Chapter 1202: The “Main Characters” In April
Luke had always had high expectations for these two super experience packs.
After all, two old hags who had lived for 500 years would do anything for the sake of longevity. The number of people they had killed personally or indirectly wasn’t a small amount.
Even then, Luke, who was slowly becoming used to big scenarios, was dumbfounded by the six-figure experience and credit points.
To put it simply, each of these two old hags had committed a crime equivalent to killing tens of thousands of people.
Their wicked deeds filled the heavens, and annihilation could be considered a light punishment for them.
Also, based on their own confessions, when the modern form of combat became dominated by firearms, the ninjas they trained lost their absolute advantage.
The Hand turned into a secret organization over the years, and it wasn’t as easy to destroy towns and cities as in ancient times.
The number of crimes the other three “fingers” of the Hand had committed couldn’t be any less than what these two old women had done; there wouldn’t be a problem doubling the number of experience and credit points.
Thinking that, Luke looked at his 311,000 / 700,000 experience points, and suddenly felt that leveling up… wasn’t too hard.
There were three remaining Hand gift packs. He just needed to find two and destroy them, and he would be able to advance to level 19!
At that time, he would be close to the threshold of level 20 and 40 Dexterity.
Also, if a sheep like the Hand was already so fat, how fat were the other organizations that were also part of the twelve members of the High Table?
This was a long-term project that was every bit worth years of hard work and research.
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April was also the third month of spring in the Chinese calendar.
It wasn’t just the weather, but the entire city of New York also came alive with news and activity.
It wasn’t like before, however, where most of it had to do with fas.h.i.+on shows and musical performances.
New York was especially colorful this spring.
In the past, everyone would be focusing on the latest fas.h.i.+on runways, celebrity scandals or spring blockbusters.
From the young to the old, what most people talked about now was superheroes.
Among them, Batman and Iron Man was the prime combo that had become cla.s.sic entertainment for the audience.
Even though most people regarded the villain boss Whiplash as a bad guy, he was still popular with a lot of “unconventional” teenagers.
This world needed a supervillain who could withstand the combined beatings of Batman and Iron Man.
So, a bad guy who was beaten up twice by the Bat/Iron CP… was enough proof that he was qualified.
For these rebellious youngsters, it was about being strong and cool.
Bad guy? Who hadn’t fantasized about being a villain in their moody phase?
Of course, most people only fantasized about strutting around as a villain, and never thought about the details — the most important thing was being cool.
That was why Ivan, with his scarred face and violent temperament, and those whips of his, had a lot of supporters.
They insisted that the great Whiplash would come back again! And he would fight the Bat/Iron CP once more.
Selina burst out laughing when she read the comments online. “They just want to see him get beaten up a third time, right?”
Luke shrugged. “After all, bears have the thickest skin, and taking the most vicious beatings is very suitable for Ivan.”
Apart from these three main characters who had put on two performances, Justin Hammer, who played a minor role, also successfully got himself carted off to prison.
At Pepper’s suggestion, the new detention center built with donations from Stark Industries very considerately arranged a single cell with a stainless steel bed for the CEO, ensuring that Justin would live more comfortably than other criminals.
Justin was a little comforted by that.
At the very least, the criminals in the other cells could only threaten him with their eyes but not touch a single strand of hair on his head.
As for his prison sentence, CEO Justin hadn’t given up yet. He was trying to look for connections to turn his imprisonment into temporary confinement.
While there weren’t any clean businessmen, reputation was very important.
As an ex-convict, Justin would become the biggest joke of the upper-cla.s.s society in the future — going to prison for a small crime was clearly stupid and an embarra.s.sment to all businessmen.
Of course, not going to prison and just being detained was also a joke, but there were a lot of businessmen who had experienced the same thing, and it wasn’t something people would remember in particular for the rest of their lives.
Unfortunately, the rest of the world was more attuned to news of Batman and Iron Man working together, and most of their attention was focused on the funnier aspects.
In this case, at the top of the list was undoubtedly Rhodes’s “ex-wife,” and Justin, the brainless businessman who was in cahoots with the bad guy, also made the top ten.
Justin’s dark history was dug out. Countless keyboard warriors rose up in response with photos as “the truth.”
The video of Justin badmouthing Tony at the last hearing was also played.
Thanks to Stark Industries’ PR department, this guy was successfully labeled greedy and incompetent.
With these labels, it would be very difficult for Justin to improve his position in upper-cla.s.s society in the future.
After all, n.o.body wanted to get too close to a guy who was known to be stupid; the chances of catching the stupid was always high.
Thanks to this hot news, the destruction of the Hand in Harlem didn’t draw much attention.
It was because the fight had happened inside the restaurant, and n.o.body had recorded Batman’s battle.
Matt and the others who had been at the scene weren’t stupid enough to step forward to be interviewed.
The crippled members of the Hand who lay all over the floor also had nothing good to say. Saying too much would just put them in prison for longer.
In fact, they didn’t know much.
That was how the Hand worked. The boss didn’t need to explain anything to his subordinates.
This way, even if the paparazzi were interested in Batman, they couldn’t do anything.
After all, there were a lot of videos and pictures of the Bat/Iron CP fighting Whiplash and the Iron Soldiers. There had been a lot of people at the scene, each with their own views, which easily fostered discussion.
There was nothing on the destruction of the Hand, and thus no hype.
After two days, this matter was buried under other news.
After that, the news was that Victoria’s Secret would be holding a press conference for its new line. A beautiful supermodel named Alessandra Ambros...o...b..came the hot topic of the year.
At the same time, Sheerah was invited to the press conference.
The general public expressed strong interest in this sort of press conference that was clearly taking advantage of Batman and Iron Man’s popularity.