Chapter 183 Mindset

During the regular meeting, all four people fell into silence.

Everyone knows that after screening more than a hundred clues, there is a high probability that nothing will be found. At this moment, people have already been mentally prepared for this result.

However, if even this last resort fails, what else can we do next?

How else to investigate? What else can I check?

"What did Li Chu say?"

When we reported these matters to Li Wenhua before, Li Wenhua stated that he would report the matter to higher levels.

Zhang Dingshan said: "The superiors are still waiting to see how the situation develops. Before there is progress, the superiors are not going to do anything."

An action team that can mobilize huge resources and manpower is dedicated to investigating this matter. In the eyes of superiors, this matter has been taken seriously enough.

Moreover, the investigation plan and progress of the action team, as well as the handling of the incident, etc., are kept secret from the other teams, for fear of interfering with their ideas for handling the case. But for the Intelligence Support and Analysis Department of the Operations Division, it is transparent.

Our own investigations will be subject to their analysis and review at all times.

They usually have little sense of presence. At most, they assist the action team in doing some things according to their request, but they will not interfere with the action team's actions.

They will only intervene when they deem it necessary to intervene.

But at this moment, they did not interfere. This proves that the intelligence support and analysis team recognizes its own handling method. In other words, they don’t know how to improve the current investigation ideas.

The predicted end date is getting closer day by day. Superiors are waiting for their own progress to make next decisions. But at this moment, our side was forced to stop here, facing the predicament and being helpless.

Lu Ming felt heavy pressure.

While they were looking at each other in silence, Lu Ming suddenly heard a crash in the video conference room, as if something fell to the ground. He suddenly raised his head and saw that in the video window where He Wei was, the screen was shaking violently.

He Wei suddenly raised her head, and the chandelier above her head fell down, hitting the table heavily. Behind her, a cabinet shook twice and fell down.

earthquake? !

Lu Ming immediately raised his heart. The next moment, He Wei stood up and, like a nimble civet cat, jumped out of the shattered window in a few steps.

The next moment, with another vibration, the computer on the table was also shaken, the camera lens turned dark, and the communication was interrupted.

"Where is He Wei now? There was an earthquake there? What was the magnitude?"

Lu Ming was full of eagerness. Zhang Dingshan picked up the phone, and Lu Qingliang quickly operated the keyboard, seeming to be searching for something.

"An earthquake measuring 7.2 on the Richter scale occurred in Qinglan City. The epicenter was located in Hongwei Forest District, Hongwei County, Qinglan City. The earthquake was felt in several surrounding cities..."

"He Wei is now in Shiyuan City, more than 400 kilometers away from the epicenter. Don't worry, the impact will not be too great."

Zhang Dingshan knocked on the table lightly: "Her phone number can't be reached. Just wait for her to contact us."

Lu Qingliang also said: "The epicenter is in the forest area, which is vast and sparsely populated. The damage caused by this earthquake will not be too great."

Lu Ming's heart relaxed a little.

He glanced at the time subconsciously and found that it was now 3:05 pm on October 19th.

At this moment, outside a certain hotel in Shiyuan City, He Wei climbed nimbly on the wall and jumped to the roof of another bungalow in a few moments. After climbing a few more times, he quickly landed on the flat ground.

Many people have gathered on the flat ground. But what He Wei expected was that there was not much panic on people's faces. She even saw some people smoking cigarettes and pointing at the building, as if they were watching the excitement.

There was no scene of people escaping as expected by He Wei at the entrance and exit of the hotel. Some people came out, but they didn't look panicky.

She casually grabbed a hotel attendant.

"There's an earthquake, what are you doing..."

The service staff smiled politely: "Madam, are you a foreigner?"

He Wei nodded hesitantly.

"We locals are used to it. It's not a big deal."

He Wei was a little unbelievable: "This is an earthquake, people will die..."

"You can't run away from a big earthquake, but you don't have to run away from a small earthquake. There's nothing terrible about an earthquake. Madam, which room are you in? Is your room damaged?"

He Wei calmed down her thoughts and finally accepted this attitude towards the earthquake: "Okay. In my room, the chandelier fell and the cabinet fell down."

"Then, do you want to check out, or should we help you change a room?"

He Wei thought for a while: "It's better to change to another room."

"Okay, come with me."

After a lot of fussing and changing rooms, He Wei picked up the phone.

"Captain, we just encountered an earthquake, but I'm fine. The situation here is not serious."

In the video conference room, He Wei's voice came through Zhang Dingshan's picture.

"As long as you're okay."

Lu Ming breathed a sigh of relief.

"Don't worry about me. However, I thought of one thing. You guys said, did the doomsday organization...predict this earthquake?"

Lu Ming was startled.

He hadn't thought of this before.

Before, I was only worried about He Wei's safety and didn't think about these things at all.

An earthquake measuring 7.2 on the Richter scale is undoubtedly a strong earthquake. Even if the epicenter of this earthquake is located in a forest area, with a vast area and sparsely populated areas, it will not cause any damage to the human world, no important facilities will be destroyed, and not many people will die as a result, this earthquake will still inevitably cause Public opinion is paying close attention.

At the same time, this earthquake also met the standard of "no human intervention".

No one can interfere with a naturally occurring earthquake. No one can control whether a natural earthquake occurs or not, or control its location, intensity and other parameters.

No one interfered, it was significant enough, and it also met the standards for doomsday organizations to make predictions.

In this case, will the doomsday organization predict it? If so, who would they "cast" this prophecy to? Under the premise that our own side has begun to track down the doomsday organization, which method will they choose to release these prophecies and recover those target individuals?

According to past experience, that is, the rule that "prophecies are only released to personnel who meet the standards in related disciplines", this time it is predicted that the doomsday organization should be released to personnel majoring in geology and seismology.

If we reluctantly expand further, professionals in architecture, bridges, civil engineering, tunnels, rail transit, water conservancy, etc. may also be within the scope. After all, these disciplines must also consider the impact of earthquakes when constructing buildings, which is barely relevant.

But also based on past experience, this expansion may not exist. At the current stage, our attention should still be focused on these "strongly related" subjects.

Lu Qingliang immediately said: "I have a list of qualified personnel majoring in geology and seismology. There are 26 people in total."

Zhang Dingshan said seriously: "He Wei, immediately organize surveillance and investigation of these people according to the list."

"Yes. I'll go right away."

Lu Ming realized that this time was the best opportunity for his side, which was unable to break through the predicament and had made no progress.

Whether we can use this opportunity to truly catch the Doomsday Organization, find their home base, and even further seize the "Son of God" to confirm the authenticity of the prophecy will largely depend on this opportunity.

Not many people entered the screening range this time. In this way, it is possible to concentrate efforts and conduct comprehensive surveillance.

This time, the operation mode of the second operation team has changed a little compared to the last time when they comprehensively monitored the people related to the "Qinan River Barrier Lake Incident".

This time, Lu Ming was guarding the operations command hall, while He Wei and Zhang Dingshan went directly to the front line. They each led a surveillance team and took over the monitoring task of two key suspected targets.

The specific process is still the same as last time. Psychology experts still build a behavioral model first, then collect the current behavior of the target person and compare it with the behavioral model to observe whether there are inconsistencies and trigger early warnings.

If the warning is triggered more times, the target's suspicion will increase.

Regarding this operation, the second operation team took the most serious and serious attitude and devoted all their efforts to the work. Because everyone knows that if they miss this opportunity again, it's really hard to say whether they will have another chance next time.

It was under this circumstance that the surveillance operation officially began.

"Unless you didn't make a prediction about this earthquake, unless you didn't think of relying on this prediction to attract intellectuals from the human world, otherwise, as long as you take action, I will definitely be able to catch you."

In a coffee shop, He Wei, dressed in casual clothes, was gently stirring the coffee in front of her with a spoon in her hand. Her demeanor is very leisurely, like an urban white-collar worker who occasionally has free time enjoying a pleasant afternoon.

But her peripheral vision never left the young man sitting in front of her left. Her state of mind was completely different from the superficial leisure and ease.

Her heart was filled with solemnity at this moment.

After the last lesson, He Wei has become more cautious and serious this time.

After a long time, the man stood up and left the coffee shop. He Wei didn't seem to pay him any attention, and was still drinking coffee leisurely in her seat. But she knew in her heart that another of her teammates had temporarily taken over the surveillance mission. However, soon after, he will go to the next surveillance location and continue to complete the surveillance of the target person.

The day passes slowly. In the evening, it was time for the regular meeting.

"Today, 26 targeted individuals triggered a total of 41 warnings. Five people triggered it twice, five people triggered it three times, and another 16 people triggered it once."

He Wei's expression began to become solemn.

This data is completely within the normal range. Even if you select a few ordinary people at random, build a psychological model for them, and then use them to measure their behavior in the future, there is a high probability that they will be in this state.

There is nothing unusual about this data.

But, how could there be no abnormality? These people are the key targets carefully selected by our side. If the doomsday organization really makes a prediction about this earthquake, according to the rules, this prediction will definitely be delivered to some of these 26 people.

However, after the prediction was verified by reality, it was impossible for them to maintain such a normal mentality. Unless they have received professional psychological training.

But this is obviously impossible.

Who would train ordinary people when they have nothing to do?

"One day's data is nothing. We will observe another day tomorrow."

The next day, in the video conference room.

"Today, 26 target persons triggered a total of 33 warnings. Six people triggered it twice, two people triggered it three times, 15 people triggered it once, and the other three people did not trigger it once."

This day's data is more normal than yesterday.

He Wei's brows furrowed deeply.

"How could this be?"

It's been two days. It has been two days since the earthquake. How could these people still be so normal?

Didn't the Doomsday Organization project prophecies to them at all? Or...the normality of these people is part of the subsequent "absorption operation"?

Because of their last surveillance action, the Doomsday Organization believes that it will also adopt surveillance actions this time, and further believes that if they continue to "absorb" these people into the Ark base in the same way as the last time, they will inevitably be obstructed by their own side and fail. Therefore, , adopted a brand new approach, and these people's behavior is so normal, is it part of this new approach?

Or perhaps, through some kind of psychological treatment, they calmed down the psychological fluctuations of these people and allowed these people to continue to show normal behavior patterns. They waited until they thought the mission had failed and gave up automatically before absorbing these people?

Various possibilities intertwined in He Wei's mind, making it difficult for her to make a judgment.

At this moment, Lu Ming suddenly remembered a possibility. This made his expression become serious instantly.

"I think... we might be missing something."

"oh?"

Several people looked at him together.

Lu Ming sorted out his thoughts and said solemnly: "I feel that even if the doomsday organization predicted this earthquake, their target people may not be in the earthquake-related disciplines."

"oh?"

"For exploring the wilderness and surviving in the apocalypse, I think... talents majoring in geology and seismology may not be that important."

Talents in agriculture, energy, chemical industry, medical care, construction and other majors are important. Will talented people in geology and seismology study earthquakes in the last days? What is the use of studying these things in the last days?

In other words, although it is also useful, the priority is obviously behind some other disciplines.

Limited by our previous thinking, after thinking about the possibility of predicting earthquakes, we only thought that the doomsday organization would send this prediction to senior intellectuals in the scientific category that are closely related to this earthquake.

But... who can be sure that this time, the doomsday organization is not building a plank road in secret, anticipating its own mindset, and its real target is targeting intellectuals from other disciplines?