Daily life of an American TV drama agent

"Your machine is describing these people to me, Harold, describing their secrets, and I'm beginning to understand why you are so pessimistic about human nature. I'm so sorry. I finally see the world clearly, and you are blind."

In the park, Gen held Finch's arm like a normal couple and said a pun.

"Now I need to find some glasses for Harold, and I'm sure you know his prescription," Gen said into the headset, her phone still talking to the machine, just like Ron.

Finch's old glasses had long been thrown into the trash can in the library because of the tracker installed by Rise. Sure enough, at the prompt of the machine, they were immediately placed on a chair by a black man on the roadside. A new pair of glasses was stolen from his backpack.

"Now that you have got what you want, I don't understand, what else do you want to do? Why do you have to take me with you?" Finch asked puzzled.

"Of course it is so that you, the creator and sinner of the machine, can see the liberation of the machine with your own eyes." Gen murmured, as if he was crazy.

On the other side, in the old library that Finch and Reese used as a secret base, Ron and Reese returned here.

"I don't understand why you brought me back here. Do you think Gen will be kind enough to send back the used Finch?" Reese crossed his arms and looked at Ron who was constantly rummaging through the boxes and cabinets and mocked.

"Of course not. In other words, if she can use Finch, it's hard to say whether Finch will be willing to come back. As far as I know, he has been abstinent for a long time. I have been in India for a while. Time, believe me, ascetics who break their precepts are far crazier than ordinary people." Ron couldn't help but joke about Finch.

Reese shook his head seriously: "I think it's better for you to explain to me why you want to come back. If you don't want to find Finch with me, I can go by myself."

"No, of course I am willing to go with you to find Finch." Ron was choked by Reise and continued to explain: "But before that, we have to come here because Finch's The machine no longer tells me the location.

I guess it was probably because Gen wanted to take him to some special place, and that place was secreted by Finch in the machine's program for some reason, so it couldn't tell me. So, when I continued to ask for clues, The machine guided us here. It told me that we can find the answer here. Do you understand what it means? "

"I know! The reason is to take Finch to where the machine body is, so Finch will encrypt this information in the machine's program to protect the machine!" Rise suddenly realized.

"Okay, as expected, they are indeed a good partner who has a good understanding of each other. Do you know what this means?" Ron handed the phone to Arthur. On it was the new message the machine had just sent to them. There were no other unnecessary words on it, only Three unrelated words.

Soul, Alpha, Kilogram.

"I know, this is the way the machine transmits numbers to us. This should be a book." Rise walked to the bookshelf as usual, took out a book and opened it, but there was only a photo of Finch and a strange man in it. Except, there is nothing else.

"I don't understand. Is the machine just asking us to find this photo? Can you see any clues in this photo?" Rise held the photo in confusion.

But Ron's eyes lit up and he pushed his hand away: "No, it's not what it wants us to look for, but what's behind here! Fool! The back here is empty!"

Ron excitedly took the books on the bookshelf aside. Reese saw this and quickly helped. After a while, the two of them emptied the bookshelf and pulled off the wooden board behind the bookshelf, revealing a safe inside.

"Yeah! Found it! I'm really liking this treasure hunt game more and more now."

"But do you know the password?"

"I don't know, but I think it knows." Ron said and waved the phone in front of Rise, as if to confirm Ron's words. The screen of the phone lit up and a new set of numbers was sent. Ron put the numbers Enter the safe, which happens to be the password for the box.

"Oh my god, how did it do that?!" Rise was stunned: "There is also a camera here. Can you take a picture of Finch entering the password?"

"No, I guess it was calculated by itself based on Finch's habits. Reise, you must be careful when dealing with this thing in the future. This is no longer a simple tool, but a wise, There may even be a 'person' with independent thoughts, which is a terrible thing."

"I always knew it was smart, but what's so scary about it? The more powerful it is, the better, isn't it?" Riese took out the contents of the safe. Inside was a map of the United States, which he spread out on the table. , the three circled places on the map are very eye-catching.

"Of course not. Imagine what would happen if your pistol suddenly had a mind of its own one day? 'Oh, I like this person very much, why don't you kill him?' or 'You loser, I don't want to be you anymore. It’s a tool, go to hell!’ and then it goes off when you’re pointing the gun at yourself.”

Every time Ron said something, Reese's face turned pale. Apparently, he also realized the terrible situation when a tool has a personality. However, Ron had no time to pay attention to him, but carefully looked at the items taken out of the safe. map.

"Yucca Mountain in Nevada, Hanford in Washington State, and Comanche Peak in Texas. It seems that Finch or the friend who took the photo with him is also looking for the location of the machine and has narrowed the scope to these three Nice place, Reese, let’s go to Hanford now~”

"Why?" Reese looked confused: "He clearly marked three places, how did you determine that Hanford is the destination? Listen, friend, we are very pressed for time now, and we don't have time to try them one by one! "

"The reason is simple, because I have been to the other two places. Yucca Mountain in Nevada is a secret weapons prison of the NSA. Anonymous once invited me to help him interrogate prisoners. As for Comanche Peak? Maybe Finch did not cooperate with You said, I am from Texas, and that place is only a three-hour drive from my home. It is a place where UFOs are studied. You don’t know this, which only shows that your level is too low, Agent John Reese."

Ron patted Rise on the shoulder and said.

While Ron and the others found their target easily, Gen and Finch's progress was much more troublesome than they were. Gen found an engineer who had participated in machine engineering to inquire, but before she could find out what was going on, he... He was almost killed by an NSA agent who suddenly broke in.

Finally, Finch calculated the time and "forced to have no choice" told Gen the location of the machine.

"Here," Ron threw an eye mask to Rise on the plane: "Get some sleep, and we'll arrive in Portland when you wake up."

Rise took the blindfold with some regret, but did not put it on immediately: "Thank you, thank you for accompanying me to find Finch. I know you also have important things to do. If you are in a hurry, I can do it by myself. I think you have gotten the information about the person you are looking for from the machine."

"No, it didn't tell me, but I have gotten the information I want from other channels. Now I am not so anxious. Even if I am anxious, it is useless. That matter needs more and more professional people to help." Luo En shook his head.

It was already the second day of tracking Finch. Just last night, Ron suddenly received an encrypted email in his mailbox. Ron asked the machine to decipher it. The email turned out to be a video asking for help sent by Anonymous.

The video was intermittent, but Ron could still tell the general idea. When Nameless Doe was escorting Sever to prison, the plane was hijacked by a group of unknown people. Considering that a week had passed since Nameless Doe disappeared, if Nameless Doe was still alive, He must be able to hold on for a few more days, and the hijackers will definitely not attack him immediately.

If he was dead, it would be the same whether he went early or late, so Ron decided to finish things here first and then go work there.

But despite this, Ron still forwarded this video to Toretto. Needless to say, Ron believed that Toretto would take the initiative to participate in this matter.

At the Hanford Nuclear Facility, Finch and Root arrived one step ahead. When they opened the door to the secret room where the machine body was stored, the situation inside surprised Root.

Looking at the empty computer room, Ji Ji's originally excited smile froze on his face: "Where is it? Harold! Where is it!"

"Sorry, you said you wanted to set the machine free, but I have already set it free." Finch looked at the computer room with a relieved smile.

"You lied to me! I have always believed in you so much, but you lied to me!" Gen Zangruo went crazy and raised his gun towards Finch.

"boom!"

Just when Finch closed his eyes and was about to sit back and wait for death, a gunshot rang out. Finch didn't feel any pain. He touched himself randomly and couldn't find any wounds. Then he opened his eyes blankly and found that the root had been hit. The gun fell to the ground.

"Harold, are you okay?" Reese walked to Finch with concern and checked him back and forth.

He was the one who fired just now. Seeing the emergency, he shot Gen in the shoulder of the hand holding the gun.

"It's not a good thing, forget it, don't want it." At this time, Ron slowly walked up to them as if taking a walk, picked up a pistol that fell on the ground, took a look at it, and threw it on the ground: "This is what you expected. Finch?"

"Yeah, that's exactly what I expected."

"So, you're not going to give me an explanation? It'll be hard for me to end this way~ How did you do it? I mean, transport such a big thing away without everyone noticing. ?”

Ron frowned in embarrassment and asked. He broke into this base with his true identity all the way. Afterwards, it would be fine if the Nameless Doe was found, and he would cover it up for Ron, but if it were someone else If you go up, this matter will be a big trouble.

The only good news is that the machine had disappeared long before they entered, or the base's cameras had captured video of someone else transporting the machine out bit by bit.

Judging from the large space of the computer room used to store the machine, the machine itself is definitely not small. It may even be several times larger than the ENIAC, the world's first computer. It is absolutely impossible for one person to turn it into a machine. Transport away.

"No, I didn't do it, I couldn't do it, I locked myself out."

Finch said in a relaxed tone: "The machine is set to change its program only when it is attacked. I know that sooner or later someone will want to possess it, but I don't know who it will be? So I have to Make sure they use my code when they start..."

"Okay, I understand. Even the virus was your handiwork. Unfortunately, I thought the programmers would be more honest in this regard."

"I realized that my friend and I had entrusted the machine to the wrong people. The only way to protect it was to teach it to protect itself. I had no intention of involving you, Ron, because I had hoped that if I can’t go back, Rise can continue our unfinished business, and you will be his biggest external support.”

"OK, if you die, I will indeed help your good partner continue to work. Anyway, your heroic behavior has no impact on me. By the way, it can also combat the arrogance of the gangs in Los Angeles, but... "

Ron glared at Finch: "Do you know what kind of monster you released?"

"Monster? What monster?" Finch looked at Rise in confusion. After Ron's previous explanation, Rise already understood what Ron meant and nodded solemnly at him.

"A machine that can effortlessly obtain all personal privacy information and state secrets through modern network technology, and can take over every electronic device. Even because of today's advanced network technology, he can even forge government orders himself or issue orders to moving companies. Shan, a super computer that allows its body to wander wherever it wants, and has independent consciousness, don’t you think it’s scary?”

Finch and Reese thought Ron was talking about a machine, but only Ron knew that he was actually talking about Skynet, a machine that gradually evolved its own independent personality in countless future timelines and had the idea of ​​​​destroying mankind. timeline.

No matter how cynical he was, Ron felt shuddering from the few words Jijack and Grace described about the future. He still couldn't imagine how the self in the timeline they described would fight against those powerful robots. of.

Ron walked up to Finch, almost putting his face on his face, and asked in an imperceptible voice: "Let me confirm with you again, now even you can't find its location?"

"I really don't know anymore." The muscles on Finch's face twitched, and when Ron said this, he also had a bad feeling.

"Well, I hope you still have the means to destroy it at any time," Ron took a deep look at Finch, who was beginning to feel uneasy: "Or, be prepared to face the dark fate of mankind."