[{"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-1776":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},1483994,1930,"Chapter 1776 - The Joker’s Little Secret","super-detective-in-the-fictional-world-chapter-1776",1776,"\u003Cp>Luke and Selina didn’t return to New York for the time being. Instead, they stayed in Los Angeles, since it was close to San Francisco.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At a distance of 500 kilometers, relay drones weren’t even needed for the remote-controlled robots.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Or, if they put on their armor and flew over in stealth mode at night, it would only take 10 to 20 minutes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Level 1 clone was still in San Francisco; there was no need for Luke himself to keep watch.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The people from the Life Foundation who had gone to San Francisco to clean up the mess were tagged one by one.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They were in the limelight right now, and it wasn’t the right time to touch them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Luke would give the names in his blacklist a buffer of a few months; just enough time to investigate the mastermind behind the scenes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, based on current intelligence, the Life Foundation had ties to several national defense suppliers, two of whom had been close to Hydra before.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Unsurprisingly, these two organizations were still in cahoots with capital groups.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It could only be said that all established corporations in America were like this — made up of complicated relationships and entwined interests.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Basically no one from these two organizations was Hydra, but for the sake of their own interests, they could absolutely sell the rope to hang their own people.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It could only be said that it mainly boiled down to interests for these corporations.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For example, the matter with Killian had involved a power struggle inside Roxxon Corporation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The faction which Killian had been against was no friend of Luke’s either – they were also people who had done a lot of bad things.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>America was a holy land for harvesting points, and Luke was confident he could reach level 100 — provided that the country still existed after he accumulated enough points.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the meantime, Haley was sitting on the balcony of an apartment building on the west coast of San Francisco, enjoying the warm October afternoon sun.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She had been free for a few days, but was growing more and more doubtful.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She touched her face; she didn’t feel anything unusual about it, but it was another face. It even matched the face on the driver’s license.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This meant that as long as she wasn’t stupid enough to expose herself, she could continue living freely as Molly Quinn.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There was no need to rely on mind games anymore to make money, since she had woken up with a box of cash that contained 200,000 dollars.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That wasn’t what Haley was concerned about.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She could only use these arrangements to speculate about the Joker’s personality.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the beginning, she had thought that he was just a lunatic with superpowers.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Now, he could take out a mask to change her appearance, and could casually throw out 200,000 in cash, which proved that he wasn’t an idiot who only relied on superpowers.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He knew very well how this country worked: It ran on money.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Whether it was the cash or the high-tech mask, it was all about money.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What made Simon strong? His strange ability to possess others was just one part of it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But according to information he had once divulged, the American government had ways to resist mind control.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So, Simon built up his stepfather’s pharmaceutical company and successfully used it as capital to join the project at King’s Park Sanatorium.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Only in an organization under his control would Simon have enough time and opportunity to slowly use his possession ability to obtain the superpowers of others.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Superhumans caught by organizations like Sentinel Services, ARGUS and SHIELD, on the other hand, had interference equipment used on them to ensure that they could only obediently be test subjects.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Luke often used Mental Hypnosis and Illusion, but he always used physical strategies first to deal with his opponents.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In a game, this was equivalent to using something to break through the other party’s magical defenses and then using magic attacks to crush them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That was also why Luke had always valued equipment.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For now, there was no one on Earth who could crush Tony in terms of technological combat ability or Luke in terms of superpowers.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As long as it wasn’t against some powerful, otherworldly existence, his ability to survive was definitely the best in the world.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was hard to beat a money + superpower combo.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As an academic elite, Haley naturally understood this.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She had been amazed by Simon before, and had even worshiped him a little.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then the even more powerful Joker had popped out of nowhere, and he seemed even stronger and more mysterious.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Despite knowing about the huge benefits of a symbiosis with Agony, the Joker had thought nothing of them and had “given” this symbiote to Haley.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Agony’s immunity to mental abilities had been in effect for the past few days, and the mental door which Simon had planted was wiped out.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Haley’s love and admiration for Simon instantly plummeted.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The female doctor understood that this meant that her feelings for Simon had basically been produced by his mind control, and hadn’t been real.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Also, if she ran into Simon again now, she would be able to beat him up since she was immune to mind control — provided that Simon didn’t run.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Would Simon fight to the death and not retreat? Of course not.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He had fled once when he faced the Joker at the seaside villa in Tijuana, and would definitely do so again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>How could she like and admire a man who couldn’t suppress her?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>During the past few days after she came out, Haley had watched the video of the battle between the Joker and the Dark Knight.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Although the Joker left in the end, nobody thought that he had lost.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He went up against the armor with his own flesh and blood, and had only retreated after the Dark Knight’s armor cracked.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was definitely the strongest enemy the Bat Squad had ever faced.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Also, Haley had been released three days after the battle.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The broken arms and sternum she had seen in the video were gone by then; they were absolutely intact.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She knew that she had discovered a “little secret,” and he didn’t mind sharing it with her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He didn’t need Agony; his physical recovery was far faster than that of an ordinary person.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Compared with relying on the symbiote to increase his combat ability, he might hate it more for an alien creature to discern his thoughts.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thinking that, Haley couldn’t help but sigh. She had no choice but to accept it, and had to keep Agony.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Otherwise, she really didn’t have the confidence that she could keep up with the Joker.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Joker’s opponents were Simon, who represented the capital groups and was an evil superhuman, and the Dark Knight, the mainstay of the superheroes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She would enter this mysterious and bizarre world with him, and would no longer be trapped in that ordinary, stagnant life.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Suddenly, she turned around.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She saw a person standing in front of the couch in the living room. The person bent down and examined the two pieces of lingerie on the couch with great interest.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Haley smiled. “I took those off just now.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Luke straightened up and casually slicked back his hair. “I know. So, you only woke up in the afternoon?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Haley walked inside and closed the balcony door. “It seems you’re focusing on the wrong thing.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Luke didn’t look at the two “dots” under her pajamas at all. Instead, he stroked her cheek with his fingertips, then nodded before he sat down on the couch.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Haley was stunned. Wait, wasn’t there something wrong with this plot?\u003C\u002Fp>",1290,"2026-06-06T03:36:37.245Z",1,"novelbin.me","d98779eb2962a99bd5938b2346b1a873939d1ad82c1dc60fb1eb55f64274f477","super-detective-in-the-fictional-world-chapter-1777","super-detective-in-the-fictional-world-chapter-1775",2233,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fsuper-detective-in-the-fictional-world-cover.jpg"]