Compared with the determination and actions of these kids to change their fates, this reward wasn't worth mentioning.
It was hard for those who hadn't lived in the slums to imagine how hard it was.
This was especially true for African-Americans. Most of their fellow people around them were just waiting to die, and it was even more difficult for them to climb out.
Even Matt and Foggy couldn't compare to them in this regard. After all, they were white.
Luke's life before he was eighteen could at most be considered ordinary, but it wasn't hard at all.
Robert, Catherine, and Grandpa Drax provided the three children with a good life, an average education, and meticulous care.
The dozen or so kids on the renovation team, on the other hand, either didn't have a father (dead) or were in prison or didn't care about them.
It was their mothers who had raised them, which was also a major feature of poor African-Americans.
It was also for this reason that both Selina and Foggy were surprised by Luke's donation, but they didn't object.
In a good mood, Luke and Selina went to Dustin's office at the police department.
Today's report wasn't on the agenda, but since Dustin had called, they couldn't negotiate.
Leniency usually meant that they had to be supported when they needed it.
When they entered the office, Dustin didn't even raise his head as he read the files. He simply glanced at them and pointed at Selina, who immediately closed the door.
After working together for so long, as long as there was a slight movement, everyone would know what to do.
However, Luke, who was in a good mood today, asked, "Boss, do you have a long-lost brother named Justin Hammer?"
Hearing that, Dustin stopped flipping through the files and threw them on the table. He raised his head and said, "He's my cousin. Did he piss you off? No problem, you can do whatever you want to him. "
Luke: "…"
Selina: "…"
This was something Selina had said casually on the news, and Luke had even called her brainless. But now …
Selina immediately slanted a glance at Luke to see if his face hurt.
Luke didn't feel embarrassed at all. Instead, he looked at Dustin strangely. "Boss, you've never said you had such a relative?"
Dustin chuckled. There was neither pride nor anger on his face. He simply said indifferently, "Because we're a bit distant. Our common grandfather is four generations back."
Dustin and Justin shared the same great-grandfather, or rather, they were both great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-grandfather Hammer.
Looking at Luke and Selina's expressions, Dustin said casually, "Ever since my father, my family has had nothing to do with them. I didn't bother to mention it."
What didn't Luke and Selina understand?
If he hadn't asked, Dustin wouldn't have mentioned it for the rest of his life, because Dustin didn't care about this relative.
But since Luke had asked, he wouldn't lie.
It could only be said that Dustin and Luke were no longer just allies or friends, which was why they were so honest.
Dustin changed the topic and got down to business. "You know that Tony Stark is in New York, right?"
Before they could reply, he said, "He's holding the second Stark Industrial Fair. There will be an official opening ceremony in three days, so we received a familiar mission. Do you understand? "
Luke rolled his eyes. "Patrolling the venue?"
Dustin said, "Given your outstanding performance at the Los Angeles Industrial Fair last time, you'll patrol the opening ceremony again and be in charge of communication between the Detective Bureau and Stark Industries' security. Is that a problem?"
Luke: "… No problem."
As the saying went, soldiers were trained for a thousand days to be used in a single moment. Dustin had been letting them go for more than a month, so it was his duty to give them some exercise.
After all, this was Stark Industries! After all, this pair of partners were connected to Stark!
In fact, Dustin and Selina were well aware of this.
After the two of them were classified as "strategic weapons" that couldn't be used lightly, their efficiency in solving cases plummeted. Gone was their brilliance as when they were in the Major Crimes Division of Westside Los Angeles.
Judging from the data alone, they were only at the top level of the Detective Bureau, and were inferior to John McClane, who was at the top. There were four or five teams of partners at the same level.
Because that was enough.
Although the two of them had a good relationship with colleagues in the Detective Bureau, they were still too young and had parachuted in. Being too diligent would only make the veteran detectives uncomfortable.
They didn't need to be promoted for the time being, and being too diligent would only lower the chances of others being promoted, which would affect the good atmosphere in the office.
Luke and Selina also needed more free time to improve their strength. It was fine as long as they spent a third of the time others spent on their performance so that others couldn't find fault with them.
Thus, they were actually very free. Carrying out this kind of time-consuming patrol wouldn't affect the Detective Bureau too much.
The two of them readily accepted the mission and got up to leave.
Driving out of HQ, they went to Flushing, Queens, where the Stark Industrial Fair was being held.
In fact, Tony had announced the start of the Stark Industrial Fair when he descended from the sky a few nights ago, but the exhibition area was still under construction.
The Stark Industrial Fair was different from the last trade fair in Los Angeles.
The first industrial fair had been held by Tony's father in 1974, and had only been held once.
This was only the second one that Tony was holding.
Secondly, unlike the trade fair, which basically focused on Stark Industries' products, the Stark Industrial Fair's participants were high-tech companies from all over the world. It was a world-class platform.
To describe it in a wuxia novel, it was a technological version of the World Martial Arts Conference, where everyone competed for attention based on their own abilities.
The exhibition would last for as long as a year, and most of the venues would be adjusted according to the changes in the participating companies.
Not every company had enough exhibits to participate in this year's exhibition. Many of the smaller venues would have new products from new companies every few days.
There was even an exhibition area for "self-employed entrepreneurs."
As long as they passed the inspection of the fair's management, individual inventors would be able to put their strange gadgets on this world-class stage for a day.
On the way, Luke and Selina decided that as long as they had time, they would go to the self-employed exhibition area to take a look. Who knew, they might run into some fun inventions.
Many technologies were of little value to the inventors because they were hard to turn into cash. If they didn't turn into cash, they wouldn't have the money to continue their research, and if they didn't have the money for research, it would be even harder to turn them into cash.
Luke felt that as long as he could find one or two good things, this security trip would be worth it.
In the next two days, the two of them ran around the venue. They didn't even go to the restaurant for lunch, and just made it in the car in the morning.
After lunch, they took advantage of their free time to go to the individual booths to watch the show.
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