Stunned for a long time, Phineas exclaimed, "What did you say?"
Then, he hurriedly asked, "Can you really save my daughter?"
Luke nodded with a smile. "Yes. Also, whether you agree or not, Cook won't be in trouble later. "
Phineas hesitated.
After learning that the job was for him to work as a researcher in an open research lab, he agreed in less than two minutes.
For one thing, this kind of work was his specialty.
Secondly, even if the other party didn't have any evidence, as long as they told the Soderbergs that there was something wrong with him, he and his daughter wouldn't be able to escape.
Cook was the mayor's son, and the father and daughter were just people at the bottom who didn't have any power to protect them.
It wasn't unusual for a bigshot to kill an enemy. In any case, it didn't matter.
After they reached an agreement, Phineas's first concern was to treat his daughter.
Luke simply said with a smile, "Mr. Mason, please remember: you've never met me before. If a miracle happens to your daughter, you only need to thank God. "
Phineas was stumped for a moment. "But didn't you want me to go …"
He was going to work for the other party, and signing the contract and paying him was a must. How could he keep it a secret?
"No, we've never met." Luke waved his hand and got up from the sofa. "Someone will give you the address at nine in three days. You can go there yourself."
Saying that, he gestured for Phineas to leave.
They walked out of the room, and Luke closed the door. "I hope we don't meet again, Mr. Mason."
With that, he strode forward, and his body gradually turned transparent as he disappeared into the dark hallway.
Phineas swallowed hard.
Only then did he remember that the family portrait in the living room was clearly of an ordinary family of three, and the old man in black wasn't there.
Had he … seen a ghost? Phineas trembled a little as he sped up.
He didn't calm down until he returned to the hospital and saw that there were still people coming and going in the hallway.
At that moment, his firm scientific worldview as a double engineer came into play.
Standing there for a moment, Phineas suddenly slapped his forehead. "Fako, it's just optical invisibility. What am I afraid of?"
Secondly, the old man in black didn't want anyone to know that he had been here, so the living room might have just been a temporary "borrowing."
It wasn't difficult for someone who could use optical invisibility to sneak into a regular apartment.
This wasn't a ghost story at all.
Cursing himself for being an idiot, Phineas strode back to his daughter's ward.
Sitting on the edge of the bed, he looked at his daughter, who was sound asleep.
He wondered when the black-clothed old man would come to treat Blerry. She would have to wait until he signed the contract?
These damned vampire capitalists weren't that kind. They would definitely reap the benefits.
Luke, he, Luke, I, Phineas.
She seemed to be dreaming of something sad and was frowning, just like when she was a child. As Phineas thought this, his hand suddenly paused. Wait, is she frowning?
Blerry, who was in a deep coma, didn't respond at all.
If that wasn't the case, he wouldn't have lost his mind and used the drone to feed the culprit, Cook, enough illegal drugs to give him an eye for an eye.
His hands trembled and he whispered, "Blerry, can you hear me? "Blake, can you hear me?"
On the bed, Blerry's eyelashes fluttered a few times. She slowly opened her eyes and looked around blankly for a moment before she finally saw her father's old face. She murmured, "Dad, where … am I?"
Phineas's eyes were red. "You're sick and in the hospital. Don't worry, I'm here. "
As he spoke, he quickly pressed the call button.
Phineas finally calmed down a little when the doctors and nurses pushed him away from the bed.
Suddenly, he remembered what the old man in black had said. "If a miracle happens to your daughter, you only need to thank God."
His daughter had been in a coma for so long, but she had woken up right after he talked to the old man in black? The meaning behind this was self-evident.
After a brief examination, the doctor asked the nurses to take Blake for a full examination.
After receiving most of the results, the doctor smiled and said in disbelief, "Mr. Mason, congratulations. This is a miracle."
Phineas was surprised. "Huh?"
The doctor was used to seeing such expressions on his patients' family members. Without beating around the bush, he said, "Your daughter is in good health. She's been in a coma for the past few days. I don't see anything wrong with her. Keep her in the hospital for another forty-eight to seventy-two hours. She can be discharged if there are no abnormalities. "
Phineas nodded repeatedly in gratitude.
After the doctor left and his daughter went back to sleep, he began to think again in the quiet ward. She could be discharged in forty-eight hours. Did that mean that he could sign the contract in the morning three days later?
Could it be that the other party had already thought of this? Phineas was secretly shocked.
If his speculation was true, it meant that the old man in black was absolutely confident about curing his daughter. Otherwise, he wouldn't have given him a reminder and a time.
When he asked about the contract, the old man had only asked him to keep it a secret, but he hadn't said what would happen if Phineas broke the contract.
Phineas had thought that the old man was too pretentious, but now, he realized that the old man wasn't afraid that he would go back on his word.
His daughter could cure him in minutes. Would he dare to break the contract? It would only take a matter of minutes to get rid of him. Phineas felt that was how he understood the old man in black's behavior.
But he wasn't resentful.
This was just his speculation. He couldn't blame the old man for curing his daughter so quickly and not signing the contract on the spot, could he? It wasn't like he could complain that the old man trusted him too much.
…
It took a few minutes for Luke's clone to go to the hospital and treat Blaye's brain injury.
Then, he switched out his identity as Bigshot Pennyworth and started to clean up the mess for the new members of New Hope Research Institute.
Compared with a professional like Luke, Phineas had left too many clues, and it took him almost an hour to finish up.
Luke didn't lie to Phineas.
Before they talked, he had taken away the most important loophole, the fake drone.
As long as the fake drone wasn't around, it wouldn't be easy to track Phineas down.
Phineas hadn't been able to get the drone out mainly because he didn't have enough time.
The Soderbergs had locked down the room very tightly recently, and he had to take care of his daughter. He couldn't wait for an opportunity in the apartment building.
Besides, it would be very difficult for an ordinary person to find him through the drone.
In fact, the investigators who went to the Soderbergs' house didn't think much of the drone at all. They simply removed the memory according to the instructions.
The video inside wasn't a big problem. At most, it would be a small scandal. It wasn't as serious as Lindsay thought.
Mayor Soderberg was only being cautious. He suspected that someone was going to use his son, Cook, to deal with him, which was why he was investigating.
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