Chapter 1210: Speculation on Luck and the Case of the Stolen Necklace

He lost more credit points and could only postpone the upgrade of the inventory for now, but he wasn’t in a hurry.

Ever since running into Mephisto’s clone, he could only feel reassured if he had enough spare credit points.

Closing his eyes for a moment to experience the effects of Elementary Light of Life, he raised his right hand a little doubtfully.

Several seconds later, a hazy white light appeared on the tip of his index finger.

Under the sun, this bit of white light would be ignored.

But at a distance of ten centimeters in front of him in the lab at night, he saw very clearly that there was a faint white light on his index finger.

Luke had a strange expression on his face. Sensing the system’s simple explanation of this ability, he murmured, “No way. A magic ability?”

Thinking for a moment, he picked up a scalpel and made a very small cut on the unconscious Tandy’s arm, like a paper cut.

Then, he placed the glowing tip of his finger on the cut.

Before he could even press down, the white light approached the wound, and in the blink of an eye, the wound disappeared.

Luke’s eyes widened. “Holy sh*t!”

No matter how he looked at it, this light and shadow special effects and practical result looked like a healing spell!

He wasn’t happy about this harvest for long, however. Instead, he started to frown.

He had a bad feeling about how good his luck had been recently.

As the saying went, after hitting the top, the only way to go was down. He had been reaping very useful abilities one after another during this period of time; was this a warning from God?

Luke’s heart was heavy when he thought about how Sheerah had been involved in yet another theft case when he went to her performance; even obtaining Lifeforce couldn’t dispel his worries.

He had been very unlucky in his previous life.

Since young, all he got from lucky draws was a lot of toilet paper.

When he bought lottery tickets for a year, he only won 20 bucks once, and 5 bucks three times.

He could lose over 100 dollars in one afternoon from playing mahjong.

In this life, he relied on Daddy System to escape this bad luck curse, but now, he realized that the curse was following his friends.

His feelings were complicated.

But real life liked messing around. Several days passed after that night, and while New York was still as noisy as ever, nothing major happened.

Also, the diamond necklace which the little thief, Tandy, had stolen was recovered the following afternoon.

This gave Luke and Selina another opportunity to slack off once more.

The case wasn’t too complicated.

The little girl, Tandy Bowen, was 17 years old. She had dropped out of high school and followed her boyfriend around to steal things for a living.

She had a severely ill mother, so she could only go around stealing things to cover the medical fees.

It sounded like a drama script, but this was real life.

And there was even more drama to it.

Tandy’s father had been a senior engineer at the giant Roxxon Corporation; Tandy used to be a rich kid.

The girl’s father died following an accident on a large oil rig, and Roxxon Corporation blamed it on the dead senior engineer.

The company found an excuse to throw Tandy and her mother out of their house, and they became penniless overnight. Coupled with her depression and anger, Tandy’s mother soon fell ill and lay sick for years.

Listening to this real-life drama plot, Luke didn’t know what to say.

Although what the girl had done was wrong, he couldn’t tell a teenage girl to find a way out on her own.

It was best not to count on welfare donations forever; you wouldn’t necessarily get anything even after applying for them.

Stealing was without doubt the simplest way to make money.

That and the way hooligans charged a “toll” to passers-by while toting guns were the lowest of the two-bit “professions” in America.

It was Tandy’s boyfriend who took her to carry out these thefts.

This boyfriend wasn’t a decent person, grooming his girlfriend to become a thief. He was also the stereotypical brainless hooligan.

After obtaining the diamond necklace, he felt that if he sold it, he would make a fortune, and there was no need to split the money with Tandy.

Thus, the idiot boyfriend found a reason to trick Tandy out of the car on a remote street, before he hit the gas and drove off.

Tandy had just come back to her senses and was cursing her boyfriend, when the hooligans blocked her way.

But Luke had heard her cry for help on his way back, and thus rescued her.

Under Elementary Pheromone Control, Tandy readily confessed everything, including her brainless boyfriend’s license plate number.

The guy didn’t even bother to switch cars when he went to a certain shady shop the next afternoon to pawn the loot.

The patrol officers noticed that the plate number belonged to a suspect. They stopped and arrested the boyfriend on the spot, taking him back to the police department along with the diamond necklace on the passenger seat.

It had been less than 24 hours since the theft of the diamond necklace, and the suspect had already been caught.

It was impossible for Tandy’s boyfriend to get rich on his own, but it was possible for him to go to prison on his own.

Luke, on the other hand, treated Tandy better than the supergirl trio, and sent her to a secluded bungalow in Nassau County.

She had to be properly educated for a few months up to a year; it was equivalent to her entering a private juvenile detention center.

During that time, Luke anonymously donated a large sum of money to a certain fund, and had it help pay for Tandy’s mother’s medical fees and living expenses.

After confirming that her mother was being taken off, Tandy’s resistance crumbled, and she obediently accepted being reeducated.

There were two reasons for this.

Firstly, Luke didn’t want to use Elementary Pheromone Control too much on Tandy.

This girl was basically normal. If she held a grudge and deliberately resisted the Pheromone Control, the duration and effect would be significantly reduced.

If she continued to resist, it might cause her serious psychological damage.

Jessica Jones, the private investigator, was a classic example.

Secondly, not only was Tandy’s Light of Life partially available for Luke to learn, her original version was very useful.

Luke believed that Tandy’s ability could be used to save many people.

After her reeducation was over, she could become a community or charity volunteer to atone for her past misdeeds; that was more meaningful than sending her to prison.

It took him several days to deal with everything related to Tandy.

By then, he had accumulated 1.04 million credit points in the system.

Luke had been harassing the system in the last few days, and finally confirmed that the upgrade of the inventory wouldn’t affect the ordinary items and living beings stored inside. It was just that he wouldn’t have access to them during the upgrade.

With a thought, he summoned the system.

System: 10,000 credit points required to upgrade the inventory. Upgrade?

Luke chose yes.

The system: The upgrade will take 24 hours. The inventory won’t be able to function for the time being.

Luke wasn’t too surprised.

If his guess was correct, the volume of his inventory would go from 10×10×10 = 1,000 cubic meters to 100×100×100 = 1 million cubic meters.

He would be surprised if the upgrade didn’t take some time.