Compared with the determination and actions these teenagers took to change their destiny, this reward is nothing.
It is difficult for people who have not lived in the slums to imagine the hardships they endure.
Especially for the African community, most of their peers are just living a life of idleness and waiting to die, and it is even more difficult for them to get out.
Even Matt and Fudge can't compare to this, after all, they are white.
Luke's life before he was eighteen was ordinary at best, but it was far from hardship.
Robert Catherine and grandfather Drexel provided their three children with a decent quality of life and education, as well as meticulous care.
As for the dozen or so half-grown kids in the decoration team, they are either fatherless (dead) or worse than fatherless (in prison or neglected).
They were raised by their mothers, which is also a major characteristic of the poor African-American community.
For this reason, both Selina and Fudge were surprised by Luke's donation, but they did not object.
In this good mood, Luke and his friend arrived at the police station and went to Dustin's office.
This report was not on the schedule today, but since Dustin called to summon us, there were no conditions to be negotiated.
Being lenient in normal times means that support must be provided when needed.
After entering the office, Dustin, who was buried in the documents, did not even look up. He just glanced at the two figures and raised his hand to point. Selina, who was standing by the door, immediately closed the door.
After working together for so long, everyone knows the process to follow as soon as the action is taken.
However, Luke was in a good mood and wanted to play a little joke today, so he asked first: "Boss, do you have a long-lost brother named Justin Hammer?"
Hearing this, Dustin stopped flipping through the documents, closed it and threw it on the table, then raised his head: "He's my cousin, did he piss you off? No problem, you can do whatever you want to him."
Luke: …
Selena: …
This was something Selina said casually when they were watching the news. Luke even said she was stupid. But now...
Selina immediately glanced at Luke to see if his face hurt.
Luke didn't feel embarrassed at all. Instead, he looked at Dustin with a strange expression on his face: "Boss, you never said you had such a relative?"
Dustin chuckled, with no smugness, anger or jealousy on his face. He simply said, "Because the relationship is a bit distant, tracing back four generations is our common grandfather."
That is, Dustin and Justin have the same great-great-grandfather, or they are both great-great-grandsons of some old man Hammer.
Looking at the expressions of Luke and the others, Dustin said calmly, "Since my father, my family has had nothing to do with that place, and I am too lazy to mention it."
What else doesn't Luke and the others understand
If he hadn't asked, Dustin would never have mentioned it in his life, because Dustin himself didn't care about this relative.
But if Luke asked, he wouldn't lie.
It can only be said that the relationship between Dustin and Luke is no longer just allies or friends, which is why they are so frank.
Dustin didn't continue talking about this topic anymore and got down to business: "Tony Stark is coming to New York, did you know?"
Without needing the two to answer, he said, "He is hosting the second Stark Industries Expo. There is a formal opening ceremony in three days, so we have received a familiar mission. Do you understand?"
Luke rolled his eyes. “Venue patrol?”
Dustin: "Given your outstanding performance at the Los Angeles Industrial Fair last time, you will be the ones to patrol the opening ceremony this time and be responsible for communication between the Detective Bureau and Stark Group security. Any questions?"
Luke: “…No problem.”
As the saying goes, "Train your troops for a thousand days and deploy them for a moment." Dustin has been letting his soldiers go free for more than a month, so it's only natural to let them move around.
Who said that was the Stark Group? Who said that a certain pair of partners were Stark’s relatives
In fact, Dustin and the other two knew it well.
After the two were listed as "strategic weapons" that should not be used lightly, their efficiency in taking on cases and solving cases was greatly reduced. Their brilliance as a team capable of taking on three or even five people at once in the West District Serious Crime Unit of Los Angeles is no longer there.
Judging from the data alone, the two are now handling cases at the top level of the Detective Bureau, which is far behind the top John McClane. There are four or five other partners of the same level.
Because that's enough.
Although the two handled the relationship between colleagues in the detective bureau well, they were too young after all, and they were parachuted in from outside. Being too diligent would only make the old detectives uncomfortable.
The two of them have no need for promotion for the time being, and being too diligent will only reduce the possibility of promotion for others and affect the currently good office atmosphere.
Luke and Selina also need more free time to improve their own abilities, and spend one-third of other people's time to achieve results so that others cannot find fault with them.
Therefore, they actually have very little time, and carrying out such time-consuming patrol tasks will not have much impact on the Detective Bureau.
The two of them readily accepted the task and stood up to leave.
After driving out of the headquarters, the two stopped by Flushing, Queens, where the Stark Industries Expo was held.
In fact, a few nights ago, Tony announced the start of the Stark Industries Expo when he descended from the sky, but the exhibition area was still being set up.
The Stark Industries Expo was different from the last trade show in Los Angeles.
The first Industrial Expo was held by Tony's father in 1974, and it only happened once.
Now, this is only the second one held by Tony.
Secondly, unlike trade fairs that mainly feature Stark Group products, the exhibitors of the Stark Industrial Expo are high-tech companies from all over the world. It is a world-class platform.
To describe it from martial arts novels, this is a technological version of the World Martial Arts Conference, where everyone competes for attention based on their own abilities.
The exhibition will last for a year, and most of the venues will be adjusted as the participating companies change.
Not every company has enough exhibits to last through the one-year exhibition period, and many small venues have new companies and new products appearing every now and then.
There is even an "individual business" exhibition area at the venue.
As long as they pass the inspection of the exhibition management department, individual inventors can put their own weird things on this world-class stage and show them for a day.
Luke and Selina decided on the way that as long as they had time, they would go to the self-employed exhibition area to have a look, maybe they would come across some interesting little inventions.
Many technologies are useless to their inventors because they are difficult to monetize. Without monetization, there is no money to continue research, and without money for research, it is even more difficult to monetize.
Luke felt that as long as he could find one or two good things, this security trip would be worth it.
For the next two days, the two of them rushed around the venue, not even going to the restaurant for lunch. They prepared the food in the morning and put it in the car.
After lunch, the two took advantage of their free time to go to the individual experience booths to watch the fun.