Luke closed his eyes for a moment and shook his head. "To summarize briefly, a Houston police officer went back to his hometown of Raccoon City for vacation, but disappeared for no apparent reason. The department wanted to intervene in the case as a way of showing concern for its officers."
Selina was full of disbelief: "The Raccoon Police Department would let the Houston Police Department enforce the law in their territory? Which idiot came up with this idea?"
Luke glanced at her and said, "Don't say this outside, because this person is our boss, Chief Thomas."
Selina stuck out her tongue, knowing that if she said this outside, she would be in big trouble.
Luke continued, "But you're right. The Raccoon City Police Department directly rejected the West District Police Department's proposal for a joint investigation, and the matter came to a standstill. And because of this proposal, the Raccoon City Police Department is not very active in investigating the disappearance of the police officer. Now a month has passed, and there is still no progress. If it turns out to be unexpected, this case will become an old case and be put in the bottom of the archives."
Selina kicked around on the sofa angrily. Her slender brown thighs were very attractive. "Damn it, what can we do?"
Luke admired the long legs without hiding his feelings. He said, "Berrick's intention is very clear. He wants us to stay in Raccoon City for a month. By the time we come back, the limelight we caused yesterday will have almost passed. It was Deputy Director Thomas who asked us to come in. He can't suppress us openly, so he can only use this delaying tactic."
Selina basically understood, but her eyes rolled: "Thomas is our backer? What is his relationship with Robert?"
Luke chuckled. "He and Robert are old comrades. However, we are not his biological sons after all. Therefore, he can only protect us from malicious suppression. We have to solve other problems by ourselves. For a case like this, we can only investigate the case honestly. If we contact Thomas privately, it will only make everyone in the serious crime team dislike us."
Selina was curious: "Why do you dislike us?"
Luke: "Would you like a subordinate or colleague who would immediately complain to his superiors when he was wronged? If you don't want to become a thorn in the side of the Serious Crime Unit, it's best not to go to Thomas even once."
Selina said "oh".
Luke reminded her again: "Don't tell anyone about what we discussed today, including the relationship between Thomas and us. Remember this."
Selina nodded.
She was already very skilled at listening to Luke, because Luke was always right.
After working together for a few months, she always felt that Luke didn't look like he was 19 years old, but more like a 30-year-old man. She was like having a new brother.
"Are we really going to Raccoon City to investigate a case?" Selina asked.
Without the other party's permission, the two had no law enforcement power at all, and it was not even as convenient for them to investigate cases as private detectives.
Private detectives can also use a lot of shady methods. If they do that, once they are caught, they may lose their jobs.
Luke nodded. "We'll go tomorrow. Since we can't solve the case, it won't be a big loss for us. We can just treat it as a trip to Laquin City. I heard the environment there is pretty good."
Selina thought about it and felt better.
She had just been promoted and was feeling very happy, so she didn't feel anything about Borrick's little trick.
After all, she had been a police officer in the small town for four years. She had been working with Luke for four months and had even been promoted twice. What was there to be dissatisfied about
Luke cooked again in the evening.
He will go to Laquin City tomorrow, and this time he is obviously being sent there to have nothing to do, so he feels very relaxed.
He took the promotion less seriously than Celine did.
His detective system is more suitable for frontline work, and promotion to a management position will not be of much benefit to him.
It would be better to slow down your promotion speed appropriately.
What Borrick did was just a little trick in the workplace and not excessive, and he would not hold a grudge against Borrick.
However, Berrick and he would definitely not become friends, and their relationship was destined to be just a business one.
Luke had enough time to prepare today, so he simply drove out, bought a bunch of things from the supermarket, and then started cooking in the kitchen by himself.
When it was time to eat, Selina looked at the food on the table and was extremely shocked: "... You didn't really learn cooking, did you?"
Selina wasn't surprised by the bibimbap that Luke made last night; it was, to put it bluntly, a hodgepodge.
But today, Luke prepared two formal dishes, plus two large bowls of... egg fried rice.
Luke makes egg fried rice by beating the eggs and then coating the rice grains with egg liquid instead of separating the egg and rice.
Therefore, the golden pile of fried rice is pleasing to the eye.
Both dishes are simple, shredded beef with sweet pepper and scrambled eggs with tomatoes.
Okay, it might seem a little weird to have fried rice with scrambled eggs and tomatoes, but Luke likes the taste of scrambled eggs and Selina certainly won’t object.
Luke put the dishes on the table when someone suddenly knocked on the door.
The two looked at each other and both felt strange.
The two had just moved in, they were not familiar with their colleagues, and had never seen any of their neighbors. How could someone come to their door
Selina took the initiative to open the door, after all, Luke had just finished cooking.
After opening the door, Selina exclaimed, "It's you? What are you doing here?"
Luke looked to the side and saw a woman holding a baseball cap and smiling shyly: "Hello, thank you for yesterday."
Who else could this person be but Carol
Luke responded quickly: "Come in and talk, Selina, close the door."
After a moment, Luke and the other man looked at Carol in front of them, and the three of them were speechless for a while.
The aroma of food wafted over and Carol's stomach growled. She lowered her head in embarrassment.
Luke was silent for a moment: "Would you like to eat together?" This is the Chinese customary question, and most of the time it is just a polite remark.
But Carol immediately nodded vigorously, swallowing saliva.
Selena was terrified: Would all her food be snatched away
Luke went to get a bowl, a fork, and a spoon, and divided his egg fried rice in half. He then called the two girls over and said, "Eat first, and we'll talk after you're done."
And then… Luke wasn’t full.
The dinner was originally prepared for two people, but now with Carol being starving, it's totally not enough.
How much does Carol eat? Just consider that her ability is elementary self-healing, and you can roughly guess.
This kind of physical ability, unless there are other ways to supply energy, most of it must be obtained through food.
For example, when Luke adds points, a lot of food will be consumed.
Carol just came back to life yesterday, and no one knows how long she had been hungry.
Finally, Luke had to take out a bunch of high-calorie chocolates that he had bought earlier and let her eat them while sitting on the sofa as a dessert after dinner.
(It’s the last week for the new book list. I want to try to get on the new book list. I’m asking for this week’s recommendation votes. Please help me and give me all the recommendation votes!!)