As the three of them spoke, they didn't forget to smile and nod at Detective Kathryn Beckett, who was looking at them.
Beckett simply smiled politely and turned around to instruct her two subordinates, who had been lost in thought for some reason.
She wouldn't reprimand Javier and Ryan for that.
Luke and Selina had ordinary positions in the Detective Bureau, but their status wasn't low.
They had a first-rate case-solving rate, and there were rumors that they were very good at fighting. They had even found Walter's assailant, and the old detectives in the Detective Bureau were very friendly to them.
John and Joe, these two wily old foxes, had a good relationship with them.
Coupled with the support of their boss, Dustin, nobody in the Detective Bureau wanted to have a conflict with them.
Their temperament and character were also pretty good. If Beckett hadn't been busy with her transfer recently, she would have talked to them more.
After all, the best-looking people in the Detective Bureau were Luke, Selina, and Beckett herself. It was impossible for her not to want to get close to them.
At that moment, the three of them walked out as they talked.
When they reached the entrance, Elizabeth went straight back to the intelligence department.
Luke and Selina, on the other hand, went in the same direction as Beckett and the other two.
Beckett was walking a little ahead. She turned around and talked to her subordinates, Javier and Ryan, about the case. She noticed Luke and Selina, and slowed down a little. "Are you going to the parking lot too?"
Luke nodded. "Investigating as well?"
Everyone laughed in unison.
Of course, there was nothing funny about this conversation. It was just the most ordinary question between detectives, like an ordinary person asking, "Have you eaten?"
The five of them met up and headed for the parking lot. However, Javier and Ryan, the two "weaker" members, subconsciously lagged behind a little to avoid the three "bigshots" in front of them.
They might be older than the three in front of them, but there was a big gap between their ability to handle cases and their positions.
In the Detective Bureau, age had to be supported by strength in order to be considered seniority.
Feeling that they were inferior to the three of them, they didn't want to go forward. Even though the corridor was wide, it wasn't big enough for five people to walk side by side.
In fact, Selina still lagged behind a little, and left the room for Beckett and Luke to talk.
After being partners for a long time, Luke would always set the tone when they first interacted with people. Selina wouldn't say anything in the beginning.
That was because it was difficult for the cheerful Selina to decide who was worse to treat quickly. On the contrary, she was more friendly to most people.
Luke, on the other hand, was polite to most people and wouldn't get close to anyone.
He was the valve that controlled her weakness of being overly friendly.
It was Luke's first face-to-face conversation with Beckett, a beautiful colleague. He was very polite and superficial.
To him, beauties were never a scarce resource.
Of course, a beauty like Beckett, who was almost seventy percent bare-faced, coupled with her pretty black ear-length hair and soft, baby-like facial features, wasn't something that could be seen everywhere.
After chatting for a while, they didn't even invite each other to "meet up after work", the most common invitation between colleagues, and ended the conversation.
A beauty like Beckett was more sensitive to after-work invitations than middle-aged men like John and Joe.
Unless she personally asked, other men who were not interested in her had better not take the initiative to ask.
But it was easy to misunderstand if she spoke up, and Selina was too lazy to speak up. They weren't that close.
Javier and Ryan were at the back, so they had no chance to interrupt.
So, as soon as they arrived at the parking lot, they smiled politely and drove off.
It wasn't long before Beckett and her two subordinates drove out of the parking lot.
Only then did Luke's car drive out unhurriedly.
Clearly, Beckett's case was more urgent than Luke and Selina's.
He simply drove a little faster so that Selina could read the dossier so that it would be easier for him to deal with the troublesome couple later.
Selina, on the other hand, threw the case file at the console. "Scan the information and create a new file. Code name … "
She looked at Luke to see what he thought.
"Code name, troublemaker." He casually gave the case an appropriate name.
In less than a minute, Selina directly operated the tablet, and the image was synchronized with the center console screen in front of him, so that he could glance at it when he needed it.
With Luke's current basic attributes, he could even vaguely see the trajectory of a pistol bullet. His memory and reaction speed were many times faster than an ordinary person's.
It would definitely be dangerous for an ordinary person to multitask like this, but Luke could focus on both things more efficiently than an ordinary person, and there wouldn't be any problems.
Selina began to introduce them. "Jeffrey Soderberg, 52 years old, a famous financier in New York. He owns the Ginsberg Fund, which has assets of around a billion dollars. His wife, Aurora Soderberg, 43 years old, mainly manages various charity funds funded by her family. Most of the time, Aurora is in charge of donations to various departments in New York. Hm, she's also the main player in the "good-looking clique."
Luke found that odd. "Aren't you afraid of being sued for discrimination?"
Although it wasn't easy for the poor to win a lawsuit against a tycoon like this, it was easy to ruin one's character and public image if they were caught in the act.
A powerful couple who were willing to spend millions on charity every year to maintain their image shouldn't be so stupid.
Selina continued flipping through the files, and in the end, she laughed. "This Ms. Aurora is a little prideful. It seems that she doesn't get along with some of the upper-class ladies in New York. Rumor has it that they once mocked her for having poor taste in" people. "
Luke was even more confused. "Shouldn't they be fighting each other in the newspapers and magazines? What does it have to do with looks? "
Selina said uncertainly, "Because the comment about having poor taste probably means that someone she likes is … ugly? There's no mention of this in the files. This is just a "cheat sheet" that Dustin gave us. "
Luke looked at the words that Dustin had casually written on a piece of paper on the screen, and was lost for words.
Selina said, "Alright, I'm relieved. At the very least, I won't be classified as" ugly, "right?"
Luke said gloomily, "They're from a rich white family."
Selina was lost for words. "Could it be that superficial discrimination is actually racial discrimination in the end?"
Luke tilted his head and thought for a moment, but still shook his head. "Maybe it's because they think they're ugly in the end?"
Glaring at him angrily, Selina continued, "Most importantly, our mayor's surname is also Soderberg, and he's Jeffrey's cousin."
Luke had heard Dustin mention this earlier, so he wasn't surprised. He simply sighed. "No wonder. They're rich and powerful. "
When they arrived and entered the parking lot, Luke got out of the car and said with a smile, "Hey, Beckett and the others are here too?"
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