American Detective: Starting as a Rookie Cop in an American TV Show

Chapter 1493 Return to Washington DC

“Detective Frosco is a really interesting person. I have a question, Jack, why are the people around you so interesting, unlike those mediocre ordinary people?”

As usual, on the way to Washington, D.C., Kate started a conversation with Jack.

Whether it's because Finch lifted the restriction that she had to restart and recover every 24 hours, or because the servers in Shangri-La's data centers across Europe and America provided sufficient computing power, Kate is now behaving more and more humanely.

Of course, this kind of humanization usually only appears in front of a few people, such as calling Finch "Daddy" in the sweet voice of a little daughter, playing games with Hannah in a sweet girlish voice, and chatting with Jack in a seductive voice of a mature woman, just like now.

"It's probably a matter of attention, right?" Jack drove slowly in the far right lane.

The "mammoth" design is a bit too eye-catching, and you often encounter clueless idiots on the road who try to provoke you. Some of them may not necessarily have any malicious intent, but simply want to have a road race.

Sometimes Jack doesn't mind stepping on the gas and leaving the other car out of sight in a few minutes, but he wasn't in the mood for that today. After encountering these idiots several times in a row, he simply took out a temporary police light and put it on the roof of the car.

“Not everyone’s life is always in front of the camera. For example, Frank Moses’ life is very peaceful now, and it’s probably not much different from most ordinary people.”

Jack has now gotten used to answering Kate’s endless stream of strange questions. Humans are, after all, sensory creatures. When an artificial intelligence deliberately uses a pleasant voice to please you, it’s hard to feel annoyed no matter how many questions it asks.

Kate paused for a moment, her tone becoming somewhat strange, "The 'R.E.D.' agent you mentioned recently went to Chongqing, Sichuan with his girlfriend. I think you should remind him to pay attention to his diet; eating hot pot every day is a bit too much for someone his age."

"Those two guys really haven't left Seris in over a year," Jack thought with genuine envy. "It shouldn't be a big problem. I heard they have the best proctologists in the world there."

The two chatted all the way to Washington, D.C., and according to Finch, such conversations helped Kate's personality development.

Of course, besides chatting, the AI ​​and Kate also had serious business to discuss. Kate had been searching online for evidence of the possible existence of the "Samaritans" as Jack had requested.

Although the world has become unrecognizable, and the main storyline of "Person of Interest" has completely collapsed, Jack still harbors a deep-seated fear of the "evil" artificial intelligence.

After all, some of the settings that were science fiction in early science fiction dramas may not be so indicative of what they are today, decades later.

For example, when Jules Verne conceived of the Nautilus in 1869, submarines were still in the earliest stage of human propulsion, such as the famous US Confederate Navy's USS Henry.

The concept of a double-hulled vessel, all-electric propulsion, and the use of compressed air to adjust buoyancy and descent, allowing it to sail in the sea in almost indefinite periods, was all realized in less than a century by the first nuclear-powered submarine (1954).

As a tribute to this great science fiction writer, the first nuclear-powered submarine in human history was also named "Nautilus".

In Jack's previous life, perhaps out of some kind of morbid sense of humor, or perhaps out of a different kind of cultural confidence, Seris also named his city's security project "Project Skynet".

Anyone who's seen the Terminator movies knows what "Skynet" is. If Jack were living in Seras right now, he wouldn't care at all about whether the "Samaritans" would become the world-destroying "Skynet."

Leaving aside the fact that the "nuclear weapons doomsday theory" has long been disproven, scientists have already used detailed data to prove that the total yield of nuclear weapons that mankind currently possesses is simply not enough to destroy all of humanity.

Even if we take a step back and assume a nuclear war breaks out, given the level of organization Seris displayed when facing a certain probiotic, as long as he wasn't immediately vaporized by a nuclear bomb, he wouldn't have to worry about his survival afterward.

The problem is that Jack is now in the Federation, a country where even a simple power outage at night can trigger a large number of rioters to take to the streets and organize group purchases.

If "Samaritans" were to truly become "Skynet," they wouldn't even need to activate any nuclear weapons; simply causing problems with the Federation's already fragmented and outdated power system would immediately plunge the country into a Warring States period.

Ultimately, it's because some white-skinned, yellow-hearted guy had no choice. The global economy is in a downturn, and even the Nordic countries, known for their high welfare, are struggling. Financial capital is starting to falter, and they're relying entirely on their few small and specialized industrial sectors to stay afloat.

After two consecutive Elephant Party governments, the federal government's economy has not improved much, but its global contraction strategy has indeed saved some money.

Leaving aside goals like whether they can regain their greatness, they have at least reaped a considerable amount of benefits from their vassal states, Japan and South Korea, through a combination of coaxing and deception.

Although the new president's tough immigration policies have caused a serious division within the federal government on another level, keeping Jack quite busy for a while, he is generally satisfied with his current life.

Jack is no longer the poor boy he once was, who had a tall guy to hold up the sky if it fell and had no worries. Although he doesn't have a family, he does have quite a bit of wealth.

With so many bottles and jars at home, he naturally didn't want the outside environment to become too bad, so he was quite concerned about this strange thing called "Samaritan".

"Although according to 'Omega' intelligence, the NSA has transferred an intelligence analysis system suspected to be 'Samaritan' to a secret department under the Department of Defense."

However, I have not found any suspicious monitoring code or abnormal data streams on the public network so far, which suggests only two possibilities.

As Kate said this, Jack had already seen the small white dome of the Capitol, which often appeared in many disaster movies with a missing corner, and sometimes even collapsed completely to signify the end of the world.

"What two possibilities?"

As he drove onto Pennsylvania Avenue, Jack glanced back at the ugly Hoover Building. Although it was the FBI headquarters, he hadn't been there many times.

Pennsylvania Avenue is probably the most important street in the entire Washington, D.C. area, connecting the Capitol Building and the White House at its east and west ends, respectively.

The Capitol Building is relatively prominent because it stands on Capitol Hill, but even more prominent is the 169-meter-tall marble obelisk on the National Mall.

(End of this chapter)