Chapter 53: Scheme, Reporting, and Newbie?
Translator: Henyee Translations Editor: Henyee Translations
Luke lifted the bag in his hand and said, “See, I even have your lunch prepared. A capable person like you will have to do more.”
Selina curled her lip but didn’t continue the topic. “Where are we staying in Houston?”
Luke was slightly stunned. “We? Where are we staying?”
Something seemed wrong about that.
Selina had an odd expression. “That’s Houston. Do you think you can still stay in a three-story house like in Shackelford? How rich are you?”
Luke finally understood what she was getting at. His mind had been preoccupied with other things as of late. Thus, he hadn’t even thought of this. He humbly asked for Selina’s guidance. “What do you have in mind?”
Selina answered, “Simple: we rent a place together.”
Luke nodded. “And?”
Selina continued, “By staying together, we can continue to use your car to and from work. With that, we can even save on transportation fees.”
Luke thought to himself, “So this is your true motive.”
Selina further asked, “Can you cook? If you can, we can save even more!”
Selina’s meticulous planning truly rendered Luke speechless. Of clothing, food, housing and transport, she had accounted for three of them.
And she had factored him in as well for everything.
Selina was slightly embarrassed when she saw Luke’s expression. “I don’t have any other choice. I need to be careful with my spending when I’m new there. You know I don’t have much savings.”
Luke: “Hehe.”
It wasn’t that she didn’t have much savings, but that many young people didn’t have a habit of saving. Even middle-aged people didn’t have much savings either. On top of that, credit cards and loans were extremely widespread, and people had a habit of spending first and worrying later.
Luke rejoiced that he had brought back 10,000 dollars from his trip to Mexico to test the system. Otherwise, he would probably have to eat dirt in Houston.
From his test, he confirmed that the system didn’t mind when he profited from criminals.
As for profiting from non-criminals, that wouldn’t fly. If he did that, he would no longer be clean. Instead, he would be a dirty cop.
Luke wasn’t sure if the system would still consider him its host if he decided to become a corrupt officer.
Luke wouldn’t risk losing the system over some money.
Just like that, the two set off for Houston.
For lunch, they only stopped at a random gas station and ate what Luke brought.
After the meal, Selina who had gotten bolder, said, “See, I was right. You’re far-sighted; just your lunch alone saved us at least 10 dollars.”
Luke thought, “Sure, thank you so much for the praise.”
They also stopped at a random motel and spent one night there before resuming their journey the next morning. They were trying to reach the Westside Houston Police Department by 3:00pm.
When they arrived, they looked for the deputy chief’s office, before entering to meet the superior of their future superior.
Robert had told them to look for this Thomas Park as soon as they arrived.
He had told Luke before that this person was an ex-comrade of his.
They were the best of friends who had fought together, as well as shared the spoils of war.
Naturally, Robert only told him about the former. As for the latter, that was Luke’s imagination.
Thomas was an African American around 40 years old. He was slightly plump, and his position as deputy chief clearly hadn’t accorded him much time to exercise.
Robert had been able to continue working out to maintain a fit figure because of his relatively free schedule working in a small town.
After the two greeted Thomas, he checked their records and transfer orders. He didn’t say much to them.
In fact, given his position, he didn’t even need to bother to personally meet the two detectives. However, since they were sent by his buddy Robert, he had to meet them.
Friendship could be both valuable and worthless.
But Thomas had always treated Robert differently.
He was well aware of how capable a combatant Robert was, and Robert had many other army buddies apart from him anyway.
Back then, during the war, there were over ten people alone who owed their lives to Robert multiple times over.
Some might no longer remember this due to the passage of time, but nobody wanted to be known as someone who forgot favors in their group of buddies.
Furthermore, Robert almost never asked for their help. Thus, this one favor he had asked for would naturally have a different weight to it.
Since Robert had asked Thomas to assign these two suitable positions here, he would naturally agree to it.
In any case, apart from Thomas, Robert had also pulled in a favor from a big shot. Because of that, there was no refusing this request.
It wasn’t as if Robert was asking for high positions for the two. He was only asking for a transfer, while the two would remain at the same rank.
It was nothing for Thomas to assign two detectives to the Major Crimes Division.
Being a member of the Major Crimes Division was slightly different compared with other members of the police department.
Luke was still young, not even 19 years old. However, his record was rather impressive.
Killing 13 hitmen in a single night.
Someone with this on file was extremely rare, even in all of Houston.
Thomas didn’t doubt the authenticity of the file; Robert wasn’t the kind of person to fake his reports.
Even if Luke was no better than other newbie officers, Thomas would still agree to the transfer since it was a request from Robert.
In any case, that was a joint operation with the FBI. It was unlikely that those arrogant fellows would help fake a report just to place a police officer in a favorable light.
Even if Thomas accepting the two in his police department was an abuse of authority, he would still have the perfect excuse for that.
And that was their excellent records.
Those who questioned his decision to accept the two could freely go and challenge over ten hitmen. So long as they could break Luke’s record, Thomas would be more than happy to allow that person into the Major Crimes Division as well.
Westside Department had always lacked incredibly capable combatants like these two. Thus, it made sense for Thomas to make an exception and allow these two in.
Of course, he still needed to act the part of a deputy chief. He only gave them a short speech of encouragement before picking up the phone and telling their future superior to come get them.
In truth, that was a hint to their future superior.
With the commanding officer of the Major Crimes Division picking up two new detectives from the deputy chief’s office, anyone who didn’t understand what that meant would be an idiot.
Everyone was very busy. Thus, Thomas and the commanding officer only had a short conversation.
After the two saluted the deputy chief and took their leave, they followed their new superior out to get started in their new roles.
Presently, Brock was rather unhappy.
Two detectives were suddenly shoved into his Major Crimes Division. Not only that, the two were clearly newbies.
Selina was a Latin American, and they were known to look younger than their age. She was 24 years old, yet looked even younger than 20.
She was full of vitality from her comfortable small town life and the amount of exercise she did back home.
As for Luke, his skin had turned extremely fair and tender after his body was enhanced by the system, which made him look even younger. In fact, he looked like a high school student.
Brock even wondered if this boy really was a proper police officer instead of a newbie whose sole experience in the force was issuing car tickets.
It was with this dissatisfaction that Brock brought the two to the office of the Major Crimes Division.