Chapter 1412: Settle Internal Affairs First
Translator: Henyee Translations Editor: Henyee Translations
Luke knew that things weren’t that simple.
He had deliberately simplified the matter.
But over 1,000 lives had been lost and there was a public outcry. Despite the wisdom that came with age, Damon would occasionally think that he might be partly to blame.
Why didn’t Luke feel this way? Because he had the system.
After stopping the test subjects, the system had given him 70,000 experience and credit points.
This included shared points from his 3-star teammates, Selina, Mindy, Alice, and the little turtles. All up, they had probably saved 5,000 lives to get so many experience and credit points.
In other words, if his team hadn’t been deployed that night, thousands more people would have died in New York.
Between watching thousands of people die without doing anything, or working hard to reduce the number of deaths to just over 1,000, the choice was very simple.
Hearing Damon’s words, Luke simply smiled. “Did you order the test subjects to storm New York and kill everyone?”
Damon subconsciously shook his head. “How is that possible?”
Luke spread his hands. “We’re just pa.s.sive defenders who faced the enemy, and the battle took place among the people. Let’s replace the test subjects with a missile – thousands of people will die if you don’t stop it from falling. Or, if you stop it, the fragments will scatter and kill 1,000 people. Does that mean that you won’t stop it?”
Damon fell silent.
Luke said, “Don’t be turned around by the hypocrisy and lies of the outside world. Only your heart has the answer.”
He then pointed at his heart. “As long as it tells you that it’s the right thing to do, do it.”
Damon nodded silently.
Touching her chest, Mindy’s eyes flickered, and she suddenly interjected, “My heart tells me that it doesn’t want to attend so many lessons. It feels that this is the right choice. So, can I choose not to go?”
Both men raised their eyebrows. How much do you not want to go to school? How can you come up with such a ridiculous reason?
Luke smiled and touched her head again. “Then let me tell you the second half of what I was going to say.
“The louder your fist and the louder your voice, the more p.r.o.ne someone will be to listen to you.” His unhurried voice rang out. “To do the right thing, you must first have a strong enough fist to make others listen to you.”
Mindy gaped.
The first half of his words had been a solid bowl of chicken soup for the soul, while the second half was cold hard truth.
She subconsciously looked at her little fist, and then at her father’s, which was the size of a sandbag. Fine, in this world, whoever had the bigger fist had the right.
…
When he left Damon and Mindy’s house, Luke was relieved.
Damon had only been affected slightly, and should be fine now.
Mindy was even simpler. Luke just needed to use a little Pheromone Control to make her ignore the annoying programs and remarks and focus on being a student.
That was in line with the girl’s own thoughts. She wasn’t interested in the boring stuff anyway.
The effect of Pheromone Control would last for a long time, and Luke wouldn’t need to check up on her again for a month or two.
In the end, he had given Mindy a bowl of poisonous chicken soup.
Was Luke so relaxed just because he firmly believed that he was right?
No. What made it so easy for him was money, as well as the increase in power and strength brought about by money.
If he really was an ordinary superhero, even if he had a.s.sets worth tens of millions or hundreds of millions, he would still be very tired.
However, with the triple boost from money, power and his own combat strength, he was invincible.
With this strength, he would be able to find out who wanted to deal with him, and how they would do so.
Then, he would be the one to ponder how to deal with these people.
To these bigshots, this might be a fis.h.i.+ng game; they were the people who held the fis.h.i.+ng lines while Batman and the superheroes were just fish waiting to be hooked.
However, Luke felt that this time, it was more like a single-shooter, American version of the game “Deep Dark Forest.”
In the dark forest that was America, Batman and those bigshots were all hunters.
Whoever was exposed first would become the prey.
However, there were only two parties in this game. The bigshots could pretty much be considered one party, while Batman was on his own.
So, the bigshots thought that they were the hunters, not the prey.
But Luke was already outside their encirclement. He could write down their names in his little black notebook and check them one by one, picking them off in pa.s.sing.
He was an old hand at taking secret potshots!
…
After Damon and Mindy, appeasing Alice was much easier.
Neither she nor her daughter Carrie read the news or went online to read comments.
The mother and daughter only watched TV dramas and did all sorts of exercise and combat training. They lived very ordinary lives.
So, when Alice asked about taking Carrie to a theme park, Luke agreed without much hesitation.
When Alice asked Carrie which theme park she wanted to go to, and that it was up to her, Carrie was conflicted.
There was more than one place she wanted to go, but it was hard to tell which one she wanted to go to the most.
Luke didn’t really care. Even taking a plane to Los Angeles would just cost a little more.
It was also good to give the girl time to think about it, and let the two of them check online before deciding.
At that point, Luke only had one target left for his “internal operation,” and that was the little turtles and their master.
Ivan? Sorry, this guy didn’t need comforting at all.
As a villain, not killing a few innocent people could already be considered as him turning over a new leaf. Now, someone was saying that he hadn’t been chivalrous enough?
Ivan simply hugged two girls in the bar and watched the idiotic female TV talkshow hosts spout nonsense. His lips curved up in a wicked smile. “Сука блядь!”
The two girls almost lost their souls at that smile, and their legs couldn’t help but tighten up.
That smile suited his decadent and handsome face too well, coupled with his unrestrained expression. They couldn’t wait.
Ivan stopped watching the news and left with the two girls.
Compared with the old and ugly female hosts and guests on TV, he preferred to listen to girls shouting “oh my G.o.d” in his ear.
While Ivan was busy hooking up with girls, Luke entered the temporary new home of the little turtles and their master in his Bat suit.
They were very happy to see him.
Selina, in particular, had come bearing a huge stack of cheese pizzas. She smiled and patted the heads of the four little turtles, before she fed them this “turtle food.”
Luke could only roll his eyes.
Fortunately, it was hidden behind his mask and wouldn’t destroy Batman’s image.
Selina’s preferences when it came to raising pets had clearly changed ever since Gold Nugget appeared.
But Dollar should be considered her parents’ pet, not hers.
It could only be said that she did like dogs, but not that the pets she liked were dogs.
Looking at the four mutant animals, who were a little silly, round, and a little cute, Luke sighed. If she treated them as pets, fine.. In any case, feeding them was just a matter of using the smart kitchenware to make cheese pizzas, which was much easier to sort out than for Gold Nugget.