Stacy thought for a long time, so long that Luke asked Butterfly, the AI butler, to bring her a pot of coffee as he waited for her answer.
In order not to disturb her thoughts, he even moved a few meters away to make his presence less oppressive.
An hour later, Stacy finally made up her mind after experiencing intense mental fluctuations. She got up and walked to him. "I choose the first one."
After more than a year of learning, she understood that thinking must be systematic and logical.
V's second option sounded like he wouldn't have to take any responsibility, but there was the possibility of being excluded.
Coupled with the fact that ordinary people would leave their circle, perhaps once a crisis occurred, she would be "left".
This was something she could not accept.
It was not only because she liked Claire, but also because she had the pride of a superpower user.
After more than a year of education, this kind of arrogance had become reserved, but it still existed.
It was just like how Yao Ming could be polite to high school students playing basketball, but he would never treat them as an equal "opponent."
Also, V's circle was very attractive to her.
All she needed to think about was whether entering the circle would put Clare in danger.
V's training had taught her to consider the worst before considering the benefits.
If the probability of a bad result is too high, then it is best not to participate — unless there is no way out.
For the past hour or so, she had been weighing the pros and cons of this matter and the degree of danger.
What overwhelmed her was the fact that Claire herself was an insider.
Even if Stacy stayed out of it, Claire might not.
Luke, who had been paying attention to her through Mental Communication, was quite satisfied. He nodded and said, "Sit down. I'll tell you slowly."
Half an hour later, the conversation ended, and Luke left, leaving Stacy, whose head was full of questions, in a daze.
The door of the training room was opened, and the twin sisters rushed in. Both of them asked in unison, "What did the wizard say?"
Stacy's lips moved several times, but she didn't know what to say.
She didn't want to lie to these two people who were closer to her than her own sisters.
But to make her say it? That was why V said that it was absolutely confidential.
Those things were indeed not suitable for these two carefree fellows to know.
After a long time, she sighed. "Don't ask. It's about my love life."
Twins: (? ?)
Stacy said, "Go away, I'm not going to tell you … Ouch, don't you dare!"
Artemis strangled her neck. "Hurry up and tell me, or I'll only see a bunch of damn otakus every day. I just want to wash my eyes with the pictures they send me."
Stephanie grabbed one of her arms. "Tell me, tell me. The company warned me not to spread any rumors, or my income would plummet. Also, the handsome guys in the company are either gay or scumbags. I don't like them at all. "
Stacy looked helpless. "… But she's a girl."
In the training room, there was a sudden silence …
…
Luke came out in a relaxed mood.
Things weren't as serious as he had told Stacy. Keeping it a secret was just a basic operation; it was better to nip it in the bud.
Through the AI butler butterfly, Stacy could contact the bigshot and receive the equipment from V's Existence.
Luke mainly introduced the bigshot's abilities and uses.
He just gave Claire a background introduction of "having a backer".
Of course, Stacy wanted to know who Claire's backer was, but Luke simply said, "I'm your backer, but her backer won't tell her that."
Stacy shut up.
Clearly, she and Claire really were "peripherals."
Apart from being able to contact the bigshot who was like a "transit station" and their "backer," everyone else's information had to be kept a secret.
Luke didn't tell her who Claire's backer was, because whether it was himself or Batman, there was no need to be dangerous.
He didn't expect the two girls to join a frontline team. What he was doing now was just so they could get equipment from another channel.
There would be a lot less trouble if he took a detour.
To give a simple example, it was like the difference between taking money from Tony Stark and Stark Industries.
The chances of the latter being the focus of attention were much lower.
…
In a busy life, time always passed quickly. In the blink of an eye, it was already mid-April.
Luke still hadn't taken action in Japan.
Hydra's Japan branch was a professional agent, and there were hundreds of them.
If he wanted to catch them all in one fell swoop, a month of preparation was too short.
Luke wasn't a crude novice. Of course, he had to take it slow. In any case, it was very easy to farm points in Tokyo, which had tens of millions of people.
In New York, Claire and the Supergirls had finished their intensive training, and they returned to their original schedule.
The twin sisters sang, and the streamers did the same. There wasn't much change.
Stacy and Claire, on the other hand, were still stuck together as they went to shoot the music video for Claire's new song.
The filming location wasn't too far from New York, and was in an abandoned town by a lake in Pennsylvania.
Driving west from New York and across New Jersey, one could reach the abandoned town in four to five hours.
Luke asked casually, and Claire said that her new song had a unique vibe, so she chose a place for the music video.
After listening to Claire's new song, he couldn't help but complain, "Are you switching to children's songs? Or Dark Wind? "
Claire shrugged. "I like it. It's really interesting. Also … "
Sensing the strange look in her eyes, Luke said, "Just tell me. Are you afraid that I'll beat you up?"
Claire chuckled. "Also, the two songs you gave me before were really popular, but now a lot of people are scolding me for only singing catchy songs to cheat people out of their money. So, why don't you play a more profound children's song this time?"
Luke rolled his eyes and flicked her on the forehead. "What? Isn't the money you make from catchy songs? Didn't you earn your clothes, shoes, scarves, jewelry, and watches by singing catchy songs? "
That was how entertainment products worked.
Catchy songs were similar to the white novels in online literature. They were simple and easy to get into.
It would be a joke if you had to inject meaning into them.
The basic purpose of entertainment products was to entertain. Combining education with entertainment was the job of masters and educators. How could ordinary singers and authors have both?
It was difficult to have both, so they naturally had to make a choice.
If you wanted depth, don't think about selling it for money. What could sell for money was always the most popular and the most white works.
Whether it was an online novel that cost a few cents to subscribe to or an English catchy song that cost dozens of cents, at the end of the day, it all depended on the volume.
That could be left to the masters. In any case, they weren't short of money.
But Luke was just casually complaining. There was nothing wrong with Claire wanting to play something "profound" to fool those brainless critics.
If these people didn't rely on such things to talk, wouldn't they be useless?
Besides, people like critics also relied on attention to make a living.
No matter how good a critic was, if no one read his or her comments, it was as if he or she didn't have any comments.
In that sense, critics weren't more noble than singers.
It was just that when critics criticized people for making a living, they still had to pretend to be "I'm criticizing you for the sake of art."
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