The North American Gourmet Demon Handbook

"Finally got through to you, Li!" Ai Kou's voice suddenly rang out, "Are you all right?"

"Ha, why don't you ask if Gray and Anjie have been rescued." Li Shanze raised his eyebrows, "We are fine now."

"Because the virtual Saint Vivian is broadcasting live! The live broadcast shows that Grey Hamilton and Angela Novak are still trapped somewhere!" Ai Ko said shockingly.

Li Shanze quickly took out his cell phone.

At this time, the phone finally connected to the Internet.

"Just watch YouTube Live! Virtual Saint Vivian's Moral Judgment Channel! If you have any questions, contact TG (TeleGhost)! I have to keep registering accounts to like them! The phone numbers for two receiving platforms have been used up. I need to check if there are any problems with the registration process!"

After saying this nonsense, Aikou went offline.

Li Shanze knew about the code receiving platform, which is to use a virtual mobile phone number to receive SMS verification codes to bypass mobile phone number verification and register new accounts on certain Internet platforms. For example, Li Shanze used the code receiving platform when he registered chatgpt in his previous life.

But what the hell is registering a new account and liking it? How does this connect to Ange and Gray being trapped?

Besides, wasn't she livestreaming on TikTok this time? It seems this virtual Saint Vivian's business isn't limited to just one platform...

Li Shanze, full of doubts, opened YouTube Live on his mobile phone.

The most popular live stream is [Live! #VirtualSaintVivian24-HourNon-StopMoralChallenge] (193020 people are watching).

The background of the live broadcast room is a constantly changing graffiti wall, and next to the wall are two women dressed solemnly in black.

It was not difficult for Li Shanze to recognize that they were Anjie and Gray.

There was a meter bar next to the two people with "morality" written on it. Li Shanze noticed that this was used to indicate the difference between likes and dislikes.

The like button is red and the dislike button is blue.

It now seems that the armies of likes and dislikes are in fierce confrontation, and the meter is sometimes rising and sometimes falling.

The virtual saint occupying the center of the screen was holding an urn and smiling at the audience in the live broadcast room.

The electronic synthesized sound is crisp and clear.

"You just emitted 20 grams of CO2 with your breathing! Scan the code to claim a grain of sand from the Sahara Desert and achieve ethical carbon neutrality~"

"Each scan earns you one like or one dislike! The first 20 scans per day are free!"

What the hell is this?

Li Shanze felt extremely confused and frowned.

At this time, the virtual saint continued: "How is it? Are you impressed by the performance of the two beautiful ladies just now? If so, please like it. If not, please dislike it~"

"As long as the number of thumbs-downs outweighs the thumbs-up, they'll unfortunately be eliminated~"

Considering that Aikou said that she was constantly registering new mobile phone numbers to like Anjie and Gray's posts, Li Shanze felt that this "elimination" was definitely not as trivial as this virtual saint said.

At this time, the advertisement on the background wall changed.

The rainbow-colored liquid screamed in the test tube: "Use seven times a day to wash away your chromosomal sin! Please scan the code to purchase!"

What kind of bullshit transgender advertisement is this? Those two in the live broadcast are already lesbians. Can LGBTQ+ still persecute L?

Li Shanze frowned as he watched.

"Oh, seeing how they're indifferent and even disgusted, everyone seems very dissatisfied~ The number of people stepping on me is increasing rapidly~"

The virtual saint Vivian covered her mouth and chuckled.

And indeed, Angel and Gray's "moral" bar was lowering little by little.

User [Brotherhood of Feminism] Super Chat: Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh! The little sister is so beautiful and cool! Where did this low-class guy come from to criticize a girl?

(The English word is profound and extensive, and this is roughly what it means when translated.)

The barrage was too strong, and Li Shanze pinched his nose.

However, seeing that a super chat had given a big boost to the "morality" bar that was about to run out, Li Shanze decided to pretend not to see it for the time being.

Just as Li Shanze was pinching his nose and trying to figure out what was going on, his TeleGhost lit up.

Ai Kou: Remember to reimburse me (greedy for money) (greedy for money) (greedy for money)

It turns out that the super chat that is so interesting and requires no words is you!

125 Judgment Carnival (Part 1)

#125 Judgment Carnival

With the emergence of SuperChat, where Iko disguises herself as a female boxer, the trend of barrage has been reversed.

[User @妹妹妹妹踩超聊$666]

Stop hurting the sisters! They are just poor lesbians blinded by patriarchal marriage! Such a live broadcast room should judge Bai Nan! Instead of hurting the two poor sisters!

[User @月经银行长 lights up the rainbow shackles special effect]

Even though they are both white, they are still lesbians who suffer discrimination and oppression from society! Their identity at the bottom of the oppression chain cannot be shaken! We oppose any harsh criticism of these suffering sisters!

[User @Suffering Economics Doctor gave a reward of “Organic Tampon Missile”]

Their suffering is the shared trauma of all women! Placing them in a livestream and allowing netizens to criticize and criticize them is itself a form of stinking male gaze!

These are some comments that are more organized.

At the same time, there were hundreds of meaningless barrages of emotions such as "Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh" and "Sisters are so cool", which made Li Shanze's eyes hurt.

However, Li Shanze finally understood that Ai Ko was using magic to fight magic.

[Live! #VirtualSaintVivian24-hourNon-StopMoralChallenge] (120779 people are watching)

After Ai Ko's female fist super chat set the trend, Anjie and Gray's moral standards rose wildly.

However, the number of people in the live broadcast room dropped sharply from 20 to 12. Li Shanze was not sure whether it was due to the natural loss of people at midnight.

Facing the surging barrage of female fists, the virtual saint Vivian's expression did not change at all, and a kind smile still hung on the corner of her mouth.

Her electronic synthesized voice sounded at the right moment: "Please look, this is this lady's social media."

A picture appeared in the live broadcast room.

That was a screenshot of Grey's social media.

【Budweiser February 14th

"The strawberry cake my mom makes always smells like sunshine! (love) #familytime #heirloomrecipe"

Image: A cake decorated with lace frosting sits on a Victorian-style cake plate, with a half-opened copy of "Perfect Housewife" magazine visible in the background. A calloused hand is captured in the corner of the picture.

The photo popped up and the comments froze.

Immediately afterwards, more barrages of comments poured out.

It's "The Perfect Housewife"! It's the stinking "The Perfect Housewife" that represents men domesticating and oppressing women! Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh! How dare you! (Crying)

It's as if women are only fit to be housewives, only fit to be men's appendages! (crying) (angry)

Stinky #familyrecipes! There are at least 400 posts under this tag praising domestic slavery! (Angry)

I was wondering why it looked so familiar. This lace icing pattern is 92% similar to the former Women's Virtue School emblem! It stinks! (fist) (fist)

She used white cream to press onto the black chocolate layer to show her support for white oppression of black racial oppression! (Black Rage) (I can't breathe)

Am I the only one who thinks the arrangement of the strawberries on top of the cake resembles a patriarchal family tree? Ladies, open your eyes! Don't be fooled by this Ai Nan sister! (Black Rage)

Haha, she didn't mention in her tweet how discriminatory this view is against poor women who don't have ovens (black anger)

A close-up of the hands without any retouching! This is clearly objectifying the labor of women's bodies! (Black Crying)

Haha, this shot completely represents the male gaze and betrays the female narrative sovereignty (black sneer) (black anger)

White cream has a historical complicity with white supremacist foaming techniques! (Black Rage) (Black Rage)

Li Shanze was stunned by the chaotic development.

Just for this photo that praises mother and extols family love, the barrage can reveal so many insights!

This is simply an unlimited exaggeration, and they are even trying to find ways to see who can exaggerate more.

What’s even more outrageous is that after someone accused someone of racism, all the emojis in the barrage suddenly turned black.

Li Shanze was originally wondering why this virtual saint Vivian did not follow the path of religion or salvation, but instead mainly attracted white leftists.

But calm down and take a closer look - cyber witch hunt, cyber trial, cyber indulgence - this is indeed a virtual saint, there is nothing wrong with it!

The torrent of criticism and the torrent of stepping-up were accompanied by the torrent of condemnation, and the originally high "moral" bar began to drop rapidly again.

Li Shanze said to the mechanical crow on his shoulder, "I've seen enough of this farce. Have you found the server where the virtual Saint Vivian is deployed? If I'm not mistaken, she's deployed on the server of Eternal Life Technology."

The cleanest and most efficient way to deal with things on the Internet is of course to unplug the network cable.

As for what McGee said about the "common enemy", Li Shanze actually didn't really believe it.

The Virtual Saint is deployed in your company (to be exact, the Wizard Tower), and you still can't deal with her?

"Yes, she was once deployed in the server of Eternal Life Technology. She was once part of our experiment, but just a few days ago, another part of her was transferred out."

McGee did not shy away from Li Shanze's question.

"Transferred out?"

"Yes, she took advantage of our experiment and quietly transferred it into a historical artifact - we still don't understand how she did it."

"That artifact contains a great deal of aspirational power that has been gradually accumulated since the founding of the United States, supporting its independent existence."

"Now, the virtual Saint Project Vivian v2.3 remaining in Eternal Life Technology and the fugitive Saint Vivian are two different entities."

"So, simply shutting down the servers of Eternal Life Technology is useless."

McGee explained seriously.

Li Shanze frowned. "Isn't this artifact you're talking about the Liberty Bell?"

"To be exact, it's a fragment of the Liberty Bell." McGee gave an affirmative answer.

"How did this come into your hands? The U.S. government—"

Li Shanze realized halfway through his words that he had made the mistake of empiricism.

In his previous life, in modern China, the government naturally took precedence over capital. But this was America, and this subconscious judgment didn't fit the national conditions of the great United States.

Although large capital like Yongsheng Technology cannot be said to have complete control over the government, it is obvious that both state and federal governments find it difficult to effectively restrain them.

So, Li Shanze thought of another question, whether the damage to the Liberty Bell was within the expectations of McGee and Eternal Life Technology.

However, this is obviously not a good time to pursue this issue, because in the live broadcast room, Angel and Grey's "moral" values ​​are steadily declining.

Aikou's group of water army who liked the post were defeated by the angry netizens who criticized the post, and seemed to be losing ground.

"So, to find the pieces of the Liberty Bell?"

"No, those wishes have been released, and the fragments of the Liberty Bell are now a pile of discarded bronze fragments of little significance."

The crow on Li Shanze's shoulder said.

"Maintaining the image of a virtual saint consumes a huge amount of willpower. As we all know, AI computing power requires a lot of energy support - and various emotions will provide her with willpower."

"This is also a topic we're researching. However, our research is quite cautious, primarily leveraging the user's own pain to slightly extract aspirational power."

"But uncontrolled Vivian is different. After a few days of observation and tracking, she actually developed an emotional discounting system."

Li Shanze felt like he was about to be confused again: "Emotional discounting system?"

"Based on ME-NLP, emotional M energy E-natural language processing P."

"For example, the anger generated by Twitter wars can be algorithmically purified into anger bonds, which can be used to reward, like, or dislike posts in livestreams."

"For example, every negative sentence in a depression thread on Reddit can be transformed into a mourning culture spell—for example, the constantly changing murals on the background wall are made up of these pixel spells."

"And the late-night emo literature on Spotify, the music player, can be directly used to build a cyber wailing wall—the wall in the live broadcast room was built in this way."

"And the purpose of this live broadcast room is to collect the energy scattered on the Internet and transform it into Vivian's own wish power."

Kate, who had been silent till then, suddenly said, "What you say had better be true, Mr. McKee."

"Hahahaha, I understand, I understand. Facing FBI agents, giving false testimony will only bring trouble." The mechanical crow let out a hoarse and unpleasant laugh.

"So what we need to do is to exhaust her wish power, and then we can naturally rescue Angel and Gray?" Li Shanze asked.

The mechanical crow nodded in affirmation.

"Yes, after all, Miss Anjie Novak is a famous bounty hunter. She can flexibly enter and exit the shadow space. As long as the barrier of the live broadcast room is broken, she will naturally be able to escape."