If Joseph intends to start with theology, religion, philosophy, etc., then Luke must be ready to provide him with psychological treatment or even physical treatment.
It is impossible to be risk-free.
Steve is the only real product of the Super Soldier Serum, and Dr. Banner accidentally blew himself up and turned him into a green fat man.
Compared to spells, these risks are insignificant.
If Joseph signs a contract with the devil one day and becomes Ghost Rider or the evil spirit Alesha, his soul will fall into the hands of others when he dies and there is no way to save it.
In comparison, scientific research is relatively safer as long as one does not use oneself as an experiment and uses various preventive measures.
Moreover, if one wants to use science to study magic, then one's scientific attainments must not be low, at least one must reach the top level on Earth in certain subjects.
In this case, no matter how smart Joseph is, it will take him more than ten or twenty years to lay a solid foundation.
By then he had already grown up, his worldview had been formed, and he was not as impulsive as he was as a teenager.
Besides, it is still unknown whether Joseph will change his interests in ten or twenty years.
There was no need for Luke to forcibly interfere for a remote possibility.
It would be funny if it aroused my little brother's rebellious psychology and helped him to strengthen his determination to become a scientific wizard.
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Joseph was a bit busy in the following days.
Luke allowed him to "self-study" for two hours a day, but only two hours. He couldn't just turn into a tech geek again when his physique improved a little.
Joseph once raised an objection to this: "Why can you hide in the workroom and play for a few hours every day?"
Luke was surprised. “You just celebrated my birthday. I’m an adult now, so of course I can arrange my own time.”
Joseph: ... Well, it's all my fault for being too young.
Joseph's summer vacation was peaceful, stable and fulfilling.
Besides arranging training for his younger brother, Luke has a lot of things to do of his own.
The clones were dispatched frequently, each time summoning three to five teammates to remotely control the prototype to go online and provide assistance to themselves.
As the official situation in the United States is in chaos, the difficulty of cleanup has been greatly reduced, and the frequency of slacking off operations is close to once a day.
However, there aren't many big moves, with a maximum of five main targets at a time, and clones + prototypes deployed to capture them easily.
It has been more than two months since the DC incident in May, and the official chaos has not abated. Instead, it has tended to intensify.
This is of course Luke’s contribution.
He has a lot of information about Hydra in his hands, including a number of official leaders who are suspected of colluding with Hydra.
But Luke only had confessions from certain people who had been hypnotized, and there wasn't much real hard evidence.
He would send information to certain groups of people in agencies such as the FBI, the Department of Homeland Security, the White House, and the Department of Defense every now and then.
Doing so is unlikely to bring down these Hydra partners, but it has two benefits.
One is to alert the enemy and cause those people with poor psychological quality to flee out of fear of crime.
This would give Luke more targets to slack off on.
The second is that even if no one runs away, various departments will become suspicious and investigate them.
Luke will have more time to fish in troubled waters.
Once this "era" of active and passive disappearances is over, it will be too risky to make the big guys in these little black notebooks "mysteriously disappear".
Overall, Luke's cleaning operation was compact but not too strenuous, a bit like an assembly line operation.
After more than two months, I gained 900,000 experience points from slacking off, which was almost enough to earn two Piers.
He hasn't touched the Neon Hydra branch yet, but he's very close to level 25.
At this time, an unexpected message is delivered to a secret channel, with only a time and a place left on it.
He sneaked into the company in the middle of the night and waited quietly in front of a computer before the computer screen was awakened and lit up.
Then a text document opened on the screen, and the other party typed a line of words directly on it: "Batman?"
Luke reached out and typed on the keyboard: "Dark Knight."
The other party did not move. After several minutes, he typed out another line of words: "I have a big secret. I can make a deal with you."
Luke: “Speak.”
The other party: "You are very interested in who controls the witch, so I will pay a small deposit first, and the rest will be discussed after you take action."
Then a URL was typed on the document, and nothing happened.
Luke directly entered it on this computer and opened the URL.
Here is a screenshot of a satellite image with the address marked with a red dot and a simple description of a few dozen words next to it.
After squinting at the picture for two minutes, he closed the document and URL and turned away.
A few minutes after he left, the documents on the computer were suddenly deleted, the browser was cleared, and the computer was shut down.
It was as if nothing that just happened had ever happened.
Two days later, another piece of news appeared on the same channel.
The other party changed the location again, but it was still the dormant computer in the office, and the text document chat was still going on.
This time, Luke got three target locations.
He noted it down again and left.
A week later, this channel received that person's contact information for the third time.
This time the other party was still cautious, but said a lot more.
He highly praised the Dark Knight for destroying four secret bases in a row.
Finally, the other party gave a new target address and claimed that this was the last one.
As long as the Dark Knight destroys the base, he will reveal everything he knows.
Luke looked at this and raised his lips: It's okay. After this time, it shouldn't be too much trouble for me to know anything.
The man opposite was very cautious, but he didn't know that the target he gave this time was within the several areas that Luke had investigated and targeted himself.
The four bases that were previously cleared out also eliminated some options in disguise.
Combined with the "last one" this person mentioned, Luke can be sure that this address is the main base of the Advanced Joint Research Group that he has been looking for.
The witch came out of this base to cause trouble, and the person in charge of the base was Amanda Walker.
The person who tipped off Luke was an invisible person on the Internet who had not been active for several months.
This time, as soon as the Shadowless Man showed up, he asked the Dark Knight to destroy the base of the Advanced Joint Research Group.
After just two attempts and four sub-bases, he couldn't help but reveal the location of the main base.
Obviously, this guy is really anxious.
Could it be that the recent official storm affected Amanda, allowing this shadowless man to find an opportunity to escape
This guess is basically correct, but the Shadowless Man's situation is actually more dangerous.
Something has happened to one of Amanda's backers, and she must first purge some "unreliable" people within the base in preparation for a possible investigation.
She was reluctant to part with the Shadowless Man, the guy who helped her gather a lot of intelligence, but she had to get rid of him.
If those big guys knew that Amanda had so much black material in her possession, death would definitely be waiting for her.