Chapter V - Wandering Koala’s LabTree
I sit behind the 20-foot screen of the supercomputer in the LabTree
while René makes his nightly bowl of popcorn and Kyle tends to his wounds. I
catch myself adjusting my glasses while looking over the search results and jerk
my hand down. I’ve heard several people comment how I’m always playing with my
glasses and how distracting it is, so I’ve been consciously trying to stop.
It’s hard.
The three attackers were no ordinary thugs. They nearly took
down Kyle, and he’s taken on a SWAT team before and won. They looked ordinary
enough, which will make them that much harder to identify. They somehow managed
to escape while Kyle was chasing the man in a grey suit. The police did recover
samples of DNA, but so few people’s DNA is on file that it probably won’t lead
anywhere. Fortunately, over two dozen people recorded the fight and posted it
online, so I have excellent shots of all three attackers.
Facial recognition turned up nothing, but the program Kyle
has (and where he gets his applications I wish I knew, because they are decades
ahead of what anyone else has) was able to detect surgical alterations to both
bone structure and facial features. I’m still trying to figure out how it could
do that from a few fuzzy video frames.
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