Super Detective in the Fictional World - Chapter 290
Chapter 290: Luke’s Reassurance and Selina’s Conscience
When he was at the door, Luke said without turning back, “Bobby, you need to learn to control your abilities, alright?”
Bobby nodded with a bitter smile. “I know. In fact, I can only sense intense emotions, like when Miss Jenny misses you…”
Luke waved his hand. “Okay, I’m not criticizing you, but it would be best if you can fully control your ability. Keep it up.”
He was both slightly disappointed and reassured.
Bobby didn’t seem very gifted when it came to his mental ability. It was highly unlikely that he would turn into another Professor X.
After he left, Luke called Jenny. “Hey, how’ve you been?”
Jenny was all dressed up and was about to leave when she received Luke’s call. She said in delight, “Ah, did you learn from Bobby that I’m going to negotiate with Google?”
Luke was stunned for a moment. “Negotiate?”
Jenny smiled. “I reached out to a vice president at Google with my personal connections. Hm, he’s actually my dad’s friend. I call him Uncle Lamarck. He happens to be in town and is very interested in your product after my introduction, so I’m meeting him today.”
Luke smiled too. “That’s good. Since you’re busy today, I won’t waste your time anymore.”
Jenny hastily stopped him. “Wait, are you only calling me to ask about work?” She sounded upset.
Luke chuckled. “You’re my assistant. Of course I care about work first. Okay, can I now invite the beautiful Miss Gwenis to dinner? I’m free tonight or tomorrow night.”
Jenny rolled her eyes and said, “Okay, it’s a deal. You’ll have dinner with me tonight and tomorrow night.”
Stumped, Luke smiled. “As you wish, Miss Gwenis.”
After teasing each other for a while, Luke hung up.
Given his physical attributes, he was in fact willing to accept Jenny’s invitation every day.
However, he couldn’t spend too much time on her. Two nights were already extravagant enough.
He only slept for two hours at night nowadays, and devoted the rest of the time to making equipment and training. Having dinner with Jenny meant that he would lose at least twenty hours of work and exercise.
However, he needed to relax every now and then to avoid psychological issues.
That night, Luke found a hidden gem of a three-star Michelin restaurant that served Western food in Los Angeles.
He barely went to restaurants as he could cook himself. However, Jenny was clearly very familiar with restaurants like these.
They hadn’t grown distant despite not seeing each other for days, and had actually been keeping in touch by phone.
Jenny was aware that Luke was busy with tricky cases, so she didn’t insist that they meet.
Luke naturally didn’t tell her about the cases he worked on.
It wasn’t because he didn’t trust her, but because his cases couldn’t do anything except make one feel uncomfortable.
He simply entertained Jenny with the more hilarious cases he encountered when he had been on patrol in Houston.
Now that he thought about it, Brock’s arrangement back then hadn’t been all bad; at the very least, it gave him a lot of stories to tell.
He wondered how the man was doing after he unfortunately lost his job because of Faraday Page.
Luke would feel much better if he knew that the man wasn’t doing great.
Neither of them went home after dinner, but left for a hotel.
Luke didn’t go to another three-star hotel. He found a four-star one in Beverly Hills.
Jenny hesitated and said, “…Actually, three stars is fine.”
Luke chuckled. “That’s fine. I made a fortune recently.”
They checked in and chatted in their room over a bottle of wine.
Jenny told him about her meeting with her uncle.
That vice president Lamarck was very interested in Luke’s navigation map, and said that he would give it consideration.
Then, Jenny couldn’t help but ask, “Will you really not consider lowering the price?”
Luke thought for a moment, then shook his head. “They can buy it if they want. If they don’t, it’s fine.”
Jenny was surprised. “Huh? Why?”
Luke said with a smile, “Because I’ve developed capacitive touchscreens. So, it doesn’t matter now whether or not the technology can be sold.”
Jenny asked, “Why?”
Luke said, “With capacitive touchscreens, we can start our own phone company. If Google is interested, however, we can negotiate with them over the capacitive touchscreens too.”
There was no Apple or Steve Jobs in this world, so it remained unknown who would usher the world into the age of touchscreen smartphones.
Jenny was rather shocked.
While she had inherited her father’s business talent and had picked up many things quickly, she couldn’t always foresee whether or not something would make money.
So, she was simply overwhelmed with disbelief after hearing what Luke said.
Jenny had seen and used the touchscreen phone that Luke had made. It was indeed convenient, but she wasn’t ambitious enough to build a major company on it.
Luke shrugged and said, “It’s fine. You’re an MBA student, and I’m just a high school graduate. I’m waiting for you to make our business flourish. We’re still young, anyway.”
Jenny rolled her eyes. Are you mocking me by explicitly saying that I’m an MBA student when you’re a high school graduate?
In her fury, she jumped on his back and attacked Luke’s ears.
Luke simply smiled and pulled her in his arms.
The night was too great to be wasted on talk of money.
Luke went to work the next day, completely refreshed, leaving Jenny sound asleep.
They had been busy until two in the morning and busy again later in the morning. She was completely exhausted.
Thankfully, she didn’t have to work, and there were no classes on the weekend. It was also why she had invited Luke to dinner two days in a row.
Luke picked Selina up on his way and gave her the dessert that he had bought at a store as her snack for the day.
While having the chocolate mousse, Selina grumbled, “Well, you’re not entirely inconsiderate.”
Luke chuckled. Did it hurt your conscience to say that?
