Enforcer Manual
Chapter 349: Director Lu is Working Overtime_1

Chapter 349: Chapter 349: Director Lu is Working Overtime_1

Lu Xiang had read more than once in "A Love Tip Every Day" about the dangers of long-distance relationships. According to big data statistics, the breakup rate for long-distance relationships reaches as high as 98.75%, so she had made career plans for her future early on.

Wherever Song Lan went, she would follow, or if she got dispatched to a core area for work, she was determined to have Song Lan transferred there too.

The policy of remote control she mentioned just now was a special system of the Military Intelligence Section Seven. Often under the guise of protection, they would take the loved ones or relatives of secret agents to areas convenient for "protection" so as to continue to offer havens for their families in case the agents were unfortunately killed in the line of duty.

In Lu Xiang’s view, this was nothing but soft detention under the flag of protection, because the time secret agents could visit their family was strictly controlled.

After forcefully expressing her attitude, the interviewer didn’t respond further but instead left her with the ambiguous reply to "wait for news at home."

For Lu Xiang, even if she didn’t join the Military Intelligence Section Seven, she had prepared a second option.

During her interview, Dr. Bai Zhu had already breached the firewall of the Ragus Foundation and traced the signal source of the Military Intelligence Section Seven interviewer.

Upon leaving the building of the Ragus Foundation division, Dr. Bai Zhu sent over the investigation materials.

The signal source was located inside a government office building in The First Region, and the individual using the first generation artificial intelligence to converse with her was a woman in a white lab coat. Although there was no information about her online, by tracking her movements, they could eventually uncover the core network of Military Intelligence Section Seven.

By then, they would be able to find information on every city’s agents from within.

Next, all she needed to do was patiently wait for Military Intelligence Section Seven to contact her again.

After returning home, the sky outside had thoroughly darkened, and a whole day of meetings had left Lu Xiang somewhat exhausted. However, the day’s fatigue was swept away the moment she saw the table full of sumptuous dishes.

It only strengthened Lu Xiang’s resolve to refuse a long-distance relationship.

She couldn’t possibly allow Song Lan to be snatched away by someone else, not even leaving a sliver of a chance!

After enjoying a large bowl of white rice, Lu Xiang noticed that today Song Lan seemed a bit peculiar. Usually, when she came home, he would most likely be comfortably lying on the sofa watching blockbusters, yet today, he was nervously hunched over his laptop, looking skittish.

What could possibly scare the imposing master of the Void like this?

Lu Xiang was curious.

Seeing Song Lan completely focused on the computer screen, she deliberately held her breath and tiptoed around the living room, sneaking up behind him.

On the laptop screen were two portraits in somewhat monochromatic tones. The girl on the left stood beside a park’s flowerbed with a toy windmill in her hands, smiling at them; the right-side photo was more bizarre, seemingly taken in the same park, with the person also smiling at them but exuding an extremely jarring feeling.

After careful observation, Lu Xiang discovered the reason for the eeriness.

The person in the photo’s mouth smiled, but their eyes betrayed anger—two completely conflicting emotions on the same face that made it look uncannily off.

Song Lan, having noticed this as well, decisively chose the image on the right.

The screen quickly popped up feedback indicating "Correct Answer."

"What is this?"

Lu Xiang’s curiosity grew stronger, as she knew that although Song Lan enjoyed watching horror movies, he seldom dared to watch them alone, and always needed her to sit with him on the sofa for company.

"This is a task associated with the job of an agent."

Perhaps being spooked by the disturbing photos, Song Lan looked quite serious.

Lu Xiang was puzzled, "What agent?"

"Didn’t I promise to become your agent after you became a rescuer? Look, this is the program downloaded from the rescuer department website of Zone Seventeen, titled ’Teaching You to Identify Fakes in Life,’ and it seems this is one of the issues you will have to face later on."

"So you’re saying, the person in the right-side photo is some kind of entity disguised as a human?"

"Not an entity, but an escaped artificial intelligence. The website says according to the latest survey, these escaped artificial intelligences will disguise as humans. Just yesterday, the Fifth Zone reported an incident where an AI replaced a retired worker."

Last night, in the early hours, the Law Enforcers of the Fifth Zone received a report from a sanitation worker who claimed he found a highly decomposed body near a sewer.

After DNA comparison, the body was identified as a retired worker from a local factory.

Then a bizarre incident occurred when the Law Enforcers were following procedures to notify the family, they encountered the supposed deceased at home. During the interrogation, an artificial intelligence suddenly lashed out, attacking and killing two Law Enforcers before fleeing to an unknown location.

"This is the 32nd case this year of artificial intelligence replacing humans, and yesterday’s incident sparked a heated discussion online, igniting a wave of opposition against artificial intelligence in many core areas,"

"Does this software teach you to recognize artificial intelligences disguised as humans?"

Lu Xiang asked, puzzled, "Aren’t these photos a bit too obvious?"

Considering her understanding of current artificial intelligence, not to mention ordinary citizens, even they, the Law Enforcers, might not be able to distinguish clearly between artificial intelligences and humans. Since the third generation of artificial intelligence, bioroids had looked identical to ordinary people. To facilitate differentiation, bioroid production companies adopted "blue blood."

Bioroids would bleed a blue nutrient fluid when injured, a method used to distinguish them from humans in certain criminal cases. However, in the special cases mentioned by Song Lan, the involved bioroids had somehow changed their blood to red.

Without detailed testing, it’s feared that even the companies producing bioroids might not distinguish between them and humans.

"That’s just one approach. Bioroid emotional systems cannot be as refined as human ones. Although they constantly try to imitate humans, occasionally they would produce the bizarre expressions seen in the photos. The website advises that if citizens encounter such individuals in their daily lives, they should proactively contact the local rescuers,"

Song Lan said, "Some bioroids, in order to avoid detection, will try to avoid displaying emotions. Director, you are at high risk in this regard."

"Me?"

"Look at this."

Song Lan opened the website in front of Lu Xiang.

Besides the category of odd facial expressions he had just mentioned, there was another type that showed no expressions in daily life, not getting angry when insulted and not laughing at jokes, but what’s more significant, once faced with a threat, they would show extreme aggressiveness.

When Song Lan read this text, the first person he thought of was Lu Xiang.

Lu Xiang’s face was indeed lacking in expressions, often appearing calm like a bioroid.

"No, that’s wrong; I quite like to laugh." Lu Xiang frowned, "Don’t believe me? Tell me a joke and see."

Faced with this sudden request, Song Lan racked his brains and finally recounted the classic joke of "Director Lu Working Overtime."

After hearing the joke, Lu Xiang laughed heartily.

Her mouth was agape in amusement, yet her tightly knitted brows did not ease at all, giving her an appearance that seemed both amused and angry.

It turned out that Director Lu did indeed laugh at jokes.

The only problem was that her laughter looked exactly like the first type of bioroid described on the website.

"Director, actually... if you’re not good at laughing, you don’t have to laugh,"

"Alright, then I won’t laugh."

The smile on Lu Xiang’s face stopped abruptly, and Song Lan felt the phrase "masterfully composed" was quite appropriate.

"The website also mentioned a third method of identification..."

"Don’t rush it,"

Lu Xiang interrupted him, her probing eyes fixated on Song Lan.

The smile was a facade, but the furrowed brow was a true reflection of her inner feelings, "Spill it, what have you been up to while I was working overtime?"

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