Genius Club.

Chapter 287 The Girl Twenty Years Ago

"Exactly... exactly the same?"

Chu Anqing widened her eyes, feeling very unbelievable.

She extended her index finger and rubbed the teardrop mole at the corner of her left eye:

"This one is exactly the same..."

She really couldn't believe it.

There are such magical things in the world!
Even if they are twins, it is impossible for them to look exactly the same!

What's more, according to this uncle, their daughter has been dead for more than 20 years.

This……

What exactly is going on?

She turned her head and looked at Lin Xian.

However, he discovered that this omniscient and omnipotent senior was also silent and had a serious expression.

……

Lin Xian didn't say anything, of course not because he was as shocked as Chu Anqing.

This was the second time he had encountered such a thing, and he was not as surprised as the first time he saw that Chu Anqing looked the same as CC.

Since I first met CC in the dream world, more than a year has passed in real life. However, after so much time, there is still no answer or even a clue as to why CC and Chu Anqing look exactly the same.

but.

The middle-aged couple in front of me, their daughter, whose nickname is Qianqian, actually looks like Chu Anqing, as if she were copied and pasted!
Lin Xian felt that this was definitely not an accident or coincidence.

One or two is fine.

If three girls who look exactly like each other appeared in different eras, there would definitely be something wrong!
perhaps.

What incredible truths and secrets are hidden in it!
"Excuse me...can you let me see a picture of your daughter?"

Hear this.

The old lady, who had just calmed down, burst into tears again. The crowded Xidan intersection was now packed with onlookers, and even the police in the distance came to evacuate the crowd.

The middle-aged man with glasses sighed, shook his head, and waved at Lin Xian:

"I'm sorry. For so many years, in order to prevent my wife from being sad, I threw away all traces of my daughter... In order to prevent my wife from being reminded of her, but I didn't expect that she would eventually have a mental breakdown."

"I'm really sorry. My daughter has been dead for more than 20 years. I don't want to talk about this anymore. I'm sorry, I'm sorry..."

The middle-aged man bowed his head, bent over, and apologized to Lin Xian again, then helped the howling old lady squeeze out of the crowd and walked away.

The farce is over.

Just then the red light on the sidewalk at the intersection turned green, and the crowds that had been stuck in a jam started to move. The street was bustling with people coming and going, and the excitement and bustle of the New Year returned to normal.

"Lin Xian."

At this time, VV's voice came from the Bluetooth headset in my ear:
"I have found some information about these two elderly couples. Find a way to get Chu Anqing out of the way so that we can have a discussion."

Lin Xian nodded gently, then looked down at Chu Anqing:
"Are you okay? You didn't get scared?"

Chu Anqing finally came to her senses from her chaotic thoughts and shook her head in confusion:
"No... not really."

"I was really shocked at first, but later I realized that the old lady really had no ill intentions. She probably missed her deceased daughter too much, so she couldn't get over it for so many years."

She raised her head:

"Is it really possible for two people in this world to have exactly the same body shape and appearance? For example... if they just look alike, I can actually understand that. I can even understand the resemblance between twins. But things like teardrop moles... that shouldn't have anything to do with genetics, right? Isn't this an acquired skin disease? Even this mole is exactly the same, this is too..."

suddenly.

She suddenly reacted and looked at Lin Xian:

"Senior Lin Xian! Didn't you say before that you had a—"

Well!
Chu Anqing quickly shut her mouth.

She remembered that both Sister Tang Xin and Senior Gao Yang had said so, and Senior Gao Yang even swore that he had grown up with Lin Xian since childhood, and that there were no female classmates who looked like her in high school, not to mention in junior high school, elementary school, or among friends.

Senior Gao Yang and Senior Lin Xian were childhood friends and didn’t separate until they went to college, so... what Senior Gao Yang said is still very reliable.

That is to say, the sketch drawn by Senior Lin Xian could not possibly be the high school girl classmate who looked exactly like him. Considering her age, the girl named Qianqian had died twenty years ago, and it was even more impossible for her to have met Senior Lin Xian.

therefore……

That sketch was obviously of himself. If I mentioned that fictitious female high school classmate here... wouldn't that make Senior Lin Xian embarrassed?
"What's wrong? What happened?" Lin Xian asked.

"No! No no no nothing!"

Chu Anqing shook her head like a rattle, her elastic ponytail sweeping across the enemy lines:

"Senior! Today is our only day off, so don't waste it here! Let's make use of the time to go shopping!"

what……

Chu Anqing sincerely felt that she was as stupid as a quail, like a broken top, jumping and spinning around.

"Let's go get a drink first."

Lin Xian pointed to a crowded milk tea shop across the street:
"I heard that the fleshy grapes in this milk tea shop are pretty good. Let's go try some. The food at the Aerospace Training Center is delicious... but it's really like Gao Yang said, it's too healthy. This low-quality saccharin is more refreshing."

"Hehe, okay!"

The two came to the milk tea shop, scanned the QR code with their mobile phones to order, and then sat at a small table waiting for their number to pick up their food.

Lin Xian estimated that it would take about ten minutes before it was their turn.

So he stood up:

"An Qing, I'm going to the restroom in the mall. You wait here for the milk tea. Don't run around. I'll come back to find you later."

"Okay senior."

Chu Anqing smiled and waved to Lin Xian:

"Don't get lost! You might not be able to find your way back and you won't be able to find me!"

"Don't worry." Lin Xian was also amused by this child-like advice:
"I will definitely find you."

……

Leave the milk tea shop.

Lin Xian's expression immediately became serious:

"VV."

"I'm here." The long-awaited voice came from the headset, reporting:

"The two elderly couples, the man is named Zhang Shi, 68 years old, from Qufu, Shandong; the woman is named Yan Qin, also from Qufu, Shandong, 65 years old. They were both born in Qufu, Shandong, and grew up, went to school, got married, and had children in this city in their early years..."

"The couple had a daughter in 1980 named Zhang Yuqian. According to limited scanned documents, Zhang Yuqian died in a car accident in January 2000. The specific details of the accident are no longer clear. According to Zhang Shi's statement, it was not an accident. Yan Qin, Zhang Yuqian's mother, was driving at night due to fatigue. She overturned and crashed into a tree and died... This is all I can find out."

"There's nothing we can do. Around 2000, the Internet in Longguo was not well developed, especially in government offices, which were basically still at the stage of paper office and paper archives. The electronic storage of things was very limited, and many things could no longer be found, unless we looked through the paper archives of that year."

"Later, because of the paperless and electronic archives policies led by the state many times, those old paper archives were reclassified, scanned, and saved as electronic archives. But during this period, many old archives were lost, especially for small things like car accidents, which generally have no specific records. I only found the scanned copy of the handwritten death certificate at that time from the death certificate issuance system of the civil affairs system and found these minor information."

"Later, the elderly couple never had any children, and the grandmother suffered from a serious mental illness. In order to pay for her medical treatment, the old man sold all his assets in Qufu and came to the capital to treat her mental illness... In fact, the old man was quite wealthy. In 2000, a family with a car was considered quite wealthy."

"Later, probably to prevent the old lady from being reminded of the past and to change to a new environment, they settled in the capital. They have lived here for more than ten years, and nothing has happened. It's been peaceful and stable. If I hadn't accidentally seen Chu Anqing in Xidan Shopping Plaza today... I guess something like what happened just now would never have happened in this life. The world is so big, it's actually very difficult to meet someone."

"Are there any photos of Zhang Yuqian?" Lin Xian asked the question he was most concerned about.

2000...

It's indeed too early.

There were no such things as cloud storage or QQ space at that time. The Internet in 2000 was probably still dial-up. I heard that Internet access was charged by the minute, and one minute was very expensive. Home computers were very rare.

However, the two or three years after 2000 were the years when the Internet industry in Longguo took off at a high speed. Personal computers, broadband, and Internet cafes emerged like mushrooms after a rain; electronic computers also entered every household in a blowout manner. The promotion of QQ and the launch of the online game Legend gave birth to the first generation of Internet users in Longguo.

But it is obvious that Zhang Yuqian did not catch up with the gorgeous 21st century.

In the era she lived in, 1980-2000, there were very few mobile phones with camera functions, and people were still using pagers and mobile phones. So the only way to keep photos was to use film cameras, and then go to photo studios to develop the films, develop them into paper photos, and put them in albums.

Even if VV is omnipotent, it cannot escape the Internet and directly invade Zhang Yuqian's home photo album...not to mention, the uncle, Zhang Yuqian's father, also said that in order to prevent the old lady from being mentally disturbed by the memories of the past, he disposed of all the photos.

so.

The Internet is really a double-edged sword, with both good and bad effects.

Nowadays, people can easily store photos in cyberspace, network disks, and even online forums. Although there are some security risks to privacy, at least the memories can be easily found if they want to.

In 2000, when the Internet had not yet officially started, QQ was just a prototype, not to mention trendy things like QQ Show and QQ Space.

Lin Xian vaguely remembered that when Gao Yang was in elementary school, the first thing he did every day when he went to school was to question Lin Xian:
"Did you give me space?"

"Did you leave a message?"

"Don't just be a waiter!"

"Do you think my avatar is awesome?"

……

Anyway, Lin Xian also understands that in that special era, when there were mostly paper archives, it was indeed difficult for VV to collect information. It would be best if he could see photos, but if not... after the mission of the aerospace plane to capture space-time particles is completed, it would not prevent him from going to Qufu, Shandong in person to check the paper materials.

"Yes, there is a black and white photo of the first generation ID card."

VV said to Lin Xian.

Longguo started using the second-generation ID card in 2004, which has a series of advanced functions. The first-generation ID card before that had fewer functions than a meal card. It was just an ordinary plastic card that could not be swiped or read, and the ID number was only 15 digits. Even... the photos on the first-generation ID cards were all black and white.

However, something is better than nothing.

drip-

Lin Xian's cell phone made a slight sound. He picked it up and saw that VV had sent him the photo of Zhang Yuqian's first-generation ID card.

"hiss……"

Blurry and low-resolution, black and white photos show very limited details.

But that refreshing smile, those curved eyes, that lovely face——

This!
Although the black and white photo is not very clear.

But this!

It is definitely the real Chu Anqing!

"Tsk."

Lin Xian smacked his lips, put down his phone, and stared blankly ahead:
"It really came true. I didn't expect there are really three Chu Anqing in this world... Fortunately, they lived in completely different eras, otherwise they would have merged into one two-star."

"What is going on? VV, what do you think?"

Lin Xian plans to ask the super artificial intelligence for its opinion.

"Um……"

VV weighed the pros and cons for a while and said:
"In my opinion, this is actually an insignificant matter. How should I put it... To put it bluntly, the two girls just look similar. And we haven't found a clear, colorful photo of Zhang Yuqian where we can clearly see the details of her facial features, so it's actually a bit imprecise to conclude that she looks exactly like Chu Anqing."

"Add to that the girl named CC you dreamed of. To be honest, it is not unscientific or impossible for three girls with the same appearance to appear in more than 600 years. Even in 2023, there are many people who are completely unrelated and have no blood relationship and look almost exactly the same."

"Pay attention, I am being more rigorous and used the word 'almost'. Human vision is often blurry. Visual illusions are like this. Things that look the same may not necessarily be the same, and things that look different may not necessarily be different."

"[I always believe that the only way to truly determine whether two people are exactly the same is to trust science and verify DNA!]"

After a pause, VV continued:

"Before, you only found that the girl CC in your dream looked like Chu Anqing. But after all, CC was in the dream. No matter how powerful you are, you can't bring CC's hair or blood out of the dream and bring it to reality to compare DNA with Chu Anqing."

"But now... isn't this a good opportunity? Chu Anqing and Zhang Yuqian are both real girls. You can get Zhang Yuqian's DNA, and then pull out a strand of Chu Anqing's hair and compare the DNA to see if they are the same person and if they are really - exactly the same!"

……

really.

Artificial intelligence is more rigorous.

Lin Xian had always thought that the same appearance, figure, hair color, and even the position of the teardrop mole were enough to define them as exactly the same.

But from a rigorous biological perspective, DNA should be used as the standard.

Even if the two of you are exact copies and pastes, as long as your DNA is different, you are biologically two completely different individuals.

only……

"Zhang Yuqian is dead."

Lin Xian spread his hands:
"She's been dead for more than 20 years. The uncle also said that everything related to his daughter has been disposed of. Where can I get Zhang Yuqian's DNA?"

"【Digging a Grave】."

VV said in a decisive tone.

"What did you say?" Lin Xian's eyes twitched.

"Lin Xian, Longguo started promoting cremation in 1999, but it was not until several years later that it was actually implemented at a high intensity. Judging from the time of Zhang Yuqian's death, it is very likely that her body was not cremated, but was directly placed in the coffin and buried. It has only been more than 20 years now. Although the flesh and blood tissue must have decayed, the bones must be there. You just need to dig out the coffin and find Zhang Yuqian's bones, and then you can compare the DNA with Chu Anqing's hair—"

“Stop stop stop stop stop stop!”

Lin Xian stood in front of the toilet door and interrupted VV's conversation with his hand:

"What kind of ghost story are you telling here? Is digging up a grave something a normal person, or even a human being, can do? People can't... at least they shouldn't..."

"You don't have to be afraid of bones." VV kindly explained:
"It is also possible that Zhang Yuqian was cremated. The fact that I can't find Zhang Yuqian's cremation record doesn't mean she wasn't cremated. After all, in 2000, most data was not connected to the Internet, and many crematoriums have closed down or reorganized. It's normal that there are no records."

"So, things may not be as bad as you think. Maybe when you open the coffin, you will see not a skeleton but a jar of ashes. In that case, there is nothing to say."

……

Lin Xian felt speechless and unable to communicate.

Sure enough, there is still a gap between artificial intelligence and human thinking.

“It’s not a question of bones or ashes, VV.”

Lin Xian said softly:

"Besides, we don't have to use Zhang Yuqian's DNA. Can't we just look for the DNA of that old uncle and that old lady? If Chu Anqing's DNA is really the same as Zhang Yuqian's, then by comparing Chu Anqing's hair with that of the old lady, we can definitely prove the mother-daughter relationship... The uncle's may not be accurate enough, but the old lady's can't be false, right? After all, Zhang Yuqian came from her belly."

“Not rigorous.”

VV said:

"Just because Chu Anqing has nothing to do with that old lady doesn't mean she has nothing to do with Zhang Yuqian. There are too many unscientific and supernatural phenomena around you right now... We should open our minds a little. What if Zhang Yuqian was adopted? Or, what if Chu Anqing was adopted? Do you think Chu Anqing looks like Chu Shanhe and Su Xiuying?"

Lin Xian had never thought about this question.

He recalled the appearance of the three people in his mind:

"Well... not particularly, not the kind that looks similar at first glance; but not completely different either; after all, the question of how a person looks and whether they look similar is a very subjective judgment, and I don't think there's any need to discuss this."

"If you want to say that Chu Anqing was picked up by Chu Shanhe, or adopted... I still think that's a bit far-fetched and unrealistic, so let's not think in this direction for now. Genetics are a very magical thing. There are many children who don't look like their parents, but they are not necessarily not biological children."

"However, I do agree with your opinion. I have come across too many supernatural and unscientific phenomena, especially the issue of Zhang Yuqian, Chu Anqing, and CC looking exactly the same... I think it is necessary to be more rigorous and eliminate all interference options and directly compare the DNA of Chu Anqing and Zhang Yuqian."

"That's right!"

VV's tone became excited and agitated:

"So, Lin Xian!"

"Bring the black donkey hoof, Luoyang shovel, candles, and call Gao Yang to come along—"

"【Go dig up Zhang Yuqian's grave!"

(End of this chapter)