently in... they are probably at the level of open art classes in third-rate community universities.

Of course, although they do not know how to accurately control the physiological reactions generated by electric shock by adjusting the intensity, waveform, phase, frequency and other parameters of alternating current, they at least know how to cause continuous pain to people without causing serious trauma. For a "treatment institution", it seems that this level of knowledge is enough.

Oh, by the way, I haven't introduced myself yet. My surname is "Zi", and I have the word "Lin".

At present, I am receiving "treatment" in a very famous "Adolescent Behavior Correction Center"; today is the first day I was admitted to the hospital. The hospital plans to let my "parents" see the "treatment effect" before going back, so... I have this very "comfortable" experience.

At this stage, the process of getting into this institution is extremely smooth. They have no doubt that the two guys who are not even half a cent related to me are not my real parents. Their attitude towards reviewing various documents is similar to the teacher's correction of summer homework... In addition to explaining the fees and extra seriousness when ordering money, their relaxedness in receiving "patients" is amazing. Compared with my previous experience of applying to enter a mental hospital, entering here is as easy as following a quick hotel.

However, the real difficulties are still ahead.

It is easy to lurk in a mental hospital, because at least 95% of the people there are really sick. As long as you pass the threshold and successfully get in, you can boldly do all kinds of suspicious things. Anyway, you can pretend to be crazy and fool around if you are discovered.

But here, they are basically all normal people. If you want to lurk among them without being noticed, you must appear "mediocre".

Mediocrity is a great quality.

Its significance to the entire human world is extraordinary.

Without it, our current social system would collapse immediately; without it, our civilization would not be able to continue from the beginning.

The human race needs mediocrity, just like air and water.

From ancient times to the present, the operation and maintenance of human society has been relying on those mediocre people everywhere; they are mediocre and depend on the wind, but they are also pretentious and consciously different from others.

It is precisely because the subject of human beings is such a group of people that the Fifth Kingdom can be inherited, developed and prospered.

And what is the meaning of the very few extraordinary people who are highly conscious and speak and act?

Naturally... it is to trigger "change".

Change is an illusion, essentially, it is just a part of a certain kind of reincarnation.

The end of change is still mediocre, and the world that has been "changed" will eventually be handed over to the hands of mediocre people. Then, for a long time, they will think that the world has changed, changed, and become better... Even if there are still some bad things, it is just the pain brought by change and will be solved sooner or later.

But in fact, it won't.

Nothing has changed, and the cycle of reincarnation continues.

Nevertheless, change is still necessary; it is like a "muscle relaxant", or it can be said to be a pleasant self-abuse, which can allow the world to relax and release a little from the accumulated pain and stress.

I am a changer and a successor.

If I learned anything from "that person", it might be the life state of "being able to tell your career as if nothing is like helping the world".

Anyway, it is very difficult for me... mediocrity.

Of course, it's also very interesting.

If philosophy can also summarize "theorems" like mathematics, there will definitely be one of them-the more difficult things are, the more interesting things are.

Overcoming difficulties can make people feel a sense of accomplishment and superiority, and this feeling of satisfaction is proportional to the degree of difficulty; but people still don’t like to deal with difficulties, because the process of overcoming difficulties is always accompanied by the risk of failure, and the result of failure means... you put in time and energy, but in the end you only get a deep sense of frustration and a mess to be cleaned up.

I don't like failure either, so I have to seriously turn myself into another person.

A normal person.

"Punishment or treatment?"

Another round of electric shock ended, and the man asked me the same question with a serious look on his face.

I really want to laugh, but I endure it. Not only do I not laugh, but I also want to cry.

Fortunately... I can squeeze out tears even if I hold my smile.

A few seconds later, I adjusted my expression, full of emotion, and shouted with a postmodern, full of accusation, "Treatment! Ah-hahaha..."

My tears came out after all, and my irresistible laughter was covered with tears and brought out.
Chapter completed!