From the end of the game against the Jazz to the morning of November 10 at home against the Cleveland Cavaliers, the Rockets had almost four full days of rest.

But these four days are days when there is no way for Yang Yiming and Yu Xiaochun to rest. Yang Yiming wants to join the Orgrand Valley Vipers of the Development League and complete the 100-point challenge set for him by head coach D'Antoni. Yu Xiaochun wants to take advantage of this opportunity to find Nina's whereabouts as soon as possible in the huge city of Houston.

And this task is not at all easy compared to scoring 100 points in three games!

1/

"Little Pez, any clues?"

It was early morning on November 7, 2017. Jose, who had just sent Yang Yiming to the airport to take a flight to participate in the Viper team game, returned to Yu Xiaochun's residence, greeted him and asked. Because the Chinese names of the two were difficult to pronounce, Jose Rodriguez, a Mexican driver, not only helped Yang Yiming take a Dr. Yang. Yang's nickname has been widely known to fans with the Rockets' social media, and he also gave Yu Xiaochun's nickname to Yu Xiaochun on his own initiative. Pez means fish in Spanish, who let when he and Jose met for the first time, Yang Yiming almost introduced his surname to the same as the fish!

"Not yet," Yu Xiaochun stared at the Apple laptop, held the phone again, and hurriedly replied to Jose. Kalonsky II gave him Nina's full name and suggested that he could try his luck on social media, but there were no reliable clues yet.

"Oh, I'll see?"

Yu Xiaochun saw that Jose was also interested, and thought that although he didn't know what he could do to help, after all, brainstorming was better than him meditating here alone without results, so he pulled over a chair and let Jose sit on the side and look at the computer together.

When Kalonsky II reminded him to look for a breakthrough on social media, he also gave Yu Koharunina's full name, a French and Cambodian surname followed by it.

Ms. Yu first searched for her name on Facebook, the largest social networking site in the United States. The object that this Renren network once used to imitate, most of the registered users used real names, but Yu Xiaochun, whether he used Nina's full name or brought a French or Cambodian surname separately, showed that there was no such person.

Then he tried Twitter, a service like Weibo, where users generally rebranded themselves with an online name. Nina, who lives in a gray area and is careful, will ask Yu Xiaochun to call on the hotel landline to confirm before the phone comes to the door, obviously will not leave her real name here. However, thinking of the flood of marketing accounts on Weibo in China, Yu Xiaochun tried to enter the "Khmer Lady Escort Service" that Nina had just answered his phone call, and really searched for a related registered user. However, the last Twitter message on this account was sent in 2015, and Yu Xiaochun sent a private message on Twitter and did not receive a reply, so it seems that it is a dead end to think about finding Nina in the next few days.

"I also tried to add her phone number on Whatsapp (similar to WeChat), but it never passed." Yu Xiaochun continued to explain to Jose all the methods he had tried, "I also called the phone, but it still said to turn it off. ”

"Maybe it's airplane mode set up, and I don't want to be contacted." José commented, thoughtful.

"Hmm." Yu Xiaochun also exhausted himself.

"That's right!" Jose slapped his thigh, "Have you tried Instagram?" ”

"Instagram?"

"Yes, my wife and her girlfriends take pictures every day, edit them, and post them on the photo wall. It seems that girls like to use it now - there are many female Internet celebrities and celebrities on it, such as the sisters of the Kardashian family? José patiently explained to Yu Xiaochun as he downloaded a photo wall app on his phone.

It seems that Yu Xiaochun really knows very little about the preferences of contemporary women, but after only a quick flip through it, he figured out the doorway of this photo wall. The way users follow each other is a bit like Twitter and Weibo, but the form of sending photo content and comments and likes is a bit like a circle of friends, but the photos are replaced with a fresh literary and artistic style.

He tried to type in Nina and her French surnames, but there was no match.

Changed to a Cambodian surname, and the app actually showed that there was a matching user! This matching user avatar is a large headshot, although the outline is somewhat similar to the impression of Nina's face, but the photo person is wearing sunglasses, and it is impossible to confirm that it is her. Click on the content posted by this user, and the photos on the screen are all girly style, either drying food and desserts, or taking fitness selfies without faces. There are several stills from Broadway operas and photos of the foot of the Brooklyn Bridge that reveal that users are often active in New York, and the most recent photo was taken in the pool, the time was 3 o'clock in the afternoon the day before, and the background of the photo is a common outdoor pool in a motel, the photographer seems to be leaning against the edge of the pool, but the face is not in the camera, only one hand holding a mojito drink, posing in the center of the camera.

The caption reads: "Rest and enjoy the sunshine of the Sky City." This was followed by a smiling face in sunglasses and the expression of the sun.

"That's her! I recognize the color of this nail polish. Yu Xiaochun exclaimed.

And the space city is Houston!

So Nina may not have left the city of Houston yet.

"Do you have geolocation information?"

The photo is not labeled. The glimmer of hope that had just been ignited was instantly extinguished.

"Wait a minute..."

Jose took Koharu's phone, enlarged Mojito's photo, and took a closer look at it.

"Look here!"

He pointed to a red sign in the corner of the photo and showed it to Yu Xiaochun. It's a giant sign common on the side of the road in the United States, where motels, restaurants, and even churches solicit business. In the photo, although the details are a little blurry, you can still see that the signboard is red throughout, and the outline is an abstract cowboy hat, and 5 English letters are written in the middle of the hat.

"Arby's (an American fast-food brand similar to McDonald's)?!" The two said in unison.

"Motel next to Arby's with outdoor pool." Yu Xiaochun further supplemented the known information, "So how many Arby's are there in Houston?" ”

"A dozen." Jose, an experienced driver, has searched for results on the Maps app with his mobile phone at the same time.

"Then let's hurry up and go and find them one by one."

Let's go!

2/

Yang Yiming, who rushed back to Houston overnight after playing the Vipers of the Development League, connected with the search team composed of Jose and Yu Xiaochun, it was already more than 1 o'clock in the morning of the next day.

"Are you sure this is it?" The meeting point was a motel called "Cozy Cabin". The hotel is in the shape of an opening, with three floors, and the outdoor pool in the middle is empty, and the sparkling waves at night show a bit of tranquility and ghosts. The red sign at Arby's across the street is still lit up.

"That's all there is to it. We've been to other Arby's restaurants all over town. ”

"Yiming, do you want to go back and rest first, you have been running around all day today, and there is still training for Team Rocket at eleven o'clock in the morning. We'll take care of the rest. "Yu Xiaochun cares about his friends.

Yang Yiming left this morning for the O'Grande Valley Vipers game, and then took a late flight back to Houston to catch up with the Rockets' in-team training the next morning. In the Vipers game, he scored 35 points and 13 rebounds, plus 14 points against the Jazz, and is 51 points away from Coach D'Antoni's goal of 100 points in three games.

"It's okay, it's better for me to see Nina first." Yang Yiming's eyes were bloodshot, but his attitude was very resolute.

"Want to see her first?"

"I need her strength to help me regain my strength – otherwise I wouldn't have been able to score 100 points."

I see.

In the NBA, in order to cope with the busy schedule, it is also extremely important for players to have sufficient physical reserves!

"Then let's go and ask!" José proposed.

Let's go. With that, against the backdrop of a huge red signboard, the three of them pushed open the front room of the cozy cabin. Ding Dong, the bell hanging on the door rang at the same time.

A bloated middle-aged woman poked her head out from behind the desk at the front desk:

"Hello, is there anything you can do to help?