No one rescued me
Li Ying was silent for a moment, she seemed to be weighing something.
After a while, Li Ying exhaled: "I am not planning to treat Lolina as a suspect, nor do I intend to cancel your qualification to investigate the case."
"After all, you are currently the best candidate to take over Shanshan Kaleidoscope. Come and take a look at the files."
Chen Yingsheng held his laptop and began to look at the case files.
17 days ago, on December 18, 2009, a fake human test whose source could not be traced spread rapidly through the Internet.
Three days later, the mother of a child model spoke out angrily online, saying that the game makers used her daughter's photos without permission.
Her daughter was the pretty girl wearing the same overalls skirt as the fake girl in the first set of photos in the exam.
Li Ying stands behind Chen Yingsheng:
"We have also traced the source of other photos that appeared in the fake human test. All the photos were copyright-free images synthesized by AI on the Generated Photos website. The creator of the fake human test downloaded the photos and processed them with Photoshop before using them directly."
"The only problem is the fake girl who repeatedly appeared in the exam. We can't find her origin. We can only find many burn patients who look similar to her."
"The video she shot was not synthesized by AI, but because the field of view of the video was too narrow, there was no basis for finding the shooting location."
Chen Yingsheng nodded and slid the mouse wheel to scroll down the case file. The child model's mother suspected that the fake girl was photoshopped based on her daughter.
This statement is not groundless. Apart from their appearance, the two little girls are exactly the same in body shape and hairstyle.
At that time, people just regarded this incident as a fun thing, and no one thought that four days later, two people would appear to have died from the pseudo-human test.
After the police intervened in the investigation, the fake human test was immediately deleted from the entire Internet.
After identification by technical personnel, the photo of the fake girl did show signs of image processing, but only the hairstyle and background were processed.
"Is this photo of the child model a product model photo taken for an online merchant?" Chen Yingsheng looked up and asked.
"Yes." Li Ying frowned slightly.
"After preliminary assessment, we concluded that the fake girl was not an AI-generated photo, and immediately began investigating based on the clue of the child model's overalls skirt."
"The unfortunate thing is that the red suspender skirt in the photo was a hot item last summer, and even the store on the shopping website couldn't tell whether the skirt on the fake girl was their product."
"Stores say that when a piece of clothing becomes a hit, countless knockoffs will pop up like mushrooms after rain."
Lao Wang explained: "The cybersecurity team spent a long time investigating the red overalls. They looked at each comment one by one, casting a wide net."
"Captain Li's superpowers are quite special and suitable for this situation. She works very hard."
"It's not hard at all." Li Ying was very modest. She explained to the memory master, "My superpower is called online image development."
"Specifically, after seeing a statement of more than 15 words on the Internet, the speaker's appearance, name and location will appear in my mind. In some cases, I can even see the general situation when the speaker typed the words."
What a practical superpower! No wonder Li Ying became a squadron leader in her early 30s.
Chen Yingsheng also said: "Thank you for your hard work."
"It doesn't matter whether it's hard or not. What matters is that we worked in vain and found nothing."
Li Ying smiled bitterly: "Besides, one crisis after another came. Three days ago, there was an infectious mental illness incident at the Normal University. We had to apply to use the kaleidoscope which was still under testing."
Chen Yingsheng lowered his head and continued to read the case files. The online part was handled by the network security team, and the offline part was handled by Wang Ruibin and his special operations team.
Lao Wang is a veteran criminal policeman with thirty years of frontline experience. Under his organization, the entire investigation was thorough and left nothing out, yet nothing was found.
It cannot be said that there was no gain at all. Lao Wang found out that the cause of death of the two deceased was the same, and forensic examination showed that they both died of sudden cardiac death.
They all took pseudo-human tests seven days before their deaths. After the test, one person claimed to have seen her deceased husband, and the other said she saw her mother who had died many years ago.
They were scared and followed the test's instructions, not going out for seven days and not contacting anyone.
Both of them are from Danjiang City, their life trajectories do not overlap, and there are no similarities in their identity characteristics.
Toxicology tests ruled out the direct influence of drugs, toxins or other chemicals on death.
Considering the dilated pupils, tense and stiff muscles, and sweat-soaked clothes of the two people at the time of death, the forensic doctor believed that it was sudden psychogenic death caused by extreme fear.
Commonly known as being frightened to death.
No one knows why they can see their dead relatives after playing the game, and no one knows what they saw before they died.
Perhaps the words at the end of the test are true. "She" can really bring the person being tested the person they miss, and will find the person being tested on time after 7 days and announce the test results.
The case thus reached a dead end. The task force tried to use a kaleidoscope, but failed to collect any superpower residues from the two deceased.
On January 1, 2010, an infectious mental illness incident occurred at the National Taiwan Normal University.
New dead appeared.
Although Liu Tianyi's cause of death was initially judged to be suicide, according to her counselor and roommate, she also underwent a pseudo-human test and did not go out for seven days before her death.
The police immediately closed the school according to the advice of experts from Anding Hospital, collected super power residues from Liu Tianyi, and arranged for personnel to enter the kaleidoscope, but the effect was far from ideal.
On January 3, the detective amnesiac entered the kaleidoscope and solved the roommate case. At the same time, it was confirmed that Liu Tianyi did not die from the pseudo-human game. The police went to the National Taiwan Normal University to arrest Ren Shanshan.
"Before you came out of the Kaleidoscope, our people went to Dan Normal University to look for Ren Shanshan." Wang Ruibin turned around and called, "Xiao Ma, you were there at the time, tell her about it."
Ma Yushuang quickly stepped forward and explained the situation in detail.
Chen Yingsheng murmured and repeated: "She is here, they won't save me, you can't save me."
The look of Ren Shanshan before her death seemed to appear before my eyes. Her eyes were filled with fear and despair, her face was pale, sweat was running down her forehead, and her hair was scattered and stuck to her face.
Her breathing was rapid and irregular, her lips were cracked from long periods of thirst, and her nails pierced into her palms, turning white from the effort.
Chen Yingsheng analyzed: "The 'she' here refers to the pseudo-human girl. The entire pseudo-human test has been guiding the test subjects, making them think that they are the culprit who made the pseudo-human girl more human-like."
“While testing, it also weakens the boundary between fantasy and reality, making people think that the pseudo-humans have really invaded the real world.”
"'They' refers to Swordsman and his organization. Ren Shanshan seems to believe that Agape has a solution to the pseudo-human test, but is unwilling to save her."
Li Ying raised her eyebrows: "It is currently impossible to confirm that all the swordsmen and crazy men belong to the Agape organization."
"It's just my guess." Chen Yingsheng replied, "Where are Wang Yue, Teacher Li and Professor Shen?"
Three hours later, the task force had checked everything they could. Li Ying bent down, took the mouse, and helped Chen Yingsheng open another document.
Wang Yue went home to recuperate a month ago. In the middle of the night, she rolled off the upper bunk in the dormitory and fell to the ground, breaking her calf.
Her parents took her back to Yanqu City to recuperate, and at the same time wanted to persuade her to repeat her senior year and take the exam again. Her family was very unhappy about her going to school so far away from home.
When the police contacted her, she seemed to have just had an argument with her parents. When asked about Liu Tianyi, Zhao Wanting and Zhao Jianyu, she said that she and the first two were just ordinary classmates in junior high school.
As for Zhao Jianyu, Wang Yue had no idea who he was.
When asked about her relationship with Liu Tianyi in college, she said that she actually hated Liu Tianyi. She would say hello to her when she saw her on campus, but would never take the initiative to look for Liu Tianyi to play.
Because Wang Yue ranked in the top ten in his grade in his senior year, he had a hope of being admitted to Danjiang University. However, after failing the college entrance examination, he could only go to Danjiang Normal University, and was ridiculed by Liu Tianyi behind his back for a long time.
The school sent people to check on Teacher Li, and it turned out that the person who went to the storage room to get the key that day was not him.
At noon that day, his son developed a high fever in kindergarten, so he immediately took leave to take the child to see a doctor.
There is surveillance footage of him driving away from school at the school gate, and the hospital has records of his son's medical treatment, so this matter cannot be faked.
As for Professor Shen, the investigation results showed that there was no such person.
When her face was put into the nationally connected facial recognition system for comparison, no corresponding person was found, only a few women with similar appearances were found.
The one who looks most like Professor Shen is Liu Tianyi’s junior high school English teacher. The technical team found Liu Tianyi’s junior high and high school graduation photos and discovered that Professor Shen looks like a combination of her two English teachers.
In other words, Professor Shen is just an elder who plays the role of a teacher in Liu Tianyi's subconscious mind and instills the concept of pseudo-human into her.
In people’s subconscious, “teacher”-type roles are very common.
They possess extraordinary wisdom or insight, and can provide the necessary guidance and enlightenment to the owner of consciousness, helping them understand the mysteries in dreams or the subconscious world.
In Liu Tianyi's consciousness, fake people are bound to exist.
She let Professor Shen play the role of authority and repeatedly told herself that the pseudo-man was real.
Chen Yingsheng is very curious: "What is the principle of kaleidoscope?"
Li Ying shook her head: "The professor who invented it couldn't fully explain it either. The principle of the kaleidoscope is still a mystery. The professor said that some aspects involve psychology and philosophy, and can even disprove the existence of the collective consciousness sea."
"For example, characters in ghost stories will act independently of the victim's memory. This is the effect of the collective sea of consciousness. The thoughts of real people are captured from the sea of consciousness to simulate their judgments under different behaviors."
Chen Yingsheng was confused by what she heard. She concluded: "So the characters in ghost stories are actually no different from living people. They are not just a memory."
“You can understand it that way.”
Chen Yingsheng clicked into the file to investigate Ren Shanshan: "I entered the kaleidoscope twice, and each time the kaleidoscope erased the victim's memory."
Before entering Su Li's kaleidoscope, Lao Wang briefly mentioned Su Li's background information to her. Before entering Liu Tianyi's kaleidoscope, she even read the relevant case files.
But not once was the memory brought into the kaleidoscope.
Li Ying explained: "It is speculated that this is a protection mechanism of the kaleidoscope, just like you will forget your real name when you are inside it."
There is a lot of information about Ren Shanshan, but it's all useless.
Ren Shanshan was born in a poor village in the central and western parts of the country. The village is located in the mountains and is isolated and backward. Her parents are ordinary farmers who make a living by farming.
Putting down the mouse, Chen Yingsheng stood up: "I have finished reading the case file, I am ready."
At the end of the case file was Ren Shanshan's preliminary autopsy report. In the photo, she looked at the camera with her eyes wide open, and her dilated pupils were filled with lingering pain.
The truth is at hand.
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