Chapter 492 - Work Hard to Return the Favor
Chapter 492 Work Hard to Return the Favor
This time, Gold Nugget didn’t yell for Luke to apologize. It also vaguely felt that it might really have to do with the symbiosis. After this incident, Luke and Selina brought one extra piece of equipment with them when they went out to work cases — a bag of snacks. The bag wasn’t very large, but it was full of high-calorie snacks like all sorts of sweets and chocolates. Luke even went to the Chinese supermarket to buy preserved fruit in bulk to mix things up.
In fact, it wasn’t just Selina, but even Luke needed the snacks himself.
A strong body meant a large consumption. If it was just him, he could just replenish his energy with nutrient solutions.
But now there was Selina, Luke decided that the two of them could eat more together.
It became normal for them to work cases with a lollipop in their mouths or munching on chocolate. After all that eating and drinking for a week, Selina finally saw her body-fat percentage return to 17%. The gap in her bra was finally gone.
But Selina stressed repeatedly that her bra still felt a little loose, so her boobs definitely weren’t back to normal yet.
As to that, Luke could only say: “Eat! Keep eating!” It was also a great opportunity for Gold Nugget to gorge itself. Luke didn’t feel it was safe to leave it at home, so it came out with them in the backseat. Whenever Selina ate a snack, she never forgot to give Dollar a bit of whatever she was eating.
Naturally, she was mostly feeding Dollar.
Dollar was a big eater when it was younger, and Selina’s heart had hurt when it got older and lost its appetite.
Now with Gold Nugget helping out, she naturally shared anything that was delicious with Dollar. For Dollar, it definitely was a beautiful life.
It was with its young master every day and had a lot of delicious food to eat.
Except for the fact that it would lose control of its body every now and then, and that there was a voice which kept scolding it for being a stupid dog in its head, everything made it happy. Of course, Dollar couldn’t understand the voice inside its head. It was no different from the voices outside, so it just ignored it; everything was fine as long as its young master didn’t scold it. Just like that, a week passed.
Luke suddenly received a call from Dustin, who told Luke to come by his office alone.
On his way to the police department, Luke wondered if Dustin was in serious trouble this time, since Dustin rarely summoned him to his office.
The last time was when Luke discovered the huge stash of illegal cash in the garbage trucks. After he entered the office, Luke asked, “Boss, anything wrong?” Dustin had propped up his face with one hand and was tapping the desk with the other as if he was thinking about something. He merely waved when he heard Luke.
Luke immediately shut the door.
After a moment of silence, Dustin asked, “You know a little about Martin and Roger’s situation, don’t you?”
Luke nodded. “Elsa mentioned something.”
Dustin sighed. “What I’m about to say is a personal request. It’s not an order. Do you understand?”
Luke nodded again.
“Martin and Roger made quite a huge mess, but the DEA suddenly took the blame for what they did, saving their jobs,” said Dustin. Luke wasn’t surprised at all, since Palmer had texted him the news. Dustin continued, “However, I also owe someone from the DEA a favor because of this. He has a personal request for me.” Luke listened quietly. Naturally, he wouldn’t jump out and reveal that he had contributed a lot to the mess too.
Dustin wasn’t bothered by his silence.
He knew that Luke was never talkative when it came to business. “This man wants us to find a person for him. The target isn’t in America, and you can only go as a civilian.” Luke instantly got it. “Where’s the target?”
“Rio de Janeiro, Brazil,” said Dustin. Luke raised an eyebrow. “Who’s the target?”
Dustin said, “A source, or an undercover agent. They’re the only possibilities.”
Luke asked, “Why are they asking for our help? The DEA has a lot of manpower over there.” Dustin said, “They suspect they have a mole. When they send a small group, the men go missing; when they send too many people, they can’t find any leads.”
Luke nodded. “Okay. I’ll take the case if there aren’t any surprises.” “Huh?” Dustin was a little befuddled. Wait! I haven’t even finished and you’re already taking the case? He had anticipated that it wouldn’t be easy to persuade Luke. After all, there wasn’t anything in it for Luke.
To save Roger and Martin’s jobs, the person whom Dustin owed a favor to wanted Luke to go out on a personal assignment, which really wasn’t fair to him. But Luke was their person of choice. Dustinasknew that Luke was the candidate most likely to accomplish the mission. If they had asked for another detective, Dustin would’ve turned it down even if he wanted to return the favor, since it would be easy for something to go wrong.
He was a little more reassured if it was Luke, whose combat ability was off the charts and who had cracked the most number of cases; he was far more capable than regular detectives. Furthermore, Luke was far more mature than anyone else his age, and would never take any unnecessary risks.
There was just one problem: the most Luke would get out of this was Dustin owing him a personal favor. But that wasn’t good enough to make his subordinate go on such a dangerous mission. That was what bothered Dustin the most. He thought highly of Luke, and didn’t want to pressure him into accepting the assignment as Luke’s boss. He could only try to persuade the man. Little did he expect that Luke would agree as soon as Dustin opened his mouth. Stumped for quite a while, Dustin then said with a wry smile, “It would be best if you don’t spend more than two weeks on this assignment. If you can’t find that person by then, you can’t be blamed for it. After all, you aren’t familiar with the place.” Luke nodded.
“Do you have the files, boss?” Dustin shook his head. “I don’t know the details. You can contact the man at the DEA. This is his number.” He then gave Luke a card.
Luke accepted the card and glanced at it quickly before putting it into his pocket. “Then I’ll go tell Elsa…”
Dustin waved his hand. “It’s fine, I’ll explain it to her.”
Luke hummed and walked to the door. “Boss, may I ask, why did they ask for me?” After a brief silence, Dustin said, “Because they heard that you were good at finding suspects.” Luke was lost for words. So, finding an informant shouldn’t be a problem?
Mulling over it, he could only admit that there wasn’t anything wrong with this line of thinking.
He came out and got into the car, and told Selina about the upcoming business trip.
Selina wasn’t too excited this time.
Rio was nice, but Los Angeles wasn’t bad either. More importantly, with Dollar and Gold Nugget at home, she certainly couldn’t go with Luke. After they returned home, Luke contacted the DEA. Someone picked up the call and then hung up after just a few sentences. Luke clicked his tongue and shook his head.
Looking at his face, Selina asked, “What’s wrong? Is it troublesome?”
Luke said, “It seems the DEA has a lot of issues. This person will bring the files over for me to read, and then take them back with him.”