Titanium Phone Company only had a sales store in New York, and its other factories were spread all over the country. Its headquarters was in Nassau County.
NYPD was rarely needed; at most, it was for ordinary security needs.
Thus, its donations were the least troublesome. Commissioner Nelson had rarely seen such easy money in his life.
Since they were paying, Dustin and Elsa wouldn't be affected by Luke and Selina's work performance.
In fact, it wouldn't affect these two old bosses even if they didn't work as detectives.
They had agreed to help them back then, and the current situation could be considered satisfactory.
Luke took another sip of wine and said, "Secondly, two years is enough for us to leave the police department."
Selina was confused. "What do you mean?"
Luke said, "If we don't accept Dustin's invitation and open a detective agency, New York will become" lively, "and that'll be too conspicuous."
Selina immediately understood. He was referring to the "rhythm" of Batman's appearance, which would easily "match" their whereabouts.
It was one thing if no one investigated them, but Luke and Selina's combat ability wasn't ordinary. Someone might really suspect them.
It wasn't appropriate to talk about this in the open. Seeing that Selina understood, Luke continued, "Thirdly, Titanium Phone Company has developed very quickly in the past two years. We're already the richest and most powerful people in America. We don't have to worry too much."
Selina couldn't help but recall how envious Takagi had been when he had given Luke a one-story villa.
Now … she didn't feel anything at all.
She and Gold Nugget could buy a ten-million-dollar mansion alone, and she had been struggling with rent when she first arrived in Los Angeles.
As for Luke, he held more than half of the shares in Titanium Phone Company and Emperor Penguin Software, which were valued at more than two hundred billion.
In the past two years, Luke had also used equity incentives to openly increase Jenny's shares to 15% to 20%, and strengthen her voice in the company.
The rest of the shares were controlled by Jenny, and they were cross-shareholdings with more than fifty capital groups to form a community of interests.
As Luke developed more and more technology, most of the unimportant patents went from short-term licenses to long-term licenses.
Given the size of these two companies, it would be difficult for others to swallow them all at once. There was no need for him to hold onto those "outdated" patents.
Both he and Jenny were short of money, and they needed power to protect themselves even more. Giving up profits was an inevitable choice.
As a matter of fact, both companies had been developed by Jenny, and they were considered "firsts."
Otherwise, even if they fell into the hands of others, it wouldn't matter at all.
In any case, all Luke wanted was the cell phone network as an information and media platform.
Even though they were kicked out, he and Jenny were still at the top of the hierarchy.
The various shares they held in various capital groups were their "guaranteed assets."
However, the prerequisite for all of this was that the other party had to pass the System's judgment of good and evil.
If the other party's name was too red and their methods were too dirty, Luke didn't mind using even dirtier methods.
Hypnosis and hallucination could solve most problems.
Are there any non-red names in the capital group? Based on Luke's observations, this was a "rare animal" among the bigshots.
Therefore, he had a 99.99% chance of using unconventional methods.
As long as nothing extreme happened, Luke and Jenny would be "outside the law" in ten years.
This kind of person would not appear in the dock of the court, because basically no case would fall on their head.
When something happened to a company, a manager would take the blame.
When something happened to a private person, a scapegoat would voluntarily plead guilty.
In the eyes of most ordinary people, these people were great philanthropists, collectors, and so on.
In this regard, the Morgan, Johnson, Rockefeller, Bush and other well-known families in the United States were the most direct examples.
Rich people in the United States could be dragged out and executed in public — like Thompson, who killed his wife.
But the rich and powerful never got away with it.
What Luke wanted Jenny to do was turn someone who was simply rich into someone who had both money and power.
That was the only way he could use power to curb power.
Others could no longer investigate him wantonly just because of a little bit of suspicion.
In the most practical example, in another five years, even if the FBI and the CIA found some clues and suspected that Luke was a superhero, they could only give the evidence to certain bigshots.
These bigshots would then use it to exchange interests with Luke.
Unless it was an irreconcilable feud, nobody would be stupid enough to expose him.
Hydra's "allies" were a case in point.
They couldn't bring him down without solid evidence, so they could only exchange interests.
Interests were the most important thing.
Luke had never openly confronted the American government, not because it was exquisite, but simply because it was unnecessary.
After a few years of development, he became a chess player and could use the government's power to do things for him.
He wasn't forced by the situation, so why would he go against the entire American society?
Only an idiot would have such an extremely stupid idea.
From another perspective, Luke's path of development was very similar to Hydra's.
He would wear the skin of the American government, reap benefits for himself, and then throw the blame to the American government.
In private, he could still do whatever he wanted, and he could also use the power of the government to clean up some loose ends.
Luke was just an ordinary person, and didn't know anything about integrity.
The only good thing was that he knew his limits, and never took seriously some of the things he said when he was a keyboard warrior in his previous life.
Time was always on his side.
He was only twenty-one years old, but he had already entered the top class in America. He basically ruled out the possibility that the government would hunt him down. What else could he be dissatisfied with?
…
A few days later, Luke invited Dustin, Elsa and Y 'lisabet to his house.
At the party, he announced that he was about to resign.
All three of them were quite surprised.
In the end, he talked to the three of them separately.
He only talked to Dustin and Elsa about his future plans. It wasn't necessary for Y 'lisabet.
That was because Y 'lisabet was very rich, and both Dustin and Elsa could take care of her.
The three of them had similar reactions, but they were all different.
Dustin was the most carefree. Even if he was reluctant, he felt that it was normal.
It would be strange for a rich man like Luke to stay as a minor detective.
But judging from Luke and Selina's expenses, Dustin could roughly guess that Luke had made a fortune after he worked for him.
It could only be said that Luke had made his fortune too fast, and his plans couldn't keep up with the changes.
He even understood that Luke had been transferred to New York with him as a favor.
Luke had to have been very rich back then, otherwise he wouldn't have been able to get a five-story building in the Clinton area.
Even though this was the chaotic Hell's Kitchen back then, the rent for such a large building was unimaginably high.
Thus, Dustin was already mentally prepared, and could only bless Luke's decision.
Elsa and Dustin's reactions were similar.
She knew Luke and Selina even better than Dustin did — Dustin and Selina weren't best friends.
Women were more sensitive to the price of a lot of things, such as perfume, skincare products, jewelry, clothes, and so on.
Even though Selina was a "thrifty" woman, and there weren't many of those things, they couldn't fool Elsa.
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