Kai led people into the safe room again. Here, Mills had been uneasy. When he saw Kai and the others, he immediately rushed towards them as if they were seeing a savior. But Kai just nodded to him, then walked into a house and locked the door.
Mills was shocked when he saw this, thinking it was some bad news.
"We successfully rescued the hostages, but the murderer escaped." William said quickly.
Mills breathed a sigh of relief. Although it was a pity that the murderer was not caught, saving an innocent person was considered good news. But soon, Mills' mood sank. Although he saved the female model, it also proved one thing.
That was the target chosen by the murderer, who were all participants in the case that year.
This made Mills feel breathless, because he felt that he had created this monster, or at least he was the one who attracted this monster to Chicago. Although it is a bit far-fetched to think this way, a man with a strong sense of responsibility like Mills always likes to consciously carry many things on his shoulders.
He would think that if he had not been so impulsive and handled the problem calmly, maybe that Victor would not have been able to escape trial. If so, the boy would not have committed suicide for psychological reasons.
Others could not understand or comfort Mills' pain. Only Tracy hugged her husband to make him feel better.
…
"Hey, Agent Phil? It's me, Kai."
Kai locked himself in the room not because he was angry because he couldn't catch the murderer, as others thought, so he was left alone. He just needed a private space to seek help.
"Officer Kai?" Phil was a little surprised when he heard Kai's call. He didn't expect that Kai would call him at this time. "Are you okay?"
"You said last time that all supernatural phenomena are your responsibility?" Kai asked directly.
"Uh...that's right. SHIELD is indeed responsible for this aspect." Phil didn't understand why Kai asked this at first, but he soon realized that Kai was not the type to communicate with him on the phone. People, or in other words, there is no friendship between them at all! "Could it be..."
"Yes, I'm in Chicago now..."
"Chicago again?" Filch asked. After all, it hadn't been long since the last time Solomon caused trouble in Chicago. Mutants are not rats, they are everywhere. In fact, the number of mutants has always been very small. It is also because the number is too small that the public has always thought that mutants are legends. However, Phil didn't suspect that Kai was lying to him, because it made no sense.
"Then what kind of opponent did you encounter this time?"
The frequency of contact between Kai and SHIELD is really high. Within a year, he actually had contact with SHIELD three times.
"A perverted murderer has already killed three people. When he was about to kill the fourth, I caught him. But the problem is that he ran away right under my nose..." Kai paused and then continued: "After being shot in the front with my Desert Eagle, I jumped from the fifth floor and ran away..."
Although the Desert Eagle is famous, in fact, no army in the world has installed this kind of gun because of three problems. First, it is too heavy. An empty Desert Eagle with a caliber of 11.43 (0.45 inches) Weighing 2kg, a soldier has to carry extremely heavy other equipment, so the Desert Eagle is still too heavy.
Second, the recoil force is too great. If the operator is not strong enough, the recoil force can break the operator's arm (an exaggeration). Due to the large recoil, the Desert Eagle's hit rate is quite impressive.
Third, it has a complex structure, low reliability, and cannot adapt to complex and harsh battlefield environments.
But one thing cannot be denied, that is, the Desert Eagle is one of the most powerful pistols in the world. Even if a big elephant is shot head-on by the Desert Eagle, it will be stunned. You must know that the Desert Eagle was originally designed to hunt large prey.
Now there is a man who was shot in the front by a Desert Eagle and was able to escape by jumping out of the fifth floor window. This is definitely because the mutants have not escaped!
But Phil didn't expect that Kai would have something to add.
"Also, when I saw his face, his whole face was shaking at a high speed, so fast that I couldn't see his face clearly."
"Okay, I understand. I'll rush over right away." Phil said decisively.
"Agent Phil..." Just when Phil was about to hang up the phone, Kai suddenly said, "I need you to do me a favor."
Phil didn't expect Kai to make conditions with him at this time. To be honest, SHIELD is not a good department. They are not even people-friendly officials. They are not responsible to the people at all. They are only responsible to the World Security Council. , they don’t need to maintain a people-friendly image at all, so ordinary people negotiating terms with them are simply overthinking.
But Phil is a good guy, in every sense of the word. So he decided to listen to what Kai's request was, and if it wasn't excessive, it wasn't unreasonable either. After all, he has always been interested in Kai and has always wanted to recruit him into S.H.I.E.L.D.
"you say."
"The thing is like this..."
Kai told Phil the whole story and then made his request. "I have no interest in how you deal with this pervert, but I hope you will help me find Maria before catching that bastard. Other than that, I don't have any requests."
Phil was silent for a while.
His silence was not because Kaiti's request was too much. On the contrary, Kai's request was too in line with universal values. However, there is a little problem in practical operation.
"I can agree to help. It's just that... the process will be a little illegal. I don't know if you can accept it."
SHIELD has very high authority in the United States, but authority is inherently limited. How can an intelligence agency like SHIELD really abide by those rules and regulations? All good intelligence agencies do not follow the rules very much, such as the FBI. In the Hoover era, the FBI was not a simple police agency. On the contrary, it was more like a uniformed guard monitoring the country. It was so normal to secretly collect intelligence in violation of regulations. .
Legend has it that Hoover was able to wield power over the entire United States because he used the FBI to master a large amount of dirty information about politicians, allowing the FBI's power to expand infinitely and become the largest bureaucracy in the U.S. government.
So if you want to find Maria as quickly as possible, you must use some extraordinary means.
"What do you think?"
The army that Kai served in before was not a force of justice, and they also handled a lot of dirty work. Kai doesn't have much moral obsession with this aspect. He has never been a stickler for procedural justice. What he pursues is result justice!
"That'll be no problem. I'll be in Chicago soon."
…
After confirming that SHIELD would come, Kai immediately found William and told him that the current situation had exceeded the limit they could handle. He has contacted the FBI to take over the case!
Both the mature William and the young and energetic Mills reacted fiercely to Kay's act of always overstepping his authority.
As a police officer, no one is willing to hand over the case in their hands without any reason. That means they are incompetent! But in fact, they are getting closer to the murderer's true identity step by step! Kai's approach is tantamount to picking peaches and usurping the fruits of their work.
"I'm doing it for your own good." Kai said calmly: "William, you have seen with your own eyes how that guy escaped! Do you think ordinary people can do it? He is an extremely dangerous and extremely crazy guy. I am so I don’t mean to look down on you, in fact, you have done a good job. But now, this case has exceeded the scope of what you can handle... so giving up is the best choice!"
Kai didn't think a group of ordinary police officers could deal with that guy! Professional matters should be left to professionals.
Although Kai has given the best explanation for his behavior, the problem is that William and Mills are still not ready to give up. Especially William, who was originally planning to retire in a few days, but the persistence in his bones still prevented him from turning a blind eye to the case in his hands. Maybe he was really disappointed with the city and with what he was doing. But he is a policeman! A real policeman, as long as he remains in this position for one day, he will not be able to abandon his original intention!
"If you have any dissatisfaction, you can complain to your superiors, but now... I think all arguments are meaningless!"
After speaking, Kai pushed the two people away and asked the SWAT officers guarding the safe room to keep an eye on the two people and prevent them from getting out.
Strangely enough, the SWAT officers obviously had no affiliation with Kai, but they did not resist Kai's orders at all. Perhaps it was because Kai had just led them to regain their face.
…
S.H.I.E.L.D. was very fast. An hour after Kai called, the Chicago police received a call from the top of the FBI. During the call, the FBI officially informed the Chicago police that the case was officially taken over by the FBI Special Investigation Team.
Of course the Chicago police refused. But it was useless, because the mayor of Chicago had already spoken. However, the FBI still showed goodwill, and they were willing to release case consultations in the name of joint handling of the case.
Of course, all this is just a gimmick. In fact, the FBI just became the scapegoat again, and the real person involved in the investigation was S.H.I.E.L.D. This is also a common tactic used by SHIELD to appear in front of the public, using criminal law enforcement powers in the name of the FBI.
Who says the FBI has such great power?
Soon Kai meets Phil, and this time he brings an entire team of S.H.I.E.L.D. field agents. These people are elites selected from various law enforcement agencies and military forces. More importantly, they are special forces specialized in handling various strange incidents. They have rich experience and are definitely more reliable than ordinary police.
"You should already know the basics of the matter." From the fact that they could freely use the name of the FBI to convince the Chicago police, Kai could know that these guys were much more powerful than he thought. In this case, Phil would not be unaware of the progress of the case.
"Of course! We can start investigating now!"
With that said, Phil took Kai to a private building. When they walked into the upper floor of the building, they discovered that there was a whole other world. The top floor of the building was already occupied by various equipment and computers. When Kai walked in, there was a hidden world inside. There are already a lot of people busy here and there.
A conference room in the building was covered with various screens, all of which were surveillance images. Kai couldn't tell where they were, and he wasn't very familiar with Chicago.
Kai was very interested in these powerful-looking equipment, but the staff who operated the equipment disliked Kai and wouldn't let him touch them at all.
"These are a set of surveillance equipment invented by our SHIELD science department at a cost of billions of dollars. However, due to some reasons, they could not be disseminated." Phil didn't explain much and just took it over in one sentence. . "Okay, we can start looking for people."
"Here?" Kai was surprised.
"That's right!" Phil said very proudly. "This is the 'Skynet System' invented by SHIELD. It can connect to any device with a camera. At the same time, this system can connect to everyone's mobile phone through sonar equipment and monitor everyone's movements. As long as we want, We can see what everyone in Chicago is doing on their phones!"
Phil's introduction made Kai's eyes widen. Although Kai was not a scientific idiot, why did this thing sound so fantasy? Also, although Kai was an old man in his previous life, he had watched The Terminator, right? Is it really okay to call this system Skynet? Why does Kai always feel that in the next second this system will control nuclear bomb launchers across the United States, and then the world will be destroyed and machines will rise?
While Phil was talking, he was also quietly paying attention to Kai's expression. He wanted to see how Kai would react. It turned out that Kai was just surprised and a little weird, but not indignant. After this technology was formed, it has received a lot of criticism. Even within SHIELD, there are many people who oppose this technology. After all, this thing is too buggy. If this thing really takes shape, the whole world will not be able to escape SHIELD's eyes.
This equipment itself is an infringement of citizens' personal privacy rights. It is illegal from a legal point of view and unjust from a moral point of view, because no one wants to have a pair of eyes staring at them all the time, regardless of what they are doing behind the eyes. Why do people do this? This behavior itself will not be accepted by normal people. If someone uses this equipment to do bad things, it will pose a great threat to society.
Because of this, this system is only a semi-finished product and has not been tested even once. It just so happened that during this period, Phil received an order from his superiors to experiment and evaluate the practical capabilities and usable prospects of this system.
As for moral and legal issues, they are temporarily outside the scope of SHIELD's consideration.
This thing hasn't taken shape yet, so it's too early to think about it so much.
In fact, Kai is really afraid of this thing, but Kai also believes that he is definitely not the only one who is afraid of this thing. If the sky falls, there will be a tall person to hold it up. Is he in need of help? SHIELD wouldn't listen to him.
Relatively speaking, those upper-class people, political leaders, and business tycoons care more about this stuff. It’s really more important than privacy. The privacy of ordinary people is not as valuable as that of those big guys! Those upper class people have much more shit under their butts than ordinary people. They are the pioneers who insist that private privacy is inviolable.
So Kai believes that even if he doesn't say anything, those big guys will still force SHIELD to give up this research.
But before that, its most important function is to help him find Maria!
"What are you looking at me for? Since it is so powerful, you should start quickly!"
Phil was speechless. He had thought a lot about Kai's reaction after seeing this system, but there was no such thing. He was actually indifferent to it. Because in his heart, Phil is extremely opposed to this technology. He did not support the experiment, but the director asked him to preside over the experiment, so he came. He also planned to include Kai's reaction in the report, so that the director could see how an ordinary person would react to it.
Use this to tell the director what kind of situation they will face once this technology is announced.
Unfortunately, Kai didn't care at all.
"All right."
Phil calmed down. He made a gesture to his subordinates.
Then Maria's photo appeared on the main screen in the center, and then dozens or hundreds of other screens began to flash. Countless pictures flashed quickly in those screens, making people dizzy.
Suddenly an index on the device began to rise rapidly, and other indexes also slowly increased.
"What's wrong? Found it?"
Kai saw that most of those indices were calculation speed, number of screenings, and some hardware indices, but Kai didn't know what they represented when combined.
"No...there must be something wrong." Phil frowned, feeling a little bad.
"Oh...is it serious?"
"It shouldn't be serious. It happened a few times during the previous debugging..." Phil just finished his words.
All the creative equipment in the room suddenly clicked and went out... and then the smell of burning and thick smoke came from the computer room next door.
"Uh...has this happened before?"
Phil's face turned ugly! Even if Phil is not a technical expert, he knows that this experiment is a failure! It's all smoking, and you're still experimenting!
"By the way, is this thing really only worth a few billion dollars? Or does your department use this trick to defraud funds?"
Kai asked a lot, and then Phil's face became even more ugly.
But he couldn't get angry at Kai yet, so he could only look at the technicians, hoping they could give him a reasonable explanation.
The technicians next to me were very calm. To them, isn't it common sense that the experiment failed? As for spending money... How can anyone engage in scientific research without spending money?
"There is so much information that needs to be processed and filtered. You can't imagine how much information a person will generate in a day, and we have to sift through all the languages, texts and images that are useful to us in that vast sea of information. This This kind of calculation has exceeded the load of our host. And because the information collection equipment has not met expectations, a lot of information has not been collected. We need new information collection equipment. If it still cannot meet expectations, then this part needs to be re- designed."
In a word, that is money!
Looking at it this way, the smell of defrauding funds is even stronger.
"I'm not responsible for this. Maybe you can make a good report after you go back! But now! You have to tell me! Has this piece of shit played any role at all? !!"
Phil didn't know much about other things, but he knew that even though the equipment on site didn't seem like a big deal, in fact, these equipment alone cost hundreds of millions of dollars! Now it only takes a few seconds to start and everything is over. If nothing useful is obtained, then SHIELD will really lose a lot!
"This... we won't know until the system is restarted."
“How long will that take!!!”
"Half an hour!"
So half an hour later, Kai got a photo. An enlarged photo showed a silhouette of Maria appearing in the corner of the photo. It seemed that someone was taking a photo with a mobile phone and accidentally took Maria into the photo.
"When and where was this photo taken?"
The time was three o'clock in the afternoon three days ago. As for the location... I'm sorry, this is the only information left before the host burned down again. If we want to get more detailed information, we can change the host and continue the experiment! "The technician seemed eager to try.
At this time, Phil asked quietly: "How much does a new host cost?"
"It's not expensive. It only costs 97 million U.S. dollars, which is only 100 million when rounded off!"
When Phil heard this, he turned around and left. Without any hesitation, he already had photos, so he still needed to spend 100 million?
All you need is image recognition and search software. Don’t talk about SHIELD, you can find it directly in Silicon Valley! (The plot timeline is in 2009. At that time, image search software had not yet been released, but it had already appeared)
