122: Chapter 122 Instant Upgrade, Instant Case Solving, Instant Arrest

Looking at the contract on the desk, the many police officers in the office didn't know what to say for a moment.

The female police officer looked at Wang Shuo with admiration. She had truly never seen anyone dare to confront the director like this. Here, as long as the director got angry, even the deputy directors had to stand obediently and listen to the scolding.

Only Director Jiao picked up the contract on the desk and flipped through it carefully.

The room was so quiet you could hear a pin drop.

A few minutes later.

"The contract is drafted well. Let's go with this." Director Jiao put down the contract, took a fountain pen from his pocket, and wrote in a bold, sweeping hand on the Party A line.

Jiao Zhengguo.

That was Director Jiao's full name.

After writing, he handed the pen to Wang Shuo. Wang Shuo took it and wrote his name on the Party B line.

The contract was concluded.

Carefully holding the contract and looking at the signatures of Party A and Party B, Wang Shuo revealed a satisfied smile. This was the first time since the establishment of his company that he had earned money from somewhere other than the Chen Group, and it was twenty million at once, with the possibility of more to follow.

"Manager Wang, the contract is signed. When do you plan to start?"

Director Jiao's voice carried a hint of pressure.

"Right now."

Reluctantly handing the contract to Liu Yemei and watching her put it into her briefcase, Wang Shuo finally felt at ease and said to Liu Jiangtao, "Which one is the main server for the Eagle Eye System?"

Was this guy for real?

Liu Jiangtao was caught off guard for a moment. It wasn't until Wang Shuo asked a second time that he reacted and pointed to the massive monitor: "The main computing server for the Eagle Eye System uses a small supercomputer from Huazhong University of Science and Technology. The auxiliary server is in the room behind the monitor."

A small supercomputer from Huazhong University of Science and Technology?

Did his own university have such a thing? Wang Shuo scratched his head. He was already a lecturer, so why didn't he know about it?

Seeming to notice Wang Shuo's confusion, Liu Jiangtao explained: "Due to functional reasons, the Eagle Eye System requires massive data computing resources. The server at our Police Station alone is definitely not enough, and the cost of remotely renting other servers is too high. So, we discussed it with Huazhong University of Science and Technology and paid rent to use their supercomputer."

"Do you have access permissions?"

"Naturally, we have access permissions."

"Time-limited? Intervals? Fixed?"

Liu Jiangtao shook his head: "No time limits, no intervals, no fixed times. We use it twenty-four hours a day, without interruption."

Wang Shuo's eyes lit up. Was there such a good thing in the world?

He had just been worrying about how to improve Zero's performance without spending money, and here came a supercomputer?

A supercomputer! Although Wang Shuo looked down on the current computer systems, that didn't stop him from letting Zero's computing speed skyrocket.

With a supercomputer, his plan was more than half successful.

Most importantly... it saved a large amount of capital.

What? You say this is illegal? No, no, no, donor, you are focused on the wrong thing. This is called rational utilization; it is not illegal, nor does it violate Wang Shuo's bottom line.

"Manager Wang, you can start now."

Just as Wang Shuo was pleasantly surprised, Liu Jiangtao opened the lock on the server cabinet, revealing the interface on the external platform.

He then saw Wang Shuo's empty hands. Even the small briefcase behind Liu Yemei didn't look like it could hold any equipment.

"If you need peripherals, we can provide them at any time."

"Thanks, but that won't be necessary." Wang Shuo smiled and pulled out from his pants pocket... a mobile Wi-Fi, the same "old employee" he had used in the factory earlier.

"There should be a microphone and speakers here, right?"

Uh... Liu Jiangtao really wanted to ask what this had to do with upgrading the system. However, looking at the silent director nearby, he decided he'd better hold it in.

"Yes, there are. They are all hidden microphones; you can just speak directly. There are speakers too."

"Many thanks."

Wang Shuo felt very happy. As expected of a professional control room; look, everything was professional. Even things like microphones and speakers were built-in. Plus this huge screen—although it was spliced together from several display screens and the pixel quality wasn't great, it still felt much better than his own place.

Especially with the addition of a supercomputer...

Envy.

Walking over to the console, he plugged in the mobile Wi-Fi, brought up the command input interface, and tapped a few times. Instantly, huge pop-up windows appeared on the screen.

Wang Shuo's expression also became serious. He stared at the screen without blinking, and his fingers flew across the keyboard.

Liu Jiangtao was stunned. Was this Manager Wang really this capable? He started working right away? He wanted to ask if Wang Shuo didn't need his authorization for the supercomputer, but seeing Wang Shuo so focused, he actually felt a bit guilty and didn't dare to step forward to disturb him.

If he felt this way, the other police officers who knew nothing about computers didn't even need to be mentioned. Even Jiao Zhengguo was looking at Wang Shuo's operation with a serious face and in complete silence.

For a time, the only sound in the control room was the clattering of Wang Shuo's keyboard.

Anyone who saw this scene would think Wang Shuo was doing something very serious.

But in reality...

"Zero, load the program sub-entity."

Wang Shuo entered the command using a new coding language. The command was the most basic Chinese-character-based compiled code, which was the language used by ordinary computers. It was effortless for Wang Shuo.

"Loading. Estimated time: five minutes."

It was also a coding language.

"Change the name. Name the new sub-entity 'Sky Eye' and add a wake-up word."

"Changed."

"Zero, where have Chen Xin and the others arrived?"

"Please wait. They have arrived at the destination. Estimated departure within ten minutes."

"Very good."

...

This was the entire content of Wang Shuo's conversation.

But to those who didn't understand, the full-screen code stream and the pop-up windows switching from time to time made people think of two words: "Professional."

Liu Jiangtao sighed slightly. As expected of someone the director was waiting for; he really had some skills. He couldn't even achieve this command input speed, and he couldn't even understand how those pop-up windows appeared.

A dozen minutes later.

The intense sound of the keyboard gradually slowed down.

Jiao Zhengguo, who had been thinking about something, looked up and saw Wang Shuo stand up from the chair and stretch.

He spoke in a calm voice: "Are you done?"

"Not yet." Wang Shuo arranged the chair and seemed to sigh: "This system is indeed very complex, forcing me to spend some time searching through it."

Liu Jiangtao twitched his mouth. A system that others spent years designing, you searched through in just over ten minutes, and you call that cumbersome? This doesn't sound like you're praising the system, does it?

Jiao Zhengguo didn't feel anything and asked indifferently: "How much longer?"

"Immediately." Wang Shuo straightened his body and said solemnly: "Eagle Eye, restart."

Before anyone understood what he meant, the big screen in front of them suddenly went black, and the humming sound of the servers in the entire control room completely disappeared.

The control room fell into an eerie silence.

"Did the... power go out?"

Liu Jiangtao looked around. Before the thought was finished, he saw the big screen light up again, and a huge icon appeared on it.

It was three spheres, one large and two small, arranged in a triangle, giving the impression that it represented the entire universe.

It was displayed for a full five seconds, then the icon disappeared, and the interface returned to the familiar one. The screen was once again filled with traffic and crowds.

Liu Jiangtao blinked in confusion... That's it? He turned to look at his other colleagues and found that they were also puzzled.

Wang Shuo looked down at the interface on the control computer screen, smiled slightly, and said to Director Jiao: "Director Jiao, the system has been upgraded, and the various subsystems have been reconnected. Everything is normal."

Jiao Zhengguo frowned.

He didn't understand anything else, but regarding this interface, what was different from before?

Could it be that this kid was really just here to scam money, as he had thought before? If that was really the case... Director Jiao's face darkened, and his fist, the size of a sandbag, was already clenched.

"Manager Wang, what is the difference between this new system and the old one?"

Liu Jiangtao finally couldn't help but ask the question that most people wanted to ask.

"Difference?" Wang Shuo raised his eyebrows, then remembered that he hadn't demonstrated the system functions yet; just looking at the interface, you couldn't see anything.

A mistake, a mistake. He almost gave the first customer a bad user experience. This had to be changed later; he must ensure that all customers felt at home.

"This is my mistake. Let me demonstrate." Wang Shuo said calmly: "Sky Eye, report system status, scan hardware interfaces."

Everyone, including Jiao Zhengguo, looked blank. Was there anyone named Sky Eye in such a big room?

Only Liu Yemei revealed a hint of thought in her eyes.

The next second, a neutral male voice came from the speakers, the tone mellow.

"Sky Eye self-check in progress... Self-check complete. Sky Eye reports: System is normal, hardware connection is normal."

This... this is...

Jiao Zhengguo frowned slightly.

And Liu Jiangtao and the female police officer had already widened their eyes.

"This is the first upgraded feature: full voice control. It can recognize eighty percent of daily spoken commands, and the remaining twenty percent can be learned autonomously."

Wang Shuo introduced with a smile, then took out his mobile phone and swiped a few times. Several photos immediately appeared on the big screen; they were photos of the kidnapping quartet.

"This is the second upgraded feature: an upload experience based on a seamless data chain. I will provide everyone with an app, and the videos and photos you take will be uploaded to Sky Eye at any time."

"As for the third... Sky Eye, connect to the national population information data port, analyze the character features in the photos, and perform a comparison."

"Analyzing features... Building data model... Restoring partial features... Strengthening partial features... Comparing... Estimated time required... fifteen minutes."

As expected of a supercomputer. With such a large amount of calculation, it only takes less than fifteen minutes. If it were my junk, it would probably take over twenty hours.

Wang Shuo was still thinking about the performance improvement of Zero, not knowing that everyone else had been stunned.

Liu Jiangtao looked sluggishly at the countdown and comparison progress displayed on the big screen, almost thinking he was dreaming. He rubbed his eyes, and when he opened them again, the countdown was still displayed on the big screen.

He hadn't misread it; that Manager Wang really had the new system running automatically just by speaking. This was done in almost one minute, completing the work that took him three or four hours last night.

"Fifteen minutes?" Jiao Zhengguo's lips moved slightly, then he swallowed the words that were on his lips, quietly watching the countdown on the screen, waiting for the result.

"Three people have been successfully compared."

"Display the results on the big screen."

Wang Shuo said indifferently. He didn't know how many times a day he had such conversations; he was already used to it.

But to everyone else, this was a scene they had never seen before. All the police officers stared blankly at the information displayed on the screen, then looked back at Wang Shuo standing in the center of the room. For some reason, this originally small young man seemed to have grown much taller.

"This is finished?"

Liu Jiangtao still couldn't believe it, even though the specific information of several people was already displayed on the screen. This... this is fake, right? Finding three people out of ten million, how could it be so fast? If it could be this fast, then what were he and his colleagues working overtime for the past two nights for?

"Can you find their current location?"

Jiao Zhengguo's steady voice rang out, bringing the police officers back to their senses, making them feel ashamed for their distraction.

"This is the fourth upgraded feature." Wang Shuo smiled and said: "Sky Eye, keep the comparison task unchanged. Track the behavior and location of the three successfully compared people over the past three days, and infer the most likely location."

"Analyzing video data... Searching online surveillance data, predicting location..."

A few minutes later, a location appeared on the map.

Liu Jiangtao looked and reported: "Director, they have left the city and are in a village forty kilometers away from W City."

Jiao Zhengguo stood up and took a deep look at Wang Shuo, who was standing to the side.

"I am now announcing the order: Deputy Chief Li Mingwei will lead the team, with all members of the Criminal Investigation First and Second Brigades, taking police cars 112, 115, 118, and 107, to set out immediately and make the arrests."

"The Legal Department should immediately connect with the procuratorial organs to apply for an arrest warrant!"

With the order given, more than half of the people in the control room left. A minute later, a team of police cars roared away.

On the screen, only The Black-robed Man remained in the comparison process. This was also the murderer Wang Shuo most wanted to catch.

"This person... is not easy to compare."

Just as Wang Shuo was dazed while looking at The Black-robed Man on the screen, Director Jiao's voice sounded in his ear. Wang Shuo turned his head and saw that Director Jiao, who had been sitting in his seat, had come to his side at some point.

"He put on makeup on his face, trimmed his eyebrow shape, and reapplied black eyebrow pencil."

"Director, how did you see that?" Wang Shuo was a little surprised.

"This is just a very simple technique." Director Jiao's expression was very calm, and he explained indifferently: "If you want to change the deep impression people have of you, attacking your hair and eyebrows is the easiest way to achieve the goal."

Wang Shuo thought about it seriously and found that it seemed to be true.

People's impression of a person is influenced by many factors. The human brain often pays attention to those details that stimulate the nerves, such as someone having red hair, or someone having very distinctive features, or wearing bright clothes, and so on.

And The Black-robed Man obviously took advantage of this cognitive misunderstanding, wearing a black robe, wearing a mask, and applying light makeup, making himself completely unremarkable.

But he obviously overlooked one problem, and that is, what is being compared now is not a person, but a computer intelligence. It is called... Zero.

Time ticked by.

Just as the countdown was about to end.

"Comparison complete, results displayed."

As the sound rang out, a photo had already appeared on the screen, accompanied by basic information.

Wang Shuo, who was thinking about something, looked up. When he saw the character on the screen, his pupils shrank suddenly.

It's him?