NO00f2: Anorexia

Get out of your deepest psychological shadow...

The moment he heard these words, Jim felt a strong sense of disobedience in his heart. When he heard Old Hans talk about the specific situation of the Thracian Club, he had a similar feeling - as if he had vaguely found the key to the truth, but when he reached out to touch it, it was like a mirage. Like disappeared.

"Let's talk about your friend first."

After thinking for a long time and still having no clue, Jim said directly.

Ji Mu nodded, and then began to tell the whole story from the beginning.

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At the end of the Third Cyber ​​War, the battle between Neptune Transportation and Vulcan Heavy Industries in the North Pacific caused the continental plate to drift and Japan to sink. Many refugees from the Far East were resettled in the Nordic resettlement areas in Central Asia during the postwar Great Migration Plan. At the same time, it also brought those Eastern pagan religions that were formed before the war, and the New Tenri Sect was one of them that traveled across the ocean.

In fact, New Tenrikyo has no direct connection with the Shinto branch of the past AD calendar. It is just one of the countless religions that legally worship artificial intelligence in the name of past religions in the context of the New Age pagan movement.

Although most of the so-called New Age cults are just tools for swindlers to harvest fools - if the god you worship really responds to you one day, the leader may run away faster than anyone else, but the New Tenri Sect is One of the few exceptions.

The New Tenri sect often adopts baby girls to raise so-called "miko" without knowing what special method they use. After these adopted baby girls are installed with brain-computer interfaces as adults, the probability of mutating the "Hongpon Brain Area" and becoming a hacker is two orders of magnitude higher than that of ordinary people.

The church claims that these "witches" are gifts from the "parental gods" above the sky and are "shrines" for communication between mortals and gods. In this way, they attract more people who hope that their children can have hacking talents to achieve a class jump. Parents join the church.

About ten years ago, the church gradually attracted the attention of the Order of Olympus due to its continued growth. After investigation by company agents, it was determined that they were connected to an artificial intelligence in the Abyss Dark Web Depth 4. The so-called training of "witches" is just to help it select and train "horses" to enter the real world.

Next, comes the clichéd “implementation of the Olympus Regulations” part…

Nowadays, the New Tenri Sect has ceased to exist in name only. The group of "witches" trained by the church did not have "steeds" suitable for that artificial intelligence. After wiping out all the church's top leaders, the law enforcement forces of the Order of Olympus did not waste bullets to kill those witches.

After recruiting the girls who had the potential to train to become powerful hackers, the rest were dismissed and left to fend for themselves.

The young Ji Mu and her friend Duanmu Youxue were among the shrine maidens who were dismissed at that time.

"We were not adults at that time and could not install brain-computer interfaces to realize our hacker potential. Youxue was two years older than me. In order to survive at that time, she went to the black market to install the brain-computer interface in advance without telling me. Because it was forced to install The adult-sized brain-computer interface also compressed the brain nerves, causing severe anorexia and obsessive-compulsive disorder.”

Ji Mu said with lowered eyes.

But even so, the special training technology that New Tianlijiao obtained from artificial intelligence still took effect - Duanmu Youxue, who was equipped with a brain-computer interface, quickly grew the Hongqiao brain area and grew into a little Youxue in the Nord Resettlement Area. Famous hacker.

After settling down in life, they opened a studio called "Maple Sugar Shrine" using the gimmick of "New Tenrikyo Shrine", mainly to provide people with so-called "cyber exorcism" services - that is, Fix a malfunctioning autonomous housekeeping AI.

In this era, many people often choose to purchase locally deployed self-disciplined artificial intelligence because they do not trust the artificial intelligence cloud butler services provided by large companies and feel that their privacy will be leaked.

This type of artificial intelligence is generally equipped with the function of self-learning and upgrading, but long-term operation is prone to problems due to the accumulation of wrong logic, leading to situations similar to "developing its own understanding of the master's commands", which in turn causes various types of problems. Dangerous accident.

The "Maple Sugar Shrine" founded by Noriki and Yuyuki is dedicated to dealing with similar incidents.

Also known as "Exorcism Haunted House".

Not only that, during the process of exorcism, they will also secretly collect copies of those "malfunctioning artificial intelligences". Some are taken home and cultivated as their own "guardian spirits", while others are released into the World Wide Web after their "resentments" are calmed.

According to the teachings of the New Tenri Sect, any smart device that has been running for a sufficient period of time has a "soul." If they have not done anything unscrupulous, deleting their running programs is equivalent to murdering the soul.

This is also the so-called "worship of eight million gods" and "animism" - Jim must admit that this sounds even more outrageous than the AI ​​human rights protection organization.

But according to Norimu, some of the AIs that helped her monitor the Thracian Club were the ones they released before and came back to "repay their kindness."

Hearing this, Jim resisted the urge to comment on such things...

"Speaking of Youxue, due to the influence of the early installation of brain-computer interfaces in her early years, her mental problems have become more and more serious in recent years... It is so serious that I dare not let her take a mental index test because I am afraid of her test As a result, he exceeded the warning level and was detained by the Public Security Bureau and sent to a detention center. "

Jimu said, his hands unconsciously grasped the pleated skirt.

Fortunately, after Ji Mu installed a brain-computer interface as an adult, he quickly grew into a hacker. Not only that, her growth rate is far faster than that of Youxue - she completed the breakthrough from "Anonymous" to "Sandman" in less than half a year, and the Hongqiao brain area continues to grow until now.

"Actually, Youxue's talent is probably stronger than mine, but implanting the brain-computer interface in advance will advance her talent."

Ji Mu sighed, then looked at the ceiling blankly, and remained silent for a long time.

Jim did not interrupt her recollection and waited patiently for her to continue.

After coming back to his senses, Ji Mu continued to talk about the past.

After Ji Mu took over Youxue's job, Youxue's mental problems also eased a lot.

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But mental problems were only one aspect. Due to long-term anorexia, Youxue's body could no longer hold up at that time.

Jim was a little confused:

"With the current medical level, it is not difficult to treat anorexia, right?"

In response, Ji Mu sighed and explained:

"Youxue's anorexia is completely a mental problem. It is the result of her abnormal mental index. It is not just as simple as being unable to eat. How should I put it...according to her statement, she always seems to be able to 'see inside' See the whole process of food being chewed in the mouth, turning into feces and being excreted from the body. Seeing things mixed with saliva in the mouth to become chyme, broken down by digestive juices into a liquid similar to vomit in the stomach, and then digested in the large intestine. Leaven becomes excrement.

"At this time, she will feel that what she is eating is essentially the same thing as the things squirming in her body, and then she will have strong nausea and vomiting. Sometimes even when passing by the garbage dump, Just seeing those dirty things will cause a similar reaction, which makes it impossible for her to replenish energy through other means except infusion."

The more Ji Mu talked, the more distressed he became, but he continued:

"In order to solve this problem, we have thought of many ways. For example, replacing her with a prosthetic digestive organ, or installing external nutritional supplement equipment... But these all require modification of the body, and her The mental index can no longer withstand such a major operation.

"During that time, I could only watch her getting thinner and thinner, and her physical condition getting worse and worse. At the worst point, she lost weight to less than 30 kilograms...she looked no different from a skeleton. The outer ends of the brain-computer interface on the back of the neck began to separate from the skin.”

At this point, Ji Mu stopped, with a very complicated expression on his face.

It was an expression of reluctance.

"It was at this time that she learned about the 'Thrace Club', a mutual aid organization that claims to be able to soothe all mental problems. So with the attitude of treating a dead horse as a living horse, she went to participate in the activities there."

After hearing this, Jim couldn't help but ask:

"But it's actually a scam organization?"

Ji Mu was silent for a while, and finally gritted his teeth and shook his head:

"No, they really cured Youxue." (End of Chapter)