Stacey thought for a long time, so long that Luke asked the intelligent butler Butterfly to bring a pot of coffee, and drank it while waiting for her answer.
In order not to disturb her thoughts, he moved a few meters away to make his presence less oppressive.
More than an hour later, Stacey experienced a violent mental fluctuation, and finally made up her mind. She stood up and walked towards him: "I choose the first one."
After more than a year of study, she realized that thinking must be systematic and logical.
The second option mentioned by V sounds like it does not require any responsibility, but there is a possibility of being "excluded".
Considering that ordinary people would leave their circle, perhaps she would be "left" once a crisis occurs.
She couldn't accept this.
Not only because she likes Claire, but also because she has some pride as a person with super powers.
After more than a year of education, this arrogance has changed from being outward-looking to being inward-looking, but it still exists.
Just like Yao Ming can be polite to middle school students playing basketball, but he will never regard them as his equal "opponents".
Moreover, V's circle has a great appeal to her.
All she needed to think about was whether entering this circle would bring danger to Claire.
V’s training taught her that when doing things, she should first consider the bad consequences and then the benefits.
If the chance of a bad outcome from something is too high, it’s best not to participate—unless there is no way out.
For more than an hour, she was weighing the gains and losses and the degree of danger of this matter.
What overwhelmed her was that Claire herself was an "insider".
Even if Stacey stayed out of it, Claire might not be able to.
Luke, who had been paying attention to her through telepathic communication, was quite satisfied and nodded, "Sit down, I'll tell you slowly."
Half an hour later, the conversation ended and Luke left, leaving Stacey sitting there in a daze with a lot of questions in her mind.
The twin sisters rushed in through the open training room door. The two girls almost said in unison: "What did the wizard say?"
Stacey moved her lips several times, but she didn't know what to say.
She didn't want to lie to these two people who were closer to her than her own sisters.
But can she tell it? V just said it was kept strictly confidential.
Those things are really not suitable for these two carefree guys to know.
After a long while, she sighed and said, "Don't ask me anymore. It's about my love life."
Twins: (幛?幛?)
Stacey: "Go away, I'm not going to tell you...Ah, you dare to do it!"
Artmesser strangled her neck: "Hurry up and tell me, otherwise I will only see a bunch of dead otakus every day. I just want to wash my eyes when I receive the photos."
Stephanie also grabbed one of her arms. "Come on, tell me. The company warned me not to let any rumors spread, otherwise my income would plummet. And the handsome guys in the company are either gay or scumbags. I don't like them at all."
Stacey looked helpless: "...but she is a girl."
In the training room, the air suddenly became quiet...
…
Luke came out, feeling very relaxed.
The matter was not as serious as he told Stacy. Keeping confidentiality was just basic procedure. It was better to take precautions before it happened.
Stacy can contact the boss through the smart housekeeper Butterfly, and then receive the equipment that V "stores" there.
What Luke introduced was mainly the abilities and role of this big guy.
He just gave Claire a background introduction that she had "someone with connections".
Of course Stacey wanted to know who Claire's backer was, but Luke just said, "Your backer is me, but her backer won't tell her that."
Stacey shut up.
Apparently, she and Claire really were “outsiders.”
Except for the big boss who acts as a "transit station" and their own "backers", the information of other people must be kept confidential to them.
Luke doesn't tell her who Claire's backer is, because whether it's himself or Batman, it's unnecessary and dangerous.
He didn't expect the two girls to join the front-line team. Doing this now would only allow them to obtain equipment from another channel.
If you take this detour, you will have less trouble.
To give a simple example, it's like the difference between taking money from Tony personally and taking money from Stark Group.
The latter is much less likely to be the focus of attention.
…
In our busy lives, the days always pass quickly, and in the blink of an eye it is already mid-April.
On the Neon side, Luke still hasn't started to act.
The Hydra in the Neon branch are professional agents, numbering several hundred people.
If you want to catch them all at once, a month is too short to prepare an action plan.
Luke is not a rough novice, so of course he has to take it slow. After all, it is easy to gain some other points in Tokyo with tens of millions of people.
In New York, Claire and the trio of super girls have completed their intensive training, and they have returned to their original schedule.
The twin sisters sang and the anchor was the anchor. There was no change.
However, Stacey and Claire are still sticking together and went to shoot the MV for Claire's new song.
The shooting location is not far from New York, in an abandoned town by a lake in Pennsylvania.
Driving west from New York across New Jersey, you can reach the abandoned town in four or five hours.
Luke asked a few casual questions, and Claire said that her new song had a unique temperament, so the MV chose a place that matched this quality.
After listening to Claire's new song, he couldn't help but complain: "Are you going to switch to children's songs? Or dark ones?"
Claire shrugged. "I like it. It's really interesting. And..."
Luke sensed the strangeness in her eyes: "Just tell me, are you afraid that I will beat you up?"
Claire chuckled: "Besides, the two songs you gave me before were really popular, but now a lot of people are scolding me for only singing pop songs to make money, so why not play some children's songs with more depth this time?"
Luke rolled his eyes and slapped her on the forehead: "Why? Isn't the money earned from singing pop songs good? Aren't your clothes, shoes, perfume, scarves, jewelry, and watches all earned from singing pop songs?"
That's what entertainment products are like.
Popular songs are similar to the amateur essays on the Internet, simple and popular, easy to catchy or addictive.
If you insist on injecting meaning into it, it will be funny.
First of all, the basic purpose of entertainment products is to entertain. It is the job of masters and educators to combine entertainment with education. How can ordinary singers and authors achieve both
It is difficult to have both, so naturally you have to make a choice.
If you want depth, don’t think about making money. What can sell is always the most popular and the most ignorant works.
Whether it's an online article that costs a few cents to subscribe to, or an English pop song that costs a few dozen cents, it all comes down to quantity.
Things that are well-received but not popular can be left to the masters, since they have plenty of money anyway.
But Luke just made a few random complaints, and there was nothing wrong with Claire wanting to try something "meaningful" to fool those brainless critics.
If these guys don't rely on these things to make their case, wouldn't they be nothing but waste
Besides, people like critics also rely on attention to make a living.
No matter how talented a critic is, if no one reads his comments, it is the same as if he has not made any comments.
From this point of view, critics are no nobler than pop singers.
It’s just that when critics criticize others for a living, they have to pretend to be like, “I’m criticizing you for the sake of art.”
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