Chapter 245 NO00f4: Face

Chapter 245 NO.00f4: Face

Buzzing…

Didi...

The sound of the car's engine and horn pulled Jim from the flashback past back to the present moment he was experiencing - that was when Chen Wan controlled the previously connected sports car and drove it in front of him.

The sports car's headlights flashed for a moment, and Jim immediately understood what the other party meant.

Shaking his head and walking over, Jim took out the thought box placed on the front seat. And reconnected it to his brain-computer interface, and then lifted the other party's blacklisted status.

[First of all, if you want to ask about the woman from before. Then I will send you directly to the committee’s office so that you can ask her in person the whole story]

Jim said this before the other person spoke.

【ah? Not so cruel, right? 】

Chen Wan, who obviously wanted to ask something, was instantly frightened by Jim's statement.

Handing the "thought box" to the Anthroposophical Ethics Supervisory Committee is basically equivalent to handing heretics to the hands of an extremist religious organization. This organization was reorganized from the last several real power departments of the coalition government. Its purpose of existence is to It is to eliminate the threat to the current social form of mankind from non-"human intelligence" existence, and to control and eliminate all threats that may subvert the status of mankind.

In other words, they are responsible for issuing "human status" to currently existing intelligent creatures and defining what "human intelligence" is.

In their definition, a thought box without any "wetware" support does not belong to the category of "human intelligence". Those boxes containing consciousness, just like those malicious programs behind the Styx firewall, are objects that need to be eliminated.

[It is true that I am not afraid of death, but don’t leave me in the hands of people like that... They have the ability to find those who have exceeded the limits of human intelligence and trouble the Olympus gods, and fire them His nationality. What kind of skill is it to pick weak persimmons all day long...]

Seeing that Jim didn't reply, Chen Wan scolded the Anthroposophical Ethics Supervisory Committee for its weakness in a very "politically correct" way, and then continued:

[Don’t ask, don’t worry, I haven’t gossiped to that extent yet]

Really? I do not believe.

Recalling the other party's impatience earlier, Jim thought to himself.

However, he didn't say anything more. He just picked up the old man and walked towards the Dark Blue Zone Bar again.

Although Jim is very curious about the reason why Hanel faked his body, but considering that he was resurrected from the dead not long ago, maybe he should get used to similar things?

All in all, it would be best for me to continue with the previous investigation.

See what you can dig out of Anthony's mouth.

…………

[This man died irreparably]

After seeing Anthony nailed to the wall like a butterfly specimen, Chen Huan came to this conclusion.

Jim looked at Anthony, who had long since expired, and sighed helplessly, then picked up a piece of blood-stained graffiti from the side.

The style of graffiti is somewhere between cartoon and realism, a style that happens to make people feel the most uncomfortable. The scene depicted on the paper was a cruel atrocity - a dozen mad women, either scantily clad or naked, were tearing apart the corpse and biting a poet wearing a white robe and a laurel wreath.

"The Death of Orpheus..."

Running his fingertips along the lines on the graffiti, Jim whispered the subject of the graffiti.

In Greek mythology, after Orpheus lost his wife Eurydice for the second time in the underworld, he returned to his hometown of Thrace with his broken heart. And after that, he ushered in the end of his life.

Although there are different opinions on the cause of his death, and there are different versions in different documents, the final ending is always the same - the greatest poet in myth was eventually killed by the female attendant of Dionysus, the god of wine. He was killed and quartered by the followers of the Maenads.

For some reason, when Jim looked at this graffiti, he felt the hairs on his neck stand up.

This feeling is like...

【Do you feel like someone is watching you? 】

Chen Wan asked suddenly.

Jim, who was told how he felt at the moment, quickly said:

"Huh? Well, that's true, but what exactly is this feeling..."

Before he could finish the question, Chen Huan highlighted some inconspicuous strokes in the graffiti depicting "Death of Orpheus" with red dots in front of him.

The light spots are like dense blood beads seeping out from the bandage. They eventually form a dot pattern that looks like a human face. In this graffiti, there is actually a human face that looks frightened and ferocious!

[I didn’t expect that after so many years, I could actually see this thing again...]

Chen Wang clicked his tongue in surprise.

Jim stared closely at that face - the source of his previous uneasiness was this strange face.

After staring for a while, he asked:

[So, is this the “carnival virus”? 】

This happens to be a mythological theme related to Dionysus, the god of wine. If it were not the work of the Dionysian sect, it would be a bit disappointing.

[To be precise, this is the receptor used to infect and activate the "Carnival Virus"]

Chen Wan answered like this, and then he went on to explain:

[This mythological-themed graffiti is just a cover-up to encapsulate it. If you like, you can replace it with a picture of JK and it won’t have any effect. The receptor that is actually used to activate the "carnival virus" is actually the face hidden in the painting - back then the Dionysian sect called this the "Key to the Face"]

"The key to the face?"

Jim asked, ignoring the strange example given by the other party.

[You must have had the experience of staring at the water stain on the wall, and the more you looked at it, the more it looked like a human face, right? The amount of gray matter used in the human brain to recognize and analyze facial images is so much that it can be called a waste. Many so-called supernatural events in the past were actually caused by this. The people of the Dionysian sect made good use of this and made specific face images into receptors for infecting and activating the carnival virus]

Chen Wang said.

Hearing this, Jim couldn't help but nodded in realization.

Indeed, this design can be said to have greatly enhanced the spread and concealment of this memetic virus.

There is no doubt that those large companies or the interim government have very strong intelligence control capabilities. Through the monitoring and management of an AI matrix that far exceeds the number of real netizens, it is easy to cut off the spread of specific memes.

But if the face pattern is naturally hidden in other pictures, then unless it is an AI with a mental index very close to 1, it is possible to distinguish the "abnormalities" and clean them up - and this kind of AI is used in those companies Although they didn't have them all on hand, they would never dare to release them in large quantities just to delete the posts.

On the other hand, when humans perform face recognition, they will need to use many brain areas. In this way, by compiling human face patterns to implant memetic viruses, the implantation speed can be faster and the effect more stable.

If you look at it this way, memetic viruses are actually also a way of hacking into consciousness?

Thinking of this, Jim shifted his gaze away from the graffiti.

The bullet that was inserted into his brain and the big shots in the resettlement area who died at the same time. In front of me is the silenced boss of the classic coffee gang, and the recent frequent cyber psychosis in the resettlement area...

As his thoughts flowed, he murmured:

"That being said..."

Now that it is confirmed that the previous cyber madman was infected with the "Carnival virus", the mastermind behind these things is also very clear - an organization related to the Dionysian sect, or simply their remnants themselves.

A few facts that can be determined are that they are currently using the carnival virus to expand their influence. At the same time, in order to achieve certain goals, they also need to kill some people who cannot be eliminated with memetic viruses.

Although Jim still doesn't know how he can be one of the people to be dealt with like the big shots in the resettlement area. But in terms of the result, he was also on that list and was "killed" by the weapons provided by the Classic Coffee Gang.

Presumably those "killers" who actually took action have now been dealt with just like the classic coffee gang who provided weapons...

[Unfortunately, this clue ends here]

Thinking of this, Jim couldn't help but regretfully said.

If Anthony is still alive, there is a high probability that he will be able to interrogate a lot of useful information from the other party.

Of course, it would be good to be able to confirm that the man behind the scenes is related to the Dionysian sect.

[Well...since it is confirmed that the other party is related to the Dionysian sect, it is also in line with the emergency escape clause in the Bill of Rights]

At this time, Chen Wan suddenly said.

"What?"

Jim couldn't help but ask.

[What I mean is, if you really want to get some information from him, there is nothing you can do]

"He's already dead."

Jim reminded.

When Chen Wang heard this, he replied nonchalantly:

[But he died not long ago... Although it is a bit inhumane, as long as you are willing to help, I can still "cyber channel" him while it's hot]