Helena then entered the data center without anyone from her royal entourage, only followed by twenty technicians dressed in blue cotton overalls, face masks, and rubber gloves.They had been transferred there from the States, though there were four who were just there to make up the numbers and had no technical experience, namely, Charlie, Vera, Kaeden, and Merlin.Helena was basically Charlie's proxy in the handover, as Charlie didn't want Harrison to find out that the Wades and the Ackers were in the same room. Since Merlin and Kaeden were both notable individuals in their own right, even in the States, especially Kaeden, who was basically the family's diplomat, whom even Harrison was acquainted with, they made sure to put their masks on before blending amongst the crew of technicians. Thankfully, Harrison's attention wasn't with the crew at all. It was a safety protocol at important data centers such as this one for the crew to wear insulating clothing. Gloves, safety helmets,

The loud whirring to dispel the heat lasted from another three minutes until the voice spoke again, "Task complete. Since Queen Helena entered the room, she had been captured from 37 different cameras, generating video images worth 367 minutes and 12 seconds."In total, that is 528,768 frames and 343,658 images completely processed. All thirty-six videos had also been sorted according to the length of Queen Helena's appearance in each video."As the voice finished, a 6x6 collage of security videos appeared on the screen, and the first top left video was the footage from the main camera.The voice then summarized the videos according to length, pointing out the one that featured her the longest, with no frame lost at all. Hank quickly said, "Play the first."The voice replied, "Acknowledged."The footage in question was fully magnified in an instant without further input.As everyone looked up at the screen, they saw that they were still there but not Helena, who was supposed to

Even in the trained eyes of a veteran inspector like Merlin Lammy, the power of the AI module was mythical. Most of the time, detective work relied not on mere instinct or experience, but on the methods available in gathering and analysing information.For example, if the chase for a suspect began from a city, but said suspect had left the city and also fallen off the grid, trying to find them was basically akin to trying to find a needle in a haystack.Still, objectively speaking, the fact that there was a needle meant that it existed, and it was possible to find it—the only problem was, who could comb through every inch of the haystack?Now, AI provided that capacity—or the AI module they had right now, at the very least.It had been trained with public content on the internet, and theoretically speaking, had the capacity of identifying every person with a name and footage of them on the internet.Should it be provided with more data and time, it would definitely be able to cr

Vera smiled. "Well, you boys talked about hacking into cameras, but it's impractical, in the first place. Even if you can do it, there's no telling how many times it would take to operate the thousands of cameras in a single terminal.""Moreover, every security framework is constantly being upgraded with decent, if not the most advanced tech, with any flaws or loopholes being repaired in no time at all. Security is their job, after all, so if you could hack into it last month, an upgrade could have fixed the loophole through which you gained access, and that means no more total surveillance."Pausing, she then continued, "Inspector Lammy's suggestion of tapping into the UGC might work, but it remains that we don't have control over it. Having our own embedded system is far more reliable, and there's no way we can legitimately install our own cameras in terminals where safety and public security are of top priority. In the end, the vending machine is as ingenious as it is discreet."

Helena nodded and said, "If you have time this evening, Mr. Rothschild, allow me to invite you to my palace. It has been a long journey, after all, and it's only right to show that much in the way of hospitality."Harrison cheered up considerably from the invitation.Even if he actually didn't really care for disgraced royals such as Helena, the girl could well be a god to him now, and he was only honored by the invitation."Thank you for your kind invitation, Your Majesty," Harrison replied without hesitation. "I will definitely be there!"Helena nodded, but she soon added, "By the way, would you happen to have brought family? You should bring them along if you did."Harrison was immediately hesitant, since he had indeed brought Julien along.And not because Julien asked either—Harrison himself had asked for his eldest son to join him.After all, the older one got, the more one was afraid of close ones turning against them… especially sons.What happened with the Fox family wa