Chapter 1246: Unclear Modification, and Scapegoat King’s “Divine Weapon”
Luke liked Dustin, and naturally didn’t like Brad.
Now, he just watched this deputy commissioner jump around.
If Brad became commissioner, it would be the perfect opportunity for Dustin to escape being tied down by this swindler.
The higher a person went, the more care they had to take.
As commissioner, Brad would be a lot easier to deal with than now.
At that time, Dustin would be able to see off this stingy boss.
As for George and Misty, it wasn’t a bad idea to build a good relations.h.i.+p with them.
The 15th Precinct had jurisdiction over a large area of Clinton.
If they had a personal relations.h.i.+p with the “boss” here, they would receive more support in the area.
It was in the interest of both parties in the long run; they both wanted law and order in Clinton to improve, so a cooperation was worthwhile.
George and Misty hadn’t specially come to investigate Luke, or they would’ve known that he was a NYPD colleague.
They were just visiting the neighborhood. It was impossible for them to read the files on all the residents here.
They were here to find out what happened on the day of the undead’s rampage, including Big Dipper’s ma.s.sacre of the mercenaries.
These cases actually had little to do with the 15th Precinct, and had been taken over by s.h.i.+ELD earlier on.
George just wanted more information for his own sake.
s.h.i.+ELD might have taken over the case, but George still had to maintain law and order in his jurisdiction.
More than 200 mercenaries had died in this case. For the sake of law and order, he had to come and investigate in person.
Luke also revealed some things outside the NDA, and indicated that he couldn’t say too much.
He lived next door to the apartment building, and was a member of the Detective Bureau, but he didn’t talk about the 200 or so mercenaries who died that night; he was limited by the NDA.
Anyone who could become a branch chief in their thirties wasn’t stupid.
George tactfully stopped asking. He and Luke weren’t close, and the latter wouldn’t violate the NDA to give him inside information.
But he was also certain that this young detective wasn’t simple.
His manner of speech and the information he revealed on certain topics proved that he was an “old” detective with connections.
Putting aside his young appearance and age that was on file, George felt that he was the cla.s.sic NYPD old fox.
So, before he left, he gave Luke his personal card to indicate that they could stay in contact outside work.
From the way Luke spoke, he was too familiar with Clinton.
George felt that he needed a subordinate like this who dared to set up house in h.e.l.l’s Kitchen.
So, he made up his mind to check the young detective’s history at the police department.
If Luke was suitable, George could get Luke transferred to work under him.
Luke didn’t know that George was already thinking about poaching him from Dustin.
He chatted with Selina for a bit before he went to his workshop and got busy.
The cross of the divine artifact, the key to the door of the afterlife, had already been “eaten” by his inventory, but he didn’t know the exact effect of the modification.
He hara.s.sed the system, and only received a notification that the s.p.a.ce for live specimens had been enhanced.
As for how, the system only said that sentient creatures could now be stored in the s.p.a.ce.
Clearly, this required yet more testing on his part.
Luke was used to it.
Daddy System should just be its blank self; Luke wouldn’t feel at ease if it was too lively.
In any case, he had a lot of trials to run, so one more didn’t matter.
Currently, his first test project involved various types of mechanical and electronic equipment, such as armor, cars, flight technology, nanotechnology, and various weapons.
This project was mostly supported by Tony’s abilities. Luke also used the Predator’s technology and other bits and pieces of technology that he had gathered, and combined them for testing as needed.
Generally speaking, this sort of research didn’t take a lot of time.
After all, Tony had done similar research with the support of Stark Industries’ enormous R&D department and his bursts of inspiration that could happen at any time.
It just so happened that Luke didn’t have either of these conditions, so he didn’t expend much effort in this respect.
Tony was an ordinary person, which was probably why he had been working hard to advance in technology.
If he was distracted by studying superpowers, Tony’s research on the Iron Man Armor would definitely be greatly affected; it would be embarra.s.sing if he became a Jack of all trades but master of none.
As someone who took it easy, Luke wouldn’t try to challenge the tyc.o.o.n in research inspiration. When Luke had the time, he would refresh Tony’s list of abilities; he was very happy to reap the gains secondhand.
His main focus was on testing his own superpowers as well as research related to Selina and Gold Nugget.
Compared with Tony, their biggest advantage was their superpowers.
The most suitable approach was to accept what one had and work wholeheartedly toward developing that.
That way, if Tony’s technology couldn’t solve the problem, Luke could still try with superpowers at least.
Or, if the two were combined, it might solve a problem that couldn’t be fixed by one side alone.
However, the most important thing for Luke right now wasn’t to improve combat ability.
His combat ability was tech + superpowers. Apart from a few people on Earth with “cheats,” n.o.body else could compare with him.
So, the most important thing was support systems.
Scapegoat King Big Dipper had officially debuted, but that wasn’t enough.
Unless the Scapegoat King revealed his face, he wouldn’t be effective… but the version 1.0 of the hardware required was almost complete.
This was no longer a half-finished product where only the face could be copied, but a complete version.
Once the final bit was completed, the Thousand Faces System would be able to completely change a person’s appearance.
From the body to a person’s looks, nothing was left out.
The only downside was that it was very weak.
One punch from someone like Luke and Selina, who had superhuman strength, would damage the Thousand Faces System.
But this flaw could be ignored for now.
It wasn’t like Luke was going to use the Thousand Faces System to fight; he was just going to use it to turn into another person, and then transform into another alias in public to ensure that any investigation of him would go off in the wrong direction.
Luke finally finished the first full set of the Thousand Faces System before midnight.
Like the Thousand Faces mask, this version 1.0 could only store one character model.
He gave Batman this opportunity without hesitation.
Just like how the Scapegoat King wouldn’t be as effective if he didn’t show his face, Batman in the end would still need to show his face.
The downside of Batman not revealing his face was that it was hard for other people to completely trust him.
In particular, what Luke wanted most was to turn allies into teammates in the system, and the last barrier of trust was that they didn’t know what he looked like.
What Phil and Tony did could be considered upholding justice and punis.h.i.+ng evil as they protected the people.
Once they became teammates, Luke could enjoy the experience and credit points which they would share with him.