In a crossover anime, do you believe that a machine spirit can defeat a fake human?

Seedling speculation.

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"commander."

Chen Yi was suddenly patted while he was sleeping, and he subconsciously woke up and looked at Kroos and Lorelei sitting by the window.

Their expressions were serious.

"The time is... 00:01. What happened?"

Chen Yi listened carefully for a while, but there were no alarms or gunshots outside.

"video tape."

Kroos pointed to the table.

Chen Yi sat up, fumbled to turn on the light, walked to the table, and squinted to take a closer look.

Next to the second pencil mark, a new one appeared.

"A new mark is added every day."

Chen Yi immediately understood and sat down to call Officer Miao Mu.

"Hey?"

"This is Chen Yi. I have new developments regarding the videotape."

"I also have some... I don't know if they can be considered clues."

"Let me go first. A new pencil mark will be added every day, and we don't know the limit yet."

“I might know that the maximum might be six or seven channels. I just received a case that is also related to videotapes.”

Miao Mu was silent for a moment before answering.

"..."

"Related to Genesis?" Chen Yi pondered for a moment and immediately understood.

"I'm afraid that's the case."

Miao Mu's voice sounded a little weak.

What will happen after it's over?

Chen Yi placed the videotape in the middle of the table and talked on the phone while watching it.

"I don't know. All the cases I'm handling involved people who died within the first six days."

Miao Mu rubbed his temples.

"According to the content of Genesis, the seventh day is the Sabbath. Is it possible that as long as we survive the first six days, we can be proven to be safe?"

"Just as I guessed, Mr. Chen."

"But there are no clues."

"Since it cannot be disproven at the moment, let's just assume it's true."

"..."

Miao Mu remained silent, which seemed to indicate that he had tacitly agreed.

"However, I still wonder why the fake man chose to have other fake men kill the holder of the videotape... As far as I know, most fake men do not have the awareness of cooperation or using one to kill another. Common mental fake men like the Rain Man and the Scarecrow do not have the ability to receive orders."

Miao Mu voiced her doubts.

Moreover, the common characteristic of possessing videotapes suggests that the victims were not simply murdered by randomly appearing imposters.

"By the way, Officer Naegi, I have other leads on the tentacle dummy."

Chen Yi told the other party everything about the car accident that happened that afternoon.

"..."

Miao Mu's train of thought was interrupted, and the clues from the two cases became intertwined.

"and many more."

The seedlings suddenly discovered a loophole.

"You're in the Wakaba Ward, right?"

"Correct."

"The driver in the afternoon was speeding across the intersection, then turned and crashed into a utility pole before braking, got out of the car and shot. Is that the procedure?"

Miao Mu pressed for an answer.

"Correct."

"Please wait a few minutes."

"...The traffic police system has checked, and there are no speeding records for that truck in the surveillance footage along the road. In other words, the driver only sped before the intersection where he hit you."

"The question is... how did he know you were there?"

"Looking back at the hospital attack, the five attackers had been implanted with gray implants while they were hospitalized. When the attack occurred, they went straight to your location, making their target very clear."

"So, without any information, how did they know you were in that location?"

"..."

"Officer Naegi, you mean... the videotape has a location tracking function?"

“At first, I thought that the tentacle imposter had left some kind of tracking device on you, but considering the cases of other videotape holders... I think the videotape itself is more likely to be problematic. Since the videotape itself is not the imposter, it must be a tool of the imposter, such as a tracking device.”

Suddenly, everything became clear.

Chen Yi recalled that when they returned to the temporary camp in the evening, Manager Shi had mentioned the sighting of the bear with a human face...

"I'm pretty sure it's the locator, because I'm currently at my factory, and the security personnel said the number of attacks by the bear-faced creature increased in the evening."

It wasn't a prediction, because Chen Yi had already visited the temporary base once after the meeting in the morning, leaving behind coordinates and his presence, so it wasn't impossible.

"However, there is still one point of doubt, which concerns the hospital attack."

Miao Mu continued his analysis.

"How did that tentacle dummy know in advance that you were going to the municipal hospital?"

The gray implants in the five attackers were implanted beforehand, but...

If the attackers' only target was Chen Yi, how could the tentacle android possibly foresee the future and set a trap in advance?

"So..." Chen Yi's mind raced.

"There should be another person inside the municipal hospital who possesses the videotape, or at least someone who frequently enters and exits the hospital, such as a patient's relative."

That's why they set a trap, which Chen Yi accidentally stepped on.

The truth will come out.

Day Seven: Chapter 267 Turning Point

Chapter 267

The two agreed that they should find another owner of the videotape, who might have clues on him.

"But if we calculate it as six days, the time limit here is too short. Maybe the person who possessed the videotape is already dead."

Chen Yi pondered for a moment and then voiced his concerns.

"That's certainly a possibility..."

Time is of the essence.

"and many more."

Miao Mu on the other end of the phone suddenly paused.

"I have some things to take care of here, let's talk later."

As the phone call ended, Chen Yi looked at the information and thoughts scribbled haphazardly on the draft paper and sighed.

Most of the information about the videotape on the internet is urban legend and fabrication. Now he suspects that there is also an element of mental interference involved. He has to admit that this fake person is indeed a highly intelligent guy and quite difficult to deal with.

What should we do next?

......

At 12:30 a.m., a suicide note belonging to the deceased was found at the scene.

After writing down the contents of the suicide note, Miao Mu found the deceased's family.

"My husband is very hardworking at work, but he also loves us very much..."

"Go check his assets," Miao Mu instructed his subordinate.

The suicide note made no mention of money; it only conveyed the general meaning that the person was afraid, but didn't know what they were afraid of.

After leaving the rest room reserved for the mother and child, Miao Mu stood in the corridor and searched for information about the deceased on his phone.

"The outside world's impression of this entrepreneur is mostly positive..."

From the perspective of external environmental factors, no motive can be found for the entrepreneur's suicide.

"and many more."

He died by suicide in April 2000.

On the surface, there are no traces of a fake person inducing suicide.

Miao Mu paced back and forth in the room.

"No, that's not right..."

Miao Mu remembered the body's movements.

It wasn't suicide, absolutely not.

Judging from the movements, it looks like he has... something in his hand?

......

"If we look at the most extreme timeframe, six days, that means this videotape will only record six scratches."

It's already the third day, around 12:30 AM.

Chen Yi downed another bottle of black coffee, feeling the coldness and weakness in his hands and feet from the excessive caffeine intake, and forcibly kept his brain awake.

Let's connect the clues.

The most likely scenario is that the videotape itself is a locator or coordinate system, which cannot be disproven. Furthermore, the videotape contains content that is psychologically disturbing, is possessed by multiple people, but its true nature remains unknown.

"I now need to confirm the status of the other videotape holder."

But trying to find a person in a city based on an old object is like finding a needle in a haystack.

"It is known that the SWAT team was hospitalized on the first day and completed a full set of examinations, and then attacked on the fifth day."

"Since the tentacle dummy has been proven unable to move in sunlight, its only time to commit crimes is at night."

"...Commander, I hacked into the hospital's system and found a report that the dummy harassment was slightly more active on the fourth night."

Kroos interjected.

"In other words, the person who possessed the videotape did not appear at the hospital for the first three days."

However, this analysis only leads to the conclusion that the other person who owned the videotape was not attacked at the hospital, and it still cannot confirm whether the other person is alive or dead.

"Sigh..." Chen Yi scratched his head in frustration, picked up the draft paper again, and asked Kroos to try searching for some news reports.

It's like looking for a needle in a haystack; there's no other way.

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"call......"

Miao Mu went to an empty intelligence analysis room alone and began to organize the information she had collected.

Footsteps sounded at the door, and several ATSS officers pushed the door open and entered. They paused for a moment when they saw Miao Mu.

"I'm sorry, Commander Naegi, we didn't know anyone was here..."