It was the end of September, and Luke's level-one clone finally moved.
After waiting at the beach house in Tijuana for a month, Haley was certain that Simon wouldn't return there to look for her, and chose to leave.
She secretly returned to America, but instead of going to New York, she went to San Francisco incognito.
Naturally, Luke followed her.
He could speculate why, because Simon's stepfather, Raman's medical company, was in San Francisco.
Simon was much more likely to show up here than anywhere else.
Since she had already waited for a month, a few more days didn't matter. That was what the watcher and the watched thought.
In order to hide her identity, Haley turned herself into a dirty female tramp in a hat.
People like that were everywhere in big cities, and nobody would care about them.
As long as they didn't go to rich neighborhoods, the police wouldn't care.
Arresting these people wouldn't bring any profit to the police department, and the police department would have to "provide food and shelter."
Secondly, the homeless weren't the "beggars" that many Chinese thought they were.
Some people simply couldn't find official jobs for various reasons. It wouldn't be surprising to find a former IBM manager picking up scrap as a homeless person.
It was probably because his pension couldn't sustain a normal life.
Thus, it was true that many homeless people weren't very hygienic or polite, but there were also quite a few who were.
It was just that they didn't have high standards in these two aspects because they were short of money.
Haley disguised herself as a more civilized homeless person.
In fact, although she didn't smell like perfume, she didn't smell bad either. Her dusty face was the effect of makeup.
Her slightly dirty coat didn't have any old dirt on it; it was just ordinary dust.
But with the cover of a shabby cart and the shabby and messy clothes, she looked 70% to 80% similar to a real homeless person.
It had to be said that this female doctor was the polar opposite of her silly and sweet artistic sister.
Margaret was studying art as a hobby, but it was also a hobby that purely cost money.
Haley studied psychology as a hobby, but she could use it to put on makeup, act, and make money.
In the few days that Luke had been monitoring her as a homeless person, he had seen her use her knowledge of psychology to easily trick passersby into pocketing money.
After an hour or two, she could easily make more than a hundred dollars, which was much easier than regular workers.
For a psychologist who charged three hundred dollars for an hour of counseling, the income was not high.
However, Haley had been able to charge $300 an hour because someone was willing to spend more than the market price to hire a beautiful female psychiatrist.
Right now, she was playing with pure skills, and she had to make it so that most people wouldn't be able to detect it. Her efficiency was all thanks to her professional skills.
Just like that, Haley spent some time every day to get enough money. Other times, she would appear near the headquarters of Raman's company and gather all sorts of information.
Not long after, she simply set up a "nest" near Raman Company and could monitor the place day and night.
Luke didn't care at all.
Haley's behavior was actually his doing.
He encouraged Haley's urge to find Simon, and buried in her an irrefutable logic that Simon had been chased away by the Joker and was too afraid to show his face.
As long as she could not find Simon, part of her admiration and infatuation for him would shift to the clown.
When she was completely disappointed, Haley would abandon the useless Simon and seek refuge with the more powerful and mysterious Clown.
So, Luke wasn't anxious at all.
Whether or not this was fair to Haley was just a hypothetical proposition.
If it was so easy to get rid of Simon's control over Haley, Luke wouldn't have been so greedy for Simon's abilities.
This was just the lesser of two evils.
At the very least, Luke had the system to constantly remind him not to do bad things, but Simon didn't.
It was better for Haley to be controlled by Luke than to become an accomplice of a bottomless monster like Simon.
But without the seaside villa, Luke lost interest in keeping an eye on the female doctor at night.
After putting down enough surveillance equipment, the level-one clone went to do what he had to do.
It was his duty to help the drug dealers in San Francisco clear their inventory and solve the problem of redundancy.
After carefully selecting the most heinous and high-scoring targets, both the person and the goods went missing.
Most of the lower-level personnel who were left behind were at a loss. Had the boss secretly run away, or had he gone alone?
As the number of big shots on the "mysterious tour" increased to ten, a small number of smart people with good memories finally remembered what happened a few years ago.
The urban horror legend that had once haunted their counterparts next door — the Ghost Butcher.
But under the temptation of dying for money, even if most people were a little wary, they still couldn't help but take over the territory and business left behind by these "tourist enthusiasts."
At that moment, no one went missing again, which delighted the people who had picked up the bargain. The gang members who were busy fighting for territory forgot about that terrifying legend.
In fact, Luke had only stopped farming points because he realized that a lot of people wanted to run away.
The level-one clone didn't know how long he would have to stay here, and he had to persevere for a while in order to continue developing.
New York was a good example.
The leeks there had already been dispirited under Luke and Selina's continuous harvesting.
Then, Frank, the little turtle, and Damon and his daughter went out to adjust their moods when they had something to do.
Now, all that was left was some leeks.
Besides, if these guys in San Francisco ran away, Luke really wouldn't have the time to look for them.
He could only restrain himself a little more and be more skillful at fleecing them.
Apart from monitoring the female doctor and farming some points, the level-one clone found Dr. Pim, who was hiding in a building in the wild.
Putting on his Everything Merchant identity, he took the initiative to visit and enthusiastically offered the old guy a business deal.
Luke was in a good mood when he obtained six Pim particles again.
But this time, the bigshot agreed to a small request from Dr. Pim, and would consider helping him take back the company when the time was right.
Of course, it wasn't because Dr. Pim's protagonist halo was working, and the bigshot bowed down to him.
Instead, it was because Darren Cross, the current CEO of Pim Technologies, who had been closely watched, was already upset by Dr. Pim's little tricks, and seemed ready to conduct some not-so-kind experiments.
Luke hadn't agreed to deal with Darren before because it was just a business dispute between Darren and Dr. Pim, and there was no right or wrong.
But if this guy did random human experiments and crossed the line of law and morality, he might turn from yellow to red.
At that time, not only would he lose the protection of the system's rules, he would also break Luke's moral bottom line.
Taking Darren's life was definitely going too far, but beating him up and learning Pim particles could only be considered a reward for his hard work.
In any case, Luke wasn't short of money. He was only making Pim particles for his own use, and wouldn't be cheating Dr. Pim.
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