[{"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-1655":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},1483723,1930,"Chapter 1655 - Hiring People, Divvying Things Up, and Taking What You Need","super-detective-in-the-fictional-world-chapter-1655",1655,"\u003Cp>At that time, she couldn’t help but ask Luke what the dead director’s level was.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The bigshot smiled amiably and said off-handedly, “That one? Of course, he’s a very important partner.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The female agent had almost laughed out loud.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When Nick Fury had first given her Life 1, he said that he had an extraordinary relationship with this bigshot and could get a lot of good things.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was what he meant by “extraordinary”?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In fact, Luke’s partnership system was even easier than Natasha thought.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There were only two levels, “friendly” and “important,” which represented “teammates” and “not teammates” respectively.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even though Nick Fury was much more important than a regular business partner, Luke didn’t trust him, so he could only be an important partner.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The final “strategic” level was completely a con.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There were only two people at this level: One was Luke’s alias, and the other was Iron Man, this human tech-making machine.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If Luke wanted a horse to run, he had to feed it more grass.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If he didn’t “fuel” a certain “machine,” how could he produce new products quickly?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Luke had to find an excuse to supply Tony with all sorts of technology.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In any case, he had the list of his teammate’s abilities. He felt uncomfortable if he didn’t refresh it every few days.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He had always planned to rope in Natasha.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But like with Black Egg, it was best to have a business relationship with people from SHIELD.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was very hard for them to pass the system’s teammate assessment.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After all, it was much harder to con an elite agent than to con a newbie whom he had groomed himself.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Natasha could be considered half an exception because she was a woman.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Luke was always a little more reassured with women.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Besides, Natasha was Nick Fury’s direct subordinate, but now that SHIELD was basically done for, her relationship with Nick Fury no longer existed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the future, she and Nick Fury would at most have a bigger foundation of trust and cooperation than with everyone else.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In a situation like this, Luke felt that he could step in.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Since it was work and for justice, he offered a higher price. He didn’t believe that Natasha would refuse.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She now owed the bigshot 1,000 credit points. In the future, she would have to buy other equipment with credit points.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She wasn’t a teammate, so she would have to pay several times the normal price.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If she really wasn’t willing, she wouldn’t have agreed to a credit transaction. Instead, she would’ve taken off the suit and thrown it in Luke’s face.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Well, that was an exaggeration.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But Natasha paid more attention to practical matters when she did things, and she was willing to maintain a distant relationship with the bigshot.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Luke was delighted.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It wasn’t easy to find a top-notch expert at gathering intelligence.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This sort of person was a master at playing both sides and supplying their employer with half-truths.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He wouldn’t have such concerns if he bought information from Natasha.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With just a small amount of resources, he had been able to hire the famous Black Widow.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After Luke sorted out matters with the Black Widow, another person secretly contacted Batman.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was Phil.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Nick Fury hadn’t taken Phil with him, but had left him in America to carry on SHIELD’s work.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Phil was now the new director of SHIELD.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Chatting idly on the yacht, Luke was pretty astonished. “You’re… the director?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Phil still had that same amiable smile. “Although I’m far less capable, who else can do it?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Luke’s expression was indifferent, but he mumbled to himself,?Black Egg was turned into Swiss cheese as the director before he could escape. With your personality, wouldn’t you be crippled in a few days if you become the director?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wait, Black Egg was a one-eyed creature without any hair.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Luke couldn’t help but look at Phil’s hairline and felt that it was receding at a visible rate.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Phil didn’t know that Batman was actually pondering these ridiculous things. He simply made his request. “I’m hoping for some assistance.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Tell me.” Luke listened attentively.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He didn’t wonder why Phil didn’t look for the bigshot.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This uncle of his might feel that he was beneath the bigshot’s notice, so he might as well look for Batman as a “supplier.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After talking for half a day, Luke and Phil finalized their cooperation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Luke would provide funding, equipment, equipment, intelligence, military force, and so on — basically almost everything for the “new SHIELD” that Phil was putting together\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Phil, on the other hand, needed to provide intelligence and tech to help Luke lock onto various targets — Hydra and supervillains.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It looked like Luke was getting the short end of this deal, but there was a limit to how much support he could give, and he got priority in any deals Phil wanted to make.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Unless it was an emergency, Phil had to tell Batman things related to the latter’s interest and let him decide if he wanted to make a deal.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Only if Batman didn’t want it could Phil offer it to someone else.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Of course, when Phil asked, Luke would answer on the spot, so as not to delay things.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Phil settled everything and soon left.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There were too many things to do with the new SHIELD, and he was very busy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If he didn’t have to confirm his trump cards in advance, Phil might not have come to see Batman.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Watching Phil leave in a hurry, Luke shook his head and chuckled. “Hydra is really a professional troublemaker.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It had already been half a month since Project Insight, dubbed by American government insiders as the “D.C. incident,” but everybody was busy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Cleaning up Hydra was only one part of the job, and Luke was very enthusiastic about it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Divvying up SHIELD was another important task, and that was what Phil and Tony were doing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Phil was pulling people in and gathering resources, and so was Tony.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At that moment, in Stark Tower, Maria Hill was wearing a gray and black dress as she was being interviewed by a HR manager.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She knew very well that her employment at Stark Industries actually had nothing to do with this HR manager, but she kept smiling and went through the motions.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Compared with Steve, who was super good at fighting, and Natasha, who was a top spy, Hill, who mainly dealt with administrative matters, couldn’t really disappear.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So, Nick Fury sent her to Tony.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The tycoon had enough power to protect this person, and the Avengers also now had another capable individuals.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>SHIELD had collapsed, but the Avengers hadn’t.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>From the very beginning, the Avengers had been a small team of “superheroes.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Previously, Nick Fury had wanted SHIELD to lead the team, while Tony, this arrogant guy, refused to work under SHIELD, so simply became half a “consultant” of sorts.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Now that SHIELD had been turned inside out, the other superheroes didn’t possess anything to build up or keep a team going, like funds, a base, equipment, and connections – Tony was the only one who could.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It thus made sense for the tycoon to become the leader of the Avengers.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As a talented person who had overcome many trials, Hill would look like an employee of Stark Industries on the surface, but would be an administrative member of the Avengers in private.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Luke had also been interested in her, but Nick Fury sent her to Tony.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It wouldn’t be a big deal if Luke had poached her first; the tycoon would definitely be embarrassed to fight Luke over it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But since she was now working for the tycoon, it was inappropriate for Luke to say anything.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Fortunately, Luke just so happened to obtain “half” the Black Widow and “half” of Phil, and he was pretty satisfied\u003C\u002Fp>",1308,"2026-06-06T03:36:36.064Z",1,"novelbin.me","e8efa23096330034f054f7712c5dc25f65c96096cacfe968acbeea5dccac66f7","super-detective-in-the-fictional-world-chapter-1656","super-detective-in-the-fictional-world-chapter-1654",2233,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fsuper-detective-in-the-fictional-world-cover.jpg"]