Volume V, Chapter 7, Ghosts in the Mist (II), August 2118

With the help of the signal sent by the stolen mobile phone, after about a week of investigation, Sima Aya discovered several fixed locations where mobile phone thieves often haunt, and among these fixed locations, a certain location on the southern coast of country C is still mysterious.

Ms. Sima reported the theft of the phone to her superiors and was allowed to investigate the incidents further. The operation code name was identified as "Mobile Phone", and in Operation "Mobile Phone", the thief of the mobile phone was codenamed "Thief", and the person who spoke to "Thief" in "Zero Haze Park" was codenamed "Gardener". On the southern coast of country C, the place where "thieves" and "gardeners" are fixed haunted, codenamed "Tianya".

Sima Aya checked the weather forecast, and she decided to visit the "thief" and "gardener" in Tianya on a rainy night at the end of July to see if she could dig any clues.

The night before she set off for "Tianya", she received an email from Zhang Guoyang. The email is encrypted, which is part of the "informant protection plan", just like when Zhang Guoyang took his "green card" to pick up medicine in country A, the communication between Sima Aya and Zhang Guoyang cannot be real-time. In order not to expose Sima Aya's identity, but also to avoid exposing Sima Aya's connection with the "green card".

At that time, Sima Aya agreed to Zhang Guoyang on two conditions, one was that the State Security Bureau promised not to interfere with Dr. Zhang Weining's "peace of mind procedure", and the other was that Zhang Guoyang was included in the "informant protection plan" from then on, and could obtain state protection and some small privileges. Of course, the premise is still that he is tight-lipped about the "green card".

"The Xchange Chamber of Commerce currently wants to annex my company, can it help ......," Zhang Guoyang made a request to Sima Aya in an email. In the email, Mr. Zhang described several negotiations he had with the Xchange Chamber of Commerce to buy Mr. Zhang's pharmaceutical chain and sales network at a very low price.

As for whether it can help, the "informant protection plan" only protects the personal safety of the informant, and the safety of property is not covered by the protection - the informant protection plan is not a product launched by an insurance company after all. (This Zhang Guoyang is quite interesting.) Sima Aya thought.

The informant protection plan was handed over to the police by the National Security Bureau to complete, and there was no need for Sima Aya to take care of it. Moreover, it was only on the basis that Zhang Guoyang was threatened to his personal safety that the police came forward.

"Have you been physically threatened?" Sima Aya replied to Zhang Guoyang with a randomly generated email address, and then she quickly received a reply from Zhang Guoyang.

"Not yet, but you know the beginnings of the Xchange Chamber of Commerce, and they will do whatever it takes to gain them." Zhang Guoyang replied in the email.

"If you feel threatened, you can go to the local police." Sima Aya replied.

"It's useless, I've heard that the Xchange Chamber of Commerce will clone the person who will be killed before killing someone, and the police won't find out that someone has been killed at all...... Our laws are already lagging behind, and the informant protection program can't protect me, so you'll have to help me think of something else. ”

(Before killing, clone the person who will be killed?) Sima Aya smiled, this cost is not low.

"Are you thinking too much of yourself? Are you worth that much? Sima Aya replied to Zhang Guoyang in the email.

"I don't know, I'm just a little uneasy." Zhang Guoyang emailed.

Sima Aya retrieved some information related to the Xchange Chamber of Commerce from the database of the National Security Bureau, and she found that Xchange has indeed made a series of moves in the past year, expanding its "gene medicine" market, which was originally their smallest market, but now they have to "make a living" here, so Sima Aya deduced that Zhang Guoyang may not be lying. Sima Aya didn't know if the history of the Xchange Chamber of Commerce was clean, but she knew that Xchange had made its fortune through smog-related industries, and the "smog removal plan" in the past two years had definitely affected their business and revenue, so they had to try to gain more share in the "gene medicine" market.

The information also shows that the Xchange Chamber of Commerce may have been involved in the "Reduction Scheme", which is part of the United Nations carbon finance system, and participation in the "Reduction Scheme" can now be combined with the relevant incentives of the carbon financial system in addition to obtaining interest-free loans from the state. However, the NSA also suspected that the motives of the Xchange Chamber of Commerce were not pure, so they included them in the scope of surveillance.

Sima Aya also suspects that the "mobile phone" operation may involve the Xchange Chamber of Commerce, maybe he can really catch some tricks on his trip to "Tianya" - of course, the National Security Bureau also hopes to use these handles to restrain the huge domestic business groups, which is a shallow rule throughout the ages.

"If they were going to kill you, they wouldn't have come forward to negotiate a price with you, okay...... Did you drink? Is it okay to use some brains? Sima Aya replied.

"Okay." Zhang Guoyang replied after a while.

……

On the evening of July 29, it was raining lightly on "Tianya", and as Sima Aya had learned in advance, "Tianya" was a beach. In 2117, a year ago, Feiyun had set up a makeshift experimental facility on the beach to study a stranded blue whale.

Now, Sima Aya is hiding in the tropical woods, and the electronic eye she wears shows that she is currently 1.55 kilometers from the beach. Sima Aya adjusted the focus of the electronic eye, and on the beach, the houses that used to be experimental facilities built up of huge coke boxes looked like coffins washed up on the beach by the waves, the coffins of giants.

There were a few "coffins" with yellow-green lights coming out of the cracks, as if there was still some living thing in the coffin, or a burning phosphorus fire.

The sea breeze whined and whined and whipped the leaves in the woods, making a small rustling sound, so that Sima Aya always felt that someone was talking around her, like a curse from the dead to the world.

Sima Aya took a deep breath, calmed down, and activated the "Spirit Butterfly". After confirming that the invisible function of the "spirit butterfly" was normal, she walked briskly towards the "coffins" that emitted a ghostly light.

Originally, Sima Aya wanted to apply for the use of an invisible stand-in robot to perform tasks, but unfortunately, this type of robot was still in the debugging stage, so she had to go to the risk again.

In the rain, Sima Aya walked a distance of more than 1,000 meters, walked from the woods to the beach, and then came to the vicinity of the experimental facility. She adjusted her electronic eyes to scan her surroundings again, making sure there were no sentinels, no humans, and no stand-in robots. In fact, satellite data from the last 24 hours shows that there is no one here, and at this point in time, neither the "gardener" nor the "thief" is here.

So, she walked straight to the container that was shining through. There was a very simple, mechanically structured combination lock on the container door, and Sima Aya used her electronic eye to see through the structure of the lock cylinder and easily opened it.

It all seemed to be going too well, making Sima Aya feel faintly uneasy. However, on the basis of the 24-hour satellite data reconnaissance and the stealth function of the "Spirit Butterfly", many missions in the past have been completed in a smooth manner - if it is smooth, what is there to worry about?

Sima Aya adjusted her mentality and opened the door of the container with force.

The inside of the container has been converted into a laboratory, crammed with instruments and pipelines, and it looks a little messy and has a sour smell. The light of the special lighting is not turned on, and the light that I just saw from the outside of the container is the light emitted by the indicator light when the instrument is working.

Sima Aya turned on the lights, and she saw that there were even cigarette butts on the ground. Therefore, it is clear that "gardeners" and "thieves" are not highly qualified researchers. Sima Aya deduced that these two people may only be the people in charge of the specific operation, and there is someone else behind the scenes.

Sima Aya found a very detailed instrument operation instructions on the table top, the content of the operation instructions did not involve any principle of the instrument, but only the various scenes of instrument operation, each step of the step, no matter how detailed, was written in great detail. This kind of operation instruction is obviously intended for beginners or users. This further illustrates the fact that "gardeners" and "thieves" are only operators responsible for specific operations.

Sima Aya took the initiative to contact the remote think tank, and in fact, the electronic eye has been transmitting everything she sees back to the remote think tank, and the staff of the think tank will give some necessary hints to her actions.

"I need you to help me see the operating instructions, and what these instruments are used for." Sima Aya said to the staff of the remote think tank.

Not long after, "Tianyan" replied to Sima Aya's request: "'Ghost No. 1', the think tank analysis shows that the instrument is a 'quantum repeater', which is a repeater for the transmission of information by the quantum network, and the model analysis is a certain batch of products produced by Feiyun Company......"

Of course, Sima Aya has heard of the quantum repeater, but what is the connection between the quantum repeater and the "thief" stealing his own mobile phone? This requires further investigation.

"I need to operate a 'quantum repeater.'" Sima Aya said to Tianyan.

"This is risky, operating a smart device may trigger an unknown event, and it is not recommended to do it now." Tianyan reminded.

Sima Aya thought for a moment and decided to do it now.

Under the guidance of Tianyan, Sima Aya opened the operation interface of the repeater, which is similar to the INDOS operation interface 100 years ago, which is a two-dimensional visual operation interface, which is operated using a keyboard and touch screen.

"Well, I've seen this interface, similar to a general-purpose operating system in the country of (De) Gilman." Tianyan said, "This operating system is very scalable, and it is also used in satellites and space stations, and it is one of the compulsory courses for professional graduate students." ”

Soon, SkyEye opened a window in the operating system interface...... "This is ...... One...... Data model? Tianyan said to himself.

"What mathematical model?" Sima Aya asked, ("Gardener" and "Thief" apparently also write mathematical models?) ）

Tianyan operated and observed for more than ten minutes.

"This is ......a big data analysis model, which builds a model of the user's brain thinking habits from the user's mobile phone usage habits, which is known as the MtoM (mobile_to_mental) model in the industry,"

Sima Aya glanced at the cigarette butt on the ground, "'Gardener' and 'thief' are not like people who can write mathematical models. She said to Tianyan.

"It's still impossible to determine," Tianyan replied, "the background information of these two people is missing, maybe they are not as simple as 'Uncle Picking'...... However, the MtoM model is a general model, and it is also extensible, and it does not require particularly advanced intelligence to make some changes, it is more familiar in the industry, there are many free resources on the Internet, they may just be what to do with Cobby, and if you are interested, you can also download one to play. ”

(What a bullshit thing MtoM model!) Sima Aya didn't have much interest in this MtoM.

"So, judging from the current situation......" Tianyan reasoned.

"'Heavenly Eye', you are only responsible for verifying, and the inference should be completed by me." Sima Aya interrupted Tianyan, she didn't want Tianyan's preconceived inference to affect her thinking.

"Quantum repeaters are used to transmit quantum information, and they want to analyze my mental model and match it with other people's mental models for ......," Sima Aya thought.

"As far as I know, to copy memories, you need to match the mental model."

"They want to copy my memories?" Sima Aya said, "Why? ”

At this time, in the dark, Zhang Guoyang's words suddenly popped out in Sima Aya's mind: Clone the person who will be killed!

"Clones need to get memories of the original?" Sima Aya said to herself, she thought that Zhang Guoyang was just drunk and said crazy things.

Sima Aya was silent for a long time.

"Spirit Butterfly, do you still need the support of the Heavenly Eye?" Tianyan asked.

"For the time being...... No need. Sima Aya replied, while pounding the wall of the container with her hands.

--The huge coke box built up the house looks like a coffin washed up on the beach by the waves, the coffin of a giant

(End of chapter)