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Chapter 175 Far Evil

Chapter 175 Far Evil (Part 2)

After listening to Wei Hongsi's analysis, Yu Zhen slowly nodded: "Then that's correct."

Wei Hongsi asked, "Has a similar incident occurred in KR country?"

"Yes!" Yu Zhen sat down in the chair Zhang Shengyong had moved for him. "In the past week, there have been many assault cases in their country that match your analysis and speculation. We suspect that at least some of the suspects have been affected by a psychological virus."

"Many cases?" Wei Hongsi was quite surprised. "But I haven't seen any related reports!"

If it were just one or two cases, they might only attract attention locally. But if multiple similar cases occur in a short period of time, given the current speed of information dissemination, even if they don't become known throughout the entire internet, there will at least be related news reports circulating everywhere.

In the past few days, Wei Hongsi has been spending some time each day keeping an eye on the news from KR, and he has also asked Xia Shiyu to keep an eye on it, but they haven't seen any information related to it.

"There are at least twenty cases." Yu Zhen gestured with two fingers. "This is just what we've observed; the actual number of cases is definitely more than that."

"Wow, it's that serious!" Wei Hongsi exclaimed in surprise. "So, the authorities are covering up the news?"

Yu Zhen nodded and said, "Yes, but there are many coincidences involved."

The suspects in this series of vicious assaults in KR country were all long-term victims of bullying, and half of them were students.

They also lack relevant experience, and their timing for striking is often very sudden, so although they can succeed, it is not a frequent occurrence.

Therefore, when investigating these cases, the police in KR did not treat them as serious assault cases. Most cases were transferred to the family court after being handed over to the prosecutor, and went through the protective measures procedure. The relevant cases were basically not publicly reported.

Several cases that occurred in the workplace were particularly noteworthy. The victims of bullying were more meticulous, with some even resorting to pouring gasoline and setting people on fire.

In these incidents, besides the situations mentioned above, there is another type of bullied person who chooses to retaliate against those weaker than themselves, such as younger students, younger neighbors, or even their children. In this latter case, the bully and the bullied are often spouses; the wife, unable to control her husband, takes her anger out on the children, leading to tragedies.

Although these cases occurred in a short period of time, they were scattered throughout KR country, and the people involved in each case had no connection. Police in various parts of KR country basically treated them as individual cases and did not investigate the connections between them.

KR has a criminal justice information sharing system that aggregates information about the entire process of a case, from police filing to court judgment.

Their officials discovered, through the data aggregated by this system, that similar cases were occurring far more frequently in a short period of time than before, which drew their attention.

Yu Zhen didn't tell Wei Hongsi about these situations right away because he wanted to compare and verify them with the video analysis conclusions, avoiding preconceived notions about finding answers based on phenomena.

After hearing Yu Zhen's account of the situation in KR, Wei Hongsi was somewhat incredulous: "So many cases have occurred before their officials started to take it seriously; their response is far too slow!"

Given the size and population of KR, which is merely a province in C, it is truly unbelievable that the authorities have taken no action despite the occurrence of twenty or thirty similar cases in just one week.

Zhang Shengyong said, "Don't you know? Bullying is very common in South Korea, from schools to workplaces. Cases like this have always existed and are quite common."

Wei Hongsi nodded. He had heard about the situation in KR, but he had never had a direct experience of it.

Besides that, he had another question: "Yu Zhi, the KR government was slow to react. Did we discover the anomaly on their end first?"

Yu Zhen said, "Your senior colleague, Professor Feng, gave us a list of countries that are capable of supporting the development of large-scale AI. After the organization's situation was confirmed, Director Liang reported it to the higher authorities, so the higher authorities will pay more attention to the special circumstances of the relevant countries."

Wei Hongsi suddenly realized.

Although the country of KR is not large, it has managed to rank among the top tier in AI development. Although it is at the bottom of the pack, it has already surpassed most countries.

If our officials start paying attention to situations abroad, they will likely be more vigilant about this neighboring country. Therefore, it's not surprising that the light-guiding company chose to target New Orleans.

Yu Zhen said, "Professor Wei, based on your observations of the psychological viruses in those two videos, could they have an impact on the people of our country?"

"Definitely," Wei Hongsi said with certainty, and then explained the reasons to the two of them.

While the potential harm caused by "psychological viruses" in the form of videos is largely related to the viewer's cultural background and mindset, the influence of their ability to induce extreme emotions is more profoundly affected by their living and working environment.

Take these two "psychological viruses" made for KR country as an example. Whether it is country C, which is dominated by Eastern culture, or country A, which represents Western culture, anyone who has been bullied in school or workplace may be infected after watching them.

The only difference is that victims of bullying in country C are more susceptible to infection and suffer a deeper degree of "mental pollution," while victims of bullying in country A are much less affected.

Similarly, if one has never been bullied or has no experience of school or workplace life, regardless of cultural background, it is very difficult to be infected by these two "psychological viruses".

Yu Zhen frowned upon hearing this: "That's a bit troublesome."

Wei Hongsi asked, "Chief Yu, what are the contents of those two videos?"

Although he performs video analysis, he mostly doesn't watch the videos, especially those suspected of containing "psychological viruses." Of course, he can watch them safely if necessary.

Yu Zhen said, "Those were two episodes of an animated series, produced and generated by the AI ​​system of that company in KR country."

Wei Hongsi nodded: "That's easier to control than live-action filming, and it's also easier to do post-production editing."

Newović's AI system is developing very rapidly in video production, and animation production is one of their main areas of expertise.

However, creating animated videos and creating "psychological viruses" are two different things, and even if both come from Newović, they are not from the same AI system.

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