What It’s Like Being a Vampire

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

John and Alice in the video, as well as other details including the food on the table, were all made by Alice.

If people do "special effects", it will take a lot of effort and the technical requirements are also very high. Relatively speaking, "face-changing" is the most convenient and the overall effect is the most realistic. At least one person has to "play" John. , and then replace the collected "John's face" with the image of Alice, which needs to be played by someone - because Alice's present body cannot be photographed.

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 edit the material at a lower level according to the desired effect. Creation combines human learning and cognitive abilities with the convenience of program operation. It is very fast to create videos and pictures that look fake, perfectly blend into the background, and deceive the human eye.

Of course, this ability did not start to develop when Joel was discovered to have entered the country, but Xiang Kun had already assigned Alice relevant long-term tasks before, and she had already made preparations.

However, for now, not everyone's image can be perfectly fabricated quickly through digital devices and blended into the background. A large amount 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 taken with his mobile phone.

As for making Alice herself appear in real-time monitoring, that is a simple operation.

In the future, when Alice collects enough information and materials, 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 they will invest in in the future.

As for helping Xiang Kun "invisible" in the surveillance camera, or even "changing his face" in the surveillance camera, that's all base stuff.

Of course, in addition to videos and images, Alice also exerted targeted influence and guidance on Joel in many other ways.

Joel felt that he was hypnotized and suggested, but in fact, everything he saw was objectively "real" and the suggestions to him were "above and aboveboard".

Just like the life insurance advertisement on the large screen in the square that he saw at the entrance of the restaurant, it was modified by Alice and then displayed in public.

Because except for Joel, basically no one would notice the English slogan that was drowned out by the surrounding noise. Even if they noticed it, they wouldn’t think too much about it – only Joel would realize that,

The words were almost identical to what he had said to John.

Originally, after attracting Joel's attention, he was prompted to go to the travel agency mentioned by the girl in the advertisement. Then there would be a corresponding set of operations, hinting Joel to go to Wushu Mountain - the reason why he chose Wushu Mountain instead of directly Chongyun Mountain, firstly, because Wushu Mountain is more well-known as a 5A-level scenic spot, so it is easier and more reasonable to suggest, and secondly, there is room for manipulation.

Of course, Joel did not go to the travel agency, and Alice also had a series of following effects, including making fake advertising calls to passers-by to guide their voices and reactions.

The billboards that control Joel's sight show that some seemingly normal advertising sounds have been tampered with by Alice into words with strong hints and guidance.

There is a lot of information that is arranged according to John's knowledge of Joel in his dream.

Just like you are using your mobile phone in the living room, if the sound on the TV is an advertisement that you don't care about, as long as the sound is not loud enough, you can ignore it and temporarily block it. But if the TV suddenly calls out the name of the goddess you have had a crush on for a long time, you will usually react as long as you are not too fascinated by it.

Then you looked up and realized that although it sounded like the name of a goddess, it was actually just two normal words in a sentence and had nothing to do with the person you liked, so you continued to lower your head and read.

But then, time and time again, the goddess's name was constantly "raised" on TV in various ways, and you finally couldn't stand it anymore and started to think: Could it be that God is also hinting that I should confess to the goddess? Are we actually a match made in heaven?

For Joel, the specifics were different, but the pattern of influence and implications was roughly the same.

It's just that we have to take into account Joel's possible suspicions, guess his thinking path, and guide him accordingly.

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

Xiang Kun sorted out the information in John's dreams and the information found by Alice, and established a preliminary cognitive model of Joel's behavior. He used this as a guide to predict his behavior, and then improved it based on more information feedback. .

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

Lao Xia is more rigorous. She is not likely to make rash decisions when she has limited target information. So when she first learned about Joel's entry, she made guesses about his whereabouts and "digging holes" and "burying clues" everywhere. , mainly Xiang Kun and Alice tinkering.

After Joel stepped on the "trap", based on his specific reaction and the various visual images transmitted back by Alice in the city and in the car, Lao Xia analyzed and judged and then gave his own opinion.

For example, when Joel was preparing to go directly to Pengcheng City without hesitation, Lao Xia suggested that Alice send an email to Joel's contact email address in the name of John, asking him to go to Pengcheng City directly, and also deliberately made the content of the email confusing. Very fake.

According to Lao Xia, this is to make "go to Pengcheng" an option similar to "go to Wushu Mountain" and let Joel choose.

In comparison, although "going to Pengcheng" seemed much more reliable and was Joel's original plan, "going to Wushu Mountain" gave him a smaller sense of external threat.

According to Lao Xia's observation, this Joel's character is essentially timid, bullying and afraid of the strong. If there is a safer option, he will definitely choose the safer path.

Sure enough, after Joel received the fishy email and arrived in Pengcheng, he immediately found a car and got on the highway to Wushu Mountain as soon as he got off the highway.

Of course, even without Lao Xia's idea, Xiang Kun and Alice still have a series of back-up arrangements in Pengcheng City. There are many pitfalls, which will be a lot of trouble, and the final observation location may even have to be changed.

After seeing Joel entering Chongyun Mountain on the surveillance screen, Xiang Kun also breathed a sigh of relief. After praising Alice as usual, he ordered her:

"The next step is up to you. In short, don't let him leave Chongyun Mountain, and try to keep his range of activities within the C-23 to C-29 area we have designated. Don't let him take it too easy, give him more Psychological pressure, but don’t let him have a specific combat goal, don’t let him fall into complete despair, try to let him enter the staged disintegration process as quickly as possible, do you understand what I mean?”

"Alice understands! There is something wrong with Ma! It must be arranged! Boss, don't worry!" Alice's application was unsuccessful, so she could only turn up the volume of the speaker and responded crisply.

Xiang Kun naturally had no doubts about this. In Chongyun Mountain, Alice was like swimming on her own hard drive, with too many tricks.

After Joel entered the depths of the forest, the camera was no longer able to capture him. Alice took the initiative to project a simulated screen, directly displaying her observations through supersensory information on the screen, and then through the Chongqing she had collected previously. Simulate the environmental picture information from various places in Yunshan to create a "surveillance video" that looks like a real picture.

It does look quite intimidating. If you don’t know the situation clearly, you may even think that this is a drone in the sky following and taking pictures in real time. You can also change various angles to get a closer look.

But because Alice's processing was too delicate, the picture was very laggy, so Xiang Kun just asked her to use a simple cartoon diagram to mark the position. Everyone knew it was fake anyway, so smoother and less delay were the key.

So the real-time monitoring became: In a mountain forest with a "little fat girl painting style", a little blond man with a "little fat girl painting style" who looked like a KFC grandpa was moving in the forest.

Alice explained from time to time: "He is standing still now. He seems a little confused. He probably doesn't know where he is going! Boss, let's give him some tips! Oh yes, boss, let me arrange it myself. Then I'll arrange for him!"

So a square-shaped thing lit up on the leg of the blond villain on the screen, and then the villain picked it up, and Alice explained: "I turned on his mobile phone, and then took a picture of him! After taking the picture, I Change him to John’s face! Yoho~, he’s scared! He’s tense! His muscles are tense, his pupils are dilated, he can’t believe it, so he took a few more pictures, and I changed it for him again! He He was motionless in a daze, and seemed to be doubting life. Hey, I changed it back for him! He looked left and right, and continued to doubt life..."

Alice speaks in a particularly passionate and excited tone, sometimes with a little bit of the little fat girl's unique way of speaking with a Xiangchu accent but imitating Tianjin dialect when she was talking about cross talk recently, as if she was speaking on a stand-up talk show.

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

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

So now as soon as he heard Alice's excited voice, he would automatically imagine a little girl in the shape of a little old summer dancing and screaming in his mind. It really hurts his head. But it’s hard not to make her happy, because she did really well...

"Ouch? He seems to be running away? That's impossible! In Alice's forest, no one can escape! There is no one!"

Alice continued to explain with great enthusiasm, and then saw in the cartoon forest, a little girl in a white skirt with a "little chubby girl style" popped up not far from the blond old man, swayed, and Disappeared with a bang.

"The evil blood demon wants to hunt and kill the righteous Alice, but he, chase, no, find it! He searched and searched, searched and searched, but he couldn't find it, and he wanted to run away? It is impossible to let him run away. Righteous Alice appears, Phew!!"

Not only is the picture in a "chubby girl" style, but Alice's narration is also "chubby girl style".

Xiang Kun couldn't help but think that if she brought the little chubby girl with her, she would probably be super happy and devoted when she saw Alice's "on-site explanation". "The power of a thunderbolt.

However, he immediately rejected this idea, because if it really happened, Alice's excitement level would be over the top, and she would definitely do all kinds of tricks in order to show off in front of her little sister, Little Bell.

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 analyze Alice better than Joel. He needs more energy - after all, the latter has fully entered the state of enlightenment, and the next real experimental observation requires 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 begun to feel sleepy and would soon be unable to hold on any longer and fall asleep.

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

Hurry up and let this old vampire collapse. He quickly collects supersensory information so that Lao Xia can sleep peacefully.

"Okay! Boss!"

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

"Fog! ~ Fog! ~ Heavy Fog! ~ Heavy Fog! ~~"

…

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

Then these strange-looking fog quickly spread around him, completely blocking his sight.

Joel was extremely surprised. There was clearly something wrong with the fog. Could it be his hallucination again?

What made him even more sure that this was his hallucination was that the fog actually smelled like barbecue!

Joel waved his arms and rushed forward quickly, but not only could he not dissipate the fog, but he could not rush out. On the contrary, he did not step firmly. After falling, he rolled on the ground several times and stopped after hitting a tree. .

What Joel didn't know was that if someone looked down from high altitude at this time, they would find a stranger sight than what he saw in the fog - a group of fog that seemed to be alive, constantly moving in the mountain forest.

And in the mist was Joel.

This mist just happened to cover the entire area within seven or eight meters around Joel. It moved around with him, completely blocking his vision and "sticking" him to death.

After this mist was revealed by Lao Xia alone to block the environment more than a month ago, Alice also possessed the ability to appear - she was naturally able to inherit Lao Xia's ability to manifest items, including pork knuckles, cakes, ice cream, etc. Wait is no exception.

Joel's mood in the fog is getting more and more manic, but he still retains his sanity. Even if his vision and smell are affected at the same time, he still has the "prosthetic tissue fluid" that he arranged everywhere to help him anchor his position. .

So after he fell, he didn't get up. He lay down next to the tree and put his head on the ground to sense the "prosthetic limb" he had arranged in advance.

But what he didn't know was that when the fog rose, a large number of ants ran out from all over Chongyun Mountain. Some of them had wings, and they were like bees. Some jumped out of the soil, gathered together in dense masses, and then headed towards Joel arranged for "prosthetic tissue fluid" to flow to various locations along the way into the mountain.

Those plants that were arranged to be parasitized by "prosthetic tissue fluid" looked the same at first glance, and there was no change. However, after the ant colony approached and began to seem willing, they immediately swung their branches as if they were in pain, and started to lift their branches from the top. A small flower bag-like "organ" emerges and sprays corrosive liquid.

Large swaths of ants smoked and died, but their companions continued to attack the plants, which Joel called "prosthetic limbs", clinging to them and constantly chewing them.

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

In the fog, even if his vision and smell are blocked, he can still discern the direction and identify the enemy through the "prosthetics" arranged in advance and scattered everywhere.

But now, when the "prosthetic limb" is attacked by the omnipresent ant colony, he finally feels desperate.

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

But what's even more frightening is that he still doesn't know who the enemy or opponent is. Among his various sensing methods, there is no "blood clan" or "blood beast" around him all the way. , "Blood Plant", there are not even remotely acceptable creatures!

Just when he fell into despair, a little girl's voice sounded: "I heard that you are called the 'Lord of the Forest'?"

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