Chapter 121 - A Rewarding Robbery and Superficiality
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Luke chuckled. “Just now, another bank robbery took place in Manhattan. Four robbers disappeared in a BMW 760Li after the job.”Stunned for a moment, Elsa realized what he was implying. “Are you saying that the four women are the robbers?”
Luke said, “It’s just a guess, and I don’t have any evidence. However… do you think it can help us?”
Elsa frowned.
Whether or not the four women were robbers, they were the ones, not Sergei, who were committing the crime.
Thus, there was no value in this case for her and Luke.
However, the women hadn’t started robbing banks until after they met Sergei.
Also, the female robbers had robbed two banks in a row. NYPD had to be desperate to catch them.
It would be possible for her and Luke to get something out of this.
They might be able to negotiate for law enforcement power in Sergei’s case.
Of course, the odds weren’t high, but it was still worth a shot.
Considering it carefully, Elsa asked, “Can you keep an eye on the four women?”
Luke nodded and said, “I can try.”
Elsa said, “You watch them. In the meantime, I’ll check out the robberies.”
Luke asked, “…Do we have enough money? We’ll burn through our funds if I take a cab.”
Elsa’s gaze shifted from Luke to the secondhand bike he had bought.
Luke rolled his eyes. “I can ride a bike, but you should at least reimburse me first.”
Elsa remarked, “This ragged thing is worth a hundred dollars at best. I’ll personally reimburse you if the boss won’t.”
Luke chuckled. “Excuse me, but I paid four hundred dollars for it since it was an emergency.”
Elsa: “…Get lost! I can give you two hundred dollars at most. You can go on foot if you don’t want it!”
Luke said, “Deal. Remember that you owe me two hundred bucks.”
Elsa was lost for words.
Luke left on the bike that had been half-reimbursed. Elsa was bummed for a moment, but got excited soon enough.
If this case turned into a big thing, her plan might actually work.
Now, she needed to sort out the case details and report back to Dustin so that he could decide whether or not to make a deal with NYPD.
After Luke came out, he wasn’t in a hurry to track down the robbers. Instead, he found a store that sold secondhand appliances.
He bought a bunch of parts in the store, including secondhand phones, laptops and radios.
He also bought a set of maintenance tools, before he finally left the store.
Luke couldn’t help but turn around to look at the black boss just as he was about to leave. He found the boss’s face familiar, but he couldn’t think where they might have met.
The sign for the secondhand store read: Zeus Appliances.
However, since he had robbers to track, he put the thought aside and returned to his apartment with the parts.
After preventing the hijacking, Luke had obtained abundant credit points.
It would be too wasteful if he didn’t use them.
He finally made up his mind to learn Tony Stark’s abilities.
What he chose were all the 1,000-credit abilities.
Elementary Electronic and Mechanic Engineering, Elementary Electronic Development, Elementary Mechanical Development, and Elementary A.I. Development were all advanced abilities that cost a lot.
Luke didn’t feel regretful at all.
He estimated that he would have acquired twenty thousand credits by the time he accumulated 40 Strength for Elementary Self-Healing.
While credit was precious, it had to be used when necessary.
With the abilities that he learned from Tony, he could build useful gadgets for himself. When he had more money, he would even be able to design equipment for himself.
Of course, he was different from Tony.
Tony Stark had the body of an ordinary person, so he needed advanced technology, which required a tremendous amount of money, to build up his combat ability.
Luke, on the other hand, didn’t need as much advanced technology to make up for his shortcomings.
He had also made a deal with Damon and Mindy previously to supply them with equipment.
As long as he found a suitable way to get the money from them, he would have enough funding for his projects.
What if the father and the daughter didn’t cough up the cash?
Well, for Damon and Mindy who harvested drug dealers like they were fruit, was money important? They could always kill more drug dealers if they needed money.
So, Luke wouldn’t be short of money in the future.
What he was making right now was a receiver.
He had given the phone which he had specially modified to Mindy. Now, Luke intended to make a better one.
Just now, when he watched the two boxes of sexy lingerie being opened, he had stuck a special tracker to the BMW with a flick of his fingers.
However, given its size and the fact that it wasn’t very energy efficient, the tracker would only send out a signal every ten minutes, and it wasn’t a very powerful one.
So, Luke needed a special receiver to detect the signal from a distance.
Of course, the receiver didn’t have to be small; Luke could live with it even if it weighed five kilograms.
An hour later, Luke had created a brick.
Different from Tony, who pursued beauty as a perfectionist, Luke was a pragmatist; more importantly, he didn’t have as much money as Tony did.
The brick-like receiver was hideous, but it was functional.
On second thought, however, Luke couldn’t help but put the brick in a black bag.
Hm, it was too ugly to be seen. Thinking this, Luke suddenly paused.
Why do I care so much what it looks like? Right, this has to be a side effect of Tony’s abilities. I’m definitely not such a superficial man!
Quickly putting the blame on Tony, Luke left his apartment with the receiver.
It was connected to an earpiece, so Luke didn’t have to hold it and check it all the time.
By then, it was getting dark.
Luke returned to where he had enjoyed the lingerie show, before he started searching in the direction in which the blue BMW had disappeared.
After a long while, Luke finally received an alert. “Target acquired. Two hundred and thirty meters up ahead and to the right.”
Luke perked up and approached his destination unhurriedly.
It was an old building in Queens. The first floor of the building appeared to be a body shop.
The body shop looked like it was closed, except that Luke could faintly hear voices inside.
Luke took a deep breath, and immediately recognized the four women.
He had to admit that it had been easy to track them.
They were very professional when it came to bank robberies, but they were even more professional in the pursuit of beauty.
Luke could have smelled their perfume from hundreds of meters away.
