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Chapter 227 Long Time No See

Luke said quickly, "Back me up from here, but don't shoot until I give you the signal, in case you expose yourself."

Selina examined her pistol and her magazines, before she nodded and said, "Got it."

"Pay attention to your surroundings, or someone may sneak up on you from the back," Luke reminded Selina.

Selina rolled her eyes. "Isn't that what you want to do to me every day?"

Luke: …Really? Well, that did sound rather tempting

But he laughed the next second. "Haha! I don't think Miss Jenny is enjoying this trip."

Not far away, two men were taking a woman, who was in her nightie, out of the SUV.

Naturally, that woman was Miss Jenny.

One of the two men reached out to push Miss Jenny forward when she seemed reluctant to move.

And both Luke and Selina could see that the man didn't just push her.

Miss Jenny screamed and pitched forward before looking back at the man in fear, but the man just hooted.

Luke smacked his lips and said, "See that? I said that they liked the back…"

But Selina simply looked at him in disdain. He hurriedly said, "I'm not like them. Trust me."

Selina said, "You men are all the same."

Luke shrugged. "I'm a police officer who's here to save her. Remember, don't let anyone sneak up on you from… Uh, fine. I'm going."

Sensing Selina's unfriendly look, he dropped the joke and quickly got out of the car.

He moved quickly but stealthily along the cars parked on the roadside, and soon reached the Ford SUV. Then, he quietly tailed the four men and the woman.

None of them paid any attention to their backs. Miss Jenny, who was half-naked, was terrified and helpless.

She was shivering. Her skin burned from where the man had touched her just now, as if it was corroded by vitriol.

Of course, it was just her illusion, and her skin was just as fair and smooth as before.

The four men, on the other hand, were obviously too captivated by Jenny's sexy body to notice the stranger behind him.

It wasn't until they reached a bungalow ten meters away and one of the men pushed Jenny inside that a male voice suddenly rang out behind them. "Ah, Miss Gwenis. It's been a while. I didn't expect to see you here."

Stunned, they all turned around, only to see a kid who looked like a high school student smiling gently at them

Under the golden morning sun, his smile was as pure as an angel's.

"F*ck! Kiddo, you want to get yourself killed?" one of the men immediately yelled.

Jenny was at a loss, and couldn't recall who Luke was.

Ignoring the man, Luke took out his wallet.

The four men felt that something was wrong. Why did this wallet and this pose seem so familiar?

The next second, the wallet was opened to reveal the badge inside, and Luke said, "LAPD. Miss Gwenis, do you remember me now?"

The four men's faces changed, and Jenny was ecstatic, though she didn't remember this boy. "Help! They're kidnappers!"

That was exactly what Luke had been waiting for. As if on cue, all the four men reached for their waists.

The smile still on his face, Luke suddenly stepped forward and kneed one of the kidnappers hard in the groin.

There was the sound of something rupturing, and the kidnapper's eyes popped out. Clutching his groin with both hands, he slowly fell to his knees.

After that knee attack, Luke swung around with his right arm curled to hit the face of a second kidnapper.

He then smashed in the face of a third kidnapper with a left hook, before kicking the fourth kidnapper, who was also the one who had opened the door, in the abdomen.

In less than two seconds, the faces of two of the kidnappers were bleeding, and the other two had collapsed as they clutched the lower parts of their bodies.

Luke stepped forward and pulled Jenny behind him. "Don't scream, don't move, and stay still." As he said that, he kicked the heads of the two kidnappers clutching themselves on the ground, knocking them out.

It was actually a relief for them.

Protecting Jenny, Luke slowly retreated.

A few seconds later, two bald men in fancy jackets came out. Seeing the four unconscious men, one of them shouted, "Ah, there's trouble! Over here!… Ugh!"

Pain exploded in his head and he collapsed, the pistol he had just drawn dropping to the ground.

The other bald man wasn't as quick, and was only just reaching for his gun when he saw his partner get knocked out.

Then, a fist loomed before his eyes.

Bam! His head went blank and he spun around twice in the air before finally falling to the ground.

Luke glanced at Selina, only to see that she was gesturing at him.

With his Sharp Nose, he had already sensed that there were a lot of people in the house.

There were more than thirty people, as well as plenty of guns, weed and heroin, which indicated that this was a major base for WD-36.

In the next second, he picked up Miss Jenny and rushed off, and gave Selina a signal. Selina started moving as well.

Less than ten seconds later, he put Miss Jenny behind a car. "My partner Selina will take you to my car. Don't scream and don't run."

He then ran back to the drug dealers' Ford SUV. Taking out his gun, he flashed his badge. "LAPD! You're surrounded! Lay down your weapons and get down on the ground!"

The dozen people who had just run out of the bungalow were all stunned to hear that.

But they exploded with rage in the next second. One man with one pistol had them surrounded? Was he an idiot?

The dozen gangsters, who looked like zebras with the tattoos on them, took out their guns.

"F*ck you!"

"Kiss my ass!"

"You son of a b*tch! I'm going to cut your balls open!"

For a moment, all of them were cursing and yelling.

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Chapter 228 Use This For Now

Ignoring the approaching gangsters, Luke shouted again, "This is LAPD! Drop your weapons and follow our instructions, or I'll open fire!"

His provocation riled them up again, and they cursed and yelled once more.

At that moment, a dozen more people ran out of the bungalow, and some of them were especially trigger-happy. "Ah! Cops! Go to hell!"

Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!

One of them raised his gun and fired at Luke.

Galvanized by how gutsy he was, the man's colleagues raised their guns and shot at Luke too.

Distracted by Luke, nobody noticed that Selina had moved Miss Jenny to their car thirty meters away. Selina was also talking on the police intercom. "We're under attack by a group of armed thugs. There are more than thirty of them. We need backup. Repeat, we need backup."

Sitting in the backseat, Miss Jenny observed the battle through the windshield in fear.

After Selina was done, Jenny finally asked in a trembling voice, "You're not going to help your partner?"

Selina didn't look at her, but simply observed their surroundings with the cameras on the car.

Luke himself had installed those cameras. There were twelve of them on the left, right, top and bottom of the car, leaving no blind angles.

The glass was bulletproof too, and the important parts of the car had a double layer of bulletproofing. Luke had modified the engine using Bell's and Tony Stark's abilities, otherwise it wouldn't be able to power this bulletproof car.

So, there was no reason for Selina to get out.

She was now in the driver's seat. If anything went wrong, this car itself would be a great weapon that could kill a lot of people when it was fast enough – it would be much more effective than shooting.

Also, Luke's signal had indicated that he didn't need her help for now.

Luke had already slipped away from the Ford SUV.

According to the simple test he had performed that morning, his Strength was now twelve times that of a regular person.

Together with his Dexterity, which was four times that of a regular person, he was able to dash twenty meters in two seconds.

Observing the environment for a moment, he confirmed that he was safe with his Sharp Nose. He chose a few possible locations for cover, then raised his gun.

Bang! Bang!

Two guys who were busy shooting and yelling cried and collapsed with bullets in their legs.

The WD-36 gangsters were stunned, with no idea what happened. How had that boy shot their people when he was hiding behind a car?

Luke took out a mirror and looked into it.

He was surprised that none of the gangsters were facing his direction.

He craned his head again.

Bang! Bang!

Another two gangsters screamed and fell, gripping their legs.

If he had the instincts of a super shooter, he wouldn't need to aim at all, and would be able to hit a couple of targets using the instinctive reactions of his body.

But instincts could only be nurtured with both talent and experience.

Luke had enough Strength and Dexterity, but he had no experience.

With that in mind, it might be better for him to add 20 to Mental Strength.

To activate a number of super abilities, it was a prerequisite that all his basic attributes reach 20.

Physical Outburst and Curve Shooting from the female shooter Rebecca, for example, demanded 20 Mental Strength as a prerequisite.

He had to level up and increase his Mental Strength. He only needed one level-up for that, anyway. Thinking that, Luke looked at the confused WD-36 gangsters.

Last time, he had killed the gang's third in command. Could he wipe out the top two leaders of the gang in this quest to reap experience?

That way, the case that Elsa gave him could be closed. After all, if WD-36 was completely destroyed, it wouldn't be able to sell weed in Beverly Hills anymore.

As his thoughts flashed through his mind, Luke looked at the gang members in his mirror, and craned his head again when nobody was looking at him.

Bang! Bang!

"Ahhhhhhh!" This time, it wasn't just the victims of his gunshots, but several of the other more high-strung gangsters also screamed before they fled.

Luke was lost for words. Why are you running when you haven't been shot yet?

Their cries were so loud that some neighbors opened their windows to see what was going on.

Luke could only switch positions and hide in the flowers and grass.

Pa! Pa! Pa! Pa!

Using the plants as cover gave him more time, and he hit another four gangsters.

At this point, the gangsters seemed to finally realize what was going on. They yelled and looked for cover.

Luke, however, had moved to a different location. Hiding in a tree behind the bungalow, he smiled at the stupid gangsters.

He had taken down a dozen of their colleagues before they finally realized that they needed cover. Clearly, they had slow reflexes.

Their lousy performance wasn't surprising, however, since these gangsters only took advantage of ordinary people or other gangsters who weren't any stronger than they were.

In the car, Miss Jenny asked in shock, "Wait, is this all the work of Detective… Luther?"

Selina glared at the rich girl in the rearview mirror and said, "His name is Luke, not Luther, alright?"

Miss Jenny said awkwardly. "Well, I was too scared just now, and I didn't quite catch his name."

Selina chuckled coldly.

Jenny couldn't help but shiver at the sound. She asked, "Can I borrow some clothes?"

Selina rolled her eyes and searched in a box, before she threw something into the backseat. "There's nothing but this."

Jenny said, "Isn't this too small?"

What Selina had given her was a common towel that was fifty centimeters long and twenty centimeters wide – it could only serve as a short skirt at most.

How could she ward off the cold with that?

Selina said, "We usually leave our house dressed, not like you coming out naked."

After a brief silence, Jenny argued timidly, "Actually, I didn't come out willingly; they kidnapped me…"

"Sigh, just a minute." Selina did find it outrageous to just give her a towel.

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Chapter 229 Persuasive Detective Luke

Selina searched under her seat and found a vest. "Here. This should work."

Stunned, Jenny let Selina throw a vest over her head.

A moment later, Jenny took down the vest from her head. She hesitated at the "LAPD" printed on the vest, but still put it on in the end.

Selina looked at her in the rearview mirror, then shifted her gaze before she said, "It's not bad, right? Bulletproof and warm."

Jenny quietly complained, Can't you see that my breasts are still exposed to the air, or that my butt can't be covered by this vest at all?

However, this vest was the only thing that counted as clothing in the car.

Jenny was still slightly cold. She could only put the towel around her neck to block the gaps in the vest and keep her neck warm.

While the two women were locked in an unfriendly exchange in the car, Luke was engaging in a different sort of exchange that was even more unfriendly with the WD-36 gangsters.

Looking at the gangsters who were hiding or scurrying around in fear, Luke didn't really want to kill them.

That was mostly because Luke would be in a lot of trouble if he went on a killing spree outside his own district.

Thus, he didn't kill any of the gangsters, and at most only injured them.

If he really wanted to finish them off, the best solution would be to make them disappear.

No bodies, no blood, and no reports meant no cases for the police department.

Finally, two police cars approached in the distance with their sirens blaring.

The WD-36 gangsters were obviously in a panic. Some of them fled, and those who stayed behind were also looking for places to hide.

However, there were always those who thought differently from everyone else.

When the two police cars were dozens of meters away, some of the gangsters started shooting at them.

The two police cars hurriedly pulled over. The officers got out quickly and shouted, "LAPD! You're surrounded! Drop your weapons and get down on the ground!"

Of course, nobody obeyed them, but the four officers from the police cars raised their guns and started firing at the gangsters two seconds after the warning.

Obviously, they hadn't meant it! Luke watched the show from the rooftop of another building further away.

Now that other police officers had arrived, he didn't want to take action anymore.

Everything Luke had done after confirming Jenny's abduction had been on purpose.

After injuring a dozen or so gangsters, he let the backup officers take care of the rest. Any of the officers who wanted to claim the credit would then say that they were the ones who had injured the gangsters, so Luke wouldn't be held fully responsible for everything.

A few minutes later, more sirens echoed in the air, and a dozen police cars pulled up and surrounded the entire area.

Luke knew that it was almost over. There were thirty officers here, and only a handful of WD-36 gangsters; the latter wouldn't be able to keep resisting for long.

Also, the longer they resisted, the more severe their punishment would be.

Luke slipped back to his car and got into the passenger seat, before he smiled at the shivering lady in the backseat. "Hello, Miss Gwenis, what an honor to see you again."

With a complicated expression, Jenny said, "Ah, it's good to see you too, Detective Luke."

Luke said, "Can you tell us what happened today?"

Jenny was apparently too embarrassed to talk.

Luke shook his head and said, "Jenny, look, I didn't read you the Miranda warning; this isn't an interrogation, but simply a private chat. Nothing you say here will be recorded. We're only trying to find out the root cause of everything. After all, ten of those gangsters are already down, and we'll need an explanation."

Jenny hesitated for a moment, but finally confessed the basic situation.

The matter wasn't complicated at all. She wanted to buy weed, and made a deal with the WD-36 people at the back door, but they suddenly kidnapped her this time.

Finding it odd, Luke asked, "You're a regular client; why did they abduct you?"

Jenny was a loyal customer, and wasn't reluctant to pay.

If Luke's guess as correct, the pound of weed which was delivered to Sheerah had actually been Miss Jenny's order, except that it was sent to the wrong place.

That pound of weed had been sold at three times the market price. If Miss Jenny was so generous, why would they kidnap her?

It wasn't a smart thing to mess with the rich, especially an influential tycoon like Jenny's father.

Jenny, however, fell silent again.

Selina was enjoying the drama. Seeing that it wasn't going to continue, she rolled her eyes and gestured at Luke.

Luke thought for a moment. He then got out of the car to get into the backseat.

After that, he took off his coat and covered the pitiful, shivering girl with it. "Do you feel better now?"

Her head lowered, Jenny was silent, but she suddenly threw herself into his arms and burst into tears.

Selina continued enjoying the drama.

Luke snorted and gently stroked Jenny's back.

It was a trick for soothing someone, similar to stroking a cat or a dog.

Very soon, Jenny's wails turned into low sobs. Luke took a box of tissues from Selina and gave Jenny one. "There, there. You're safe

now."

He sounded gentle and calm, like the baritone of a midnight radio show host.

Jenny cried so hard that she couldn't stop hiccuping. She accepted the tissue and wiped her tears.

A moment later, she finally said gloomily, "After my father found out about… that thing last time, he changed my security guards and told them to watch me. But I couldn't take it anymore, and contacted the gang to buy weed. To avoid the new security guards, I pretended that I was sleeping before I slipped down to the back door."

Luke and Selina looked at each other, both amused. It's almost like you wanted something to happen to you!

Her head down, Jenny didn't see their expressions. Sobbing, she continued, "But I didn't know any of the people that came to my house. They snatched me after taking my money."

She was silent for another long moment.

Selina couldn't help but look at Luke suspiciously, but Luke simply shook his head, hinting for not to be hasty.

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Chapter 230 Same Old Trick

A moment later, Jenny continued, "They put me in their car and said that they wouldn't let me go until I gave them a huge sum of money."

As she talked, she suddenly turned around and cried hard in Luke's arms. "They… they said that they would rape me and record it. They said I had to listen to them in the future, or they would sell the recording to USC."

Both Luke and Selina were struck with realization.

They should've seen this coming.

It was a shameless but effective trick, particularly on a young and wealthy woman who was still in college.

Even though Jenny was the victim, she would still be under a tremendous amount of pressure later.

Not everybody would sympathize with her. Many people would gloat and even maliciously spread what happened to her.

No wonder Jenny was so wrung out.

She had just been pulled back from the brink of ruin; chances were that videos of her would have been forever preserved on the hard drives of some shut-in nerds even after she was dead.

That explained why the WD-36 gangsters had had the guts to kidnap her.

Blackmail and threats were cliche, but they worked almost all the time, which was why criminals loved using them.

While Luke was talking to Jenny in the car, the police officers had captured most of the WD-36 gangsters and invaded their nest.

Several armed gangsters were hiding in the house, so the officers were within their rights to break in and arrest them.

A lot of things were discovered in the house.

Luke was too far away to identify the drugs and guns, but he clearly saw five girls in makeshift coats being led out of the house.

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Also, it was Selina's indirect reminder that Elsa should eat something since it was lunchtime.

As Elsa listened, she had the cupcake and also enjoyed the coffee which Luke made for her with the coffee machine outside.

After a long while, Selina finally finished explaining what happened in the morning as well as the aftermath.

After a long silence, Elsa wiped her lips with a napkin and nodded helplessly. "Fine, you did a good job, but try not to turn it into such a huge thing next time. Director Brad actually asked Dustin why we were doing Homeland Security's job."

Luke and Selina were both silent. They knew that Elsa and Dustin had to cover for them if they wanted a share of the credit for the case.

Rescuing Miss Jenny alone would already be very rewarding, and a lot of illegal items had been found in the gangsters' nest.

The only problem right now were the media reports.

After the police department figured out everything and made sure that it was an accomplishment and not a mistake, it could hold a press conference, and the media's attitude would change.

Elsa stopped acting cold toward Luke and Selina.

She believed that Luke could understand why she had acted the way she did. She said, "Alright, you can get some rest for now, but stay in touch. You have to come back if you're needed for an investigation."

Luke and Selina hurriedly declared their loyalty to Elsa again before they slipped away.

They had yet another holiday, although it was only a temporary one.

They couldn't go back to work until this case was completely sorted out.

After leaving the police department, Selina stretched and said, "Ah, what a wonderful sunny day! Why don't we take a bath at home? It's been days since I used the bathtub in the backyard."

Luke said, "Of course, but we have to buy you dinner first."

Selina was confused. "Huh?"

"Have you forgotten the siu mei? Do you want to come out again after you go home?" asked Luke.

Selina shook her head quickly.

She would be crazy to want to leave the big bathtub in this sunshine after she got in.

Luke found a famous siu mei restaurant and all the food that Selina was interested in.

After they got back home, Selina enjoyed afternoon tea, the sunshine and the bathtub, and Luke went to the garage.

Taking out the half-completed trinkets and various components from his inventory, Luke worked carefully.

It wasn't until Selina cried that she was starving that he finally stopped, satisfied, and looked at the two pistols that he had assembled.

One of them was an M1911 with a modified load and barrel. Luke had been using the gun for a long time as a vigilante since most gangsters had this gun.

His hands had grown larger after his Strength reached 40, and he had to modify the gun for a more comfortable grip.

The other gun was a revolver that was based on a Smith Wesson M500.

The barrel of this gun had been lengthened slightly for increased accuracy and penetration.

Also, Luke had modified the surface of this revolver and covered it in matte so that it wasn't as conspicuous.

He was quite satisfied with his work.

Luke liked this kind of hard, black, thick and long weapon the most, which might not look fancy, but could easily blow up the head of an enemy.

The bullets for the two guns were also tweaked so that they could hold more gunpowder.

This could significantly improve his combat ability and increase his options.

In the meantime, he had made the barrels of both guns himself, so there were no records of them at all.

While Luke appreciated his new masterpieces, Selina was already calling him darling in the sweetest voice.

He could only let himself be interrupted as he yelled back, "I'm coming. Just clean yourself up and be ready for dinner."

Then, with a thought, the two guns disappeared and were stored in his inventory.

Putting the scraps in the garage into his inventory as well, Luke turned off the lights and left the garage.

He washed his hands and heated the siu mei which he bought at noon, before he made a salad and shouted out into the backyard, "Dinner's ready!"

A moment later, Selina dashed into the house.

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Chapter 232 Young Lady's Visit

Luke was stunned when he saw Selina. "What's the meaning of this?"

Selina, who was wearing a bikini under a thick bathrobe, was confused. "What are you talking about?"

Luke was lost for words. "Didn't I tell you to clean up for dinner?"

Selina said, "I'm very clean right now. I spent the whole afternoon in the bathtub."

Luke asked, "Aren't you worried that your skin will get wrinkly from all that water?"

Selina chuckled. "I was in the water for a bit and then in the sun for a bit after that, alright?"

Luke said, "Sure, whatever. Let's just dig in." He was too lazy to care about Selina eating in a bathrobe.

They were eating when the doorbell rang.

They looked at each other, finding it odd.

They had some friends at the police department, but since they were busy, they had never entertained any of them at home.

Also, they had often been out for work since arriving in Los Angeles. Nobody except Dustin and Elsa in the Major Crimes Division knew their address.

They didn't have other friends in the area. So, who could possibly be visiting them?

Taking a sniff, Luke found it strange, and opened the door himself.

A tall and slender girl was standing outside. When the door opened, she greeted him in delight. "Luke."

Luke said with a smile, "Oh, Miss Gwenis. How did you find my place?"

The girl outside was none other than Jenny, who lowered her head when she heard Luke's question. "I'm sorry, but I lied to Sergeant Elsa and said that I forgot to tell you something in the morning, so she gave me your address."

Luke thought for a moment, and realized what Elsa was thinking.

Jenny was a girl from a rich family, but her family background wasn't too complicated.

Actually, he should thank Elsa.

After a moment, Luke said, "Oh, please come in."

Jenny entered the house eagerly, and Luke took her to the living room.

While she was looking around, she heard a female voice. "Darling, who is it?"

Stunned, Jenny turned her head, only to see a beautiful chick in a bathrobe chewing on a greasy roasted goose leg.

As they looked at each other, the girl in the bathrobe tore off a huge chunk of meat from the goose leg.

Dumbfounded, Jenny looked at Luke. "Are you…"

Luke said casually, "We're roommates and partners."

Jenny was lost for words. She wondered if that was true, but it wasn't unusual for partners to be roommates.

Luke, however, didn't give her time to think. "Have you had dinner? If not, you can have some of this."

Now that Luke mentioned it, Jenny felt her stomach crying out for meat!

She hadn't eaten much during the long day. Seeing how gluttonous Selina was, she suddenly became hungry.

Somehow, she nodded her head and said, "Ah, okay. Thank you."

Luke pointed in one direction and said, "You can wash your hands there. Do you want to take off your coat?"

Jenny subconsciously took off her coat, but Selina, who was enjoying the drama, suddenly whistled.

Jenny abruptly came back to her senses and put her coat back on.

Luke found it odd. "Why are you out wearing this?"

Just now, he saw very clearly that this girl was only wearing a thin nightie under her thick coat.

It wasn't the same one that she had been wearing in the morning, but it was just as charming

Jenny lowered her head. "…I had a fight with my dad."

Naturally, Luke knew better than to ask further. "Should I bring you some clothes?"

"Thank you." Jenny nodded.

Luke said, "Go wash your hands first. I'll fetch you some clothes."

Jenny obediently went to the bathroom.

Luke gestured at Selina, a question in his eyes, but Selina quickly shook her head.

Luke shrugged and simply went to his room, where he found a thick T-shirt.

When Luke returned, Jenny was wiping her hands. She subconsciously stood straight again.

Luke gave the T-shirt to her with a smile. "You can wear this for now. It's clean. I hope you don't mind."

Jenny said quickly, "Not at all."

Luke pointed at the bathroom and said, "You can put it on inside. There are laundry baskets in there; you can put your clothes in one of them."

Jenny nodded again.

"Let's have dinner after you change, okay?" said Luke.

After Jenny nodded again, he went to the dining room.

In the dining room, Luke glared at Selina, who was grimacing. "It's just clothes. Why are you unwilling to lend her any?".

Selina snorted. "Of course I am. Also, I'm telling you that you can't let her stay here tonight."

Luke was lost for words. "Do you really think I'm so horny?"

Selina said, "If this was a few days ago, I would say no, but after all the fun you had recently, I'm afraid that you're already used to it."

Luke said, "Didn't you have a hand in my fun too?"

Selina said, "That was in a hotel, and this is home, okay?"

Luke said, "Fine, whatever you say. But wait, when did I say that I'm going to sleep with her? That's just your speculation!"

Selina said, "It's just a kind reminder in case you swoon over a rich lady."

Luke said, "Fine. Can she at least have some

food?"

Selina said, "Do you really think I'm so petty? She's free to have all of this if she can. Well, hm, she better leave half of it for me."

Luke said, "How generous of you!"

In the bathroom, Jenny took off her nightie and put on the thick T-shirt, before she took a look around

She realized that there were only female products in this bathroom, and that there was only one toothbrush in a feminine style.

So, the two people outside really were just roommates?

Details like these were hard to cover up, and could reveal the true relationship between a man and a woman.

She wasn't wrong.

This bathroom was Selina's, and Luke only used the ensuite in his room. Naturally, their stuff wasn't placed together.

After she changed and walked to the dining room, Luke greeted her with a smile. "Here. Have something first."

Jenny sat down next to him obediently, but she felt rather uncomfortable when Selina gave her a cryptic smile.

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Chapter 233 Rich Father and Rich Daughter

Luke glanced at Selina and said, "Just focus on the food, okay?"

Selina snorted and continued eating.

Luke picked up some food with the serving chopsticks and put it on Jenny's plate. "Try it. This is delicious Chinese food."

Looking at the greasy food and smelling the fragrant meat, Jenny couldn't help but drool. She peeped cautiously at Selina as she had a bite.

Selina didn't cause any trouble, and everybody finished dinner in peace.

Selina finished one third of the food, and Luke had approximately the same amount, but Jenny only had a little bit of it. Obviously, her stomach wasn't as much of a threat as Selina had imagined.

After supper, Selina did the dishes, and Luke made a cup of hot cocoa for Jenny. The two of them talked in the living room.

Luke was utterly unmoved when he heard Jenny's story.

It was the typical family drama.

Jenny's birth mother died a few years ago, and her CEO father married another young and beautiful wife who bore him a son two years ago.

So, Jenny lived in Los Angeles by herself.

Her father had been pissed when Jenny got herself in trouble by buying weed. They had a huge fight over the phone, and Jenny drove off in her car. That was why she was here in her nightie.

There was absolutely no new information for Luke.

After all, it was purely happenstance that she was kidnapped, and she didn't know much about WD-36.

When it was slightly past nine, Luke offered to send Jenny home.

Just as he was closing the door, Selina gave him the middle finger.

Luke bowed to indicate that he accepted the blessing before he left.

After they left the house, Jenny suddenly said, "…I don't want to go back."

Luke was confused. "Huh?"

Jenny said, "I'm alone, without family."

Luke thought for a moment and proposed, "Should I send you to a hotel?"

Jenny was slightly shocked, not expecting Luke to be so straightforward.

Although she had been prepared for it before her night visit, she wondered if they were going too fast.

However, she didn't say anything in the end, and silently agreed with Luke's suggestion.

A while later, Luke parked his car in front of a hotel Jenny didn't know, called Bellier.

Observing the interior after they entered, Jenny confirmed that it was a three-star hotel at best.

It wasn't exactly horrible, but it was nonetheless rather weird for someone like her who had never stayed in anything less than a four-star hotel.

Noticing the look on her face, Luke smiled and said, "I'm just a small-time detective. I can't afford a four-star hotel."

Jenny finally remembered that not everybody was as rich as she was.

At the very least, this man had taken her to a three-star hotel, not a motel that might only cost dozens of dollars for one night.

They checked in under Jenny's name and went to the room.

Jenny was slightly nervous. She had the feeling that the man behind her would suddenly pounce on her with a hideous grin…

Well, fine. She was only uneasy, and not really scared – she wasn't a little girl who had yet to experience anything.

After Luke entered, he turned on the stereo and adjusted the lights. Then, he took out a bottle of wine and said, "Would you like some?"

Jenny promptly accepted the offer.

Talking to someone over a glass of wine was basically the most familiar thing for her.

The two of them chatted and had drinks on the couch.

Luke learned a lot more about Jenny.

For example, she had been the little princess of her family until her mother suddenly passed away three years ago.

Her father had been in business negotiations when her mother died, and didn't return until the funeral one week later.

She had been living in Los Angeles since then. The villa was something her father had given to her out of guilt.

Father and daughter could have made peace with each other eventually.

However, her father married a young and beautiful woman less than half a year later, and his new wife gave birth to a son two months after the wedding.

Jenny finally grew suspicious.

Her father certainly wasn't an idiot. He would never acknowledge a random newborn baby as his son without a paternity test.

She investigated and discovered that her father had gotten himself a young lover after he and Jenny's mother fell out.

Just before Jenny's mother died, her father had actually been with his young lover, who had just gotten pregnant then.

So, father and daughter had a huge fight, and barely saw each other anymore.

Luke even speculated that Jenny had done all that partly to see if her father still cared about her.

However, her father was too busy looking after his new wife and son to bother with her.

Jenny was a senior in college, but she had almost been kidnapped and recorded by drug dealers.

Family really was important.

Luke couldn't help but feel lucky. Robert was practically a model dad compared with Jenny's father. The man didn't have any shortcomings except for the fact that he didn't have a lot of money and usually wasn't good at expressing himself.

After that, Luke and Jenny talked about various other things, from tidbits about their lives to work.

Miss Jenny had never worked before, so she had a lot of fun listening to all the funny incidents that Luke encountered as a police officer.

Unless Jenny, who was completely focused, Luke actually checked his watch every once in a while.

When it was past eleven, Jenny still wasn't drunk even though she had had a lot of wine.

Luke was rather speechless. He had plans for the night. Had he known that she was such a greater drinker, he would've brought a bottle of Vodka.

Switching tactics, he could only move from funny stories to suggestive ones.

Half an hour later, Jenny was blushing in his arms as they kissed.

She was red not because she was shy, but purely because of the alcohol.

Luke's hand moved where Jenny couldn't see it. Swirling the wine in the glass, he then fed it to Jenny, who was already half-drunk.

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Chapter 234 No Blood and No Bodies

Jenny felt nothing wrong as the alcohol ran down her throat.

Luke gently kissed her neck and her ears while he rubbed her body softly.

In less than five minutes, he felt the girl in his arms go limp.

He carried her into the bedroom, took off her clothes, then… covered her with the quilt.

Before he left, he cleaned the wine glass and refilled it with more wine.

He opened the window, threw out his grappling hook, and jumped out. He closed the window behind him, but didn't lock it.

He pulled himself up the rope to the top of the building

When he reached the rooftop, he took out a plastic mat and a big bag from his inventory.

Opening the bag, he quickly changed his clothes and switched out his gear before he stored the clothes he had been wearing earlier and the mat in his inventory. Throwing out the grappling hook again, he took a few leaps before stopping at a building several hundred meters away.

He hailed a cab and hid his face inside the hood of his shirt.

There wasn't any traffic at night, and he soon reached West Adams Street, where he disappeared down a dark alley.

Another half an hour later, he reappeared outside a two-story building.

Turning on his fake phone and confirming that there was no high-tech surveillance equipment nearby, he snuck inside.

There weren't any surveillance cameras here, but there were a lot of guards.

Ten people were guarding the spacious yard, but almost all of them were slacking off.

Or rather, they didn't know how to work security professionally.

Most gangsters didn't have enough skills for that, otherwise they could've gotten work as security guards.

They were often too lazy and lacked the grit and courage to change themselves.

Luke dashed nimbly toward one side of the building and jumped, grabbing a windowsill on the second floor and activating his Sharp Nose.

A moment later, he quietly pulled himself up and climbed into the room.

A man and a woman were having sex in the room with their backs to the window. Luke swiftly approached them and knocked them out.

Looking at the man and going through the profiles in his head, Luke twisted the man's neck without any hesitation, and his body disappeared in the next instant.

He turned the unconscious woman around, but didn't find anything on her in his memories.

He fed the woman a tiny pill and left the room.

In less than five minutes, he cleaned up the second floor.

The second floor was clearly for people with higher positions. There were only three men and one woman here.

All the three men disappeared, and the woman was left unconscious.

Luke went upstairs unhurriedly, and eliminated the men in the five rooms on one side of the stairs. Some of them were sleeping, and some were busy packing goods.

Of course, Luke destroyed the goods after wiping out the men, as usual.

Eventually, Luke reached the living room, where five men were scattered around. Fortunately, they didn't have clear lines of sight to each other.

Two of them were watching TV, two were drinking, and the last one was cleaning his gun at the table.

Luke calculated for a moment, then took out a few modified yo-yos.

He had used them before on Daniel, the cab driver in Paris, but that had been a trial version back then. Now, Luke had improved it, and he gave it a new name: rope dart.

With his inventory, many problems concerning quality were resolved.

The head of the gadget, which served as a weight, was made of a special alloy, and the rope of an extremely hard steel.

The only thing he needed was practice.

He had invented this gadget because his USC purge last time had left too big an impact, and he might be exposed if he did it again.

For American police, a body with blood and bullet holes would mean a homicide.

Even though the victim was a gangster, it would have to be investigated if too many of them were killed.

But what if there was no blood or bullets? No investigation would be carried out at all.

Luke threw out two rope darts, which wrapped themselves around the necks and bodies of the two who were drinking, until their hands were tied up too.

They barely realized what was going on before Luke ran out and knocked out the man who was cleaning his gun.

He threw out another rope dart, binding the man's body to a pillar nearby so that he wouldn't fall over.

In the meantime, he hurled out two iron balls that hit the two men who were watching TV in the back of their heads.

Since they were on the couch, they didn't make a sound as they fell to the side. The other three had either been armed or were sitting in chairs, and Luke didn't want them to make any sound that would alert the people outside.

The moment he threw out the iron balls, he approached the two trussed up men, who were struggling to break free of the ropes.

Luke reached out and twisted their necks.

With the sound of cracks, both of them stopped struggling.

He spent two seconds collecting the two bodies. Then, he cleaned up the body at the table as well as the bodies on the couch.

Now, there were only two guys left in the basement.

Luke thought for a moment, but didn't go down to the basement. Instead, he snuck out of the house.

Leaving the two men who were smoking and chatting at the front door, he started with the people in the corners.

Whenever the rope dart flew out, it wrapped around someone's throat so that they couldn't scream, and they passed out from a hit to the back of the head in the next instant.

Finally, the two guys at the door realized that something was wrong.

Why was it so quiet?

Why couldn't they hear the sounds of their fellows anywhere in or outside the house anymore?

Frightened, they reached for their guns.

Two rope darts flew out to tie them up, and two iron balls hit them in their heads.

Both of them passed out, but were held upright rigidly by the thin steel ropes, so they didn't fall.

Then, a shadow emerged from behind them to drag them back into the house.

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Chapter 235 Dependable Man

Two men were having a conversation in the basement.

"Boss, after the huge drama last time, the cops are demanding an explanation," said a brawny man to a middle-aged man who was seated behind a table.

The middle-aged man was a Latino with a well-trimmed mustache. He wasn't handsome, and his eyes were dark and ruthless.

After a brief silence, the mustached man said, "What explanation? They can send those idiots to jail if they want. We have plenty of people anyway."

"Damn it! If Alfonso hadn't been killed by that ghost-like butcher, we wouldn't be caught up in such a disaster!" The mustached man was upset.

He couldn't help but curse again. "Those idiots kidnapped the daughter of a magnate when they were told to deliver the goods. They could have just let her go and claim that she was there to buy weed. I don't believe that woman would dare confess everything to the police. But no, they took out their guns and shot at the police! Idiots! They deserve to go to jail!"

After a brief hesitation, the brawny man said, "But…"

"Heh, no buts. If the cops think they're good, let them come and arrest me. It's not like I've never been caught. My life is just as great in jail. Do any of those jail wardens dare piss me off? I'll kill their families if they do." The mustached man sneered.

Thinking for a moment, he continued, "Right, who's the young officer who stole Jenny and

later. We can't let him go after all this. Also, if he has any family, toss them into the ocean too… Huh?"

He narrowed his eyes and looked behind the brawny man.

The brawny man reacted fast enough. He turned around swiftly and took out his gun.

But that wasn't much help.

Halfway through his turn, pain exploded in his head and he passed out.

The mustached man behind the desk was unafraid. "Who are you?"

It was a matte iron ball that answered him. He was knocked out, and he slumped over his table.

Luke chuckled inwardly. You want to sink my family in the ocean? You might as well sink first today.

Getting rid of the brawny man and the mustached man, he searched the basement.

A moment later, he found a safe.

The safe had both password and fingerprint locks. He activated the fingerprint lock with the mustached man's finger, and opened the second lock with his gadgets.

Looking at the pile of cash inside, Luke was utterly unmoved.

There couldn't be more than a million dollars in here, which was nothing compared with the money that Tony had lost to him.

Thanks to Tony's wealth, Luke had grown a lot more immune to the temptation of money.

A moment later, he closed the safe and left the room.

Since his inventory was full, he stuffed the excess bodies into a Benz at the gate and drove away, leaving only the naked unconscious woman on the second floor.

Driving all the way to the coast, Luke found an appropriate location and extracted the garbage from his inventory.

door and let the car slide off the cliff and into the deep ocean below.

As a dependable man, he fulfilled his vow to make the gangsters go missing.

Watching the car sink into the water, Luke turned around and started running.

After quite a while, he finally encountered an empty cab. He got into the cab with his head down and his face hidden in the shadow of his hood behind his face mask, and he returned downtown.

He climbed up to the top of the three-star hotel with his grappling hook and changed back into his original clothes on the mat again. After storing his disguise and the mat in his inventory, he rappelled down to the window of his room and entered.

Retrieving his grappling hook and closing the window, Luke took a deep breath and said, "Nailed it."

Mission: Eliminate the WD-36 gangsters and destroy their headquarters. Completed.

Total experience: 2,000. Total credit: 2,000.

Contribution rate: 100%. EXP 2,000. Credit 2,000.

And the notification for the mission in the morning was:

Mission: Rescue the kidnapped girl, clear out a major WD-36 nest, and destroy the illegal items. Completed.

Total experience: 1,000. Total credit: 1,000.

Contribution rate: 45%. EXP 675. Credit 675.

Luke was very satisfied.

He had probably gained most of his experience from killing WD-36's second in command in the middle of sex on the second floor and the number one leader in the basement.

The massive destruction of illegal drugs also meant an abundance of experience and credit. Otherwise, he wouldn't have been able to earn more than five hundred experience and credit points for eliminating twenty-five gangsters.

He had truly earned a lot from WD-36.

In three raids, WD-36 had given him almost four thousand experience and credit points. It was definitely a fat lamb.

However, Luke had to restrain himself. He had learned his lesson from his Paris trip.

If he didn't want to talk to a shrink, it wasn't the smartest choice to be too focused on elimination operations.

After everything was done, he took a shower in the bathroom and returned to the bed.

Looking at Jenny, who was still sound asleep, he secretly apologized to her before he hugged her and quickly fell asleep.

The next morning, Luke was contemplating his plans for the next few days when he felt the girl in his arms move.

He lowered his head, only to look right into blue and green eyes that just opened.

After a brief silence, he smiled and said, "Hi, good morning. Did you sleep well?"

The owner of the blue and green eyes suddenly asked, "Are you gay?"

Luke's smile stiffened. "What?"

Strangely, Jenny sniffed her hands and blew on them.

Then, she subconsciously touched her breasts, before immediately dropping her hands.

While Miss Jenny's breasts weren't small, they certainly weren't big enough for Luke to do it there.

"I don't have a lot of experience, but I'm pretty sure we didn't do anything." Her eyes widened, and she asked suspiciously, "So, you really just slept through the night with me in your arms?"

Luke: "…I'm really not gay."

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Chapter 236 How to Prove that You're Not Gay

Jenny was still suspicious.

Luke said defensively, "You were drunk last night. How could I touch you?"

Jenny chuckled. "Bullsh*t! Do you know how many men have tried to get me drunk over the years, so that they could sleep with me? From my classmates in high school to my friends in college, many have tried, but you're the first man to succeed. Yet, you did nothing. And you're saying you're not gay?"

Luke: "…I can prove it."

Jenny, however, stroked his face and slowly rubbed his chest. "It's fine. I'm not biased against gays. In fact, my gay friends are easier to get along with than those little b*tches. Tsk, tsk. Look at these muscles. They would go crazy if they saw you."

Luke said, "Can you go further down?"

Jenny subconsciously did so, only to draw her hand back in shock. "Ah, that's impossible! You're so pretty. You have the skin and temperament of a woman – how can you not be gay…"

Luke could only chuckle. "Miss Gwenis, you seem to have forgotten who rescued you from the gangsters yesterday. Could any of your gay friends have done that?"

Jenny stammered, mostly because of the iron proof that she had just touched. Slightly overwhelmed, she said, "Ah, no, I don't think they could."

Smiling, Luke leaned closer to her. "Now, would you like me to prove it personally? I guarantee that it'll be quick, Miss Gwenis!"

Jenny: "Huh? What? Eh…"

A long time later, Jenny moaned intermittently, "Ah, didn't you say that it would be quick? L- liar…"

Luke grinned. "I was saying that it would happen very quickly. I didn't say that it would end quickly. To be honest, it's going to be quite a while. You should be patient."

After a whole morning, Luke finally convinced Jenny that she hadn't slept with a gay guy last night.

They had lunch in the room and cuddled after that.

Selina called during lunch and said, "I know you probably did it last night and probably this morning, but could you at least send me a message in the morning to tell me that you aren't coming for lunch? Do you know what I had for lunch?"

Luke thought for a moment and replied, "Pigswill?"

Selina said, "Exactly! The hot dog stand outside the police department only serves pigswill, and that's the only thing I can eat! So, are you coming back tonight, darling?"

If you say that the hot dog stand serves pigswill, what does that make the officers who frequently buy from there? Luke was secretly amused, but he said, "I'll be sure to be back tonight."

Selina: "Mua! I love you, darling. Remember to have your recipe ready first."

Luke: "You make me feel like your cook."

Selina: "Better a cook than a secretary, alright? Do you have any idea how many boring reports I've written for you?"

They had to submit at least ten reports for the operation yesterday, which was quite troublesome.

Luke immediately backed down. "I'm glad you like my food. I'll make something delicious for you tonight."

"Deal! Bye. Elsa's calling for me. She's probably going to call you later. Remember that you're resting at home because you caught a cold!" Selina reminded him before she hung up.

Luke shook his head in amusement; even though she sounded mean, Selina had helped him apply for leave and had finished his work for him – she was a real sweet secretary.

At four in the afternoon, Luke left the hotel with Jenny, who was exhausted but exhilarated.

Luke dropped her off at her house in Beverly Hills. At the door, Jenny suddenly asked, "Would you like to be my boyfriend?"

Stumped for a moment, Luke shook his head. "I'm sorry, but I love my current job, so I don't intend to get a girlfriend yet."

Biting her lip, Jenny said, "Why? Why are men always like this?"

Luke knew why she was angry. Jenny was quite sensitive because of her CEO father.

Pondering for a moment, he said, "Jenny, I love helping the innocent and cracking down on criminals as a police officer. I don't think we would've met or gone through what happened yesterday if it wasn't for that. So, please understand my choice, okay?"

Jenny opened her mouth, but had nothing to say.

Although girls could get away with being unreasonable, she hadn't really met Luke until yesterday, so it wasn't her place to be unreasonable.

Logically speaking, it was precisely because of Luke's decision as a police officer that she hadn't been caught by the WD-36 gangsters yesterday.

After a brief silence, Jenny calmed down, and good humor soon overrode her anger. "Then… are we still friends?"

Luke smiled. "Of course. I can't pretend that nothing happened today, can I? I don't have enough time for a relationship, but we can be friends, alright?"

Staring at him for a moment, Jenny suddenly hugged him and kissed him deeply.

They didn't separate until a long time later. She said in a low voice, "We can still do this as friends, right?"

Chuckling, Luke pinched her bottom and said, "There are a lot of other things we can do, if I have the time."

Jenny moaned and said, "When do you have time?"

Luke thought for a moment and said, "Let's talk over the phone. You know what my job's like. I don't know when I'm free."

Jenny was slightly disappointed.

A detective of the Major Crimes Division in Los Angeles was really too busy. No wonder Luke turned her down.

Looking at her, Luke suddenly remembered something. "As I recall, you major in business administration at USC, right?"

Jenny nodded and said, "Yes, it was my father who asked me… Forget it. Let's not talk about him."

Luke chuckled. "Do you feel that you have a knack for business?"

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Chapter 237 Future Secretary

Frowning and thinking for a while, Jenny said uncertainly, "The subjects in school seem easy. I even won a scholarship in my freshman year. The stuff that my dad taught me wasn't difficult to understand either."

Luke said, "In that case, you should work harder, and I can hire you as my secretary later. How does that sound?"

Jenny was surprised. "Huh?"

A small-time detective offering to hire a rich girl as a secretary? Really?

Luke chuckled. "I mean it. I have a small business that hasn't made much progress yet. If you're skilled, you can apply your talents there."

Jenny hesitated. "But I don't actually have practical experience. Books are just books. I don't think I'm capable…" She was a lot shrewder when they talked business.

Luke hugged her and kissed her. "It's fine. Even the highest skyscraper has to start with a foundation. Are you not confident that you can be a good secretary?"

Jenny looked at Luke. "Should I really try it out?"

Luke nodded with a smile. "Of course. Chances are you might be able to expand my company until it's even bigger than your father's. Don't you want to see the look on his face then? Haha."

Jenny was rendered speechless.

The Tiger Foundation that her father controlled was itself worth almost a billion dollars, and dealt in billions of dollars in cash flow as well. Luke sounded too audacious.

However, hope flickered in her heart. It wouldn't be bad at all if she started out small and went on to develop a company until it was worth a hundred million dollars.

Luke looked at her and smiled. "Everyone should have a dream, because anything can happen."

Jenny was lost for words. It did sound inspiring, but didn't Luke say last night that the dreams of the rich were dreams, while the dreams of the poor were just daydreams?

So, wake up already and stop fantasizing!

Luke had no idea that Jenny was absentmindedly thinking about his joke from last night.

He simply kissed her again and said, "It's a deal, then. I'll be waiting for your application, Secretary Jenny."

Jenny: "…Fine."

Then, Luke watched her enter her villa.

He got back into his car and chuckled. "If she really knows what she's doing, she can help me do all the work in the future."

Jenny had no idea what was on Luke's mind, or she would've demanded a different position, like general manager.

Luke didn't really know whether Jenny had the capability or not.

If she didn't, she could work as a simple assistant. If she wanted to quit, she could leave anytime. Either way, Luke had nothing to lose by hiring her.

At the end of the day, Luke went to the police department and entered Elsa's office.

But Elsa wasn't there. When Luke came out, he saw her waving at him from the door of Dustin's office.

Luke walked to her with a smile. "Boss, you're here to report, too?"

Elsa glared at him and said, "Let's talk inside."

Dustin stared at Luke and didn't say anything after the door closed.

Luke just kept smiling. Eventually, it was Dustin who gave in first.

As the head of the Major Crimes Division, he couldn't waste time with Luke.

"Tell me, did Miss Gwenis give you any intelligence?" Dustin got straight to the point.

Luke thought to himself, She didn't give me any intelligence, but she gave herself to me. Does that count?

Murmuring to himself inwardly, he shook his head. "Not much, but I think I can convince her to work with us and testify against WD-36."

Dustin and Elsa exchanged "Just as I thought" looks.

Dustin said, "I don't think this will be a difficult case. The two leaders of WD-36, as well as their trusted subordinates, have gone missing. Now, WD-36 has no leaders, and they can no longer cause any problems."

Luke didn't offer his input, and simply waited for Dustin to finish.

Dustin looked at Luke, a little put out. He found it impossible to get a rise out of the boy.

He could only say, "So, your holiday is over. Get back to work."

Luke nodded. "Okay."

"Where were you last night?" Dustin asked out of the blue.

Awkwardly, Luke said, "That's… personal."

Dustin said, "Cut the crap. I'm not recording your confession here. Tell me, what were you doing last night?"

Luke chuckled and looked at Elsa. "I was completing the mission that Elsa arranged for me."

Dustin and Elsa both exclaimed, "What?"

Their expressions weren't exactly the same, but they both had some surprise on their faces.

Elsa asked, "What mission did I arrange for

you?"

Dustin looked confused too. His gaze moved silently between his two capable subordinates.

Luke said, "Didn't you want me to calm Miss Jenny down?"

Elsa was lost for words. When did I ever ask you to do that?

Luke said matter-of-factly, "You told her my address last night. Did you want her to have dinner at my place? It doesn't take a genius to know that you expected me to calm her down so that it'll be easier to convict WD-36 later."

Elsa was lost for words.

However, that indeed had been her plan.

After the huge drama yesterday, the police operation might draw criticism if WD-36 wasn't convicted of Jenny's abduction.

But a lot of rich people were unwilling to testify, since it was troublesome and could lead to the criminals retaliating against them.

As a young girl, if Jenny claimed that she hadn't recovered from the shock, the police wouldn't be able to ask her to testify, which would be tricky.

By giving Luke's address to Jenny, Elsa had truly been hoping that he would use his pretty looks to take care of her.

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Chapter 238 An Abundant Offering

Looking at his subordinates, Dustin suddenly asked, "How exactly did you convince her?"

Luke said, "We spent the night at Bellier. I'll only say it this once, though; I'll never admit to it after this."

Both Dustin and Elsa were lost for words.

That was the end of the embarrassing topic.

Luke had disclosed personal information, and the whole thing had started with Elsa leaking his address. What could Dustin say?

If Luke were a woman, Elsa would've been reported to the Internal Affairs Division.

But thankfully, Luke was a guy, and Jenny was a young and beautiful girl.

After Luke shifted the blame to his superior, Dustin kicked Luke out of his office. Before he closed the door, he saw Dustin speaking angrily to Elsa, who looked a little awkward.

Luke chuckled secretly. I'm sorry, but for the sake of my vigilante career, I'm afraid you'll have to take this for me, Elsa!

He saw Selina, who was busy dealing with all the paperwork in front of her. He thought for a moment, then quickly left.

He had to appease Selina with a lot of food tonight, or she would fly into a rage.

Not only did she have to eat pigswill, she also completed the paperwork and lied for him. How great was she? She certain deserved… at least two courses!

Luke went on a shopping spree at the supermarket before he returned home, whistling.

Even with his high stats, he was busy for more than an hour in the kitchen before he was finally done.

He had prepared an abundance of food for tonight.

Cooking also suppressd his desire to go out and get experience and credit.

Luke didn't plan on becoming a puppet controlled by desire – it was more fun to just enjoy life.

Self-restraint was necessary to prevent you doing anything stupid in your recklessness.

Now that he had 15 Mental Strength, he could multitask to some extent.

While cooking, he read the news digest on the tablet he had put together, and started making plans.

Selina finally returned after eight, half-dead.

She threw her purse and her coat into her room, before she lunged at Luke and cried, "Ahhhh, you jerk! I had to clean up the mess you made! So annoying!"

Luke raised his hands in surrender. "You're my angel! Please forgive me my sins! I've prepared an abundant offering for you!"

"Only demons demand offerings, no?" Although she said that, her eyes glowed and she ran to the kitchen.

Luke hurriedly stopped her. "Wash your hands first, okay? Do you have any idea how many things you touch during the day?"

Selina said, "It's all because of you! Hmph. I'll wash them." She quickly ran to the bathroom.

A minute later, she dashed into the kitchen again, and Luke didn't stop her this time.

Now that the glutton had come home, dinner should be served.

She certainly wouldn't work hard for him if he couldn't keep her full.

A moment later, Selina was stealing bites in the kitchen while Luke moved the food to the dinner table.

Luke had made the food more than once. He ate it if it tasted ordinary, and threw it away if it tasted awful. It was one of the reasons why it had taken him so long to prepare dinner.

The food now wasn't exactly the best, but it was above average. Since it was sweet and meaty, it would probably be enough to alleviate Selina's fury.

He was pretty sure that Selina's anger had already vanished.

It was hard for anyone to fly into a rage when they were biting into a lobster in the kitchen.

It took Selina almost an hour to finish dinner. Luke did the dishes himself, and didn't disturb her as she enjoyed her post-dinner doze on the couch.

Eventually, Luke offered her a cup of milk tea and said with a smile, "How about it? Do you feel better now?"

Selina was about to respond, but thinking quickly, she said, "Hm, I think I'm going to feel bad for another three… no, five days."

Luke was speechless. "Is this your time of the month?"

Selina hesitated. "What about three days?"

Luke simply snorted.

Selina said gloomily, "Let's make it two days, okay? Or, maybe, dinner tomorrow. Just one day. Okay, darling?"

Luke said, "Alright, you said it yourself. Only one day, tomorrow."

Something struck Selina. "Wait, one day isn't enough!"

Luke rubbed her belly with a smile. "I bought a lot of ingredients. They can't be wasted, can they? But I can't make so much food for you all at once. Three courses each day for three days. Will that be okay?"

urses

Selina moaned comfortably. "I love you, darling."

Luke said, "I think what you love is lobster, roast pork, roast chicken…"

"Stop! I'm already full, but I want to eat again now!" Selina put a stop to Luke's mental abuse.

Luke chuckled. "Alright. It's been a long day. Just take a shower and go to bed, okay?"

Selina was already yawning.

It really had been a busy day for her. She had gone through tons of paperwork and made infinite calls.

Luke's phone would've exploded with calls had it not been for her.

Luke hated the complicated formalities more than anything else. He loved investigating cases because it came with experience and credit, but writing reports was hardly rewarding, although it had to be done.

Luke didn't trust anyone else to write the reports for him, since the Internal Affairs Division would come knocking if his abnormal behavior during an op was noted down in a report.

Therefore, as a helper that he could absolutely trust, Selina was irreplaceable.

Selina was already half-asleep by around ten.

Luke called out to her, only to discover that she was too lazy to move. He could only draw a bath for her and put her in it.

Half an hour later, he heard nothing from the bathroom, and could only open the door. As he expected, Selina had already fallen asleep.

He could only take her out of the bathtub and put her in a bathrobe. Thankfully, she had wrapped up her hair first, otherwise he would have to dry it.

He wiped her down with a towel and tucked her in.

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Chapter 239 Kiss the Boss's Boss's Boss's Ass

Seeing that Selina had no intention of waking up, Luke secretly chuckled, and wondered if taking off a girl's clothes counted as an Elementary skill.

He rose and closed the door. Then, Luke turned completely calm.

A moment later, he dashed out the back door and disappeared into the dark.

The next morning, Selina shook Luke awake.

"Speak! What did you do to me last night, pervert?" She looked down at him, her face half-blocked by her magnificent breasts.

Luke yawned and said, "Didn't you feel anything?"

Did I really have the time to do anything to you? he murmured inwardly, as he checked the system notification.

Mission: Clean up WD-36's major warehouse and destroy the illegal drugs. Completed.

Total experience: 1,500. Total credit: 1,500.

Contribution rate: 100%. EXP 1,500. Credit 1,500.

WD-36 was too fat a lamb. If he hadn't seized the moment and raided the warehouse, the drugs and cash in it would've been swallowed up by someone else.

Thus, he had been busy all night. Apart from the drugs he destroyed, he even found more than a million dollars in cash.

The operation had been so taxing that it was already dawn by the time he returned and fell asleep.

Selina, however, had no idea what he had done. She simply asked, "So what about breakfast? Don't you think you should make up for what you did?"

Luke said, "At once, alright? But before that, can you put on some pants first? Although it's just as revealing, underwear is different from a bikini, okay?"

Selina snorted. "Hmph! I put it on this morning. I don't remember going to bed at all last night."

Luke rose unhurriedly and put on his clothes. He slept in a sleeveless tee and a pair of shorts, so he wasn't afraid of exposing himself. "Of course you don't. Do you remember taking a bath? Do you smell?"

Selina said, "…Hm, I don't think so."

Luke rolled his eyes. "Of course you don't. I put you in the bathtub, or you would have passed out from your own smell."

Selina said, "That's bullsh*t. I don't smell."

Luke said, "That's a bold statement! In that case, I won't give you a hand next time, but please keep your distance from me, since I'm scared of the stink."

Selina: "Ah, darling, don't bother with the details. Just make breakfast. I need to take a shower and get dressed." She then slipped out of the room.

Forty minutes later, the two of them headed for the police department.

After they arrived, they went straight to Elsa.

Regular detectives wouldn't visit their superior's office so often since they couldn't crack cases that fast; they certainly wouldn't talk to their boss if they weren't making any progress on a case, since that would just be putting their shortcomings on display.

Luke and Selina were different. They were solving their cases very quickly, and Elsa wouldn't squander their abilities. If they couldn't find any leads for a case after a couple of days, it would be handed over to other detectives, so that they could work on as many other cases as possible.

Only youngsters with distinguished abilities like Luke and Selina could handle the pressure. Even seasoned detectives often couldn't stand being given tricky cases all the time.

It was also the reason why Luke and Selina started to gain more and more respect in the Major Crimes Division.

After they entered, Elsa simply threw a file in front of her at them.

Luke picked it up and gave it to Selina, who promptly sat down to read it first.

Elsa said, "Fine, whatever you did yesterday, that's on me. Now, look into this case."

Luke asked, "What's the situation?"

Elsa said, "The situation is that you will be kissing our boss's boss's ass someplace else, and Deputy Director Condra will be cleaning up your mess for you."

Luke was confused. "What?"

Elsa said, "There's a serial murder in Woodsburg, and one of the victims is our deputy director's niece. Now, the deputy director knows that you're very capable, so he's demanding that you find the murderer who tortured and killed his niece."

Luke was lost for words. "But what about the boss's boss's boss? We don't have law enforcement power over there, and if we want to find the serial killer…"

Elsa said, "I've vouched for you. You didn't have law enforcement power back in New York, but you did a great job, didn't you?"

Luke said, "You really do trust me, don't you?"

Elsa chuckled and said, "Alright, enough. To tell you the truth, Deputy Director Condra has spoken to them. You're allowed to use your firearm in an emergency."

Luke immediately got it.

The support of an LAPD deputy director was definitely a big thing.

Woodsburg was only a hundred kilometers away from downtown Los Angeles, and was itself part of greater Los Angeles. They were sort of connected.

It was why Luke had permission to use his gun.

Although he was only supposed to use it in an emergency, he was free to shoot as long as he didn't cause a major problem.

What counted as a major problem? For example, hitting an innocent person when he was aiming at the murderer.

However, Luke was the only one who knew that his combat ability wasn't limited to guns.

The permission to use guns was more like the local sheriff's indirect acknowledgment that he could work on the case there.

As long as he didn't officially arrest anyone, he was free to use any other means necessary during the investigation.

Thinking that, Luke chuckled. "Is this another holiday?"

Elsa looked at him and snorted. "Let Selina tell you the details of the case on the way. You must be… very careful."

Stunned for a moment, Luke turned solemn. "Of course, boss. I'll be prudent."

Elsa nodded in satisfaction. "Okay, now get the hell out of here."

Luke snorted. "Can you be a tad gentler? For example, like me." As he spoke, he put a paper bag as well as a sealed box on her desk.

Elsa was lost for words. "Just go away!"

She finally caved in to Luke's shamelessness after the awkwardness yesterday, when he had shifted the blame to her.

Luke left, grinning.

Selina rose and approached Elsa. "Boss, it's a big meal that took him more than an hour to cook last night. You can't leave the door open when you're eating it."

Elsa snorted and said, "Got it. Remind him to be careful. Actually… It isn't a problem even if he can't find anything. Nobody can crack every case."

Selina nodded with a smile. "Got it. I'll get going, boss."

Seeing them off, Elsa put the packed food in her special drawer, before she left for Dustin's office.

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Chapter 240 Serial Killer and Disguise

Elsa needed to talk to Dustin abot Luke's case.

She had to make sure that Deputy Director Condra wouldn't vent his fury on Luke and Selina if they didn't find anything.

That wasn't entirely impossible.

Nobody would be in a good mood after their niece was killed and put on public display.

Elsa believed in Luke's capability, but she had to have a contingency plan in place for her most trusted subordinate. While it might affect Condra's impression of her, getting a promotion wasn't the only thing that Elsa cared about.

Luke and Selina left in their car.

Soon, Selina grew solemn. "Luke, this case is rather… troublesome."

Luke said calmly, "Oh? Tell me about it."

"It happened three days ago. The victims in the first murder are two high school students, a boy called Steve Earls and a girl called Cathy Becker, who is also Deputy Director Condra's niece. Yesterday, a suspect called Billy Loomis was arrested. He's the victims' classmate, and was arrested for assaulting Sandra, his girlfriend," said Selina.

Luke was confused. "Huh?" How could the case be troublesome when the suspect had been caught?

Sandra said, "However, Maureen, the mother of the suspect's girlfriend, was killed in a similar way a year ago. At that time, a suspect called Cotton Whirry was arrested, and he's now still in custody. He'll likely be sentenced to death if he's convicted."

Luke said thoughtfully, "So, the suspect this time might be a suspect in this other case?"

Selina said, "Yes. More importantly, Billy had ample time to commit the previous crime. Of course, he doesn't really have a motive, but the victim was his girlfriend's mother, after all."

Luke nodded. "If he's a serial killer, we won't necessarily understand his motives. What other complications are there?"

"Neil Prescott, Sandra's father and the previous victim's husband, is supposedly on a business trip, but the police department can't reach him," Selina continued.

Luke chuckled. "Interesting, very interesting!"

The primary suspect in most murder cases was the person in a physical relationship with the victim, including but not limited to a spouse, a divorced spouse, a boyfriend or a girlfriend.

It was common for suspects to decide to resolve a family conflict or adultery with violence.

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In this case, the high school victims were a couple, the suspect Billy and Sandra, who was lucky to have survived, were also a couple, while Sandra's mother had likely been Cotton's lover, and now her husband Neil had just gone missing.

It sounded like a case with a lot of family drama.

It was probably the reason why the sheriff of Woodsburg had accepted Condra's request and allowed Luke to head over.

The longer it dragged on, the bigger the case would become.

This was a serial murder with three victims, one survivor, and two suspects, one of whom might be getting the death sentence.

The case would probably receive national attention soon. After all, it did seem creepy and weird.

If some idiotic young men worshiped and imitated the killer, a dozen copycat psychos might pop up across the country.

Luke had Selina stop reading the case file and get some rest.

The case was too complicated, and reading the case file wouldn't help much. They would probably have to investigate everything on their own.

The car headed southeast.

Woodsburg was located in Orange County, which was a hundred kilometers southeast of downtown Los Angeles. Due to the traffic jam, it took them two hours to reach the place.

They saw plenty of news vans in town. Many reporters were talking to cameras with microphones in their hands.

Luke counted them.

Good god! He counted eight TV channels along the way, two of which belonged to some of the biggest nationwide stations.

This case had gotten so big? Luke pondered for a moment.

Suddenly, he suggested to Selina, "What do you say we investigate the case as students this time?"

Selina was surprised. "What?"

It wasn't a problem for Luke, but Selina didn't look like a high school student, even if she was still young

Luke nodded. "You're saying that you're too old for that, right? Eh, fine. You can pretend to be a new teacher trying to get a job here." Luke realized that he had been on the brink of death just now.

Selina finally shifted her furious gaze away and nodded in satisfaction. "That's right. I can apply to be a PE teacher."

Luke was caught by surprise. "What?"

Selina said, "I can teach Brazilian jiu-jitsu. It's very similar to women's self-defense skills anyway."

Luke said, "Then let's hope that we can successfully get those identities."

They drove to the local police department but didn't go in. Instead, Luke called Polk, the local sheriff, who came out to meet them.

Polk was a bald man who was around fifty years old. They met in the woods behind the police department and introduced themselves, before Luke explained his plan.

Polk frowned. "Are you sure that'll work?"

"The murders were obviously committed by someone who lives in this town and is familiar with the environment. If we investigate the case outright, they'll evade us just like how they're avoiding you, Sheriff Polk," said Luke with a smile.

Pausing for a moment, he continued, "You can tell the school headmaster that we'll be entering the school as a student and an intern teacher, but keep our real identities to yourself, and just say that we're distant relatives."

Polk was deep in thought. "Are you sure about this?"

Luke chuckled. "Sheriff Polk, thank you for your full support, but it's likely we'll alert the criminal and they might flee if our identities are made known."

Thinking for a moment, Polk realized what Luke meant.

By investigating the case in disguise, they would draw less attention and wouldn't embarrass the local police department.

If they investigated the case openly as help brought in from elsewhere, Polk would be put in an awkward position as the sheriff.

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Chapter 241 The Right Way to Call a Sister

Wouldn't it be proof of the local department's incompetence under Polk's lead if he had to ask for reinforcements when he couldn't solve the case? Shouldn't he just retire?

Thinking that, Polk nodded and said, "Let's do that. I'll call Headmaster Sibury and tell him that you're my niece and nephew who just moved here, and have him show you around the school. How does that sound?"

Luke and Selina both agreed to the plan and thanked him again.

It wasn't unusual for people new to a place to check out the school environment first before deciding whether or not to study there.

They didn't even have to change their names. After all, it was normal for cousins to have different last names.

While Polk made the call, Selina chuckled at Luke. "You should call me sister now."

Luke said, "Okay, elder sister!"

Selina glared at him angrily. "Don't stress the elder part, alright?"

"You got it, elder sister! That's not a problem, elder sister!" Luke continued trying to get himself killed.

Selina was just about to lunge at Luke, when Polk turned around and said, "Alright. Luke, Selina, you can go straight to Headmaster Sibury. He'll make the arrangements for you."

Selina could only stop mid-attack. They thanked Polk and left.

They would drop by Polk's place that night to read the case files and learn relevant information in order to reinforce their cover stories.

They successfully entered the school as Polk's niece and nephew.

Several news vans were at the school too, with reporters talking and pointing excitedly. Luke could only shake his head.

This case was really blowing up.

When they found Headmaster Sibury, it was clear that the murder case was giving the man a headache too, since both the victims and the suspect were students from his school.

It was a nightmare.

If Polk hadn't personally asked him to take care of his niece and nephew, Sibury wouldn't have met them at all.

After hearing what they wanted to do, Sibury didn't hesitate and agreed to their request.

They were only here to check out the environment for now, so temporary ID cards would be enough for the both of them.

Sibury summoned his secretary and had Luke and Selina go with her.

They left the secretary half an hour later, ID cards in hand. Hanging the cards around their necks, they began to wander around the school.

They weren't designated any class in particular.

Selina didn't have to teach; all she had to do was observe the other teachers.

It was the same for Luke. He was free to attend any of the twelfth grade classes,

Nobody cared that they were roaming the school, as long as they showed their temporary ID cards.

Selina was very satisfied. "Wow, darling, you're really smart. These identities truly are a convenient way of looking around without raising suspicion."

Luke said, "What do you want?" Usually, Selina only called him darling when she wanted something.

Selina said, "Isn't it time for lunch?"

Luke realized that it was indeed noon.

As it happened, the bell suddenly rang, and students started to flood out of the teaching building. Gradually, the crowd petered out into groups of three to five and then lone individuals.

Looking at the teaching building, Luke suddenly nodded. "Let's go. We'll eat there."

They fetched a box from their car, which contained plenty of delicious food.

When Luke and Selina left Los Angeles, they made a pit stop at home and packed up the leftovers from last night for lunch.

They sat down near a fountain right across from the teaching building and enjoyed the food.

The fountain was twenty meters away from the building, and the sunlight at noon was quite warm.

Around the fountain were green trees and early blossoms as well as chirping birds, which added to the peaceful atmosphere.

Luke and Selina took off their coats. They didn't look very much different from the students around them.

Not everybody went home for lunch.

Many students, as well as some lazy teachers and their family members, were having lunch and chatting in various spots around the school.

A dozen people or so sat down near the fountain.

The fountain was quite huge, and four students – two guys and two girls – were talking on Luke's left.

Three of them seemed relaxed, but one girl didn't look very happy.

Selina noticed their conversation as well. She gave Luke a questioning look, but he shook his head slightly.

There was no need to go over and ask them questions; they could learn a lot through eavesdropping.

These four seemed to be close friends, since they talked about everything.

A moment later, Selina glanced at Luke again, clearly asking how he knew that they would discuss the case here.

Luke shrugged, hinting that it didn't matter.

The gloomy girl was none other than Sandra Prescott, who had survived a crisis and gotten her boyfriend Billy arrested by the police.

Also, it was her testimony a year ago that sent Cotton, the other suspect, to jail, and the victim then was her mother.

That girl was the center of the incident this time.

As for the dead victims, even though Cathy was Deputy Director Condra's niece, it appeared that they were just the prelude to the slaughter.

Luke didn't go to question Cathy's parents, because the local police would've already done so in their search for leads.

His investigation relied primarily not on words, but on more concrete things like smell.

For Luke, the last thing he was afraid of was a serial killer on a murder spree, since they couldn't hide their smell from his Sharp Nose.

When his Strength reached 40, his physical traits were significantly enhanced too, along with his Sharp Nose, which was far more sensitive and accurate than before.

There was no way that the serial killer would be able to hide from him.

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Chapter 242 Next Victim and Women's Self-Defense

Compared with the Diorama Killer who could almost be called an artist, this killer in Woodsburg was brutal and could hardly be called elegant.

After a rough overview of the case, Luke had noticed a lot of mistakes that this killer had made.

The horrible thing about serial killers was their stealthy and unexpected behavior.

Once they were found out, however, all it would take was a couple of shots from a police officer to take them down.

Luke remembered what all four students smelled like, but he paid special attention to the girl who was cuddling with her boyfriend.

The girl was fair and quite pretty. More importantly, she was wearing a thin gray sweater, the number "10" on it stretched out by her breasts.

She was certainly big for a high school student, and much prettier than Sandra at least.

Selina leaned in close suspiciously. "Why are you staring at that number 10?"

Luke nodded solemnly. "I think she's going to be the next victim."

"Why?" asked Selina curiously.

Luke said, "Because she has huge boobs and is making out with her boyfriend in public. This is the sort of character who usually dies in the first thirty minutes of a horror film."

Selina couldn't help but look at her own breasts and feel that she was in danger too, although she didn't have a boyfriend yet.

Luke chuckled when he saw her face. "Don't worry, the killer only targets residents of this town, even if your boobs are much more magnificent than hers."

Selina subconsciously lifted her chin and felt proud at Luke's compliment.

Suddenly, two masked men ran out of the teaching building after a few shrieking girls.

Luke glanced at them, but didn't move at all.

Selina, however, got up and charged over.

Luke opened his mouth, but didn't say anything in the end.

This actually wasn't a bad thing. A detective would inevitably come up against complicated situations, and he couldn't be there for her every time.

Selina wasn't wrong to react that way at all.

As for Luke, however, his Sharp Nose and keen eyes had already told him that it was a prank.

As the girls shrieked and ran, Selina stopped the two masked men behind them.

She threw one of the men to the ground, and grabbed the hands of the other.

She didn't look very happy, because she had noticed that their daggers didn't look like metal when she got closer.

Thus, she didn't draw her gun or use her full strength.

Selina was lost for words when she took the daggers off the men – they were just rubber toys.

She then took off the masks of these two men, revealing the faces of two boys who were probably in their junior year.

Selina asked, "What are you doing? Do you want to get carted off to the police station?"

The boy whose hands were locked together stammered, "We – we were just having fun."

Selina said coldly, "Fun? You mean you want to be identified as murder suspects, right? Do you? If you do, I can bring a reporter over and have them broadcast your face to the entire country."

This boy was clearly scared, but the one whom she had tackled earlier asked in surprise, "Really? I can be famous? That sounds awesome!"

"Yes, and everybody will remember you as the biggest high school moron in America." Selina scoffed at the young man. "With any luck, people will forget you by the time you get to college. Oh, I forgot. No college will take in someone as stupid as you, and you'll stay here as the village idiot forever."

Both boys lowered their heads, unable to say anything to this hot woman who could rip them to shreds with both her tongue and her prowess.

They were impressed by how Selina had taken them down.

And it wasn't just them; a lot of other students were also looking at Selina with bright eyes.

It was mostly because she had been very awe-inspiring when she attacked and berated the boys, but also because she was gorgeous!

The boyfriend of the number 10 girl, who had been making out with her, ran over to watch the show.

The number 10 girl suddenly looked at Luke and walked over to him. "Hi, is she your girlfriend?" She nodded at Selina.

Luke shook his head with a smile. "No, she's my cousin."

Dazzled by the smile, the number 10 girl suddenly forgot what she wanted to say.

Looking at her face, Luke could only say, "IS there anything I can help you with?"

The number 10 girl came back to herself. "Ah, I – I was only wondering why your cousin is so good. Is that kung fu?"

Luke thought for a moment, then shook his head. "Not exactly. It's sort of… a women's self-defense technique."

Gracie, the king of Brazilian jiu-jitsu, would've exploded with fury if he heard how Luke downplayed the art.

The number 10 girl was interested. "This women's self-defense technique is so awesome?"

Taking down two boys in three seconds was definitely impressive for a high school girl.

Luke chuckled. "You can do the same after a long period of training."

Though, I don't think you can, with those breasts. Luke secretly chuckled.

Big breasts could be a burden in any kind of physical exercise.

Even if a woman could bear the burden, it was still possible for their opponent to use it to their own advantage.

The number 10 girl had no idea what Luke was thinking, but she vaguely sensed that the handsome boy was looking at her breasts.

She wasn't shy, and instead, was rather happy. "Can you do this self-defense?"

Luke said, "…I'm sorry, but I'm a man, and I'm not very good at women's self-defense." He didn't really mean it.

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Chapter 243 We're Different

It was actually Luke who had taught Selina Gracie's "women's self-defense."

"I don't think you're a student here, are you?" asked the number 10 girl.

Luke said, "Well, I'm only here today to check out the place. Chances are that I'll be finishing the last year of high school here."

The number 10 girl grew interested. "Oh, really? That's fantastic!"

Luke didn't know what to say. Why are you so happy when you already have a boyfriend?

On the other side, Selina had returned.

Sibury had taken away the boys who had been having fun chasing the girls, and the two unlucky idiots would probably be kicked out of school.

The number 10 girl's boyfriend also came back. Noticing that his girlfriend was talking to an unfamiliar boy, he glared at Luke angrily. "What are you doing? Stay away from my girlfriend."

Luke smiled and pointed behind him.

The boy said angrily, "What are you pointing at? Just talk! Are you dumb?"

Luke said, "I'm trying to say that you're blocking my cousin's way."

The boy turned around and saw Selina. His face immediately changed. "Hi, nice to meet you. May I know your name?"

"No." The boy glared at Luke, who had been the one to refuse.

Luke chuckled. "Boy, stay away from my cousin."

Stunned, the boy felt that something wasn't right. In the end, he said, "I was talking to your cousin; it's none of your business."

Luke said, "I was talking to your girlfriend; it's none of your business."

The boy roared, "How can a girlfriend and cousin be the same?"

"How can someone with a girlfriend and someone without a girlfriend be the same?" Luke smiled.

The boy was confused. "What's that supposed to mean?"

Luke said, "It means that I'm speaking for my cousin, who's reluctant to hurt the feelings of little boys."

The boy turned around, only to see Selina smiling silently.

He was immediately enraged. "You think you're awesome? You're just two id-"

Selina suddenly stepped forward and grabbed his neck. "Language, kid. Shut up and go home, if your words are as unpleasant as your fart, got it?"

The boy turned red, not because of the humiliation, but because Selina was almost suffocating him.

Seeing the fear in his eyes, Selina loosened her grip. "Alright, go away, but don't talk to me anymore."

She casually pushed the boy away and wiped her hands with sanitizer, as if they were contaminated.

The boy gritted his teeth and left.

The number 10 girl, however, didn't move, and looked at Selina in admiration. She was truly awed by Selina this time.

Ten meters away, the boy noticed that his girlfriend wasn't following him. He roared, "Tatum, we're over! Over!"

The number 10 girl was dumbfounded. "What's wrong with you?" She stopped looking at Selina and hurriedly chased after her boyfriend.

Selina finally sat down. "What were you doing? You hit on a high school girl and I had to get rid of her boyfriend for you?"

Luke said casually, "It's only been half a year since I graduated high school. I'm not even nineteen yet."

Selina choked. Indeed, it wasn't strange for an eighteen-year-old boy to pursue a girl only one or two years younger than him.

They finished the rest of their lunch in peace.

They roamed the school again that afternoon and visited the crime scenes after that, which included the spot where Deputy Director Condra's niece was killed as well as Sandra's home.

They were only familiarizing themselves with the environment, and didn't expect to find any leads, partly because the case happened three days ago, and partly because scant evidence had been left behind at the crime scenes.

Luke didn't find anything from Sandra with his Sharp Nose either, though the suspect who had assaulted her was her boyfriend Billy.

Billy had gone to see Sandra the night of the crime, which was why he was suspected of being the serial killer. However, there wasn't enough of his smell for Luke to determine that he was the criminal.

It gradually turned dark while they were checking out the town, and the residents quickly and solemnly went on their way.

Housewives returned home with their babies, and children playing in the yard were summoned back to the house.

Most women in places like bars also paid their bills and went home.

Luke could only shake his head. "This is unbelievable."

He had never seen a situation like this, where one murderer could make the people of an entire town hide in fear, which seemed rather absurd.

That was precisely the panic that a serial killer could cause.

After all, nobody could be sure that they wouldn't be the next victim.

They certainly valued their own lives more than leisure.

Polk also said that a curfew had been implemented until the serial killer was found.

But Luke wasn't very hopeful.

The residents would only tolerate the curfew for half a month at most. If it was prolonged, chances were that Polk would lose his position as sheriff.

That explained why Polk was friendly to Luke and Selina. He was too stressed to care about reputation any longer.

That night, Luke and Selina went to Polk's home.

Polk took them to his study. Although nobody except his wife was at home, he remembered what Luke said about the importance of confidentiality.

While Luke and Selina browsed the case files, Polk opened the window and lit a cigarette.

But he coughed after smoking for a short while.

Luke glanced at him and said, "Sheriff Polk, it's been a long time since you smoked, hasn't it?!

Polk said with a bitter smile, "Call me Polk. I quit smoking, but the last few days…"

Luke thought for a moment, then said, "How about this? While Selina reads the files here, you can show me what you have at the police station."

Polk asked, "Are you a forensic scientist?"

Luke provided validation without blinking an eye. "My uncle is an administrator at the forensics center in Las Vegas."

Polk's eyes bulged. "Really?"

Luke spread his hands. "I wouldn't have become a police officer so quickly if it wasn't for the guidance of my family elders."

He wasn't lying. If Robert hadn't pulled strings for him, Luke wouldn't even have been able to become a security officer.

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Chapter 244 Billy's Acquittal

Polk was enlightened.

Like most police officers who saw Luke for the first time, he had been wondering why the Major Crimes Division had taken in such a young guy.

It made perfect sense after Luke's explanation.

An administrator at the forensics center in Las Vegas would definitely be one of the greatest technicians nationwide.

It definitely wasn't a problem for a professional like that to use his social connections to get his nephew into a police department as a detective.

Without further ado, Polk led Luke to the police department.

A lot of officers were still on the clock.

There were tens of thousands of people in this town, and naturally, there were a lot more officers in the police department here than in small towns like Shackelford.

Some greeted Polk when they saw him come in with a stranger, while some were too busy to pay attention to them.

Polk casually drove everybody away and took Luke to the evidence locker. He opened a few boxes that contained the evidence sealed in bags.

Luke asked, "Do you have gloves here?"

Polk shook his head. "I can get you a pair from outside."

Luke declined. "Forget it. That'll draw too much attention." As he talked, he opened the evidence bags with a pen that he had on him.

He didn't touch the evidence with his hand, but only raised and turned the items with the pen.

Polk sweated as he watched, impressed by Luke's attention to detail and fully convinced that the boy had an uncle who worked at the Las Vega forensics center.

Luke put most of the evidence back shortly after examining them, but he spent five minutes scrutinizing the clothes of Cathy Becker and Steven Earls, the victims.

Then, it was a mask, found outside Sandra's house and supposedly dropped by the criminal. Luke observed it for about a minute.

During his observation, he closed his eyes now and then, as if he were contemplating something

Polk grew curious. Why do you keep your eyes closed when you're examining the evidence?

But Luke didn't explain, and Polk was too shy to ask.

After fifteen minutes or so, Luke nodded. "This is enough." He quickly sealed the bags and put them back into the boxes.

Polk then placed the boxes back on the shelves.

When they left the evidence locker and stepped out into the hall, someone called out to Polk.

Polk took a look and asked, "Dewey, what's

up?"

Dewey was a young officer with a mustache, who was around 25 years old.

He looked at Luke and hesitated, a discomfited expression on his face.

Polk turned around and signaled subtly to Luke, who took the hint. "Uncle Polk, I'll wait for you outside."

Polk nodded. "Okay. I'll take you home in a bit."

After ten minutes, Polk came out with a dark face.

They talked in the police car parked outside the entrance, and Polk whispered, "The killer just made a threatening call to Sandra, who's staying at Dewey's place for the time being."

Luke was stunned. "What?"

Then, he realized what that meant. "Does that mean Billy is innocent?"

Polk nodded and fumed.

The biggest suspect was innocent. They had to start all over again with this case.

That certainly wasn't great news.

Thinking quickly, Luke nodded and said, "Polk, you go do what you need to do. I'll go back myself, and Selina and I will leave after we're done reading the files."

Polk waved his hand impatiently. "Since we're pretending that you're family, it wouldn't make sense for you to live outside. I have a couple of empty rooms at my place; Beverly can get them ready for the both of you."

Luke didn't turn him down. "Okay, thanks, Polk."

Polk nodded and drove him to his house. After speaking to Beverly, his wife, for a moment, he left again in his car.

Beverly was the typical housewife, slightly plump and naggy, but overall a nice person.

She greeted Luke with a smile and left to get the rooms ready for them.

After Luke closed the door, Selina put the case files down and asked lazily, "Did you find anything?"

Luke said, "Polk just received word: the killer made a threatening call to Sandra."

Selina was surprised. "Huh? Billy isn't the killer?"

Luke chuckled. "Don't jump to any conclusions yet. Many serial killers have accomplices."

Selina nodded, deep in thought.

Luke continued, "So, it's a good thing if Billy is turned loose."

Selina considered for a moment and ventured, "Are you saying that he'll commit another crime?"

Luke said, "Why else would he have his accomplice make the call to justify his innocence so quickly?"

Selina was shocked. "It's really him?"

Recalling his findings in the evidence locker, Luke nodded. "Very likely, but he probably has a partner who helped him."

Selina asked, "Who is it?"

Luke said with a smile, "You've already met him."

Frowning, Selina thought for a long while, but shook her head. "I can't think of anyone. We met a lot of people today."

Luke said, "Hint: we had a minor conflict with him today."

Selina immediately recalled the incident. "You mean that number 10 girl's boyfriend?".

Luke nodded. "Yes, but I don't have any proof yet. We'll have to watch out for their next performance."

Other people might've asked Luke why he suspected it was the number 10 girl's boyfriend, but Selina knew that Luke had his personal reasons for keeping things close to his chest. Naturally, she didn't dig, and just continued with the investigation from that point.

She frowned. "I don't have Stu's files, but Billy's from a rich family and has never been mistreated. Why would they kill people in such a horrible way when they're only high school students?"

Luke said, "Do you remember what Polk said?"

Selina asked, "What are you talking about?"

"I would've sworn up and down that he wasn't the killer if this was twenty years ago, but kids nowadays… who knows?" Luke casually repeated Polk's words.

Selina fell silent.

It was already a well-acknowledged fact that kids were maturing faster and faster in an age of information technology.

So, it wasn't unusual at all for Billy and the number 10 girl's boyfriend to do something as insane as this.

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Chapter 245 Party Invitation

America ushered in an age of affluence ahead of many countries in the world. Many people didn't need to work too hard to live nowadays, so thrill seekers weren't unusual.

After telling Selina his findings, Luke asked Selina, "What about you? Did you find anything suspicious?"

"With what you just told me, I do have something suspicious. For example, the details of the murder of Sandra's mother a year ago are worth reviewing." Sandra patted the case file in her hand.

Flipping to a particular page, she said, "Here in Sandra's testimony, she claimed that she saw Cotton Whirry running away from her house at 10 pm. Her exact words are: 'I saw the killer escape through my bedroom window.' That was why Cotton became a suspect. What do you think?"

Luke thought for a moment and said, "Sandra's room is in a corner of the house, so maybe she only saw his back? Also, it was late at night."

Selina shrugged and said, "That's right. When the police investigated a year ago, they found a coat stained with her mother's blood in Cotton's house, but Cotton was drunk when he was discovered, and couldn't tell them what he had done at all."

Mind whirling, Luke said, "Let's go for a walk."

Selina asked, "What are you going to do?"

Luke chuckled. "They have tricks, but I have high tech."

Selina was confused. "Huh?"

They talked to Beverly and left the house.

Slightly worried, Beverly called Polk after they drove away, but Polk simply said, "Got it. Don't worry about them. They know what they're doing."

Luke's plan very simple.

Based on the case files that Selina had read, and after a call to Polk, they found out where Bily lived and headed over.

Then, they went to Stu's house. He was the number 10 girl's boyfriend, as well as the guy who had argued with Luke earlier.

Luke hid quite a few cameras in the trees around both houses and made sure that there weren't any blind spots.

He then installed two signal boosters in a couple of inconspicuous spots nearby so that he would be able to receive the camera feed in most parts of town.

The cameras wouldn't be on all the time. Instead, they turn on automatically at night, and the batteries would last three nights.

Luke believed that was enough. He didn't think the two high school students were very patient.

After everything was done, they drove back to Polk's and said goodnight to Beverly before they retired to their respective rooms.

Luke read the files on gangs in L.A. until four in the morning, before finally going to bed.

The next day was also warm and sunny.

Luke and Selina went to school, but before they could enter, they heard a broadcast: "School will be suspended for a week because of security risks. Please stay at home and do not go out, for your own safety."

Ecstatic, the students exploded with cheers, applause and loud whistles.

Selina and Luke looked at each other in bewilderment.

A moment later, Selina turned around and asked gloomily, "Pretending to be a student and teacher? Secret investigation?"

While Selina and Luke wondered what they were going to do, a young man in a police uniform came out of the building with two girls.

One of the girls was excited to see Luke. "Ah, it's you!"

The officer was also stunned for a moment. "You're… the kid with Polk, right?"

Luke smiled and said, "Nice to meet you, Dewey. I'm Luke, this is my cousin Selina. May I know the name of this gorgeous girl here?"

The girl was none other than the one with the number 10 sweater.

She couldn't be happier. "I'm Tatum. I'm Dewey's sister."

Luke chuckled. "It's a pleasure to meet you, Tatum."

Mind whirling, Tatum said, "Right, there's a party at Stu's tonight. Would you like to come?"

Luke and Selina were both lost for words. Holding a party when the entire town was intimidated by a serial killer? How… exciting.

Luke nodded with a smile. "Alright, we'll be there tonight."

Tatum said, "Do you want me to show you the way?"

Luke said, "It's fine. You better keep your friend company." He looked at Sandra, who was the other girl with Dewey.

Tatum nodded regretfully. "Alright. If you don't know the way, just ask Dewey to take you there."

What a shame. Tatum had been hoping for a chance to talk to this handsome boy.

Watching them leave, Selina warned Luke, "Don't be hasty. She asked you to look for her later tonight, didn't she?"

Luke said, "You didn't notice where the party is going to be held? I'm thinking about work, not sex, alright?"

Recalling what Tatum said, Selina immediately got it. "You're saying that Stu is up to something at his place?"

"If you're going to hold a party at someone else's place, you definitely need to ask for their permission first, right?" said Luke.

Selina nodded and said. "So, tonight…"

Luke grinned. "There are two mini-cams in the car. Let's go to the party tonight. Chances are we'll catch some interesting pictures."

Selina said, "You sure it's not going to be the kind of interesting pictures you took with Elena?"

Luke said, "Feel free to take those sorts of shots if you want, but I'm going to be focusing on the killer. I have to say that a certain someone is getting dirtier and dirtier."

Selina gnashed her teeth. "Do you really not know who is the dirtier one between the both of us?"

Luke: "Hehe."

"It's still the morning. What should we do for the rest of the day?" asked Selina.

Luke said, "Let's just keep an eye on those two brash young men."

Cracking a case usually wasn't half as exciting as most people thought.

It wasn't unusual for two detectives to sleep and eat in their car for days while monitoring a suspect.

Luke hardly ever did this sort of thing. Most of the time, he would rather go out and look for leads.

Selina, on the other hand, had tailed a lot of suspects when she worked with Donald, so she was quite familiar with the routine.

It was a peaceful and boring morning.

Thanks to the signal boosters that Luke installed, the two of them could still roam the town in their car.

They had the local special at a restaurant at noon. The food didn't taste bad; Selina didn't complain, at least.

When it was slightly past five, Selina suddenly said, "Huh? Is Billy out?"

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Chapter 246 Mr. Billy's Little Tails

Luke's eyes immediately zeroed in on the makeshift tablet in Selina's hand. On screen, Billy was slipping out the back door in a hooded shirt with a bag on his back.

Luke smiled the moment he saw Billy. "He can't be up to anything good dressed like that."

Selina said, "Hoodies are common, alright? How can you be sure that he's up to something?"

Luke hesitated and said, "Well, do you usually lower your head to cover your face when you're doing a good deed?"

Selina said, "…That makes sense."

Luckily, Luke got away with that explanation without revealing his own vigilante clothing habits!

They followed Billy some way behind him, and made sure that they were on the right track.

A moment later, Billy led them to… the school.

What was his plan?

School was suspended, and there were only guards on campus now.

Frowning for a moment, Luke suddenly thought of something. "Do we have Headmaster Sibury's number?"

Selina said, "Yes, I have his card."

Luke said, "Call him and ask him if anyone else is at school."

After the headmaster picked up the phone, Selina said, "Huh? No students and no teachers? Oh, thank you…"

Luke suddenly interjected, "Mr. Sibury, are you still at school?"

Sibury answered over the phone, "Yes, I'm just about done with work at school, and I'm on my way out."

Luke and Selina looked at each other, before Luke quickly got out and ran toward the school.

Selina said, "Are you still in your office? We'd like to consult you on something. Oh, okay. We'll be there soon."

Hanging up the phone, Selina shouted, "He's in his office!"

Luke waved his hand in acknowledgement as he rushed inside.

The school guard yelled, "Hey, what are you doing?"

Selina had run up by then, and she stopped the guard and showed him her temporary ID card. "I'm sorry. That's my cousin. He needs to ask Headmaster Sibury something, but Headmaster Sibury said that he was leaving, so my cousin was anxious. I'm sorry."

The guard's anger dissipated at the pretty girl's explanation; it had been a long time since a smile like that had been directed toward him.

Luke didn't run at full speed, because it was unnecessary.

Billy had only just entered the school. He couldn't go through the front doors or anywhere else that was covered by the surveillance cameras, so he couldn't be faster than Luke.

Luke rushed to the fifth floor a moment later without hiding the sound of his footsteps. He entered the headmaster's office without knocking. "Mr. Sibury, are you in there?"

As he spoke, he looked around the room and activated Sharp Nose.

Sibury wasn't here, and Luke detected Billy's scent downstairs.

The guy was probably looking for a way to climb the building.

Thinking for a bit, Luke called out even louder, "Mr. Sibury, are you here? There's something that my cousin and I need to talk to you about."

Billy immediately stopped moving when he heard Luke's voice in the headmaster's office.

There were two other people in the office? Billy hesitated, and then left, disappearing into the woods outside the building.

He didn't notice Luke angle a mirror on one side of the window to watch him leave.

Suddenly, someone opened a door. "Ah, you're the kid from Polk's family, right?"

Luke quickly withdrew the mirror and smiled. "Yes, I'm Luke. Are you getting off work, Mr. Sibury? Let's talk while we walk. You know, this suspension might affect our future arrangements, so we wanted to ask you for your opinion."

Sibury was slightly puzzled, but it was true that he was heading out; he had only gone to the bathroom just then.

Hearing what Luke said, he picked up his suitcase and said, "That is an unfortunate coincidence, and I can't do anything about it."

After all, they were Polk's family, and he couldn't just say that he only worked office hours.

They met Selina on the way, and chatted together as they left the building.

In the end, they watched Sibury get into his car, and followed him to make sure he got home, before they finally turned around and drove to Stu's house for the party tonight.

Selina asked on the way, "Did Billy really go after Sibury?"

Luke said, "He was right outside the building when I arrived, and Sibury was the only person inside. He didn't slip away until I called for Sibury out loud."

Selina suddenly hesitated. "But since we're here, we can't just watch and let them kill anyone else, can we? How are we going to link them to the previous cases?"

Luke shrugged. "We can help the victims."

Selina was blank. "Huh?"

Luke said, "For example, we can give them a taser in case of danger. How those two young men are injured after that isn't our problem."

Selina was speechless. "We can do that?" She had never done anything like that when she worked with Donald before.

In fact, neither had Luke.

Most of the time, he stealthily took care of the criminals himself without getting the victims involved at all.

As they talked, they soon reached Stu's house.

Like most high school parties, the house was crowded with teenagers who were laughing and dancing

As the host, Stu was wandering the house in crimson pajamas.

Selina snorted. "Is that guy really Billy's accomplice?"

Billy looked intimidating but could still be described as handsome. Stu, on the other hand, really did seem to be a brainless idiot.

Luke chuckled. "I think he's as crazy as he looks."

They hid in the woods some distance away from the house. Selina kept an eye on the surveillance cameras, and Luke observed the surroundings.

When it turned completely dark, Luke suddenly said, "Someone's here."

An old Ford showed up and drove past them on the road and into the woods some thirty meters away.

The spot that Luke and Selina were hiding in was quite dense, and it was impossible to see the car amidst the trees and bushes.

So, the driver of the car didn't notice Luke or Selina.

Luke smelled someone familiar through the car's half-open window.

He gestured at Selina to stay quiet, before he slipped out of their car.

He reached the unfamiliar vehicle in less than ten seconds.

Looking at the two people in front of him, Luke grinned and said to himself, "Gotcha, Billy!" He raised the camera that he was holding

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Chapter 247 Family Reunion

Next to the Ford, Billy was dragging a trussed up middle-aged man over the ground. He said, "…Neil, your wife was a sl*t. You couldn't get her under control and just let her hook up with any man in town, until my mother caught her in bed with my father."

The middle-aged man called Neil moaned in fear, only to be punched in the stomach by Billy. "Shut up. It was precisely because you were useless at controlling your wife that my mother left home without so much as a letter for me. I became an orphan."

Neil gasped in pain.

"We saw your sl*tty wife again that night. She must've thought that she was Sharon Stone, winking at every man in the square and showing them some leg. So, we fulfilled her wish and got her in our car. Haha, she can continue being a sl*t in hell now." There was nothing but insanity on Billy's face.

Catching his breath, he continued, "Everything will end tonight. Tonight, I'm going to f*ck your daughter and make her as much of a sl*t as her mother. Then, I'll kill her. Haha, how does that sound? You happy? Relax, you'll go to hell along with your precious daughter. Your family will be reunited there."

Luke whistled inwardly. You tended to give away all your secrets when you talked to an enemy too much!

Billy had definitely been involved in the murder a year ago.

Listening to the crazy young man's monologue, Luke wasn't worried about Billy killing Neil anytime soon.

This Neil was Sandra's father and a potential suspect, who had been missing for half a month.

It seemed that Billy was up to something big tonight. He was also planning to blame it on Neil, because this man indeed would fit the bill as the murderer.

His wife was murdered on this exact day a year ago; it was practically a perfect excuse for a slaughter.

Luke quietly returned and told Selina what just happened. Selina was lost for words.

A moment later, she said, "So, we can at least put Billy in jail now?"

Luke nodded. "I think so. But you can never have too much evidence. Let's take action. You watch Stu and I'll follow Billy. Don't hesitate to shoot if you're in danger."

Selina said, "Got it."

Billy had already dragged Neil into the backyard of the house. Now that both suspects were in the house, Luke and Selina didn't need to watch the perimeter anymore.

They were about to slip in through the back door, when there were shrieks and a sudden burst of noise from the house, before a bunch of teenagers ran out and drove away.

Selina asked in a low voice, "What's going on? Should we follow them?"

Luke took a few deep breaths, then said, "No need – the stars of the show are still in the house. That might've only been a distraction."

According to his Sharp Nose, neither Billy nor Stu had left, and Billy was already in the house.

Luke and Selina quietly slipped inside.

It was easy to sneak into a house of partying teenagers.

As a lot of people had driven off just now, there weren't that many of them left in the house.

Selina quietly hid in a guest room on one side of the hallway. The messy bed inside suggested that someone had just had a lot of fun here.

She frowned. Teenagers were truly vigorous, and wouldn't hesitate to do it whenever they had the chance.

Through the half-open door, she observed the living room.

Everybody had their backs to her, and nobody had noticed her slipping inside.

A boy was watching a horror movie in the living room. Billy had just come in, and was on the second floor with Sandra.

Dewey was also here, but he was busy courting a mature and attractive woman. They were talking and giggling in a corner.

Luke, on the other hand, went to the garage at the back of the house.

In the garage, Tatum was confronting a man, and Luke could hear them through the dog door on the garage door.

"Oh, what do you want me to do? Pretend to be scared? Fine. Ah! I'm so scared! Someone help me!" said Tatum unconcernedly.

"Have you had enough fun? I'm here to grab a beer. Get out of the way." Tatum thought that the masked man in front of her was just one of her classmates messing around.

But she screamed the next moment.

Observing the situation inside with a tiny mirror, Luke saw that the man had cut her arm with a knife.

Thinking for a moment, he stuck his camera in through the dog door.

Then, he grabbed two iron balls.

In the garage, the masked man and Tatum struggled, but the man clearly wasn't taking it seriously, and wasn't in a hurry to kill Tatum.

Finally, Tatum grew frantic and threw the beer she was holding at the masked man's abdomen. The masked man doubled over in pain.

Then, she immediately threw a second bottle at him.

The masked man managed to raise his hand and prevent the bottle from breaking on his head.

Seizing the moment, Tatum ran out from where she had been trapped in a corner and tried to make a break for the door that led back into the house.

The masked man, however, waved his knife at her, forcing her to retreat.

Panicked, she searched for a way out, and suddenly rushed toward the dog door.

Luke was lost for words. This woman seemed to be underestimating how big her breasts and butt were. Did she really think that she could crawl out of the dog door?

The next moment, Tatum's head poke out of the opening, but half her magnificent breasts were stuck.

She struggled so hard that she didn't even notice that Luke was observing her in admiration.

Luke was quite dazzled by the way the girl's breasts bounced in her vehement struggles.

Then, the garage door started to go up, and Tatum looked at the top of the door in fear.

If the door went up like this, she would be squashed.

Because of her wriggling, she was now leaning on one side and couldn't exert any strength as she was lifted up by the garage door.

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Chapter 248 Rescue and Escape

Tatum couldn't help but scream, "No, help! Somebody help me!"

"Tatum!" The voice was the sweetest sound she had ever heard.

She managed to raise her head, and saw a somewhat familiar person not far away. "Huh? It's you? Help! Someone's trying to kill me!"

Luke immediately said, "What? Where is he?"

Tatum said, "He's right inside! He's opening this door to squash me! Help me!"

Luke said, "Don't be scared! I'm here to help!" Then, he slipped under the half-open garage door.

"Stop, you murderer!" Luke demanded inside.

Tatum was almost crying. "Just take him down already!" Can you really stop a murderer with words?

Luke yelled, "You almost killed her, and you aren't going to stop?"

Tatum watched the upper edge of the garage door get closer and closer in despair. She had already been lifted off her feet.

"Don't just shout! Do something!" she roared in desperation.

Luke, however, wasn't in a hurry at all.

If he used his full strength, he would easily tear off the garage door.

Enlightened, he suddenly took out a white object and said, "Right, check this out!"

Swoosh! Bam!

The garage door suddenly stopped moving.

In the next moment, Tatum felt someone grab her legs and support her butt. "Relax and raise your arms. I'll get you out."

Tatum hurriedly did as she was told.

With Luke's help, she easily fell back through the dog door.

Luke let go and Tatum landed on the ground. She subconsciously grabbed Luke's waist.

"It's alright now." Hearing the gentle male voice, she raised her head and saw a sunny smiling face.

"Thank you! Thank you!" She couldn't stop sobbing in gratitude.

She had almost died just now, after the masked man tormented her for so long, and she almost collapsed with despair.

"It's fine now. Let's see who this masked man is first," Luke said as he walked over to the man lying on the ground.

Tatum was too frightened by the masked man to look at him. "No. Let's call the police. Dewey! Dewey's in the living room!"

Luke ignored her. He went forward and unmasked the man. "I think he's your friend, right?"

Stunned, Tatum craned her head and cried, "That's impossible!"

She didn't notice that Luke was recording the man's face with the camera in his hand.

Okay, more evidence! Luke chuckled secretly.

Luke found a rope and tied the man up. While Tatum was still in a daze, he also handcuffed the man.

Then, he gave Tatum a shoulder to lean on as they returned to the first floor.

Before he left, he pressed a button to close the garage door, in case anyone else saw what was inside.

When they returned, there was still only one boy as well as Dewey and the mature lady in the living room.

Tatum was about to blurt out everything to Dewey, who was a police officer and her brother, but Luke stopped her. "Don't let everyone know what happened. You don't want to be under the spotlight, do you?"

Remembering how Sandra had been hounded by the media, Tatum immediately shut up.

Luke said, "Dewey, please come here. There's something I'd like to talk to you about."

Dewey regretfully said something to the lady before he walked over to Luke.

Luke stepped back and made a "keep quiet" gesture at Dewey in the hallway. Pointing at Tatum, he said, "Don't alert anyone else. Let's talk over there."

Seeing that Tatum was weeping in fear, Dewey grew anxious. "You…"

Luke grabbed him and covered his mouth. "Don't shout. That woman is a reporter, right? You want her to report everything here?"

Dewey couldn't say anything else. He thought that Luke had done something to his sister.

But after Luke told him what happened in the garage and his sister confirmed it, Dewey said in shock, "W- ugh…"

Luke pressed against his neck again and whispered, "Calm down, okay?"

Dewey turned red at the way Luke was suffocating him. He could only nod.

Luke said, "Call Polk and get him to bring some men here and make sure none of the reporters notice, especially not the one you brought here. Don't tell her anything."

Dewey could only nod. He took out his phone and made the call.

A moment later, Dewey was done. "Polk will be here in ten minutes. We…"

Luke said, "Let's go check the suspect first. I knocked him out with a baseball and tied him up."

The three of them went to the garage. Tatum stuck close to Luke, clinging to one of his arms.

Luke could only chuckle, as he sensed how certain enormous parts of her body were pressed up against him.

A moment later, they were looking at the empty garage. The clothes, the mask and the rope were there, and nothing else.

Dewey was speechless. "Where is he?"

Luke frowned. He took a sniff and his expression darkened even more – the man had escaped!

More importantly, how had he escaped? Luke didn't sense anything wrong!

He had tied the man up tightly and even handcuffed him. Also, he had been in the house just now. Could the man have escaped through the dog door too?

However, the scent in the air indicated otherwise.

There was no trace of his scent moving toward the dog door at all. It was almost like he had just vanished into thin air.

Suddenly, Selina shouted from upstairs, "Freeze!"

Stunned for a moment, Luke left Dewey and Tatum behind and ran up the stairs.

Dewey and Tatum just heard a swoosh, and Luke was gone.

Looking at each other in bewilderment, they could only follow Luke.

When Luke got to the second floor, his Sharp Nose picked up the intense smell of blood.

The next moment, he appeared behind Selina, who was aiming her gun at a man by the window.

A half-naked boy on the bed had been stabbed deep in the neck, and his blood was splattered everywhere in the room.

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Chapter 249 Disappearance of the Real Killer

Luke narrowed his eyes.

The boy on the bed was Billy.

The man standing by the window, on the other hand, was Stu.

Covered in blood, he held a knife to Sandra's neck.

The girl was naked and covered in blood, fear all over her face. Stu, however, glanced at Billy with a creepy smile. "Billy, your father is a b*tch too. You think he's anything good? He seduced my mother when Maureen left. Both of you should die!"

Stu was stunned for a moment when he saw Luke. He shouted, "You won't catch me again!" Then, he moved the knife, ready to cut Sandra's neck.

Luke sneered and pushed Selina's gun down before he flung his baseball again.

Bang!

Stu fell back against the window and Sandra pitched forward, free from him.

Luke chuckled. "Haven't I already caught you?"

But both he and Selina were shocked in the next second.

Stu's body on the ground suddenly twisted, like some sort of special effect, before he disappeared like smoke, leaving nothing but bloodstained clothes on the ground.

What exactly was going on?

Luke immediately realized that it was a super ability!

He didn't know how Stu had gotten this ability to vanish into thin air, but what he now knew for sure was that Stu couldn't be a normal person.

No wonder he had disappeared from the garage just now. He hadn't been rescued, but had simply resorted to using his super ability!

But Luke was slightly confused. Why hadn't the system acknowledged that he had defeated Stu when he knocked the guy out twice with a baseball?

Dewey and Tatum finally arrived. Luke let Dewey pass, but stopped Tatum. He then said, "Dewey, secure the area, then get your reporter girlfriend out of here."

Dewey said, "Okay. Wait… you…"

Luke was already nowhere to be seen, but Dewey still subconsciously asked, "Who are you to give me orders?"

Then, he noticed Selina, who was holding a gun. He drew out his own gun warily and said, "Drop your weapon."

Selina rolled her eyes and slowly put her gun back into the holster, before she flashed her badge and said, "LAPD."

Dewey didn't know what to say.

Taking Tatum upstairs and blocking the female reporter from doing the same, Luke whispered to Tatum about what happened.

Tatum found it hard to believe. "How… How is that possible? Stu…"

Luke covered her mouth and said in a low voice, "There's a reporter over there. Don't say anything."

Tatum got herself under control, but her tears continued to flow. "Stu… Is he really…"

Luke nodded. "Don't be too sad."

A few minutes later, Polk arrived in person with another two police cars, whose lights and sirens were all off.

Altogether six officers, including Polk, entered the house, and had everybody else leave.

Some of the officers would take them to the police department to take down their statements, while Polk would take care of the investigation here.

It was what Luke and Polk had agreed on earlier, so that his and Selina's identities wouldn't be exposed.

He certainly didn't want his face shown to all the criminals and serial killers in the country.

This was the best way to get things done without drawing any attention.

After all, Luke had accepted this case as a favor to Deputy Director Condra, and it wasn't like the Woodsburg police department could give him a promotion or something.

Half an hour later, Polk returned with a strange look on his face, and had Luke and Selina meet him in his office.

Closing the door, Polk said after a brief silence, "We received word that Stu went to Billy's place with his classmates just now. He wasn't at home."

Selina was deep in thought.

Polk said, "Are you sure that you saw Stu kill Billy?"

Luke asked, "What about Neil? He didn't see

Stu?"

Frowning, Polk nodded slowly. "Neil said that Billy kidnapped and imprisoned him. It was Billy who took him to Stu's that night, too. He didn't see Stu."

Luke said, "Just bring Stu in and interrogate him. You'll find out everything you need to know."

Polk shook his head. "But he's disappeared. Stu left right before we reached his location."

Luke and Selina looked at each other. Wasn't that around the time when Stu vanished into thin air in front of their eyes?

However, Luke and Selina kept mum.

Stu's disappearance was too bizarre for anyone else to believe. Chances were that Polk would suspect that something was wrong with their heads if they told him what happened.

Polk talked to them in private to verify the details.

Luke thought for a moment, then gave him the memory cards from his cameras. Of course, he had already copied the files on the cards to his laptop earlier.

"Polk, here's a video I shot. With this video, you can issue an arrest warrant even if Billy and Stu have alibis. Also, both Billy and Stu are involved in the murders," said Luke.

Polk was stunned. "Huh?"

Luke shrugged. "You know that evidence is of paramount importance for us. Since we don't have body cameras, I prepared my own."

Polk silently accepted the two memory cards from Luke.

If the video was useful, he would be able to close the case by claiming that Stu had killed all the victims, including Billy.

If Stu felt that he had been wronged, he could turn himself in so that the police could investigate him.

Polk, however, had the feeling that Stu wouldn't be showing his face ever again.

Putting the memory cards away safely, Polk said, "Another piece of news: Hanks, Billy's father, died in his own home in exactly the same way as the previous victims."

Thinking for a moment, Luke said, "Why did the students run out just now?"

Polk said, "Billy's neighbor's house caught fire, and they all went to watch the show. Then, they saw that the door to Billy's house was wide open, and there was blood on it. They called the police, and we found Hanks murdered."

Luke realized that had been none other than Stu's distraction.

It was impossible to tell whether Billy had been aware of it, since he was already dead.

Luke said, "Billy's father and Stu's mother probably had an affair. It's likely that Stu killed him."

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Chapter 250 Increased Training

Polk was stunned for a moment. "What?"

Luke pointed at the memory cards and said, "I recorded it. Stu said it himself. You can also ask Sandra."

Polk nodded. "Okay, but she's still in poor shape, and hasn't woken up from the sedative yet."

Luke said, "Alright, we'll see if we can find Stu. If we can, things will be a lot simpler."

Polk hesitated for a moment, then said, "You're free to shoot if you run into any danger. I guarantee that nobody will make trouble for you."

Luke nodded with a smile. "Thank you, Polk."

Seeing the two of them off, Polk sighed and shook his head in his office. "Do kids nowadays all solve their problems with murder?"

After a while, he began to issue orders and deploy officers to investigate Stu's whereabouts.

Luke and Selina drove southeast for a while, then stopped ten kilometers away from the town.

Selina asked, "Why did you stop?"

Luke shook his head and said, not without regret, "I don't think we can catch up to him. Let's go back."

It was pure wilderness outside town.

To make things worse, it was raining and the wind was strong, and Luke's Sharp Nose could only track Stu up to this point.

Surely this couldn't be the last they would see of Stu! Luke could only sigh inwardly.

Stu's ability was truly weird and baffling. Luke wondered why the system hadn't acknowledged Stu's defeat when Luke knocked the guy out twice. Naturally, Stu's ability wasn't on the list of abilities that Luke could learn.

Luke had a theory about that.

For example, how could Stu appear at Billy's house and in his own garage at the same time?

Other people might think that Stu had disguised himself somehow, but Luke would rather believe that it was Stu's ability.

Only a super ability could make two Stus appear at the same time and make them disappear into thin air.

The system judged that he hadn't defeated Stu precisely because of the unknown features of this super ability.

What a shame!

Selina looked at him and said, "Why do you have a constipated look on your face, like you have blue balls? Didn't you spend at least twelve hours with a woman just two days ago?"

Luke brooded for a moment, but perked up again. "No, I'm going to stay for a few days. Maybe Stu will come back for revenge!"

Selina was suspicious. "Is this about the high school student with the number 10 sweater?"

Luke said, "If that's what you think, there's nothing I can say."

Selina rolled her eyes. "As if you only just remembered her!"

Luke rubbed Selina's head with a smile, only for her to avoid his hand and scoff at him. He said, "If we go back so quickly when the case isn't over yet, Deputy Director Condra will think that we didn't work hard enough on it."

Three days later, Luke returned dejectedly.

Stu never came back. Like a bird that had escaped a cage, he was gone without a trace.

Neither the surveillance cameras Luke had installed nor his personal sweep with Sharp Nose picked up any signs of the man.

When their car finally left Woodsburg, Selina's eyes moved away from the rearview mirror.

She glanced at Luke. "Looks like you did a great job. Were Tatum's legs trembling after the two of you got back from your excursion?"

Luke said brazenly, "Yes, we visited a lot of places, mainly to try and draw Stu out."

Selina could only chuckle. "As if!"

Luke was thinking about other things.

After he returned, he would devote more time to training

Since his physical stats had increased significantly, he needed to better conceal his combat ability.

For example, Bob Munden, the man who held the world record for the fastest gun draw, could draw and fire his gun at an unbelievable speed. His record was 0.0175 seconds.

On top of that, he could still instantly hit two balloons two meters away from each other. He was completely inhuman.

With someone like that as an example, it wouldn't be too surreal for Luke to achieve a similar feat.

The mishap on this trip was a reminder.

He didn't lose, but he hadn't won, either.

This world wasn't an ordinary one, but had all kinds of unpredictable abilities.

It wasn't a big thing that he hadn't defeated Stu and acquired his unusual ability; there were so many more amazing abilities out there.

However, danger could pop up at any time, even in a small, seemingly peaceful town.

Not only did he have to work hard himself, he also needed to train Selina.

How much potential did humans have?

It was unlikely that a regular human being would ever be able to defeat Hulk or Thanos.

But take the Punisher, the dark antihero, for example. The Punisher had terrifying combat skills that allowed him to take down criminals who had super abilities.

He was the epitome of a human being who was at the peak in combat skills.

Nick Fury classified the Punisher as a level ten S.H.I.E.L.D. agent.

This level ten wasn't just a title, but was based on his genuine combat ability.

The other level ten agent in S.H.I.E.L.D was the Black Widow.

But the Black Widow was someone who had been enhanced with drugs, whereas the Punisher earned his level exclusively through his own battle skills.

Luke didn't really plan to turn Selina into another Punisher through sheer training.

Excluding Luke, Selina was probably in the top three in the Major Crimes Division in terms of fighting ability.

No more than five people in the Major Crimes Division had the courage to fire at ten armed bandits without chickening out.

Her physical stats were outstanding too, and her body fat ratio had always been under 20%.

After training with Luke all this time, she was as good as a professional boxer.

With her physical build, it wasn't impossible for her to become half as good as the Punisher in the future if she continued training.

And unlike the Punisher, Luke was confident he could find useful items for his family and friends to make it easier for them to protect themselves.

This was a world full of extraordinary powers.

He didn't want those important to him to be killed by random criminals – what good was enormous strength, when the flipside was loneliness?

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Chapter 251 I Can't Take It Anymore

Selina felt very uneasy when she noticed Luke's eyes.

It wasn't a lascivious expression, which wouldn't have been scary. Instead, it seemed like he was planning something dangerous.

Selina really knew Luke better and better now. She could tell from his eyes that he was up to something

Returning to the police department, they greeted Elsa first before reporting to Dustin.

Dustin frowned. "That Stu… is so good? Even you couldn't catch him?" He never thought that anyone would be able to escape from Luke once the latter found them.

Considering Luke's performance before, how strong must this Stu be?

Luke shook his head. "He's too vigilant. He ran off immediately when his plan failed. We kept an eye on his girlfriend, but he never returned."

Dustin nodded his head.

It was impossible to ask Luke and Selina to wait in town for Stu indefinitely, since they were among the most capable detectives under Dustin's command and were indispensable.

Luke thought for a moment before deciding to tell Dustin about Stu's weird ability. He said, "Boss, I didn't tell the local police department any of that."

Surprised, Dustin pondered for a moment, then patted Luke's shoulder. "I'll talk to Deputy Director Condra. Your efforts won't be ignored. Do you need a rest? You can come to work tomorrow."

Luke shook his head. "No need. It's still early. I'll see if Elsa needs us on anything. We'll start working in the afternoon."

Dustin nodded in satisfaction. "Alright, you can go now."

They left the office and went to Elsa.

Skipping the formalities, Elsa simply pointed at a case file on the table. "Martin and Roger have been working on this case. It's dangerous. As usual, you can work on it for a few days and give up if you don't make any progress."

Luke nodded. "Can we go now?"

After a brief hesitation, Elsa asked, "About your previous case, did you…"

Luke shrugged. "It depends. If the deputy director is reasonable, he'll feel that he owes us a favor."

Elsa frowned. "What happened?"

Luke said, "The killer is vigilant and unusual. He disappeared and never returned after his failure. We didn't catch him."

Pondering for a moment, Elsa asked, "What did Dustin say?"

"He said it was fine and he would report to the deputy director," said Luke.

Elsa was relieved, because Dustin could've only told Luke that when he thought that Luke and Selina had done a good job on the case.

"Okay, you're free for the rest of the day. You can start the investigation tomorrow," said Elsa.

Luke chuckled and said, "Thanks, boss."

Selina also bade Elsa farewell before leaving with Luke.

Elsa, on the other hand, wondered if she could apply for another group of detectives to work under her if the deputy director owed her a favor.

That way, her team would be stronger than before.

She wouldn't have accepted the case in Woodsburg if it didn't promise any returns.

ns.

If the case was solved, both she and Luke would be able to leave a good impression on Condra, which was why Elsa had taken the case.

After they left the police department, Luke drove home.

Selina said, "Did you mean it when you said that we would start the investigation this afternoon?"

Luke said, "Studying the case file and making preparations at home is part of the investigation."

Selina argued, "But haven't I always been the only one to study the case files?"

Luke said, "Excuse me, but I have to tell you a piece of good news."

Selina asked, "What?'

Luke said, "Starting from today, we're going to up our training. We'll be working on more aspects like shooting, boxing, driving, extreme parkour, swimming, running and more."

Selina: "…Are you crazy?"

Luke: "This is just to prevent you from putting on weight since you've been eating too much every day."

Selina: "…Will you still make food for me every day?"

Luke: "Of course!"

Selina: "Deal!"

Anything was negotiable as long as there was delicious food.

Besides, nobody else would be able to get Luke, probably the strongest man in the country, to help with their training.

What Selina didn't know was that Luke was only the strongest ordinary person, and that there were many extraordinary people out there.

Luke quickly made lunch after they returned home, and they ate twenty minutes later.

Selina then washed the dishes and cleaned up the kitchen as usual. Luke was never interested in doing that sort of thing.

Then, Selina studied the case file as she digested her food. They were supposed to start training in an hour.

Luke, on the other hand, went off to create and modify equipment in his garage workshop for himself and Selina, given how dangerous this world was.

At five in the afternoon, Luke dragged Selina out of the training room; she was in no better shape than a dead dog.

The girl declared, "No, let me go! I can't take it anymore!"

Luke chuckled. "No, we have to practice shooting today."

Selina said, "But I think I've reached my limit. It's hard for me to improve."

"As you say yourself, it's hard, but it's not impossible. So, stop resisting and start firing guns with me." Luke threw her into the bathroom and went to take a shower himself.

He was still vigorous, thanks to the stat points that he added to Strength.

Even on just two hours of sleep a day, he was still as energetic as ever. He was never exhausted or injured in training, because he always instantly recovered with Elementary Self-Healing

However, in order to create powerful equipment, he needed money first.

Thinking that, he called Bobby. "Hey, this is Luke. How's the negotiation coming along? Any progress?"

After a brief silence, Bobby said, "…It's the third time… they've turned down my request for a meeting… So…"

Luke wasn't surprised. "So, you're saying that you didn't make any progress?"

Bobby said truthfully, "I'm sorry, but that's right."

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Chapter 252 Unexpected Client and Unexpected Order

"Also, the receptionist at Google told me that our navigation system is hardly practical unless the user carries a monitor around with them, so our product is useless for them," Bobby reported honestly.

Luke laughed and said again, "Just keep trying to get in touch with Google and Easygo. That's all for now."

Hearing Luke end the call, Bobby was confused. That's all?

Luke pondered for a moment, then called Jenny. "Hello, is that Jenny? This is Luke. There are some files that I need you to look into. It's like this…"

A moment later, he hung up the phone and shook his head at the bathroom door that was still closed. "Fine. This is just the first day. The training was indeed too intense. I probably should give her more time to adapt."

He walked to the bathroom door and said, "Okay, this is all the training for today. We'll continue tomorrow."

He barely said the words when cheering burst out in the bathroom.

A moment later, Selina jumped out and said, "Don't go back on your word." She then lunged at the couch.

Seeing that Selina was about to fall asleep, Luke shook his head with a smile. "Your body can get some rest, but not your brain. Read the files. I don't want to waste too much time on this case."

Selina said, "You want to take more cases?"

Luke shook his head. "No, we need more time for training."

Selina turned listless. "I think it's better to focus more on cases."

Luke said, "What if we run into weird criminals like Stu again? He used his ability to escape, but what if he used it to attack you? You could easily be killed by people like that if you don't improve yourself."

Selina thought for a moment before she nodded helplessly. "Fine, I guarantee that I won't slack off, but I don't have as much stamina as you do!"

Luke didn't know what he could do about that. His vigor came from the system, and it wasn't something that could be given to someone else.

He could only see if he could make any equipment that could strengthen Selina and increase her chances of survival.

Just then, Luke's phone buzzed.

It wasn't his regular phone, but the fake one.

He checked his fake phone, only to be confused. Why did those two want to meet him?

Thinking for a moment, he typed something into his phone and sent off the message.

In an abandoned factory in Los Angeles, Damon gave his phone to Mindy. "What did he

say?"

Mindy glanced at the text and said, "He's agreeing to meet us, but he'll decide when and where."

Damon nodded. "He's as cautious as ever."

At that moment, Damon was still dressed like a homely man, and Mindy looked like a cute little girl in her pink shirt and jeans.

However, the guns and equipment in front of them weren't homely at all.

After dinner with Selina, Luke left in his car.

Selina didn't ask where he was going. She knew that Luke often went out at night, but she never asked about it.

Luke must have a good reason never to mention it, and she knew better than to ask.

Actually, she and Luke had a regular routine at home.

Outside that routine, whether Luke worked in the garage or quietly left the house, Selina would never ask.

It was a mutual understanding that they had formed after working together for so long.

Luke parked the car at a distance and walked a block that didn't have any surveillance cameras around it before he ended up in a parking lot. A moment later, an old Ford drove out.

Thirty minutes later, in an abandoned factory to the south of USC, he sent a text on his fake phone.

Ten minutes later, Damon and Mindy appeared.

Both of them had completely covered their faces, and were keeping some distance between them so that they wouldn't fall into a trap at the same time.

Luke walked out of a corner and said, "Nice to meet you. It's been a long time."

Both Damon and Mindy were lost for words.

Mindy couldn't help but remark, "We've known each other for a while. Do you have to be so cautious?"

Her complaint was understandable, since Luke wasn't using his own voice, but the familiar voice of a famous NBC anchor to speak to them.

Smiling, Luke quickly typed: "It's not that I don't trust you, but that I don't trust your ability to hide yourselves."

Both Damon and Mindy felt rather embarrassed.

They didn't know who the guy was, or if he was a guy at all, but the guy knew their identities and names.

Damon decided to skip past the embarrassment and simply asked, "We would like a set of your surveillance and anti-surveillance equipment."

Raising an eyebrow, Luke typed again: "Didn't I send you a set already?"

Damon and Mindy looked at each other and said, "That's not enough. We were almost caught last time."

Luke said, "I don't offer after-sales service."

Mindy snorted. "What a petty man."

Luke rolled his eyes. "Sorry, what did you

say?"

Mindy fell silent.

Damon chimed in, "She's just a child, don't mind her."

Damon said, "We'll pay you in full, including what we owe you from before, but we want the best equipment that you can offer in this order."

Luke said, "The best? That will cost a million dollars at least. Are you sure you need it?"

Damon hesitated and said, "Well… that's slightly over our budget."

Luke asked, "What's your budget?"

Damon said, "Half a million."

Luke said, "Well, it seems that you got yourself into quite some trouble this time." Otherwise, they wouldn't be paying so much money for equipment.

Seeing that he wasn't agreeing to the deal instantly, Mindy pouted. "Hey, you're not going to turn us down, are you?"

Luke wasn't angry, because the girl was too lovely. "Fine. For half a million, I can provide you a set of reasonably good equipment, but it'll take ten days."

Damon said, "Ten days? Okay, that's fine."

Luke said, "For your generosity, I can offer you some complimentary trinkets."

Mindy asked, "Huh? What trinkets?"

"See for yourself." Luke took out a laptop.

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Chapter 253 Everybody Loves Donuts

This laptop was sturdy but had lousy performance, so Luke only used it to demonstrate his products on his field trips.

Mindy nimbly caught the laptop that Luke threw at her and turned it on.

Damon didn't approach Luke. He raised the box in his hand and said, "Here's the payment. Seven hundred thousand dollars in total, including what we owe you from before." He opened the box and poured the cash out onto a table.

He was demonstrating that there weren't any tricks in the box, and that it wasn't padded with newspaper at the bottom.

After that, Damon joined his daughter, and they checked the laptop together.

Actually, the two parties trusted each other.

Damon knew that Luke was aware of his identity, but it had never leaked.

Luke, on the other hand, had worked with Damon before and knew that the man was trustworthy.

Luke casually examined the cash but didn't take it.

Damon found that weird. "What's wrong?"

Luke asked, "You must have covert suppliers who won't reveal your personal information, right?"

Damon said, "Yes, do you want to…"

Luke nodded. "Yes. I'll write you a list of materials later, and the money here will be my payment. If it isn't enough, I'll pay the rest."

Damon said, "Since you're helping us make the equipment, you don't have to…"

Luke raised his hand and interrupted him. "No, I don't think your money is enough. Also, you must be careful and don't let anyone track you. What I want is absolute security. It's okay if you can't purchase some of the materials on the list."

Damon was suspicious. "You're not trying to buy biochemical or nuclear materials, are you?"

Luke chuckled. "Of course not. I'm only afraid that you might be too careless. I recognized you before after just a quick glimpse of you."

Damon was lost for words. Will you let it go already?

Mindy's eyes glowed as she looked at the equipment displayed on the laptop. "You call these trinkets? They're so cool. I can use them to catch anyone."

Luke looked at the girl's legs. You can't catch anyone right now only because your legs are too short.

Realizing what Luke was looking at, Mindy said angrily, "I'm only a child. I'll be much taller later."

Luke was silent, but he thought to himself, It's fine if you can't grow taller, but please don't grow fat.

He would hate seeing the girl's cute looks destroyed by fat.

After negotiating for a moment, Luke wrote a list on his laptop and gave it to Damon. "This is the list. Get the raw materials to me in three days, so that I can assemble what you need. I'm leaving. Right, remember not to expose yourselves."

Damon and Mindy were speechless. Why are you still talking about that? You've mentioned it three times already in this meeting.

Satisfied, Luke returned home after teasing Damon and Mindy yet again.

He was very pleased with the deal.

It would've been tricky for him to purchase the raw materials himself, and he would have to waste a lot of time disguising himself each time.

He had little patience to spare to purchase the assortment of items that he needed.

Now that Damon was running the errand for him, Luke wouldn't be affected even if Damon's purchases were found out.

Before their meeting, he had examined the environment and confirmed that it wasn't a trap.

Like he said, it wasn't that he didn't trust Damon; he was just afraid of someone tracking him down by following Damon.

There were people with super abilities in this world, after all.

Selina was still reading the case file when Luke returned home. Seeing Luke, she dropped the file and yawned. "I'm tired. I'm going to bed."

Luke nodded. "Do you want me to take you to your bed?"

Out of his expectations, Selina nodded. "Yes."

Luke was speechless, but eventually, he carried her to her bed. It was unnecessary to take off her clothes now since she was only wearing her pajamas.

Taking a shower and making a cup of green tea for himself, Luke mulled things over on the couch.

Damon and Mindy were mostly active in New York. They could be potential allies.

Such allies didn't have to help him in battle. As long as they provided intelligence or other support for him at the right moment, they were irreplaceable.

They would also be connections he could use.

Even Tony Stark had friends and connections in the military as well as the support of formidable stakeholders of Stark Industries.

When Tony lost the support of these people, he was kicked out of Stark Industries by Obadiah, and his influence as a super magnate instantly disappeared.

Luke didn't plan to walk Stark's path, so he had to treat his allies and friends well.

Thus, he wasn't really making much of a profit from the deal with Damon, which was already hard to believe since he was using Tony Stark's abilities.

Even experts who weren't as skilled as Tony would've charged a million dollars for such an order.

But most of these people didn't lack money to begin with, and without connections, Damon couldn't ask them for help!

Besides, the equipment that Luke made for them was highly practical.

Electronic surveillance and anti-surveillance devices, gadgets to hide your tracks and to walk on walls, special bulletproof armor, and so on…

Luke focused on the file again.

On their way to work the next day, he noticed that Selina showed no signs of exhaustion.

Luke recalled that Selina seldom fell ill or suffered overexertion ever since he got to know her.

Did she have an unusual gift as well?

They didn't need to go to the police department today. Since Selina had studied the case yesterday and talked to the detectives who worked on it previously, they would go directly to the crime scene.

They got out when they arrived at their destination.

Luke looked at the signboard above the store, which was a gigantic circle that was hollow in the center.

He was amused. "Everybody loves donuts."

This was a store that sold various kinds of donuts, which were hard for Americans, who loved sweets, to resist.

For police officers, donuts were also indispensable.

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Chapter 254 Two Shooters

Unlike Luke, who could make dozens of cupcakes in ten minutes, most police officers chose to snack on donuts.

After all, donuts had enough calories, could be eaten with one hand, and most importantly, were cheap and often sold 24 hours a day.

So, the officers who had to work nights became loyal donut customers.

It was also the reason why the case that Luke was supposed to help with had happened in a donut store.

Luke and Selina didn't go in but simply observed the closed store from outside.

The glass windows of the store were shattered, allowing them to see most of the interior even though they were outside.

While they were observing the scene, a car stopped nearby, and someone said, "Hey, Luke and Selina. You're here."

Luke and Selina turned around and greeted him with a smile. "Good morning, Roger, Martin."

Roger was black, and Martin was a handsome middle-aged white man who had a messy beard.

It was Roger who had greeted them just now. He lifted the cordon and had everyone enter the store. "It happened at five in the morning yesterday. Two shooters opened fire on this place with 9mm automatic weapons from a motorbike. Two customers were killed on the spot, and the worker manning the store was injured by broken glass. The killers didn't come in. According to the worker, there was another customer who went missing. He was at the same table with the victims, and had come with one of them."

Luke nodded his head, showing that he got it.

It was described in the case file, but Roger didn't know how much they knew, so he repeated the key information for their benefit.

Looking at the body outlines and the nearby environment, Selina pictured the attack in her head.

Luke, on the other hand, stared at the bullet holes in the wall. He asked, "Has ballistics run the tests?"

Roger said, "Yes. Two guns were fired, but…"

Luke interjected, "But one of the guns didn't shoot as many bullets?"

Roger was surprised. "Did you talk to the forensics department already?".

Luke shook his head. "No, I was guessing."

Then, a woman spoke from the door. "Well, it seems that I'm late."

Everybody turned around. She turned out to be a beautiful young brunette, with her hair tied up

She was wearing a suit, and both the suit and the shirt underneath weren't buttoned all the way, revealing a hint of her sexy collarbones.

Roger said, "Agent Palmer, you're not late. We arrived early. This is Luke and Selina, our colleagues. They'll be helping us with this case."

The detective named Palmer shook hands with them courteously. "We could really use your help."

She then asked directly, "Have you found anything?"

She was asking Luke the question, because she and Roger had already investigated this place yesterday, when the bodies were still on the ground and the blood had yet to dry.

Now, only the body outlines remained. She was genuinely curious to know what Luke and Selina might have found.

"Were there any eyewitnesses?" Luke asked.

Roger shook his head. "No, it was five in the morning. There was a homeless woman who was drawn in by the gunshots, but she only saw the surviving customer leaving the store."

Luke asked, "What about the duration of the attack?"

Roger shook his head. "That homeless woman… doesn't have a sound mind, and the worker is still in shock, and can't tell us anything yet. So, we can only make a rough guess at the duration of the attack."

Luke nodded, deep in thought.

Palmer couldn't help but ask, "Is there a problem?"

Luke said, "If the killers didn't stop the motorbike when they fired, it's a big problem."

Martin's eyes glowed. "You've noticed?"

Luke chuckled. "Let's stop talking in riddles. You go first."

Martin broke his silence when he learned that a colleague was thinking the same thing. "I reached my conclusion after I read the forensics report this morning."

Roger complained, "Wow! And you didn't think to tell your partner sooner?"

Martin said, "Well, I would have to repeat myself to everyone even if I did tell you earlier, right? Only one of the shooters was the real killer, and the bullets that hit the victims all came from his gun. If the nervous worker is to be believed, the attack might've only lasted two seconds."

Palmer found that odd. "Didn't she say that she couldn't remember anything?"

Martin said, "Her exact words are, 'I feel like I've spent a year in Afghanistan.' So…"

Everybody was lost for words.

This worker was obviously too overstimulated for her brain to function normally.

But two people had been killed by a barrage of thirty bullets. It would've been strange if the worker didn't suffer mental trauma from that.

"However, most of the bullets were fired from one gun. They destroyed most of the store, but missed the victims." Martin continued, "The way I see it, it's hard to shoot when you're driving a motorbike at fifty kilometers per hour, so this is understandable. So, it was the person sitting behind him who took action. He only fired two shots, and both victims were shot in the head."

Palmer was surprised. "His shooting was so precise?"

Hitting two targets in the head with just two shots while moving at high speed was unbelievable.

"Yes, and it gets worse," said Martin.

He pointed at the road outside. "The parking bays outside were occupied then, and the two shooters could've only shot from a range of about ten meters from the store. The driver even sprayed the parked cars with bullets."

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Chapter 255 Traitor and Abandonment

Luke nodded inwardly.

He had already felt that the barrage of bullets were unlikely to be from two guns.

Martin's detailed analysis confirmed his assumption, and he grew more interested in the shooters. "So, Agent Palmer, what intelligence do you have for us?"

Palmer wasn't from LAPD, but was an agent with the DEA.

She was here because one of the victims was her partner Jimmy Watson, who was also a DEA agent.

Palmer said, "To put it simply, Jimmy was here to negotiate with Femira, the other victim. The man had some critical information that we needed."

Noticing the look on Luke's face, she added, "I can't tell you exactly what it is, but the information was very sensitive, so Jimmy was here to talk to him. I was supposed to come too, but I was delayed by something else and didn't make it."

Luke suddenly asked, "You suspect that someone leaked details of the meeting?"

Palmer remained silent, but her expression indicated that was her suspicion.

Luke understood why the case was difficult.

DEA had more information, but they were unwilling to disclose it on grounds of confidentiality, so Martin had no leads to work with.

It would be very difficult if they wanted Palmer to spill anything.

Since there was a possible traitor lurking in the DEA, the agency certainly wouldn't want the scandal exposed to LAPD.

Luke thought for a moment, then asked, "What about the survivor? Who is he?"

Roger said, "He's a lawyer. Femira brought him along for negotiations. He's just a regular guy. We tracked him down last night, but he said that he didn't know anything, and that he was only there to help his client with the negotiation."

Luke found that odd. "Wasn't he afraid that he could be killed?"

Roger said, "The man said that he didn't really know everything about his client, or he wouldn't have taken the case at all."

Luke could only shake his head. It didn't seem like there were any leads for now.

The lawyer might know more than he was letting on, but it was tricky trying to keep a lawyer in custody.

Those people made a living by playing with the law, and they could easily demand compensation if the police made any sort of mistake.

They could be utterly shameless when it came to making money.

After some discussion, it was eventually decided that Roger and his partner would follow up on the lawyer, since he might be the next person to be killed.

As for Luke, however, he had already mentally dropped the case.

The trickiest cases were the ones without leads or where an internal conflict was involved, such as with this case.

If he discovered the traitor in the DEA, would the DEA really feel grateful to him?

Obviously, the DEA might pretend to be happy, but they certainly wouldn't be.

Luke simply reminded Martin, "You can investigate that shooter. Such a skilled shooter can't be a Mr. Nobody. You might uncover some leads if you look for remarkable shooters in previous cases."

He said that to Martin because Martin was a navy veteran who was a great shooter himself.

There was only a limited number of people in the circle of top shooters, and they definitely knew a thing or two about each other.

Martin nodded, and they bade each other farewell.

When Luke said goodbye to Roger, he noticed that Martin and Palmer were talking and laughing. He asked in a low voice, "What's that about?"

Roger said, "They're seeing eye to eye."

"When it happens, it happens, right?" Luke smiled and waved goodbye at Roger.

He got in his car and glanced at Selina, who was next to him. "Why are you staring at me?"

Selina said, "You rarely look me in the eye."

Luke rolled his eyes at her. "You mean this?"

Selina did exactly the same back to him. "Yes, thank you very much. I feel a lot better now."

That was the end of the topic.

They knew very well that their relationship was different from what Luke and his female friends had.

As long as he was willing, he could invite his female colleagues out for a drink when they got off work, and it wouldn't be hard for certain things to happen naturally after that.

Female officers were as busy as male officers, but they also had to scratch the itch sometimes, and wouldn't demand more when the night was over.

It would be all too easy for Luke, so he never wasted his time on that.

A partner that he could completely trust, on the other hand, was hard to come by.

Back in Nakatomi Plaza, Detective John fought hard for his wife and daughter.

But the truth was that he and his wife were already separated, and were going through a divorce.

To make things worse, it wasn't over money, but a difference in attitude toward life.

A detective's partner might be even more important to them than a spouse.

Marrying the wrong wife might be a waste of time and money, but having the wrong partner could get them killed or sent to the Internal Affairs Division for investigation.

Luke and Selina went to a special shooting range. Selina practiced regular shooting in one corner while Luke practiced his quick draw.

Luke had read a lot of files on quick draw. Many of the opponents he defeated used it too, but it was included under the Basic Firearms ability and wasn't listed independently.

Luke speculated that it was because their quick draw wasn't good enough to be listed as an independent ability yet, just like how the system wouldn't acknowledge that bilingual speakers boasted Basic Language Proficiency if they weren't fluent enough.

Should he find Bob Munden, the god of quick draw, and obtain the ability from him?

Luke dropped the idea.

His physical stats were good enough; all he needed was more practice with quick draw.

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Chapter 256 Welcome, and Take the Blame

It wouldn't be too hard for him to master quick draw with more practice.

After all, Bob Munden was an old man who wasn't half as strong and as agile as Luke, but the man could still draw his gun astonishingly fast.

Luke had much more Strength and Dexterity, and he wasn't new to guns. It would be weird if he couldn't grasp quick draw.

He was using a revolver, which was a gun necessary for practicing quick draw.

He had a modified revolver in his inventory, but he couldn't use that Smith Wesson M500 in public. Also, its barrel had been lengthened, which made it unsuitable for quick draw.

The essence of quick draw was speed and precision. Thus, a common revolver was more suitable for practice.

With his ten-fold Strength and his Elementary Self-Healing, his hands didn't get sore at all.

With his cheat, Luke began to burn through guns as training.

He stopped to analyze the flaws in his movements every now and then before he continued. He was also able to reload his gun much quicker than other people.

It wasn't until an hour later that he finally stopped, satisfied.

He tried a dozen revolver models of varying caliber, and some of them overheated while he was shooting

Luke was very satisfied.

After an hour of practice, he had more or less picked up quick draw.

With his Strength and Dexterity, he was fast and ruthless at shooting inside a range of ten meters.

Most of the time, an officer's combat range with a pistol was twenty meters, and their precision would decrease sharply beyond this range. Luke was practicing quick draw primarily as part of his identity as a police officer, so precision within a range of ten meters was good enough for now.

More practice with quick draw later would help him further improve the speed and range of his shooting

Selina had been dutifully shooting pistols with earmuffs on.

Focused on her training, Selina didn't talk to Luke. It wasn't until she used up the bullets in her magazine that Luke patted her shoulder and indicated that it was time to leave.

After they returned home, Selina took a thirty-minute break before starting on the exercise regime which Luke had drawn up for her.

The house had five extra rooms, so they converted two adjoining rooms into a gym and a training room.

Luke went to the garage workshop and began creating new equipment for Damon and Mindy.

Most of the raw materials hadn't been delivered yet, so he was only working with whatever he had on hand.

Also, the items he was making for them were experimental products, and he was expecting them to give him feedback.

Of course, that meant that there were risks in using this equipment, but the risks certainly wouldn't be as high as if Damon and Mindy went on missions without the equipment.

Luke worked until it turned dark outside.

By the time he finished, Selina was exhausted and lying on the couch as she went through the training plan that Luke had drafted out for her.

The plan was rather flexible. She only needed to know what aspects she had to work on, and she could decide when to undertake the training herself.

"I'm done with training. I'm waiting for your dinner." She gave Luke a quick glance before she continued reading the documents.

"You seem rather energetic." Luke chuckled and began to make dinner while Selina rolled her eyes.

Now that both of them were busy, Luke dropped the complicated dishes that he had cooked before, and instead made simple but delicious food.

Selina was always satisfied as long as the food was delicious.

While they were eating, Selina's phone rang.

Her mouth full of food, her expression indicated that Luke should pick up.

Luke looked at the caller ID and picked up the phone. "Hi, Roger. What's up?"

Bang! Bang! Bang!

He heard gunshots.

"F*ck!" Roger cursed and said hastily, "Luke, we've run into some trouble regarding the donut store case. Can you drop by?"

Luke asked, "Where are you?"

"West 35th Street near USC," said Roger. "Copy that." Luke rose and left with Selina, who was already wiping her mouth.

Twenty minutes later, they arrived at the location, and easily found a gathering of police

cars.

They squeezed their way through with their badges and went over to Roger. "What happened?"

Roger looked at them and said, "Someone was here to kill the lawyer, but luckily, he escaped. Now, the criminal is hiding in the building with hostages."

This lawyer was truly lucky to escape death twice! Luke said, "You didn't call for SWAT?"

Roger said, "A SWAT team went in earlier, but the criminal set off a bomb and injured multiple agents."

Luke raised an eyebrow. "So vicious?"

Generally speaking, officers and criminals in big cities had a tacit agreement where they would only use firearms as weapons, and would retreat if they didn't hit the enemy.

Not every officer was willing to sacrifice themselves for their job; at least, Luke wasn't.

Roger quickly gave them a rundown of the situation.

Now, two criminals were in the building with two hostages.

But the tricky thing was that the criminals had detonated a bomb, and there was no telling how many more bombs they had.Even more troublesome was the fact that there were a lot more residents in this six-story apartment building who were stuck inside their homes.

If the police were to press the assault, the criminals might slaughter the residents in the building in their agitation, and the police would certainly be blamed for it.

Luke was lost for words. So, you got me to come over to share the blame with you?

Roger, however, didn't feel guilty. "Is there anything you can do? I know that you're the best fighter in the LAPD, so you're the only person I can ask for help."

Ignoring Roger's flattery, Luke simply asked, "Where's Martin?"

Roger said bitterly, "He's observing the environment and preparing to kill those two criminals if he can."

Luke knew that Martin was a great shot, but his strategy wasn't a guaranteed success.

If one of the criminals survived, and detonated the explosives, Martin would definitely be punished. Luke thought for a moment before he said, "Alright, we'll put on bulletproof vests before we go in." He then led Selina to his car.

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Chapter 257 Who Shot Me?

In his car, Luke adjusted the windows to darken them, before the both of them put on their equipment.

They put on the special bulletproof vests that Luke made, then the police vests, and also strapped on the walkie-talkies which Luke had invented himself.

His instructions might wind up being in violation of certain rules of the police department, so it would be better to keep a police communication line open after they went in.

They examined their guns and magazines, and carried smoke and stun grenades made by Luke.

He also gave Selina a grappling hook, but as with the smoke and stun grenades, it was only designed to be used in a critical moment.

Selina was unsurprised as she had already tested the equipment before.

Once they were all set, they got out.

They hung their badges around their necks, in case the SWAT team accidentally injured them.

Finally, they took a detour and entered the apartment building from a back street. Roger had spoken to the captain of the SWAT team, who agreed the moment he heard Luke's

name.

Roger was both delighted and bummed, since his young colleague seemed to have much more influence than he did.

What he didn't know was that this captain had been on the Nakatomi case, and Luke had left a deep impression on him.

After all, an officer who could eliminate fifty armed criminals on his own was hard to come by.

They didn't go through the door. Instead, Luke gave Selina a boost so that she could reach a ledge on the second floor, before she pulled Luke up.

It was just for show; Luke could easily jump up to the third floor, but he didn't dare do so.

A lot of people close by were watching, and it would be a big problem if any of them captured that with a camera.

Moving quickly, Luke and Selina entered an apartment through a half-open window.

Flashing their badges at the lovebirds in the unit who were shivering in a corner, they quietly opened the door and left. Luke had confirmed that the two criminals were on the first floor. Instead of immediately going downstairs, he told Selina to hide and watch the stairs while he searched the floors above them.

With his Sharp Nose, he soon confirmed that there weren't any bombs set up on those floors, which was a relief.

At the very least, the two criminals weren't crazy enough to plant bombs everywhere in the building

Ten minutes later, he rejoined Selina on the second floor and went downstairs.

Bang!

There was a gunshot, and Luke quickly lay flat on the ground and kicked Selina into a corner. "Get down! There's a sniper!"

In the command van outside the building, Roger and the captain were startled. The captain asked through the walkie-talkie, "Who opened fire?"

Nobody responded.

A moment later, someone said, "Captain, I just saw someone open fire from the building to the northeast. That's York's position."

The captain said, "York, come in."

The walkie-talkie was silent.

The captain said darkly, "All units, switch to the backup channel." He then cut the communication.

A moment later, a team member in the van reported, "Captain, everybody has switched to the backup channel, but York is still silent."

The captain said coldly, "A1 squad will go check up on York. You're free to open fire if you find anything wrong."

Roger seemed quite worried. "Captain, about Luke…"

The captain thought for a moment and said, "B1 squad, how are the two detectives doing?"

"They're hiding after the emergency just now, but… I think Detective Luke was shot," someone said over the walkie-talkie.

The captain and Roger were silent.

"This is B2 squad. We see them. They're fine. They're still moving," another person suddenly said.

"Are you sure?" the captain asked.

"Positive. Luke's movements are normal. Huh. He's running even faster than us. He's entering the lobby on the first floor."

Bam! Bam! Bam! Bam!

Gunshots burst out inside the building again, and then Roger's phone rang. "It's me, Luke. The criminals have been subdued. The hostages are safe. There's a bomb inside a vase in the lobby. Try to avoid it."

The captain and Roger looked at each other. You're done already?

"Where's the shooter who fired at me?" asked Luke calmly.

Roger looked at the captain.

The captain picked up the walkie-talkie, but before he could say anything, gunshots burst out from the northwest again.

It was followed by a series of screams.

The walkie-talkie suddenly connected. "Captain, we're under attack! We have three dead and two injured. Ahhh -!"

The walkie-talkie fell silent after a scream.

The captain looked awful. "B1 squad, are you really monitoring the area? You can't find anything?"

Someone said over the walkie-talkie, "B1 didn't find anything. A1 is in our blind spot. There are no signs of attackers."

Roger secretly got out of the van without hanging up his phone. "Hey, Luke, did you hear that?"

Luke said, "The guy who just shot me is in the building with gunfire?"

Roger said, "Yes, a SWAT team just went in, but they're probably… ugh."

Luke had already hung up. Roger said helplessly, "Sh*t! At least let me finish!"

On the other side, Luke calmly put down his phone. "Selina, watch them and hide there." He pointed at an open unit.

Selina looked at him worriedly. "Were you shot just now?"Luke shook his head. "I'm wearing two bulletproof vests. Look, there's no blood."

Realizing that he didn't seem heavily injured, Selina nodded. "Be careful."

Luke nodded and left quickly.

After leaving the apartment building, he rushed to the building in the northeast.

His Sharp Nose could already pick up the smell of blood dozens of meters away.

His heart turned heavy. There were one, two, three, six… nine victims!

There were eight people on the SWAT team that had just arrived, plus an earlier sniper.

Now, they were all dead?

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Chapter 258 Shield, Quick Draw and a Tie

The moment he entered the building, Luke pressed a gear on his left arm, and it split open into a tiny shield.

The one lesson a person could take from Captain America was that the best weapon anyone could need was in fact a hard shield.

However, this shield wasn't huge, and it was attached to his left arm.

He didn't take out his gun, and his right hand only rested above his holster.

Watching out for any movements in front of him, he went upstairs quietly and quickly.

When he reached the sixth floor, he didn't go forward immediately, but took a deep breath and raised his left arm.

Bam! Clang!

A bullet hit the shield that protected his head. In the meantime, Luke fired his revolver.

He had locked onto the enemy in advance with Sharp Nose before he opened fire.

Bam!

He almost heard the sound of a bullet hitting flesh.

Bang! Bang!

Another two bullets were shot. Luke jolted from being hit, but he didn't stop firing his M686 at all.

Bam! Bam! Bam! Bam!

However, the enemy seemed to have anticipated it, and retreated to a corner.

Luke backed up to the stairs as well. He put the M686, which only had one bullet left, back into his holster, before he drew out the Glock and quickly approached the corner.

Suddenly, something was flung out from around the corner, and Luke raised his arm.

Clang! The object was blocked by his shield.

With his keen eyes, Luke saw that it was a black dagger.

Narrowing his eyes, Luke moved faster, but his speed still didn't exceed what an ordinary human being was capable of.

Another three black daggers flew out in the next moment.

Luke immediately stepped back.

However, the three daggers flew in an arc from both sides and deflected off each other two meters in front of him to bypass his shield as they aimed at his back and lower torso.

Sh*t! Luke cursed in his heart and rolled backward, before he knocked the daggers aside with his shield.

Before he could charge forward again, another five daggers flew at him from around the corner.

Even Luke himself felt his blood freeze.

Not only were there so many daggers, they were also unpredictable.

Luke could only retreat again. He avoided three daggers at the turn of the stairs and knocked away the other two with his shield.

Just as he was about to sigh with relief, he sensed danger again and quickly ducked his head.

The dagger that he had just dodged hit the wall behind him.

At that moment, Luke detected with his Sharp Nose that the guy was leaving from the roof.

Frowning, Luke quickly headed up the stairs.

He craned his head out the door to the rooftop, and saw a man gliding away from the building.

The man seemed to have expected Luke, and pulled the trigger the moment Luke poked his head out.

Sensing danger, Luke hurriedly pulled back and crouched down.

Bang!

A bullet whizzed past his head and hit the wall behind the door.

Luke sweated hard. Where was this shooter from? It was almost impossible to take precautions against him!

More unbelievably, the guy was as adept at guns as he was at knife-throwing.

Wait, no – perhaps knife-throwing was what he was best at, and guns were only a second choice.

Luke thought for a moment, then withdrew and stopped pursuing the dreadful shooter.

That was because a lot of reporters with cameras had surrounded the place. If he displayed his full capability, he would probably hit the headlines of many newspapers the next day.

But when he got downstairs and saw the eight bodies on the fifth floor, he sighed. "Well, this place is going to hit the headlines anyway."

Luke had smelled the blood of another person on the rooftop, which must've belonged to the sniper. Together with the eight victims here, nine SWAT team members had died.

The reporters would definitely be focused on this piece of news for quite a few days.

Luke met Roger and the captain downstairs.

The captain asked earnestly, "How did it go?"

Luke shook his head. "I'm sorry, but your teammates…" Everybody knew what he wasn't saying.

The captain's face twisted. "Damn it. Who did it?"

Luke turned to Roger. "Would you like to tell him?"

Roger was confused. "Huh?"

Luke said, "If my guess is correct, it was the shooter from the donut store. I didn't see his face. He escaped from the roof."

The captain was stunned. "The roof?"

He spoke into his walkie-talkie. "B1 squad, did you see a target? Stanley?"

Everybody reported negative, but Stanley, a sniper deployed on the rooftop of another building, didn't say anything at all.

The captain almost went crazy. "Go check up on Stanley."

A moment later, someone said through the walkie-talkie, "Captain, Stanley's dead."

The captain threw his walkie-talkie to the ground, his eyes bloodshot. "Damn it! I swear that I'll catch you and string you up before I cut you into pieces!"

Roger was silent, and Luke secretly shook his head.

It was going to be very difficult to catch the guy.

Even Luke had almost been killed just now. Unless they could surround the man and bombard him until he died, it was highly unlikely that the captain and his men would be able to avenge their dead teammates.

Luke didn't know if the shooter was an extraordinary human being, but the man's skills in shooting and knife-throwing were truly remarkable.

However, the man's name wasn't made available in the system.

It seemed that the system determined the fight between Luke and the man to be a tie.

It was easy for Luke to figure out why.

The fight started when Luke was shot.

At that moment, the two bulletproof vests that Luke was wearing stopped the bullet.

Later, when they fired at each other on the fifth floor, he hit the man in the shoulder with quick draw.

In the meantime, Luke's metal shield blocked the man's bullets.

After that, he took the enemy's bullets the hard way with his double bulletproof vests, forcing the enemy to stop him with daggers and escape.

With the enemy's escape, one of Luke's ribs was broken, and he had internal bleeding.

Of course, the injuries were already halfway through healing, and they didn't impair his movements, although they itched and hurt a little.

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Chapter 259 Do You Want to Go Back to Houston?

That mysterious shooter hadn't bled after he was hit in the shoulder; clearly, he had been wearing some sort of bulletproof vest as well.

In conclusion, both of them suffered injuries in the brief fight, but Luke's were heavier.

Without Elementary Self-Healing, he would've had to wait for an ambulance after he was shot the first time.

Thank god he had learned Elementary Self-Healing for fear of possibly dying in

strange or unusual ways someday.

This wasn't a game or a movie.

When Tony ran into Whiplash, Whiplash at least wasted some time talking so that Tony had time to put on his suit.

However, this shooter could easily shoot Luke from eight hundred meters away without giving him a chance to speak.

For Luke, who had a system, he could continue to get stronger as long as he was alive.

This case was already quite huge after the death of ten SWAT members.

The captain of the team regretted underestimating the two criminals in the apartment buildings and sending the snipers to the rooftops alone.

Luke, however, didn't think that the man had made a mistake. After all, it was a bunch of police officers up against two criminals, who were surrounded.

Besides, if the captain had sent another team member along with each sniper, there would've only been two more victims.

Luke was only able to fight the shooter because of his Elementary Self-Healing and his bulletproof vests – two extra SWAT members wouldn't have changed anything.

He told Roger to handle the rest, before he took Selina with him and left the area.

On their way back, he had Selina call Elsa to tell her what happened.

Dustin had already let Elsa know after Roger briefed him on the gunfight.

After hearing Selina's report, Elsa simply told them to stay in touch and to rest up.

When Luke and Selina arrived at the crime scene, they subdued the two criminals, rescued the hostages and discovered the explosives, all without making any mistakes.

Even if the mysterious shooter got away in the end, nobody could blame Luke for it.

The man annihilated an entire SWAT squad, but Luke returned in one piece after a fight with the man. This proved that Luke really was strong.

When they got home, Luke told Selina in detail what happened with the dreadful shooter. Shocked, Selina asked, "What should I do if I run into someone like that?"

After some thought, Luke said, "Your best bet is to keep your distance and don't linger in one place. Also, his shooting skills are only mediocre at best compared with his knife-throwing."

Selina was lost for words. You call that mediocre?

Luke nodded and said, "I was able to counterattack when he used his gun, but when he started throwing daggers, I couldn't find an opening to shoot at him."

There was no need to mention that he was far nimbler than ordinary people.

Selina was well aware of the gap between her strength and Luke's.

Luke would never let Selina think that she should try to approach the man and kill him.

The man was so good at knife-throwing that he would always hit his target however he flicked his hand.

Fighting a close-range battle with such a man was too dangerous and should only be considered as a last resort.

After their discussion, Luke urged Selina to train.

Selina was dumbfounded. "Huh? It's almost nine."

Luke said, "It's nine, not twelve. There's still a long way to go until bedtime."

Selina roared and charged at him. She punched him hard for a while, then said, "Okay, I'm going to train. Leave me alone."

Luke didn't resist at all, because Selina hadn't pulled her punches; her hands had to hurt far more than he did.

After sending Selina off to train, Luke returned to his workshop to continue working on his equipment.

If it wasn't for the bulletproof vest that he had been wearing, the sniper's bullet would have torn open a hole in his body.

The special bulletproof vest he had made was extremely tensile, thanks to a particular alloy which Luke created with Tony's abilities.

However, the alloy was costly and difficult to make. Luke couldn't mass produce it, and could only make it for his own use.

Every last bit he created went into the bulletproof vests for him and Selina.

Although the vests weighed no more than five kilograms, the raw materials cost Luke more than five hundred thousand dollars.

But the cost was definitely worth it, considering how the bulletproof vest saved his life.

With this vest and his Elementary Self-Healing, Luke practically couldn't be killed.

Even Selina would only sustain an injury, when she would otherwise be killed if she wasn't wearing the vest.

After reflecting and working for a long period of time, Luke completed his modification goals for the day.

He then went to the gym to check on Selina.

Selina wasn't practicing the technical moves that Luke had told her to, but was using far more violent movements.

Luke asked, "Aren't you supposed to be practicing the technical moves?"

Selina ignored him and simply continued attacking the human-shaped target in front of her.

After a long while, she finally stopped, breathing hard. "I'm not an idiot. If I don't work hard, I may be killed if I run into the guy from today again."

After a brief silence, Luke suddenly asked, "Do you want to go back to Houston?"

Selina rolled her eyes at him. "Do you think I'm an idiot who wants to spend my entire life dealing with street fights and family drama every day? Without you, I would just be on street patrol."

Luke said, "But you'll run into more danger if you follow me. Are you really sure you don't want to reconsider?"

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Chapter 260 The Mastermind and His Muscle

Selina rolled her eyes. "Hehe. Too late. Also, didn't I run into that female shooter with Donald? And back in Shackelford, we clashed with those shooters from the Carlos family. There's danger everywhere; when I'm with you, at least, I can grow stronger."

After a brief silence, Luke nodded. "Fine, since you understand our current situation so well, let's train for another half an hour. There's still something wrong with your movements."

Selina's eyes bulged. "What?"

Luke said, "My demands are higher so that you can live longer."

In the end, Luke had to carry Selina to the bathroom.

She was too exhausted to walk on her own, and could only tell Luke to draw a hot bath for her.

When Luke called her name again half an hour later, she didn't respond.

Luke opened the bathroom door to find that Selina had already fallen asleep in the bathtub.

Shaking his head, Luke picked her up, wiped her down and dried her hair, before he put her in bed. Selina simply moaned and showed no sign of waking up.

Sitting on the bed and looking at Selina, who was sound asleep, Luke sighed and left.

He returned to his workshop after he left Selina's bedroom.

Now, the sense of crisis he felt was stronger than ever.

He had run into two tricky extraordinary human beings one after another, and both had escaped. He had never been so scared of this world before.

He had to work hard if he didn't want to become one of the unknown casualties on the news.

With his Strength and his Elementary Self-Healing, he only needed to sleep two hours a day.

Hence, he could work for an extra six hours each day, which was plenty of time for him to accomplish many things.

The next morning, Luke made breakfast and woke Selina up. "Gorgeous, while you did a great job yesterday, you still have to go to work today."

Selina threw a pillar at him angrily, but Luke grabbed it and threw it back. "Alright. There's food waiting for you."

As if a switch had been flipped, Selina bolted upright. "What food?"

Luke said, "Not breakfast, but dessert. However, need I remind you that I had to put you to bed last night?"

Selina quickly lay down and covered herself with the quilt. "Go away and close the door."

Luke smiled and left.

After all the ice cream he had in the morning, he was feeling mellow and slow to anger.

A few minutes later, Selina came out. "What's the food?"

Luke was having breakfast. "I put it in the mini-fridge in our car."

Selina asked, "What? There's a fridge in our car?"

Luke said, "Yes, I installed it last night."

Selina was lost for words. "You're kidding."

Half an hour later, Selina looked at the box-like object in the middle of the backseat, shocked. "Is that really a fridge?"

Luke shrugged. "There's no space in the front, we can only put it in the back. Hey, you just had breakfast, didn't you?"

Selina said, "I love how it tastes! Right, should you give Elsa some of this?"

Luke said, "If you're willing. After all, what she eats is up to you."

Selina thought for a moment before she nodded. "We should give her some."

Luke reminded her, "She doesn't have a fridge to keep the tiramisu."

Selina said, "She can keep it with Dustin."

Luke said, "I'm afraid that Dustin will finish it before she can. I packed the cupcakes you didn't finish yesterday. You can give her that."

Selina: "…Fine."

Just before they entered the police department, Elsa gave them a call. "Come to the boss's office."

They did as instructed.

Closing the door, Dustin said, "We made progress on last night's case."

Luke raised an eyebrow.

"Since ten SWAT agents died, the DEA finally shared some of their intelligence with us. Here's the file on last night's mysterious shooter. Take a look." Dustin tossed a case file at them as he spoke.

Luke picked up the case file and read it himself instead of giving it to Selina.

He was truly curious about exactly who the shooter was!

Then, he saw a name – Wilson Grant Fisk.

It didn't ring a bell.

A while later, he slowly raised his head. "Kingpin?"

Dustin said coldly, "That's him."

Frowning, Luke skimmed through the rest of the file and soon found the name of the mysterious shooter – Lester.

He shifted his gaze and saw another word: Bullseye.

Luke frowned. According to the file, Bullseye was Kingpin's best fighter!

Luke had heard a thing or two about Kingpin before, but not very much. He only knew that the man was the leader of a major gang.

More information on Kingpin was listed in the case file.

The super big shot originally known as Wilson Grant Fisk and currently addressed as Kingpin was growing more and more powerful, and the FBI, DEA and IRS hadn't been able to do anything about him.

Kingpin hid himself well and stayed behind the scenes to control his criminal group, which was getting bigger and bigger.

He was mostly based in New York, but his influence was spreading throughout the country.

That was why he was revered as Kingpin by the gangsters, who all respected him as a ruler.

Quickly reading the rest of the file, Luke tossed it to Selina and looked at Dustin. "Boss, what's the plan?"

After a brief silence, Dustin said, "There's no plan. Kingpin isn't Sergei. NYPD hasn't been able to do anything about him for years. Do they think we can help them capture this guy?"

Luke nodded. He felt exactly the same way.

Kingpin was too powerful to be apprehended by ordinary people; even extraordinary human beings would hardly be able to take him down.

Bullseye alone could kill most of the people who approached him.

"What about Bullseye?" Luke asked.

Dustin shook his head. "It's none of our business now. The FBI has taken the case."

Luke said, "So, there's nothing we need to do now?"

Dustin nodded. "I asked you to come here mainly to warn you that you should keep an eye out. After all, you were the only one to survive that exchange with Bullseye."

Luke chuckled. "I'll be prepared if he comes back for revenge."

Dustin said, "Additionally, the FBI wants to talk to you about what happened last night. Director Brad agreed to the request, on the condition that they meet you in our police department."

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Chapter 261 Old Acquaintances From the FBI

Luke smiled and said, "Thanks, boss."

Dustin must've done something to obtain this privilege for him.

Luke was free to say whatever he wanted in his territory, and the FBI wouldn't get to play any tricks.

A good boss always defended their subordinates in crucial moments.

Dustin waved his hand. "You work for the Major Crimes Division; of course we've got your back. That's all for now. Don't take any cases in the next few days."

Luke knew that Dustin was scared that they would be ambushed by Bullseye while investigating a case.

He simply nodded and said, "Okay, we're leaving."

Dustin nodded, and Elsa left with them.

Just like how Dustin supported Luke in front of the director, Elsa being in Dustin's office was also meant to show Dustin that she fully supported Luke.

She was also making her position clear to Luke and Selina.

Elsa took them to an inquiry room, where three FBI agents were waiting.

Luke and Selina were both amused to see them. "Oh, it's been a long time, Agent Charles and… Captain Wales?"

The FBI agents responded with smiles. They remembered Luke when they read his file.

Elsa was slightly stumped. "Do you know each other?"

Luke said with a smile, "We met Captain Wales back in Houston."

Since they knew each other, the meeting went a lot smoother.

Luke had nothing to hide. He explained last night's case as well as the donut store case to illustrate Bullseye's abilities.

An hour later, Captain Wales stretched out his hand. "Thank you for your cooperation, Luke and Selina."

Luke shook hands with him. "You're too kind. I also hope the guy will be caught sooner rather than later. He's too dangerous."

Wales shook his head with a bitter smile but didn't say anything.

If Bullseye was so easy to catch, he would've been thrown into the prison for special criminals a long time ago.

Besides, Bullseye always attacked from dark corners at long range; it was hard to say how many cases were his handiwork.

It was truly difficult to capture Bullseye in a big city full of skyscrapers and people.

After seeing Captain Wales and Agent Charles, everybody returned to Elsa's office.

After Selina closed the door, Elsa sighed. "Why does this keep happening to you?"

Luke asked, "Are you willing to give me a vacation, Elsa?"

Elsa said, "You had a trip to New York and another one to Paris. Then, you visited Las Vegas and Woodsburg. Now, I have to give you yet another vacation."

Luke shrugged. "I didn't really ask for it."

Elsa said, "Fine. By the way, the application was approved; two rookies will be starting in a day or two. You can train them if you're free in the next few days."

Luke said, "Alright, just have them come look for us."

Elsa said, "Fine, off you go – leave me to my exhaustion in my office." She sounded rather despairing

But could she blame Luke?

Of course not.

Luke was definitely more likely than other detectives to run into these sorts of situations because of his capability.

If he wasn't such a capable fighter, Roger wouldn't have asked for his help, and there wouldn't have been any trouble.

However, if Luke hadn't gone in as backup, Roger and his partner could've ended up in the morgue.

It was the greatest news in the Major Crimes Division when nobody died on a case.

As they left the department and headed for their car, Selina said, "I should probably share some of the tiramisu with Elsa. It's almost noon, anyway."

Luke knew that Selina was only taking pity on Elsa, who was so busy. "Go on, then. I'll wait for you."

Selina generously gave Elsa a large portion of the tiramisu, before she and Luke returned home.

The next three days passed without incident, except that Luke went out one night to retrieve goods.

The goods were the materials which Damon had acquired for him.

The materials sped up Luke's progress in making the equipment.

Damon had bought almost half of the materials on his list, and there was enough to last Luke for quite a while.

Luke even made himself a new phone when he was free.

After testing it out for a day, he called Jenny. "Hey, how've you been?"

Jenny was surprised to receive his call. "Are you free?"

Luke said helplessly, "I'm in the middle of something and can't meet you yet."

Jenny was disappointed. "Okay. Is there anything I can do for you?"

Luke said, "Our company is getting new business. You need to go with my useless PR manager and talk to Google."

Jenny: "Huh?"

Luke: "That guy has been contacting Google, but hasn't even been able to see one of their senior managers, so I can only count on you."

Jenny: "…I'll try."

Luke said, "I'll give the necessary things to Bobby, my PR manager. Just contact him."

Jenny: "Mr. CEO, are you really not going to inspect your company once?"

Luke smiled bitterly. Of course he wanted to! But he didn't know if Bullseye was gone yet. That man had no scruples.

"I'm occupied with a case. I'll come look for you when it's over," said Luke.

Then, he met Bobby at the police department and gave him the new phone he made as well as the navigation app. He also told Bobby about Jenny.

After a long hesitation, Bobby said, "I'm not qualified for the job you gave me. I'm thinking about quitting."

Luke waved his hand. "Don't. You've been doing a great job."

Bobby was confused. "Huh?" Getting nothing done was doing a great job?

Luke said, "You've never done PR before. It's already good enough that you found out why they aren't interested in the navigation map. Even Jenny might be unable to make a deal with them, but we have to try. Just do your best to help her."

Bobby asked, "How should I help her?"

Luke looked at him. "You haven't forgotten your ability, have you? Don't tell me that you haven't made any progress."

Bobby hesitated, then nodded. "I'm a little better at it now, but I can only sense someone else's emotions vaguely. I don't see how that can be useful."

Luke said, "That's enough. It'll become more useful as long as you keep practicing it. All you need to do is tell Jenny what the guys handling the negotiation are feeling, got it?"

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Chapter 262 Training Rookies

Bobby nodded.

Luke said, "That's all for now. Contact me if there's anything else. Your salary will be transferred to your account regularly."

Bobby felt slightly guilty.

He didn't think that his recent work was worth an annual salary of a hundred thousand dollars.

Luke stopped talking and told Bobby to contact Jenny.

By involving both Bobby and Jenny in the negotiation, he was hoping that they could both help and restrain each other.

Also, he couldn't let Bobby get away, or the man might go and harass Sheerah again.

More importantly, Luke coveted Bobby's mental communication ability, and he would have to waste time looking for Bobby if the man disappeared again.

He wasn't scared of Bullseye discovering him through this corporation.

The corporation wasn't directly registered under Luke or Selina, but through an offshore company.

It wouldn't be hard for the FBI or IRS to discover that Luke controlled the company, but hoodlums like Bullseye certainly wouldn't find

it easy.

Luke wasn't doing this to evade tax, but purely to avoid trouble.

On the eighth day after Damon dropped by, Luke and Selina went back to work.

Neither of them had been idle during the past week.

In addition to their own training, they had to groom the two rookies that had just been transferred to Elsa's team.

The two rookies were Billy Walter, a young black man, and Elizabeth Parker, a white female.

Elsa sent them to learn under Luke and Selina.

Different from other seasoned detectives, Luke didn't keep the tricks of investigation to himself.

He didn't act like a superior, since Elsa was the rookies' boss and not him. He was just a tutor for the two new detectives.

He conversed with the two rookies mainly at the police department.

He didn't do anything for them, but only pointed out to the rookies the best way of doing things at the right moment.

As for the legwork, the rookies had to do it themselves, and Luke didn't step in.

The two rookies respected Luke.

When they transferred to the department, Elsa had related Luke's achievements to them.

In the recent tragedy where a SWAT squad was annihilated, Luke was the only person to survive after fighting the mysterious shooter.

Elsa's reason for telling them this was simple, and that was to curb the rookies' arrogance.

Watching Luke and Selina's shooting training was an eye-opener for the rookies.

Selina was only twenty-four and a woman, but she was one of the best shooters in the Major Crimes Division.

Nothing needed to be said about Luke. When he was practicing quick draw, two targets ten meters away were hit almost simultaneously.

They could completely imagine that they wouldn't survive one second if they encountered a shooter as skilled as Luke.

Elizabeth even declared admiringly that Luke had to be the fastest man in the world.

Luke quickly refused the title. "You should say that to Bob Munden. I'm not as fast as he is."

Elizabeth asked, "Who's that?"

Luke said, "He holds the world record for quick draw at 0.0175 seconds. He's in his fifties, but he's still young!"

Elizabeth was lost for words.

Elsa's burden was reduced now that Luke was helping to train the rookies.

This week wasn't as tiresome as she had thought it would be.

When Luke and Selina returned to work, they didn't feel like they were coming back from a vacation since they had still been coming to the police department every day for the past week.

Taking a new case from Elsa, they studied it at their desks.

Luke's expression was complicated when he read the case file.

He wondered if the perpetrators were Damon and Mindy.

Eight drug dealers in his district had been killed in a house last night. Two of them were shot, and six were killed with a blade.

While Elizabeth and her partner had taken the case, they were actually only going to be helping Luke and Selina out and learn from them.

Pondering for a moment, Luke told Selina that they would be checking the crime scene.

It was a decrepit building in a terrible neighborhood.

Even before Luke entered, his Sharp Nose told him that his guess was correct.

This was indeed Damon and Mindy's handiwork.

But why did you have to do it in my district? Luke felt complicated.

He went into the house and saw blood everywhere on the walls and the furniture. Remembering Mindy and her unique long saber, it wasn't hard for Luke to picture the battle in his head.

As for the two men who were shot, Luke could easily tell that it was Damon who had done it from outside the building as cover for Mindy.

After figuring it out, Luke immediately lost interest.

Could he really catch Damon and Mindy?

They were doing exactly the same as Luke when he went out as a vigilante; it was just that they were more blatant about it.

Hm, he should remind them to keep a low profile later.

It would be more convenient for the police if they had made the scene look like the drug dealers had killed each other.

When the investigation was over, Elizabeth asked, "Luke, what do you think of the case?"

Luke said solemnly, "It's probably a gang conflict. If you want to look into it, you can follow up on the case for a few days, but drop it if you don't find any leads."

Elizabeth knew that Luke was implying that he wasn't hopeful about the case.

She and her partner had quite a few cases on hand. Now that Luke expressed his lack of interest in this case, they weren't really motivated to pursue it further.

After they left, Luke thought for a moment, then sent Damon a message to pick up his equipment tonight.

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Chapter 263 Bullseye Again

They can't stay in Los Angeles anymore. They're obviously here to compete with me!

Luke murmured to himself.

If the father and daughter could hide themselves well, Luke wouldn't mind at all because there were too many gangsters in Los Angeles.

However, those two obviously had no intention of cleaning up after themselves. They simply killed gangsters, looted their cash, destroyed the drugs and left, unlike Luke who just made the gangsters go missing without turning everything into a homicide case.

If it wasn't because he was worried about Bullseye, Luke could've earned a thousand experience and credit points in the past week.

On the other end, Damon received a message and gave his phone to Mindy. "Mindy, translate this."

Mindy threw her butterfly knife into a pillar not far away and read the message. "V said that the goods will be delivered tonight."

Damon nodded. "Delivery two days ahead of the deadline. Not bad. We don't have to hang around unfamiliar territory anymore."

Mindy said, "New York is much better. We know which gangs there are rich."

Damon, however, turned grave. "But Frank convinced Kingpin to send Bullseye after us. If it wasn't for the tools that Mr. V provided earlier, Bullseye would've tracked us down when we attempted to sabotage their business."

"We'll just fight him if we can't avoid him!" Mindy declared aggressively.

Damon shook his head. "Don't even think about it. Bullseye is a formidable man. The best way to deal with him is to ambush him without giving him a chance to counterattack. After we get our equipment, I'll try to lure him into a trap and kill him."

Mindy was suspicious. "Will he fall for it that easily?"

Damon said, "At the very least, we can teach him a lesson. He'll just keep chasing us like a rabid dog if we don't show them how good we are. He's also in Los Angeles now. I'm very certain that he was the one who killed the SWAT team the other day."

Luke didn't know that Bullseye had followed Damon and Mindy to Los Angeles. He was still putting the final touches on the equipment.

Since he had a lot of spare time in the past few days, he had made a complimentary vest to go with the equipment that Damon ordered.

The vest was made from the leftovers of his own special bulletproof vest. It was too small for a regular-sized adult to wear, but Mindy as a little girl could still use it.

It was a special privilege for the cute little girl!

Night had fallen by the time he was done. He had Selina turn on the house alarm system before he left.

He put the equipment in an abandoned factory and set up surveillance before he sent a message to Damon.

Ten minutes later, Damon and Mindy arrived.

Luke had barely gotten out when he heard a warning in his earphones. "Unknown cars detected."

As he walked, Luke pulled up the surveillance video on his fake phone.

He saw two trucks, followed by three cars, enter the gate of the abandoned factory.

Pondering for a moment, Luke disappeared into the dark.

With the equipment he had just upgraded, he quietly approached the intruders.

At that moment, he heard another warning in his earphones. "Thirty-six targets detected. Thirty with automatic weapons."

Luke frowned and observed them with night vision goggles which he took out from his inventory.

He scanned the gunmen, then focused his attention on the people who got out of the cars.

The five people, who were in black suits, were clearly different from the other shooters who were equipped with battle vests and helmets.

However, they didn't look like S.H.I.E.L.D. agents like Cheney, but more like gangsters.

Eventually, Luke fixed his attention on the last man.

He was the only person from the cars who wasn't wearing a suit. However, his cool leather cloak and the weird bullseye tattoo on his forehead reminded Luke of something.

Bullseye!

It was Bullseye!

Thinking quickly, Luke took out his fake phone and sent a message to Damon.

Then, he took out his equipment and quickly put it on.

A moment later, he was covered in a set of pure black armor.

Aside from protection, the armor could also completely disguise his body shape, as he didn't want to be recognized by Bullseye.

After everything was done, Luke aimed the M4A1 in his hand at the enemy.

A hundred meters away, Bullseye, who was watching his subordinates advance, felt a strong sense of crisis.

Without any hesitation, he ducked his head and hid in the shadows of a car.

Bang! Bang! Bang!

Three gunshots broke the quiet of the factory.

Luke secretly chuckled. He knew that it wouldn't be that easy.

Bullseye wasn't an opponent that could be finished off in one ambush.

However, now that Luke had initiated the attack, he wouldn't stop so easily. He aimed his M4A1 at the car, finger on the trigger.

As long as Bullseye was hit once, the system might determine that Luke won, because Luke hadn't been shot this time.

When he used up the bullets in the magazine, Luke began to move quickly.

Bang! Bang!

The sound of a pistol wasn't as obvious amidst the noise from the gunmen's submachine guns, but two bullets struck where Luke had been standing

If Luke had moved half a second late, he would've been hit in the face.

Luke, however, was more excited than ever.

It had been forever since he unleashed his full capability, given his identity as a police detective.

Finally, he was facing a challenging opponent, and he was no longer Luke Coulson, but V.

Luke jumped off the building with his grappling rope. After he landed, he moved forward in an erratic pattern.

In the meantime, he heard an electronic warning in his earphones. "Two enemies twelve meters to the left, one enemy 23 meters to the right…"

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Chapter 264 Fierce Battle

It was a battlefield radar system which Luke had invented recently. It could lock onto his enemies and inform him of their locations based on the surveillance cameras which he set up earlier.

Naturally, the system wasn't as advanced as Jarvis, and with his keen senses, Luke didn't need to rely on it too much.

But as he continued to upgrade the system, his team and friends who didn't have super abilities would also be able to use it.

Luke wasn't in a hurry to eliminate the shooters. Instead, he moved quickly and let those people live in order to interfere with Bullseye's observations.

Bang! Bang! Bang!

After Luke shot three times, Bullseye, who had just dashed to a corner, jerked back, and three bullet holes appeared in the wood in front of him.

He stepped back and sneered. With a flick of his hand, three daggers flew out in a strange arc.

He had barely thrown out the daggers, when his face changed and he dropped to all fours and quickly crawled several meters away.

Bang! Bang! Bang!

Another three bullet holes appeared behind him.

Bullseye turned cold.

He knew that he had run into a dreadful opponent!

The three daggers he flung out hadn't hit the enemy. Furthermore, the enemy even used them to pinpoint his location and shoot back at him.

Luke couldn't be any more excited.

Bullseye was really great at knife-throwing.

Luke had started running after his first shot, otherwise he would've been hit in the back of his head.

He was wearing a helmet, but he wasn't planning on finding out if Bullseye's daggers could penetrate it.

He didn't know anything about Bullseye's abilities, or whether the other man had better skills that he had yet to display.

Damon and Mindy were quickly putting on the equipment in the abandoned factory after Luke warned them that Bullseye was here.

Not only that, Luke also briefly explained Bullseye's abilities to them.

The man basically wouldn't miss a target within a hundred meters, and his daggers could even curve and deflect to kill his enemy.

Luke also specifically warned the father and daughter to use the new gear to stay away.

Damon and Mindy weren't scared of Bullseye as they were seasoned killers themselves, but they wouldn't dismiss Luke's opinion.

They put on the new equipment and carefully observed the battle outside with the new surveillance devices that Luke had supplied them with

They had always been curious about this Mr. V.

What kind of person was he? Exactly how strong was he?

They hadn't been able to tell how good V was from their encounter in New York when they eliminated the drug dealers, since those drug dealers were too weak.

Now, the infamous Bullseye from New York's underbelly was about to battle it out with V.

V specifically asked them not to intervene, so they decided not to step in unless V was losing.

But there was a problem.

They observed for a while, only to find it hard to differentiate between the two men.

Both men were in black, and there wasn't much light in the factory.

The two men were also moving as swiftly as ghosts. Whenever gunshots rang out, they would dodge and disappear.

A moment later, the father and daughter found a way to discern who was who, and that was through their weapons.

V was using an M4A1, whereas Bullseye was using a Beretta. The sounds the two guns made were utterly different.

However, it didn't make much of a difference to Damon and Mindy, who sweated hard after just watching for a minute.

Even though they had surveillance equipment and weren't involved in the battle, they could barely track the two men as the latter opened fire.

This only suggested that Damon and Mindy were incapable of fighting at such a level, and they might die in under a minute if they meddled.

Luke had completely forgotten about Damon and Mindy.

As he adapted to the rhythm of Bullseye's attacks, Luke's movements became quicker and more aggressive

He had never fought an extraordinary, albeit fitting, opponent like this before, so he had a lot of shortcomings.

Now, his battle experience was increasing quickly, and he was making use of advanced tricks that never came into play when he dealt with common criminals.

He was becoming more and more familiar with his battle abilities.

Bullseye was the best whetstone to hone himself with.

Even though Bullseye was flinging daggers at Luke from the least expected spots, Luke wasn't scared at all.

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He was excited, but his head was extremely clear. He was enjoying the skirmish.

While the two experts were engaged in battle, the gunmen caught in between suffered.

Even though they were shooting at the enemy incessantly from behind cover, they didn't hit anything in the end.

Since they were even weaker than Damon and Mindy, it was even harder for them to differentiate between the two men in battle.

As for the two experts, these gunmen were only pawns on the battlefield, and their submachine guns were more like toys than weapons.

Bullseye even once blocked Luke's bullets with one of the gunmen.

However, the two men crazily fighting on the battlefield both knew that Luke was gradually winning

There were two reasons.

Firstly, Luke had unleashed his full strength in this battle. His quick movements were quite a headache for Bullseye.

If Bullseye were less skilled at shooting and knife-throwing, he wouldn't be able to stop Luke's attacks.

In the end, Bullseye even aimed for Luke's legs, hoping to injure him and limit his movements.

Secondly, Luke basically had a neverending supply of bullets in this battle; he had dozens of magazines in his inventory.

Bullseye, on the other hand, had used up the bullets in his Beretta 92FS. He had to grab one of the gunmen's submachine guns.

Once he used up the bullets in this submachine gun, it would be yet another dangerous moment for him, whether he had to look for a new magazine or grab another submachine gun.

Even more critically, Bullseye was running out of knives as well.

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Chapter 265 Blow Up Everything If You Think You're Good

Bullseye never thought that he would encounter an enemy whom he couldn't kill with fifty daggers.

He could still fight without the knives, but he couldn't fully demonstrate his talent without his special daggers; his knife attacks were the easiest and most formidable.

This opponent he was facing was stronger than he was in the first place. Without his special daggers, he might be killed instantly.

Finally, Bullseye coldly gave his first command since the start of the battle: "Scatter and attack with everything you've got."

The twenty gunmen who were left carried out his command without any hesitation.

Immediately, gunshots rang out.

Even Luke had to retreat in the face of this barrage.

Not only were they shooting, they also threw out multiple grenades.

If he was cornered by these gunmen for even just a moment, Bullseye might be able to stab him with his daggers.

The next second, however, Luke knew that something was wrong.

Bullseye jumped into a car and drove off.

In the meantime, the men in suits who had never once participated in the battle got into the other two cars and fled with him.

Luke rose and was about to shoot them, when the gunmen close by suddenly exploded.

Yes, they really exploded. The thick dust and smoke created by the explosion instantly blocked Luke's sight.

Luke crouched down and cursed.

He had smelled bombs on those gunmen earlier, but hadn't paid much attention.

Now that he thought about it, he realized that the bombs might have been a precaution on Bullseye's part.

In the next ten seconds, all the gunmen exploded, including those who had been killed earlier.

Luke quickly retreated, an awful look on his face, and sent a message to Damon.

He had smelled a huge amount of explosives in the trucks as well.

The trucks hadn't exploded yet, probably because Bullseye wanted to lure him closer before he detonated the bombs.

It was common to chase someone down the exact same route.

If Luke didn't have Sharp Nose, he might've really fallen for the trap.

He ran out of the factory, went around the trucks, and rushed to his own car.

At that moment, the trucks suddenly exploded, and shards of debris shot out with the violent force. Luke had no choice but to but hide behind a wall.

He wondered how many bombs Bullseye had packed into the trucks.

Thankfully, the trucks were a hundred meters away from the factory where Damon and Mindy were, and the two of them had already evacuated after Luke sent the message.

Luke sent another message to Damon, telling them to get out of Los Angeles as soon as possible.

He got into his own car and quickly chased after Bullseye.

Very soon, he caught a whiff of the three cars.

The car he was driving was a modified one and was only meant to help conceal his identity, so it wasn't top of the range either.

Bullseye's three cars, however, were the best Benz cars, and the drivers were also quite skilled.

There were few cars on the street at night. Bullseye's cars even ran the red lights.

Of course, Luke had to follow them. He wondered if the system would punish him for the traffic violation.

But the system acknowledged that he was pursuing villains and didn't penalize him for it.

Luke frowned as the three cars ahead of him drove on.

After reaching a highway, Bullseye's cars charged forward at full speed without taking any turns.

Their cars were better than Luke's, and they ignored the traffic lights, so Luke couldn't catch up to them.

The car chase was quite a scene. Police cars were already arriving.

They had yet to catch up, but as was LAPD's procedure, a helicopter would be deployed in ten minutes at the very latest.

Five minutes later, there were sirens closing in from all directions. Clearly, the race between Luke and Bullseye on the highway had attracted the police's attention.

By then, the cars had reached the coast.

Suddenly, the Benz at the back exploded.

Luke couldn't help but curse out loud. He jerked his steering wheel and swerved into another street to avoid the blast from the explosion. Then, he gritted his teeth and resumed pursuit. "Damn it! You're not escaping today! Blow up your own car if you think you're good enough!"

A moment later, the second Benz car exploded too, which created even more distance between Bullseye's car and Luke's.

After another two minutes… Boom!

With a complicated look on his face, Luke stared at the dilapidated dock not far away, before he turned back in his car without any hesitation.

Bullseye had really been crazy enough to blow up his own car.

Of course, Bullseye had left on a boat by then before blowing up both his car and the dock.

The man had created four explosions in this area in the last ten minutes, and Luke would be held responsible if he didn't run off in a timely manner.

Besides, he didn't have a boat. It would be impossible for him to catch up to Bullseye.

Quickly leaving Los Angeles, Luke sank the car in a bay. He took a big detour, and then returned home in a cab.

When he got home, Selina was coming out of the basement. She asked, "Are you okay?"

After some reflection, Luke shook his head with a smile. "I'm fine. Actually, I'm feeling pretty good."

Selina observed him for a moment, then nodded. "Alright."

Luke was amused. "Okay, I'm going to take a shower. Go watch TV first."

Selina was confused. "Huh?"

Luke said, "Check the breaking news."

After a shower, he watched the news on the serial explosions along the L.A. coast.

He felt lucky after watching for a while.

Thankfully, there hadn't been anyone at the factory or at the dock, and no innocent victims were injured.

The two cars that were blown up before they reached the dock had injured three people, but not too badly.

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Chapter 266 Power at the Lowest Level

Luke could finally relax.

If there had been multiple deaths tonight, the case would've been thoroughly investigated.

Now that nobody had died and only three people were injured, it wouldn't be too serious an investigation, right?

Well… maybe not.

Those people who had been keeping an eye out for Bullseye, including Wales, would definitely pursue him even more intensely.

Bullseye had caused quite a scene, but had escaped with his life.

After Bullseye ran out of daggers and bullets, Luke could've worn him down.

After the battle, Luke estimated that Bullseye's physical attributes should be five times the normal.

Bullseye's body was weaker than Luke's, so he could only withstand Luke's attacks with his terrifying skills in shooting and knife-throwing.

However, Bullseye's instinct for danger was as good as Luke's. He dodged in advance and avoided Luke's shots many times.

Bullseye was quite tough in both offense and defense. The bombs that he was insane enough to carry on him also helped him escape.

No wonder he was Kingpin's top fighter, and was able to live so well in New York!

If he were less capable and brutal, he would've been killed a long time ago.

Regretfully, the battle was another tie since Bullseye retreated before Luke could defeat him.

So, Luke still didn't know what Bullseye's abilities were.

But he wasn't overly anxious.

Bullseye was based in New York, a grand battlefield which Luke was destined for. He would have Bullseye's abilities one day!

Drinking Dr. Pepper, Selina suddenly said, "Is there anything you want to tell me?"

Shifting his gaze from the TV to Selina, Luke asked, "You really want to know?"

Selina hesitated for a moment, but then lifted her chin. "At the very least, you can tell me more about Bullseye and the female shooter we encountered."

Luke thought for a moment, and decided that it was impossible and unnecessary to keep it a secret.

In a few years, many extraordinary people would show up, and a certain playboy would even publicly reveal himself as a superhero on TV.

As his partner, Selina had already encountered some of those extraordinary beings. It wouldn't hurt for her to know more about them beforehand.

So, Luke explained the other side of this world in a simple and straightforward way.

In summary, he said that there were a lot of unusual guys in this world. Like regular guys, some of them were good and some were bad, except that regular guys needed weapons to do bad things, while those unusual guys had super abilities for that.

Hearing that explanation, Selina said, after a long moment, "You're talking like they're street gangsters."

Luke chuckled. "Actually, despite the fact that they have abilities, they usually resolve problems the same way gangsters do."

If a problem couldn't be resolved through negotiations, it could be resolved through battle.

Selina's excitement faded after she heard such a boring answer. She asked again, "Is that why you want me to train harder?"

Luke shook his head. "It's not just you, but the both of us who are training harder. I'm not invincible. Do you remember that woman we saw in Las Vegas?"

Selina answered quickly, "That long-legged woman?"

Luke nodded. "I could barely hit that red-skinned monster, while he could only escape in panic from that long-legged woman, which suggests that she's levels above us in strength."

Selina asked, "How many levels?"

Luke said, "It's like the difference between school, state, country, and world champions. She might be one of the best in the world, and we're just beginners."

Selina immediately got it.

Luke looked at her and sighed. "I'm not demanding tremendous things from you, but you should at least distinguish yourself on the lowest level to increase your safety."

Selina said, "Huh? That sounds easy."

Luke looked at her with complicated feelings. "That's the level that Bullseye is at. How much more training do you think you'll need before you can fight him?"

Selina: "…You've got to be kidding me! How can he be at the bottom?"

Luke sighed and raised his head to look at the ceiling. "I'm sorry, but he's truly at the bottom."

Of course, this was purely from a combat perspective.

Actually, it wouldn't be hard for Bullseye to assassinate anyone with super abilities; his abilities were too suited for killing.

Selina watched TV for a while, then went to bed.

Luke, on the other hand, turned off the TV and returned to his workshop.

With his physique and his Elementary Self-Healing, it would be too wasteful if he didn't work hard.

His two hours of sleep were only for getting rid of his mental, not physical, exhaustion.

Even though Luke's Mental Strength had increased, he could only reduce his sleep time and not completely do away with it just yet.

Speaking of which, he had to boost his Mental Strength to 20 as soon as possible. A lot of things would change after he crossed this threshold. He was only one level from there.

After what happened tonight, he didn't believe that Bullseye would remain here any longer.

A lot of innocent people had been put in danger when Bullseye created the explosions, and he would definitely receive special attention for causing such panic.

Thinking this, Luke sent a message to Damon, and soon received a reply.

He read the message and was greatly relieved.

Damon and Mindy had been smart enough to drive away immediately after the explosions.

The two of them were now leaving Los Angeles to go back home.

If they hung around, they would probably be found out when the various law enforcement agencies descended on this case the next day.

Bullseye had Kingpin to cover for him, but it wouldn't be easy for Damon and Mindy, who were essentially lone wolves, to conceal themselves well enough.

The next day, Luke and Selina had breakfast and went to work.

They asked Elsa for updates after they reached the police department.

Feeling like they had gotten lucky, Elsa replied, "It should be Bullseye. That guy was hiding in Los Angeles all this time and never left."

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Chapter 267 Acting Chops

Luke put on a shocked expression. "Really? What did he do?"

Pondering for a moment, Elsa told Selina to close the door.

"Dustin told me something. I pulled some strings as well." Even though the door was shut, Elsa's voice was low when she said, "I heard that Bullseye clashed with an unknown person in an abandoned factory. They had a huge fight, and more than thirty people died. In the end, Bullseye ran to the coast and escaped on a boat."

Luke said in disbelief, "Who was it? Do we have such a tough gangster in Los Angeles?"

Elsa shook her head. "Unlikely. He could've been Bullseye's own kind, if you know what I mean."

Luke and Selina looked at each other thoughtfully.

Elsa thought that they were thinking about the previous cases. "So, this case is none of our concern now. Homeland Security and the FBI are in town to look for Bullseye. He can only sneak back to New York where Kingpin has the most power, if he doesn't want to be found out."

Luke said with relief, "So I'm safe now?"

Selina's expression was quite weird.

Elsa said, "Presumably, yes, but Bullseye hid himself for a long time when we thought that he had left, so you should still be careful. You'll stay in the police department to guide Elizabeth until we confirm that Bullseye is gone."

Luke and Selina said, "Got it, boss."

Elsa said, "Elizabeth has the case files. You can go help her."

Luke nodded, and as usual, Selina gave Elsa a box of desserts.

Elsa deftly put the box in her drawer. Tiramisu was more to her liking, and she had enjoyed it very much the day before.

Luke and Selina returned to their desks.

Looking at Selina's odd expression, Luke warned her resignedly, "Do you know what acting is? Even Mr. Stu was a better actor than you. The more knowledgeable you are, the more acting you'll have to do. It's fine in front of Elsa, but your expression might've betrayed you if we had been talking to someone else."

Selina nodded silently.

She had to admit that Luke performed quite well and acted as if he really didn't know anything about last night.

She, on the other hand, had almost burst into laughter back then.

While they were talking, Elizabeth and Billy came over.

The two rookies had specifically picked desks that were very close to Luke's, so that it would be easier for them to ask for help.

They greeted each other, and Elizabeth started to give an overview.

Their roles were similar to Luke and Selina's: Elizabeth was responsible for analyzing the intelligence, and Billy was responsible for the grunt work, such as warning or arresting the rogues.

Elizabeth said, "We have three new cases. The first case is a house in Wever. The house's new owner reported that there was a body there yesterday, but the officers didn't find anything. The second case is in Beverly Hills. The maid of a celebrity was hit with blunt force in the head, and may die from the injury. The last case is also in Wever. The body of a woman was found on a street bench. It was reported ten minutes ago, and we're going to check it out."

Selina asked, "What's with the first case? Is it necessary for us to investigate when there aren't any bodies?"

Elizabeth said, "The case wouldn't have been written up if the new owner hadn't mentioned the daughter of the previous owners; she went missing a year ago when she was five. The mother died of a heart attack brought on by grief a month after she went missing, and the father killed himself in the house."

"What about the celebrity's maid?" Selina asked again.

Elizabeth said, "The celebrity said that she was sleeping, and has no idea who hit her maid."

Selina chuckled and looked at Luke, who was spinning a pen between his fingers.

Luke thought for a moment and said, "Go and take a look at the body on the bench. We'll study the files on the other two cases first."

Elizabeth nodded and gave them the case files before she left with her partner.

Luke looked at Selina and asked, "Do you want to pick first?"

Without any hesitation, Selina picked the case of the celebrity's maid.

Luke grinned; he knew that would be her choice.

She had always hankered for the gossip that showed up in police cases which involved celebrities.

Since she never leaked details of an investigation, Luke didn't stop her.

They each picked up a case file and started reading

It took Luke ten minutes to read the documents in his hands.

One of them was the new owner's statement, and the other was information on the missing girl from a year ago.

There was nothing surprising in either document.

There were too many "haunted houses" and missing girls in America.

However, when the documents were placed next to each other, it became quite bizarre.

Why did the new resident claim that he saw the little girl? That was quite odd.

Seeing that he had finished reading the file, Selina asked, "Do you want to read this with me?"

Luke nodded and sat on the arm of her chair to read the file together.

Selina was reading the statements, so she gave Luke the report on the crime scene that she had already read.

Luke glanced at the report and asked, "Jennifer Perry? The woman in the Dior perfume commercial?"

Selina answered casually, "Yes, she's in the commercial where she wears all those sparkly diamonds, and takes off her clothes while she's walking."

Luke said, "I thought it was a diamond commercial when I first saw it."

Selina said, "She's rich and famous, so this case is confidential."

Luke remarked, "Rich people do have privileges."

Selina said, "Chances are that Elsa gave this case to us precisely because of your experience in dealing with rich women."

Luke: …Are you talking about the professional men who offer special services?

Luke's phone rang while they were bickering. He looked at the number and picked up the call. "Elizabeth, what's up?"

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Chapter 268 Weird Body and Another Assault

Elizabeth said over the phone, "Luke, the female body on the bench in Wever is… weird."

Luke asked, "Weird how?"

Elizabeth said, "Do you remember the case of the haunted house in Wever?"

Luke was confused. "Are they related?"

Elizabeth replied, "If I'm not mistaken, this woman on the bench… seems to be the mother of the missing girl."

Luke was stunned. "The woman who died of a heart attack?"

Elizabeth said, "That's right. We're asking forensics to check her fingerprints, her DNA and her dental records."

Luke rubbed his chin. "Stay there and keep me informed."

After he hung up, Selina asked, "What's going on?"

Luke patted her head and said, "I think you just missed a jackpot."

Selina shook her head, refusing to be petted. "Do you have to do that when you're talking?"

Luke said, "The body on the bench in Elizabeth's case might be the dead mother in my case."

Thinking for a moment, Selina was shocked. "You mean the mother who's been dead for a year?"

Luke nodded and asked, "Now, which case should we work on first?"

Selina hesitated for a moment, but refused the temptation. "Let's follow up on Jennifer's case first, then catch up on progress with your case along the way." Luke was lost for words; it seemed that Selina was unwilling to give up either case. It did make sense. That was Jennifer Perry, one of the best actresses in Hollywood. She was much more famous than a B-list star like Katie.

Luke simply indulged Selina's wish, and put his case file aside.

Without new information, there wasn't much he could do, at least not until the identity of the female body was confirmed. Focusing on Jennifer's case, he read the case file for a moment, then laughed. "Does this big star live in the wilderness of Texas? A maid bleeding out in the living room for hours before she was discovered? Are her security guards all like Selev[1]? In that case, it's a miracle that she's still alive."

Selina nodded. "The security guards claim that they aren't authorized to enter the house at night unless it's an emergency."

Luke said, "So, the house is actually a sealed container, and no one outside knows what happened inside, is that right?" Selina replied, "Yes. There were only three people in the house that night: the victim Millis, another maid called Manny, and Jennifer, our star."

Luke almost laughed. "Fantastic. So, there's a 50% chance that we can find the perpetrator by randomly picking one of them, right? … Hm, I take that back."

Looking at the photo of the maid's head wound as well as the medical diagnosis from the hospital, he changed his opinion.

He flipped back and reexamined the file and photos. Mulling for a moment, he shook his head. "No weapons were found?"

Selina said, without raising her head, "Not yet. There are no matching items in the house."

"Neither Jennifer nor Manny are very strong, are they?" asked Luke.

Selina nodded at first, but then shook her head. "Jennifer is normal. Healthy, at most. As for Manny, we'll have to meet her in person to be sure."

"If Manny isn't a professional, it would be hard for her to bash Millis's skull in like this." Narrowing his eyes, Luke said, "Let's go to the celebrity's house."

Selina was surprised. "We're leaving the police department?"

But she quickly came back to herself and put the case file in her purse. "Okay, let's go!"

When she saw the look on Luke's face, she finally remembered that she didn't have to stay in the police department as Elsa had instructed.

Luke had forced Bullseye to flee last night. Did Selina really need to worry about Bullseye?

No; at least, not when she was with Luke.

They drove straight to Jennifer Perry's house in Beverly Hills.

Looking at the mansion behind the gate, Selina's eyes glowed. "Luke, do you think there'll be… Um, never mind. Forget I asked."

She had remembered her fantasy of a hundred maids and a butler with a classic British accent when she saw the big mansion.

However, the statements she just read suggested that there were only two regular maids in this mansion, and all the other employees would leave after they finished their daily work.

Luke pressed a button on the gate and said, "I'm Detective Luke from LAPD. This is Detective Selina. We're here about Millis's injury from last night."

In the meantime, he showed his badge to the camera so that the security guards could get a clear look. Selina did the same.

A moment later, someone said, "Just a minute." After that, there was nothing.

After waiting for almost ten minutes, Selina couldn't take it anymore. She asked in surprise, "What's the meaning of this?"

Luke chuckled. "Elsa and I waited for quite a while when we visited Katie. Then, a maid ran out screaming that Katie was dead."

Selina burst into laughter. "That's just a coincidence. There's no way that'll happen again…"

The gate suddenly opened, and a male voice rang out anxiously. "Detectives, please come in. Manny was attacked!"

Both Selina and Luke were speechless.

The mansion was in chaos when they entered.

Luke roared, "LAPD! Everybody, stay where you are!" Stunned, everybody looked at them.

Luke said coldly, "Miss Jennifer Perry and the person who discovered the injured maid will stay. The rest of you, leave. No talking to each other and no phone calls. Are we clear?"

Everybody looked at each other in bewilderment. A moment later, a beautiful woman with long brown hair waved her hand and said, "Just listen to this… detective."

Luke looked at her and asked, "Miss Perry, have you called for an ambulance?" Jennifer answered in the affirmative.

Luke nodded and dropped Selina a hint.

Selina immediately understood his meaning. She quietly walked to the window and took out a phone that Luke had made, before she activated the voice-gathering function and pointed the phone at the four security guards on the porch.

Noticing that Selina had done what he wanted, Luke focused his attention on the beautiful woman in front of him.

[1] The dead star Katie's security guard

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Chapter 269 Ruined Crime Scene

Jennifer Perry was 27 and in the prime of a woman's life.

Her career was soaring and she ranked among the top five female stars in the country in terms of earnings last year. She was successful from every perspective. Now, in the face of this tragedy in her living room, she was more perplexed than shocked.

Luke gestured for her to sit down. Carefully avoiding the mess on the floor, he examined the maid who had been moved to the couch, and shook his head.

The woman's skull was fractured from the blow. It remained to be seen whether she would survive.

Luke didn't have the ability to save her.

He only knew field first aid, not brain surgery, so he stopped after a brief examination.

After calling the police department for reinforcements, he asked a male security guard, "You were the one to discover her?"

The guard nodded quickly. "Yes. When I came in, she…"

Luke interrupted him. "What's your name and your job here?"

The guard replied, "My name is Thomson Morris. I'm the head of security here."

"What's her name? What does she do?" Luke pointed at the maid on the couch.

"Manny Scott. She's a maid here," replied Thomson.

Luke nodded. "Stay here." He circled the living room and frowned deeply. He had yelled when he entered just now precisely because the five security guards and Jennifer were trampling all over the crime scene around the maid. He was positive that most of the clues in the room were gone.

Also, while trying to rescue Manny, they had spilled her blood everywhere in the room.

There were tissues, towels, blankets and a first aid kit around Manny, all stained with blood.

The people here all had varying amounts of blood on their clothes as well.

They were only trying to save Manny. But it was actually futile. Regular first aid was useless for Manny's injury, and all they had managed to do was ruin the crime scene.

The forensics department would probably curse like crazy too! Luke dropped his head in his hand when he saw the countless bloody footprints of six people all over the room.

"Thomson, tell me how you discovered Manny," said Luke.

Thomson, the head of security, hurried to explain.

The situation was very simple. He had been telling Jennifer that Luke was at the gate, and was asking for her permission to let Luke in when he heard Manny's scream.

He ran through the back door of the living room, only to see Manny lying on the floor, so he cried out for help.

The other security guards arrived and helped lift Manny onto the living room couch.

It wasn't until then that Thomson remembered Luke, and hurriedly unlocked the gate to let the two detectives in.

Luke was speechless. Do you really think that those security guards helped? If anything, they only helped the criminal!

All they had done was seriously mess up the crime scene and increase the number of suspects from two to six. Luke grumbled inwardly, If we were in a detective TV show, you would definitely be the murderer, and this would be your ploy to sabotage the crime scene!

Though he complained, he didn't really think that it was Thomson who had committed the crime.

After being a detective for a while, he knew how unreliable preconceptions could be.

Other detectives might only be able to follow their gut, but Luke had Sharp Nose.

Although the scents in the room were a complete mess and smelled like a complicated knot, he could still work with that.

Jennifer's smell was the simplest. It was the only one to come from upstairs, and carried over the shortest distance. Then there was Manny's smell. Those two could be ruled out first.

Judging from Manny's wound, the security guards were more likely suspects than Jennifer.

Luke said, "Stay where you are. Thomson, you can sit on the couch if you're tired. Don't bother me."

Then, he circumvented the mess of blood and footprints on the floor and began his investigation.

It might be tricky for other people to uncover the criminal, but Luke had a lead, which was the weapon.

According to Thomson's description, and considering how fast Luke had arrived, it was impossible for the criminal to get rid of the weapon so quickly.

Manny's blood and the criminal's scent was bound to be on the weapon.

Sniffing for a moment, Luke realized something, but he didn't say anything.

He reached Selina, who was by the window, and asked a question with his eyes, but she shook her head.

That meant that none of the security guards outside displayed any anomaly.

However, Luke already had a theory about who the perpetrator was.

It might seem difficult to uncover the person, but Luke was able to lock onto the man directly with his Sharp Nose. The most challenging problem in the case was resolved, and all that was needed now was evidence.

Twenty minutes later, forensics arrived.

Luke stopped them and whispered something to the person in charge, who nodded slightly.

One of the two forensic scientists dealt with the people outside, and one dealt with the room.

Everybody took off their bloodstained clothes and shoes, which were all evidence.

Then, those people had to leave the mansion until the forensic scientists were done with their work.

Jennifer was no exception. Accompanied by Selina, she took off her shoes and changed out of her clothes, before she sat down in her garden.

Luke reentered the living room and pointed at the bottom of a cabinet not far away from the back door.

Seeing Luke's motion, one of the forensic scientists turned on his flashlight and found an extendable baton under the cabinet. There was obvious blood on the stick.

Luke, on the other hand, went up the stairs to the second floor. He opened the door to one of the rooms and took a deep breath.

No mistake: this was Jennifer's bedroom. Only her scent and that of the two maids were in this room.

However, Luke's expression turned strange, and he didn't walk into the room.

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Chapter 270 Big Reveal

Observing the room from the door for quite a while, Luke confirmed his findings with Sharp Nose again before he closed the door.

He went downstairs and called Selina. "Where are the maids' rooms?"

Selina asked Jennifer, and soon replied, "The rooms are on the first floor below Jennifer's room. Manny's room is the one with the blue door, Millis's room has a red door."

Luke hung up when he was standing outside the rooms.

Neither room was locked, but Luke didn't enter. He simply activated Sharp Nose again.

A moment later, he went to the garden, an even stranger expression on his face. He sat down in front of Jennifer in the garden and asked, "Miss Perry, did you notice anything wrong when Millis was wounded last night?"

Jennifer said calmly, "No. I didn't feel well last night, and I went to bed early. I didn't hear anything."

Luke remarked, "That's understandable. I can tell that your room must be soundproof."

Jennifer nodded. "I have trouble sleeping and any noise will wake me up, so my room has to be quiet."

Luke asked, "How long have your maids been working for you?" After a brief silence, Jennifer said, "Manny will have worked for me for three years in two months. Millis has been here for fourteen months."

Luke asked, "Are they close?"

Jennifer said calmly, "I think they're okay. At least, I've never seen them fight."

Luke coughed and said, "Do you allow your employees to engage in romantic relationships with each other?"

Jennifer was stunned. "What?"

Luke asked with an odd expression, "If a security guard falls in love with a maid, will you fire them?"

Jennifer nodded quickly. "Of course; it's stipulated in their contract when they're hired, since it may affect their work. I believe the police have similar rules, right?".

Luke nodded and said, "Yes. So, you're unaware of any sort of relationship like that here?"

Jennifer was stunned. "Huh?" Luke said, "In other words, you didn't sense that any of them were together, otherwise someone would've been fired, right?"

After a brief silence, Jennifer nodded and said, "Yes."

Luke said, "Okay, that's all for now. Miss Perry, you can stay here or get some rest somewhere outside; it's going to be a while before forensics is done."

Jennifer said, "Got it. I'll be right here. I won't cause any trouble."

Luke nodded and left with Selina.

After they left the house, Selina asked, "Did you find anything?"

Luke said, "I can roughly guess who hurt Manny, but I can't determine a motive."

Selina urged him, "Just spill."

Luke said, "Let's talk in the car. Don't talk about a case in an unsecure environment, remember?"

Selina immediately shut up.

Actually, this was an understanding between the both of them.

It wasn't just work cases; their secrets, such as some of Luke's movements or their equipment, weren't to be discussed in an unsecure environment.

If Luke was capable of making a gadget to remotely eavesdrop on his targets, it was possible that other people had similar equipment.

After they got into the car, Luke pressed a button to make sure that it was safe. Then he said, "Manny was attacked by the security guard named Morgan James."

Selina didn't say anything and simply waited for him to finish.

Luke chuckled. "Morgan is in a secret relationship with Millis, who was hurt last night."

Selina's eyes glowed when she heard the exciting news.

Luke continued, "Manny, on the other hand, is in a relationship with Thomson, the head of security."

"Oh my god!" Selina asked in shock, "Why was Manny attacked? Was it because she discovered that Millis and Morgan were in a relationship? But that's just a job. There's no need to kill her, right?"

Luke chuckled and took out his phone. "Boss, I need a search warrant for Jennifer's house."

Elsa was surprised. "Why? You know that this may cause trouble. If the big star is upset, she may hire a lawyer specifically to file a complaint against you."

Luke said, "I know, so I'm only asking for a warrant to search the rooms of the maids and the security guards, not her own room."

Elsa was relieved to hear that.

All of the security guards were suspects, and it was routine to search their rooms, so she said, "Okay, I'll apply for it."

Luke said, "Boss, I need a warrant ASAP. Certain evidence may disappear when forensics is done and those people return to their rooms."

Elsa immediately realized that Luke had found something, and the search warrant was meant to help preserve legitimate evidence.

She said, "An electronic search warrant will be sent to your phone in ten minutes at most."

In fact, Luke received an electronic search warrant on his phone after just five minutes.

Luke and Selina got out and went back inside. They found Jennifer in the garden and showed her the search warrant.

Jennifer's face immediately changed. "You can't do that."

Then, she realized that both Luke and Selina were looking at her with smiles, as if they were expecting her to change her stance.

Jennifer gritted her teeth. "I'm going to call my lawyer." Luke grinned. "Miss Perry, even if you call your lawyer, it'll take him at least an hour to find the judge and cancel the search warrant. Our search will be done by then. Do you think that's going to help?" Jennifer looked even more awful. "What do you want?"

She, too, knew that her lawyer couldn't help, but there were certain things in her home that couldn't be found out.

What she was scared of was the paparazzi who was fanatical about her private affairs, not the police.

Luke didn't stop smiling. "Miss Perry, we're police detectives, here on a case. Two serious assaults that could've turned into murder happened here."

Jennifer hesitated, her expression changing. "What are you trying to say?"

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Chapter 271 Secret Recordings and Murder Weapon

Looking Jennifer in the eye, Luke said calmly, "Please cooperate with us while we work on this case. What you do with your employees is none of our business. Miss Perry, you're rich and you probably know a lot of people, but you can't reduce the negative impact this incident can have if the truth gets out. If that happens, you don't believe that you can keep what happened here a secret from the media, do you?"

Struggling with herself, Jennifer finally said in a low voice, "Can you promise me…" She didn't really know what she wanted to say.

Luke smiled. "Miss Perry, you don't have a choice. It'll be a huge problem for you if this case isn't resolved quickly. You may still run into problems after the case is resolved, but those will at least be easier to handle."

In any case, Jennifer wasn't an idiot. After all, an idiot wouldn't have been able to become a top national star.

She finally nodded and said, "Then I'll go in with you."

Luke thought for a moment before he agreed. He wasn't worried that she might cause trouble.

On the contrary, this star might reveal some more interesting information during the investigation.

After the three of them went in, Luke asked Selina to search the rooms.

Very soon, she found a lot of… sex toys in the maids' rooms.

Some of them were electric, and some were manual. They were also made of different materials.

Selina gave Luke a weird look, and Luke gestured for her to continue.

Very quickly, at a hint from Luke, Selina found a hidden compartment under Millis's bed. There were a lot of videotapes inside the space.

Jennifer's face looked quite ugly since there had to be a reason why those videotapes had been so carefully hidden.

Luke glanced at Jennifer but didn't say anything.

He took out an evidence bag and put all the videotapes inside.

"Miss Perry, can we go to your room?" asked Luke.

Jennifer quickly refused. "Your search warrant doesn't include my room."

Luke nodded. "If that's the case, we'll do it here. Selina, close the door."

After the door was shut, Luke put on gloves and picked out the videotapes that had "ME" on them. Then, he chose the most recent videotape and inserted it into the VCR in the room. A moment later, the TV started playing the recording

Selina, who was staring at the screen, was utterly shocked.

Luke was silent.

He had muted the TV earlier, so the room was utterly silent.

Ten seconds later, he replaced the videotape with another one that had "ALL" on it.

Jennifer blushed so hard she looked like she was going to explode. "What… What do you want?"

Luke pressed the stop button, took out the videotape, and turned off the TV. He turned around and looked at the star serenely. "It's very simple: I want you to help me resolve this case as fast as possible. As for these videotapes, it's possible that they aren't related to this case, right?"

Jennifer was unconvinced. "Then give them to me now."

Luke waved his hand. "Forgive me, but I can't return them to you until we've cracked the case. After all, this is proof that you might have a motive to kill them."

Jennifer gnashed her teeth. "If you take them away, how do I know that you won't copy them?"

Luke said, "It's very simple. We'll close both cases today, so I won't have to take the videotapes away."

Jennifer said in disbelief, "What? How is that possible?"

The smile on Luke's face disappeared, and he looked at her calmly. "Miss Perry, do you really not know anything? I want you to confess everything that you know. You have nothing to hide now, right?" He waved the videotape in his hand.

Jennifer was both embarrassed and slightly angry. After a long while, she finally sighed. "Fine, what do you want to know?"

Luke said, "Do the security guards know about your relationship with the two maids? Tell me, even if you only have suspicions."

Jennifer quickly shook her head. "That's impossible. We only do it in secret… That's why I forbid the security guards from entering the house at night."

Luke asked, "Did you ask Millis to record the videos?"

Jennifer gnashed her teeth. "No way, I'm not an idiot. She recorded them secretly. Exactly what did she want?"

Luke said, "Maybe to keep the videotapes as souvenirs, or maybe to threaten you with them someday. Anyway, Millis recorded the videos without your knowledge?".

Jennifer nodded regretfully. "Yes."

Luke asked again, "What about Manny? Did you notice anything abnormal about her?" Jennifer said, "Not really, except that…" She paused in embarrassment.

Luke raised his hand, telling her to continue.

She could only lower her head and say in a soft voice, "Except… Except that they fought for my affections every now and then."

Selina was completely dumbfounded by the conversation.

What the star had done was a real eye-opener for her.

Luke nodded and asked, "What do you think of Thomson, the head of security?".

Jennifer was confused. "Huh? I think he's been doing a good job."

Luke almost laughed, but he managed to hold back. "What about that Morgan?"

Jennifer thought for a moment before she shook her head. "He's nothing special."

Luke was lost for words. "Let's go. Miss Perry, you can come with us if you don't trust us."

Jennifer asked, "Huh? Where to?"

Luke said, "To search the security guards' rooms. After all, they're all suspects now, aren't they?"

Ten minutes later, Luke and the forensic scientists left the security guards' dorm with an evidence bag.

Jennifer was outside the dorm with Selina, who was holding the bag that contained the videotapes. Seeing Luke as well as the item inside the evidence bag, Jennifer blushed again. "What… What are you doing?"

Luke said mysteriously, "This is the murder weapon." Both Jennifer and Selina exclaimed, "What?"

Clearly, neither of them was convinced that the item could be a murder weapon.

With a strange smile on his face, Luke said, "Although it's designed to satisfy the ladies, who says that it can't be used to fracture Millis's skull?"

Jennifer and Selina were both shocked.

They had never considered such an unbelievable possibility.

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Chapter 272 I've Never Seen Such a Murder Weapon Before

Luke showed them the item and said, "Do you see the blood on it? That should be Millis's."

He gave the evidence bag to the forensic scientist who was with him. The forensic scientist was clearly surprised as well. "I've never seen such a murder weapon in all my years of work. This murderer is truly a genius." Luke glanced at him. "Just keep it to yourself. This case hasn't been resolved yet."

The middle-aged man shrugged. "Trust me, nobody likes to listen to the details of my work."

Luke chuckled and had nothing to say about that.

Most people didn't know how disgusting forensic work could be.

Sometimes, forensic scientists could be haunted by weird smells for days after going out just once on field duty.

It was also one of the reasons why it was even harder for a forensic scientist than a regular police officer to find a soulmate.

"Investigate the murder weapon first," Luke said. "I'll be waiting to close this case."

The middle-aged man nodded and said, "The results will be out by tonight. I'll call you."

This was a critical case which had to be resolved before the media took note and reported it, or the police's abilities would be called into question. The forensic scientist would've prioritized this case even without Luke's reminder.

The forensic scientist left with a bunch of evidence, and Luke returned to the mansion.

"Let's go see your room," said Luke.

Jennifer didn't hesitate this time. After all, now that this detective had videotapes of her greatest secret, she had nothing left to hide. Going around her room, Luke looked at her and asked, "What were you doing when Millis was attacked?"

Embarrassed, Jennifer said in a low voice, "I… I wasn't doing anything."

Luke pointed at the closet in the corner of her room. "Do you want me to open the closet and check it?"

Jennifer exclaimed, "No, that's unnecessary. I was actually waiting for Millis in my room. She said she was going to fetch something, but she never returned."

Luke asked, "Why didn't you go look for her? You have a convenient call system in your house, right?"

Jennifer lowered her head and said, "Manny was here, too, so I forgot…" Luke raised an eyebrow. "So, before Millis was attacked, you, Manny and Millis were together?"

Jennifer could only nod, not even daring to look at him.

Selina completely shut up. She found it impossible to understand the lifestyle of the rich and famous.

Luke wasn't surprised at all. He had discovered too many secrets with Sharp Nose. Scents would never lie.

His physical attributes were much higher than those of a normal person, and his Sharp Nose had been enhanced too.

Given enough time, and provided that the environment wasn't spoiled by wind or a storm, he could pick up subtle scent details with Sharp Nose.

For example, it wasn't strange that he had detected the scents of the two maids in Jennifer's room, but the smell of certain body fluids of theirs certainly wasn't normal.

What was even stranger was that the distinctive smells were mixed together and came from various clothes and personal items. There were similar clothes and items in the maids' rooms as well.

While Selina was still feeling shocked over the videotapes, Luke had already seen it coming.

"What about this morning? Did you hear Manny's scream when you were speaking to Thomson?" Luke asked.

Jennifer nodded. "I did."

Luke asked, "Are you sure you heard Manny scream during your conversation with him?"

Jennifer frowned for a moment and nodded slowly. "I did hear Manny scream suddenly when we were talking."

"Can the security guards enter your house at night without alerting you?" Luke asked.

Jennifer shook her head. "They each have a remote to open the door, but I receive a notification when any of the remotes are used, and I can track who opened the door."

Luke asked, "What if you open it from inside? Will there be a record of that?"

Jennifer was stunned. "Why would I open the door… Wait, are you talking about the maids?"

She suddenly got it, and shook her head. "There'll be a log of it if the door is opened from inside, but the maids can't erase that."

On the other hand, Luke was thinking that if the security guards were conspiring with the maids, they could enter the house without Jennifer realizing it at all.

"That's all my questions for now." Luke asked, "We're probably going to be here for some time. Can we drive our car in?"

Naturally, it was impossible for Jennifer to refuse.

"Very well. Miss Perry, you're free to leave now. We'll be here for a while." Luke's eyes briefly stopped on the videotapes.

Jennifer could only continue nodding. She certainly didn't want them to take the videotapes out of her sight. Luke quickly parked the car in the courtyard.

Then, he talked to Selina for a long time in the car.

After that, Selina kept Jennifer company, and Luke fetched some food and water for them from the kitchen.

As one of the top stars, Jennifer had all kinds of exquisite food in her house.

Selina wasn't picky about the food, but she drank the Dr. Pepper that was in Luke's car and not Jennifer's VOSS water.

While Jennifer was distracted, Luke reentered Millis's room and watched the only videotape that had a special number on it.

Then, he chuckled, feeling bored.

At that moment, he suddenly recalled what Takagi had said before: "What kind of terrorists are you? You only want money?"

Now, he was of a mind to shout, "What kind of love is this?"

The murder weapon and the videotapes were enough to show what happened.

However, Luke couldn't close the case yet, because he didn't have any proof.

Unless the criminal had left evidence on the murder weapon, the case couldn't be closed, even if he knew every detail of it.

He then talked to Selina for a while, and told her to take a nap in the car while he kept Perry company.

Luke had some water and asked, "Miss Perry, what will you do when the case is over?"

Jennifer was clearly at a loss. "I… I don't know."

Luke nodded and said, "Understandable." The star would definitely be traumatized after this incident.

Suddenly, his phone rang.

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