Sensory Agent

In the near future, highly developed biological neural interface technology will give rise to a gray area industry: short-term rental and sharing of personal sensory experiences. Through minimally invasive or non-invasive neural connection technology, individuals can authorize real-time signals from one or more of their senses (such as taste, touch, and even pain) to other people or institutions to experience or use "remote access". Systems typically allow setting time, intensity thresholds (especially for negative senses such as pain) and charging rental fees. "Other people's nail files are dancing on my nerve endings, and each friction carries the smell of cheap polishing patches and old plastic. Three hundred dollars an hour, sharing a 'delicate' level of touch - this is the 'freelance job' I chose for my new mortgage. My name is Chen Mo, a 'sensory' Agent'. The temperature sensors on my fingertips, tongue tips, and even eyelids were clearly marked with prices. People rented me to experience the hotness of the hot pot, test the strength of the massage chair, and even use my taste buds to rate instant noodles... Until that day, 'Old Customer Wang Gong sent an anonymous request: "Real-time sharing of pain feedback, full access to the core area of the C-level fire scene, and search for circuit short circuit points. Reward: Can cover your mortgage for six months? The safety threshold has been set, and the maximum is 45%." The system confirms: The authorization takes effect. When a cluster of virtual fire tongues licked my skin, and the burning sensation was accurately simulated at 46% of the scale, I felt something was wrong. And deep in the ruins, a certain sour smell of molten metal—a smell that had never appeared in my physical cognitive library—teared the simulation interface arbitrarily, directly.