Jiang Ning and Qi Xingzhou had just caught Chang Gaoduo, and everyone was aware of it.
Jiang Ning simply explained the possible consequences once this incident hits the trending topics: "If today’s incident goes viral, the audience will quickly find out that the filming location of the show is in Sanwan Village."
"The production team chose Sanwan Village for live streaming earlier because of its high privacy, ensuring it wouldn’t be discovered."
"Now that this advantage is gone, there’s no guarantee some overly curious people won’t directly come to Sanwan Village."
"Shen Zha is already discussing countermeasures with the production team. It’s possible they might change the filming location overnight."
If today’s incident hadn’t happened, Jiang Ning would have definitely taken Yang Shu and Qi Xingzhou back to the village, as long as they were kept off screen, believing that Shen Zha wouldn’t mind so much.
"You’re already carsick, and Sanwan Village is too far from here. We spent an hour and a half coming out today on all winding mountain roads, making the ride quite uncomfortable. Staying in the county town is much simpler, only a bit over ten minutes away."
Qi Xingzhou began to say he didn’t mind.
He just liked playing around with Jiang Ning.
Before he could speak, Jiang Ning patted his shoulder gently, the warmth penetrating the thin fabric and reaching him, meeting Jiang Ning’s concerned eyes.
Jiang Ning said with concern, "You already took a long flight today, and then a long car ride. Since you’re already carsick, going back to the village with me would only make you feel worse."
And if the production team decides to evacuate, you’ll have to follow again."
Jiang Ning could already empathize with the discomfort just by mentioning it.
Because she used to get carsick as a child, she understood how unpleasant it was.
Qi Xingzhou appreciated Jiang Ning’s concern.
He bowed his head and agreed: "Alright then."
But he quickly added another request: "If the production team doesn’t evacuate, you have to tell me so I can come to the village to find you."
"Mhm." Jiang Ning nodded: "I’ll let you know right away."
Even if Qi Xingzhou hadn’t asked, she would have done so.
Qi Xingzhou had come all this way, clearly to find her, and Jiang Ning didn’t consider leaving him in the county town for a week.
Although he didn’t get the result he had in mind, Qi Xingzhou was still somewhat appeased by Jiang Ning’s attitude.
While he was eating, Yang Shu had already driven the car over ahead of time.
Qi Xingzhou’s luggage was in the car, consisting of just a suitcase and a laptop bag.
He asked Yang Shu to wait outside for a moment while he pulled Jiang Ning into the car.
The two sat together in the back seat, Qi Xingzhou opened his laptop, showing Jiang Ning the results he had painstakingly worked on for over half a month.
Jiang Ning was shocked: "You successfully researched it?"
In fact, when she saw Qi Xingzhou appear before her eyes at noon today, Jiang Ning had guessed that the intelligent facial recognition system he had mentioned must have been successfully developed.
She understood Qi Xingzhou; if he hadn’t completed something, he wouldn’t take a break to have fun.
"Yeah, take a look." Qi Xingzhou started to operate it right in front of Jiang Ning: "The system recognizes in two ways: image upload or scanning. Let’s try the image upload recognition system first."
The photo he took out for the experiment was none other than a childhood photo of himself.
A well-dressed and pretty little boy sat upright in front of a floor-to-ceiling window, looking up at the camera, his eyes hollow and emotionless.
Jiang Ning instantly recognized it as Qi Xingzhou when he was a child.
He had been handsome since he was little, and his hollow eyes were not much different from when she had met him in the elevator before.
Jiang Ning looked at that photo, feeling an inexplicable pain inside.
The tips of Qi Xingzhou’s fingers tapped lightly on the keyboard, and once his image was successfully uploaded, the recognition results appeared quickly.
Next to his childhood photo, dozens of different portraits suddenly appeared.
Top of the list were Qi Jingshan, Ji Shuang, and Qi Chen.
Below these photos, the matching results were displayed in percentages.
The photos of Qi Jingshan and Ji Shuang showed 92% and 94%, respectively.
And the match with Qi Chen was also high, at 90%.
As for the subsequent photos, the match results were much lower, with the fourth photo showing 75%, and the others below 50%.
Qi Xingzhou clicked on the fourth photo.
Jiang Ning was surprised to discover that the man in the suit in the photo indeed had features somewhat resembling Qi Xingzhou.
"That’s my uncle." Qi Xingzhou suddenly said.
With his words, Jiang Ning immediately understood.
It is said that nephews often resemble their uncles, and it does hold some truth.
However, Jiang Ning noticed that these matched photos seemed to be candid shots.
She found it odd and asked directly: "Where did you get these matched photos from?"
"Captured online using a Trojan program," Qi Xingzhou explained. He had just finished working on this system yesterday and hadn’t told anyone else about it. Jiang Ning was the first and only person to know about it besides himself.
In this country, citizens’ image rights are legally protected, so Qi Xingzhou could only capture images from the internet.
After demonstrating the image recognition, he took out a scanner from the laptop bag. Using himself as the experiment again, he scanned his face with it, and soon the scanning recognition results appeared on the computer screen, with little difference from the previous image recognition results. However, the match with the Qi family members was slightly higher.
In response, Qi Xingzhou explained: "Facial scanning provides more accurate results than image recognition."
Even though the results with the Qi family members and Qi Xingzhou only topped over 90%, surpassing 70% already indicates a high match.
Qi Xingzhou: "If others use it without knowing their parents’ identities, a match result over 60% can justify a paternity test."
At this, Jiang Ning suddenly recalled something.
She took out her phone, scrolling to find a photo to show Qi Xingzhou: "This one, do you remember Fu Fangzhou, the guy who asked us to help find his biological parents at last time’s class reunion?"
Qi Xingzhou glanced at the photo and nodded.
Jiang Ning sent the photo to him, feeling somewhat moved: "Want to try it?"
Qi Xingzhou used Fu Fangzhou’s photo, repeating the previous steps of the image recognition.
This time, the wait for the result was slightly longer than before.
But after a mere three-minute wait, when the recognition results appeared, Jiang Ning exhaled in relief, feeling a bit excited as she gripped Qi Xingzhou’s arm: "Your system is truly remarkable!"