Chapter 329: Tracking (Please Subscribe, Recommend, and Vote for the Monthly Ticket) 4300 Words, Please Recommend
SHIELD is really efficient. After arriving in Chicago, it took them only three hours to find Maria, who had been missing for a week, in a city with a permanent population of 2.7 million. →In the basement of a heavy metal nightclub.
But they were not fast enough, because when they found her, Maria had just lost her life. And the way she died was... Kai didn't know how to describe it. Creative? It seemed disrespectful to the deceased, cruel? Indeed, it was not comprehensive enough.
The murderer wanted to humiliate Maria! Let her die in the most painful and humiliating way!
She died of internal bleeding. The murderer kidnapped a man for this purpose, and then put a leather sheath with a sharp blade on his brother, and then let the poor man kill her on the bed in the most primitive reproductive posture of human beings.
When Kai and his team found the crime scene, the man was close to collapse. His lower body was covered in blood, his face was pale, and his body was shaking constantly. Conservatively speaking, this guy will never be able to have sex in his next life.
But this is not the point, the point is Maria.
She died in extreme pain, so much so that her face was extremely hideous and horrible when she died. Her hands and feet were tied to a simple spring bed, and she died in a very unbearable posture. Kai saw Maria's body and suddenly felt powerless. He walked to Maria's side, slowly knelt on one knee beside the bed, and gently closed Maria's eyes.
He was still a step too late.
What made him even more powerless was that he didn't know how to explain the current situation to Susie at all!
Phil saw that Kai was in a low mood, came over, and gently patted Kai's shoulder to comfort him.
Kai was silent for a while, and then slowly said: "I'm going to kill that bastard!"
"Calm down, Kai. We will catch him. Just leave everything to us, we will catch him!" Phil obviously felt that Kai was in a very bad mood, so he hurriedly said. He even emphasized twice that their SHIELD would catch him.
"No, I will kill him! I will!" At this time, Kai's emotions returned to calm. He was not familiar with Phil, and he didn't like to show his emotions in front of outsiders.
Phil was going to persuade Kai to give up this extreme idea. Killing... especially killing in a society ruled by law, is a very troublesome thing. Of course, this is not the key point. SHIELD is not a charity organization. Killing is too common. Let's put it this way. SHIELD has basically done all the crimes written in the US criminal law, and it has done a lot. Although SHIELD claims to be an intelligence organization, CIA is still an intelligence organization!
Is the CIA less evil? What about SHIELD, which is more powerful than CIA? It can only be dirtier than CIA!
CIA is supervised by the US government after all, who supervises SHIELD? The answer is that no one supervises. Don't think that their superior is the World Security Council, but in fact... even the Council itself knows that it can't control SHIELD at all.
For example, now, Phil heard the news of the murderer and rushed here immediately. Is he really doing justice for justice?
Of course not! SHIELD is an organization that handles abnormal events and is not responsible for social security! Their real purpose is to catch the murderer and study him! Recruit him!
That's right, recruit!
In a sense, SHIELD's position is somewhat similar to Kamar-Taj. They don't care about individual tragedies, they care about the overall situation! Of course, the sentiments of the two are completely different. Kamar-Taj is a perfect template of a righteous organization, while SHIELD exists in the human world. They do maintain peace, but their methods are much more despicable and disgusting. In a sense, it's not wrong to say that they are villains.
This is not simply derogatory. Large organizations such as the FBI and CIA are also like this. But no one denies that they are necessary for stabilizing the entire United States.
Back to the point, in short, SHIELD has its own demands. They are not willing to lose such a rare mutant. This is determined by the positioning of their organization itself.
So Phil plans to persuade Kai. If possible, he doesn't want to conflict with such an upright policeman, because that will make him feel like a bad guy.
But before Phil can speak, a phone call interrupted their communication.
Just now, the safe house was attacked.
But the casualties were not great, all the police and security guards were just knocked unconscious. But the problem is that four women are missing.
Tracy, Pepper, Alexandra and Susie!
...
Kai looked at the irritable Mills, and his heart was not calm.
This attack was done by the seven deadly sins murderer, and the key is that he also left a note at the scene, and he clearly told Mills that he wanted to end it all!
However, this is completely different from the murderer's previous behavior pattern. According to the methods he used to kill the victims before, they were all carefully planned. He prepared the most suitable charges for the victims based on what the victims did, and then designed the most suitable punishment based on the charges!
He regarded this series of cases as his masterpiece! Since it is a masterpiece, it certainly cannot be so simple and crude! He did not plan carefully, but rushed into the police's encirclement and captured the target.
This is not his style. If it is according to his initial idea, he should have played the police around, and he wanted to defeat the police. Completely defeat the police, let them follow the clues he left, and then find the bodies all over the ground!
This is his masterpiece!
In fact, after figuring out how the murderer chose his target, Kai discovered that the murderer hated not the target related to that case, but the entire police and judicial system! Even the entire society!
He started with provocation, set puzzles, and was always one step ahead of the police, all for this purpose!
He wanted to tell everyone that the police were incompetent!
At the same time, he set a crime for each victim, and he also had a deeper purpose. He was preaching, he was admonishing everyone! He was educating the entire society!
But what he was doing was obviously not what he wanted.
Doing so would only make people think that he was a thug, and thugs could not become saints, let alone educate and admonish others.
There must be something that changed the murderer and made him unable to wait!
Thinking of this, Kai immediately returned to the four women's room and searched everywhere. He even made a mess of the scene. Seeing that he made such a mess, other policemen wanted to stop him, after all, this was a crime scene.
Unfortunately, they didn't have the courage.
Kai searched room by room, and the police began to understand what Kai was looking for.
Cell phones!
Cell phones of four women!
They are all witnesses. Although the police have regulations that all communication equipment must be confiscated after entering the safe house, the problem is that these four women are not ordinary people, especially Pepper and Alexandra. They are celebrities and have too many calls to make and receive. It is impossible for the police to confiscate their cell phones. So no one's cell phone was taken away.
Kai finally found only the cell phone in Tracy's room, and the cell phones of the other three women were not found.
"If they have cell phones, can you use your expensive system to find their location?" Kai asked Phil.
Phil was stunned for a while, then turned his head to look at his technicians.
The technicians were very excited!
"Of course! As long as their cell phones are not turned off! I can locate them through signals!"
"No need to talk?"
"Of course not! What do you think the Skynet system is? It's a masterpiece!" The technicians were very unhappy that Kai asked such a stupid question.
"Well, your masterpiece can start working!" Kai nodded. The previous Skynet system did impress Kai. Well, besides being expensive and of poor quality.
Now it was the SHIELD technician's turn to be speechless.
"Uh... there is a small problem... we don't have a host."
"Then find a way immediately. I don't have 100 million to give you!"
Phil's face immediately turned black. This broken system was really a rip-off. It was completely ruined after running for more than ten seconds. Even SHIELD couldn't stand it.
"Well... I remember there is a supercomputer at the University of Illinois. We can borrow it."
Phil hesitated. He didn't know much about supercomputers, but he knew that this thing must be very expensive! If it broke, then SHIELD would not only have to bear its own losses, but also compensate the University of Illinois...
Perhaps sensing his superior's concerns, the technician immediately proposed a feasible plan.
"We can make some adjustments, such as shutting down most functions and leaving only the ability to track information. That shouldn't cause structural damage to the Chicago supercomputer."
"Then do it! How long will it take?" Phil was relieved when he heard that he could use the abridged version.
"Two hours! We are professionals!"
"Okay, we'll leave in two hours!" Kai nodded, turned around and walked out.
Phil was stunned for a moment, and immediately chased after him: "Where are you going?"
"Eat!" Kai hadn't eaten for a day because of this case.
"Wait for me, I'll go too!"
...
About an hour later, Kai finally found a chance to go to the bathroom during Phil's chatterbox. But Phil felt a little strange. For some reason, he always felt that Kai felt a lot more relaxed after going to the bathroom.
Maybe he was constipated?
While thinking about these random things, Phil continued to preach to Kai.
This guy kept telling Kai how important SHIELD was, how much they had done for world peace, and how much they had sacrificed for it. In a word, he wanted to brainwash Kai and let him join the SHIELD family.
But Kai had been like that from the beginning, with a look of one ear going in one ear and the other out the other.
But Phil never tired of it. He was not fooling Kai, but really felt that his work had extraordinary significance. He hopes that more capable people will join SHIELD so that SHIELD can make better contributions to the world.
There are really not many employees who love their jobs so much and are so dedicated to their work.
But Phil didn't know that Kai's relief was not because he had relieved his old constipation, but because he finally found an opportunity to use his clone!
Kai's previous request for Phil to use the Skynet system was a complete cover-up. He thought at the time that he really couldn't track the murderer. Or it was the hound that couldn't track the murderer, but now that the four women were caught, he could track them!
But he didn't expect Phil to be so difficult. It seems that this guy is suspicious of Kai, or he is preventing Kai from really killing the mutant murderer!
It's a pity that Phil's actions were in vain.
...
Chicago is so colorful at night, even more exciting than during the day. Countless lights make the city look colorful, and countless fashionable men and women enjoy the prosperity and noise here.
Chicago is known as the city with the most American characteristics. It integrates the cultural and food landscapes left by the Midwest with the world. The famous American writer Norman Mailer once wrote: "Chicago is a great city, it may be the only great city left in the United States."
But no matter how gorgeous and prosperous the city is, there are places where lights cannot reach. For example, the Calumet Industrial Zone in the south of the city was once the pride of the entire Chicago. Most of Chicago's heavy industries are in this area. Chicago's industry and manufacturing are very developed and are the pillar industries of its economy, accounting for about 60% of the city's total output value.
But later, with the development of the city, many large companies began to move out of here and went to the satellite city of Gary for some reasons such as environmental protection and labor. Although the Calumet Industrial Zone can still create a lot of wealth today, what remains are those large enterprises. After industrial upgrading, these enterprises no longer need to employ so many workers. Therefore, although the entire industrial zone can still create a lot of wealth, in fact, the entire industrial zone looks quite depressed.
A large number of factories and buildings have been abandoned, making it a gathering place for drug addicts and vagrants. The security at night is very poor.
Among these abandoned buildings, on the top of a dark building, Joe is struggling to move a set of homemade equipment. If there are movie lovers here, they will immediately find that this thing will be very familiar-a palate splitter.
This is a metal device placed on the human head. The metal sheet is inserted between the upper and lower jaws. If it is not released within the specified time, the spring energy storage mechanism will collapse, tearing the upper and lower jaws of the person, tearing the whole head in half, killing with one blow, and there is no way to survive.
This device is more complicated and heavier than it looks in the movie. But even so, with this size, even if it is made of all steel, a normal man should not be so strenuous.
Finally, with a heavy gasp, Joe finally placed the palate cleft device on Alexandra's head.
"Uh uh..." Just after installing the device on Alexandra's head and before inserting the two metal pieces into her mouth, Joe suddenly hugged his head, the muscles on his face became extremely hideous, and blood flowed from his mouth and nose.
He looked very painful, until he tremblingly took out a can of medicine from his jacket pocket and poured it into his mouth for free, and then he barely stopped the severe pain.
Alexandra and Pepper looked at the man in front of them in fear.
The man in front of them did not look scary, on the contrary, he could be said to be gentle and refined. He was not handsome, but not ugly either. To be honest, he looked a little feminine. If they saw him normally, they might think he would be a librarian or a designer.
But they knew that the man in front of them was the serial killer!
They were kidnapped by him.
Seeing several women staring at her, Qiao raised her head and used a handkerchief to carefully wipe the blood stains on her face and around her nose.
"I'm sorry, I scared you." Then she looked at Alessandra and said seriously: "Especially you, Ms. Ambrosio, I didn't want to use this method, but... I don't have much time. So I can only wrong you."