Unmarried

Chapter 661: Unmarried

"Noah's Ark, please help me search for someone."

"Surname: Kinoshita."

"Age: fifty to fifty-one."

"Gender: female."

"Japanese-American mixed heritage. She moved from Japan to America with her parents forty years ago."

Lin Xinyi provided every clue he knew.

He hoped the all-powerful Noah's Ark could immediately find this Aunt Kinoshita, who might already be in danger.

"Within three minutes, I want all the information on this woman."

"Her phone number, family situation, social connections—the more detailed, the better."

Noah's Ark's answer was:

"Sorry, I can't do that—"

"Finding someone isn't difficult."

"But finding her 'immediately' is impossible."

The Artificial Intelligence search process Lin Xinyi had imagined:

AI infiltrates Japan's Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare/America's Immigration Bureau →

Gains access to the databases →

Enters keywords such as "Kinoshita," "female," "fifty-two years old," and "left the country in 1956," then gets the results.

But in this era, the real Artificial Intelligence search process was:

AI infiltrates Japan's Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare/America's Social Security Administration →

Obtains the phone numbers of high-ranking officials →

Impersonates their superiors and calls the archive managers →

The archive managers dig through forty-year-old paper immigration records →

They search through every entry under the surname "Kinoshita" and find the result.

"How long it ultimately takes depends on the efficiency of the civil servants in both countries."

"Worse yet, it's still nighttime in America."

"Just getting them out of bed and making them work overtime at the office will take quite a while."

Reality was simply that helpless.

Although in just a few more months—Conan-science time—everyone would be using smartphones.

For now, though, Noah's Ark had the ability to become "Skynet," yet could only do the work of a "low-spec Prism."

"I'll do my best."

"But I can't really say when