Selena celebrated her birthday shortly after arriving in China.
Luke also celebrated his 22nd birthday in China—reaching the adulthood standard for Chinese men.
But in terms of appearance, Selina is even younger than when she first became Luke's partner, while Luke still looks like a high school student.
Even Meidao, whose body was driven by the gold nugget, had smooth fur and was full of life, not looking like an old grandmother at all.
After returning to Los Angeles, the two chose to live back in the bungalow.
I even had dinner with the Gaffneys, who are still my neighbors.
The twin daughters of the Gaffney family also went from being elementary school students to middle school students.
When they saw Luke, both girls' eyes lit up.
They occasionally think of this former detective neighbor.
After all, most detectives in reality are middle-aged bald men with big bellies.
A character like Luke who is young, sunny and handsome can only be found in movies and TV shows.
Once, they suspected that it was memory that beautified him and Selina.
But now that I see them again, I find that they seem to be more... "prettier" than I remembered
In fact, their feelings are correct.
Not to mention Luke, a humanoid driver who is beyond the imagination of ordinary people, no, a hitting machine, even Selina's strength and agility are now more than four times that of ordinary people. Her mental attribute is slightly weaker, but it is also more than twice that of ordinary people.
This is just Selena's own physical fitness.
If she and the gold nugget were to enter a fully symbiotic form, she could fight Luke himself on equal terms.
In addition, she has been traveling around the world with him for more than half a year, fighting and eating all over the world. Her temperament is obviously different from her previous "detective style". She is more confident and steady, and has the demeanor of a great person.
How does one acquire the demeanor of a great man? It comes from experiences far beyond those of ordinary people.
If money, power and personal qualities are used to help, the formation of this temperament can be accelerated.
Selina had all of these, what she lacked was a broad enough experience, which was made up by traveling for more than half a year.
After all, other people's travels, no matter whether they are rich or poor, powerful or not, are basically within that circle.
But Luke took her with him, from top to bottom, high and low.
Along the way, the two men have beaten up drug dealers and thugs, as well as corrupt police officers.
He has seen the disappearance of evil and hypocritical "socialites", and has also sent dark-side bosses to the west.
He has fought against large armies armed with guns and weapons, and also destroyed a motley crowd of armed KMT elements.
But when doing these things, they did not ask about the identities of these people, but only about how many bad things they had done.
Anyway, since leaving Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, the two men and the dog have never used their real identities again, so they don't have to worry about being sought after for revenge.
Being with Luke, Selina learned not only how to fight, but also the "rules" of how he handled things.
Of course, she also had a rough idea of how much strength someone had hidden before.
Not to mention the United States, where he has his base, Luke can always find all kinds of ready-made manpower and intelligence support in South America, Africa, Europe, West Asia, and Russia.
Luke had nothing to hide from this, so he told her directly that he had "white gloves" in these places.
However, he did not elaborate on who was the specific person in charge of each white glove. He only told her how to mobilize these white gloves.
Selina also gradually transformed from a simple operative to a commander.
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They returned to Los Angeles because of something, and of course they were not in a hurry to return to New York.
During the day, I met up with old colleagues from the West District Police Department, Police Officer Sania and her boyfriend, forensic pathologist Scorsese, as well as SWAT team leader Hong Ge, who is an expert in taking the blame.
These people are very busy at work, but at the same time they have relatively free time.
As long as there is no emergency, it is fine for everyone to have lunch together and chat for an hour or two.
However, there were only a few people worth meeting with Luke and his partner, and most of the time they were both busy with their own things, especially at night.
Every afternoon, Selena would lie in the "massage tub" in the backyard and enjoy this long-lost pleasure.
Everything about my little nest in New York is good, except for the conditions for taking a bath in the sun.
In Los Angeles in July, this is a treat you can enjoy almost every day.
In addition to working in the workshop, Luke occasionally goes offline to let his clone handle more things.
Over the past six months, Tony's technical progress has been quite rapid.
Luke's progress also increased rapidly.
The most important thing is the replacement of auxiliary tools, and semi-artificial intelligence has appeared.
At the beginning, Luke delayed long enough for Tony to pry open the backdoor of Dr. Zora's digitization in the underground base of Camp Caspian and obtain a large amount of valuable data.
The most important of these is Dr. Zora himself.
Its structure is very strange, and it has the characteristics of being unable to be copied or transferred - roughly speaking, it is bound to the equipment in the computer room of the underground base.
In the end, Tony had no choice but to completely destroy it together with the base to prevent it from falling into Hydra's hands again.
His father made the same mistake and was ridiculed by Zora after his death. The young master didn't want to suffer the same fate.
However, Dr. Zola's structure gave Tony a lot of inspiration, and he developed a more "human and intelligent" program.
Of course, Luke also mastered this technique, but the two had very different choices when it came to how to use it.
Tony naturally went towards "higher, faster, stronger", and then used the upgraded Jarvis to assist in his daily work.
However, Luke threw the new version of artificial intelligence into a separate space in Space No. 2, and then gave it all the projects that needed to be researched to calculate.
Its positioning is to be a self-aware, autonomous supercomputer.
This isn't about trusting Tony or not.
As a patient with severe "Skynet delusion", Luke never lets intelligent programs control everything about him.
The only intelligent program that controls the real data of Luke himself and his relatives and friends is Osiris.
Osiris works in Space No. 2 most of the time, and when he goes to the outside world, he is in a closed laboratory that is not connected to the outside world.
People like Xiaowo and Ah Fu were cleared of all information about Luke's true identity and no longer had any contact with each other. This was all to ensure that the true identity would not be leaked.
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The new version of artificial intelligence was named Ultima.
From the moment it is assembled, it is ready to work.
With a large Ark III reactor to provide energy and a group of robot maintenance workers, Genesis can continue to work non-stop.
Compared to the Genesis artificial intelligence, which has been aimed at computational reasoning from the very beginning, the computing power of Luke's external intelligent program can only be considered at the infant level.
The large amount of technology that had been piled up in Luke's database finally began to advance steadily one by one.
Now, even without relying on the eldest master, he can still delve into some technology.
There have always been many differences in their research ideas, and Luke cannot dictate all of the young master's research directions.
Calculation cannot replace everything in scientific experiments, but it is easy to reduce the workload by 50%-80%.
Therefore, the appearance of Genesis really solved a lot of problems for Luke.