In the vegetable market, Gao Ang fully unleashed his hearing and sense of smell, and thousands of different sound waves and odor molecules were modeled in his super brain.
He was quite certain that there was a smell in the car parked next to his that completely matched one of the samples he had just collected.
The owner of the sample wasn't here at all. According to his memory, the owner was an old lady who had been picking out free-range eggs with him just now. The old lady had a strong Shanghai accent and her bargaining skills were almost as good as Gao's.
Okay, it's not that it's much worse, but it's a million times better than Gao Ang. Gao Ang took a basket of free-range eggs without saying a word and rounded it down to thirty-five yuan. The old lady was even more amazing, managing to bargain the price down to thirty-two yuan and fifty cents. The old lady, feeling very pleased with herself, picked up the basket of free-range eggs and walked in the opposite direction from Gao Ang while speaking in her local dialect.
The old lady had a very unique scent, probably a mixture of some kind of Chinese herbal medicine and a jasmine-scented perfume, which left a deep impression on Gao Yang.
Just as Gao Ang was hesitating whether to knock on the car window and ask what was going on, he heard voices coming from inside.
"I didn't realize this old lady was so rich."
"You can live a carefree life for a few days with this vote."
"I can't believe that in 2020, someone would still be carrying so much cash. It must be at least ten thousand yuan, right?"
Judging from the content of the conversation, one could roughly understand what was going on, but he also had this question in his mind: what was the purpose of carrying so much cash out?
In that instant, Gao Yang felt an impulse to open the other car door and snatch back what they had stolen. As for whether he would get hurt or whether he could beat those two men, he had no doubt about his abilities.
Just as he was about to open the car door, he suppressed his impulse, fastened his seatbelt, and dialed the police.
He couldn't see the faces of the two pickpockets clearly, but he remembered the license plate number very well. He told the dispatcher the license plate number and his guesses, and Gao Ang planned to leave the market as soon as possible.
He didn't know what was happening to him. That impulse just now was definitely not his true desire. He had a very clear understanding of what kind of person he was. To put it nicely, he was a wise man who knew when to yield; to put it bluntly, he was a coward.
Sitting in the car, Gao Ang felt very uncomfortable. It wasn't that he was in pain, but rather that he felt nauseous, as if there were many foreign objects accumulating in his body that he had to expel.
This was the most uncomfortable he had ever been since the mutation. Last time, he was just a little exhausted from drawing too many cards, and he was nothing like he was now. He was dizzy and confused, as if thousands of people were talking in his ears, and as if he was surrounded by thousands of different smells.
He wanted to shut down all his consciousness, pretending to be a vegetable, unable to hear or smell anything, and rest in the car for a while. Getting him to drive on the road at this point was absolutely impossible.
But nothing happened as he had expected. It was as if all his senses were out of control. He was still receiving information, and the information he received began to run rampant in his brain.
The man's lewd laughter, the woman's shrewish shouts, and the old ladies and gentlemen's spittle-smelling chatter about everything under the sun and international affairs blended together like a giant net, completely encircling Gao Feng, making it impossible for him to escape.
One large net was already enough to deal with him, but another large net was gradually forming, with the sour smell of sulfur dioxide, the stench of ammonium nitrate, and so on. Combined with the net of sound, it was enough to make his proud head explode.
He gripped the steering wheel tightly with both hands, the veins on his arms like writhing dragons crawling all over his arms. Gao Feng wanted nothing more than to throw a punch or kick him hard, or better yet, to have a punching bag to vent his frustration.
As the information in his brain became more and more complex and concentrated, Gao Feng could no longer bear the torment. He pulled hard with both hands, kicked with both feet, and fainted as everything went black.
No one knew that he had fainted.
This is the hardship of being single. You can be carefree when things are going well, but when you run into trouble, no one will care about you except your family. There's no one to bring you water or medicine when you're sick.
Gao Yang was woken up by a cell phone ringing. He groggily got up, took out his phone, and saw an unfamiliar local number. Without thinking, he hung up immediately.
There are so many calls like this, either from people selling houses, offering speculative stocks, or offering loans. Is Gao Feng someone who's short of money? The police station's 500,000 yuan reward has already arrived in his account; no matter what, he's practically a billionaire now.
When he came to his senses, he realized that he seemed to have made a big mistake.
The MINI's steering wheel was missing. I turned around and saw that someone had pried it off and tossed it onto the passenger side. My feet felt empty under my feet, and when I looked down, the accelerator pedal was bent, as if it had been hit by a heavy object. The brake pedal was even worse; it was completely broken off...
He bent down to pick up the broken brake pedal, then grabbed the 'dismembered' steering wheel, looking at it from left to right, completely clueless about what had happened.
"Could it be something I caused myself?"
My phone and other belongings were still on me, and the cash in the glove compartment was all there. It didn't look like an outsider had broken in and damaged it. Besides, who would bother to climb into someone else's car and remove the steering wheel and brake pedal?
What's the point?
After thinking it over, I realized I was the only suspect in this terrible crime scene...
"I think I exerted a little force before I lost consciousness?"
As he remained conscious for longer periods, Gao Feng gradually regained some of his memories. He had come to buy groceries and, incidentally, to collect a database of smell and sound samples. During his trip, he encountered two pickpockets and called the police. After getting into the car, he felt very unwell and then passed out...
As for the cause of the fainting, he had a rough guess, which was not very mature. It was very likely that the brain system was unable to recover from a serious system error, or that there was a problem at other levels, which caused the brain system to be unresponsive for a long time and had to restart the brain. In the field of computers, there is a very vivid term for this phenomenon: crash, also called system freeze.
The 'serious system error' is likely a self-protective mechanism developed by his brain cells, which are unable to process too much data, causing him to faint.
As for why it can't process too much information, it's easy to understand. After all, its brain is from the planet Earth. Although it is quite sophisticated, its development level is certainly far from 100%. Furthermore, its hearing and sense of smell have mutated, so the amount of information it can receive can only be described as massive.
An ordinary human brain, even after mutation, still needs time to mature. Suddenly receiving an endless influx of massive amounts of data is like sending an eight-year-old to do hard labor at the docks. What can a child do if they can't carry the load? They can only sit on the ground and play dead. So the brain goes on strike, and Gao Feng faints.
As for how it 'reboots', it's easy to understand. Although the weather is still cloudy, it's still early morning, and the sun is shining down, which is like replenishing its energy. In addition, because the brain has crashed, the olfactory and auditory systems are temporarily shut down, and the influx of information data is cut off. It's like the water in the reservoir is slowly decreasing, and the brain can process this limited amount of data, so it reboots.
After moving his hands and feet and rotating his body, Gao Ang opened the car door and got out of the car, feeling that there were no aftereffects. He was startled by the scene in front of him as soon as he got out of the car.
Good heavens, it was a sea of people, with drums and gongs all around. No, there were no drums and gongs, but there were definitely a lot of people, completely surrounding his car.
Some people even pointed at him and looked at him like he was a monkey.
After glancing around, Gao Feng realized that these people weren't talking about him, but rather about the car next to him.
That car was the one he had reported earlier, belonging to the two pickpockets. It was now surrounded by several police officers. The two pickpockets were obediently squatting on the ground, but occasionally they would look up and glance at the crowd with a fierce look in their eyes.
"That's enough, there's nothing to see here. Hurry up and go home to cook."
One of the police officers waved his hand, driving away the crowd of onlookers who were surrounding them and unable to get the person into the car.
"Xiao Zhang, those two bastards have stolen quite a few things, haven't they? I lost a family heirloom bracelet before. Can you ask them if they stole it for me?"
"Xiao Zhang, our family also lost a family heirloom, it's very valuable, let me tell you..."
Officer Zhang stared speechlessly at the elderly men and women, unsure what to say; the sheer volume of complaints he felt could drown them all.
"A family heirloom bracelet? I've been a beat cop for seven or eight years, and I've never heard you mention it."
"It's a family heirloom, can't you at least give it a name? Others have bracelets, but yours doesn't even have a name."
Although he was internally ranting, he couldn't let his outward kindness wane. "Aunt Liu, hurry home and cook, or Xiaoyu will start arguing with you again when she gets back." Xiaoyu was Aunt Liu's daughter-in-law, and the mother-in-law/daughter-in-law relationship was always like that. Officer Zhang had been to their house countless times because of this.
As he pushed several elderly people out of the crowd, Officer Zhang casually sent a text message to the number ending in 0007 that the emergency call center had given him.
"Come to Longxi Police Station when you have time. The clues you provided were very useful. The two pickpockets we caught were repeat offenders, and there's a reward for them."
Only two seconds after the message was sent, Officer Zhang heard a loud notification sound. The message came from the bewildered man who had just gotten off the bus.
To be honest, Officer Zhang was very jealous of this man. Not only was he handsome, but he was also tall, muscular, and drove a MINI grocery-getter. He was obviously from a wealthy family.
Good looks and money—why hasn't this kind of good fortune happened to me? Although my family owns several houses, I really can't compare in terms of looks and figure.
Ang Gao took out his phone and glanced at the message. "Oh, there's a bonus too?"
The crowd had mostly dispersed when Gao Ang's exclamation immediately reached Officer Zhang's ears. Officer Zhang looked at his phone, then at Gao Ang's phone, and then looked up to find himself staring directly into Gao Ang's eyes.
"The message you sent me?" Gao Ang pointed at Officer Zhang, then at himself, and slowly walked over. "How much is the reward?"
Unexpectedly, Officer Zhang, with a serious expression, kicked out.
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