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Opening a bottle of beer and handing it to Hawke across from him, Frank asked, "Do you think there's something wrong with Indians?"

Hawke shrugged and asked, "What do you think?"

Frank took a big sip of beer: "So you still want to encourage them to go to Silicon Valley?"

"Did you not understand the Los Angeles fire this time? The work ability of many Indians... let's not talk about it." Hawke's thinking may be wrong, but he has his own judgment: "Twitter's future competitors can only be born in Silicon Valley. If they have a lot of Indians in their company, I would be happy to see it."

He laughed, as if telling a joke: "If possible, it would be best to let them understand all aspects of Merrick's solid technology."

Frank said, "Then I won't even dare to ride on a Boeing plane."

Hawke said seriously: "With first-rate talents in finance, second-rate idiots in politics, and third-rate India in technology, our social structure will be extremely stable."

Frank was curious: "You are also planning to go into finance."

"We have plans in this regard and are waiting for an opportunity." Hawke said simply: "Establish an investment company that integrates resources like Goldman Sachs, BlackRock or Vanguard International."

Frank understood: "You want to sit at the table and become a poker player."

"Take it one step at a time," Hawke said. He picked up a skewer of barbecue. "You can't eat all the barbecue in one bite."

"Do you know why the Venice Beach Management established such a rescue team?" Frank's question was very jumpy, suddenly switching from business to women: "Did they also find six women with different skin colors, hair colors, heights and face shapes?"

Edward was surprised: "Isn't it to add a beautiful landscape?"

Frank sneered: "In your half-evolved head, all you can think about is the trivial matters between males and females."

He explained to Hawke, "I've lived in this beach parking lot for so long, and I've made a few friends. An old guy from the management office retired last month and is going to a joint retirement community in Orange County. Before he left, I treated him to a drink and a barbecue, and he told me that the six women who came over were all members of the Parade Sisterhood."

Hawke had worked with this organization before. The leader of this organization, Michelle, was appointed as the deputy chief of the Fire Department by former mayor Antonio in the first half of the year. He pinched his chin and said, "Coincidence, or something else?"

Frank said, "You've done so many shabby things. The new mayor will benefit so much after taking office. It will definitely attract people's attention. You guys are not trustworthy in the way you do things, so I decided to join in and test their bottom line."

Hearing this, the beer in Edward's mouth was about to spray out, he quickly turned his head and sprayed it on the ground beside him.

Frank's face was thicker than Hawke and Edward combined: "Don't worry, I will investigate the purpose of these feminists."

Edward asked, "What investigation do you use?"

Hawke reminded Frank: "Feminism has always been a difficult issue. Be careful. Don't get yourself into trouble before you get anything in return."

"Am I afraid of them?" Frank immediately turned on the invincible mode: "I have no property, no income, no reputation, no relatives. Even a homeless person like me, the LAPD won't arrest me. Social death is meaningless to me."

Hawke admires: "The four-no patients are super-high-quality talents in American society and the nemesis of the privileged class."

Frank smiled smugly.

Anyway, Frank helped a lot. Hawke said to Edward, "You are responsible for contacting Frank and don't let him be swallowed up by those women."

The phone in his pocket was ringing. Hawke took it out and found that it was Jennifer calling. He stood up and went to a deserted place. After answering the call, he asked, "How did you have time to call me? Are you going to invite me to your wedding with Brian?"

Jennifer ignored his joke and said, "Didn't you ask me about the Ackerman family's property disposal last month?"

Hawke responded, "Yes, the Ackerman family's high-quality property is coveted."

Jennifer said directly: "Several large medical centers, charitable foundation funds, laboratories, etc., you don't have to think about it. Washington has divided them all up. Some will be handled in Los Angeles, including the charity relief station you mentioned."

She added, "Are you interested in a luxury house? Beverly Hills, north of Sunset Boulevard, the top luxury house, occupying a separate hill, Ackerman Estate."

Hawke asked, "Is this house for sale?"

Jennifer said, "The victims need compensation, and it will cost a lot of money to settle this case. All of Buddy Ackerman's family members are missing, so we can only auction their fixed assets. Although bidding is required in name, there is a lot of room for maneuver."

The North Side of Sunset Boulevard is the most luxurious area in Beverly Hills. When Hawke first came to Los Angeles, he sneaked in to see Buddy Ackerman's estate, but two years have passed and his memory of the matter has become vague.

He hesitated for a moment and said, "Can I go over and take a look?"

"No problem." Jennifer said, "I don't have time today. I'll ask my assistant to go over tomorrow and take you around the manor."

Hawke responded, "Okay."

Jennifer made it clear in advance: "It can't be less than $2000 million."

"I'll take a look first." Hawke hung up the phone.

On the other side, Edward was full, and the two went straight back to the company.

In the afternoon, Hawke learned that Melman was going back to Washington, so he asked someone to find Melman and prepare a meal of Los Angeles specialties for him, his chief of staff and others.

To build a $9.9 screw business, you need an unusual connection.

How can development be achieved without collusion between government and business?

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At the Santa Monica Beach Pier, several police cars drove over one after another, and the first group that arrived had already set up a cordon.

Under Julian's command, the LAPD, which was affiliated with the Western Division, quickly drove the tourists and reporters as far away as possible from the scene. Detectives from the Homicide Division of the Detective Bureau and technicians from the Scientific Analysis Division also rushed over.

Erica, the leader of the team, was wearing plain clothes. She took out her gloves and shoe covers and put them on. She walked quickly towards Julian, took the initiative to greet him, and asked, "What's going on?"

Julian pointed to the coast below and said, "The cleaner who was checking the sewage outlet found a female corpse at the outlet and called the police. The patrol officer who arrived first found that the female corpse was somewhat similar to the two bodies found in Beverly last time, so he notified you."

Erica said, "I'll take someone down to take a look first."

Julian followed and asked softly, "I heard you're being transferred out of the detective bureau?"

"It's related to this case." Erica looked back at the others who were at a distance and said, "Some people are worried that I might find out something, so they decided to promote me to the Special Operations Bureau, most likely as the deputy commander of Team A, in charge of the training of Teams B, C, and D."

Julian said, "These are what you are best at."

Erica nodded slightly: "It will be easier."

The technician caught up from behind and was the first to go down the sewage outlet.

Later, Erica and several of her men also went over.

The dead girl was very young, about twenty years old. There was no clothing or anything to prove her identity on her body, but there was a burn scar larger than a $1 coin hidden in her lower abdomen.

The graphic is quite obvious, an inverted five-pointed star with a goat's head in the middle.

Some kind of satanic symbol.

Erica looked carefully and confirmed that the symbols were consistent with those on the two female corpses found by Beverly before.

"This is the third person to die." Erica said, "This is already a serial case."

One of the men asked, "Boss, how do we investigate this case?"

Erica said, "Let's check it according to the normal procedures." She patted her subordinate's shoulder and said, "Don't worry, I will take care of it if there is any problem."

It's getting busy here.

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The next morning, Edward drove a bulletproof Mercedes to the North Side of Sunset Boulevard and met with the subordinates sent by Jennifer.

The female agent named Catherine drove in the front and led the way to Ackerman Manor.

Hawke has seen Tom Cruise's mansion in Beverly, which also occupies an entire hill and covers an area of ​​more than 1 square meters.

Ackerman Estate is much larger than that, with a wide two-lane granite road that winds up along the main road to the mountainside.

A high wall was erected here, enclosing at least 3.5 acres of land.

Two cars drove over and the automatic iron gate opened, revealing the buildings inside. They were mainly divided into a main building and a secondary building, both of which were two-story buildings with white walls and gray roofs.

There is also a small sculpture fountain square in front of the main building. If someone comes to visit, they can drive directly over.

Behind the house is a square swimming pool, a mini golf course, a garden full of green plants, and a helicopter pad.

Hawke looked at the area and decided that there was more than enough space to convert the golf course into a shooting range.

Catherine said: "We hired someone to clean up the place outside, so it's pretty clean."

Hawke understood. When he entered the main building, he saw the walls were in a mess. All the valuable decorations, artworks and paintings had been removed.

There was still a lot of furniture left, but it wasn't the style Hawke liked.

Even if the house was damaged during the FBI raid, it would still be worth more than $6000 million, or even more, in today's Los Angeles real estate market.

If it were the 2020s, this would definitely be a billion-dollar mansion.

Even if it is given to an ordinary family, they cannot afford to live in it. The annual property tax alone is enough to crush a multi-millionaire.

The property tax rate in Los Angeles is 1030% for luxury homes with an assessed market value of more than $5.5 million.

These were not a problem for Hawke.

Hawke had not bought the house before and had a direct relationship with the Ackerman family.

At this time last year, the Ackerman family was still a huge mountain for Hawke.

Going further back, Hawke even prepared multiple safe houses and retreat routes so that he could escape at any time in case of an accident.

Now that the Ackerman family is finished, the prospects are bright.

Kill Buddy Ackerman himself, make Melissa and Sean play the secret room prisoner, completely disintegrate the power of the Ackerman family, and then buy the Ackerman family's mansion at a super low price...

perfect.

Hawke said to Catherine: "Tell Jennifer that I want this place." (End of this chapter)