Chapter 181 Finding a Needle in a Haystack

Several people looked at the huge image of the earth in front of them, watching the densely packed areas on the earth marked with a total of more than 70,000, and each remained silent.

After a moment, He Wei said: "We can exclude densely populated places."

To build a huge underground base, the amount of work must not be small. If you want concealed construction, avoiding densely populated areas is a very reasonable choice.

Lu Ming thought for a while and shook his head.

“Sometimes, dense crowds are good cover for huge construction.”

If construction is carried out in a desolate place, various construction vehicles will come in and out, and people will come and go, which is more likely to attract outside attention. On the contrary, if construction is carried out in a densely populated area, these things will not attract attention.

He Wei thought for a while and finally agreed with Lu Ming's statement.

This exclusion could not be carried out, and in the end the remaining areas with certain suspicions still remained at 6 million square kilometers.

"Is concussion detection feasible?"

Lu Qingliang made a suggestion.

Just like in the Mountain God case, we tested whether there were large enough holes under the islands to confirm the location of the "Temple" of Organization X.

Lu Ming thought for a moment and shook his head.

"The total area of ​​those islands at the time was probably less than 1,000 square kilometers, which is 6,000 times different from the area we need to inspect now. The original amount of work required 1,000 inspectors to complete in one day. Based on this calculation, the current project Even if there are 10,000 inspectors, it will take almost two years to complete.”

The amount of this project is too large.

Although the second operation team has extremely high authority, it cannot consume resources so unscrupulously. What's more, we don't have much confidence in this testing operation at all. It's not like when we searched for the "Temple", we were sure and confident.

Zhang Dingshan also shook his head.

"The accuracy of vibration detection is not high. Once the underground cavity is too far from the surface, it cannot be detected. It is also too susceptible to interference. In the city, there are too many vibration sources with cars coming and going."

This plan was rejected.

"That……"

Everyone was silent.

Lu Ming found that with the development of the incident now, his side seemed to have truly reached a dead end and could no longer advance the investigation.

One thing is certain, in the era when the Son of God predicted the future, sensed that the end was coming, and then began to build the Ark base, a large number of clues would be exposed.

That era, based on the information currently available, should have existed between 30 and 40 years ago.

There are a lot of clues in this time period.

After all, the construction of a huge underground base involves too many resources and manpower to be perfectly concealed.

Just like the original Mountain God case and the temple of Organization X, our in-depth investigation revealed numerous clues to the mobilization of manpower and material resources.

However, the current case situation is different from the Mountain God case.

In the Mountain God case, we reflected history on reality. We first had a clear target of suspicion, and then found the clues during a detailed investigation of the target of suspicion.

But now, our side doesn't even have a clear target of suspicion.

In the 10 years from 30 to 40 years ago, there were so many people on the earth, so many projects were being built at the same time, there was a huge flow of materials and people, and the total amount of information was so huge, how could it be possible to Sift out the clues hidden in it?

This is almost impossible to do. Finding a needle in a haystack is not enough to describe how difficult it is.

Not to mention, so much time has passed, so much information has been lost and can never be restored.

Several people have thought of this path, but several people think that it is simply not feasible.

Zhang Dingshan was silent for a moment and then raised his head.

His eyes were full of determination.

"If you want to find a needle in a haystack, just look for the needle in the haystack. There is no other way to go now, you can only go this way.

Using the keywords of architecture, building materials, construction, region, earthquake resistance, underground, etc., all relevant information in the 10 years from 30 years ago to 40 years ago was screened out and checked one by one. "

Among these keywords, architecture, building materials, and construction are information types.

The area is limited to the 6 million square kilometers currently under suspicion.

The two keywords of earthquake resistance and underground are architectural features. Because it is almost certain that the Ark Base must have these two characteristics.

The time range is the ten years from 30 years ago to 40 years ago.

There is no doubt that this approach is stupid. But at this moment, this is the only possible path that the members of Operation Team Two can think of.

Lu Qingliang sighed silently: "I transferred all the people from our logistics support and intelligence support teams. Well, we can also introduce social forces. I know several companies that do consulting and information analysis. They should also be able to Mobilize almost thousands of manpower."

By mobilizing these social forces, you don't have to worry about anything except money, and it won't interfere with the normal operation of any department. It's convenient and easy to use. However, the worst thing about Action Team 2 is money.

In this way, the number of people participating in information analysis and retrieval will increase to nearly ten thousand.

Among them, artificial intelligence will be responsible for the first detection of this massive amount of information, and distribute the detected information to consulting and information analysis companies for them to complete the second detection.

This information will then be sent to the operations branch's logistics support and intelligence support teams, who will complete the third inspection.

These four people from the second operation team were responsible for the final fourth test.

There are four sieves in total.

"Okay. Tell them to move quickly. We don't have much time to wait."

After finalizing the next action plan, Lu Qingliang immediately took action.

Every time at this time, Lu Ming would always sigh at Lu Qingliang's ability and importance.

Although during case investigation, Lu Qingliang often failed to provide any important and valuable reference opinions, which seemed to be of no help in advancing the case investigation, Lu Ming could deeply understand that without Lu Qingliang, his side would not be able to No matter how good the investigation plan is, it cannot be advanced at all.

Just like at this moment, contacting the social company, coordinating the information analysis and retrieval team of nearly ten thousand people, formulating work procedures, formulating work standards and division of labor, this whole set of extremely troublesome and complicated work, Zhang Dingshan and He Wei need to do it , but it was just a request.

Just use your words and don't worry about anything else, Lu Qingliang will take care of everything.

This time, Lu Qingliang did not disappoint anyone.

In just two days, everything was done and the personnel were allocated to their respective positions. In terms of information sources, Lu Qingliang also finalized information access rights with various government departments, various Internet information centers, and archive centers.

In terms of supercomputing and artificial intelligence, Lu Qingliang also finalized cooperation with a commercial supercomputing company.

The supercomputing program responsible for the first information screening will run on this supercomputer and distribute the information after the initial screening.

This huge and rigorous work system immediately entered a tense working state after the influx of huge amounts of information like a tsunami.

There is no doubt that the information that finally passed the four screening procedures and was finally presented to the four members of the Second Operation Team was suspicious.

Lu Ming originally thought that there might not be much information that could be finally delivered to him, but as soon as the system started to operate, he realized that he was wrong.

Even if there are four procedures, the amount of information and data presented to him is still huge.

Area No. 6913, 36 years ago, there used to be a large amount of thermal insulation materials imported, but big data statistics found that there was a certain gap between the consumption of thermal insulation materials and the input during this time period.

Area No. 22360, 35 years ago, the landscape of a certain area changed to a certain extent. However, geological data show that during this time period, there were no natural disasters such as flash floods, mudslides, and earthquakes in the area.

Area No. 55142. 39 years ago, a large number of construction workers gathered in a certain area, but no large buildings were built in this area.

Area number 1156...

This information is obviously suspicious to a certain extent. But all of them cannot be confirmed or ruled out by just looking at the data, and further field investigations must be conducted to draw conclusions. But the problem now is that there is too much information of this type.

Calculated based on the current bandwidth, it will take about 10 days to complete the transmission of information from the archives centers and data centers of various government departments that have been initially screened by the department and then sent to the first artificial intelligence screening level.

However, on this first day, more than a thousand clues were submitted to the four members of the second operation team for field investigation.

Moreover, these all happened more than thirty years ago. It is very difficult to investigate. It's not something that one person can find out by just visiting and asking.

At least an investigation team is needed. The investigation and visits may take several days, but they may not be able to find out the truth.

In the final analysis, it was the screening criteria set by ourselves that were too loose, which resulted in so many clues passing through the screening.

but……

There is no way around it.

We have too little information about the doomsday organization, and it is impossible to develop strict enough screening criteria and systems.

Several people realized at the same time that this was not going to work.

Even if everyone on our side could create a thousand incarnations, it would still not be enough to face such a massive need for clue investigation.

In the conference room, the four people gathered together again. At this moment, everyone has at least hundreds of clues waiting to be investigated.

There were many accumulated clues to be investigated, so a few people were not in a hurry. Anyway, even if you are anxious, there is no use.

"what to do?"

Lu Qingliang asked the question that everyone wanted to ask.

Zhang Dingshan looked solemn and silent. He Wei looked at Lu Ming.

"Lu Ming, it's time for you to take action."

"What can I do."

Lu Ming smiled bitterly: "Besides mobilizing tens of thousands of security guards to verify and investigate one by one, what else can be done?"

This is really the only way. But everyone knows that this is not feasible.

If there is a major enough incident, and enough reasonable and necessary reasons, it is not impossible to mobilize tens of thousands of security officers to participate in the investigation of a case.

But the key problem is that we don't have enough reasons at the moment, and we don't see the necessity of doing so. The superiors will definitely reject this plan.

The end of the world is important, but now it is just a prediction, a prediction without any empirical support.

And the direction of our own investigation is just to find a needle in a haystack, with little hope.

In addition, this plan will have a huge impact on the real world and the impact will be too huge.

Tens of thousands of security officers have been transferred. Who will manage security in the real world? Will the criminal be arrested yet? Are you still patrolling?

Several factors combine to prevent any sufficiently sane decision-maker from agreeing to do this.

Everything that exists has value. People usually say that life is priceless, but if you risk 1% of death in exchange for a profit of 10 human coins, will you do it?

Of course, if there is only 10 yuan, most people will not do it. So, what about ten thousand yuan? What about one hundred thousand?

One percent risk of death in exchange for one hundred thousand dollars. I believe many people will be willing to do it.

Based on this calculation, the value of this life is ten million.

Human civilization is of course also priceless. But if 10 billion of wealth were spent to eliminate one ten millionth of the risk of the extinction of human civilization, would a sufficiently rational decision-maker do it?

There is a high probability that he will not do it.

Based on this calculation, the value of human civilization is less than one billion billion.

What's more, there are so many risks that can lead to the destruction of human civilization, such as nuclear explosions, giant volcanic eruptions, climate change, etc. The probability of any of these risk factors is not higher than one in ten million? I don’t see how much human civilization attaches importance to this.

Is the probability that this doomsday prediction will lead to the destruction of human civilization higher than risks such as volcanoes and climate change?

I'm afraid not.

We don’t pay much attention to risks such as volcanoes and climate change. How could we pay such a heavy price for an illusory prophecy?

This is equally impossible.

Several people in the conference room were silent again.

After a long time, Lu Ming rubbed his forehead and said: "Since there is no other way, then I have a solution that is not a solution."

"oh?"

"Let's rely on statistical principles. For example, if the number of people suffering from a certain disease in the world is 10,000, then based on the total population of 10 billion, if one million people are randomly selected, there will be a high probability There will be one person who will suffer from this disease.

We assume that after final screening, the total number of clues presented to us is 10,000, and among them, assuming that 100 clues are indeed related to the Ark base, then we randomly select 100 clues to verify the investigation, among which the largest number is There is a probability that there is a clue about the Ark base. "

Lu Qingliang and He Wei looked at each other. For a long time, Lu Qingliang couldn't help but said: "Isn't this just trying your luck?"

Lu Ming nodded seriously.

"Essentially, it's just luck. But... now, besides trying luck, what else can we do?"

The few people thought for a long time and finally had to admit that what Lu Ming said was right.