Chapter 1291 The Storm is Coming (2 in 1 chapter)

Chapter 1291 The Storm is Coming (Two Chapters in One)

Dealing with street thugs is the specialty of NYPD patrol officers, and it is not convenient for Jack to take over. After all, most street gangs are relatively normal and usually do not take the initiative to cause trouble for the police.

Especially when he meets a detective with a background like Danny, even the so-called gang bosses will avoid him and cooperate obediently when they come to him. It is rare for him to see the kind of idiots who dare to act so cruelly as shown in movies and TV dramas.

The problem is that this time the perpetrators are a newly emerged, unknown gang, a bunch of idiots who roam around the subway, commit crimes, and then post them on social media to show off.

The fact that they were committing crimes on the move meant that they had no territory, and the new gang was not affiliated with some well-known gangs. This meant that Danny couldn't find the whereabouts of the gang through informants or talk to the gang's boss directly.

Therefore, Detective Reagan tried to lobby Chief Reagan at the dinner table to see if he could send some patrol officers to patrol the subway stations.

Frank Reagan was still hesitant, not that the father didn't want to help his son.

For him, arranging a similar public security rectification activity was not that difficult. It was just a matter of allocating some money from the overtime budget. But the problem was that the other party's behavior did not seem to be to the extent that required such a large-scale mobilization.

Jack suspected that he had broken up with a female news anchor, which led to a decrease in his "control" in some aspects, but unfortunately there was no evidence.

After all, some things are not necessarily good for you just by doing them. If there are too many policemen at subway stations, some "sensitive" citizens will feel uneasy, and then they will question whether the police are making a fuss out of nothing. At this time, public opinion is needed to provide positive guidance.

Of course, this matter has nothing to do with the FBI. Seeing that Danny was planning to stay in the subway station and wait for the opportunity before the director made a decision, Jack could only wish him good luck and ask him to help keep an eye on whether there are any homeless people who are particularly good at fighting among those who have appeared on the subway recently.

"He is about 40 years old, a handsome middle-aged man, but he may look a bit sloppy now. He is about 6 feet 2 inches (1 meters) tall."

"When did you, the FBI, become interested in homeless people?" Danny asked curiously while sucking on his cigar. Lunch was over at this time. Because several men wanted a cigarette after dinner, they were driven by Danny's wife Linda to the back garden of the villa, where they basked in the late autumn sun under the eaves.

"He is an acquaintance of mine, but he is also an extremely dangerous person. If you encounter him, just tell me your name. At least you can save your knees."

Jack paused, then added maliciously, "If he has forgotten my name, just say that Jessica is in your hands and bring him to me."

"Who is Jessica?" Danny had a question mark on his forehead. Jessica has now changed her name to Catherine and her last name has also been changed, so the detective doesn't know the true identity of the woman that Jack had asked him to arrange to work in the hospital.

But he is not stupid. He definitely cannot say something like "your woman is in my hands".

Anyone who could be assessed as extremely dangerous by Jack was definitely not someone he could handle.

In fact, it wasn't that Jack wanted to be a riddler, but he didn't want to make it known to everyone before it happened. For the time being, he could only perfunctorily deal with this guy, so he simply changed the subject.

"It's better for you not to know some things for the time being. If you want to hear a story, bring a bottle of whiskey to my house later and we can talk about the nuclear bomb incident in Florida."

Although several months have passed, the turmoil caused by the nuclear bomb incident will take a long time to subside.

The International Atomic Energy Agency's inspection team even set up a permanent office on Key West to observe the radiation levels on Keys Island, which was hit by the nuclear explosion, and its impact on the surrounding environment.

This matter was a bit far-fetched for Danny. He didn't even know that Jack was involved in the whole process. He thought that this FBI had some inside information that he wanted to brag about.

The director seemed to know something. He showed an interested expression when he heard it. "You can ask the writer to play cards with you next week. I have a bottle of Middleton that I have collected for 15 years."

The Midleton Distillery's "Midleton Very Rare" produces only a hundred barrels a year and is known as the "King of Irish Whiskey".

The youngest sister of the Reagan family, Assistant Prosecutor Irene, who was joining in the fun nearby, suddenly had her eyes light up. Like Danny, she didn't know the truth, but she was still very interested in the card game that could make her father take out his hidden treasures just to hear a story.

After finishing the small talk, Jack said goodbye to Reagan's house and took Linda to work at the hospital.

It's not because Danny is too busy to have time, but because Jack is really on his way, because the ex-lover of that extremely dangerous person he mentioned before is now working as a nurse in Linda's hospital.

Jessica has recovered from her injuries for some time. Although witnesses included in WPP are usually protected by special personnel sent by the Marshals Service in the early stages, because the whole thing was fabricated by Jack, all the subsequent work was handled by him.

Brian sent two female bodyguards to take charge of daily security work, but most of the time Jessica stayed in the small building of the base with the FBI members of the wanted criminal team.

The place Jack rented for her was not far from the small building, but usually only two female bodyguards lived there. Jessica would only live there when the team was on a mission.

Jessica was allowed to go out to work under such strict protection. It was not because someone had a brain injury, but because Jack was consciously testing the detection ability of a certain AI.

The artificial intelligence called "Machine" in "Person of Interest" is an anti-terrorism surveillance system designed and secretly developed by a genius programmer named Harold Finch on behalf of the federal government.

It can monitor global electronic communications around the clock, including but not limited to telephone calls, emails, surveillance cameras, social media, etc., and analyze the massive amount of data it receives through a series of complex algorithms.

Due to the algorithm problems when Harold Finch first designed it, the "machine" was not only able to identify "relevant threats" (related to national security), but also predict some "irrelevant threats" (violent crimes related to ordinary people).

Of course, in actual operation, due to the limitations of computing power and input information flow, the scope that this system can truly fully cover should be limited to the area between New York and Washington, DC.

In order to avoid violating privacy laws and some ethical considerations, Harold Finch designed the "machine" as a complete "black box" system.

It generates two different "numbers" every day, which are the social security numbers of relevant personnel. After receiving the part involving national security, the NSA will forward it to a group of special agents for processing.

As for the other part of the numbers that are "not related to threats", that is, the predictions of violent crimes related to ordinary people, they would theoretically be deleted directly. Of course, this is not the case in reality, otherwise there would be no stories in the original drama.

According to the time calculation, John Reese should show up soon, but the timeline of this world is too chaotic, and Jack is not very sure. He can only choose the strategy of waiting and waiting, just like Danny.

Although he had previously revealed the existence of the "machine" to Rossi and others, all current investigations are being conducted in private.

He didn't even use FBI resources to find the whereabouts of Harold Finch, the other protagonist of "Person of Interest", the creator of the "machine", Harold Finch.

Because Rossi and Dana Moger have confirmed that "Decima Technologies" is real. It is a government contractor with little reputation and even a lower profile than the "Shangri-La Group".

In his previous life, as an ordinary person living on the other side of the ocean, Jack had very limited channels for obtaining information in this area.

The company he knows that is closest to Decima Technologies is probably Palantir, a technology company founded by Silicon Valley tycoon Peter Thiel.

"Palantir" focuses on providing big data analysis tools for the federal government and the military, especially in the fields of counterterrorism and intelligence, but it is still far from the level of "Decima Technologies" in the original drama, which is comparable to the "shadow government."

However, the level of artificial intelligence development in his previous life seemed to be much behind that of this world.

At least before he traveled through time, whether it was Palantir, Google, Meta (Facebook), Amazon, or Microsoft, as well as the artificial intelligence companies controlled by these giants, they were all still obsessed with stacking computing power.

If "DS" had not appeared, who knows how high the stock price of a certain graphics card company would have risen. However, even the up-and-coming Tokyo University has probably not yet developed an AI with its own personality.

Jack is not worried about the Omnic Crisis. If humans commit suicide and are eventually eliminated, he says that as an individual he can only accept it.

Although he is not a otaku, he is ultimately just a mortal controlled by various hormones and bioelectric signals in his body. He cannot resist cyber succubus or something like that.

But if "Decima Technology" wants to become a prototype of a "giant enterprise", or if some private forces want to use this technology to set up a "shadow government", Jack will never agree to it.

Jack doesn't think that he can fight against the general trend of survival of the fittest among species with his personal ability, but if it is class oppression within the human race, then he will not accept it.

That’s right, I just don’t accept it.

There is no conflict between acknowledging certain objective realities and having ideals. Although Jack hardly participates in the internal management of the Shangri-La Group, that is because Chris never engages in the so-called "corporate culture."

Without talking about the so-called ideological issues, the principle of more work, more pay, less work, less pay, and maintaining basic fairness principles are the foundation for an enterprise to maintain its vitality.

Only private enterprises that are stagnant or even dying will bother with the so-called "corporate culture". Workers work so hard not just for a few dollars. A generous material reward is more inspiring than any so-called "team building".

Jack, who was also a worker in his previous life, has always looked down on those high-handed guys, even though he has actually become a member of the same class as them.

Since coming into this world, there are some things Jack never tells anyone, but on some levels, he and the Americans who advocate so-called freedom have the same goal.

The difference is that he has seen true freedom, while the elites of this country shout out for what they lack the most, and the more they have done something, the more they slander others for having done (or about to do) similar dirty things.

Therefore, Jack of "Decima Technology" must be eradicated. There are many ways to guide human progress. Democracy, autocracy, dictatorship and even feudalism are nothing more than ways of ruling. You must know that the so-called developed countries in Europe still have aristocrats and royal families.

But Jack must do his best to prevent the cyberpunk future. There is no other reason for this, just regard it as the persistence of a "working man".

Jessica's life is pretty comfortable now, but after all, she is under strict protection and feels somewhat uncomfortable. Jack didn't even tell her the reason in detail, but only vaguely revealed that it was related to her ex-boyfriend.

As for John Reese's identity, Jessica only knew that he had been serving the country and was once a member of the Army Special Forces. She knew nothing about his joining the CIA.

However, Jessica was willing to believe that Jack was actually protecting Reese when he said he was protecting her. After all, as his former lover, she could more or less sense some differences between Reese and ordinary soldiers.

In addition to this reason, Jack agreed to let her work in the hospital, which was a disguised way of giving her some freedom, so life was not so difficult.

After all, she had experienced life and death, and Jessica herself was a relatively gentle person. She felt that she was lucky enough to be able to save her life and leave the husband who almost killed her, and she never made any extra requests.

Jack picked up Jessica who had just handed over her shift and returned to the small building of the base. Everyone in the wanted criminal team was busy with their own affairs.

Jubal was looking at the wanted list, wondering which unlucky guy to choose as the team's next target. Clay and Aubrey had just come up from the small shooting range in the underground garage, smelling of gunpowder.

Hannah and Jiejie were washing ingredients in the kitchen, waiting for a chef to come back and cook a big meal. Alice was looking at the tablet in her hand beside them.

Seeing Jack coming back with Jessica, Alice's eyes wandered for a moment, and then she winked at Jack.

This scene happened to be seen by Jessica. She smiled and took the initiative to walk towards Stella (Clay's wife) who was teasing her son in the living room.

"What happened?" Jack walked into the kitchen, took the tablet from Alice, and after reading the content carefully, he subconsciously looked towards the living room.

Above is a case record from the NYSD (New York State Police), which shows that Pete Arndt was found dead at home the night before with a gunshot wound to the forehead and a shotgun registered in his name lying at his feet.

The NYSD concluded that he had been unable to recover from the grief over his wife's death in a car accident, and ultimately chose to commit suicide by shooting himself.