Luke's credit points had dropped by another million, and he could only postpone upgrading the storage module for now, but he wasn't in a hurry.
Ever since his encounter with Mephistos's clone last time, he had to leave enough credit points to rest assured.
Closing his eyes to experience the effects of Elementary Light of Life for a moment, he raised his right hand in confusion.
A few seconds later, a dim white light appeared on the tip of his index finger.
In the sunlight, this white light would've been ignored.
But in the lab at night, ten centimeters away from him, he could clearly see that there was a faint white light about five millimeters thick on his index finger.
Luke had a strange expression on his face as he read the system's simple description of this ability. He murmured, "No way, a magic ability? … Nanny? "
Thinking for a moment, he picked up a scalpel and cut a very shallow and small wound on Tandy's arm, similar to one made by the edge of a piece of paper.
Then, he placed the tip of his right hand, which glowed with a faint white light, on the wound.
But before he could press down, the white light approached the wound, and in the blink of an eye, the tiny wound disappeared without a trace.
Luke's eyes widened. "Holy sh * t! It's really a nanny ability? "
This light and shadow special effect looked like a healing spell exclusive to nannies no matter how he looked at it!
Luke wasn't happy for long with this gain. Instead, he gradually frowned.
His luck had been so good recently that he had a bad premonition.
As the saying went, when things reached an extreme, they would move in the opposite direction. Could it be that the old man had given him a hint recently?
Recalling that Sheerah had been involved in a theft case as soon as he went to her performance, Luke's heart was heavy. Even obtaining the Light of Life couldn't dispel his vague worry.
In his previous life, he had been very unlucky.
He had won toilet paper when he was young.
He had only won twenty bucks once and five bucks three times in a year.
He had lost more than a hundred bucks playing mahjong that started at fifty cents in one afternoon.
In this life, he seemed to have gotten rid of the curse of being unlucky thanks to Daddy System, but now, he realized that his friend was about to become unlucky because of him.
He could only say that he had mixed feelings.
Reality, however, was always joking. A few days after that night, New York was still bustling, but nothing major happened.
Also, the diamond necklace that the little thief Tandy had stolen was recovered the next afternoon.
This gave Luke and Selina another chance to slack off.
This case was not too complicated.
The little girl, Tandy Bowen, was seventeen years old this year. She dropped out of high school and followed her boyfriend around stealing for a living.
But she had a very sick mother at home who needed medical expenses, so she could only steal things.
This was very much like the script of a TV drama, but this time it was real.
In fact, there was something even more ridiculous.
Tandy's father was a senior engineer at the American giant Roxxon Corporation. She used to be a child of a wealthy family.
Because of a large offshore platform accident, the girl's father died in a car accident, and the Roxon company conveniently blamed the accident on the dead senior engineer.
Roxon Company found an excuse to empty out Tandy's home, and the mother and daughter became poor overnight. The mother was filled with grief and anger, and not long after, she fell ill and was bedridden for years.
Luke didn't know what to say when he heard this real-life event that was as standard as a TV plot.
Although he had always believed that what was wrong was wrong, he couldn't expect a teenage girl to find a way out of the predicament on her own.
It was best not to hope for charity donations. Such things would always be like trying to put out a burning cart of firewood with a cup of water. Even if you applied for it, it would be impossible to provide it all the time.
Stealing was undoubtedly the simplest way to make money.
Along with gangsters who carried guns to collect "tolls" from passers-by, it was one of the two most basic professions in America.
In the last few years, it had been her boyfriend who had led Tandy to commit many burglaries.
He had raised his girlfriend to be a thief, and the boyfriend wasn't a decent person either. At the same time, he was a typical gangster with a brain defect.
After he got the diamond necklace, he felt that he could sell it and make a fortune, and there was no need for him to share the money with Tandy.
Thus, the brainless boyfriend found an excuse to trick Tandy into getting out of the car on a remote street, before he stepped on the gas and fled.
Tandy had only just come back to her senses when she cursed, when the gangsters blocked her way into an alley.
In the end, Luke heard Tandy's cries for help on his way back, and rescued her.
Under the control of Elementary Pheromones, Tandy easily confessed everything, including the license plate of the brainless boyfriend.
The next afternoon, the guy went to a certain illegal shop to sell the stolen goods without even changing his car.
A patrol officer noticed that the license plate belonged to a suspicious car, and stopped the car on the spot to arrest the driver. They brought the brainless boyfriend and the diamond necklace back to the police department.
It had been less than twenty-four hours since the theft of the diamond necklace, but the stolen items had been recovered and the suspect had been caught.
It was impossible for Tandy's boyfriend to make a fortune on his own, but he was sure to go to jail.
Luke treated Tandy the same way he had treated the Girls with Superpowers trio at the beginning, and sent her to a secluded bungalow in Nassau County.
She would have to undergo a few months to a year of re-education there, which was equivalent to going to a private juvenile hall.
In the meantime, Luke anonymously donated a large sum of money to a certain fund to pay for Tandy's mother's medical expenses and living expenses.
After confirming that her mother had received this kind of treatment, Tandy's resistance quickly weakened, and she obediently accepted the re-education course.
There were two reasons for this.
Firstly, Luke didn't want to use too much Elementary Pheromone Control on Tandy.
The girl was basically mentally normal. If she held a grudge and deliberately resisted Pheromone Control, the duration and effect of the control would be greatly reduced.
If the two continued to fight, it might instead cause serious psychological problems.
Jessica Jones, the private investigator, was a prime example.
Secondly, not only could Luke learn Tandy's Light of Life, her original version was also different from his "abridged version," and was extremely practical.
As a pragmatist, Luke believed that Tandy's ability could be used to save a lot of people.
After the re-education course was over, it would be more meaningful for her to do community or charity work to atone for her past theft than for her to go to jail.
It took Luke several days to finish dealing with Tandy's affairs.
At that moment, he had 1.04 million credit points in the system.
Luke had harassed the system in the past few days and confirmed that the upgrade of the inventory wouldn't affect the ordinary items and creatures stored inside; it was just that they couldn't be accessed during the upgrade.
With a thought, he summoned the system.
System: 1000000 credit points are required to upgrade the inventory. Do you want to upgrade?
He chose 'yes'.
The system: "This upgrade will take twenty-four hours. During this time, you won't be able to use the inventory function."
Luke wasn't too surprised.
If his guess was correct, the volume of the inventory after the upgrade would go from 10 × 10 × 10 = 1,000 cubic meters to 100 × 100 = 1,000,000 cubic meters.
He would be surprised if he didn't spend some time upgrading it.
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