Phineas was stunned for a while, then he cried out, "What did you say?"
Then he quickly asked, "Can you really save my daughter?"
Luke smiled and nodded: "Yes. And whether you agree or not, Cook's subsequent troubles will not come to you."
Phineas looked hesitant.
After he found out clearly that the job required him to work as a researcher in a non-closed laboratory, he agreed after thinking about it for less than two minutes.
First of all, this kind of work is his specialty.
Secondly, even if the other party has no evidence, as long as they tell the Soderbergh family that there is something wrong with him, he and his daughter will not be able to escape.
Cook is the mayor's biological son, and this father and daughter are just the lower class without any power to protect them.
It is not uncommon for a big boss to kill his enemy by mistake and not let him go. It doesn't matter if he kills him by mistake anyway.
After reaching an agreement, Phineas' first concern was to treat his daughter.
Luke just smiled and said, "Mr. Mason, please remember: you have never seen me. If a miracle happens to your daughter, just thank God."
Phineas was stunned: "But, don't you want me to go..."
He has to work for the other party, and procedures such as signing contracts and paying salaries are essential. How can he keep it confidential
"No, you and I have never met." Luke waved his hand and stood up from the sofa: "Three days later at nine o'clock in the morning, someone will give you the address, and you can go there by yourself."
As he said this, he motioned for Phineas to go out.
The two walked out of the room, and Luke closed the door behind him: "I hope we don't have to meet again, Mr. Mason."
As soon as he finished speaking, he took a step forward. After two or three steps, his body gradually became transparent and disappeared into the dim passage.
Phineas swallowed with a grunt.
Only then did he remember that the family portrait in the living room just now was obviously an ordinary family of three, and there was no old man in black at all.
Could it be... that I had seen a ghost? Phineas' body was trembling a little, and he quickened his pace and walked out.
When he returned to the hospital and looked at the corridor where people were still coming and going, he gradually calmed down.
At this time, his firm scientific worldview as a dual engineer came into play.
Phineas stood there for a moment before he slapped his forehead and said, "Falco, that's just optical invisibility, what am I afraid of!"
Secondly, the old man in black didn’t want anyone to know that he had appeared, so the living room might have been temporarily “borrowed” by the other party.
For someone who can make optical invisibility practical, it is not difficult to enter an ordinary apartment.
From beginning to end, this is not a ghost story.
Cursing himself for being an idiot, Phineas walked back to his daughter's ward.
Sitting down beside the bed, looking at his daughter who seemed to be sleeping soundly, his heart was filled with emotions.
I wonder when the old man in black will come to treat Brailey? He should wait until I sign the contract.
These damn vampire capitalists are not so kind and will definitely get the benefits.
Looking at his daughter, he couldn't help but put his hand on her forehead.
She seemed to have dreamed of something sad and was frowning, just like when she was a child. Phineas thought so and suddenly stopped: Wait, she is frowning
Brailey, who was in a deep coma, had no response at all these days.
If this were not the case, he would not have been so angry that he lost his mind and used a drone to feed the culprit Cook enough banned drugs to retaliate.
His hands began to tremble, and he called softly, "Breelee, can you hear me? Daddy is here."
Braili on the bed trembled her eyelashes a few times, slowly opened her eyes, and looked around blankly for a moment before finally seeing her father's old face. She murmured, "Dad, I... where am I?"
Phineas' eyes were red. "You are sick and staying in the hospital temporarily. Don't worry, I am always here."
As he spoke, his hand quickly pressed the call button.
Phineas's excitement only subsided a little when the doctors and nurses pushed him away from the bed.
Suddenly, he remembered what the old man in black had just said - if a miracle happens to your daughter, just thank God.
His daughter had been unconscious for so long, but she woke up just as he had reached an agreement with the old man in black? The implication was self-evident.
After the doctor gave her a rough examination, he asked the nurse to send Bradley for a comprehensive examination.
After receiving most of the test results, the doctor smiled slightly, and at the same time, he was a little bit unbelievable: "Mr. Mason, congratulations, this is a miracle."
Phineas: "Huh?"
The doctor was used to seeing this kind of expression on the patient's family's face, so he had no interest in keeping them in suspense and said directly, "Your daughter is in good health. She seems to have just been in a coma for a while. I don't see any problem. Let her stay in the hospital for another 48 to 72 hours for observation. If there is no abnormality, she can be discharged."
Phineas nodded repeatedly, thanking him profusely.
After seeing the doctor off and persuading his daughter to go back to sleep, he began to think again in the quiet ward: He can be discharged from the hospital in 48 hours, so he can just go to sign the contract in the morning three days later
Could it be that the other party had thought of this a long time ago? Phineas was secretly shocked.
If this speculation is true, it proves that the old man in black is absolutely sure about treating his daughter, otherwise he would not have given the reminder and time.
Then he thought about how when he asked about the contract, the other party only asked him to keep it confidential but did not say what would happen if Phineas breached the contract.
At that time, Phineas thought that the old man in black was too pretentious, but now all this made him vaguely understand that the other person just was not afraid that he would go back on his word.
The trouble will be solved for you, and your daughter will cure you in minutes. Do you dare to break the contract? It will also take a minute to solve your problem. Phineas thought that this was probably the way to understand the behavior of the old man in black.
However, he didn't have any complaints.
Originally, this was just his speculation. He couldn't blame the other party for curing his daughter so quickly and not signing the contract on the spot, right? He couldn't blame the other party for trusting his character too much.
…
Luke's clone first spent a few minutes going to the hospital to heal Bray's brain injury.
Then he changed out of his Pennyworth identity and started cleaning up for the new members of New Hope Institute.
Compared to a professional like him, Phineas left too many clues and it took him almost an hour to figure it out.
Luke didn't lie to Phineas.
Just before the two of them talked, the most important loophole - the imitation drone - had been taken away by him.
As long as this stolen drone is not there, it will not be easy to track down Phineas.
The main reason why Phineas didn't get this thing out was that he didn't have enough time.
The Soderbergh family has sealed off that room very tightly recently, and he has to take care of his daughter, so it is impossible for him to wait for an opportunity in the apartment building.
Besides, it is still very difficult for ordinary people to find him through the drone.
In fact, the investigators who went to Soderbergh's house didn't take the drone seriously at all. They just removed the storage device according to the instructions.
The video inside is not a big deal, it is just a small scandal at most, not as serious as Lindsay thinks.
Mayer Soderbergh conducted the investigation out of caution, suspecting that someone was trying to use his son Cook against him.
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