Arcane Lord

It's Talib!

At least on the surface, he is indeed Tarafu's younger brother!

As the slender figure continued to retreat in perception, more and more information was consciously received by Shado into his consciousness, including various characteristics of Talib himself and related parameters in the environment that were affected by this.

At the same time, the intellectual brain connected to his essence also began to exert the power of a wisdom cluster. Countless information was classified and analyzed, and key points were extracted one by one.

Subsequently, under Shado's command, the perspective of the detection spell focused on Talib's "retreat" direction from the stasis field in the center of the square, to the edge of the square, and even to Talib's private residence outside the square.

But Talib's "regression" in his perception continues, from the various trajectories in the private house, to the palace of Maireed Pasha outside, and then to the private house again, during which the figure of Talib once appeared.

However, Sha Duo focused on Talib, while Taraf was temporarily ignored by him. He can pursue it again in the future if necessary.

In addition, Tarafu is also more strict than Talib in terms of protection against detection spells. Shado speculates that Tarafu can only be traced to this level twice at most, and it will be difficult to pursue him again after that. It's over.

Talib, on the other hand, can trace it back at least four more times before the interference from various factors makes the detection results too vague and of no practical analytical value.

This situation is somewhat similar to the "uncertainty" on Earth, except that the measurement of quantum on Earth may cause its state to change once, but here, there will be a gradual process based on the observation intensity of the detection spell. .

In the same way, if there is no corresponding protection, a thoughtful person can erase some past information in advance through self-tracing. In fact, this is also a very effective way to avoid detection.

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In this way, Shado kept going back to the scene when brothers Talib and Taraf had dinner three days before the assassination. At this time point, Talib's figure was already very similar, and Taraf There is only a blank space.

Even if one were to pursue Shuo specifically for Tarafu, it would be difficult to find useful information from that time.

So Xia Duo naturally stopped the spell, "Mage Esther, it's okay, let's stop here this time!"

"Has Lord Xia Duo discovered anything?" Esther asked quickly.

"Yes, I have found some clues and are analyzing them. If nothing else happens, it should be able to prove that the assassin was not Talib himself."

"What?!"

Esther was immediately shocked, "Lord Shado, what did you find?"

"We'll talk about this later. I need a quiet environment for analysis."

Sha Duo rubbed his brows, found a chair from his personal space, placed it next to the stasis field, and sat on it. Upon seeing this, Savile immediately took charge and became vigilant.

Tarafu was also extremely excited when he heard the news, but he couldn't show it yet. He just kept sending messages to remind Jibril to send the news back as soon as possible.

Only Esther seemed to be pacing back and forth anxiously, but after seeing that Xia Duo was unmoved, she gradually stopped and waited patiently for the final result.

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At this moment, in Xia Duo's consciousness, the information was entangled together, and it seemed that he was about to reach some kind of conclusion, but he just couldn't get out.

Detection spells do not essentially provide analytical capabilities, but merely collect information. However, in this classical era, many times seeing the scene is equivalent to restoring the truth.

Therefore, when faced with events that only involve ordinary people, spells are often invincible. However, when faced with spell casters, especially spell casters who are extremely knowledgeable in the field of detection, they are often unable to do anything.

So there is the continuous evolution of detection and avoidance of detection.

If he really fell into this kind of purely technical competition, Xia Duo actually had no good solution, but coming from Earth, he had a more advanced analytical thinking, which was enough for him to see through the fog and see the truth clearly.

Just like when technology on earth was not yet developed, if you wanted to determine the identity of the murderer, you could only rely on very indirect evidence, such as witnesses, documents, bills, etc.

But with the advent of DNA technology, a drop of blood is enough to identify the murderer's true identity.

Those criminals who left bloodstain evidence before the advent of DNA may not have thought that there would be such a thing as DNA testing in the future. In the era of DNA testing, everyone can be easily detected.

As long as there is a comprehensive DNA database, arresting people is a matter of hands-on work. Even if there is not, the genetic generation can be analyzed to determine a general direction. This was already a very mature technology when Xia Duo traveled through time.

Of course, he is not trying to test Talib's blood before and after. This is actually mentioned in Kalishan's investigation report. The blood stains left by the assassin after committing suicide do belong to Talib, or to Maire. The blood of the German family.

In the field of blood testing, Shado believed that he was not as professional as Calimshan. Since the elves did not raise any objections, he was more inclined to agree with this judgment.

But blood has never meant that the assassin was Talib, or that the assassination was Talib's subjective will.

In Xia Duo's hometown, there is a legend that "it is not illegal to kill someone with a mental illness". It seems a bit absurd, but in fact it means that the perpetrator can only bear responsibility for his actions under the control of his free will.

In the magical world, although Xia Duo has never seen a mental patient, he has seen a lot of mental magic. What a person does may not necessarily be what he wants to do, but it may also be directly controlled by others.

In this case, of course, the person being manipulated cannot be considered to be the actual perpetrator.

In fact, when Talib assassinated the Sith prince, Shado discovered that it was far from simple mind spell control.

By analyzing Talib's behavior from the time of the incident to three days ago, Shado found that almost on the day before the assassination incident, Talib's behavior pattern changed in a very subtle way on his way back to his private residence from the Maired Pasha Palace. Variety.

To see whether a person has changed before and after, in addition to the characteristics of the body itself, there are also some more abstract characteristics, such as expressions, movements, and postures.

Of course, Xia Duo doesn't know much about professional micro-expression analysis or gait analysis, but as long as some parameters that can be specifically described and measured are written down in the form of data, the problem will return to his old profession before time travel. .

Xia Duo is not very proficient in data analysis, but this is not an extremely complex problem. In the abstract, it is just a data dimensionality reduction problem with less than 500 dimensions.

Using pure mathematical methods to do it is far less difficult than reducing the dimensionality of the 1,200-dimensional data of the plane detection array feedback signal during plane exploration.

It's just that Xia Duo has some understanding of plane exploration and can perform some dimensionality reduction methods based on feature selection, which greatly reduces the workload.

But he can only half-guess what micro-expression analysis, body movement analysis, and gait analysis are. He mainly relies on experience, intuition and pure mathematics to reduce the dimensionality of the data, thereby extracting the expression, body, and gait characteristics reflected in the data. .

This is quite a brain-consuming task.

Fortunately, there is intelligence to help!