I need to inspect that storage device used for brainwashing and information uploads later!
No sooner had Gideon had that thought than Little Fear's follow-up response came:
"What I mean is, I can find groups of people who react to the target with a certain degree of goodwill, imitate them, then study and simulate the target's behavioral patterns. I can try to bring the two of their 'social circles' into contact and see whether that can close the distance between them, making the next step easier."
So he meant imitating the interaction between fans and a singer, then looking for an opportunity to make a move?
"...That's not a bad idea."
It was just a little too idealistic.
But for a Clone that had only been "born" for twenty hours, even with a head full of implanted common knowledge, being able to think on that level in such a short time was already far from easy.
More importantly, this "teenage Clone's" logical and expressive abilities were somewhat beyond the norm.
Could it be that this time, his "talent points" had gone into intelligence?
Intelligence-enhanced Clones were exceedingly rare and highly valuable for research even in the Laboratory, but they did not seem to offer any particularly positive boost to the current operation.
After all, the more one thought, the more variables there were. His ability to execute might very well suffer as a result.
As Gideon pondered this, Kuti, the "official commander" in the back, continued asking with great interest:
"If you were to formulate a plan based on this line of thought, what would you do?"
Little Fear answered smoothly, "Given the considerable spatial, temporal, and social-class distance between the lifeforms by the roadside and the mission target, the most likely setting in which that distance could be narrowed