Memory inheritor

Chapter 100 Thunder

Compared to accomplices and peripheral members, the task force was more concerned with clues that could extend into the inner circle and upper echelons of the Guiding Light Society.

Unfortunately, none of the dream narratives that have been deciphered point to this.

Experts such as Zheng Han believe there are roughly two reasons for this.

First, their multimodal stimulus package for the three Finch professors lacked relevant elements.

It's like if you set up the wrong spot or use the wrong bait, you might still catch the target fish, but the probability is very low, and it basically depends on luck.

Secondly, in the subconscious of the three Finch professors, there was another firewall to protect important secrets.

This firewall blocks subconscious thinking about core secrets, thus preventing related dreams from arising.

These two reasons may coexist and work together, leading to the current situation, which is very difficult to resolve.

However, difficulty does not mean insurmountable. Given enough time, the task force's expert team can still overcome the challenge.

However, the biggest problem right now is precisely time.

Based on the information we have, the "round-faced student" who appears in Mu Jie's dream narrative is most likely a formal member of the Light Guiding Society and plays a very important role.

In this country, while people with Western features are not uncommon, they actually make up a very small percentage of the total population, even in a large city like Yuecheng. Therefore, these individuals naturally attract more attention than their fellow countrymen when they are out and about.

This is probably why the person Mu Jie met in the safe house was a "round-faced student," rather than a Professor Finch.

It is not difficult to deduce that whenever Professor Finch was unable to appear in public, he would likely have this "round-faced student" act on his behalf.

This person is essentially the liaison for the Light Guide Society's gang in Yuecheng, and the information he possesses probably exceeds that of any Professor Finch.

Therefore, the most important goal of the task force at present is to identify and arrest this "round-faced student", dig out clues from him, and then arrest the accomplices and peripheral members.

It has been almost twenty-four hours since they "invited" the first Professor Finch, let alone the fact that they "invited" three Finches at once.

If the "round-faced student" notices this, he will inevitably become alert. Once he becomes aware of the situation, he may trigger the circuit breaker mechanism after discovering the anomaly, causing the police to lose an important source of information.

Director Shi stopped his introduction there.

Zheng Han then briefed Wei Hongsi on the progress of the expert team's investigation into the "round-faced student" clues.

Based on fragments of Mu Jie's dream narrative, they constructed a multimodal stimulus package about the "round-faced student" in an attempt to awaken the relevant memories of the three Finch professors and find more clues about this person from their dream narratives.

However, no matter how they adjusted it, they were unable to obtain dream narrative content related to the "round-faced student".

Experts analyze that this may be related to the alien effect in facial recognition between people from the East and the West.

Westerners use a localized processing strategy when recognizing a person's appearance. Their gaze is focused on areas such as the eyes, nose, and mouth, and they are more sensitive to individual features such as the shape of the eyes, the size of the nose, and the thickness of the lips.

East Asians, on the other hand, employ a holistic approach when recognizing facial features. Our gaze is focused on the center of the face, while we simultaneously capture other parts through peripheral vision, ultimately integrating this information into a complete picture of the face. We are more sensitive to structural information such as the distance between facial features, facial contours, and proportional relationships.

Mu Jie went abroad as an adult and retained more of his Eastern aesthetic preferences, so he pays more attention to the detail of "round face".

All three Finch members were Westerners, and they came to work in this country at a relatively advanced age. They were more accustomed to a partial processing strategy, and for them, a "round face" was not as important a feature as the eyes or mouth.

Of course, this is not absolute. Both Mujer and Finch have long-term cross-cultural work and life experience, which to some extent weakens the foreignness effect, allowing them to possess two facial recognition processing strategies simultaneously, albeit with different priorities.

If we can continue to interpret Mu Jie's dream, we should be able to obtain other physical characteristics of the "round-faced student".

By creating a multimodal stimulus package from these descriptions and applying it to the three Finch students, there is a high probability of identifying the "round-faced student".

Unfortunately, it's impossible to extract any more information from Mu Jie's mind, at least for the time being.

Another important factor contributing to the Finch's lack of sensitivity to the "round face" feature is that a high percentage of East Asians have this facial feature, and almost everyone around them is East Asian.

East Asians generally have short and wide skulls, and thicker buccal fat pads, giving them a natural advantage in having round faces. As a result, at least three or four out of ten young people have this face shape, not counting those who have had cosmetic procedures done.

Therefore, relying solely on this characteristic description is insufficient for effectively investigating the people around Finch and his group. Aside from confirming that the "round-faced student" is East Asian, thus explaining why he appeared in the safe house in place of Professor Finch, it seems to have no other value.

Of course, if the scope of the investigation can be narrowed down, a round face can be used as a feature for further screening.

Therefore, the expert team had to find another way to extract other physical characteristics of "round-faced students".

They conducted a detailed analysis of the original multimodal signals that generated Mu Jie's related dream narratives, focusing on eye movement data and electromyography of facial micro-expressions, and combined with synchronized neural signals to attempt to depict some of the physical details of the "round-faced student".

This process simulates Mujie's processing strategy when recognizing faces, and is expected to obtain information about the spacing and proportions of facial features.

However, due to the lack of basic references, it is like drawing on a blank face, requiring constant adjustments and trial and error.

The three Finch dreams were spaced about two hours apart, which limited the number of times they could check and adjust their dreams each day.

Wei Hongsi sent a message to Wei Hongbo last night, reminding him that the "round-faced student" might be female. Wei Hongbo then forwarded the message to the expert group.

This supplement has some effect, but it is quite limited and cannot help the expert group effectively improve the progress of this work.

By the time they could describe the facial details that would make a Professor Finch recognizable, the "round-faced student" would probably have already disappeared, or they would only be able to find his corpse.

Zheng Han was well aware of this, so he promptly reported it to the leading group, but the relevant work did not stop.