"You asked me." Luke scratched at his thinning and dry hair in his seat with a bit of a headache, "I was created just to maintain and upgrade this city, if you ask me what is the function of this city?" What can be done? What are its advantages and disadvantages, as well as positioning, I can give you an accurate answer, because these are all within my responsibility.

But the question you asked, it's not my business! ”

"What do you mean?" Hal was a little dazed. "Aren't you Luke?"

"I'm Luke, but so what?" Luke gave him a strange look, "Am I not clear enough?" I'm just a creature, a doppelganger, a maker Luke who has been demarcated to his or her role. You shouldn't ask me those questions. ”

"Who should I ask?" Hal and they stared at Luke.

"I should ask that Luke in the lab." Luke said naturally. "Of course, if he doesn't have time to see you, you can go and meet Luke the Capitalist. But how he arranges you and your universe, it may not be said. ”

"I've just been away for a while, how does it feel like a century has passed? I don't understand you anymore. "The captain also has a bit of a headache. The impression of Luke in his memory was still that of the only Luke, but when he came back, he found that it was messy.

"Do you want to talk to him? Then I'll leave it to him, anyway, my job is to take the captain home, and I've done what I have to do. Old Luke said, and the whole person fell into a cloud of light rising from behind him, and then vanished.

Everyone present was silent for a moment, and then looked at the captain in unison.

"Don't look at me, he's still normal when I leave, I promise!" Seeing everyone's gaze, Captain Steve raised his hand.

"Let me see, new leeks, no, customers!"

An enthusiastic voice rang out suddenly, and then a distorted light printed out in front of everyone a middle-aged man with a friendly smile on his face, looking at Wayne and them like friends.

"Have you seen the old man yet? It seems that he has seen it, look at it, how can he be so rude to the guests? It's too much to limit your power! The middle-aged man grumbled as he waved his hand to free Hal and the others from their incompatible state.

Wayne takes back control of the Batsuit.

Clark felt the power of the Kryptonian bloodline surging in his body.

Diana also felt the divine power in her body again, and the control of artifacts such as the Lasso of Truth.

Howl's ring, John's blood, and Barry's speed were all lost and reappeared in their bodies. It's like their disappearance and silence before, an illusion.

The strength of the dependence returned to their bodies, but no one felt any sense of security. Instead, they see it as a reminder and warning.

Remind them that the strength they rely on is not worth mentioning.

The middle-aged Luke clapped his hands, smiled and continued his words: "Please allow me to introduce myself, I am Luke, the man who hangs the street lamp, and of course, there are also people who call me Luke the Capitalist." Actually, I'm just an ordinary businessman, Luke, and I'm an avatar of an intelligent system that serves the energy bank. The intelligent system of the energy bank is me, but I am not the intelligent system of the energy bank.

My role is to develop the business and deal with some commercial disputes. Just before you arrived, I went through the information of your universe, and I found it valuable. I want your universe to accept our psychic energies and become customers of the energy bank. What do you think? ”

Wayne, on the other hand, was a little confused by the enthusiastic middle-aged Luke. Wayne, Diana, and John are all right, they have either traveled the world and seen a lot, or they have lived long enough and experienced many people, or they have experienced life and death and destruction, and Luke's strangeness, although it is a little unpredictable, is not enough to surprise them to the point of being confused.

"What if we choose to say no?" John and Wayne looked at each other and asked tentatively.

"It's not a good choice." The enthusiasm on the middle-aged Luke's face subsided a little, and his tone became much more solemn.

"Isn't doing business a mutual choice? If there is only one choice, wouldn't it be a forced buy and a forced sale? Carol said aloud.

"We never buy and sell. I know that you are the darlings of that time of the universe, the children of Destiny, the spokesmen chosen by various forces. If you don't want to, you can cause us some trouble, but it's just trouble. I think you need to think again. The middle-aged Luke said, waving his hand, and Hal and the others froze in place as if they had lost their minds.

"Them?" The captain looked at Luke.

"Don't worry, it's just a mental illusion. Congratulations yet, you're finally home Captain. Do you know how much trouble and confusion your disappearance has caused us? We even had to invite you from another universe. Your return will make a lot of people jump with excitement. The middle-aged Luke waved his hand, signaling that he did not need to worry about Harr and them falling into a psychic illusion, but stepped forward and said eagerly to the captain.

"Thank you." The captain was a little embarrassed. He felt that the difference between the Luke in front of him and the Luke in his impression was too big, and he didn't know whose template Luke was based on, anyway, it wouldn't be Luke himself.

"You're welcome, are you going home? I understand that you are anxious to go back to see your lover and friends, and to deal with some accumulated affairs, and I can understand your urgency at the moment. But there's one thing I have to warn you about. Middle-aged Luke rubbed his hands together and smiled.

"What's the matter?" The captain saw the smile on Luke's face and instinctively felt that something was wrong.

"You need to settle your list of debts." Luke smiled and pulled out a long list in the air, and the final uniform amount, just by looking at it, made the captain feel his scalp tingle!

"Wait, I don't remember that I owe so much debt!" The captain shouted.

"You don't think that the effort to rescue you back is free, right?" The middle-aged Luke gave him a surprised look.

"Isn't it?" The captain asked rhetorically.

"Of course not! The deity doesn't care about anything now, he has entrusted the business affairs to me, so I need to be responsible for the interests of many shareholders! Because it was looking for you and bringing you home, the Energy Bank spent a lot of money. If you don't pay it back, won't the money become a bad debt? Middle-aged Luke waved the bill and spoke loudly.

"But that's too much!" The captain's morality made him agree with Luke's words, but the amount of the bill made him want to shatter his morality. If this debt is recognized, he may have to pay off the debt in this life, in the next life, and in the next life.

Who was the last one who was inexplicably saddled with huge debts?

It's Nick Fury, who has been tossed to the vicissitudes of debt! In Nick's casual conversation, that's what he wants to do most is to pay off Energy Bank, or Luke's debt, when he retires, even if that goal seems ambitious and unrealistic.

"Don't worry, as a friend, I have prepared a series of deductions and repayment processes for you, as long as you follow them, you will be able to repay them quickly." The middle-aged Luke answered the captain's questions with great interest.

"Your rescue expenses, Luke, Stark, they all put together a share, although it doesn't seem like a lot compared to the debt, but it's actually a lot of money. This can be hedged off a part.

The universe that was found because of the rescue you was simply evaluated has great development value, and there will be a bonus that can also be used to pay off debts. Although the prize amount has been greatly reduced due to your inaction in that universe and even a bit of a drag, something is better than nothing.

This will already be able to forgive a large part of the debt, and the rest will definitely be paid off by time as long as you work hard, what 996 and 007 will do for decades.

Of course, if you are willing to join the development team that develops the new universe, as long as you can bring benefits and profits to the energy bank, the shareholders will definitely not be stingy to offer you a generous high salary and bonuses. This greatly helps you pay off your debts as soon as possible! What do you think? I'm taking care of you, right? ”

"Are you the devil?" The captain covered his eyes, he didn't want to see the face of middle-aged Luke.

"How can I be the devil? While it is true that part of my body comes from the life map of the bank president, Mephisto, my greed, miserliness, and meanness have absolutely nothing to do with him! At least I can't do anything like work and don't pay for it!

The group of demons under his command paid for free work out of their own pockets, and even handed over the harvest to Mephisto for reverse salary, which was also quite explosive in the entire energy bank. I've always felt that sooner or later he's going to have to be hung up by those demons. But at least now those cute demons have saved a lot of money in the energy bank, haven't they? After all, in the early days of entrepreneurship, there was a shortage of money everywhere. Middle-aged Luke looked envious. If it weren't for the fact that the deity had set the bottom line, he would have really wanted to get closer to Mephisto. That's a real example!

As for being hung with street lights?

Do you think he's scared?

One capitalist Luke has fallen, and thousands of more capitalists will stand up! The deity is immortal, what is he afraid of? He's just an emotionless tool guy who is used by various shareholders to achieve KPIs!

Life is incomplete without Luke, a capitalist who has been hung up by a street lamp!

The captain was silent for a while, he felt that the current Luke was a bit of the Luke in his impression.

"Invading other people's universes is an act of immorality and injustice." Steve spoke.

"Why an invasion? We are here to serve and help them move closer to high civilization! The middle-aged Luke gave Steve a strange look and corrected.

"Does it make a difference?" The captain thought about it for a moment.

The middle-aged Luke looked pensive, as if he didn't expect the captain to ask this question, he groaned for a while, and said tentatively: "Will it be better?" ”

The captain was silent again.

"It's really not easy to accept a high sense of morality, do you want to filter and clean up the impact of the ring? The Filtration Cleaning Package has been very popular in the Supreme Mage recently. Your spiritual development is a bit wrong! Middle-aged Luke frowned: "If you think so, we are not the only predator in the universe, most of the worlds targeted by those dimensional demon gods are bone slag and will not leave a little bit." At least we don't look that ugly, do we? We eat meat, they drink soup, and they even grow with us. We didn't swallow all of their universe and become the nutrients of our own dimensional world, did we? It's not us, it's the other demon gods. ”

"They're stubborn." The captain said softly.

"There are many people who are unwilling to accept reality, and there are many people who want to change reality. Some have become brave, and some have become cowards, but under the general trend, they are not changed by personal will. Even if they are dimensional demon gods, they are just an extra rechargeable battery for the data dimension. What's more, I believe that they will make the right choice, even if they don't want to, someone will help them make the right choice. Middle-aged Luke's face was a little cold.

"What do you want to do?" The captain looked at Luke's face with some panic.

Luke smiled, waved his hand and pulled out a virtual light and shadow, in the light and shadow, there were Wayne and others struggling in a sea of insects, they were covered in white light, and the power of the white ring enveloped their whole bodies, each of which could be called their strongest state against Thanos, but in the overwhelming sea of insects, their struggle still seemed so powerless.

Their lethality to the sea of insects is constantly weakening, and the sea of insects is constantly evolving, but in a short period of time, the sea of insects has evolved itself for at least two generations, and Wayne and they have been resurrected at least once after death.

"What is this?" The captain looked at the picture in the light and shadow, and turned his head sharply to look at Luke beside him.

"Psychic visions. They are withstanding the attack of the third generation of the Bruder Zerg subspecies. If they can't find the key to restraining the subspecies, then they will be forever trapped in psychic illusions, unless someone frees them. But surely I won't, will I? Middle-aged Luke's eyes glowed as he looked at the mental picture.

"Found the key?" The captain frowned.

"They will always find it, and when they have exhausted their means, they will think that the energy that they have not used has belonged to us." Luke Mezz's way.

"Our energy?" The captain looked at Luke and asked tentatively, "Could it be that the key to defeating those zerg?" ”

"That's right." Luke nodded: "The third-generation Bruder Zerg subspecies is a biological weapon that has been concocted and used to be dropped into other worlds and universes. They have good resistance to any known energy and devouring evolutionary properties, with the exception of Luke's psychic energy. You say, what would they do if they were to release this Bruder Zerg into their universe after being exclusively cultivated?

If they don't want their universe to be swallowed up and their civilization destroyed, they can only choose to join our energy system, actively integrate into us, and become a part of us. They have a precedent for that, don't they?

What's that saying? Defeat magic with magic?

I love this quote! ”

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