[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-super-detective-in-the-fictional-world":3,"chapter-super-detective-in-the-fictional-world-super-detective-in-the-fictional-world-chapter-1003":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"english","Super Detective in the Fictional World",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},1483221,1930,"Chapter 1003 - Look at This","super-detective-in-the-fictional-world-chapter-1003",1003,"\u003Cp>Luke coughed and said, “No, I’m just lamenting that the world is unpredictable.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Robert looked at him suspiciously for a moment, before he finally gave up.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He was suspicious, but he had no proof.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They spent the day in New York City until five in the afternoon. Then, they returned to the villa and packed up, ready to go home the next day.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After a brief hesitation, Robert pulled Luke outside.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Walking along the street in the cold, Robert finally asked, “Did you hear anything about my old friend?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Luke hesitated for a moment before he shook his head. “I only discovered that his real identity is Frank Castle, but his family no longer lives in New York.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Stumped for a moment, Robert was silent for a long time. “Then forget it. If he can return to a normal life, that’s better than anything else.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Luke asked, “Is he very important to you?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Robert sighed. “He saved my life — three times.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He didn’t say anything else.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Luke naturally understood what he meant.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Robert was a very loyal man. Although he was usually rough and straightforward, he always remembered the favors he owed others, and would always return them when he had the chance.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It could be said that he was a very righteous man.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was a good thing he entered the army when he was young. If he had joined a gang, he would’ve been dragged down and killed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Frank Castle had saved him three times; this was a life debt, and a connection that couldn’t be shaken.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Luke could only rejoice that he hadn’t divulged the possibility that Frank might be in trouble, or Robert wouldn’t be able to rest easy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Luke could only help Robert handle this matter.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Without Robert, Luke wouldn’t have been able to grow up well until he was eighteen.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There were a lot of nasty stepfathers. It was truly a blessing to meet someone like Robert, who was even better to him than an actual biological father.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Although he liked to bicker with Robert, Robert was his family.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Robert and Catherine were far more important to him than his deceased parents.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They had raised and protected him for more than ten years, and in Luke’s heart, that was stronger than blood ties.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After a brief chat, they returned to the villa.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Looking at their expressions, Catherine didn’t ask any questions. She simply had the two of them help pack.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>On the morning of December 28th, Luke drove them to the airport early, and they went into the VIP lounge as usual.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Although he rarely flew, he had VIP cards for all the major airlines.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After sitting for a while, he got up and said that he was going to take a walk. He then went to enjoy the view near the airport runway.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In fact, he was doing a safety check with Sharp Nose and Elementary Sound Wave, which he was starting to become familiar with.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It wasn’t that he was paranoid, but on Christmas Eve, it was said that there had been a terrorist attack on a plane, which crashed at an airport in D.C..\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As a result, the airports in New York had increased security, but Luke trusted himself more.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Suddenly, Selina sent him a short video with a message. “Look at this.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Luke thought that she was bored and had sent him a video of the failed chocolate cake that her siblings had made.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The cake looked like a pile of sh*t at first glance, and it was rare that something could actually disgust him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, he still opened the video.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It showed the typical Texan wilderness, and then a huge pit.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There seemed to be something in the center of the pit, and a lot of people had gathered and were making a lot of noise.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Selina was standing on the side as she filmed the pit, and her voice rang out. “Is that a hammer?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Luke was stunned for a moment; this scene felt a little familiar.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then, Selina sent him a series of images and messages.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He took a look; she was probably walking along the side of the pit and taking photos as she moved.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Her messages read: “A lot of people are here.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“There are people from the farms and pastures around Shackelford.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“They’re pulling on the thing... It looks like a hammer.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“They said that nobody can lift that hammer.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“...That hammer looks like it’s welded to the ground.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Looking at the images and messages, Luke cursed a rare “WTF” out loud, which attracted a lot of attention.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His voice wasn’t soft at all.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But he wasn’t in the mood to bother with them right now. He sent Selina a message, telling her to send photos, starting with the hammer and then working her way out.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Selina was already close to the hammer, so she didn’t think too much about it and did as he said.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Less than a minute later, Luke looked at the image in front of him and heaved a long sigh. “F*ck, are you kidding me? Is this the hammer?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even as he spoke, he immediately booked a ticket on the same flight as Robert and the others.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Plane tickets were tight around Christmas.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thankfully, Luke had plenty of money and a VIP card. He secured the best seat in business class, and then called Dustin to tell him that he was going back to his hometown for a few days.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Dustin himself was on vacation. He had only asked Luke to keep an open line, and cheerfully let Luke go.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If there really was an emergency, it would only take half a day for Luke to come back.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Walking back to the lounge, Luke looked at his family, who were chatting and resting, and said with a smile, “I thought about it. I’ll go back home with all of you for a few days. Happy? Surprised?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Everybody was stunned for a moment, then smiled. Claire and Joseph surrounded him and started making a fuss.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A moment later, Luke sent Selina a message and told her to take her entire family to Houston.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No matter what excuse she came up with – she could say it was a New Year’s break for the Hayek family – she had to take everyone out for a few days.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Selina didn’t ask any questions. She simply agreed and went to make arrangements.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Luke, however, pondered how he was going to get his family out of Shackelford.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The region around the hammer wasn’t safe.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thankfully, Robert was around, and he definitely understood how dangerous certain mysterious incidents could be.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Catherine usually didn’t say much, but she always had an idea of what was going on.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So, the only real problem was... his grandpa Drax.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It just so happened that the images and messages which Selina had sent indicated that the hammer was in the mountains not far from the ranch.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>How could he get this hot-tempered old man out of his precious ranch?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Luke’s gaze soon stopped on Claire and Joseph. It seemed that he could only use his ultimate weapon — fight to the death and act like a spoiled child.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Making up his mind, Luke drew Robert and Catherine to one side and explained the situation and danger to them in a low voice.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After the incident with the big octopus on the cruise ship, they had a lot of faith in Luke, and easily accepted that another “mysterious incident” had happened again.\u003C\u002Fp>",1252,"2026-06-06T03:36:16.122Z",1,"novelbin.me","1b6fccb957e21fda6dac5042671974a227799dcf0150d23d48f08a50da5d2253","super-detective-in-the-fictional-world-chapter-1004","super-detective-in-the-fictional-world-chapter-1002",2233,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fsuper-detective-in-the-fictional-world-cover.jpg"]