Luke and Richard had a heartfelt conversation for half an hour.
The other party really felt his sincerity and was very happy to work for the Dark Knight.
Yes, Richard is only responsible for the Dark Knight and Catwoman and has no connection with the rest of the Bat-Team.
It’s not that Luke doesn’t trust his teammates, it’s just that Richard’s abilities are too hateful.
Luke named this ability "cyber spirit", but it is still an ability that he cannot learn.
It allows Richard to put part of his consciousness into the network and have unimpeded access in most places.
This ability has many disadvantages, including that consciousness cannot be transmitted wirelessly or within high-power lines.
In addition, it is difficult to break into enterprise-level servers that have various software and hardware protections. Even a highly skilled personal hacker host may not be able to get in.
Even if he gets in, it will consume a lot of Richard's energy, causing his running speed to slow down and the duration of his ability to be reduced.
But this ability is still strong enough to cheat.
Although he cannot directly break through the enterprise-level protection, he can break through the personal network protection of most people in the enterprise.
Without being able to transmit wirelessly, he can get into routers and signal base stations to intercept data.
For Richard, 99.99% of the electrical networks in the world are broad avenues for him to come and go freely.
If you really want to target someone, the most you can do is take a detour and cause some trouble.
The few who are completely helpless are special beings like Tony and Luke who have a certain level of technical skills and do not take money seriously.
This also means that the secrets of most people in this world are not secrets to Richard.
As long as he is sure about who he wants to check, he will be able to find out more or less information about the other party. At most, the time and energy spent may not be worth it compared to the gains.
Therefore, this ability is too easy to arouse suspicion and cause trouble.
When Amanda controlled Richard, she kept his identity and abilities completely secret, making them her "private tools."
When a crisis occurred and she might not be able to control Richard, she chose to kill him first.
Luke was able to recruit Richard by taking advantage of this.
The title of the Dark Knight simply made Richard less resistant to negotiation.
What really impressed Richard were the job requirements and remuneration.
After working for Luke, he still engaged in intelligence gathering and only needed to abide by security regulations.
There are ten "guaranteed commissions" every year, which must be accepted without any conditions, and the rest of the commissions are optional.
You will be paid for any commission you complete, but if you don't, you will get nothing.
Correspondingly, the Dark Knight offers a "minimum guarantee" to protect Richard's personal safety, while selectively accepting Richard's personal commissions.
After the Dark Knight completes the commission, Richard will also pay him a reward.
Richard was already very satisfied with this deal with a "guaranteed" clause.
Amanda, the female gorilla, has treated the seventeen-year-old Richard as a mere tool since she captured him, using him at will.
Good food and good drinks are fine, but freedom and rejection are not.
Whatever information she wanted him to gather, she had to do it once she gave the order. If she didn't complete it or completed it poorly, a lot of suffering would be waiting for him.
One of the reasons why Richard called Amanda a gorilla was that he thought she had a black face and an even blacker heart, and was an inhuman animal.
Secondly, he felt like he was being treated like a chimpanzee in a circus, with Amanda being the trainer.
Although she gave him food and water, she also kept him in a cage and would beat him up if he showed any resistance.
The Dark Knight's moral bottom line is much higher.
The mandatory terms in the transaction between the two parties are equal, and in essence, the two parties are in an equal partnership.
As for the Dark Knight's threat of "I'll keep an eye on you, don't do bad things", Richard was not angry.
The Dark Knight is a super cosplayer who inherited Batman's beliefs. If he wants to talk about law and equality with the bad guys, that would be a betrayal of Batman's beliefs.
Richard could only be thankful that most of the bad things he had done in the past were Amanda's fault, and that his abilities were still useful to the Dark Knight.
Otherwise, the Dark Knight would blame him for all the bad things, causing him to suffer severed limbs at best and paraplegia at worst.
As a collaborator rather than a prisoner, Richard encountered no obstacles in his move to live in California's Silicon Valley.
Luke came to Los Angeles to see him and use his powerful mental hypnosis to make sure Richard would not drift away.
This guy stole a large sum of money from Amanda's piggy bank, but the money was not laundered cleanly, so he didn't dare to spend it carelessly.
Once he got close to the Dark Knight, Luke let him start an Internet technology company, and then used financing methods to wash the millions of US dollars in his hands back to him, without even charging him the handling fees.
Luke showed great sincerity, and Richard, as a partner, also needed to prove his own value to avoid being looked down upon.
In the past few months, he helped Luke complete many non-mandatory investigations, earning hundreds of points and over a million in bonuses.
Following this model, he could use his identity as the boss of an Internet company to live a life of luxury and debauchery.
So after Luke went to see this guy, he was very sure that the partner was currently emotionally stable and there was no problem.
However, if Richard dares to act recklessly and cross the line, Luke doesn't mind using drugs, hypnosis, and hallucinations on him.
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After inspecting Richard, Luke went to find the old stubborn Hank Pym.
Dr. Pym still appeared in the guise of a big boss who sells everything, but he still had no intention of selling technology and didn't care much about the technology Luke took out in exchange.
This old man is determined in his research on Pym particles, just like Tony is determined in the Iron Armor, and the value is not the most important thing.
Fortunately, the technology provided by the boss also made Dr. Pym not as arrogant as last time.
They prove that the big guys control not only money and power, but also technology.
The only thing Dr. Pym can truly respect is technology, and he hates capitalists the most.
The boss settled for the next best thing and asked to buy the Pym particles directly from Dr. Pym.
Dr. Pym originally didn't want to agree, but Luke mentioned that Darren, the president of Pym Technologies, was selling Pym particles at a high price.
If this continues, Pym Technology will be able to accelerate the development of Pym particles with the support of huge cash flow.
Dr. Pym's face darkened immediately.
He knew that Luke was not threatening him by saying this, but was telling him a reality: the students who betrayed you are using your achievements to exchange for money and strengthen themselves.
If Dr. Pym doesn't sell it, then all the benefits will go to Darren.
Adding one and subtracting one, it is obvious who suffered the biggest loss.
Luke also said that he could provide funds, raw materials, equipment, and intelligence for the transaction.
After considering it for several months, Dr. Pym finally agreed to provide Pym particles, but the quantity was not large.
This old man is not stupid.
During this period of consideration, he found out that Darren's Pym particles actually had very low sales and would be out of stock for at least a few years.
As a result, the amount of Pym particles he provided was only half of Darren's total supply, and the price was higher.