[{"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-1408":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},1483476,1930,"Chapter 1408 - Trust, Commotion, and a Way to Vent","super-detective-in-the-fictional-world-chapter-1408",1408,"\u003Cp>After saying goodbye to them, Luke stood in front of the wall and put on his Bat suit before he left through the water.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The submarine, on the other hand, automatically floated up and turned into an ordinary yacht, which sent Tony and Natasha back to a small pier in New York.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Watching the yacht turn around and leave, Tony turned and called for a cab.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After he hung up, Natasha asked, “Bruce Wayne – did you find any information on him?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Tony replied curtly, “No.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Natasha chuckled. “His face is a nanomask, right?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Tony scoffed. “Did you think he would use his real face?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Natasha glanced at him. “You can’t see his original appearance?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The sunglasses that the tycoon was wearing weren’t ordinary. They had a lot of detection functions, and couldn’t be compared with her equipment.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Tony said, “He’s not that stupid. My equipment can eliminate the influence of the nanomask to a certain extent, but he has other ways to interfere. You didn’t get anything, right?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Natasha sighed regretfully. “This Batman is really…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She didn’t know how to describe him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She knew too well how important confidentiality was in doing dangerous work. As someone who was a target and at the center of attention, Batman couldn’t be any more careful.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If she were in his shoes, she would instantly erase all traces and go into hiding.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She wouldn’t set up a meeting like this.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Tony chuckled inwardly. He wasn’t surprised. On the contrary, he felt that it was perfectly normal.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He had known Batman for so long, and though that face was fake, it was better than looking at the armor.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>People were like this: If you lowered your expectations, any small gain would make you happy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Furthermore, Luke had only poured wine for Tony during the entire meeting, and he hadn’t given Natasha any preferential treatment.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Clearly, Tony, who had been personally acknowledged as a “friend,” had a much higher status than Natasha.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So, even if he truly discovered some secret of Batman’s, he wouldn’t tell Natasha.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Batman didn’t trust SHIELD, so how could Tony? He was nothing more than an Avengers consultant.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He trusted Batman more than he did SHIELD.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The next few days were busy in New York. Luke and Selina couldn’t slack off anymore.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>NYPD had suffered heavy losses this time. More than a hundred officers had been killed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Also, most of the police officers didn’t know that Assistant Commissioner Brad had been taken away. Nobody knew where he had gone.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Chief Nelson wasn’t too happy about that.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After Brad left, all the pressure was on him. As the only four-star ranked official in NYPD, he now held the highest position.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Family members of deceased officers needed to be appeased, work needed to be adjusted, and the New York citizens were unhappy. All of this gave him a headache.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But in the wake of crises came opportunities.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After his biggest opponent disappeared, donations started to pour in from many corporations.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>NYPD received two large contributions through him: 20 million from Stark Industries and 10 million from Titanium Phone Company.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At the very least, that was enough to cover compensation for the deceased hundred or so officers and medical expenses for the other injured officers.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Chief Nelson dismissed several mid-level executives and dozens of related administrators.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then, Selina became a level one lieutenant, and Dustin took the position of second-in-command at HQ’s Investigation Bureau. Elsa was promoted and replaced her boss.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The newly expanded intelligence department was also purged, and the newly added personnel were taken away by the FBI and Homeland Security for vetting.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Elizabeth had switched from leading a two-person team to leading a team of over ten people.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Chief Nelson wasn’t fazed as he made these changes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Brad’s men had been taken down, and he had only gotten a small portion of the benefits. The other NYPD bigshots were also taking advantage of the situation to divvy up the empty positions.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Their fates would be determined via mutual private communication.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Selina and Dustin’s promotions were nothing more than a passing thought. After all, Luke really couldn’t be promoted again for the time being.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Nevertheless, the chaos within NYPD was just a consequence of the attack by the test subjects, and could even be said to be the least of everyone’s concerns.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The public and media were still focused on the thousand or so dead citizens.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Various gory photos and videos continued to spread, which were a huge shock to the audience.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If it was a natural disaster, the people would have nothing to say, and could only try nitpicking emergency rescue services for not trying hard enough.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, this was clearly a man-made disaster. The numerous voices among the people and in the media basically came down to the same view — someone had to take responsibility for the attack.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sacks Industries and the Foot Clan were at the forefront.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Various industries were quickly seized, and related personnel were detained or summoned within a day.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Bigshots who were close to Sacks were pulled out and investigated one by one to see who had supported Sacks.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Those who had connections to Sacks did all they could to distance themselves from him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, Sacks Industries had been in New York for more than ten years, and many people couldn’t be washed clean of suspicion.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In a short period of time, two New York council members, a judge, two district attorneys, and Brad, the NYPD deputy commissioner, had left office. The investigation which awaited them was another long story.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But that wasn’t enough.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In 2001, a terrorist attack set off a wave in the United States.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Military and anti-terrorist expenditure skyrocketed, along with the FBI and CIA’s authority.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As long as there was suspicion of terrorist activity, the FBI didn’t need conclusive evidence, and could directly arrest and interrogate suspects.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Although not as many people had died this time, the bitterness was no less intense.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Politicians and bureaucrats being turned into scapegoats and punching bags as they were dismissed from their positions wasn’t enough; people needed a way to vent.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The investigation into the main culprit behind Sacks’s attack wasn’t made public. Besides, nobody would believe that it was a business corporation and a gang working together to carry out the attack.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When did gangs stop thinking about making money and start thinking about carrying outterrorist attacks?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The members of the Foot Clan were all born and bred Americans; people might believe that someone in the gang had helped terrorists in exchange for money.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, nobody would accept that they were the ones who had planned this.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>From beginning to end, the authorities never made clear who the culprit was.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Erik Sacks, the CEO of Sacks Industries, and Karai, the second-in-command of the Foot Clan, weren’t good enough to be the mastermind, while Shredder, the leader of the Foot Clan, had disappeared.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At this point, things changed slightly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Feeling stifled with anger, the people naturally focused their attention on another main character in the attack — Batman, along with his superhero friends..\u003C\u002Fp>",1179,"2026-06-06T03:36:24.499Z",1,"novelbin.me","22cca98608d79689b5116dfdb72e2ffa0dd50592806afd01879123e727f4a987","super-detective-in-the-fictional-world-chapter-1409","super-detective-in-the-fictional-world-chapter-1407",2233,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fsuper-detective-in-the-fictional-world-cover.jpg"]