Darkness is Coming

The administrative area of ​​Shangjing City is 16,410.51 square kilometers. The city's permanent population (including household registration population and temporary residents who have lived in Beijing for more than half a year) is approaching the 20 million mark, and the ever-growing floating population has made the city's management incomparable. complex.

   On an average day, more than 200 people in this city turn into corpses, including natural deaths, deaths due to illness, sudden deaths caused by external causes, traffic accidents, and homicides that no one wants to mention. After all, it is at the foot of the emperor. Any murder case will have a bad social impact. The Shanghai police can be said to be the most stressed police officers in the whole country except for the anti-drug team. Whenever a murder occurs, they must let go of everything in their hands. Do your best to solve the case as soon as possible.

   But in the last month, unexplainable strange phenomena have appeared in Shangjing.

Ordinary people who were far from the center of the incident did not know about it. The corpse-carrying workers only vaguely felt that the recent market was sluggish, and did not have a direct sense of this phenomenon. Only the public security system in Shangjing—especially the criminal police—was the first to notice it. Weird things are happening.

   A day without homicides is a day to relax a little.

   A week without homicides is enough to celebrate.

   But there was no homicide for a whole month, but the police officers who knew it felt horrified, because they faintly realized that the world they seemed to be familiar with was undergoing drastic changes at an unimaginable and difficult to catch up speed.

Of course, no matter what the police officers think or guess, they can't spread the information that ordinary people shouldn't know. Anyone with radical ideas will be interviewed by the political commissar, conduct a profound ideological education, and sign the contract. Confidentiality Agreement.

   As a result, many smart police officers in the Shanghai criminal police circle know an internal intelligence: a secret department is going to Beijing to carry out experimental operations, once it is successful...

   I'm sorry, whether the project is successful, whether the "relevant departments" will vigorously promote the development of the project after the success, and the changes that will be caused after the smooth development and promotion of the project, these are all things that are not allowed to be discussed, inquired, or guessed.

   All secrets must be buried in the Zero One Base, underground on the outskirts of Shangjing.

   "Zero?!" Yang Xiaoqian couldn't hold back the urge to exclaim, "In one month, in the whole of Beijing, have you stopped every possible murder case?"

   "Yes." Liu Zhongqian affirmed confidently, "There is no omission."

"But the workload is too much, and you don't have enough manpower at all, right?" Yu Qian was also very puzzled. To achieve absolute confidentiality, the staff must be streamlined, relying on the two or three big cats and kittens in the zero-one base. What to prevent and prevent possible homicides in Beijing? The city has a population of over 20 million!

"My job today is to answer questions for the two of you, please give me time to explain slowly." Liu Zhongqian gave up his seat, the operator in white sat back, smiled politely, and put on his headphones to immerse himself again Going to the intense work, a few seconds later, a new picture appeared in the video module on the left side of the curved screen display.

"First of all, I want to briefly explain the zero-one base." Liu Zhongqian raised his small hand and shook it around, "The zero-one base is built underground, and its actual area is much larger than what we have seen now. It is the central area of ​​the first floor: the operation room. Well, of course, an underground base of this size cannot be completed in a few months. In fact, the Zero One Base has existed for six years, until two months ago, nineteen The bureau took over the base."

   "What is the purpose of establishing this underground base?" Yang Xiaoqian asked.

  Liu Zhongqian replied without hesitation: "Originally, the purpose of the zero-one base was to monitor."

   "Who to watch?"

"Everyone." Liu Zhongqian knew that the answer would take a little time to digest, so he paused for three seconds before continuing, "According to the intelligence, since the 9/11 incident, the U.S. federal government has invested a lot of research funds in information monitoring in the name of counter-terrorism, one of which is The most obvious activity is the top-secret electronic surveillance program, which was initiated by the National Security Agency of the United States four years ago. It colluded with major Internet giants and directly entered the central server of the Federal Internet Corporation to mine data and collect intelligence. All aspects of email, instant messaging, video, photos, stored data, voice chat, file transfer, video conferencing, login times and social networking profiles are fully monitored.”

   "How dare you do such a thing? Federal citizens of the United States pay the most attention to privacy."

"Quoting the original words of the chief of our intelligence department, as long as there are enough interests, the American federal people will dare to do anything, and never overestimate their lower limit. Of course, at present we cannot confirm the authenticity of the intelligence, this is probably just chasing the shadows. , it may also be the other party's smoke bomb. But the data will not deceive people. In recent years, there have been fewer and fewer terrorist attacks in the United States, so the national security has reason to believe that the United States has mastered some new type of information technology , and this technology is very important for Huaxia."

   "It is very important to any country." Yang Xiaoqian nodded, "Because its use is not only in counter-terrorism, so there is a zero-one base?"

"Yes, in the past six years, the Zero One Base has spent countless money, and the industry elites in the computer field and information processing field have invested countless efforts here, but they have never been able to cross the last step and cross the technical threshold." Liu Zhongqian made a gesture, He raised the palm of his right hand and hit the palm of his right hand with his left index finger.

   "And after Liu Yuanzhou took office, this bottleneck was broken? So, the difficulty that could not be overcome before was the processing of information?"

"Yes, it is not difficult to collect information. In theory, before the successful development of quantum encryption communication technology, any information can be eavesdropped and stolen. In this regard, we are going faster than the United States, as long as we solve the technical difficulties. , we can almost ignore political issues and humanistic issues. But in modern information warfare, obtaining information has never been a problem. The key point is to quickly screen out effective information from a massive amount of information and understand it.”

   "For example, we can easily obtain all real-time surveillance footage in the whole of Shangjing, including public facilities, civil facilities and cameras installed by individuals for various purposes without permission, as well as all mobile phone videos broadcast online."

"Using surveillance is often the first step for the police to handle criminal cases, because most homicides are not committed by professional killers, and more or less clues will be left in surveillance. However, suspects often enter surveillance before the case occurs, and police The retrieval of surveillance is often after the case occurs. If the suspect can show the motive for committing the crime, he can intercept valid information from the video screen in time, and stop the suspect in advance. A murder case can be avoided - just like the two It's the same as what you just saw."

   "Manpower alone cannot do this." Yang Xiaoqian stared at the screen intently. How many cameras are there in Shangjing? To monitor all the images in real time, it may not be enough to transfer all the police forces across the country here. What's more, the criminal motives of criminal suspects often need to be considered and linked to other events.

   The workload of processing this data is far beyond the capabilities of human beings.