These words made Brian hesitate, because what Stewart said was indeed something he had not considered.
In fact, Brian thinks the above-mentioned things are okay because his retirement salary is really high! But Brian wanted more than just that for his daughter.
Unlike typical Westerners, Brian had a very strong compensatory mentality toward his daughter, perhaps because he owed too much. He missed his daughter's seventeenth birthday, except for her eighteenth. Except for birthdays, he had missed every birthday of hers before, and many times he couldn't even make a phone call to his daughter. He missed so much, so he planned to use the rest of his time to make up for it.
Material compensation is necessary, but it requires money!
Although joining Stewart's security company will take up some of his time, their company is extremely free in terms of time. They do it when there is a task and rest when there is no business. The income is also quite good.
"I remember your daughter has always liked singing, right?" Stewart suddenly thought of something and asked immediately.
"Yes, she always wanted to be a star, a singer."
"Then you have to go tomorrow. Do you know who we will work for tomorrow?"
"who?"
“Spicy chicken!”
Kai was pretending to be salted fish and drinking wine when he heard the name of spicy chicken. They were all stunned.
"Spicy chicken?"
"Yes, you know her too?"
"She debuted in Chicago." Kai explained casually, and then asked, "When did she come to Los Angeles?"
When Stewart heard Kai ask this, he looked at Kai with a country look on his face: "This is Los Angeles!"
Who are the two most hated places in America?
New York and Los Angeles!
Why, because New Yorkers are mean, cold, and full of a sense of superiority, and look at everyone else as rednecks. In Los Angeles, on the contrary, they seem enthusiastic, but in fact they are very hypocritical. It seems that everyone there is an actor, and they are rampant in white leftism. They like to talk about political correctness. Similarly, they feel that people in other places are uneducated bumpkins.
Just like Stewart is now.
"Los Angeles is the center of the world! If a singer doesn't come to Los Angeles, it means he is not a star."
Kai could only shrug his shoulders as if he didn't see this kind of regional discrimination. Don't think that just China likes regional discrimination. In fact, Americans like it more. People on the West Coast and East Coast are very hostile to each other, not to mention New York and Los Angeles. From New York's perspective, except for New York, the rest of the United States is rural, including Los Angeles. People in Los Angeles think that New York is just an outdated jalopy, a poor place that likes to show off. (California’s economy ranks first in the United States, accounting for 13.37% of the U.S. GDP. Although New York State ranks third, it only accounts for 7.73%.)
For another example, the entire United States discriminates against Cleveland, thinking that it is the worst place in the world, a little better than hell.
There was once a joke, a Russian said to Cleveland, don't be discouraged Clevelanders, they also have a city in Russia that Russian comedians like to make fun of. That city is called Cleveland.
This kind of thing cannot be avoided anywhere.
"This girl has been super popular lately. Her songs and advertisements are everywhere, but to be honest, her figure is really great!"
Kai squinted his eyes at his old comrade, knowing for the first time that this guy liked that kind of obscene figure.
"By the way, why are you talking about this?"
"It's nothing, but didn't you ask how Saji was doing? Coincidentally, he also worked as a bodyguard for this spicy chicken."
Kai replied with a smile.
"real?"
"Really, that woman's background is a little dirty, and she has some connections with the Blood Gang. She got into trouble because of her nonsense in the song. I know their boss, so I asked Saji and the others to play a guest role as bodyguards."
"That's normal, aren't all rappers like this?"
After chatting with Kai for a while, Stewart turned around and asked Brian again.
"How about it? Brian, have you decided?"
Brian thought about it for a while. He looked at Stewart a little shyly and asked, "Can I ask her some questions then?"
Stewart thought about it for a while. Their employer was not Malaji herself, and celebrities would not interact with temporary security guards like them. Logically speaking, they seemed to have little chance of contacting her in person.
"What do you want to ask her?"
"I just want to ask how I can become a star."
Yes, this is an unreliable daughter slave. She is very shrewd at other times, but when it comes to her daughter, she is completely different.
Stewart opened his mouth, not knowing what to say. After all, this question is not very reliable no matter how you listen to it. How do you want others to answer this thing? Even if others honestly tell you the whole process of becoming a star, can you make your daughter a star?
And even if you can praise it, it’s not certain whether you can become popular.
Stewart thought about it and felt that although this matter was a bit nonsense, it was not impossible to help. It's just a question. With Brian's character, he won't do anything just because others don't answer, so it doesn't matter to him. ,
"I'll arrange for you to go backstage, where you'll be closer to the singer. As for whether others are willing to talk to you, it depends on you."
Kai didn't interrupt. He could easily help Brian, but the question was, from what standpoint did he help Brian? Just as a comrade-in-arms? Kai had been observing Brian and talking to him just now. Kai found that his vigilance was far beyond ordinary people and he was even a little suspicious.
But combined with Stewart's secrecy about Brian's origins, it makes sense.
This daughter-slave father should be engaged in some kind of secret profession, such as an agent or something, and he rarely sees the light of day.
If such a person is not suspicious, he will never survive to retire.
If Kai came up and said he was helping, he would never accept it given his personality. Rather than letting others doubt anything, it is better to be calm. It was just the first time that he and Brian met, so there was no need to be so enthusiastic.
After it was finalized that Brian would attend the fan meeting the night after tomorrow, the group of people also dispersed. After all, it was after two o'clock in the evening.
Only Kai didn't leave.
"Tell me what you need my help with." Stewart took Kai to his basement. This basement is Stewart's safe room. It is divided into two floors, inside and outside. The upper floor is like the basement of most homes. It is divided into two parts. One part contains tools and some firearms, and the other part contains TV, billiards and sofa, equivalent to a game room.
There is a fingerprint lock behind the TV. You only need to scan your fingerprint, and the original pool table will split from the middle and an entrance will appear. Below is Stewart's safe room.
Stewart is an extremely cautious person. His underground safe room is made of reinforced concrete. It is an insanely thick one meter thick and cannot be blasted open by heavy weapons. It also stores a large amount of water, food, weapons and some high-end communication equipment. In addition to independent circuits and self-prepared power generation equipment, there is also a secret passage here.
It seemed to Kay that Stewart was a bit neurotic. This thing is totally geared toward the end of the world.
Kai did not answer Stuart's question in a hurry. Instead, he looked around and said with some emotion: "You still haven't changed, you are always so insecure."
Stewart has a kind of doomsday plot, and he always thinks that World War III will break out while he is alive.
Stewart shrugged, noncommittal. He knew he was a little neurotic, but he still liked it. This will give him a sense of security.
Kai didn't press the issue any further, he pulled out a picture of the blade.
"This man is my friend. He came to Los Angeles before, but just the day before yesterday, someone called me on his mobile phone and said that he was kidnapped. I want you to help find him, or find him and take him away. His people.”
Stewart held the photo, but he didn't expect that after he got the photo, he raised his eyebrows.
"Dude, is he really your friend?"
"What's wrong? Is there a problem?"
"Of course there is a problem! This guy has done a lot of things recently. Some time ago, the Los Angeles Police Department tried to catch him, but the whole Los Angeles County was in a state of uproar. It is said that this guy broke into an underground club and started killing. And one victim was burned alive."
Stewart looked at Kai seriously.
"He's not a good person."
Kai was silent for a moment before shaking his head.
"There are some things that I don't want to say too much. I just want to believe in me and that's enough."
How do you want Kai to explain things like vampires and mutants to Stewart? Fortunately, I didn’t explain it at all. From Stuart's description just now, Kai could guess even with his eyes closed that it was definitely the Blade guy hunting vampires.
Stewart frowned and stared at Kai, hoping to see some clues from his face. Kai accepted Stewart's scrutiny very calmly, without any guilt. Blade might have gone a little too far, but this guy would never kill someone for no reason.
In the end, trust in his comrades overcame doubts. Stewart nodded.
Then he pressed a hidden button on the wall, and then the wall deformed, and a console with a large screen appeared on the wall.
Stewart then put the photo of the blade into the scanner.
"This is a supercomputer I got from some special channels. It can connect to every camera in Los Angeles. As long as your friend is caught by the camera, I can find him through the facial scanning system."
"Is this illegal? How did you get the permission?"
Regardless of what Americans are clamoring for all day about freedom, personal privacy, etc., in fact these things are really dispensable to the US government. They are the biggest destroyers of human rights in the world.
Stewart said a little proudly: "When you make more friends, there are always some unexpected benefits."
"What kind of friend is so powerful?"
Stewart saw that the computer was sifting through the city's videos over the past two days. This process would take some time, so he didn't mind chatting with Kai to kill some time.
"Have you ever heard of Project Prism?"
Kai shook his head.
"PRISM is a top-secret electronic surveillance program implemented by the US National Security Agency (NSA) after the 9/11 incident. The US National Security Agency (NSA) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) have direct access to US Internet companies Mining data and collecting intelligence in central servers, and even many technology companies on the market have participated in this plan. This plan can conduct in-depth monitoring of instant communications and existing data. Data emails obtained by the US government in this plan , video and voice conversations, videos, photos, VoIP conversation content, file transfers, login notifications, and social network details. The government also has access to large amounts of personal chat logs, stored data, voice communications, file transfers, and personal social network data . It even has millions of private phone records provided by U.S. telecommunications providers, including the length of individual calls, the location of the calls, the phone numbers of both parties, and more."
Kai looked at Stewart with wide eyes.
"How can it be?!!"
"How is it impossible? What can't those politicians do to control the people?" Stewart said disdainfully.
"No, I mean, how could you be so clear about a plan of this level?" Of course Kai believed that the U.S. government could do such a thing. After all, no matter where in the world, this country has always been rogue, what kind of bad things happened in Nothing strange about it. What Kai really can't believe is that his old boss actually has this kind of energy. His background is indeed a bit complicated and he has connections with many special organizations, but he can have access to plans of this level, which is beyond Kai's imagination. Expected.
"Hehe... you don't understand this. This plan is indeed a secret, but it is not a secret. Many people know it, but they don't tell it."
It is true that there have been many rumors about the U.S. government spying on people since the last century, but in fact many people who really know it know that it is not true rumors, but it actually happened.
This kind of thing began to spread during the period when the United States and the Soviet Union were competing for hegemony. At that time, in order to prevent the spread of socialist ideas, the U.S. government passed secret authorizations to allow agencies such as the FBI to monitor some key figures.
Later, due to selfish desires or other reasons, this power was gradually abused, and the scope of surveillance was repeatedly expanded. In the end, it became more and more intense, and there was even an incident where the president monitored his own election opponents.
Yes, it was Watergate.
This incident has made the people's distrust of the government reach an unprecedented height, because even the presidential candidates are within the scope of monitoring, so it is obvious what will happen to ordinary people like them. Due to public opinion, the government also restrained itself.
But after 911, everything became unscrupulous.
With the introduction of the national security bill, a national security need has become an imperial edict, and any protest has become insignificant in this regard.
But in order to avoid causing another public opinion storm, the U.S. Congress decided to formulate a more confidential and reasonable surveillance plan.
This is Project Prism.
But it’s useless. Even with the development of science and technology, monitoring technology has become more and more comprehensive, and the scope of monitoring has become larger and larger, and it has become more detailed.
With such a sharp tool, who would resist using it?
It’s just that ordinary people are kept in the dark.
