Of course, that's what they said.
But if all the Police officers in Brooklyn were to collectively resign, it's estimated that they themselves wouldn't be willing to.
It's just that recently, the work enthusiasm of the New York Police has indeed not been very high.
During the post-disaster reconstruction process, it's inevitable that some opportunistic individuals will try to fish in troubled waters.
For remaining alien forces, the Military might actively help.
But for public order, the Police can only rely on themselves.
However, no matter how eager they are to equip themselves with new weapons,
the government's work procedures cannot be sped up at all. Plus, the Police themselves suffered considerable damage to buildings and personnel this time, and rebuilding Police stations and distributing pensions to tens of thousands of personnel all require money.
It will probably take some time before the 'Orderer' pistols are actually issued to frontline Police officers.
Luca mainly focused on supervising the production of assembly line machines and the construction of factories, leaving all other communication and negotiation tasks to his employees.
Besides the company, Luca himself had quite a bit to do.
The minor matter of school starting soon needs no mention for now.
Regularly visiting malls in hopes of finding new core components has also become a routine.
He was mainly working on only three things.
First, creating brand new equipment for the members of the 'Dao A Squad'.
Yes.
With the previous experience of building the Erha Armor with Tony, coupled with Tony's increasingly severe anxiety recently—that guy always wants to contact Luca to bicker and offer some pointers whenever he has nothing to do—
Luca himself also gained many new and exciting ideas regarding weapons and equipment.
Naturally, he wanted to try and put these ideas into practice with Harro.
Since he didn't have that many hands and wouldn't use up a large amount of equipment if he built it, he naturally considered directly customizing and upgrading the equipment for the 'Dao A Squad' members.
And with the 'Universal Capsule', these pieces of equipment are also very convenient for Shield Mountain and the others to carry.
Naturally, they could better protect Luca, this 'helpless' 'researcher'.
Besides that, it wasn't just Shield Mountain and the others' equipment.
Luca was also working on upgrading the [Boxer] Mech.
Although this item was synthesized by the Golden Finger, it was not a pure black box like the [Dehydration Gun] and [Power Enhancement Shoes].
Most of its parts still followed some scientific principles.
Coupled with the [Boxer] Mech's terrible appearance and its virtually non-existent weapon system,
even though its outer shell material was quite good, Luca could only choose to replace all of it.
Fortunately, the [boxer] itself is very close in size to a 'Gundam', and much of the data in Harro's database can be applied to it.
The only difficulty is how to combine and match them to make the final product more perfect.
This task itself is not a small project, and Luca can only take his time for now.
As for the last relatively important and time-consuming matter, it was:
"Not yet? How many of these have there been already?"
He casually tossed his latest 'Solar Skateboard' aside.
At this moment, in that corner, dozens of similar modified skateboards were already piled up.
Some of them were existing skateboards Luca purchased directly and then modified, while others were entirely handcrafted by Luca from start to finish.
But even so, after so many 'Solar Skateboards' were made, none of them triggered the 'core component' status.
"Is it really just a matter of luck? Or is there some condition I haven't noticed?"
Currently, Luca has summarized several rules of the Golden Finger.
The more fortunate the plot character, the easier their commonly used items are to trigger the Golden Finger.
For ordinary items, the closer they are to the original version, the easier they are to trigger the Golden Finger.
Moreover, the closer the item is to the original version, the fewer synthetic materials are needed.
"Could it be that the skateboards I made are too complete? Do they need to have fewer parts?"
"Or, do I need to find an elementary school student and give this skateboard to them?"
To be honest, a 'Solar Skateboard' is basically useless to Luca now.
In fact, he could complete the entire manufacturing process of these skateboards himself, without Harro's help.
Except for not having the conceptual abilities of the original, like flying, escaping underground, and various tightrope walks without falling, its performance already far exceeded that of ordinary electric skateboards.
But ultimately, Luca just wanted to collect 'Conan 5/5'. He didn't care what specific effect the skateboard might have.
It's just a pity that after so many attempts, there was still no result.
Just as Luca was debating whether to remove some parts from the pile of skateboards in the corner,
a large group of Harro of various colors bounced and hopped over to Luca.
"Idiot Luca! Idiot Luca!"
"Idiot Luca! Idiot Luca!"
"…"
Listening to this group of little rascals chattering non-stop under the lead of the orange Harro,
Luca was so annoyed that he directly grabbed the leading orange Harro and vigorously kneaded it.
"I made so many younger brothers and sisters for you to help with work! You scoundrel, what have you taught them?!"
Seeing the orange Harro, which he had kneaded flat and round, still not behaving, Luca instantly became even more annoyed.
In reality, Luca had copied more than just the dozen or so Harro in front of him during this period; there were also over twenty other colored Harro busy working throughout the underground laboratory.
Some were connected to various machines for analysis and computation.
Others were piloting small 'Harro Repair Mechs' to expand the entire laboratory's area.
As for the ones in front of him, the orange Harro was actually taking them to 'exercise'.
Yes, you heard that right, exercise.
Because the copied Harro made by Luca had vastly different performance from the original Harro.
Not only were their brains not as smart as Harro's, with significantly weaker computing power, but their bodies themselves were also not like the orange Harro, which possessed invincible defense while also being able to change between soft and hard, possessing elasticity.
So, the orange Harro would take these newly born little Harro to bounce and hop for a while.
This was to help these Harro chips, which had decent learning abilities, become more familiar with this unique 'walking' style exclusive to Harro.
It's just…
"Exercise is exercise! Why are you shouting slogans?! You've corrupted these little things!"
Luca continued to scold the orange Harro.
But the little gadget didn't fall for it. Immediately, red light flashed in its eyes, and it was about to headbutt this 'unruly disciple'.
"Harro Impact! Har…"
Before the little gadget could finish its second word, Luca, quick as a flash, slapped it away.
However.
What Luca didn't expect was.
The 'Harro Impact' that the orange Harro mentioned didn't just refer to itself.
The next moment.
"Harro Impact! Harro Impact! Harro Impact!"
Red, blue, green, purple.
A colorful 'Harro swarm' pounced into Luca's arms like raindrops…