When Darren received the news and came out of the hospital that very night, his eyes immediately welled up when he saw the empty land which Pym Technologies had been on. “D*mn old man, what the f*ck!”

At a glance, he knew that it was definitely the Pym Particle.

How could an ordinary explosion completely destroy a building?

Apart from him, Dr. Pym was the only other person who knew how to use the Pym Particle.

The other party had already directly made his building disappear. Did they still need to look for him? Obviously not.

They had been mentor and student for many years, and knew each other well.

Dr. Pym had been appearing often lately, which was how Darren knew that he was definitely on the right track, and which was why he had sped up his research.

He even knew that it was Dr. Pym who had hired Scott Lang to do the dirty work.

He had come up with a perfect plan to lure the snake out of its hole and catch it in one go.

In the end… everything was gone!

It would take at least three to five years for the current database to be rebuilt.

At that moment, Darren gnashed his teeth in hatred.

He didn’t just hate Dr. Pym, but also the guys in the government who didn’t allow him to make more backups.

If there were extra backups, even if the building was gone, it would just be a loss of some capital and equipment, which could be restored in a few months.

Do you really think I’ll take this lying down? He took out his phone with a dark expression. “Carson, we have a deal, but I have a request…”

…

For the people of San Francisco, the Pym Technologies building disappearing overnight wasn’t anything big.

If it hadn’t been on the news, most people wouldn’t know that San Francisco had this company at all.

Besides, it wasn’t just a 20-story building, but a building on the outskirts of the city.

Last month, more than five buildings in downtown San Francisco had been completely written off, more than 20 had been sealed up for inspection, and hundreds of residential houses had been severely damaged.

Any one of the five abandoned buildings was an edifice which stood 30 to 50 stories high. Pym Technologies was nothing.

Also, the radiation cleanup in the city was still ongoing, and would be completed in a month.

More than 40% of the residents couldn’t return to their homes right away, and were displaced.

They were all victims. Who cared about the lives of capitalists?

Thus, the disappearance of Pym Technologies didn’t draw public attention.

However, this matter caused a stir in the government and among the higher-ups.

In the last decade, several forces had invested billions of dollars and built up a huge amount of connections.

The golden fruit that was this exclusive business was about to ripen, but in the blink of an eye, half of it was dug out. How could they bear it?

Dr. Pym was already on the blacklist of various intelligence agencies.

Although there was no public arrest warrant, as long as this old man dared to show his face, he would definitely be caught and handed over to Darren.

At that time, no matter how the old man died, it would be an ‘internal matter’ of Pym Technologies.

On the other hand, Dr. Pym’s daughter, Hope, was completely fine.

Hope didn’t know much about the Pym Particle technology, and she was a ‘victim’ this time — she had a lot of shares in Pym Technologies. Now that the building had evaporated, so had a lot of her assets.

She had been a major shareholder on Darren’s side, and had kicked Dr. Pym off of the board of directors of Pym Technologies back then and made Darren the CEO.

She and Dr. Pym had never gotten along all these years, which gave Darren a chance to take the top spot.

In this society, it was common for rich families to fall out over money.

It didn’t make sense that she would work with Dr. Pym.

Thus, the American government couldn’t go after Hope, and even had to appease her.

Otherwise, given the amount of shares she had, it would make sense if she worked with the other shareholders to audit the company’s internal management.

After all, someone had actually made such a big building disappear. Right now, the management of Pym Technologies would be deemed incompetent at the very least.

If she made a fuss, it would hinder the reconstruction of Pym Technologies tremendously.

Scott didn’t show his face at all.

He wasn’t a magnate, and was on parole. Even if he was arrested, nobody would speak up for him.

But Scott wasn’t an idiot. After blowing up Pym Technologies, he went into hiding with Dr. Pym.

In any case, he was unemployed and didn’t even have a fixed address. It was normal for him to roam about.

In fact, Luke had tipped off Dr. Pym in the name of the bigshot and told him to hide Scott well.

After the operation that night, Dr. Pym couldn’t take it anymore.

After finding a place to rest, he immediately contacted the bigshot — or rather, interrogated him.

Luke gave him face and personally met him as the bigshot.

In the face of the furious old man’s question about whether or not the Pacific Detective Department was related to him, the bigshot nodded calmly. “They’re important partners.”

Dr. Pym choked.

He had sold a lot of Pym Particles to the bigshot in the last few years, and had been upgraded from a friendly partner to an important partner. He had even obtained the Water of Life.

Otherwise, he wouldn’t be so energetic right now.

Thus, he knew that an organization that could obtain the authority of an important partner from this bigshot definitely wasn’t simple.

Looking at the bigshot sitting opposite him, who had a faint smile on his face, Dr. Pym finally tried his best to suppress his bad temper. “I want to take back all the data on the Pym Particle.”

The bigshot nodded. “Okay.”

Dr. Pym was stunned.

In the end, he heard the second half of the sentence. “What’s the reward for this commission?”

Dr. Pym: …I want that d*mn detective department to ‘return’ my data!

But looking at the smiling bigshot, he couldn’t say anything.

For the past few years, they had made fair deals.

The bigshot had mentioned twice about buying more of the Pym Particle, but Dr. Pym had refused.

The other party didn’t turn hostile or threaten him. After that, business prices remained the same, and the goods arrived on time.

In short, they had a pure business relationship.

Now that Dr. Pym wanted the data back, he naturally couldn’t rely on just his words.

Business was business.

He had to give the bigshot whatever he wanted.

After a long silence, Dr. Pym said, “They can name their price.”

Luke raised an eyebrow. Who said this old man was inflexible? Look – when people were under pressure, they suddenly knew how to behave.

He chuckled inwardly, but his expression didn’t change. “Okay. I’ll contact them now.”

Dr. Pym heaved a sigh. The beginning was always the hardest. If the most difficult first step was successful, there was at least a chance to get the data back.

Luke, however, said unhurriedly, “However, Hank, I have to remind you that you have 28 credit points in your account. It probably won’t be enough to buy back the data.”

Dr. Pym’s expression froze.