Naming Technique of the Night

Chapter 1186: Chapter 689: The Withdrawn Fist (Part 3)

The area where the man in the brown coat is located is the first anomaly in behavior trajectory that Qing Chen found.

Initially, the mouse plague would definitely not swagger onto the streets, nor appear in road surveillance.

So to analyze where the mouse plague first appeared, Qing Chen must infer its movement through analyzing human behavior.

He is not looking for mice in the surveillance, but rather those who suddenly disappeared in the city.

“Rewind No. 141 camera 36 hours, 32 minutes, and 12 seconds back. Mark the person on the screen. He and his wife were normally commuting 48 hours before, but suddenly neither of them have left home.”

“Rewind No. 136 camera 47 hours, 10 minutes, and 31 seconds back. The woman in the video goes to work at a strip club in the Fourth District every night, but she hasn’t left home in two days.”

“Camera No. 151…”

“Camera No. 153…”

The Kunlun members gradually became dazed; it turns out that even without visibly seeing the mice, they could still be found.

They looked incredulously at the young man at the back of the lecture hall; he calmly sat in the back row, as if everything was as it should be.

“Xiao Ying, overlay the marked screens onto the map of City No. 10. I need to know where these people live.”

Qing Chen commanded emotionlessly; gradually, he directed eight operators, yet the operators could barely keep up, feeling flustered.

Xiao Ying frantically checked the map; at times, he couldn’t mark the map as quickly as Qing Chen could find information.

All Kunlun members present felt a strong sense of oppression; they could only describe such cognitive ability as terrifying.

Lu Yuan and Ni Ergou quietly exchanged glances, seeing terror in each other’s eyes.

It was the first time Qing Chen demonstrated the full capabilities of his mind in front of outsiders.

Qing Chen could rewind the footage with precision down to the second.

Operators only needed to input the time Qing Chen wanted to rewind, and the screen would accurately freeze on the person he was looking for.

Lu Yuan and Ni Ergou couldn’t comprehend how someone could simultaneously watch 640 surveillance videos and accurately find information within them.

Furthermore, Qing Chen had to remember all the people appearing on screen.

Analyze their behavioral trajectories.

Discriminate against their abnormal behavior.

When Qing Chen spoke about the information, it seemed easy, but the amount of information hidden behind behavioral analysis was immense!

As Qing Chen spoke thousands of items of information, Xiao Ying’s map of City No. 10 was densely marked with red dots.

As the time in the surveillance video progressed, the death toll in the city increased, and Lu Yuan and Ni Ergou could even feel the growing fear of more frequent mouse swarm activities.

It was as if Qing Chen brought everyone through the reproduction and invasion process of the mouse plague using the surveillance tapes brought back by Iodophor.

Watching surveillance continued from morning till afternoon.

After Qing Chen ate a few bites of food, it continued from afternoon till midnight.

Everyone felt the disappearance of one human after another, sensing the harm brought by the mouse plague.

Immersive experience!

The Kunlun members responsible for operating the footage for Qing Chen took shifts, yet only Qing Chen remained seated at the back of the lecture hall, working at maximum intensity as if devoid of feelings.

Suddenly, Lu Yuan’s nose turned sour, and he said, “If Iodophor knew the clips he brought back could turn into something miraculous in Qing Chen’s hands, he would feel his death wasn’t in vain… they didn’t die for nothing.”

Qing Chen wouldn’t let their death be in vain either.

“Stop,” Qing Chen looked at those screens and said, “Xiao Ying, raise the map of City No. 10 for me.”

“Hey, got it,” Xiao Ying said excitedly.

He and three other Kunlun members held corners of the map upright in front of Qing Chen.

Everyone could see the map densely populated with red dots in the city, each red dot representing dead humans, or more.

The mouse plague exhibited sparse distribution throughout the city, spreading outward from the Fifth District as the axis.

The Fifth District was the most dense, so dense that it almost dyed the Fifth District red on the map.

Only the bottom three districts remained a blank void.

Now, where the plague burst forth became obvious at a glance.

“It started from the Fifth District, continually devouring the entire area, turning it into the first granary. The Rat King should be there,” Qing Chen said.

“Could it move later?” Lu Yuan asked.

“There’s an 80% probability it’s still there, as even yesterday in City No. 10, the rats were most frequent in the Fifth District. I now feel that this mouse plague has clear divisions of labor, almost evolved into a power structure similar to worker ants, soldier ants, and queen ants,” Qing Chen said. “This ‘queen ant’ of the tribe would likely lose many other physical functions to evolve its breeding capabilities, essentially serving as the tribe’s intelligence hub, continually breeding new mouse groups.”

Qing Chen: “Of course, there’s indeed a chance it could move elsewhere, so I need to keep observing surveillance to find more clues.”

Qing Chen didn’t mention that he also saw Qing Wen, Qing Shi, and Qing Xing on the screens.

He also saw some people behaving oddly on these screens.

But since the first three weren’t much related to the mouse plague, he didn’t bring them up to Kunlun; as for the others… Qing Chen planned to find them all tomorrow.

Perhaps these people could lead to some useful information.

Qing Chen stood up and walked out: “It’s late; everyone should get some rest. Tomorrow we’ll locate the Rat King… Thank you for your cooperation, see you tomorrow.”

With these words, Qing Chen left the lecture hall swiftly, without a moment’s delay.

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Five thousand words in a chapter, there’s another one at 11 p.m.