Pinch a big guy as a target

Tang Luze said that if it is bad, it will be bad. It is true that there was no live broadcast on the interstellar flight.

He slept until he woke up naturally for almost seven days, and he stayed in the room almost every day, and didn't go out much.When he finally got enough sleep, he strolled around the boat.

Then for the first time in his life, he entered the casino.

Casinos these days are already dazzling and dizzying, with a sense of technology.But what remains unchanged is the warm atmosphere, music, lighting, sound effects and cheers from various machines, and the inexplicable smell that permeates the air.

"I never knew you liked coming to places like this."

Of course the puffin followed, and in the deafening environment, he could only lean next to Tang Luze and talk in his ear: "Could it be that you were actually a casino master before?"

"Can my little family support the hobby of 'gambling'?" Tang Luze glanced at him, "Come and feel it."

Puffin heard this and smiled softly: "We can still give you a little pocket money for playing, we won't save it to the point where we won't let you play in the casino."

Tang Luze said: "Not playing."

"You really don't want to play?"

"No play." Tang Luze replied again, and said in a low voice, "Do you know what the previous safari park was like?"

"……what?"

"In the previous safari parks, wild animals played by themselves in the landscaping. Tourists passed by them, watched them, and went out after a turn."

"...cough." Puffin understood what he meant immediately, and said with a low smile, "Don't tell others, for fear that you will be beaten."

"Who else can I tell?" Tang Luze dropped this sentence and went to visit the casino.

Puffin looked at his back, smiled, and followed.

***

Tang Luze stayed behind each project for a while, his expression was full of relish, and he was even excited, but he really didn't get rid of it.

A few minutes later, he walked out of the casino contentedly with his hands behind his back.

"...You really didn't spend any money." Puffin walked beside him, "When you opened the cards just now, you looked so excited... I was ready, waiting for you to turn around at any time and say that you want to cash in your chips and bet .”

"I want to redeem the chips, so I'll do it myself, do I need you?" Tang Luze sneered, "I just want to feel the excitement, so I tried to guess the result, and then looked forward to it."

"Okay." Puffin raised his eyebrows and smiled, "It's a 'free whoring' in a sense, huh?"

Tang Luze: "Learn how to speak from me?"

Puffin: "Aren't I going to follow you?"

Tang Luze: "What you said is as if I am your father."

Puffin: "..."

Tang Luze: "In a sense, I can indeed count you..."

"I developed freely, you are not my father." Puffin interrupted him, and then forcibly changed the topic back to the original content, "But why did you come to the casino today? Really just because you want some excitement?"

Puffin thought he would still deal with it casually this time, but Tang Luze replied another answer: "I just thought of something suddenly last night."

"……Um?"

"It's about the chip in the brain." When Tang Luze said this, he saw some disapproval on Puffin's expression, and understood what he meant.Now the two are still in the public, chatting while walking in the corridor with people coming and going.Puffin probably thought he was going to talk about Andrek's brain chip, so he wanted to stop it.

But Tang Luze is not so stupid.

He smiled, reassuring the puffin, and then continued: "I saw that advertisement last night, saying how chips in the brain can regulate human emotions and stabilize the state. At that time, a sudden burst of Came up with an idea—brain chips, in a way, shouldn’t be taboo in casinos?”

Puffin heard that he wasn't going to talk about Andrek, so he relaxed and replied, "Taboo? How should I say it?"

"The casino, to a certain extent, actually hopes that the guests will enter the state of excitement." Tang Luze said, "This state of excitement will make the guests consume more impulsively and judge irrationally, which is very important for the casino. Said is the ideal situation to get more income, commonly known as 'upper'."

"Understood." Puffin said, "The entire atmosphere of the casino, the electro-optic and sound effects, are all trying to achieve this goal. Even if many people think they can maintain their rationality, once they walk in, they are easily infected by such an atmosphere."

"That's right. So, under this premise, is the emotional control chip a sharp weapon against casinos?" Tang Luze replied, "I thought of this, so I want to go to the casino to confirm their Are chipped people banned from entering. Like long ago, famous mind-reading performers, psychologists, magicians, etc., would be banned from casinos."

The puffin recalled for a moment and said, "But I didn't see the relevant exemption statement."

"Indeed." Tang Luze was thoughtful, "I don't know if the casino hasn't formulated relevant countermeasures, or if they have reached a tacit agreement with the chip manufacturer..."

Puffin said: "But the chip is already commercially available. If it is spread in a large area and the wearing rate increases, it is impossible for the casino to turn away many customers."

"That's right." Tang Luze touched his chin, "I don't know how the casino will deal with this situation in the future, how to create a group emotional atmosphere under the premise that most individuals are forced to keep calm..."

"Sorry to bother you two."

A voice suddenly came from behind. Tang Luze and Puffin turned around and found that it was a man who looked to be in his thirties.He was well-dressed, with a friendly expression, and smiled at Tang Luze: "Sorry, I happened to be walking behind you, and accidentally overheard your chat. Because it happened to be related to my recent research topic, I couldn't help listening one time……"

Puffin intentionally or unintentionally stood in front of Tang Luze, separating him from the person who approached him: "Is there something wrong?"

"It's nothing, I just wanted to get to know you and talk about the group's emotional atmosphere - I'm a little interested in the topic you just talked about." The man raised his wrist, tapped the terminal, and a business card code Immediately the conversation came out, "Of course, I don't want to talk about serious things, just chatting casually. After all, I just finished the last survey, and I want to relax for a while. If you don't want to talk about this, it's good to simply make friends ? I’m alone, and it’s boring along the way.”

Puffins wanted to refuse, after all, they were still running away secretly.But he didn't make up his mind, so he turned to look at Tang Luze.

Tang Luze looked at the business card code, thought for a while, and asked, "You just finished a survey? It's also about group emotions?"

"Yes." The man smiled, "To be precise, I investigated a group similar to... a new religion. Their group structure is very primitive, but surprisingly strong, I want to know what supports this Simple structure, so I went to investigate."

Tang Luze raised his eyebrows: "I don't want to get involved in any religious topics..."

"Hahaha, I know what you're worried about. It's okay, it's not a religion in the standard sense, and they haven't done anything bad. It's still quite difficult to engage in collective crime in a place that isn't too backward these days. "The man smiled, "They are not mysterious, they are all people living a normal life... In short, if you want to hear, can we find a quiet bar to chat?"

Tang Luze said: "I don't drink."

"Then the coffee shop?" The man smiled and spread his hands, "I don't mean anything malicious. If you don't believe me, then let's chat in a public place without adding friends. This should be your intelligence, right? I can't do anything under surveillance."

"...Okay." Tang Luze was indeed a little interested in his topic, and really reached out to swipe his business card code, and then glanced at it, "Professor Sheffield?"

Puffin then reached out and copied the business card, and then silently investigated this person online.

"Just call me 'Sheffield'." The man smiled slightly. "If you don't want to give me a business card, at least tell me what to call you?"

Tang Luze said casually: "Just call me 'Xiao Ming', he is 'Xiao Hong'."

Puffin: "..." All right, anyway, it won't be me who can't remember the nickname.

Sheffield couldn't know what was going on in his heart, but he smiled and said, "It's a very interesting nickname, I remember it, Xiao Ming."

Tang Luze thought, ha, you must not understand.

These are the two protagonists of "application questions" that were familiar to students all over the country a long time ago, and they are pure passers-by pronouns juxtaposed with "Zhang San" and "Li Si"!

***

In a cafe with fewer customers and a calmer atmosphere, Tang Luze, Puffin and Sheffield chatted for almost an hour.

Prior to this, Puffin had already sent Tang Luze the information about Professor Sheffield found on the star network.In order to save Tang Luze's time, Puffin also stuck to Tang Luze's ear and said "no problem for now".

After that, Tang Luze communicated with Sheffield.

Tang Luze repeated his views on "casinos and chips". Sheffield was very interested in this, and began to extend to some other topics, and began to briefly describe the just-concluded investigation - of course, only say part that can be said.

He said that the places he went to before were very ordinary.The Internet is normal, the surrounding environment is ordinary, and the way people live is no different from other places in the Federation.He made the point of going because one of his students told him that a former middle school classmate of his... seemed to have become some sort of "opinion leader."

At first, Sheffield thought that what the students said was similar to "the popular person in the class" and "the leader of the group". In short, they were the core figures in a group.But after the students described it in detail, Sheffield noticed the wonder of this "opinion leader".

The man seemed to get along well with everyone, new acquaintances or those he had met before.When people have conflicts, this person can mediate their conflicts according to their specific situation.The opinions he gave were not major matters, but they were very effective for the subject at the time.Over time, everyone will habitually ask for his opinion when they are confused.People even summed up some of his classic sentences spontaneously and applied them in daily communication.Under his influence, people gradually gathered together habitually—sometimes for gatherings, sometimes for volunteering together, and sometimes for other activities.

The people around this man were used to it, and the students in Sheffield didn't think much of it.She used to study with this person in the same class, watched him behave like this since she was a child, and even had a crush on him for a while.But when the student grew up, stayed away, and studied under the name of Sheffield, he suddenly noticed something wrong with that person from a professional point of view.

She believes that person is more like the initiator of a new religion, and conveys this view to her teacher, Sheffield.

That is, Sheffield went to investigate the premise of that person.

He spoke very simply. Tang Luze listened with a calm face, but some kind of conjecture inevitably surged in his heart.

—Another..."Shirley"?