Electronic Nezha

Chapter 173 Picture-Based Memory Method
Did he take leave or run away?

This was the thought that came to both Ma Chaoran and me at the same time.

The way the Queen hypnotized me yesterday was too unusual. Did she also notice something?
While Lao Wang was still at the door, I quickly asked Ma Chaoran, "Should we chase after them?"

Ma Chaoran asked, "Which way should we chase them?"

“I know where she lives.”

Ma Chaoran hesitated and said, "Sixth Master doesn't want us to alert the enemy."

"Old Ma, I've always thought you weren't the kind of person who followed the rules."

Ma Chaoran waved her hand: "Don't try to fool me. When it comes to your problem, I have to be that kind of person."

"The problem is that we've already pulled up all the grass. If we don't act now, the snake will disappear without a trace. Can't we just make sure we don't get bitten by the snake?"

"How to guarantee it?"

"Isn't there still someone idle in the coffee shop? The government doesn't pay him a salary so he can run a shady business and rip people off, does it?"

You mean Hao Hao?

"Yes, it's time to let the idiots get some exercise."

Ma Chaoran insisted, "Then I must report to Sixth Master."

"Let's take action first."

I grabbed her and ran outside. Old Wang brushed past us, wondering, "You've only been here a little while, where are you going again?"

"You need to be more sensible!" I patted him on the shoulder.

Old Wang immediately said in a sly tone, "You're sensible, you're sensible. It's the honeymoon phase, you just need to come back before the next accounting session."

Li Ping picked up a large tangerine from her stall and tossed it to Ma Chaoran, saying, "Come again sometime."

Ma Chaoran readily accepted it: "Thank you, sister."

As we walked towards the car, Ma Chaoran tilted her head, holding the phone between her fingers, and reported to Sixth Master. She peeled open the tangerines with both hands and stuffed the segments of fruit into her mouth one by one, busy as could be.

After finishing the call, Ma Chaoran excitedly said, "Sixth Master agreed, on the condition that Hao Hao must come along."

When I said I was going to find Hu Chunyan, I could tell from her bright eyes that she wanted to go too. Now she was even more impatient, and as soon as she got in the car, she instructed Xiao Wu: "Go find the idiot."

"Received, sis. What are you eating?"

"You want some mandarin oranges too?"

"No, I just wanted to remind you that there are wet wipes on the car door for wiping your hands after you finish eating."

Ma Chaoran said cheerfully, "Little Wu, what would I do without you?"

"I'll miss you too, sister."

I said speechlessly, "Are you two performing a comedy routine?"

Ma Chaoran suddenly said, "Little Wu, if things continue as they are, when will I be able to have a navigation system like yours?"

Xiao Wu said, "Oh, I have to keep that a secret."

Ma Chaoran leaned back in the car seat and sighed, "It seems I can't count on him in my lifetime."

"I didn't say that."

"That's when I'm fifty? Sixty?"

Xiao Wu said, "Sister, it's no use trying to trick me. Even if I wanted to tell you, any information about the future would just be 'beep'."

Ma Chaoran gestured with the tangerine in her hand towards me, and I said, "Even if you bribe me, I can't tell you—besides, you're going to use this to bribe the fruit seller?"

Ma Chaoran scoffed, "If it weren't for Xiao Wu, I wouldn't believe you're a savior. You can't even do simple mental arithmetic."

I was speechless for a moment, and after struggling for a while, I said, "I'm too lazy to open my system. It's good to be a little confused in life. What's the point of calculating everything so precisely?"

Xiao Wu said, "My brother's right—don't move, I'll call you idiots." Then Xiao Wu honked his horn loudly at the entrance of the coffee shop. Hao Hao came out and stood on the steps to watch, and I waved to him.

Hao Hao stepped into the car.

I said, "I have a mission, you can lock the door."

"No need. Our store supports self-service mode when there are no customers. The sign on the counter clearly states that self-service offers a 10% discount. Just scan the code yourself."

"What if people finish their drinks and don't pay? Does the store have security cameras?"

"Yes, but Sixth Master said that as long as you don't steal anything, he won't give you money unless you pay him. Just treat it as running a soup kitchen."

I nodded: "An unmanned coffee shop, what the conman Chen Bing couldn't do, Sixth Master did."

Hao Hao rubbed his hands together eagerly and asked, "Brother Feng, where are we going?"

Ma Chaoran asked, "By the way, how did you know where Hu Chunyan lives?"

I coldly replied, "This world has no secrets from me, so dare you question me?"

"I won't dare anymore, just tell me."

“I’ve seen her ID card.”

I saw Ma Chaoran give me a clearly disgusted look, but she said, "When?"

"When she signed the contract with Li Ping."

Ma Chaoran said, "You remembered it at a glance? That's a bit like what people in our line of work do."

"Yes, this is called the picture memory method. My eyes are like a camera. I can remember any complex image in an instant. To put it simply, I have a photographic memory."

The two people and the AI ​​navigation in the car listened quietly.

The silence lasted so long that Xiao Wu finally said, "Brother, tell me the address."

"Wait a minute, what's the rush?"

I'm not lying. The reason I knew where Hu Chunyan lived was because I had seen her ID card. At first, of course, I didn't suspect her. But when I started to suspect her, it was easy for me to find an excuse to look at the contract she signed with Hu Chunyan, given my relationship with Li Ping. It was a completely subconscious action at the time. I just took a picture!
Right now, I'm holding my phone with both hands, scrolling through that photo...

But it's really hard to find now, because I didn't take that thing seriously. With Liu Zhenhua around, it might be an exaggeration to say that he can find people anywhere in the world without any blind spots. Finding an ID card for someone on Earth is easier than drinking water. The problem now is that Liu Zhenhua isn't here, and I'm just relying on that photo to show off!

Just as I turned to that photo, Ma Chaoran also happened to peek over and take a look.

"Oh, so this is what you call picture-based memory?"

I had no choice but to show the photo: "It's a picture, what's wrong with that?"

"I thought you had it memorized, but it turns out you had it in your phone?"

"Ahem, I'm just worried about taking up brain memory, aren't I?"

"This thing is at most 200K. Your memory is a bit too big. If you can't get it out, I'll have to ask a police officer for help."

"Don't say so many strange things when you're doing your job."

Ma Chaoran laughed and said, "Alright, you're the savior, I'll listen to you."

Xiao Wu said, "Brother, if there are any Chinese characters related to the address on your picture, could you read them to me?"

……

Hao Hao looked at the photo on Hu Chunyan's ID card copy and asked me, "Brother Feng, do you suspect she's the Queen?"

I said, "You don't know this, do you? The Queen hypnotizes people with hair. That means she has to put this on the target first. We've both been hypnotized. There aren't many people who can have contact with us at the same time."

Hao Hao said, "That's right. When I was 'foolish,' even fewer people were willing to associate with me. That day, my mother took me to the fruit market, and Hu Chunyan patted me on the shoulder."

At this moment, Ma Chaoran received a message.

“The hacker’s experimental report is out. Hypnotizing your hair contains a large number of neurons. The reason it can crawl into your clothes is because it has the characteristics of hydraulic muscles—” Ma Chaoran said. “Let me put it this way, from a physical and biological point of view, it does look more like an octopus’s tentacles.”

(End of this chapter)