The moment she saw Luke, Jenny immediately looked much better. She even tried to adjust her posture.
She didn't want to look panicked in front of a certain someone, which would ruin her image as a CEO.
Pepper's expression was the same as usual, and she was more at ease.
As someone who could make Tony ask her to go through the back door twice, she had naturally investigated Luke. She had even investigated Selina's file.
Even if Luke's astonishing combat ability in the explosions two days ago wasn't taken into account, this pair of partners had a terrifyingly high rate of solving cases in Los Angeles.
As for why they had suddenly "disappeared" after coming to New York, Pepper had a rough idea of the reason.
If an outsider stood out too much, it was easy for the locals to view him as an enemy.
Even if Stark Industries came to New York, it wouldn't be able to avoid this situation.
Stark Industries still had enough confidence and strength to take matters into their own hands.
These two detectives, on the other hand, were in an awkward situation. It was understandable that they chose to keep a low profile. After all, it would cause the least trouble.
So, Pepper trusted Luke and Selina more than the New Jersey police directly intervened, or Nelson could get other officers to come over.
But she was a little curious as to how Jenny, who could barely be considered a best friend, knew this Detective Luke Coulson.
After all, Pepper didn't know that Luke was here, and it was Jenny who had asked Luke to come over.
Jeffrey, on the other hand, had a conflicted expression on his face.
It was true that he knew Luke, and he was a little grateful to this young detective who had resolved his family conflict, but he didn't want Luke to get involved today.
When Luke had resolved their family conflict back then, he hadn't backed down just because he was a Soderbergh.
Sergeant Nelson was even worse off. He seemed a little distracted, and tried his best to open his eyes wide to make sure that it was Luke in front of him.
Luke didn't waste any time. He simply asked, "Where's the dying woman?"
Apart from Sergeant Nelson, the other three immediately looked at a hallway on the side of the living room.
Jeffrey said, "There's a doctor next to the innermost bedroom."
Luke nodded and said to Selina, "Help Sergeant Nelson with a preliminary test. Call a doctor if necessary. He might have been drugged with hallucinogenic drugs."
Hearing that, all four of them, including Nelson, had subtle expressions on their faces.
Luke was obviously implying that Nelson had been drugged.
The captain of NYPD had been drugged at Jeffrey's house, and he had even appeared at a deadly crime scene.
Could it be that the Soderberg family hated the sheriff to this extent? Or … a trap to kill two birds with one stone?
They were all experienced upper-class people, so they quickly thought of all kinds of possibilities.
Selina didn't care about their expressions. She took out her phone and began to record Nelson. Then she asked him how he felt.
Nelson was very cooperative.
Except for smoking a little weed with his classmates when he was young, Nielsen himself did not touch any illegal drugs nowadays.
This video can be used as supporting evidence.
If he did a blood test later, he would turn from a suspect to a victim tonight. He would not be as passive as before.
For a moment, only Selina and Nelson's conversation could be heard in the living room.
Luke walked down the hallway and found a bedroom where there was movement. He then went through a hidden door behind a cabinet, and saw a young woman lying on a big bed in the bedroom next door with her eyes closed.
He narrowed his eyes and looked at the familiar woman through his black-rimmed glasses. Little Snail quickly found the reason.
She was the waitress who had called Nelson away in the lobby.
At that moment, there was a middle-aged man in a white shirt next to the bed. His handmade suit was casually thrown on a chair, and he was sweating profusely as he moved his hand away from the woman's chest to touch the carotid artery.
This was probably the doctor that Jeffrey had mentioned. Clearly, like Luke, he had also been dragged in at the last minute.
Luke glanced around and saw a first aid kit and a stethoscope on the side, as well as an unused syringe.
Looking at the rough examination results in his black-rimmed glasses, Luke quickly stepped forward and pushed the middle-aged doctor away.
The man was about to say something, when Luke took out his badge and waved it at him. "Cut the crap. What did you do to save him?"
The middle-aged doctor subconsciously replied, "I only used emergency CPR."
Luke nodded and pointed at the first aid kit. "Ask the security guards outside if they have a defibrillator."
The middle-aged doctor immediately did as he was told. It was great that someone had taken the blame for this.
In fact, he had had a bad feeling before he came to the room.
His scalp went numb when he saw the young woman lying on the bed with her breathing and heart beating fast.
Someone had died in the Soderberg family's villa, and it was a naked young woman with traces of fooling around on her body. It would be strange if nothing had happened.
But the moment he saw the woman, he couldn't get away.
He didn't dare give the woman any first aid medicine.
His medical skills weren't bad, and he was very sure that the woman had taken some illegal drugs, which was why she was on the verge of death.
If he used medicine to save her, the woman's death might very well be blamed on him in the end.
The Soderberg family's power was something he craved and respected, but that didn't mean he was willing to sacrifice his career, which had just entered the prime of its life.
CPR didn't have this problem; it was normal that she couldn't be saved.
Now that an idiot had come in and taken the blame, the middle-aged doctor was overjoyed. He wouldn't remind him that this woman was hopeless.
But what he didn't know was that from the moment he turned his back to Luke, a prismatic crystal that emitted a faint white light had appeared in Luke's hand.
It was a light dagger from Tandy Bowen. That girl was Luke's most successful investment in his training as a backup teammate.
In order to relieve the excess vitality in her body, she had to condense the excess vitality into a light dagger every month.
It wasn't unusual for her to accurately use the vitality in a light dagger to save three to five people's lives.
At that moment, Luke pressed the light dagger tightly against the young woman's heart with his left hand and directed the dagger's vitality into it. At the same time, he silently put on a black glove with his right hand.
In his black-rimmed glasses, he adjusted the latest nano glove's electric output mode and immediately gave the woman's heart a shock.
The woman's body trembled, but she didn't immediately "come back to life."
Luke's expression didn't change. He waited for two seconds before he gave her another electric shock.
This time, he finally felt a faint beat under his hand.
He put the nano glove back into his inventory, but the light dagger in his left hand was still pressed against the woman's heart, slowly stabilizing it.
This woman was the key to this matter.
As long as she didn't die, Nelson would be fine, and he could follow the clues to find out the cause of this matter.
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