Volume 1: The Coming Shock Chapter 12: Coincidence

After waiting for Calvin to enter, the spherical robot locked the console and standing area, so that he could not change his route at will, flashed warning lights, and flew all the way to the waiting area in the entrance hall. He stood blankly in place, looking at the flying machines in the sky, distraught, as if he had suddenly lost his future direction.

In the upper passage area of the Star Ring, there happened to be a team of policemen preparing to go out on a mission at this time, fully armed and awe-inspiring. Calvin, who stood below, could only look up, looking up at a height he had never reached, and the transparent top of the upper layer reflected his envious eyes......

Calvin lowered his head and looked through the guardrail to see the colorful functional units underground, the Evidence Archives Section where he worked was a white theme color, separated from the rest of the department by a protective wall. Calvin stared at the wall, feeling an invisible sword, cutting his self-esteem hard at all times.

Thinking back to what Bridges had just said, my heart was filled with resentment. "I'm going to prove to everyone that I, Calvin, am a qualified police officer, no worse than my father! No, I'll be better than him! ”

His gaze changed from envy to determination, and he sat on another guide robot, and headed deeper into the building, and soon stopped in front of the pure white hall of the Evidence Archives Section, Calvin packed up his mood, passed the identity verification, and walked through the door.

Calvin is all too familiar with the environment, where more than 90 percent of his career is dedicated. The entrance is directly opposite a search area in the shape of a five-pointed star, and behind it is a huge circular archive. The 26 protruding pillars of light, glowing with a soft white light, correspond to the letters from A to Z in order. At the same time, according to the comprehensive factors such as "occurrence frequency" and "number of citations", the keyword information of the archive is floating in the light column.

Calvin walked straight to the five-pointed star search area in the center of space, typed his siren number, and activated the search function. The determined eyes gradually became erratic, and the mind had begun to fantasize uncontrollably: he successfully solved the serial disappearance case, made a convincing achievement, and slapped Director Bridge in the face fiercely, making him regret burying such a genius as himself...... Thinking about it, the corners of his mouth raised a blurry smile.

The sound of a search zone refocused Calvin. Looking at the cursor that jumped on the screen, he typed in Munch Bryan's name. All the associated file information in the system is displayed in a circle of virtual rings, with a total of 35.

Calvin casually skimmed through the electronic documents suspended in the ring, content keywords switching before his eyes. He clicked on the latest archival document, which was updated two days ago on August 26. The details of the document are marked "Suspicious Behavior".

The determination of "suspicious behavior" is an early warning mechanism developed by the Urban Security Bureau. If a person appears in the same area three or more times in a row and repeats actions unrelated to daily life behavior, a suspicious behavior determination will be triggered, which will automatically enter the person's social behavior profile and be submitted to the AI for review as appropriate. But more often than not, "suspicious behavior" is only used as a reference document for the police and is not important.

Calvin clicked to view the content details, which is a behavioral analysis, starting from the unveiling ceremony of the Monument of Remembrance on August 26, 2072, and every year on August 26, Munch will be in a daze in front of the Monument of Remembrance for a long time, and this year is no exception.

Using the eye-tracking system in the square, Munch's gaze analysis revealed that his focus had been on Anthony Garcia's photograph. What does this mean? These are useless program functions that waste the financial funds of the city of Toccan ! He glanced at his lips and closed the file.

Suddenly, he saw a name with a blue star, Ginger Anderson. A star is a simple marker for the City Safety Agency's key populations, allowing for different response procedures.

It is simply divided into three categories: first, the special contribution he/she has made to the city of Tozcan and has been recognized by the city management committee. Marked with a red star. Second, it belongs to the groups that need to be paid attention to, including government dignitaries or their families, special scientific research and technical personnel, etc., marked with blue stars. Third, people with assets of more than 30 million are marked with yellow stars.

Ginger Anderson falls into the latter category, she is the second wife of Sammy Anderson, the supreme ruler of the city of Tozcana.

"How can they cross paths?" Calvin pressed his finger against the tip of his nose and clicked the file open in confusion. Inside is a police record of the Fifth Duty Team of the Urban Security Bureau. The original text is as follows (some excerpts):

Time: 15:39:28 on May 29, 2073. Location: Peroland Street, in front of St. Mary's Forest Park. Reporter: Ginger Anderson (blue star)

Alarm content: ...... Ginger reported to the police that the gold ring on his finger, the obsidian powder ornament on his arm, and the gemstone necklace around his neck had been stolen, and the suspect was a young man in his 20s who was holding a white Bellington...... (The policeman spoke sternly, constantly emphasizing her special identity, and her sharp screams even shattered the radio equipment, her voice was really unpleasant.) )

Seeing this, Calvin couldn't help laughing, the content in parentheses was obviously the psychological activity of the robot recorder at that time, due to the rapid development of artificial intelligence, on the basis of the original three laws of robots, human beings have developed some new rules, known as the law of robot supplementation, the first of which is: under any premise, the official robot must not have the right to privacy, and the psychological activity must be completely transparent to its first service object.

As the administrator of the archives, Calvin was naturally able to see the inner monologue of the robot recorder. "It's too ordinary, it seems that the designer of this program is not very interesting, presumably a bunch of old antiques."

Processing: ...... Forty-five seconds after receiving the alarm, the police patrol aircraft immediately arrived at the scene and found all the stolen items in the small-leaved boxwood grass 68 meters away from the policeman. 3 minutes and 18 seconds later, nearby human police arrived. After investigating the situation at the scene and the suspect, it was found that the suspect did not have the theoretical distance to commit the crime, and there were no traces of pulling and contact on the informant's body, nor did he find any physiological elements that matched the suspect...... For the next half hour, he was comforting Ginger, who couldn't stop crying......

Calvin swiped down to the video attachment. After clicking play, Munch appears with the dog in hand, and a few seconds later, Ginger leads her teddy into the frame. The two dogs sniffed each other amicably.

Seeing this, Ginger hurriedly hugged Teddy in his arms, "Hmph, now anyone can really raise a live pet, and I don't know the right place to walk the dog." Is this kind of rich area for you? The shrill voice caused Calvin's physical discomfort.

Munch ignored her, pulled the dog forward, and disappeared into the frame. Twenty seconds later, the command center received an alarm call from Kingill.

"It's just twenty seconds, is it a coincidence? But Munch did have a physical distance of two or three meters from her, and if it was him, how did he do it? Calvin hated Kingill's style, but he wanted to prove himself, so he kept switching shots to find the best angle of view, and played those twenty seconds over and over again.

From all angles, there doesn't seem to be anything abnormal. "Wait, what's that?" In the frontal shot of Munch's departure direction, a rich shade of trees covers Kingill's body, and in the mottled shade, there seems to be an unusual black, fleeting.

Calvin kept zooming in until he was able to see it to the limit of accuracy. "This black seems to be extending from under Munch's feet?"

Just as Calvin was carefully studying, the pillar of light in front of the archive suddenly flickered, and a large number of keywords in the beam of light appeared in a large number of garbled characters, and a prompt sound came from the annular ceiling overhead: "Affected by the radiation of the parasitic tower, there is an instantaneous stamping phenomenon in the building, please don't panic, the flicker will disappear in 30 seconds." ”

"Hey, it's the third time this month. Can the logistics department check it well, and push it to the parasitic tower when there is a problem, which is obviously the equipment maintenance is not in place. Calvin muttered quietly. At this time, the five-pointed star in the search area also flickered with the pillar of light at the same frequency, and he inadvertently glanced up, and the total number of files in the column changed to 36.

"One more?" Calvin took a quick look and found that the newly added file didn't have any keywords or categorical attributes. He only saw the name of the file: TS-010628, and before he could click on it, the flickering stopped.

Everything is back to normal and the total number of files is back to 35.

At this time, Calvin could not regain his peace of mind. Having worked with archives for many years, he knew what it meant to start with TS-01: Level Zero Secrecy. In the entire City Security Bureau, there is only one person with viewing privileges, and that is Director Bridge. And 0628 is the siren for his father, Donnie Young. The top-secret file related to my father is linked to Munch Bryan?

Calvin stood in front of the search area, his hands against the console, and his forehead, "It should be an instantaneous stamping that destroyed the stability of the system and allowed the deeply hidden archives to enter the counting system as a statistical unit." So only the total number of associations will be displayed, and nothing specific will be displayed. Although there is only a 1 in 100,000 chance that such an unexpected situation will happen.

Is it another coincidence? But probability doesn't deceive. In order for Calvin to discover this document, several prerequisites must be met.

One, he was in the search area of the Evidence and Archives Section, and he happened to be searching Munch's files. Second, instantaneous stamping occurred during the search, and the fault caused was just in line with the above guess. Three, Calvin could notice the change in numbers. The combination of the above conditions can expose the existence of top-secret files.

This is no simple coincidence. Thinking of this, Calvin's hairs stood on end, and bursts of cold sweat soaked his back. When I looked around, I felt that there were invisible eyes all around.

Calvin cleared the search records and hurried out the doors of the Evidence Archives Section. Along the way, Calvin's heart was beating fast and his mind was in chaos.

"Is that file really related to my father? Is there a secret of his sacrifice hidden? What is hidden in Munch Bryan? Who's behind all this? What's in that file? And most importantly, why choose me? A series of questions eroded his brain, and he was unable to think.

Standing in the long corridor outside the door, the dark space filled with halos of different colors, Calvin straightened the police badge on his chest, and walked to the weapons and equipment area with complicated eyes......

At the same time, Bridge Peyton's arm implant received the latest encrypted message from the Parasitic Tower Monitoring Committee, which was a statement of the occurrence of transient stamping, which read:

“…… It has been determined that the cause of the failure is not parasitic tower radiation, but an unknown overclocked radio wave. The source is yet to be investigated, and it is speculated that it may have come from a space outside of the Upper Domain. ”