Chapter 351 Going Through the Motions at the Party Palace

Luke nodded with a smile and put a big bag of food in her car. “Got it. If you’re really worried, why don’t you arrange a simpler case for me?”

Elsa seemed to seriously consider it. “That does make sense. I’ll see if there are any suitable cases to keep you away from this one.”

Luke was lost for words. A moment later, he finally said, “There’s no need to rush. I have to investigate this case for a few days since this is an order from the top, otherwise the director won’t be happy.”

Elsa realized that was true. She nodded and got into her car. “Okay. Tomorrow… don’t come in too early.”

Luke waved goodbye and saw her off.

He shook his head and entered the house after Elsa’s car disappeared around a corner.

It had to be a really big deal this time, since Elsa wasn’t the sort of person to flinch at just anything.

Until he figured out the situation, he wouldn’t take any further action.

After seeing Elsa off and reminding Selina to finish her training, he left in his car as well.

He had to discuss the company’s new business venture tonight with Jenny.

Elsa’s unexpected visit had delayed him, but his appointment with Jenny was set for after dinner, so it wasn’t too late.

When he met up with Jenny, he told her about Chris and told her to finalize the details of the cooperation regarding the mine.

After that, all Luke would need to do was find a lawyer to go through the contract or run it through his mini-program before he signed it.

Jenny also brought up the navigational map and how she had reached out to several companies, but had made little progress.

That was fine with Luke. If he couldn’t sell it, he would just build it into his phone software; he had already created a web version.

To get his foot in the door before Keyhole Inc., Luke had invented a simple and practical map technology, and applied for a patent.

In any case, with Tony’s skills, it was only the work of a few more hours each day, and as it so happened, Luke had a lot more hours than other people did at night.

At the same time, since Luke had brought up making his own phones, Jenny had asked around. A lot of companies were interested, but their offers were very unreasonable as they wanted to buy out Luke’s patent for just several hundred thousand dollars.

Luke chuckled. “Did you acquire that company like I asked you to?” Jenny said, “Yes, but its technology is several years out of date, and anything of value has already been sold off. It’s mostly a shell now.”

Luke shrugged. “But it was very cheap, and we have the patent for its cell phone technology.”

Jenny said, “We couldn’t have acquired it so easily if the company’s chairman of the board hadn’t died from illness and his children weren’t desperate to get rid of the mismanaged company.”

Luke said, “What we need is just a shell. When I have more time later, I’ll be able to create the phones, and you can be the CEO of the company to sell phones.”

Jenny said, “…Can you stop talking about selling phones like it’s selling off-season clothes at a huge discount in front of a mall?”

Luke said, “Okay, we’ll be ushering in a new age of phones and leading everybody into a new world. How does that sound?”

Jenny said, “Mm, much better.” Luke: “Hehe.”

Once they were done with these minor matters, Luke finally got down to real business with Secretary Jenny.

It was of paramount importance that a CEO and his secretary had good and frequent communication with each other so that they were on the same page about the future development of the company.

At half past ten the next day, Luke drove home and called Selina to come out.

Unsurprised, Selina munched on the cake that Luke had bought from some dessert shop and asked, “What are we doing today?”

She had also heard what Elsa said yesterday. It seemed a little early for them to go to work.

Luke turned the car in the direction of the west coast.

“Let’s pay Mr. Dylan Elsworth a visit first,” he said.

Selina paused in eating her cake and looked at him in surprise. “But didn’t Elsa say…”

Luke nodded with a smile. “We have to pretend to investigate the case. If we don’t publicly visit this guy, how will the big shots know that we’re doing the work?”

Selina asked, “Then where can we find this gentleman?”

Luke said, “At his party palace.”

After getting onto the Santa Monica highway, they drove all the way west.

Selina said suspiciously, “He doesn’t live in Malibu Beach, does he?”

Luke burst out laughing. “As if. He’s not his grandparents; he’s not at an age where he enjoys nature.”

Ten minutes later, they arrived at a seaside villa.

Luke parked the car along the road before they reached the villa. He checked their surroundings for a moment via the car’s cameras, then flipped through some information.

He rolled his eyes before he got out of the car and said, “Let’s go. Our target is on the beach.”

Selina clicked her tongue in wonder at the blue sky, the white clouds, and the bikinis and shorts. “Is this the life of the rich? It’s still the morning.”

Luke chuckled. “So what? We can have lunch on the beach later as well.”

Selina nodded in satisfaction. “That’s a brilliant idea, darling. You should come up with more creative suggestions like this in the future.”

“As you wish,” said Luke with a smile.

Approaching the beach, he didn’t find a sign to indicate that it was private property. “This beach probably doesn’t belong to our target. You can choose a place for lunch first.”

On the beach, more than thirty men and women were horsing around.

Women made up the majority, and only one fourth were men. Furthermore, each man was accompanied by at least two women.

Selina said in a low voice, “Is this what I think it is?”

“Money is the root of all evil.” Luke nodded slightly.

After working so many cases, they had realized that money could make anything happen.

Girls who dreamed of becoming famous overnight flooded into Los Angeles every day. The successful ones would become the examples that later girls aspired to, while the failures were like rain from the sky.

Some would flow into the sewers and become dirty and filthy.

Some would return to the rivers and seas to find their real selves.

And some would be processed and packaged into goods to be sold.

The girls on the beach were clearly between the sewers and the packaged goods.

Unfortunately for the girls who hung around this metropolis, they were much more likely to end up in a sewer than to succeed as a star.