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Chapter 292 - 196 Powerful ’Extensive Knowledge and Strong Memory’, Investigation (April Monthly Ticket Extra 9)

Chapter 292: Chapter 196 Powerful ’Extensive Knowledge and Strong Memory’, Investigation (April Monthly Ticket Extra 9)

"Brian, what’s wrong?"

Green looked puzzledly at Brian, who had suddenly stopped walking.

Brian shook his head, "It’s nothing, I just remembered that we need to apply for some work tablets. When needed, they can be used to view digital maps, and it would be even better if we could pull up personnel information on demand."

Green nodded in agreement, "That sounds really good. I’ve heard mobile networks are developing quickly. In a couple of years, it should be possible, though I don’t know how long it will take to become widely available."

There’s an archive room at headquarters.

The archive room wasn’t a small, separate room but rather a three-story building similar to a university library, filled with many shelves, like a small maze.

It also had separate computer querying areas, employing internal networks disconnected physically, cutting off hack intrusions, requiring identity verification to use these computers.

Brian and Green split up.

Green went for the paper archives, while Brian searched the computers for case files.

...

Arriving at the computer area.

Brian didn’t rush to search but started reviewing the recently completed obsession.

The completed obsession was that of Professor Mycroft, who had jumped off a building: to protect Heidilin Silva from retaliation by people from the Black Light Company.

The completion of the obsession indicated that Mycroft’s wife Heidilin was either already dead or NW had completed an autopsy and categorized her for a scientific research project.

Everyone was going to die eventually.

Black Light Company would naturally not waste time and effort avenging this distasteful woman.

After completing Mycroft’s obsession, Brian had three Gifts to choose from:

Gift One: 8 units of energy

Gift Two: 3 units of energy + Extensive Knowledge and Strong Memory

Gift Three: 3 units of energy + Master-level Bootlicking’s Self-Cultivation

Unsurprisingly, Brian chose the second Gift.

After selecting, his Gift Energy returned to 54 units, and a cool sensation washed over his forehead, making him comfortably squint his eyes.

Momentarily.

He reopened his eyes, feeling somewhat different.

How should he put it?

Previously, Brian’s brain function, as he continuously completed numerous obsessions and absorbed the Spirit Crystals gifted, led to an enhancement of his spiritual strength.

Through this process, his thinking speed increased more and more.

But that didn’t mean Brian could now Never Forget.

At most, his thinking was faster, his memory was somewhat easier than before, his mind could stay clear without rest for extended periods, and he could ponder for long without quick fatigue, but not much else had changed.

It was similar to having an ever-upgrading brain graphics card, but the special function programs remained the same as before.

Now, however, it was different.

Brian scanned around, finding his accustomed Supercomputer Perception, combined with Mycroft’s Extensive Knowledge and Strong Memory Talent, and his own powerful visual ability, amalgamated perfectly. Anything that came into his range of vision was imprinted clearly in his mind, and recalling any object, along with details like the dimensions, distribution, distances, etc., was manageable.

"Amazing!"

Brian exclaimed in amazement.

This Talent, which he thought was just an enhancement of memory, turned out to undergo a qualitative change with his other various abilities and had become a kind of scene-recreation ability.

This type of ability was somewhat brain-consuming.

After playing around with it a bit, Brian started to feel a bit of mental fatigue.

However, if he didn’t deliberately engage in long periods of high-definition detail playback, this Extensive Knowledge and Strong Memory Talent, like his Supercomputer Perception Talent, acted as a passive ability and wouldn’t impact his daily life.

"This discovery is somewhat beyond my expectations; good deeds really do get rewarded!"

Brian smiled slightly, gathered his thoughts, and started typing on the keyboard.

..

The case location was situated in the middle of the road network of three cities.

The area consisted of farms and wilderness, closest to Abandoned Car Valley. According to the satellite electronic regional topographic maps on the computer, there were two small towns in the area.

One town was called Harvest Town, primarily developing livestock but on a small scale due to environmental limitations.

The other town was called Tengteng Town, a strange name, but according to archive records, it originally was one of the few mining towns in Los Angeles County, flourishing for a time.

Harvest Town’s main customer base used to be Tengteng Town.

Following the depletion of mineral resources, many people left, and Tengteng Town declined.

"Mining.."

Brian stroked his chin.

This Tengteng Town was highly suspicious.

Some horror plots chose remote areas in mountains, wilderness, highways, roadside motels, remote abandoned towns, deserted mining areas, etc., mainly because these places had sparse populations, reducing the exposure risk after committing a crime.

To use academic terms,

These places didn’t abide by human laws but followed the law of the Dark Forest.

Brian decided to head straight to Tengteng Town with Green later.

This review of the digital map once again highlighted to him the contribution of the inconspicuous Extensive Knowledge and Strong Memory Talent.

Combined with Supercomputer Perception.

Brian could actually visualize the entire electronic map of Los Angeles County, all public routes, towns in his mind, and accurately know their distances from each other and his approximate time to traverse them at different speeds.