Chapter 380 Wolf’s Little Secret
Luke was going to set up a new company with Chris to run the gold mine.
Boom Town’s gold mine would be up and running again with Luke’s capital investment, and he would get 25% of the shares.
Samantha, Elizabeth’s mother, invested some of her money too, and had a 5% share.
The rest of the shares belonged to Chris.
That was the basic situation. Jenny had negotiated the details; she was better at contracts than Chris was, and wouldn’t cut a losing deal.
Chris also didn’t really hesitate to make the deal.
The mines he currently had were already dry. He hadn’t shut them down yet only because they were his father’s lifelong work.
He didn’t have the money to get them running again. Even if there really were new mother lodes, he could only helplessly watch the mines go bankrupt if no investments came in.
Now that Luke had expressed interest and was willing to take the risk, it was impossible for Chris to say no.
Where did Samantha get her money? It was a low interest loan from Luke’s company.
Luke didn’t really care how Elizabeth persuaded her mother to accept the loan, but from this moment on, Samantha would be a supervisor of the new company.
Luke also thought of a new job for Bobby Max, his PR manager.
Since there was no progress with Google, he would send Bobby to this town in Arizona to dig the gold mine; or rather, to supervise the digging of the gold mine.
The new mother lode was located in the spider’s nest where Luke had saved Gladys. Thanks to his a.s.sortment of abilities, Luke had been able to identify the gold ore.
When he discovered the peculiarity of the ore that had been in one corner of the spider’s nest, he brought a small piece back for testing in the lab.
Based on the ore he brought out, there was roughly fifteen grams of gold in every ton; this was absolutely high grade ore.
Of course, it was also possible that Luke’s sample just happened to have a higher percentage, and the overall amount wasn’t that high.
But considering the history of that gold mine, seven grams of gold in every ton of ore was still impressive. Moreover, there was also silver and bronze in addition to the gold, which could also be mined and sold.
Luke’s investment in the gold mine was only a pa.s.sing interest, and he didn’t plan to devote his time to it.
He was neither attracted to nor talented at business. Naturally, he wouldn’t spend time on this aspect.
It was good enough if he could earn some money from the gold mine.
After discussing the gold mine with Jenny, the two of them finally got down to official business, and unexpectedly discovered that there were even more questions and knowledge that they needed to work on.
The next morning, Luke pulled Secretary Jenny into another round before he left the hotel, br.i.m.m.i.n.g with satisfaction. On the way home, he tossed Jenny and the gold mine to the back of his mind as he mulled over another matter.
Something was seriously wrong with Wolf Elsworth.
After Jenny fell asleep last night, Luke slipped out of the hotel and found a gang that he had been investigating for a while.
After making some “inquiries” with a higher-up of this gang, he learned some interesting intelligence. Wolf Elsworth had a secret hobby, and often looked for female college students through those gangsters.
Most of the small fry in the gang weren’t clear on the details, and only two leaders who dealt with this matter were aware of Wolfs ident.i.ty. Also, some of these students went missing soon after.
Furthermore, Wolf had always been close to his nephew Dylan, and was a regular customer of Prime Exotic, his nephew’s luxury car club. After Luke picked up Selina, they went to the police department.
Sonia came over the moment she saw them
Looking at her face, Luke asked, “What happened?”
Sonia said, “Scorsese found something. Come and take a look.”
Naturally, Luke didn’t refuse.
The three of them went to Sonia’s desk, and she took out a photo from a folder. “Scorsese found something on the soles of the feet of that girl in pajamas. It’s not anything like tar or mud, but the leaves of a unique plant.”
Luke nodded.
Sonia said, “This is an expensive ornamental plant. It’s called…”
She browsed through the case file and read, “It’s called Red Dawn Maple, and when I was looking up information on Wolf, I happened to catch this.”
She opened an image on her computer. “This is one of Wolf Elsworth’s mansions. He often throws parties here. Look here.”
Luke narrowed his eyes and watched as Sonia clicked and zoomed in on one part of the image.
On either side of the steps outside the mansion were two beautiful crimson plants that were between 1.5 and 2 meters tall.
“Is this Red Dawn Maple?” Luke asked.
Sonia nodded. “It’s a maple from j.a.pan. It’s a unique and valuable species, and is very rare here. Also, this mansion is only a couple of kilometers from Dylan Elsworth’s villa.”
Luke pondered for a moment and asked, “So, the girl in pajamas wasn’t far from Wolf Elsworth’s mansion when she got hit?”
“The scene of the accident is even closer to the mansion; it’s only several hundred meters away.” Sonia looked around and said in a low voice, “Also, Scorsese searched unsolved cases in the archive from the last two years, and found the same maple leaves on another three victims. One of the victims was found at the construction site for Wolf’s new company.”
Luke raised an eyebrow. “Is he that stupid?”
Sonia said, “…Maybe he himself doesn’t remember where he tossed the body? After all, not even driving your car away after hitting and killing someone isn’t smart either, is it?”
Luke nodded with a smile. “True; they have money, after all.”
Thinking for a moment, he said, “Don’t continue investigating this case, understand?”
Sonia hesitated and asked, “You…”
Luke shrugged. “Other people might be interested in Wolf Elsworth’s hobby, but not us.”
Sonia stared at him and nodded silently.
Luke took the files to Elsa.
A moment later, Elsa went to Dustin with the same files.
Luke returned to his desk and gave Sonia an OK gesture.
Sonia nodded and continued with her work.
She didn’t really want the credit; if she provoked the Elsworth family, it wouldn’t be pretty for her.
By doing this, Luke had completely pulled her free of this case, and she didn’t need to worry about the Elsworth family taking revenge.
Also, Sonia had inexplicably helped to intercept stolen goods worth tens of millions of dollars previously, and Dustin had specifically said that she had a hand in it.
How could Sonia be unsatisfied?