November 22, morning.

Zilin's life at the Internet Ring Center has officially begun.

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

Although Zilin was awake, he still pretended to have not had enough sleep and got up lazily while yawning.

Then, while dressing and washing, the two started talking.

Zilin's roommate was named Wang Yong; yes, this name, which is similar in nature to John Smith, is still used by people in the 23rd century, and is still one of the names with the highest reputation rate.

Wang Yong is seventeen years old this year, and is thin in his second year of high school. Because he loves to play games and has poor grades, his parents chose a good day and "scam" him into this center for "correction". As for the school, he naturally suspended his studies for a while and could only go back to study after he "renovated".

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

Compared to his own situation, Wang Yong was telling Zilin more about some things to pay attention to when staying in this center: for example, don’t resist the ward offender, and you can’t talk back. The ward offender will do whatever you ask you to do; don’t do anything conspicuous, don’t do anything that violates the regulations, don’t show any intense emotions, etc.

Of course, the most important thing is that you must never question, disobey or disrespect "Professor Tang".

Here, we need to focus on this Professor Tang.

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

Before he was forty, his resume was nothing outstanding: he graduated from a public school, entered a local specialist hospital and then spent about twenty years to get to the level of department director... In Zilin's words, a typical mediocre person.

Logically speaking, based on his academic level and social class, if he persists for another twenty years, he should be able to retire as vice president or even president.

However, he was obviously uneasy about it.

In early 206, Professor Tang suddenly resigned from the hospital where he was. I don’t know where he received a sum of funds and founded this Sunshine Youth Behavior Correction Center.

In the next two to three years, he became a big celebrity in Linyi; not only did he publish many academic papers on "Internet addiction" recognized by authoritative institutions, but he also received various reports and publicity from the federal official media... This made his center quickly become an institution that is quite well-known throughout Long County, and parents from all over the country came here.

Professor Tang’s center has lived up to expectations; as of today, he has transformed a large number of "Internet addicted teenagers" into "qualified high-quality products".

To be fair, his so-called "academic viewpoint" is not clever or even stupid to put it out. However, as a service product provided to stupid people at the bottom of the IQ chain, such a set of things is enough.

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

First, he identified "Internet addiction" as a disease, a noun that has no recognized definition in medicine; then used electrocution torture to force all teenagers sent to their center to admit that they had Internet addiction; then, he threatened electrocution torture to force the "patients" to abide by his regulations and recognize his views...

This thing is similar to the routine of the Crusades that year, which is the form of "I have decided that I am the only God, and you should die if you believe in something else, so I came here for justice and gave you three things."

He himself doesn't believe in that set of things, but you must agree with them, because if you don't agree with them, he will not be able to operate them.

So how to operate it? It's just electric.

Electric shock is a typical method of "negative reinforcement (i.e. negative reinforcement, which means punishing behaviors that do not meet the organization's goals, so that these behaviors can be weakened or even disappeared, thereby ensuring that the goal is not disturbed)".

It is actually not appropriate to say that this is "taught animal", because generally speaking, training animals is more about "positive reinforcement" or "positive and negative combinations"; using simple examples to explain it is... if you do it right and give it to the food, you make the wrong whip, so as to form a conditioned reflex.

But Professor Tang doesn't seem to be good at using positive reinforcement methods. He only knows how to use electric scams. After all,... that works.

If you let him lie there and get electricity, and if you don’t admit that he has an Internet addiction, he will also admit that he has an Internet addiction. As long as the electricity gets a small amount, let alone the Internet addiction, it’s okay to let him admit that he is a dog. I haven’t decided to lose it for a day.

Of course, relying solely on this kind of operation, its center, or the "juvenile behavior correction" industry, cannot be operated for a long time; electric shock is just a means after all, and the means are variable. If you play electric shock today, you can play water attack tomorrow... Anyway, as long as the government does not come, it will be fine.

However, if an industry wants to survive and continue, it cannot just have means. The most important thing is to look at market demand.

If "prostitution" is a service industry based on human instinct needs, then "Internet Ring Center" is a harbor for "education losers" to dock.

Professor Tang’s true cleverness lies not in the means, but here—at the psychological level, he passed on the responsibilities that should have been borne by his parents to a fictional disease, to the Internet, game dealers, and even the entire society; at the physiological level, he used negative reinforcement methods to transform the "patients".

In other words, consumers can remove their responsibilities when they put their children into the center, and when they bring their children out of the center, they can get the desired "results"; in the end, they are at ease and satisfied, and tell themselves: "I am right, and my children are not wrong, it is the fault of various objective factors, and the situation caused by these objective factors has been 'corrected' by Professor Tang."

Such "service" is naturally satisfactory. Since the customer is satisfied, the business can naturally continue.

Therefore, Professor Tang’s center has been open for more than ten years, and the professor himself was regarded as the “savior of the degenerate teenagers poisoned by the Internet and society”, which can be said to have both fame and fortune.

Especially inside the center, Tang Jiucheng was like a god. When the staff saw him, they basically nodded and bowed, while when the patients saw him, they "required" that they had to bow ninety degrees; if they were not afraid of attracting the attention of the government, he might have asked the patients to bow to him.

"The assembly time is up, all allies please go to the corridor to gather... The assembly time is up, all allies..."

I was talking to Wang Yong, and it was already half past six.

At that moment, a radio recording in a rigid tone rang out on time, and the loudspeaker was mixed with the "squeaking and buzzing" sound that could be heard in every dormitory.

Upon hearing the assembly radio, Zilin and Wang Yong immediately stopped talking, went out, and quickly walked to the corridor.

Because there is only a wash tank in the dormitory but not a toilet, I want to go to the public toilet in the corridor to facilitate the convenience of going to the electronic door of the dormitory, so the electronic door of the dormitory can be opened freely with the fingerprints of the dormitory residents. Last night, the housekeeper took his son to open the door, but because the latter had just entered the center, the process of allocating the room and registering the fingerprints has not been completely completed; and Wang Yong is awake now, so he is responsible for opening the door.

Two minutes after they arrived at the corridor, a house supervisor walked through the corridor in a hurry, examining the "patients" who had already lined up according to room numbers.

"Steer your allies' hands and start... go!" When the housekeeper walked to the door of the last room, he gave a loud order.

In this center, "patients" are called "allies", which is the name invented by Professor Tang. In addition, he also asked all patients and parents of patients to call themselves "Uncle Tang".

"Pay attention to order! Don't whisper!" When the queue began to move, the housekeeper followed the last of the queue and shouted loudly as he walked.

Zilin has investigated these daily processes very clearly.

At half past six, allies from all levels gathered in the "activity room" on their floor to do "killing" or "kneeling and worshiping"; it is said that when the center was just opened, they went to the playground to do this, but because people always waited for an opportunity to escape when they arrived outdoors, it was later changed to this.

At seven o'clock, all the allies went to the cafeteria to have breakfast, and at half past seven o'clock, they returned to the classroom on their floor to attend classes; they said it was "class", but in fact there was no teacher's lecture, it was just self-study. The content of learning... mainly the textbooks written by Uncle Tang, various internal regulations, regulations, and the content of the previous "commentary classes".

After three classes, lunch time is twelve noon, forty-five minutes, and then there is only one hour of free time in the day. Of course... It is said that it is free activity, but in fact it can only be moved in a limited area.

We gathered again at 1:45, and went to the computer room to "surf the Internet" at 2:00 - going to the website designated by Uncle Tang, reading the designated content, and strengthening our study. It was also three classes.

Have supper at five o'clock, you must finish it before six o'clock, and then return to the dormitory. After six o'clock, you are not allowed to go out or visit the dormitory except to go to the bathroom. The lights are turned off at 8:30 pm.

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

Of course, the most important point is: at any time, anywhere, as long as your behaviors make you meet the conditions of "must receive treatment", you must immediately receive "treatment".

Because this was the first day Zilin officially checked in the center, he was taken away by the wardrobe after he finished his exercises and after breakfast.

As expected, he came to the fifth floor and was taken to "Uncle Tang".

"Sit." Before Zi entered the room, Professor Tang, who was sitting behind the desk, looked at him casually and then said this.

Upon hearing this, Zilin walked silently to the other party's desk and sat down; and the wardrobe who was responsible for bringing him, the "doctor" who was in charge of telegraphing him yesterday, stood behind him and stared 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.

Zilin came here with a fake name and a fake identity.

"Yes." He replied.

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

"I know...I'm addicted to the Internet." Zi Lin said.

"Well..." Professor Tang pondered and moved his eyes 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 satisfiable to the other party. "...I am lucky and don't want to receive treatment."

"Yeah." Professor Tang nodded, "It's great. Being able to admit that you have problems means you have a thought of correcting it, but you don't know the way." He paused, "Listen, as long as you strictly abide by the regulations here and finish our procedures, I guarantee you can recover."

"Okay." Zilin replied, "I'll do my best..."

"What is 'doing your best'?" The next second, Uncle Tang suddenly turned his back, "Do you understand what I said? I said that strictly abide by it means that you must do it. What attitude is to do your best? In the center, we must achieve 'orders must be implemented and prohibitions must be stopped'. We must have rules and high execution ability to do things. We cannot have the so-called 'doing your best' idea of ​​just living by doing things."

"I understand..." Zilin immediately pretended to be very scared and continued anxiously, "I...I will definitely do it and implement it firmly."

Professor Tang stared at him for a few seconds, thought for a while, and then said, "Okay, your attitude was originally going to be 'treated', but I thought that you just came in and compared with other new allies, relatively speaking... you are relatively more aware. Today you will go back to the dormitory first, remember all the rules and regulations here, and start activities with other allies tomorrow."

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

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

He used the word "can" but in fact... if you don't call it that, he will find a reason to call you.

Zilin was also very sensible and quickly called Uncle Tang, and then left with the ward.

Nothing to say along the way.

When he returned to the dormitory, Zilin found that his fingerprint could open and close the door of his dormitory, so he closed the door, placed the stack of paper documents collected from the office on the table, and began to flip page by page.

After flipping through, he didn't go to "read" because he had learned all the contents on the paper before entering the center; flipping through... just to create traces of "flipping, looking". If someone finds out that the pile of information he has received is "new in the melon", but he knows all the terms clearly, isn't that arousing doubt?

Therefore, Zilin was now thinking about other things while flipping through the paper.

"When doing exercises, I can only see patients on this floor, but when I was having breakfast, everyone except Professor Tang should have arrived... The number of the housekeeper and the patient is correct as recorded in the information.

"Because you have to abide by order and can't walk around at will, you can't see everyone's appearance clearly... but there is nothing unusual about those you see clearly.

"I came to visit my 'dessert' last night... Well... I'd better call her 'dessert lady'... I only left my voice and smell, and I didn't see my appearance and figure. It's probably difficult to recognize her in the canteen environment.

"Of course, there is no need to rush to find her. Anyway, as long as I stay here, she will come to find me on his own initiative.

"Faceless... At this stage, there are still no clues. You have to wait a few more days before the "that thing" takes effect before progress will be made.

"So, the harvest this morning was... an unexpected discovery of a capable person...

"Although it doesn't seem to me that it's a great ability, he himself seems quite distressed.

"Haha... I guess, the 'Dear Miss' came for him too."
Chapter completed!