Selina celebrated her birthday not long after she arrived in China.
Luke also celebrated his 22nd birthday in China, which was the standard age for men in China.
But in terms of appearance, Selina was even younger than when she had first become Luke's partner. Luke still looked like a high school student.
Even Dollar, who was being controlled by Gold Nugget, had sleek fur and was lively, and didn't look like an old lady at all.
After returning to Los Angeles, they chose to live in that bungalow again.
They even had dinner with Gaffney and his wife, who were still neighbors.
The Gaffney family's twin daughters had also grown from elementary school to middle school.
When they saw Luke, the girls' eyes lit up.
Occasionally, they would think of this detective's former neighbor.
After all, most detectives in reality were bald middle-aged men with big bellies.
Luke was so young and handsome that he only appeared in movies and TV shows.
In the past, they had suspected that their memories had beautified him and Selina.
But now that they saw each other again, they realized that they were even more … "beautiful" than they remembered?
In fact, their feeling was right.
Not to mention Luke, who was completely unimaginable as a human pile-driver — no, a punching machine — even Selina's Strength and Dexterity were more than four times that of a normal person, and her Mental Strength, which was slightly weaker, was still more than twice that of a normal person.
That was just Selina's own physical attributes.
If she were in a complete symbiotic state with Gold Nugget, she would be evenly matched with Luke in a duel.
Plus, she had traveled all over the world with him over the past six months. Her temperament was clearly different from her previous "detective style." She was more confident and steady, and had the air of a big shot.
How did she get the air of a big shot? It came from experiences that were far beyond what ordinary people could handle.
With the help of money, power, and personal qualities, she could speed up the formation of this temperament.
Selina didn't lack any of that. What she lacked was a broad enough range of experiences, which she could make up for with her travels over the past six months.
After all, when other people traveled, whether they were poor or rich, powerful or not, they were basically in the same circle.
Luke, however, took her on a journey from top to bottom, high to low.
Along the way, they had beaten up drug dealers and dealt with illegal police officers.
They had disappeared evil and hypocritical "socialites," and sent underworld bigshots to the afterlife.
He had fought against large armies armed with firearms, and he had also wiped out a mob of terrorists.
But when they did these things, they did not ask the identity of these people, only how many bad things they had done.
Since leaving Rio, Brazil, the two of them and the dog had never used their real identities, so they didn't have to worry about people seeking revenge.
With Luke, Selina wasn't just learning how to fight, but also how he dealt with things.
Of course, she also had a rough idea of how much strength a certain person had been hiding.
Putting aside the United States, Luke could always find all kinds of manpower and intelligence support in South America, Africa, Europe, West Asia, and Russia.
Luke didn't hide anything from her, and simply told her that he had "white gloves" in those places.
However, he did not elaborate on who was in charge of each White Glove. He only told her how to mobilize these White Glove forces.
Selina also gradually changed from a simple operative to a commander.
…
They returned to Los Angeles because they had something to do. Of course, they were not in a hurry to return to New York.
During the day, he met up with his old colleagues at the Westside Police Department, Detective Sonia and her boyfriend, Scorsese, as well as Brother Hondo, the SWAT team leader.
These people were all very busy, but at the same time, they had more freedom.
As long as it wasn't an emergency, it wasn't a problem for them to have lunch and chat for an hour or two.
However, there were only a few people whom Luke and Selina could meet. Most of the time, they were busy with their own things, especially at night.
Every afternoon, Selina would lie in the "massage tub" in the backyard and enjoy this long-awaited pleasure.
Everything about New York was good, except that it didn't have the conditions to soak in the sun.
In Los Angeles in July, this was almost an everyday treat.
Apart from working in the workshop, Luke would occasionally log off and let his clone handle more things.
Tony's skills had improved rapidly in the past six months.
Luke's progress also increased along with it.
Most importantly, he had replaced the assistants, and had already developed semi-artificial intelligence.
Back then, Luke had bought enough time for Tony to pry open the digitized Dr. Zola's backdoor in the Caspian Camp's underground base and obtain a lot of precious data.
The most important of all was Dr. Zola herself.
Her structure was very strange, and she couldn't be copied or transferred. It could probably be understood that she was bound to the equipment in the underground base's computer room.
In the end, Tony could only completely destroy her together with the base so that she wouldn't fall into Hydra's hands again.
His father had made a mistake, and was mocked by Zola after his death. The tycoon didn't want to end up like that.
However, Dr. Zola's structure gave Tony a lot of inspiration, and he developed a program that was more "humane and intelligent."
Of course, Luke had also developed this technology, but their choices were very different when it came to drinking this technology.
Tony naturally went "higher, faster, and stronger," and then used the upgraded Jarvis to assist him in his daily work.
Luke, on the other hand, threw the new version of the artificial intelligence into a separate space in Space 2, and gave it all the research projects that needed to be done.
It was a self-aware supercomputer that operated autonomously.
It had nothing to do with whether or not he trusted Tony.
As a patient with severe "Skynet Delusion," Luke would never leave everything about himself to an intelligent program.
The only intelligent program that controlled Luke's real life data and that of his friends and family was Osiris.
Osiris, on the other hand, worked in Space 2 most of the time. When he went to the outside world, he was in a closed laboratory that wasn't connected to the outside world.
For example, Little Snail and Ah Fu had all information about Luke's main body erased, and they no longer had any contact with each other. This was all to ensure that the main body's identity wouldn't be leaked.
…
The new version of the artificial intelligence was named Ultima.
The moment it was assembled, it went into operation mode.
With the energy provided by the large Ark III reactor and a group of robot maintenance workers, Ultima could continue to work.
Compared with the Ultima AI, which had been focused on calculation and deduction from the very beginning, Luke's intelligent program in the outside world could only be considered an infant.
The pile of technology that had been piling up in Luke's database finally started to advance steadily one by one.
Now, even if he didn't rely on the tycoon, he could still study some technology.
There had always been a lot of differences in their research ideas, and Luke couldn't specify all the tycoon's research directions.
Calculations couldn't replace everything in a scientific experiment, but it was very easy to reduce the workload by 50% to 80%.
Thus, Ultima's appearance really solved a big problem for Luke.
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