Half a day later, the clone arrived at Tijuana, a city on the border with Mexico.
Luke had wandered around here before when he had come with Roger and Martin to look for trouble with a certain drug lord.
Later, his clone had been here a few times when he went back and forth in Mexico to earn points.
Since he had plenty of time, he had invested in a security company that provided surveillance installation services for various organizations and companies, including the government.
This company was also one of PDD's temporary agencies in Mexico.
That was because Luke only wanted to use this opportunity to set up a surveillance network and use the excuse of expanding the market to encourage employees.
Thus, this security company didn't charge much, and would even give away surveillance cameras in some public areas.
Naturally, they couldn't tamper with the internal surveillance of their clients' organizations and companies, but they didn't have to be too particular about surveillance cameras in public places.
The surveillance footage of what seemed to be Zero and Haley was in the temporary parking lot of a hotel by the beach in Tijuana. It was the surveillance camera that the security company had given to the hotel for free.
After Luke sent Haley's appearance and body data to PDD's search system, it would be very easy for her to be discovered unless she was moving around in an area without surveillance.
Luke's main goal was to save her, and that Zero was just a bonus.
Now that he had finally gotten off to a good start, he could finally put a date on this matter. One week should be enough.
Haley and the man who seemed to be Zero weren't staying at this hotel. They had only parked their car here.
But now that their whereabouts had been exposed, there were a lot of things Luke could do.
On the way here, he had asked the security company to retrieve the public surveillance data in this area.
It wasn't hard for the security company to do this in the name of routine maintenance. In any case, it was a free benefit that nobody would refuse.
Very soon, Luke found more traces of Haley and Selina.
It had been half a day since he had arrived. His Sharp Nose didn't find any useful clues, but it was very easy to find a route that the two of them had taken.
Following this route, Luke arrived at the beach before nightfall.
Looking at the crowded beach, he sighed. "It's not a good thing to have too many people."
With so many people together, the smell was unimaginably mixed.
Even if Haley was here, he might not be able to tell.
It was the end of August, and everyone in Tijuana Beach was sweating profusely. The smell of perfume, sunscreen, and food was all mixed together.
This situation was similar to pouring a large bucket of soy sauce, chili oil, asphalt, and hogwash into a cup of tea. Only a ghost would be able to smell the tea.
Thankfully, Luke wasn't someone who relied solely on his superpowers.
Standing in a secluded spot a few hundred meters away from the beach, he released the drone and began the process of looking for a needle in a haystack.
This might not work, but he didn't have to do anything anyway.
Tools do this repetitive and mechanical work.
Unsurprisingly, Haley and the man were not found near the beach.
Thinking about how the two of them were wearing caps, sunglasses, and thin masks, they didn't look like they were sunbathing or swimming.
Could it be that they were just passing by? Luke was a little suspicious.
If they were just passing by, it was normal that he couldn't find them here.
Given how mysterious Zero was, it would be normal for them to drive away with Haley without anyone noticing that he had taken Haley to Mexico.
Finally, before nightfall, Luke received a new update from Selina.
Haley and Zero appeared on a surveillance camera at a certain gas station that the security company had investigated. They were only five kilometers away from the beach where Luke was.
That couldn't be helped.
It would take time for the security company to retrieve the surveillance data, and if they didn't happen to run into this route, it would naturally take even more time.
Luke really wasn't in a hurry. There weren't that many things that could make him anxious right now.
Looking at the greasy girls on the beach just now was actually a form of leisure activity.
It was already eight o 'clock at night. He put the bicycle he had ridden in the afternoon into his inventory in an uninhabited forest by the side of the road.
Thinking for a moment, he changed into the clown suit that he hadn't been using much recently.
This was the suit with the lowest level of protection. The purple suit he was wearing was a high imitation of a normal suit, and couldn't withstand a large-caliber machine gun.
The nano-mask on his face could at most protect him from poisonous gas and liquids, but it couldn't even protect him from a rifle.
However, the clown could use a lot of abilities.
At the very least, many bigshots knew that clowns were easy to injure, but they weren't easy to kill — which, of course, was in comparison to dark knights in armor.
Activating the levitation and stealth function of the nano-boots, Mr. Jeff, who was wearing a purple suit and had a bloody mouth, drifted south on the road like a ghost.
The reason why he didn't fly was to make it easier for him to use Sharp Nose and Elementary Sound Wave to search for him.
Along the way, there were villas scattered along the beach.
Many middle-class Americans had vacation villas here, so Zero might be here somewhere.
Luke didn't think that the other party could prepare safe houses all over the world in advance like him.
It was difficult to do that with superpowers, but easy with money.
After passing the gas station, his speed slowed down.
He quickly went over all the buildings that the drones found with lights and human activity.
He hadn't seen Haley and Zero yet, but there were plenty of other eye-opening situations.
Those who came to the beach at this time, whether inside or outside the buildings, had a lot of longing for nature.
Because it was dark, there were a lot of people who used the sky as their blankets and the ground as their beds. There were also a lot of people who were having fun in their villas.
It wasn't just young people who were having fun. Some middle-aged couples got together and forgave each other on the spot.
Luke simply floated past them in silence and pretended not to see anything.
A woman happened to be flying in his direction, so he turned his head and grinned, revealing his pale face and bloody mouth. This could only prove that Mr. Jeff was a polite gentleman.
As for whether or not a man with a woman would be scared out of his wits by her hysterical screams, that was none of Luke's business.
They were lucky that they didn't become a lunatic.
Thinking that, Luke searched all the way to a location two kilometers south of the gas station.
At that moment, his Sharp Nose suddenly picked up a scent that contained Haley's pheromone.
After Sharp Nose was upgraded to Elementary, Luke tried to fuse it with Pheromone Control to obtain his own Elementary Pheromone Smell.
This ability, which wasn't very mature, was better at tracking the pheromones emitted by the human body.
In terms of finding people, pheromones were more accurate than smells.
In particular, if there weren't a lot of people to interfere with pheromones, Luke would easily discover even the slightest bit.
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