Memory inheritor

Chapter 34 Hidden Clues

The small conference room was silent for a few seconds.

Wei Hongsi composed himself before saying, "Theoretically, Peng Jun should first tell the mastermind about Shen Qing's characteristics, and then the mastermind should design or optimize the plan accordingly in order to achieve their specific goals. This inevitably involves a process of communication."

"After the plan is finalized, it needs to be explained to Peng Jun, which requires another interaction. Whether it's exchanging information or explaining the new plan, face-to-face interaction is obviously more reliable and convenient."

"Logically, there's nothing wrong with that," Wei Hongbo said, stroking his chin. "But why would the mastermind behind it all want to 'indoctrinate' Peng Jun again?"

"Yeah! It's just a matter of changing the plan and passing the information on to him, isn't that enough?" Zhang Shengyong clearly had a different opinion.

"My previous speculation that Peng Jun acquired his skills through special means was inaccurate, which leads me to another discovery I made this morning." Wei Hongsi explained his analysis of Peng Jun's behavior of choosing the difficult path over the easy one.

Then he said, "Judging from these signs, he was not instilled with comprehensive skills, but rather with detailed problem-solving steps, thus he is incapable of adapting to changing circumstances and coming up with his own ideas. Therefore, simply knowing the changes to the plan is not enough for him to carry it out."

"Isn't this complicating a simple problem?" Wei Hongbo pondered. "Is there some limitation to using that special method to instill skills?"

"Or is the mastermind trying to strengthen their control over Peng Jun through this method?" Zhang Shengyong speculated.

"It shouldn't be either of those." Wei Hongsi shook his head. "I made a hypothesis before that if the original footage produced by Peng Jun didn't have any subconscious trigger points, it would be impossible to achieve the effect of Option B by relying solely on CMS for rendering. This has been confirmed."

He turned around, drew a stick figure on the whiteboard, then drew an arrow to the right, and wrote the three letters "CMS" in front of the arrow.

"However, at that time, I didn't have a concrete understanding of Peng Jun's strict requirements during the filming process, so I only thought of that aspect. I only realized this morning when I went to the filming location that he has very clear requirements for every detail."

"From the angle of light and shadow to the placement of props, from the actors' micro-expressions to the trajectory of the camera, everything is extremely precise. This kind of near-mechanical precision is not something that can be controlled by humans; it's more like a CNC machine tool with a pre-programmed sequence in operation."

He wrote the letters "AI" to the left of the stick figure and then drew an arrow pointing to the stick figure from there. "So I think that Peng Jun's entire filming process was executing specific steps designed by AI, rather than his own creativity."

"You mean, the mastermind behind this also has an AI system similar to your company's CMS?" Wei Hongbo asked, frowning.

Wei Hongsi nodded: "Yes!"

"No, no!" Zhang Shengyong waved his hand in rebuttal, "Since the mastermind behind this has their own system, why would they target your company's CMS?"

"The cognitive mirror system needs to grow through learning and training, and its learning objects determine its technological genes," Wei Hongsi explained. "As we all know, there are significant differences in the thinking patterns and cultural customs between Easterners and Westerners. Using Western thinking patterns to infer the behavior of Easterners is tantamount to going in the opposite direction."

Wei Hongbo and Zhang Shengyong exchanged a glance, their expressions becoming somewhat serious.

Although they had read the analyses of several senior executives at Zhiwei Company during the initial investigation and concluded that the case was orchestrated by foreign forces, the impact of Wei Hongsi's speculation still far exceeded their expectations. If confirmed, they would have to report to higher-level leadership.

"I think you guys should relax a bit. If my speculation is correct, then we'll have more clues to investigate," Wei Hongsi said with a smile. "Brother Yong, aren't you investigating Peng Jun's whereabouts? You can focus on the time periods when he made those other three GGs."

"That's true." Zhang Shengyong nodded sincerely.

"It seems you really made a lot of progress this morning," Wei Hongbo said approvingly.

If Peng Jun was only "indoctrinated" with the specific steps of shooting GG, then he must have had contact with the mastermind behind the scenes during the production of the other three GGs.

Since we can't find any intersection between Li Yunxiang and Peng Jun's actions for the time being, let's first find out about Peng Jun's situation. If we can find out the mastermind behind it, we will naturally be able to solve the mystery surrounding Li Yunxiang.

"The discoveries this morning didn't stop there. Let me show you a video."

As Wei Hongsi spoke, he turned on the smart screen in the conference room, connected his phone to the network, and projected the video that Tang Jinxia had secretly filmed.

Wei Hongbo and Zhang Shengyong immediately recognized Peng Jun. Although they had never seen him in person before, they were very familiar with his physical characteristics. Combined with Wei Hongsi's previous account, they knew that Peng Jun was demonstrating a dance to Shen Qing.

The video was short, and after watching it, the two looked at each other, completely bewildered.

Wei Hongsi rewound the video to the beginning and reminded him, "Look at Peng Jun's eyes. Don't you think something's strange?"

After his reminder, the two noticed it, but they were still somewhat confused.

"You mean, did he take drugs the night before?" Zhang Shengyong guessed. If that were true, it would provide another clue for the investigation.

"Not really," Wei Hongbo shook his head. "It's more like he's not fully awake, daydreaming."

"Brother's guess is pretty close." Wei Hongsi's lips curled up slightly as he played the first two seconds of the video on repeat and turned up the volume.

Wei Hongbo and Zhang Shengyong both clearly heard Peng Jun make a sound like "ee-hey" before he started the demonstration.

Wei Hongsi paused the video and said, "This video is incomplete. I asked the people who were there at the time, and Peng Jun's rhythmic shouts would last for three or four seconds before he started the demonstration. But he stopped shouting while doing the dance moves. And he shouted twice more near the end of the demonstration."

"That doesn't seem quite right. So you think he's not setting the pace for himself?" Zhang Shengyong asked.

"I think his shouts before the performance were releasing hypnotic signals." Wei Hongsi's expression became serious. "Throughout his dance performance, he was in a state similar to sleepwalking. The two shouts at the end were used to wake him from the hypnotic state."

"Is this self-hypnosis?" Wei Hongbo exclaimed in astonishment.

Wei Hongsi denied it, saying, "No! Peng Jun's case is a case of hypnosis induced by external factors, except that the inducement was provided by himself."