The knight in the big world of American TV series

Chapter 332 S.H.I.E.L.D. Intervenes

Kai led the people into the safe room again. Here, Mills was always in a state of anxiety. When he saw Kai and the others, he immediately rushed towards them as if seeing a savior.Kay just nodded at him, then walked into a house and locked the door.

Seeing this, Mills was startled, thinking it was bad news.

"We managed to rescue the hostage, but the murderer escaped." William said quickly.

Mills breathed a sigh of relief. Although it was a pity that the murderer was not caught, it was good news to save an innocent person.But soon, Mills' mood sank.Although the female model was saved, it also proved one thing from the side.

That was the target chosen by the murderer, who were all participants in the case back then.

This left Mills with a breathless feeling, because he felt that he had created the monster, or at least he had attracted the monster to Chicago.Although it's a bit far-fetched to think like this, a man like Mills with a strong sense of responsibility always likes to consciously carry a lot of things on his shoulders.

He would think that if he hadn't been so impulsive back then and dealt with the problem calmly, maybe that Victor would not have been able to escape the trial.If so, the boy would not have committed suicide for psychological reasons.

No one else could understand or comfort Mills' pain.Only Tracy hugged her husband to make him feel better.

……

"Hello, Agent Phil? It's me, Kay."

Kai locked himself into the room not as other people thought, because he was angry because he couldn't catch the murderer, so he was alone, he just needed a secret space to seek help.

"Officer Kai?" Phil was also 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 you are responsible for all supernatural phenomena?" Kai asked directly.

"Um...that's right. S.H.I.E.L.D. is indeed in charge of this aspect." Phil didn't understand why Kay asked such a question at first, but he immediately realized that Kay was not the kind who would call him to connect emotionally people, or rather, they have no friendship at all! "Could it be..."

"That's right, I'm in Chicago right now..."

"Chicago again?" Filch asked.After all, it hasn't been long since Solomon made a big fuss in Chicago last time.Mutants are not mice, they are everywhere. In fact, the number of mutants has always been very small, and it is also because of the small number that the public has always believed that mutants are legends.However, Phil didn't suspect that Kay was lying to him, because it didn't make sense.

"Then what kind of opponent did you meet this time?"

The frequency of contact between Kay and S.H.I.E.L.D. is really high. Within a year, he had contact with S.H.I.E.L.D. three times.

"A perverted killer, who has already killed three, was caught by me when he was about to kill the fourth one. But the problem is that he ran right under my nose..." Kai paused and continued: "I jumped from the fifth floor and ran away after being shot head-on with the Desert Eagle..."

Although the Desert Eagle is famous, in fact, no army in the world has installed this gun because of three problems. One is that it is too heavy. It weighs only 11.43kg, and a fighter himself has to carry extremely heavy other equipment, so the Desert Eagle is still too heavy.

The second is that the recoil force is too large. If the operator is not strong enough, its recoil force can fracture the operator's arm (exaggeration).Due to too much recoil, the hit rate of the Desert Eagle is quite impressive.

The third is that the structure is complex, the reliability is low, and it cannot adapt to the complex and harsh battlefield environment.

But there is one thing that 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 burp.You must know that the Desert Eagle was originally designed to hunt large prey.

Now there is a person who was shot in the face by the Desert Eagle and was able to escape from the window on the fifth floor.This is definitely the mutant who didn't run away!
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 at all."

"Okay, I understand. I'll rush over right away." Phil said decisively.

"Agent Phil..." Just as Phil was about to hang up the phone, Kai suddenly said, "I need you to do me a favor."

Phil didn't expect that Kay would raise conditions with himself at this time. To be honest, their S.H.I.E.L.D. is not a benevolent 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 Well, they don't need to maintain an image of being friendly to the people at all, so it's purely overthinking when ordinary people negotiate conditions with them.

But Phil was a nice guy, in every sense of the word.So he decided to hear what Kay was asking for, if it wasn't excessive, it wasn't unaccommodating.After all, he has always been very interested in Kai and has always wanted to draw him into S.H.I.E.L.D.

"You said."

"It's like this..."

Kai told Phil the ins and outs of the matter, and then made his own request. "I'm not interested in how you guys deal with this pervert, but I hope you can help me find Maria before catching that bastard. Other than that, I don't have any requirements."

Phil was silent for a while.

His silence is not because Katie's request is too much, on the contrary, Katie's request is too in line with universal values.It's just that there is a little problem in the actual operation.

"I can promise to help. It's just...the process will be a little illegal. I don't know if you can accept it."

S.H.I.E.L.D. has very high authority in the United States, but such things as authority are inherently restricted. How can an intelligence agency like S.H.I.E.L.D. really abide by those rules and regulations?All good intelligence agencies don't follow the rules. For example, the FBI. In the Hoover era, the FBI was not a pure police agency. On the contrary, it was more like a guard that monitored the country. It was completely normal to secretly collect intelligence in violation of regulations. .

Legend has it that Hoover was able to dominate the entire United States because he used the FBI to master a large amount of black information on politicians, which allowed the FBI to expand its power infinitely and become the largest bureaucratic organization in the US government.

So if you want to find Maria as quickly as possible, you must use some extraordinary means.

"What do you think?"

Kay's previous unit was not a unit of justice, and they did a lot of dirty work.Kai doesn't have too much moral obsession with this aspect. He has never been a stickler for procedural justice. What he pursues is result justice!
"That's all right. I'll be in Chicago soon."

……

After confirming that S.H.I.E.L.D. 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!
For Kay's act of overreaching, both the mature William and the young and energetic Mills reacted fiercely.

As a police officer, no one is willing to hand over the case in their hands for no reason.That means they are incompetent!But in fact, they are approaching the true face of the murderer step by step!Kay'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've seen it with your own eyes, how that guy escaped! Do you think ordinary people can do it? He is an extremely dangerous, extremely crazy guy. Doing is not to look down on you, in fact, you have done a good job. But now, this case has exceeded the scope of your handling...so giving up is the best choice!"

Keke didn't think a bunch of regular cops could handle that guy!Professional matters should be left to professional people.

Although Kay 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 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 in the city and in what he had done.But he is a policeman!A real policeman, as long as he is still in this position for a day, he can't 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 directly pushed the two people away, and asked the special police guarding the safe room to watch the two people and not let them go out.

Strange to say, the special police had no affiliation with Kai, but they didn't resist Kai's order at all, maybe it was because Kai took them to save face just now.

……

S.H.I.E.L.D. was very fast. An hour after Kay called, the Chicago police received a call from a high-level FBI officer. During the phone call, the FBI officially notified the Chicago police that the case was officially taken over by the FBI special investigation team.

The Chicago police naturally refused.But it didn't work, because the mayor of Chicago had already spoken in person.However, the FBI still showed goodwill, and they were willing to issue consultations on the case in the name of joint case handling.

Of course, all of this is just a gimmick. In fact, the FBI just became the villain again, and it was SHIELD who really participated in the investigation.This is also a common tactic used by S.H.I.E.L.D. to show up in front of the public, under the guise of criminal law enforcement powers in the name of the FBI.

Who is to say that the FBI has great authority?

Soon Kai met with Phil, this time he brought a whole field agent of S.H.I.E.L.D.These people are the elite selected from various law enforcement departments and troops.More importantly, they are special forces that specialize in dealing with all kinds of 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 can use the name of the FBI to subdue the Chicago police at will, Kai can know that these guys are much more powerful than he imagined.That being the case, Phil would not be ignorant of the progress of the case.

"Of course! Now we can start investigating!"

Speaking of which, Phil took Kai to a private building. When they walked into the upper floor of the building, they realized that there was something strange here. The top floor of the building was already occupied by various equipment and computers. When Kai walked in, the inside There are already a large group of people busy in and out.

A conference room in the building is covered with various screens, all of which are surveillance images. As for where Kai is still unable to tell, he is not very familiar with Chicago.

Kai is very interested in these seemingly powerful equipment, but the staff who operate the equipment dislike Kai very much and don't let him touch it.

"These are all a set of monitoring equipment invented by our S.H.I.E.L.D. Science Department, which spent billions of dollars, but for some reason, it failed to spread." Phil didn't explain much, and just brought it over in one sentence. . "Okay, we can start looking for someone."

"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 a sonar device to 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 is not a scientific idiot, why does this thing sound so fantastic?Also, although Kai was an old antique in his previous life, no matter what, he has seen the Terminator, right?Is it really okay for this system to be called Skynet?Why does Kay always feel that in the next second this system will control the nuclear bomb launchers across the United States, and then the world will be destroyed and the machines will rise?

When Phil was talking, he was also quietly paying attention to Kai's expression.He wanted to see how Kay would react.It turns out Kay is just surprised, then kind of weird, but just not indignant.After this technology took shape, it has received a lot of criticism. Even within S.H.I.E.L.D., there are many people who oppose this technology.After all, this thing is really too buggy. If we really have to wait for this thing to take shape, the whole world will not be able to escape the eyes of S.H.I.E.L.D.

This equipment itself is an infringement of the privacy of citizens. It is illegal from a legal point of view, and it is also unjust from a moral point of view. What are some people doing this for? This behavior itself will not be accepted by normal people.If someone uses this equipment to do bad things in turn, it will pose a great threat to society.

It is also because of this appearance that this system is only a semi-finished product, and it has not been tested once.It was also a coincidence that during this time, Phil received an order from his superior to experiment and evaluate the practical capabilities and usable prospects of this system.

As for moral and legal issues, it is not within the scope of SHIELD's consideration for the time being.

This thing has not yet formed, it is too early to think so much.

In fact, Kai is really afraid of this thing, but Kai also believes that the person who is afraid of this thing is definitely not only himself.The sky is falling and there is a tall one to hold it up, so he is in a hurry?S.H.I.E.L.D. didn't listen to him again.

Relatively speaking, those social elites, political leaders, and business tycoons care more about this stuff.It's really better than privacy, the privacy of ordinary people is not as valuable as those big bosses!Those upper-class people have a lot more shit under their asses than ordinary people, and they are the vanguards who insist on the inviolability of privacy.

So Kai believed that even if he didn't say anything, those big bosses would force S.H.I.E.L.D. 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's so powerful, you should start now!"

Phil was speechless. He had thought about Kai's reaction after seeing this system, but he was indifferent to it.Because in his heart, Phil is also extremely opposed to this technology.He didn't support this experiment, but the director asked him to preside over the experiment, so he came, and he was going to write Kai's reaction into the report, so that the director could see how an ordinary person would react to it.

In order to tell the director, once this technology is announced, what kind of situation they will face.

Unfortunately, Kay didn't care at all.

"Ok."

Phil restrained himself.He gestured to his subordinates.

Then Maria's photo appeared on the central main screen, and then dozens of hundreds of other screens began to flicker. Countless pictures flashed across those screens, making people dizzy.

Suddenly, an index on the device began to climb rapidly, and other indexes also slowly increased.

"What's wrong? Found it?"

Kai saw that most of those indexes were computing speed and screening times, as well as some hardware indexes and the like, but Kai didn't know what the combination of them represented.

"No... there should be something wrong." Phil frowned, feeling a little bad.

"Oh... seriously?"

"It shouldn't be serious. During the previous debugging, it also happened..." As a result, Phil's voice just fell.

All the idea devices in the house suddenly slammed and went out... Then there was a burnt smell and thick smoke from the computer room next door.

"Uh...has this happened before?"

Phil's face became ugly!Even if Phil is not a technical expert, he still knows that this experiment is over!It's so smokey, it's a hairy experiment!
"By the way, is this thing really only a few billion dollars? Or is it that your department is using this trick to cheat funds?"

Kaido asked, and then Phil's face became even uglier.

But he couldn't get angry at Kai, he could only look at the technicians, hoping they could give a reasonable explanation.

The technicians next to him were very calm. To them, isn't experiment failure common sense?As for spending money...how can anyone who does scientific research not spend money?
"There is so much information that needs to be processed and screened, you can't imagine how much information a person will generate in one day, and we have to screen all the languages, words, and images that are useful to us in the vast sea of ​​information. This type 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 fails to meet expectations, then this part needs to be reworked. designed."

In a word, it is money!
Looking at it this way, the atmosphere of defrauding funds is even stronger.

"I'm not in charge of this, maybe you can make a good report after you go back! But now! You have to tell me! Did this shit work in the slightest?!"

Phil doesn't know much about other things, but he does know that even though the equipment on site may seem like no big deal, in fact, these equipment alone cost hundreds of millions of dollars!Now start it for a few seconds and it will all be over. If you don't get anything useful, then SHIELD will really lose money!

"This...you won't know until the system is restarted."

"How much time does that take!!!"

"Half an hour!"

So half an hour later, Kay got a photo.An enlarged photo shows a profile of Maria appearing in a corner of the photo. It seems that someone was taking pictures with a mobile phone and accidentally took a picture of Maria.

"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, only this information was left before the host burned down.If you want to get more detailed information, we can change to another host and continue the experiment! ’ The technician looked eager to try.

At this time, Phil asked in a shy voice, "How much does a new host cost?"

"It's not expensive, it only costs 9 million US dollars, and it's only 7 million when rounded up!"

When Phil heard this, he turned around and left.Without hesitation, he already has photos, and he still needs to spend [-] million?

All you need is image recognition and search software, not to mention their S.H.I.E.L.D., you can find it in Silicon Valley! (The plot timeline is in 09. At that time, the image search software has not been released yet, but it has already appeared)
(End of this chapter)