Chapter 76 Fishing for Dreams
Chapter 76 Fishing for Dreams
The biggest advantage of having Director Liang lead the task force is that it provides direct access to Beijing, enabling the mobilization and coordination of resources at higher levels. When necessary, it can also collaborate with Interpol, obtain leads through diplomatic channels, and engage in cross-border data cooperation.
Not long after, a large number of documents were sent over via encrypted channels, including detailed information on tax refund and loan cases that occurred in Country R. The team then began searching and analyzing this information, looking for any clues that might be related to the case, and then compiling them into new materials.
While compiling the new materials, someone else screened them, picking out content related to the criminal organization's background, methods, and behavioral logic, and categorized it separately before sending it to the police liaison in the Yuecheng University Decoding Operations Room, who then forwarded it to the decoding team.
Once the decoding team receives these materials, they can further optimize the "neural translation package" for Mu Jie, and then perform a deeper interpretation of Mu Jie's dreams to obtain more confident decoding semantic tags and narrative reconstruction content.
The new interpretations can provide the task force with more clues and verify the relevance of previously received materials to a certain extent. The task force can then use these clues to search for and uncover more information, creating a two-way collaborative process.
Thus, the case analysis team and the decoding team formed a "dual-core" driving force, which greatly improved the work efficiency of both sides.
Clearly, if the person sent from above had been another leader instead of Director Liang, they might not have seen the files of those two old cases, and the task force would have had a hard time making a quick and effective response after receiving the interpretation of the "totem".
However, it was not entirely a coincidence that the higher-ups sent Director Liang.
During the initial investigation of the case, Yuecheng police had already obtained many valuable clues. These included the analysis Feng Weixu had provided to Wei Hongbo and the materials Ji Cheng had handed over to the special task force, all of which played a role. These isolated points or threads, when corroborated and connected with the information already gathered by the police, were able to form a coherent narrative.
These reports not only take into account the selection process in the capital, but also allow the selected personnel to make more preparations, leading to the current situation.
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After receiving the materials from the task force, Wei Hongsi knew that the decoding team must have found a similar case, which was undoubtedly a huge breakthrough.
The reason they focused their attention on Mu Jie, this "living dead," was because there were very few available clues. Many of the references mentioned in this material had never appeared in their completed interpretations, so they must have come from other sources.
Wei Hongsi silently brought up the "System" panel and saw that the two tasks were still incomplete, but he already had a good idea of what was going on.
The side quest "Assisting the police in obtaining information about the mastermind" is basically the current task of the decoding team. So all they need to do is dig out as many clues as possible from Mu Jie's dreams.
With the reference information provided by the task force, the dream interpretation should progress faster and be more accurate than expected.
The main quest, "Find out the mastermind behind the GG drink trap at the amusement park," likely refers to enabling the police to identify or confirm the criminal organization.
Based on the current level of the police task force, this should be the minimum target, so it shouldn't be difficult to achieve.
Thinking of this, he couldn't help but feel excited, as if he had already seen the light at the end of the tunnel.
The following Sunday, Wei Hongsi arrived at the decoding operations room early as usual, continuing to play the role of the fisherman. Only Wu Jie accompanied him. The others had stayed up until after 3 a.m. the previous night and were still catching up on sleep.
Shortly after, a stream of AI-decoded semantic tags appeared on the screen, looking completely unfamiliar.
Let's look at the subsequent AI output for narrative reconstruction:
He sat on the second-floor terrace, looking at the swaying shadows of the trees in the courtyard, the red brick walls, and the colorful, ever-changing light in the distance.
"This dream has never happened before, has it?" Wei Hongsi asked.
"It happened twice after 2 a.m.." Wu Jie pulled up the previous logs. "Yes, it was at 2:12 a.m. and 4:41 a.m. The content was similar to this time. So far, no related scenes have been found."
Wei Hongsi then looked at the optimization records of the "Neural Translation Package," which had undergone a major upgrade at 0:42, mainly based on data provided by the project team.
He left around 11 p.m. last night, so I looked through his work log from that point onwards. There were three particularly important entries:
—At 0:13 a.m., the task force sent some more reference materials.
—At 0:25 a.m., the decoding team, in conjunction with the subject monitoring center, completed the multimodal stimulus closed-loop neural feedback test.
—At 0:42 a.m., after confirming that the subject's condition was stable and the feedback signal was valid, the neural translation package was optimized simultaneously.
Wu Jie added from the side, "Jiang Haiyang felt that the effect of the first upgrade of the 'Neural Translation Package' last night was not obvious. So after receiving the project team's data for the second time, we created a multimodal stimulation package based on the two sets of data. We made corrections and optimizations through neurofeedback testing before upgrading the 'Neural Translation Package' again."
Wei Hongsi nodded, agreeing that Jiang Haiyang's considerations were very reasonable, and that they had already shown some positive effects to some extent.
Human dreams are generally unpredictable and lack coherence and logic. Therefore, the decoding team first set the abnormal neural signal in Mu Jie's brain as the target brainwave because it is deterministic and the easiest to interpret.
However, in some special circumstances, people may have recurring dreams, which is usually related to psychological stress, emotional trauma, or excessive obsession.
The dream scene about the courtyard has appeared three times since 2 a.m., suggesting that it may have special significance for Mu Jie.
The principle of interpreting Mujie's dreams is to observe without intervening, so this is unrelated to the upgrade of the "neural translation package." What is truly relevant is the previous multimodal stimulation package neurofeedback test.
This multimodal stimulation package was created based on information about the criminal organization provided by the task force. When used to provide targeted verbal and visual stimulation to Mu Jie, it is likely to activate deep memories in Mu Jie's brain related to the organization.
After that, Mu Jie had three more dreams related to the courtyard.
This could certainly be a coincidence, but it's more likely that the two are related.
Unfortunately, the interpretation was too limited to allow for further analysis. But what things can emit multicolored light?
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