[{"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-1757":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},1483975,1930,"Chapter 1757 - Moving the Base of Operation, and Killing Three Birds with One Stone","super-detective-in-the-fictional-world-chapter-1757",1757,"\u003Cp>At the end of September, Luke’s Level 1 clone finally moved.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After waiting at the seaside villa in Tijuana for a month, Haley left after confirming that Simon wasn’t coming back for her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She returned to America through private channels, but didn’t go to New York. Instead, she went to San Francisco under an alias.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Naturally, Luke followed her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He could guess why she was going there: Simon’s stepfather, Raman, owned a pharmaceutical company in San Francisco.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The chances of Simon appearing here were higher.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Since they had already waited a month, they didn’t mind waiting a few more days. This was what the watcher and the person being watched thought.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>To hide her identity, Haley turned into a disheveled homeless woman in a hat.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>These people were everywhere in the big city, and nobody cared about them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As long as it wasn’t in a rich neighborhood, the police wouldn’t bother with them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There was no benefit in the police arresting these people, plus the police would have to cover their food and shelter.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Secondly, the homeless here weren’t what many Chinese thought of as “beggars.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Some people just couldn’t find official jobs for various reasons; it wasn’t surprising to find an ex-IBM manager turned tramp picking up scraps.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was probably because his pension wasn’t enough for him to live on.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thus, while many tramps indeed weren’t exactly that hygienic or polite, there were also many who were.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Haley was pretending to be the more civilized type of tramp.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In truth, while she didn’t have the smell of perfume on her, there were no odors either. Her gray face was just makeup.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Her jacket was a little dirty, but didn’t have any old stains on it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But coupled with her shabby trolley and her mismatched rags, she looked 70 to 80% like a real tramp.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It had to be said that this female doctor was the polar opposite of her silly, sweet art student of a sister.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Art was a hobby for Margaret, and was purely about spending money.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Psychology was Haley’s hobby, but she could use it to disguise herself and make money.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the days after, Luke watched her use her understanding of psychology to easily make people empty out their pockets.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After an hour or two, she could easily earn more than 100 bucks. It was much easier than what regular workers did.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For a psychiatrist who earned 300 dollars an hour for counseling, this wasn’t a lot of money.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, the reason Haley could charge 300 dollars an hour before was mostly because someone was willing to spend more than the market price to hire a beautiful female psychiatrist.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What she was doing now was purely for practical purposes, and she had to make it impossible for ordinary people to detect her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just like that, Haley spent some time every day making enough money. The rest of the time, she appeared near Raman’s company headquarters to gather intelligence.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Not long after, she simply set up a “base” near the company so that she could monitor the place practically day and night.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Luke didn’t think much of it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Haley’s behavior was actually his doing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He had fueled Haley’s urge to find Simon, and embedded an irrefutable logic in the depths of her heart — Simon had been sent running by the Clown, and didn’t even dare show his face now.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As long as she couldn’t find Simon, part of her admiration of and obsession with him would be transferred to the Clown.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Once she was thoroughly disappointed, Haley would abandon the useless Simon in favor of the even stronger and more mysterious Clown.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So, Luke wasn’t in a hurry at all.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Whether or not it was fair to Haley was another matter.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If it was that easy to get rid of Simon’s control over Haley, Luke wouldn’t be after Simon’s abilities.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was the lesser of two evils.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At the very least, Luke had the system to remind him not to do anything bad, while Simon didn’t.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was better for Haley to be under Luke’s control than to become an accomplice of a monster like Simon.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But without the seaside villa, Luke lost interest in keeping an eye on the female doctor at night.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After setting up enough surveillance equipment, the Level 1 clone went off to do its own thing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was incumbent upon him to help relieve the San Francisco drug dealers of extra stock and dispose of redundant personnel.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He carefully selected targets who had committed heinous crimes and were worth a lot of points, and both men and goods went missing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Most of the mid- and low-level members who were left behind were confused. Did the bosses run off on their own?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As the number of missing bigshots increased to ten, some smart people with good memories finally remembered what happened a few years ago.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The urban horror legend that had once shrouded the neighboring city — the Ghost Butcher.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Tempted by the money, however, most people couldn’t help but take over the territories and businesses left behind by the missing persons.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Now, when no more people went missing, the gang members who had picked up the spoils were overjoyed. The terrifying legend was tossed to the back of their minds.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In fact, it was only because Luke realized that many people wanted to run that he stopped harvesting points.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Who knew how long the Level 1 clone would have to stay here – a path of sustainable development was necessary.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He had already learned this lesson in New York.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was already bad enough when Luke and Selina continued harvesting there.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then, Frank, the little turtles, and Damon and Mindy went out every now and then to adjust their moods.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>All that was left now was a small harvest.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Besides, if the guys from San Francisco ran, Luke wouldn’t have the time to look for them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He could only restrain himself a little and shear the sheep with a little more skill.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Apart from monitoring the female doctor, Luke’s Level 1 clone found Dr. Pym, who was hiding in a small building in the wilderness.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Assuming the identity of the bigshot who sold everything, he took the initiative to drop by for a visit.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Luke was in a good mood after obtaining another six Pym Particles.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But this time, the bigshot had agreed in part to Dr. Pym’s small request to consider helping him take back his company when the time was right.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Darren Cross, the current CEO of Pym Technologies, was already upset by Dr. Pym’s small actions, and it seemed that he was prepared to carry out some less benevolent experiments.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Luke hadn’t agreed to deal with Darren before because Darren was a neutral yellow, and it had been a business dispute between him and Dr. Pym; there was no saying who was right or wrong.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But if this guy carried out human experiments that went beyond legal and moral boundaries, he might turn from yellow to red in the system.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At that time, not only would he lose the system’s protection, he would also cross Luke’s moral bottom line.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Killing Darren would definitely be overboard, but beating him up to learn the Pym Particle technology could only be considered a reward for Luke’s righteous hard work.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In any case, Luke wasn’t short of money, and the Pym Particle would only be for his own use, so it wasn’t like he was digging a hole for Dr. Pym.\u003C\u002Fp>",1250,"2026-06-06T03:36:37.245Z",1,"novelbin.me","ad98cfc5ae3f423fb3f9c430a47427abd45984047698f717ec13daea3927b84b","super-detective-in-the-fictional-world-chapter-1758","super-detective-in-the-fictional-world-chapter-1756",2233,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fsuper-detective-in-the-fictional-world-cover.jpg"]