The surveillance video that Joel saw at the restaurant in Willow City was Alice's "work".

The details of John, Alice, and even some other details, including the food on the table, are made by Alice.

If it is a person who wants to do "special effects", it takes a lot of effort, and the technical requirements are also very high, relatively speaking, it is also the most convenient to do "face swapping", and the overall effect is the most realistic, at least one person must "play" John, and then replace the collected "John's face", the same is true for Alice's image, which needs to be played by someone - because Alice's body cannot be filmed.

But in fact, Alice has her own "editing" method for this kind of digital video material, unlike humans who need to operate from the picture level, she can directly edit and create the material at a lower level according to the required effect, which not only has people's learning and cognitive ability, but also has the convenience of program operation, and produces videos and pictures that are fake and real, perfectly integrated into the background, and deceived human eyes, which is very fast.

Of course, this ability did not start to be derived when she discovered Joel's entry, but Xiang Kun had already assigned Alice a related long-term task before, and she had already prepared for it.

However, at present, not everyone's image can be perfectly fabricated through digital devices and blended into the background, and a lot of information must be collected in advance.

John happens to be the target of her "care", so not only can he fake the surveillance video, but he can also directly replace Joel's face with his mobile phone.

As for having Alice herself appear in real-time monitoring, it couldn't be easier.

In the future, when Alice collects enough information, she will be able to create more and more "virtual real images" in real time, which can also be deeply applied in the VR and AR fields that they will invest in in the future.

As for helping Xiang Kun "stealth" in the surveillance, or even "changing his face" in the surveillance, it was all based on the exercise.

Of course, in addition to videos and images, Alice also influences and guides Joel in many other ways.

Joel felt that he was hypnotized and suggested, but in fact, everything he saw was objectively "true", and the hints to him were "above board".

It's like the life insurance advertisement on the large screen in the square he saw at the door of the restaurant, which Alice modified and clearly released in public.

Because almost no one but Joel would notice the English slogan that was drowned out by the noise around him, and even if he did, he wouldn't think too much about it—only Joel would realize that it was almost exactly the same thing he had said to John.

Originally, after attracting Joel's attention, he was hinted that he would go to the travel agency referred to by the girl in the advertisement, and there would be a set of corresponding operations at that time, suggesting that Joel would go to Wushushan - the reason why he chose Wushushan instead of Chongyun Mountain directly is because Wushushan is more well-known as a 5A-level scenic spot, which is easier and more reasonable to hint at, and second, there is room for operation.

Of course, Joel didn't go to the travel agency, and Alice also had a series of follow-up influences, including disguised advertising calls to passers-by to guide their voices and reactions.

The billboard that controls Joel's line of sight shows that some of the seemingly normal advertising voices have also been tampered with by Alice into words with strong hints and guidance.

There's a lot of information, all of which is arranged according to what John knew about Joel in his dreams.

It's like if you use your mobile phone in the living room, if the sound on the TV is an advertisement that you don't pay attention to, as long as the sound is not loud enough to a certain extent, you can ignore and ignore it, and block it temporarily. But if the name of the goddess you have been secretly in love with for a long time is suddenly called on TV, as long as you are not too fascinated by it, you will generally react.

Then you look up and find that although the pronunciation is the name of the goddess, it is actually just two normal words in a sentence, and it has nothing to do with the person you like, so you continue to look down and read the book.

But then, again and again, the name of the goddess is constantly "proposed" on TV in various ways, and you finally can't watch it anymore and start to think: Could it be that God is also hinting that I should confess to the goddess?

For Joel, the specifics are different, but the patterns of influence and implication are roughly the same.

It's just that it is necessary to take into account all the possible directions of suspicion of Joel himself, to guess his thinking path, and to guide it accordingly.

Of course, these are not arranged by Alice herself, Xiang Kun and Lao Xia have been guiding and carrying out "strategic planning" from the side, and the specific "tactical implementation" will be handed over to Alice.

Xiang Kun sorted out the information in John's dream and the information found by Alice to establish a preliminary cognitive model of Joel's behavior, which was used as a guide to predict his behavior, and then refined it according to more information feedback.

And he also has Lao Xia, compared with his cognitive model, Lao Xia's instant judgment also has a strong reference.

Lao Xia is more rigorous, and she is not very likely to make rash decisions when the target information she has obtained is limited, so when she first learned that Joel had entered the country, she guessed where it was going, and when she "dug pits" and "buried threads" everywhere, she mainly made troubles with Kun and Alice.

And after Joel stepped on the "pit", according to his specific reaction, according to the various visual images in the city and in the car transmitted back by Alice, Lao Xia will give his opinion after analysis and judgment.

For example, when Joel was about to go directly to Pengcheng regardless of it, Lao Xia suggested that Alice send an email to Joel's contact email in the name of John, and directly ask the other party to go to Pengcheng, and deliberately made the content of the email very fake.

According to Lao Xia, this is to make "going to Pengcheng" an option similar to "going to Wushushan", and let Joel choose.

Comparatively speaking, although "going to Pengcheng" seems to be much more reliable and Joel's original plan, the sense of external threat given to him by "going to Wushushan" is smaller.

Based on Lao Xia's observation, this Joel's character is still cowardly and timid in nature, bullying the soft and afraid of the hard, and when there is a safer choice, he will definitely choose the safer path.

Sure enough, after Joel received the email that clearly showed that there was a cat and arrived in Pengcheng, he immediately found a car and got on the highway as soon as he got off the highway and went to Wushushan.

Of course, even if there is no Lao Xia's idea, Xiang Kun and Alice still have a series of back-up hands arranged in Pengcheng, and there are many serial pits, which will be a lot of trouble, and maybe even the final observation place will have to be changed.

Seeing that on the surveillance screen, after Joel entered the Chongyun Mountain Area, Xiang Kun was also relieved, and after routinely praising Alice, he instructed her:

"I'll leave it to you next, in short, don't let him leave Chongyun Mountain, try to lock his range of activities in the C-23 to C-29 area we have demarcated. Don't let him take it too easy, give him more psychological pressure, but don't let him have a specific battle goal, and don't let him fall into complete despair, try to get him into the phased disintegration process as quickly as possible, you know what I mean?"

"Alice understands! There is a problem! It must be arranged! The boss can rest assured!" Alice's application was unsuccessful, so she could only turn up the volume of the speaker and answer crisply.

Xiang Kun naturally has no doubts about this, in Chongyun Mountain, Alice is like swimming in her own hard drive, there are too many means.

After Joel entered the depths of the forest, there was no camera that could capture him, and Alice took the initiative to say that she could carry out a simulated picture projection, directly showing her observation through supersensory information on the screen, and then simulating the environmental picture information of Chongyun Mountain that she had collected before, and establishing a "surveillance video" that looked like a real picture.

It looks really bluffing, and if you don't know the situation, you will even think that this is a drone in the sky following in real time, and you can also change all angles to get a closer look.

But because Alice handled it too exquisitely, the picture was very stuck, so Xiang Kun directly asked her to mark the location with a simple cartoon diagram, anyway, they all knew that it was fake, and the key was to be smooth and have less delay.

So the real-time monitoring became: in a "little chubby girl painting style" mountain forest, a "little chubby girl painting style" blonde villain who looked like a KFC grandfather moved in the mountains and forests.

Alice explained from time to time: "He is standing still now, he seems to be a little confused, and he probably doesn't know where to go! Boss, let's give him some hints! Oh yes, boss, you let me arrange it myself, then I will arrange him!"

So there was a square-shaped thing on the blonde villain's leg on the screen, and then the villain picked it up, and Alice explained: "I lit up his mobile phone, and then took a picture of him! After taking the photo, I changed it to John's face! Yo ho~, he was scared! He was nervous! The muscles of the whole body were tense, and his pupils were dilated, he seemed to be in disbelief, and took a few more photos, and I changed it for him again...... He was in a daze and motionless, and seemed to begin to doubt life, hey, I changed it for him again! He looked left and right, and continued to doubt life ”

Alice's tone of voice is particularly passionate and excited, and sometimes she has a little bit of the chubby girl's unique way of speaking with a Hunan accent but imitating Tianjin dialect when she recently spoke cross talk, as if she was talking about a one-man talk show.

However, Xiang Kun and Lao Xia in front of the monitor were expressionless and unresponsive. Lao Xia really can't get it, but Xiang Kun is tired of listening, Alice's passion can be maintained 24 hours a day, and she is in this state during the process of digging a pit for Joel during this time.

At the beginning, every time Joel stepped on a "pit", Alice would apply to show up, and then dance in front of him and Lao Xia to show off.

So now, as soon as he hears Alice's excited voice, his mind automatically makes up the appearance of a little old Xia who looks like a little girl constantly dancing and screaming, which is really a bit of a headache. But it's not good to keep her excited, because she is really good......

"Oh? He looks like he's going to run? That's impossible! In Alice's forest, no one can run away! No, yes, people!"

Alice continued to explain very passionately, and then saw a little girl in a white dress with a "little chubby girl painting style" in the cartoon forest creak out not far from the blonde old man, shake, and disappear again.

"The evil Bloodline Devil wants to hunt down and kill the righteous Alice, but he, chase, no, to! He searched, searched, searched, searched, and couldn't find, and he wanted to run again? It was impossible to let him run, and the righteous Alice appeared, huh!!"

Not only is the picture in the style of "Chubby Girl", but Alice even the commentary is "Chubby Girl".

Xiang Kun couldn't help but think that if she took the little chubby girl with her, she would probably be super happy and super engaged when she saw Alice's "on-site explanation".

However, he immediately rejected this idea, because if it was like that, then Alice's excitement would be full, and she would definitely make all kinds of "moths" in order to show off in front of her little bell sister.

Xiang Kun glanced at Xia Libing next to him again, Lao Xia's eyes were round, and he seemed to be paying full attention to Joel's situation on the screen, but he knew that Lao Xia would estimate that it would take more energy to analyze Alice than to analyze Joel - after all, the latter was already completely involved, and the next real experimental observation would require Xiang Kun to enter the "super sensory state".

However, through the analysis of sensory information, Xiang Kun knew that at this point in time, Lao Xia had already begun to get sleepy, and he should soon be unable to hold it and fall asleep.

He looked at the cartoon blonde old man on the screen again and said, "Alice, speed up." ”

Hurry up and let this old vampire disintegrate, he quickly collected super sensory information, so that Lao Xia can sleep at ease.

"Boss!"

"I'm going to use the big move I learned from Lao Xia!"

"Fog!~Fog!~Fog!~Fog!~Fog up!~~"

......

Joel, who was in the depths of Chongyun Mountain, naturally couldn't hear Alice's babbling and milky "fog rising", but he saw with his own eyes that a cloud of fog suddenly appeared out of thin air in front of him.

Then these strange mists quickly spread around him, obscuring his vision.

Joel was shocked, this fog clearly showed that there was a problem, could it be his hallucination?

And let him be sure that this was his hallucination, it was this fog that actually smelled of barbecue!

Joel struggled to wave his arms and rush forward, but not only could he not disperse the mist, but he could not rush out, but he did not step on it steadily, and after falling, he rolled on the ground a few times and hit a tree before stopping.

What Joel didn't know was that if someone looked down from the sky at this time, they would find something even stranger than what he had seen in the fog - a cloud of fog that seemed to be alive, constantly moving through the mountains and forests.

And in the mist, it was Joel.

This fog just covered the area around Joel within seven or eight meters, followed him everywhere, completely obscured his vision, and "sticked" him.

After this fog was covered by Lao Xia's solitary appearance more than a month ago, Alice also had the ability to appear - she was naturally able to inherit the ability of Lao Xia's manifest items, including pork knuckle, cakes, ice cream, etc.

Joel in the fog is becoming more and more manic, but he still has his sanity left, even if his sense of sight and smell are affected at the same time, he still has the "prosthetic tissue fluid" that he arranged all the way to help him anchor his position.

So he didn't get up after he fell, and just lay down on the edge of the tree, putting his head on the ground to sense the "prosthetic" he had arranged in advance.

But what he didn't know was that at the same time as the fog rose, a large number of ants ran out from all over Chongyun Mountain, some with wings, like bees, some jumped out of the soil, densely gathered together, and then rushed to various positions where Joel had arranged "prosthetic tissue fluid" all the way into the mountain.

At first glance, the plants that have been parasitized with "prosthetic tissue fluid" do not look different or change, but as soon as the colony approaches and begins to appear, they immediately shake their branches as if they are in pain, and the small flower-like "organs" that emerge from the top spew a corrosive liquid.

Vast swaths of ants smoke and die, but their companions continue to rush on what Joel calls "prosthetics", clinging to them and gnawing on them.

The reason why Joel can be called the "Lord of the Forest" is that these "prosthetic" plants arranged by him are used as assistance, which can detect others in advance and plot against others.

In the fog, even if his vision and sense of smell are obscured, he can discern the direction and identify the enemy through the pre-arranged "prosthetic limbs" scattered all over the place.

Now, however, when the "prosthetic" is attacked by the ubiquitous ant colony, he finally has a sense of despair.

He knew that the big invisible hand really held his whole person in it, and there was nowhere to escape.

But what's even more terrifying is that he still doesn't know who the enemy is or who the opponent is, in his various sensing methods, around him, all the way, there is not a "blood clan", "blood beast", "blood plant", and there is not even a creature that can be a little bit!

Just as he was in despair, a little girl's voice rang out, "I heard your name is 'Lord of the Forest'?"

(End of chapter)