Memory inheritor

Chapter 162 Breaking Through the Barrier

Chapter 162 Breaking Through the Barrier (Part 1)

Wei Hongsi and Xia Shiyu returned to the 16th floor from the president's office and went to their respective positions to begin their work for the day.

The incident happened yesterday, and all the suspects in the case have been arrested. The follow-up matters will be handled by professionals, so it is not worth worrying about them anymore.

Last night, Zaitong was successfully treated, which verified the solution based on Shen Qing's self-healing mechanism and proved that this technical path is feasible.

The next step is to make full use of this progress, conduct an in-depth analysis of the mechanism itself, and ultimately develop a general solution applicable to most scenarios.

Through the work of the past few days, Wei Hongsi has gradually adapted to the role of project leader.

Now he only needs to focus on solving key problems, such as clarifying research objectives, designing research plans, and planning implementation paths; while the specific work such as data analysis and algorithm implementation is mostly done by team members.

Therefore, although he had more work to do, he actually spent less time on specific execution, allowing him to devote more energy to in-depth thinking about core issues.

After finishing the work related to the "psychological virus" prevention and control project, Wei Hongsi went to follow up on the progress of the SR project. At this time, the Third Research Institute was making preparations for the verification of the ideas they proposed yesterday.

This verification is a crucial prerequisite for cracking the "death command".

The SR project team has confirmed that the "death command" is essentially a set of neurally encoded signals implanted in the brain that can directly act on the central neural network to produce a fatal effect. Its mechanism involves at least two aspects.

One method is to induce suicidal behavior in the subject through hypnosis, or to specifically reinforce their suicidal tendencies and put them into action.

Secondly, it can induce epileptiform discharges in the brain, which can directly cause malignant arrhythmias and cardiac dysfunction through the limbic system and autonomic nerve pathways.

Based on this, Wei Hongsi and the expert team of this project put forward two further speculations.

One method involves creating extremely terrifying hallucinations through neural commands, causing the brain to perceive them as a fatal threat, triggering a violent sympathetic storm, and ultimately leading to stress-induced sudden death.

Secondly, by intensely activating central inhibitory pathways through neural coding, overwhelming synaptic inhibition is applied to neurons in the medullary respiratory rhythm generator, completely blocking their autonomous excitation ability, ultimately leading to central respiratory arrest and death.

To remove the "death commands" from the brains of the five victims, the triggering of the commands must first be blocked to ensure they do not "accidentally die suddenly," before any removal can be considered. This verification aims to achieve this.

The light guide will be placed on the carbon nanotube array implanted in the victim's head. It has highly efficient electrical signal conduction properties and can be very useful in their treatment.

The main verification content is to interface the control electrode with a carbon nanotube array, and solve the problem of epileptiform discharges in the brain through the dual effects of signal suppression and rhythm calibration. At the same time, it prevents the triggering of lethal effects such as hypnosis, terrifying hallucinations, and activation of inhibitory pathways by interfering with regular electrical signals.

Once this verification is successful, we can begin to remove the victim's death command code.

Wei Hongsi communicated online with the project's expert team for about twenty minutes and identified some technical issues.

The Third Research Institute's participation in this project included not only its own experts but also two forensic pathologists from the identification center. The experts from Yuecheng University were Feng Weixu and Jiang Haiyang.

After the online exchange, Wei Hongsi checked on the progress of the project team members. Around noon, he received a call from his older brother.

On Tuesday, Wei Hongsi sent a message to Zhang Shengyong, suggesting that Meng Haolin might have withheld some important information.

In the task force, the first person to come into contact with Meng Haolin was Wei Hongbo. Later, when Meng Haolin surrendered, Wei Hongbo was in charge of the interrogation, so this matter fell to him.

Wei Hongbo visited the detention center where Meng Haolin was held the day before yesterday, and this morning was his second visit, but he still hadn't gotten anything out of it.

"Meng Haolin still says he's already told everything he needed to, and I don't think I can get anything out of him. But he did make a request this time; he said he wants to see you."

"See me? Did he say why?" Wei Hongsi was very surprised.

He had only met Meng Haolin twice. Once was in the company's conference room 2210, and the two didn't exchange a single word. Perhaps grabbing Li Yunxiang's hair could be considered saving Meng Haolin from serious injury.

Another instance was when Meng Haolin surrendered himself to the police at the branch office's criminal investigation unit. At that time, Meng Haolin told him that being too outspoken was not a good thing, his words carrying a hidden warning and admonition.

Wei Hongbo said, "He didn't say why, he just said he wanted to talk to you, and that it might be helpful to our police."

"What could I possibly have to talk to him about?" Wei Hongsi was puzzled. He didn't think he could get anything out of Meng Haolin.

If it's related to the case, he could just tell his brother directly. Even if he goes to see Meng Haolin, the two of them can't possibly have a private conversation alone.

If it has nothing to do with the case, and the two have never crossed paths before, what is there to talk about?

Wei Hongbo said, "You can judge for yourself. But in principle, we will not negotiate with criminal suspects."

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Wei Hongsi couldn't help but laugh: "You've already mentioned principles, why would I still go see him?"

Will this affect your current research work?

"It won't have much of an impact."

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"Alright, that's settled then."

Wei Hongsi hung up the phone and pondered for a while, but couldn't guess Meng Haolin's motive for wanting to see him, so he simply stopped thinking about it.

He became suspicious of Meng Haolin again. It was indeed related to brain-computer interfaces and "death commands," but he didn't want to gain a technological breakthrough through Meng Haolin. Instead, he felt that something was very strange.

Implanting instructions into Li Yunxiang's brain to induce epileptic-like discharges sounds simple, and the principle is not complicated, but it is not so easy to come up with it out of thin air.

Just like double stirrups, which can be easily copied once you've seen them, they seem to be just an ordinary horse harness. However, they were invented many years after cavalry became an important branch of the military.

There are many other similar examples, such as horseshoes and stern rudders.

So how exactly did Meng Haolin come up with this idea?

According to his confession, he discovered that his daughter had mental abnormalities, and her condition continued to deteriorate until she eventually died from a brain disease.

Therefore, he probably wouldn't have had the chance to see what happened after the "death command" was triggered, and thus wouldn't have known about the existence of the "death command".

Therefore, there is reason to suspect that Meng Haolin had seen the "death command" triggered on others, and that he knew more about the Light Guide Society than he had told.

Unfortunately, Wei Hongsi couldn't provide any evidence to prove his conjecture. As long as Meng Haolin insisted that it was his own idea, there was really nothing that could be done about it.