Super Gene Ⅱ: Evolution

"Isn't there someone there?" Tian Xin glared at Lin Shen and continued to command the Smart Brain. Unfortunately, this video, like the ones before, could not be operated on; it could only play on its own. Tian Xin remained relentless, opening other videos, which also couldn't be operated on, and their screens seemed as still as the first, with no figures appearing. Lin Shen frowned as he watched; there was something peculiar about these videos, but he couldn't quite put his finger on it. Seeing that it couldn't be operated on, Tian Xin had no choice but to give up and asked Lu to start removing the mosaic. "Error…unable to parse and clear…" Quickly, Lu returned with a frustrating answer for Tian Xin. Tian Xin felt embarrassed in front of Lin Shen, but Lin Shen was not in the mood to mock him. In the video, the Mosaic Person was bathing in a luxurious room that contained an indoor small swimming pool; the Mosaic Person was soaking in it, alongside a bottle of wine and a glass he had taken from the liquor cabinet, enjoying his drink contentedly. "Tian, do you think the person in these two videos is the same one?" Lin Shen suddenly asked Tian Xin after watching for a while. "His entire body is covered in a mosaic. I can't even tell his gender; how would I know if it's the same person?" Tian Xin paused then added, "But judging by his height and the way he moves, it could possibly be the same person." "Where did you get these videos from? What are they for?" Tian Xin didn't understand the purpose of these videos. Lin Shen didn't answer him and tried to command Lu to open the first video, but Lu ignored him. "Haha, my Smart Brain can't be commanded by just anyone." Tian Xin instructed Lu with a laugh to open the first video. The first video remained unchanged, playing as if it were a still image; no person appeared. Tian Xin simply had Lu open all the videos at once, projecting them out like a monitor's screen, showing all the room scenes. "Isn't this just surveillance?" Tian Xin suspiciously looked at Lin Shen, "You don't have some hobby of spying on people's privacy, do you?" "What are you thinking? I bought this chip in the trading area." Lin Shen had no choice but to tell Tian Xin about the origin of the chip. If Tian Xin misunderstood him as having such a penchant and told Tian Xun, it would be too troublesome to explain. After hearing this, Tian Xin smirked, "Maybe it's just someone's prank, why do you care about such an unknown thing?" Lin Shen did not answer Tian Xin; his eyes stayed fixed on the videos, suddenly widening. Tian Xin, puzzled, turned his head towards the video and noticed in the second video—the luxurious room video—there was no longer the trace of the Mosaic Person, but in the first room, that Mosaic Person appeared again. "What's going on?" Tian Xin eyed Lin Shen in confusion, unaware why Lin Shen looked that way, wondering if it was just a normal video. "Just now, that Mosaic Person pushed the door and left the luxurious room, then entered through the game room's door, as if the doors of the two rooms were connected," Lin Shen pointed out in the video. "So what's strange about that? Maybe the two rooms are just beside each other…" As Tian Xin spoke, he also began to feel there was something off. There were two different videos, and even if the rooms in the videos were adjacent, the times they opened the videos were different, the playtimes were different; how could the videos and the person be so synchronized? "Could this really be live surveillance?" Tian Xin realized something and blurted out. But as soon as he finished speaking, he knew it wasn't possible; survellance would require proximity to the cameras, these were pre-recorded videos, not surveillance. "If it was live surveillance, it would explain why we can't fast forward," Lin Shen said. "That's not right either. Even if we don't consider how this chip is connected to the cameras, if it was surveillance, we should be able to rewind, right? We can't do that now," Tian Xin added. "Is it possible that it's just surveillance with no recording capability?" Lin Shen pondered. "That can't be right, although the chip's technology is a bit outdated, it's already capable of holographic projection, how could it not have recording capabilities?" Tian Xin still disagreed with Lin Shen. "Maybe it has the capability, but it just wasn't activated or was deliberately left off," Lin Shen speculated. "That still doesn't make sense," Tian Xin shook his head as he looked at the video. The two watched the videos for who knows how long, the Mosaic Person becoming somewhat impatient with the game, and walked out the door. Strangely, this time he exited through the same door but did not appear inside the luxurious room; instead, he appeared from another room filled with lots of fitness equipment. Lin Shen and Tian Xin exchanged glances, both seeing the surprise in each other's eyes. These videos were indeed synchronized, but if the videos were real-time surveillance, how did the person move from the same door to different rooms? There was no interval at all; he pushed the door from this room, half of his body was still in this room, and yet the other half of his body had already appeared in another room, the entire process devoid of any gaps. "This is definitely a video, no doubt. It must be using some kind of editing technique or technology to make these videos sync. Didn't you say that once a video is opened, it keeps playing nonstop? That's the issue here. These videos appear separate, but they're actually just one video. When you open any video, all the videos start playing together, and that's why it looks like this. We've cracked the case," Tian Xin said, praising himself silently, "I'm really smart." "No, that's not it..." Lin Shen shook his head, disagreeing with Tian Xin's explanation. "What's not right about it? It's definitely like that, no doubt." Tian Xin insisted on his view. Lin Shen pointed towards the first room and said, "Did you notice anything different about this video?" "Is there something different?" Tian Xin didn't notice any issues. "Maybe you can't tell because you didn't see the content before, but I remember when I first started watching the videos, the game console in this room was stored in this cabinet. After it was taken out, it never went back in. But now, the game console isn't out, the cabinet door is also closed. Also here, this bowl of instant noodles was already eaten, and the bowl was placed on that stool over there, now it's back here, perfectly intact along with this book..." Lin Shen pointed out each discrepancy in the scene. "So, you're saying the video is looping? That doesn't conflict with my theory," Tian Xin commented.