Chapter 2702 - 2764: Internet Addiction

The girl ran directly to the Li family, claiming to be a relative, and now she is kneeling on the ground, confessing her mistake. Everyone around is bewildered. Quite a few people come to seek an audience at the Li family, perhaps every month, but those who truly qualify for a meeting are very few. Those qualified wouldn’t need to run to the Li family’s gate to seek an audience. The security guards really thought the girl was a relative, believing they shouldn’t neglect her, which is why they went to notify Li Yifei. But now, the girl is not a relative, which makes things a bit awkward, making them seem somewhat incompetent.

Li Yifei asked, "You’re not my relative?"

"No, no, I... I saw you on the internet and TV, so I came over to ask you..."

"Speak while you’re standing. Since you’re here and I’ve met with you, then first tell me what your matter is!" Li Yifei signaled a security guard to give her a chair, allowing her to stand up and sit.

The girl took a deep breath, pushed herself up, and looking at Li Yifei with a grateful expression, she didn’t sit down. Instead, she said, "I want you to save my brother, please save him!"

"Hmm?" Li Yifei raised his chin slightly and said, "Save your brother?"

"Please save him, he’s being tortured to death!" The girl pleaded, about to kneel on the ground again. Li Yifei brushed his hand, stopping her motion, furrowing his brows, and said, "Your brother has a grave illness?"

"No, no, it’s not a grave illness. He’s not sick, he doesn’t have any disease, he absolutely isn’t sick!"

"That’s strange. If he’s not ill, what do you want me to save him from? How old is your brother? Is he caught in gambling or something, or fallen into a pyramid scheme?" Li Yifei asked.

The security guards were also in disbelief, thinking to themselves that their master’s time is precious, how could they dare to disturb him for anything. Kids these days really don’t know boundaries. If something like this happens again, she should definitely not be allowed in, and needs to be cleared out quickly.

The girl gritted her teeth, shook her head forcefully and said, "It’s not gambling, nor a pyramid scheme. He... he has been taken by a hospital!"

"Taken by a hospital? Mental illness?" Li Yifei looked at her with confusion.

"Yes... internet addiction, internet addiction treatment. I can’t explain clearly. My brother was sent there by my mom. That Doctor Yang said my brother has internet addiction, and it’s very severe, so he needs treatment and several courses to get better!" The girl spoke excitedly, as if she had seen something extremely terrifying, her body lightly trembling.

Li Yifei responded with a sound, thinking, internet addiction treatment? What is that? Is there such a disease? Is Internet addiction a mental illness needing treatment?

"Wuwuwu, they... that hospital is terrifying. My brother was fine before, at most, he liked playing some online games, chatting, but after a week there, he completely changed. The doctor said his internet addiction was cured. When my mom brought him back, my brother appeared dumbfounded, his eyes staring vacantly, drooling from his mouth. I talked to him, he didn’t respond, seemingly unaware of hunger or anything. I can’t describe it, it’s like he’s become dumb. My brother was very smart originally, did well in school, has always been a smart kid. How could one visit to the hospital for treatment make him dumb!" The more the girl spoke, the faster her speed became, appearing extremely agitated, her facial expression turning quite emotional. Then she continued: "For several days, my brother was reacting like that. My mother was worried too, went to ask the doctor, but Doctor Yang said it’s a side effect of the treatment, will get better in a few days, don’t worry. My brother’s internet addiction has greatly improved, and if it relapses, he’ll need to be sent for treatment again!"

"How do they treat him?" Li Yifei interrupted her, frowned, asking. Such institutions or hospitals, he had never heard of, not even heard of. Internet addiction was a term Li Yifei heard often enough back in his days of gaming at cybercafes, being called an ’internet-addicted youth’. But that wasn’t a disease; how is internet addiction a disease now?

The girl seemed to recall extremely horrible matters, shaking as she said, "It’s ele... electroshock; their treatment isn’t medication or injections, it’s electroshock!"

"Electroshock?" Li Yifei felt a jolt inside, appearing shocked and hurriedly asked, "How do they shock him? How much do you know, tell me quickly."

The girl nodded rapidly, voice trembling as she said, "Yes, it’s electroshock! After a few days, my brother came to and told us. That hospital has many rooms, with many internet-addicted kids, aged from teens to their thirties, some even forty, including some graduates. Due to too much online activity, parents forcibly sent them in. The hospital’s management is extremely strict, with multiple guarded doors. Windows in the rooms have iron bars, and doors locked from the outside. They can’t escape; during treatment, each room is filled with screams of agony, even just hearing it is terrifying enough to die. My brother was treated for a week, enduring five sessions. Initially, not needing treatment, but as a spectator, paired two by two, one undergoing treatment, the other watching &...

"Keep talking, don’t worry!" Li Yifei’s expression became grim, his tone carrying a touch of coldness. Just hearing about this kind of treatment method, Li Yifei knew this so-called hospital’s internet addiction treatment was absurd, deceptive. Even within the Flying Hawk Squad, when capturing enemies or spies, they usually wouldn’t resort to excessive methods unless the adversary was extremely vicious and refused to provide information, then strict measures might be used. As for electroshock... is that something humans do?

The girl’s tears fell continuously, choking as she said, "It’s a bizarre machine, electrified, with many clamps on it, able to completely immobilize a person, regardless of age or strength, it doesn’t matter. Once someone lies down, that Doctor Yang and his subordinates turn into devils. No smiles appear on their faces, full of hatred. Toward those undergoing treatment, they show not an ounce of sympathy. No, my brother’s words are that they treat those needing treatment like animals, like beasts. During treatment, they don’t stop, they are a group of devils."

"Go on."

"They have many needles, inserting them into the body, then there’s a machine nearby, with buttons on it. Once the switch is turned on, a rotating dial controls the electric current. Just watching it, my brother was frightened into incontinence. The internet-addicted boy paired with him was the same, lying on the machine, continuously begging for mercy, continually admitting he was wrong, claiming he wouldn’t play games anymore. But Doctor Yang didn’t care, just terrifyingly manipulated the switch, electric current continuously flowed out, seemingly to make the treated endure more pain, he would continuously turn the switch on and off. Such instantaneous electric current pulses bring greater pain!"

Upon hearing this, Li Yifei squinted his eyes slightly, a sign of his anger. The security guards around, too, felt a chill in their hearts upon hearing this. They were all retired soldiers, knowing some things, but hearing that hospital doctors are conducting electric torture on children, immediately felt incredulous, unimaginable. What era is it, and people are using corporal punishment?

"Doesn’t the government care? Haven’t you reported to the police?" An older security guard said. His child is in his teens too, loves computers, phones, never letting them go, and his grades have also dropped. As a father, he frets over this matter but never considered it an addiction. Much less the kids, even when he’s not working, the phone is glued to him, reading novels, watching videos, so he can’t manage the kids well. Hearing it’s a type of disorder initially felt agreeable, but hearing this far, his spine went cold, ignoring inappropriate circumstances now, he also said, "Hasn’t your mother seen him being electrocuted like that?"

"Uncle, my mom... I don’t know how to say it, but she’s been completely deceived by the doctor, believes him firmly. I’ve tried persuading a few times, all in vain. Those people, relying on being doctors, speak very frightening things, so my mom believes them as truth. But I know it’s not a disease; even if it is, it’s a mental disorder and shouldn’t use electric shock as stimuli. Wouldn’t more stimulation make it worse!"

"Hmm, continue from earlier, be thorough, Uncle will handle this matter. Once you’ve completely explained, we can plan!" Li Yifei interrupted the girl, said.

Upon hearing Li Yifei would handle it, the girl got extremely excited, quickly nodding and said, "I’ll continue it, thank you, Uncle, thank you!"

"On the third day, it was my brother’s turn. Using the same method, initially, my brother resisted, but they had weapons in hand, either rubber batons or electric sticks. First, beat him, then bound him on the electroshock equipment. They were so cruel; I don’t know how to describe them, simply devils. Because my brother resisted, the first-day treatment, they doubled, even tripled the dosage. In their eyes, he wasn’t a kid, nor a human, merely an experimental animal. They electrocuted him for over four hours, during which my brother fainted numerous times, each time awakened by further electric shocks, continuing the torture. They used the electrified needles puncturing my brother’s temple, face, at the back of the head, neck, chest, hands, thighs, feet, his whole body got pierced with those electrified needles. I can’t imagine what four hours of such torment would be like..."

Li Yifei wasn’t unfamiliar with electric torture, so he asked, "Do you know how much the electric current is?"

"I’m not sure of the measurement unit, but I heard my brother mention it. He said those people made the electric current reach tens, but I don’t know the exact unit."

"Tens of watts?" Hearing this, Li Yifei suddenly felt a shock in his heart.