“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.