Marvel: The Imposter Inventor

Chapter 70 The Strange Core Components (Third Update)
Just as everyone's attention was focused on Justinhammer and Heinrich, who had just arrived.

A clear and cheerful voice, characteristic of youth, came from the other side.

"I'm sorry, I should have gone out to greet you both personally when you arrived. I was just adjusting the equipment and was about to leave when I didn't expect you to arrive already."

Luca, dressed in a sharp suit, strode toward the two of them, his face beaming with a friendly smile.

However, Justin's expression remained unchanged when he saw Luca approaching.

After scrutinizing Luca with a somewhat enigmatic look, he nodded coolly.

Without saying a word, he adopted an attitude that kept people at arm's length.

This attitude puzzled Luca, who wondered what the other party was thinking and why they had to make a special trip to visit the internal test.

Heinrich, standing next to Justin, was quite enthusiastic towards Luca.

With a gentle smile, he took two steps forward, patted Luca's shoulder lightly, and said with some emotion.

"Not so polite."

“I have always had a good personal relationship with your parents. I was unable to attend Herman’s funeral, and I should be the one apologizing to you.”

Heinrich spoke very gently, appearing as an elder who felt guilty and cared for Luca.

This perfectly matches the enthusiastic attitude that Luca has shown.

However, at this moment, Luca looked at Heinrich with a strange expression, and even hesitated slightly when he tried to say something.

Although he immediately concealed it without making a sound, Heinrich, who was standing right in front of him, naturally couldn't miss it.

He touched his slightly wrinkled cheek with a strange expression, and asked Luca with a hint of embarrassment.

Is there something on my face?

As he spoke, he deliberately glanced at Justin Hammer beside him and said in a somewhat teasing tone.

"Why didn't Miss Hammer remind me of this along the way?"

Justin's attitude towards Heinrich was noticeably better. Although he knew Heinrich was just joking, he still responded cooperatively.

"Nothing was stuck on. I think Mr. Orange was just a little distracted by seeing you, an elder he hadn't seen in a long time."

Luca, quickly regaining his composure, decisively followed the lead Justin Hammer had given him and continued speaking.

"Hehe, it has indeed been a while since I last saw Uncle Heinrich. I remember it was at the Orange dinner a year ago."

Hearing Luca address him as "uncle," Heinrich's smile deepened, and he even joked about himself.

"Haha, I never thought that an old man like me would be more eye-catching than a beauty like Miss Hammer. This kind of thing happened back to my college prom."

"I'm getting old, I used to be a big shot in the fraternity."

Upon hearing this, the people nearby smiled and offered compliments in response.

Justin Hammer simply covered his mouth and chuckled softly.

Luca then brought these people to the table at the opportune moment.

"Uncle Heinrich and Miss Hammer, you may rest here for a while. Please excuse me."

"The preparations over there are almost complete, and the next part of the presentation should be able to begin soon."

With that, Luca left with a hint of apology on his face, and the others naturally didn't say anything more about it.

However, after Luca left, Justin Hammer took two steps back, distancing himself slightly from the others, and whispered to Heinrich beside him.

"What do you think? Didn't you guys think highly of him? Why don't you talk to him more?"

Heinrich's gentle smile remained unchanged, and he even picked up a wine glass and waved to the other guests he knew in the distance.

However, his tone was far less enthusiastic than before, instead becoming eerily calm. "A few words can't tell anything; ultimately, we'll have to see how the product is tested later."

"Moreover, it's not that I think highly of him; it's just that those who think highly of him need me to observe and evaluate his qualifications."

As they were talking, several guests who recognized them came over from a distance with their wine glasses to greet them. The two men immediately shut up, as if their previous conversation had never happened.

In fact, Luca, who was walking away in the distance, no longer had the politeness he had shown earlier.

It's not that Luca noticed their previous disguise, but he did notice it.

However, in the business world, it's perfectly normal for people to wear a mask of pretense when communicating with each other.

So that's not what Luca cares about.

It happened just now.

Only after getting closer to the two did Luca realize that Heinrich, the investor's representative, was an old acquaintance of his parents.

The left eye area was emitting a faint white fluorescence!

Yes, Luca wasn't looking at the other person's face at all; his gaze was completely drawn to the white-glowing left eye.

Moreover, judging from the attitudes of others, such a white light clearly does not exist in their eyes.

Luca was all too familiar with this situation.

'What's going on? The human eyeball can be considered a core component?'

'What are they going to synthesize? They can't just create something like a Warlock's Eye, a mere artifact of flesh and blood, can they?'

As Luca walked toward the equipment room at the edge of the field, all sorts of random thoughts flashed through his mind, but he quickly came to his senses.

'Is that guy's left eye some kind of prosthetic eye?'

Luca carefully recalled the scene just now, and it seemed that only the white light was emanating from the other person's left eyeball, and even the parts covered by the upper and lower eyelids were perfectly normal.

This is why Luca only noticed the white light in the other person's eyes after he got close.

Just like when the core components of the [tracking glasses] were discovered earlier, Luca was completely unaware of them as long as they were placed in the glasses case.

When the other person smiled, they squinted, making the white light in their eyes even less noticeable.

'But I've never heard of Heinrich injuring his left eye before?'

Heinrich's claim that he knew Luca's parents was true.

As friends of over a decade, if this were true, Gina and Herman would likely know something about it.

'And how realistic is it? Are they really fake eyes?'

Unfortunately, Big White is still at home in the villa taking care of Gina and wasn't with Luca today.

He himself couldn't very well go up to the other person and ask, "May I touch your eyes?" to trigger the cheat menu.

It's unlikely that we'll be able to figure out why the other person's left eye was identified as a core component by the cheat system in the short term.

Luca could only make a note of this for now.

After all, the most important thing today is to display the weapons.

This next chapter might be a bit weak too... but I'll release it all together anyway.

That's settled then. There's nothing I can do about the water; I can only rely on the quantity.

It will be available for purchase soon, and then I can update it more freely.

(I have some good news! I'll be appearing on Sanjiang next week. Thank you all for your continued support.)
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(End of this chapter)