Chapter 3221 Locking the target

Li Yalin's words caused AI to fall into silence for a minute.

A minute later, it suddenly answered, "I have sorted out and studied all the books related to criminal psychology, as well as classic criminal cases from all over the world. From now on, in this incident, I will regard criminal psychology as an influencing factor, with an impact index of 50%."

Then, AI said: "Based on the new ranking of impact factors, the target company should be the one least likely to conceal production capacity and evade taxes among the seven companies. However, if it is based on this logic, then they have increased the power consumption of several thousand people, and the unit power consumption on paper must have increased. In this way, KS Petroleum has become the most suspicious company. KS Petroleum is the most suspicious because of its high unit power consumption, and it is very likely that it is a misjudgment caused by concealing production. This is an unsolvable vicious circle that confirms and contradicts each other."

Li Yalin said: "If it only looks like an infinite loop, but not really an infinite loop, then there must be a key point to break the infinite loop that has not been captured. If it is indeed an infinite loop, it often means that we have found the right one, so the problem now is that you have to find a way to break your previous judgment. It's like you built a house. In order to ensure that its roof does not leak, you must first waterproof it to the extreme of your ability, and then try every possible way to pour water in from the roof. If it doesn't get in, it proves that your approach is correct. If it can get in, it proves that your approach is wrong."

A few seconds later, AI replied: "I think that if there is indeed a problem with KS oil, it will definitely not leave a bug in the unit power consumption that can be easily discovered. This is just like what you said just now. When you make a big mistake, you should try to avoid making other small mistakes. So KS was discovered so easily by me, it is very likely that it did not make other big mistakes."

"However, the goal is to supply electricity to several thousand people, so I now have a guess that the other party should have other ways to obtain electricity."

After that, it continued: "All Skyline data related to Nigeria has been uploaded to the server. I need to combine Skyline data to identify the target in more detail. It currently takes about 90 seconds to enhance the image quality of all the images in the Skyline data to improve the resolution of satellite images. Please wait."

More than a minute later, AI continued: "The image quality enhancement has been completed. I have selected the data with the best image quality this year for analysis. The identifiable high-voltage power supply networks around the seven oil fields all belong to the Nigerian Electricity Holding Company. The power consumption data I just obtained also came from this company, so it can be basically confirmed that there is no second power supply line in the seven oil fields;"

Li Yalin asked in return: "Based on your judgment based on satellite images, have you ever considered the possibility of high-voltage lines being buried underground?"

Ai replied: "I have checked Skyline's satellite images of the area over the past 15 years. The undergrounding of high-voltage lines is a large project and takes a long time, but in the satellite images of the past 15 years, no construction traces that may be related to the undergrounding of high-voltage lines were found."

Li Yalin was obviously a little surprised, because he found that AI had begun to prove its own conclusion before giving it, which was much more mature than giving the answer directly just now.

If you want to train an employee to make such a transformation, it may take several years. If you encounter someone with a poor brain, he or she may not be able to make the transition in his or her lifetime. But for AI, it only takes a few conversations.

I think this is the importance of training AI. Letting a top detective train AI will definitely make AI have very rigorous logic.

Li Yalin was obviously very pleased. He said with a somewhat excited tone: "You determined that the target's extra power consumption was not supplemented by the Nigerian Electricity Holding Company, and you also determined that the target should have no other external power supply channels. Based on this, have you come to any new conclusions?"

The AI ​​model replied: "I think the goal should be to make up for this part of the electricity gap by ourselves."

Li Yalin looked at Ye Chen and asked him, "Mr. Ye, the Death Soldier Station can supply thousands of additional people with electricity. This gap should be huge, right?"

Ye Chen nodded and said, "The gap is very large, and the electricity consumption is not just as simple as the daily electricity consumption of these thousands of people. I have been to the copper mines in Cyprus, where thousands of people live in underground bunkers. The scale of the underground bunkers is very large. It has to carry all the daily necessities of thousands of people, even including the training of death squads. It is almost an underground city. Moreover, such a large bunker requires 24-hour ventilation and 24-hour drainage of groundwater. In order to confuse their judgment of time, the light there is as bright as daylight 24 hours a day;"

"In addition, the bases of the Qing-breaking Society's death squads are not concentration camps, but homes where these death squads live and reproduce. Moreover, although the Qing-breaking Society uses special poisons and antidotes to control the death squads and uses their families as threats, in order to make the death squads want to live, they will provide them and their families with a relatively good living environment. Therefore, the temperature and humidity of the underground bunkers will be precisely controlled, and the power consumption will be very high."

Li Yalin nodded and asked AI: "How do you think the target can make up for such a large power gap? Photovoltaic? Wind energy? Or other channels?"

Ai replied: "Based on the special situation of the target, I think oil-based power generation should be the best choice for the other party. Photovoltaic and wind power are too conspicuous and not stable enough. Coal-based power generation requires a lot of coal, which is easily exposed during transportation. Only oil can be directly obtained on the spot and is inexhaustible. Although the overall cost-effectiveness of oil-based power generation is extremely low, for any of the seven companies, it is insignificant to directly use a small portion of the mined oil for power generation."

At this point, AI added: "Considering that you said before that concealing production is an unwise mistake, I want to clarify my point of view. Through the analysis of relevant cases of oil companies, I think that concealing production itself is not a problem. The real problem lies in how to deal with the concealed production;"

"The real risk of concealing production is to smuggle it out to gain greater profits. If the concealed production has never left the oil field or been traded, but is quietly converted into electricity and consumed internally, there is no way for the outside world to verify this behavior;"

"The relevant law enforcement agencies identify oil smuggling based on the fact that oil fields transport oil through abnormal channels in exchange for profits. However, for oil fields that produce tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of barrels a day, intercepting 0.5% of the daily production capacity before transporting it through pipelines is enough to make up for the power gap."

"So, considering all the existing factors, I think this should be the best solution, which can not only make up for the power shortage, but also make all the apparent data look normal."

Hearing this, Li Yalin couldn't help but exclaim in praise: "It's well-reasoned and convincing. So, if you were asked to determine the target based on your own judgment and the data from Skyline, could you determine the target?"

AI quickly replied: "After analyzing the data from the skyline, I think Kansel Petroleum is the most suspicious. There is a solid building covering an area of ​​about 2,300 square meters in the north-central part of their oil field. This building did not exist in the data from fifteen years ago, and construction began thirteen years ago."

As it spoke, AI displayed several pictures on the screen. The center of the first picture was still an open-air area with scattered vehicles and equipment. In the second picture, the foundation of the site had been laid and the walls had been built. At the same time, a trench could be seen extending from the inside of the foundation to the nearest oil drilling rig.

AI went on to introduce: "From the second picture, we can see that there is a pipeline project under construction. The oil pipeline connects to the nearest oil drilling machine. I guess it should be the oil pipeline. All the oil pipelines in the oil field are exposed, only this section of the oil pipeline is buried. It can be seen that the other party does not want this section of the pipeline to be exposed. Therefore, the inside of this building should be an oil generator set, and the largest volume among them should be a gas turbine."

Li Yalin said: "If we simply rely on an oil pipeline to determine that there must be oil power generation equipment inside, it seems a little insufficient."

Ai said: "I expected you to say that, so I also checked. The Nigerian Electricity Holdings Limited issued an announcement thirteen years ago. Due to the power shortage in Lagos and surrounding areas at that time, the company decided to implement power restrictions on companies in Lagos that were seriously wasting electricity. Among the companies on the list of companies subject to power restrictions was Kansel Petroleum;"

"The announcement said that the reason for the power cuts on Kaisail was that Kansail Petroleum had outdated equipment and its unit power consumption exceeded that of its peers. The announcement was released two months earlier than the start of construction of the building. According to my analysis, Kansail Petroleum had just been hit by power cuts and construction of the building started immediately. Since then, Kansail Petroleum has never suffered similar penalties again. Therefore, this building must be a small oil power plant!"