New Gods of North America.

Chapter 400 Questions to Think About
After roughly determining the goal,
Wayne was taking precautions against the other party from planning further sneak attacks while thinking about the detective agency's plan.

Apart from the three partners, the agents who seem to have the most potential to compete for the "first tier" are Connor, Damon McCready and Sanders.

But in fact, they are not particularly ideal "training objects".

Connor is also a member of the Hunter Association. It is hard to say which side is more important to him, the "Detective Agency" or the "Hunter Association" at the critical moment.

If the Hunter Association ever needs manpower, he would run back happily, and the detective agency would suffer a great loss.

Damon MacCready was saved for the time being. He certainly had hatred towards his "former boss", but he might not have the same opinion towards his "former unit".
Moreover, honest people are too reasonable, so there are some things that you may not be able to ask them to do. You never know when they might be "fooled" by someone.

Sanders is slightly better in this regard. He seems to have no experience in participating in other organizations before joining the detective agency. Unfortunately, his past experience cannot be verified now and is not so reassuring.

This may be the same reason why the church asked Inesha to "stand clearly on the side".
If Inissa publicly executed the well-known and important figures in the Windsor Kingdom Hunter Association today, Wayne felt that someone from the Exorcist Association would come to help her untie the "binds" tomorrow.
If Inissa can also deal with the important figures of the Holy See, then maybe the people from the Exorcist Association will come over tonight to hold a welcome party for her.

It is more effective than simply exorcising demons and accumulating contributions in the American Federation.

It's a pity that without a proper reason, that's not something Inesa can do.

The same may be true for other people.

In this sense, Doug, Ryan and Willy are actually more worthy candidates for training.
Before joining the detective agency, they were not taken seriously and did not have a high status in Kanks City.
Moreover, they are still willing to become a "vigilante", and their long-term conduct has also been indirectly confirmed in the local area.
At least Wayne didn't have to worry about them leaving easily without reason, or simply betraying him.

But their current combat power is not enough to "suppress the situation"...

For the time being, we can only try to achieve "balanced development".
Take one step at a time.

The source of extraordinary materials is also a problem. The detective agency has recently been attacked by Cohen Pharmaceuticals. In peacetime, this would be considered a relatively large-scale "small-scale conflict among extraordinary people", but it only fed Wayne into a "swollen belly" of level 4.
Even when the detective agency went to the mountains in western Virginia to "clean up" along the steam train lines, the efficiency of the results was difficult to compare with that of the past few days.

At the moment, the only way Wayne can think of to generate income, besides continuing to acquire Cohen Pharmaceuticals, is to continue to "open offices".

I wonder if Mr. Baker has any backup plan left to find a group of people to avenge him or something...

Originally, the lawyer was a good target, but he was just a local lawyer hired by Cohen Pharmaceuticals.

If the scope of the crackdown is expanded in this way, the corresponding doctors and pharmacy practitioners will probably be in danger, and then the one who will be reprimanded by the cathedral may be the detective agency itself...

It's definitely not going to work if I just rush in. I'll try to show the manuscript to Tom Hagen later. ...

I slept in the office until dawn, and the night watchman took over the shift as usual.
While looking forward to someone coming again tonight, Wayne quietly packed his textbooks and went to the college.

Compared to his previous popularity in the academy, the students now feel a little distant from Wayne. It seems that the "squabbling" between Cohen Pharmaceuticals and the detective agency has still affected everyone.

However, some of the "passers-by" in the academy who were originally unrelated to Wayne seemed to have a stronger sense of familiarity with him.

Occasionally, I could hear a few girls whispering and teasing each other when I passed by, or a man I didn't know would give me a thumbs-up or something.

Wayne thought about it and could only assume that they might have won money from buying lottery tickets, or they might be fans of "duel".
Just like the Roman Empire to the people of the Old World, the character of the "noble savage" is actually quite popular in America.

A few days passed uneventfully like this.
The church characterized Mr. Baker as having died while trying to break into the detective agency violently late at night to attack it. The detective agency then gave the reporters some of the dirty laundry it had obtained from the captives.

At first, there seemed to be no response. Some news that could directly point to the crime of "Mr. Baker" was published in the newspaper, but the news that could affect the entire "Cohen Pharmaceuticals" was not reported.
The detective agency also received a letter from the cathedral, on which was a piece of dirty information that Wayne had Doug send out. Some of the information was circled in red, some was crossed out, and some had no mark at all.
Wayne roughly compared them and felt that he understood what the cathedral meant, so he put all the rest of the blame on Mr. Baker - to be honest, things like "there might be problems with the medicine" should not be blamed on the "regional sales representative".

Then there was a sudden outburst of public opinion in Richmond and Georgeburg.
Many businessmen, doctors, and journalists have come forward to accuse Mr. Baker, revealing more of his practices in trying to promote Cohen Pharmaceuticals products locally.
Bribery, inducement, threats, intimidation, in the end, Wayne himself felt a little confused when he read the newspaper. Isn't it just selling some painkillers or something like that? Why is it so fancy...

But the kickbacks they give to middlemen are really not low, and they seem to really attach importance to public opinion. Many people who originally just wanted to talk about the harm of "green elves" have inexplicably received "friendly reminders."

Then, the image of the detective agency was inexplicably touted, making Wayne look like a warrior who "is not afraid of coercion and dares to speak out."
Although the situation in the academy did not improve much, the security commission for another steam train line was suddenly regained.

Since the other party was "easy to talk to" at the beginning, Wayne did not take the opportunity to raise the price, and still kept the same as he had discussed at the beginning.
Considering that the Cohen Pharmaceuticals issue may not be "completely settled" for the time being, Wayne postponed the start of the contract by one month.

During this period, no one had come to attack in the middle of the night, and the case of "building manager" Macon Reeve was still in a "pending" state.
Doug asked David Mills twice in secret, and both times he neither said "no case will be filed" nor said it was "a case".

Instead, it was Simon Sherman who came over to congratulate Wayne on his victory in the duel, but actually came to give Lina a gift as a farewell gift.
I accidentally left an interesting question for the detective agency:

"I don't know much about this. But since someone can sense that guy has multiple 'houses' in his heart, it means that his different 'personalities' are relatively stable, right? At least it's not 'one big room' divided into different parts.

"If that's the case, then what was the original effect of the drug that might have caused his 'personalities' to start killing each other?"

Wayne pondered for a moment.
I feel like my imagination is a little unscientific...

(End of this chapter)