FVN Chapter 456
Chapter 456
Chapter 456: Chapter 69: The Girl from Twenty Years Ago_2 Chapter 456: Chapter 69: The Girl from Twenty Years Ago_2 The two of them arrived at the milk tea shop, scanned QR codes to place their order, and then sat by a small table waiting for their number to be called.
Lin Xian estimated that it would likely take about fifteen minutes before their turn came.
So, he stood up:
“An Qing, I’m going to use the restroom in the mall.
You wait here for the milk tea, don’t wander off, I’ll come back and find you soon.”
“Sure, senior.”
Chu Anqing smiled and waved at Lin Xian:
“Don’t get lost yourself!
Don’t be unable to find your way back or find me!”
“Don’t worry.” Lin Xian was also amused by the childlike instructions:
“I’ll definitely find you.”
...
After leaving the milk tea shop.
Lin Xian’s expression immediately turned serious:
“VV.”
“I’m here.” the long-awaited voice came through the headset, reporting:
“The elderly couple, the man’s name is Zhang Shi, 68 years old from Qufu, Shandong; the woman is named Yan Qin, also from Qufu, Shandong, and she’s 65 years old; both of their places of birth and hometown are Qufu, Shandong, and they’ve grown up, gone to school, gotten married, and had children there, all in that city...”
“They had a daughter in 1980, named Zhang Yuqian.
...
According to the limited scanned record, Zhang Yuqian died in a car accident in January 2000.
The specific details of the accident could no longer be clarified.
According to what Zhang Shi said, it wasn’t a case of a traffic incident, but rather Yan Qin, Zhang Yuqian’s mother, who died in a car accident due to fatigue driving at night, crashing into a tree...
In the era she lived, 1980-2000, mobile phones capable of taking photos were rare, and people were still using pagers and brick phones.
So the only way to leave behind photos was to use film cameras, then take the film to a photo shop to develop it into paper photos to be placed in an album.
Even with VV’s vast capabilities, there’s no way to bypass the networks and directly invade Zhang Yuqian’s family album...
Not to mention, the old man, Zhang Yuqian’s father, also said that in order not to trigger the old lady’s memories and affect her mental health, he had gotten rid of everything.
So it goes.
The internet is indeed a double-edged sword, with its good and bad sides.
Nowadays, people can casually store photos in online spaces, cloud storage, and even corners of the internet like online forums.
Although privacy has some security risks, at least the past memories can be easily retrieved if one wishes to find them.
In 2000, when the internet was not yet officially off the ground and QQ was just in its embryonic form, let alone fashionable things like QQ Show or QQ Space.
Lin Xian vaguely remembered, during his elementary school years, every day the first thing Gao Yang did when getting to school was to question Lin Xian:
“Did you visit my space?”
“Did you leave a message?”
“Don’t just run around in the classroom!”
“Do you think my avatar looks cool?”
...
Anyway, Lin Xian also understood the difficulty VV faced in collecting information in that special era dominated by paper archives.
It would be best to see the photo; if not...
after the mission of capturing space-time particles with the Skyspace aircraft was over, why not personally go to Qufu, Shandong to look through the paper archives?
“Yes, there’s a black and white photo from the first generation ID card.”
VV told Lin Xian.
China began using the second generation ID cards with various advanced features starting from 2004.
Before that, the first generation ID cards had fewer functions than a meal card, merely a plain plastic card that couldn’t be swiped or read electronically, with only a 15-digit ID number, and even the photos on the first generation ID cards were in black and white.