[{"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-1484":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},1483552,1930,"Chapter 1484 - Funding? Lending Money","super-detective-in-the-fictional-world-chapter-1484",1484,"\u003Cp>Translator:Henyee TranslationsEditor:Henyee Translations\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Luke turned to Misty. “Steve is a good guy. He should be able to help you.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He took two steps back and coughed. “Girls tend to fall for Steve, but he’s a pure boy. Misty, don’t hit on him.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With that, he grabbed his clothes from the stool and slipped out the door.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The man and woman left behind in the gym stared at the door blankly for a moment before they looked at each other in bewilderment and suddenly burst out laughing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Luke himself was only 20. Saying that Steve was a pure boy was a joke!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, Steve looked conflicted. That was impossible. Could he really tell?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But he soon tossed that aside.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Luke was clearly joking. It wasn’t like nobody had ever joked about that before. He couldn’t be bothered to bicker with a kid.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Let’s sit over there.” Steve gestured at Misty, and they sat back down on some stools and talked.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Luke drove away happily.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He had come here purely because it was convenient.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Of course, it was only after finding out that Steve came here that he had Jenny use his personal name to invest in this gym.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The original owner had been very happy when the gym, which hadn’t been making much money, received a huge investment, new equipment, and a facelift, along with a pledge by the new owner to keep the gym running smoothly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As for whether or not someone discovered his relationship with Jenny, Luke didn’t really care.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After all, he had saved Miss Jenny before. It made sense that she would be happy to give him something in return.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, meeting Steve today could only be said to be a coincidence.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>An idea had struck Luke, and he had simply grabbed Steve.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This old man was trustworthy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Misty had lost her arm fighting a monster to save citizens. Steve wouldn’t refuse to help her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As a battle veteran, he should know how to regulate his comrades’ mental states.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Otherwise, nobody would be fired up when he yelled “Charge”; it would be very embarrassing for him to be the only one charging forward.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Misty’s psychological issues were similar to that of a vet crippled in battle, though she had a new arm and a new posting. It was because things had changed too quickly, and she had yet to adjust to them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As long as Steve solved this problem, Misty, who had been able to kill a test subject on her own, would naturally recover.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After two minutes of exercise, Luke had been able to rope in a “specialist” in psychology, which wasn’t a loss. He drove off with a smile.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He had just gotten home, when he suddenly received a computer file from Jenny along with a message: “A large number of companies have been looking to us for funding recently. I’ve put together a list. Take a look.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Pouring himself a cup of coffee, Luke took a sip before unhurriedly opening the file.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Anyone with an information source in America now knew that Titanium Phone Company had plenty of cash on hand and was looking to invest in high-tech projects with more potential.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This matter had come up in various investigations and reports, and Jenny had acknowledged it herself in an interview.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Funding applications from heaps of companies instantly came flooding in.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As CEO, Jenny had her subordinates first get rid of the sham applications before she sorted out the rest with the smart program which Luke had given her. She gave the list a final once-over before passing it to Luke.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The reason he had asked Jenny to step up was because she was famous and partly because she had a lot of cash.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Secondly, her reputation in the business world had always been good, and there had never been news of her knocking other people down.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When all was said and done, Titanium was basically letting other people in to make money together. The company had never unscrupulously swallowed up other companies and their technology.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was what dispelled many people’s doubts.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was far from just small workshops that were looking for funding.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The bulk of the funding applications were from tech companies worth more than a hundred million.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Compared with small companies, they had basically achieved some results, but were in a difficult predicament because of lack of funding.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Some couldn’t continue their research, and some weren’t capable of doing the marketing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If they could curry favor with the cell phone company, giving up some shares in exchange for a huge injection of cash and a rise in the value of their own shares would be worth it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So far, Luke had invested in a dozen companies.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The shares he got in return weren’t important. The important thing was that some of their technologies was indeed useful to him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Tony Stark’s abilities weren’t to be trifled with.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Although Luke didn’t have the tycoon’s scientific creativity, he had enough knowledge and foresight to understand the value of many skills.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Like Luke had said a long time ago, if Tony switched careers and focused on energy, software, data and electronic products, he would still make a lot of money.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The tycoon hadn’t done that because he wasn’t interested.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even with its weapons division, one of its main businesses, shut down, Stark Industries’ current projects still spanned many industries, and the company was indisputably a supergiant.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At the same time, Luke didn’t really care about money.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The technologies he chose were mainly for his own use.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He didn’t have scientific creativity, but he could buy someone else’s.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If he wanted to have fun, he would do it himself. If he wasn’t interested, he could spend money and have the company continue the research.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He could use the technology in advance.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In any case, he was a shareholder, and it was just for private use.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There were also some technologies that would be useful for the phone company.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Luke simply added a brief explanation and pointed out the future potential of these technologies and their application to Jenny, who would decide whether to invest or acquire them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This could be considered their regular communication.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jenny had sent over a hundred names today.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was already the third batch. There were plenty of small workshops and plenty of medium and large companies.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As Luke drank his coffee, he took out the cake which Max had personally made for him from his inventory.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Suddenly, his expression changed as his gaze fell on a company on the list. “Little Snail, bring up information on Pym Technologies.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Yes, sir.” Little Snail immediately did as it was told.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A moment later, looking at the information projected on the virtual screen, he felt some regret. “So, it’s just emergency funding.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The information that was circulating outside, as well as the information from Jenny, indicated that Pym Technologies was only looking for a two-year, low interest loan of 200 million dollars.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, the company didn’t want to pay any sort of price, whether in terms of shares or technology.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It would give him a quota of roughly 10% when its product hit the market in the first year — Luke still had to pay for it, and would just get it at the wholesale price.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At first glance, it didn’t look like they were being sincere.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After thinking for a moment, however, Luke sent Jenny a message and asked her to make the arrangements; he would send someone to Pym Technologies for an inspection.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was very common.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Generally speaking, if the company was willing to send someone to investigate, it would be willing to fork out the money\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Not sending anyone was naturally equivalent to no interest in investing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After instructing Little Snail to gather more information on Pym Technologies, Luke started to study it.\u003C\u002Fp>",1305,"2026-06-06T03:36:25.206Z",1,"novelbin.me","96e186a5801f24fbf05ffd4e7927b3b7a64cace3e98268c1f06ae916f407b213","super-detective-in-the-fictional-world-chapter-1485","super-detective-in-the-fictional-world-chapter-1483",2233,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fsuper-detective-in-the-fictional-world-cover.jpg"]