Pseudo-human test

"What's wrong?" Zuo Xufei asked with concern.

Chen Yingsheng stood at the intersection for a long time. Zuo Xufei was a little worried about her. He tried to make a joke: "Did I drive to the wrong place? This is not your office."

As if coming to his senses, Chen Yingsheng turned around and smiled: "It's indeed not the office, we are still in the kaleidoscope."

"This is not funny." Zuo Xufei said dryly.

Chen Yingsheng intentionally changed the subject: "After the kaleidoscope was invented, were there no safety measures? What if someone came out and couldn't tell the difference between reality and the kaleidoscope?"

Chen Yingsheng stepped into the one-way street, and Zuo Xufei followed behind her: "In the kaleidoscope, you will forget everything about yourself. This is a safety measure."

"This is not a foolproof insurance measure." Chen Yingsheng shook his head in disapproval. "If you are forced to tell your identity in the kaleidoscope, it will be easy to confuse reality and fantasy."

"There are ways to force you to wake up. Today, Lao Wang shone a strong light into your eyes to force you to wake up. After the ghost story ended, you stayed in there for too long and didn't come out. Lao Wang was very worried."

They walked and chatted along the shadows cast by the plane trees on the roadside and the iron railings of the foreign-style buildings, and in just a few words they arrived at the door of the office.

The office is a two-story brick and stone building with dark bricks paved on the walls, which creates a color contrast with the white door and window frames.

On the front of the building, there is a large glazed window connecting the upper and lower floors. The painted glaze is composed of small squares of different colors, which is gorgeous and layered.

There is a small courtyard in front of the building. It is so small that there is no space for a bicycle and seems to serve only as a decoration.

Zuo Xufei couldn't help but look at the glazed window for a while longer. Chen Yingsheng put the cat on the courtyard wall. The cat meowed softly and walked back and forth on the wall, dragging its long tail.

Looking down, Zuo Xufei saw two signs at the door. One of them was on every building in the western-style building complex, with two lines of words written on it.

【Historical buildings in Danjiang City

Level: General protection

Another sign read "The Memory Detective Agency."

The spacing between the first three metal three-dimensional characters is narrower than that of the last two characters, and they look newer. There are not many signs of corrosion due to time on the brass metal.

Noticing that he was looking at the sign, Chen Yingsheng took the initiative to explain: "It used to be called the Shrike Detective Agency. I changed the name after I started working here, but I don't want to change the sign."

Zuo Xufei didn't know whether he should comfort her, so he could only nod silently.

After she took out the key and opened the gate, the two of them came to the front door. Zuo Xufei stepped forward to stop Chen Yingsheng: "Wait."

Chen Yingsheng put the key into the lock, and Zuo Xufei pushed the door open.

The door was not locked, so Zuo Xufei immediately went on alert.

"Don't be so nervous." Chen Yingsheng said nonchalantly, "I forgot to lock the door when I went out."

No one would believe what she said. When she was 15 years old, she solved cases with her photographic memory. At that time, some experts even suspected that her super memory was a super power.

After verification, they found that her memory did not have the conditions to be activated, so the group of experts gave up.

Zuo Xufei turned around and blocked her at the door. His tall figure almost hit the door frame, casting a shadow at the door.

He said: "You can't possibly forget to lock the door. If you have trouble, call the police. You must know that or I will call Lao Wang to come and you will tell the truth."

He looked quite serious and blocked the door frame tightly. Chen Yingsheng, who was 1.73 meters tall, looked like a dwarf in front of him.

Chen Yingsheng had to look up at him: "That's my memory, not a superpower. I can only remember things I deliberately want to remember. I'm an ordinary person, and ordinary people forget to lock the door."

Zuo Xufei obviously didn't believe it and looked down at her with a suspicious look.

"Really? The house has a small yard with a lock on the gate. Sometimes when I go to buy something nearby, I don't lock the main gate but only the gate. This place is close to tourist attractions, the security is good, and there are surveillance cameras on the road, so there has never been a problem."

Zuo Xufei started to take out his cell phone, as if he wanted to contact Lao Wang.

"Ask Lao Wang. He has a spare key to my office. I sometimes forget to bring my key."

Zuo Xufei now believed it a little. He tilted his head slightly, as if thinking.

"I once forgot to bring my class fees when I was in elementary school." In order to gain trust, Chen Yingsheng even started talking about embarrassing things that happened in his childhood.

"I'm not in any danger. No one would think of breaking into a detective's home. Let me in. I want to play a game of impersonation."

If there was really something wrong, Zuo Xufei had deliberately turned his back to the house, and the dangerous person should have appeared long ago.

He silently turned sideways, let the person in, and watched Chen Yingsheng turn on the light.

Zuo Xufei's attention was immediately drawn to the glazed ceiling above his head.

The house has an open floor plan with a large lofted living room and a two-story-high roof. The painted glaze on the ceiling has the same pattern as the large glazed windows on the front of the building.

There were several old-fashioned chandeliers hanging under the ceiling. The surfaces of the chandeliers were also composed of square patterns. At this moment, they were emitting soft light, making the glazed ceiling glow slightly.

"It looks better during the day." Chen Yingsheng invited him, "Come and have tea during the day when you have time."

Zuo Xufei praised the glazed roof and followed Chen Yingsheng up to the second floor.

Walking into the study room on the second floor, Chen Yingsheng looked around and said, "This computer is lagging badly. Let's go to my bedroom and get the laptop to download the game."

"What are you looking for?" Zuo Xufei asked suddenly.

"I'll find you a chair." Chen Yingsheng dragged the office chair with wheels in front of the desk and stuffed the chair into Zuo Xufei's hands.

The two people came to the bedroom and Chen Yingsheng opened his laptop.

"Why don't we go back to the study?" Zuo Xufei held the office chair with one hand, as if he was holding a toy.

The office chairs and desks in the firm were all selected by an old client of Chen Yingsheng.

The old customer was the owner of a business specializing in office furniture. When he heard that she wanted to buy furniture, he immediately carefully selected and picked out "beautiful items that would match the house."

This batch of furniture is expensive, beautiful, and also really heavy. To be honest, Chen Yingsheng regretted buying it because it was difficult to move.

She really didn't understand why Zuo Xufei had to carry the heavy chair in his hands instead of putting it down and pushing it.

"Don't hold the chair, it's heavy. Sit here for a while. I'll get a glass of water. The game will be downloaded soon."

"It's not heavy, and it's troublesome to push it." Zuo Xufei shook the chair, "Let's go back to the study. It's not good for me to enter your bedroom like this."

He said this shamelessly, his ears turning a little red.

In fact, if he really felt something was not right, he should have refused when Chen Yingsheng politely invited him to the office. He obviously noticed something in the study.

At this moment, the more he refused, the more guilty he seemed. Chen Yingsheng quickly unplugged the power cord, holding his notebook and leading the way back to the study.

The study was quiet and there didn't seem to be anything unusual. Zuo Xufei finally put down the heavy chair, and the game had just finished downloading.

"Is there any water?" Zuo Xufei asked.

Chen Yingsheng took two bottles of mineral water from under the desk and clicked on the black icon named "Pseudo-Human Test" on the computer desktop.

The game screen is quite simple with black background and white text. There is not even an initial interface after entering the game, only the four words "Start Testing" in the middle of the screen.

After clicking start, accompanied by soothing music, an AI-synthesized mechanical female voice slowly sounded.

"Welcome to take a seat. An immersive test experience is about to begin for you. Please sit in your seat in the most comfortable position, adjust your sitting posture at any time, and gently pick up the mouse waiting on your desk. Follow the instructions to participate in the interaction. Your participation is crucial."

Chen Yingsheng leaned back in his chair, relaxed, holding the mouse loosely.

"During the test, you are prohibited from moving any part of your body except the finger that clicks the mouse. You are strictly prohibited from turning your neck and eyeballs. You must focus your eyes on the center of the screen."

Isn't this contradictory? Zuo Xufei frowned, and Chen Yingsheng beside him did not move.

"This test was carefully designed by the DDD to provide insight into the most pressing challenges facing the world today and to teach you valuable knowledge and skills to keep you and your family safe."

"After you pass the complete test, we will send you the characteristics of the pseudo-human. Please print out the hard-earned knowledge into flyers and distribute them to everyone."

The mechanical female voice was gentle and polite, and read aloud tirelessly in the same tone: "All the information you see now is confidential and is prohibited from being used by anyone-"

After a pause of 1 second, the mechanical female voice continued: "Acquaintances - share this information, please share the information with -"

Another pause of about 1 second: "Stranger."

Putting aside the conflicting content in this passage, the last sentence sounds too much like the arrival voice of a bus.

For example, "The next stop is [station name]. Passengers who are planning to get off please be prepared in advance and take your belongings with you." This is a pre-recorded voice that leaves a blank for a few seconds for the station name in advance.

Chen Yingsheng controlled his urge to clench the mouse and followed the instructions without moving any part of his body.

"The following are three sets of exercises. Two pictures will be shown each time. Choose the one you think is a fake person."

Two photos appear on the black background. They look like they were made by a PPT beginner, with a fancy fade-in effect. The photos seem to be trying hard to emerge from the black background.

The first photo is of an ordinary middle-aged woman, and the second photo is of a young man with a melancholy expression, one eye is big and the other is small.

Since the photo has too low a pixel, it is impossible to tell whether this is his original appearance or a change after being processed with Photoshop.

Chen Yingsheng moved the mouse, looking for a pause or exit button on the interface, but she found nothing.

There are only two photos that can be clicked. If you want to quit the game, you can only use the shortcut key to switch out the task manager, or use the most brutal method, which is to press and hold the power button for a few seconds and then restart it.

"This doesn't feel like a game at all." Zuo Xufei couldn't help but say, "It feels like the psychological assessment I took at Anding Hospital."

Without answering him, Chen Yingsheng followed the instructions at the beginning and clicked the second photo in silence.

The man in the photo suddenly spoke: "Why choose me?"

The only thing moving on the entire screen was the man's mouth in the photo. His voice sounded dull and heavy against the soothing background music, without a trace of emotion, but you could tell it was a real-person dubbing.

As soon as the man with the uneven eyes finished speaking, a dialog box popped up on the screen.

【Pseudo-human test application to use microphone】

This is not game content, but a built-in prompt of the Windows system. Chen Yingsheng has cancelled the game's access to all sensitive matters in the privacy settings in advance, including the microphone, camera, location information, and document photos.

"Don't authorize it." Zuo Xufei stopped Chen Yingsheng, "What if it records your voiceprint and uploads it to an unknown website?"

Chen Yingsheng disconnected from the wireless LAN, turned off Bluetooth, and cancelled any other form of Inte access to prevent the game from uploading data.

She thought about it, but still felt worried.

If the game caches data and then uploads it to the Internet, it will still expose privacy. She opened the control panel in the background, ready to uninstall the game at any time.

Under Zuo Xufei's nervous gaze, Chen Yingsheng clicked to confirm the authorization.

The man with different eyes repeats: "Why choose me?"

Chen Yingsheng said clearly into the microphone: "Because one of your eyes is larger than the other."

Before he could finish his words, the man's eyes in the photo disappeared, leaving only black eye sockets.

The two photos seemed to be pulled away from the bottom of the screen, and a new set of photos faded in.

It is difficult to tell which one is the fake person in this group of photos, as they all look a bit abnormal.

The first photo was of a young woman dressed conservatively. She had an ordinary look but no eyebrows. Instead, two worm-like things were drawn crookedly on her eyebrows with a cheap eyebrow pencil.

The second photo shows an overweight man who looks like he's had a long night, with his eye sockets sunken deep into his facial fat. They look more like sunken eye sockets than dark circles.

After a moment of silence, Chen Yingsheng turned off the microphone for authorization.

"Choose the second one!" Zuo Xufei said impatiently, "The first woman is just a human who doesn't know how to put on makeup, and the second one must be a fake person."

After selecting the second photo, move on to the next set of options.

Both photos this time are of normal people. If you must find fault, it is that the young woman in the second photo is too perfect. Her face is simply an axially symmetrical figure.

Zuo Xufei thought the same. He raised his hand to cover half of the young woman's face, then put his hand down. It was obvious that the face on the right was a mirror of the left.

During the growth and development process of a normal human face, there will be slight differences in the soft and hard tissues such as facial bones, muscles, and fat distribution. These differences accumulate and cause facial asymmetry.

Chen Yingsheng chose the second photo without hesitation. A gentle and polite mechanical female voice suddenly sounded: "Congratulations on passing the practice. All three of your choices are correct."

"Do you still have doubts about the existence of our DDD and issues related to pseudo-humans?"

The mouse stayed on the word "No", but Chen Yingsheng did not click it.