Chapter 328: SHIELD Intervenes (Please Give Me a Monthly Ticket, Recommend, and Subscribe) 5600 Words, Please Recommend!

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 he had seen the 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.

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"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 came into 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. A Desert Eagle with a caliber of 43mm (45 inches) can be used empty-handed. 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 didn’t escape!

But Phil didn't expect that Kai would have something to add.

"Also, when I saw his face, his entire 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. For example, 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 on 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."

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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.

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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 phone 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 was 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 SHIELD was really involved in the investigation. 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 powerful powers?

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 that specialize 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.

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 all surveillance devices invented by our SHIELD Science Department at a cost of billions of dollars. However, for some reasons, they have not been circulated." Phil did not explain much and just passed it on 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 our SHIELD. It can connect to any device with a camera. At the same time, this system can connect to anyone's mobile phone through sonar equipment to monitor everyone's movements. As long as we want, we can see what everyone in Chicago is doing through the mobile phone!"

Phil's introduction made Kai open his eyes wide. 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, he must have seen the Terminator anyway, right? Is it really okay to call this system Skynet? Why does Kai always feel that in the next second, this system will control all the nuclear missile launchers in the United States, and then the world will be destroyed and the 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 then a little weird, but not indignant. After this technology was formed, it received a lot of criticism. Even within SHIELD, there were many people who opposed this technology. After all, this thing is too buggy. If it really takes shape, the whole world will not escape SHIELD's eyes.

This equipment itself is an infringement on the personal privacy rights of citizens. It is illegal from a legal point of view, and it is also unjust from a moral point of view, because no one would like to have a pair of eyes staring at what they do all the time. No matter what the person behind the eyes does this for, this behavior itself will not be accepted by normal people. If someone uses this equipment to do bad things, it will be a great threat to society.

It is also because of this that this system is only a semi-finished product and has not been tested once. It just so happened that during this period, Phil received an order from his superiors to let him experiment and evaluate the practical ability and available prospects of this system.

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

This thing has not yet been formed, and it is too early to consider so much.

In fact, Kai is really afraid of this thing, but Kai also believes that he is not the only one who is afraid of this thing. If the sky falls, there will be someone taller to hold it up. What's the point of him being anxious? SHIELD won't listen to him.

Relatively speaking, those upper-class people, political bigwigs, and business tycoons care more about this thing. If it really comes to privacy, the privacy of ordinary people is not as valuable as those bigwigs! Those upper-class people have more shit under their butts than ordinary people. They are the pioneers who insist on the inviolability of private privacy.

So Kai believes that even if he doesn't say anything, those bigwigs will force SHIELD to give up this research.

But before that, its most important function is to help him find Maria!

"Why are you looking at me? Since it's so powerful, then you should start quickly!"

Phil was speechless. He had thought of many reactions of Kai after seeing this system, but there was no such reaction. He was actually indifferent to it. Because in his heart, Phil was also extremely opposed to this technology. He did not support this experiment, but the director asked him to conduct the experiment, so he came. He also planned to write Kai's reaction in the report, so that the director could see the reaction of an ordinary person.

This would tell the director what kind of situation they would face once this technology was announced.

Unfortunately, Kai didn't care at all.

"Okay."

Phil calmed down. He gestured 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 on those screens, making people dizzy.

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

"What's wrong? Found it?"

Kai saw that most of those indexes were computing speed and screening times, as well as some hardware indexes, but Kai didn't know what they represented when combined.

"No... there should be some problems." Phil frowned, feeling a little bad.

"Oh... is it serious?"

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

All the devices in the room suddenly went out... and then a burning smell and thick smoke came from the machine 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 over! It's already smoking, what's the point of experimenting!

"By the way, is this thing really only worth a few billion dollars? Or is this the trick your department uses to cheat funds?"

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

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

The technicians next to him were very calm. For them, isn't it common sense that the experiment failed? As for spending money... who doesn't spend money in scientific research?

"There is too much information to be processed and screened. You can't imagine how much information a person can generate in a day. We have to screen all the languages, texts and images that are useful to us in that vast sea of ​​information. This amount of computing 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 redesigned."

In a word, that is money!

Looking at it this way, the smell of cheating funds is even stronger.

"I am not responsible for this part. Maybe you can write a good report after you go back! But now! You must tell me! Does this broken thing have any effect?!!"

Phil didn't know much about other things, but he knew that although these devices on the scene didn't look like a big deal, in fact, these devices alone cost hundreds of millions of dollars! Now it's all gone after just a few seconds of operation. If nothing useful is obtained, then SHIELD will really lose a lot!

"This... we can only know after the system is restarted."

"How long will it take!!!"

"Half an hour!"

So half an hour later, Kai got a photo. An enlarged photo showing Maria's silhouette in a corner of the photo, as if someone was taking a photo with a mobile phone and accidentally took Maria in.

"When and where was this 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. If you want to get more detailed information, we can change a host and continue the experiment!" The technician seemed eager to try.

Phil asked in a hoarse voice at this time: "How much does a new host cost?"

"It's not expensive, only 97 million US dollars, which is only 100 million after rounding up!"

Phil turned around and left after hearing this. He didn't hesitate at all. He already had the photo, so why did he need to spend 100 million?

All he needed was image recognition search software. Not to mention their SHIELD, he could find it directly in Silicon Valley! (The plot timeline is 2009. At that time, the image search software had not been announced, but it had already appeared)