The North American Gourmet Demon Handbook

The witch lady was unwilling, but still stubborn.

"Ah, it seems they have reached a conclusion." Xia Li finally smiled and raised the phone screen to Li Shanze.

Aikou: Through my tracking and combined with Anjie and Kate's discussion, I judged that those angry emotional ghosts were born in this way.

Aikou: The anger contained in the filtered and blocked angry text will not dissipate naturally, but will instead accumulate.

Aikou: In order to maintain a "healthy ecology" and "love and peace", Vivian's live broadcast room chooses to filter extreme content, but instead forces the anger of these marginalized people into a closed data layer.

Aikou: Long-term anger with zero feedback is equivalent to experiencing cold violence on top of anger. It will force users to create more extreme anger to stimulate the neural reward mechanism.

Kate: Good job on stopping the eye-rolling emojis. But I wish you could explain things in words I could understand. I'm not a tech expert.

Iko: ...Yes, Agent.

Aikou: Let me give you a simple example.

Aikou: Ever since the Internet became popular, it has become a pure emotional toilet, but Vivian's toilet doesn't allow people to poop, so of course it will drive people crazy.

Aikou: How about it, Agent, do you understand now?

Kate:…

Kate: It doesn't have to be so simple and easy to understand, it's too vulgar.

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168 Charlie's Awakening

It can be seen that Kate and Aikou do not get along very well.

One of them is an FBI agent in charge of law enforcement, and the other is a federal criminal who is still on bail.

One is a devout Catholic knight who is conservative in his thinking and emphasizes order; the other is a lawless cyber hacker who advocates anarchism and advocates freedom.

From identity to ideology, the two can be said to be completely incompatible.

It's a blessing that they were able to get together and figure it out.

But compared to the verbal battles between them, Li Shanze was more curious about which genius brought them together?

"Ahaha, I didn't expect it to be like this..." Xia Li answered Li Shanze's doubts with a dry laugh.

"I figured since Kate was a good friend, she must have her own understanding of exorcising ghosts."

"Iko is a top hacker. He must know a lot about the Internet."

"And Anjie has a considerable understanding of the consciousness space."

"Why don't we get everyone together to discuss this... I asked Ai Ko to send this program to the others, but I didn't expect them to start arguing so fiercely."

Charlie sighed in annoyance.

No matter how heated Kate and Echo's argument was, Charlie's idea still made sense.

Although they argued, they quickly came up with a solution.

Aikou: First, I set up a crawler in Vivian’s live broadcast room to capture the angry emotions that were filtered out.

Aikou: Then use AI to disguise yourself as an enthusiastic netizen, give these angry emotions positive feedback and guidance, and gradually repair their broken social feedback loop.

Aikou: This should prevent the birth of new emotional ghosts.

Aikou: As for how to transcend those existing emotional ghosts, that is not my area of ​​expertise. (Happy) (Happy)

This message has been retracted.

Aikou: As for how to transcend those emotional ghosts that already exist, that is not my area of ​​expertise.

Aikou: That depends on you, the Great Knight, to come up with the idea.

Li Shanze thought it was funny that Ai Kou looked so cowardly and wanted to be sarcastic.

I don’t know how Kate did it, but Aikou, who always wanted to use emoticons or emojis in every chat, now doesn’t dare to send any emoticons.

You can't do that with just verbal threats from FBI agents.

At this time, Kate also started typing.

Kate: Ghosts can actually be purified through sacraments, and can also be exorcised through soothing witchcraft.

Kate: Unfortunately, Li is not a clergyman, and Charlie can't use witchcraft in that space.

Kate: Then we can only consider destroying the ghost's birth ceremony.

Kate: Now

Kate: I can feel energy fluctuations in many places in Philadelphia right now, and I suspect the birth of emotional ghosts is related to this energy fluctuation.

Kate: And this energy comes from the willpower released when the Liberty Bell was shattered. The energy fluctuations near the Liberty Bell are also the strongest. I'm already on my way there.

Kate: I suggest that Charlie go to the Liberty Bell location where you are and take a look at the situation.

Kate: Charlie, you said you were at the African American Museum in Philadelphia on 7th Street, right?

Kate: You were pretty close there.

At this time, Anjie finally spoke.

Angel: Charlie, you must be careful. It's hard to say what will happen there.

Anjie: I remember Charlie saying that the Philadelphia over there is different from the real Philadelphia. For example, Vivian's church corresponds to a plaza on Seventh Street.

Anjie: And the Liberty Bell was shattered in reality. Since Charlie said that the shadow space is actually the consciousness space, the Liberty Bell in the consciousness space may not still exist.

Anjie: But I think the landmark buildings there won’t change much. The Liberty Bell and Independence Hall are right next to each other, just across the street.

Anjie: If you can't find the Liberty Bell, you can also look for Independence Hall, which is a Georgian-style red brick building.

Anjie: No matter what, you must be careful. I can even sense strong fluctuations in the shadow space in DC.

Kate: Try to stay in touch.

Aikou: It's difficult. After a lot of testing, I found that the flow of time on Li's side is very chaotic.

Aikou: The encrypted communication used by TeleGhost will cause encryption verification errors as long as there is a discrepancy in the time, and the data packet will be discarded.

Aikou: After testing, we found that there is only about a five-minute communication window every hour.

So the communication is impossible because of packet loss caused by timestamp verification problem?

What a realistic reason!

Li Shanze initially thought that the difficulty in communication between the two worlds was due to some insurmountable obstacles.

After Aikou said this, Li Shanze realized that the insurmountable obstacle was actually himself.

Since the time traveler can disrupt the long river of time mentioned by the time wizard, he is not only immune to the time wizard's witchcraft, but can even cause the time wizard's spells to backfire.

Then, the side effect of simply losing data packets in the consciousness space does not seem to be unacceptable.

In Li Shanze's opinion, this price was too low and could be ignored.

Li: Thank you. We are ready to go.

Sending failed, please click Resend.

It looks like the network is down again, and this time the window for communication has passed.

Charlie looked up. "Let's go, Lee."

Li Shanze smiled and ruffled Xia Li's brown hair: "Well, it seems that we have to rely on ourselves again."

"No, it was obviously all thanks to you. I didn't do anything." Charlie muttered in a bad mood.

Li Shanze was just about to appease Xia Li, but he didn't expect the elf to be dissatisfied.

She rushed out to show off her achievements: "And Lady Ella! And Lady Ella! Lady Ella protected us all!"

Charlie smiled. "Yeah, and Ella too. I'm the only one who can't help. I don't want to go on like this, Lee."

"I don't want to be a little wizard who has no risk and can do nothing about anything, Li."

"We once fought side by side against the false god Bane Benjamin, and now we're dragged here together. I don't think our future will be peaceful."

The more Charlie spoke, the more determined her eyes became.

Seeing that Xia Li was very serious, Li Shanze also became serious. He stared into Xia Li's eyes and asked carefully.

"Have you thought it through, Charlie? You've decided to become a true wizard, even if the future is filled with dangers. Are you ready to face this existential crisis?"

"I've seen my teacher's existential crisis of self-destruction, and I've seen Calvin Hope's existential crisis of losing himself. I think I'm ready to face it."

Charlie said firmly.

Then, she also stared at Li Shanze with her piercing eyes: "Besides, I still have you to help me, right, Li."

"Yes, of course I will help you." Li Shanze smiled.

"That's good." Charlie also laughed.

As she finished speaking, the surrounding witchcraft energy suddenly fluctuated and gathered towards Charlie.

But the emotional ghosts were just the opposite. They were originally wandering aimlessly on the streets as if they had sensed some natural enemy.

They quickly fled from Charlie's side, and soon, there was nothing around them.

The wind pressure brought by the energy blew up Charlie's originally gentle brown hair. She looked like she was floating in the air. She closed her eyes tightly and muttered to herself.

The entire consciousness space of Philadelphia began to tremble, as if it was afraid of something.

The Seventh Street in the consciousness space was originally a brightly lit street, but suddenly, all the lights and electrical appliances tripped collectively as if they had agreed to do so.

Swamp miasma seeped from the building's glass walls like cold sweat.

Even the three bronze dolls who were tirelessly welding the blocks seemed to have just woken up from a dream. They suddenly ran away without looking back.

The vending machine that was originally annoying and noisy retracted its tongue, and the product inside turned back into Coke.

When Charlie opened her eyes again, the restless witchcraft energy calmed down again, and Charlie's brown hair fell down again.

But this time, everything seemed different.

There was a gleam of witchcraft in Charlie's eyes, full of mysterious charm.

Xia Li raised the corners of her mouth, lifted the hem of her skirt, bent her knees to Li Shanze, and saluted like a lady.

"Sorry for the wait, Lee. Wizard Charlie Butner sends his greetings."

"Ha, then please take care of me." Li Shanze also laughed.

Charlie smiled slyly, "Besides, I've also gained some understanding of existential crises."

"Oh? What do you mean by acquaintance?" Li Shanze asked curiously.

"All thought requires a starting point. For example, the three starting points of Immanuel Kant's philosophy are the immortality of the soul, free will, and the existence of God."

Li Shanze really doesn't know what Kant's philosophy is all about.

However, it was only at this time that Li Shanze truly realized that Xia Li's teacher was a great wizard and that Xia Li had received a good liberal arts education.

"Like philosophers, wizards also need their own origin, or anchor. As long as the anchor is stable, they will not fall into nihilism, nor will they fall into existential crisis."

So that's how it is. It turns out that in the eyes of wizards, existential crisis is so much like a philosophical proposition.

It is impossible for a wizard not to study philosophy, so it is not surprising that Charlie has received philosophical education.

Li Shanze also bowed to Xia Li, imitating the manner of a Western gentleman, and then asked flatteringly, "Then, may I have the honor of knowing what our great wizard Xia Li's anchor point is?"

A blush seemed to appear on Charlie's face.

But her star-like eyes did not dodge for a moment.

"It's you, Mr. Li. You're the anchor I want to choose."

"Me?" Li Shanze was surprised.

Just now, Xia Li was talking about Kant. Li Shanze never expected that Xia Li would choose himself as the anchor point. Isn't this equivalent to putting her life in his hands?

"I'm not a good person. You're not the only woman I have." Li Shanze said quickly.

Although he was moved, he still tried to stop this stupid thing.

"I know, Mr. Li, do you really think I can't notice it?" Xia Li smiled, holding the staff in one hand and counting her fingers with the other.