“There are quite a few gangs here in New York. If you go out, don’t provoke them easily.”
Caleb specifically exhorted the cast and crew on the way.
There were also gangs in Los Angeles, but the number of gangs there was small, and most gang families had been passed down for three or four generations, rarely engaging in large-scale fights anymore.
They would even help the local police department maintain public order.
On the contrary, here in New York, various emerging gangs were constantly rising, and conflicts with old-school gangs over interests were endless.
“We will be careful!”
Everyone nodded successively; some didn’t care, while others took Caleb’s reminder to heart.
After arriving in an unfamiliar place, Mark naturally developed a sense of insecurity in his heart.
At this moment, upon hearing Caleb’s words, he immediately decided to add some more measures to protect his own safety.
In fact, if his family hadn’t been genuinely short of money before, he really wouldn’t have wanted to take on this play that required running to New York to film.
After all, he had a golden finger on him, and staying safely at home to grow stronger was the best choice.
Everyone quickly arrived at the hotel and checked into their respective rooms.
“Ding-a-ling…”
After returning to his own room, Mark’s cell phone rang.
“Boss, I have already cashed all of today’s postal money orders, and the money has been transferred to your bank card. After organizing the email addresses of the game buyers, I also sent them to your email.”
After the phone connected, a young man’s voice came from inside.
“Thank you for your hard work, Roger.”
Mark nodded, and then hung up the phone.
Roger was an employee Mark had just recruited some time ago, specifically responsible for exchanging postal money orders at the post office and simultaneously organizing the email addresses of players who purchased Stardew Valley.
As Stardew Valley gradually became popular in major gaming forums, the players purchasing the game increased day by day.
Nowadays, tens of thousands of people sent money orders every day.
Just organizing these people’s email addresses every day was already a heavy workload; Mark naturally couldn’t exploit his mom, Rosalie.
Therefore, he hired Roger to be exclusively responsible for this matter.
“Alice, send the registration codes to all players who purchased the game.”
Mark gave an order to Alice.
Afterwards, he opened his computer and browsed a military supplies website, preparing to buy some things to protect his safety.
Now the amount in Mark’s bank card had exceeded 1 million U.S.
dollars, so he naturally didn’t need to budget as meticulously as before when spending it. This chapter was taken from g.com without permission.
He first spent 200,000 U.S.
dollars to buy 5 top-of-the-line small drones.
Then he spent another 10,000-plus U.S.
dollars to buy two stun guns, along with matching insulated gloves, insulated shoes, and an insulated vest.
Mark was only 5 years old now, unable to legally carry a gun, and he couldn’t bear the recoil of firearms either.
Stun guns did not belong to controlled weapons and had no recoil, making them just right for him.
However, the power of ordinary stun guns was too small.
Many people only felt pain after being hit, which couldn’t affect their actions, let alone make them lose combat effectiveness.
Therefore, Mark placed an order on another welding material website for a set of disassembly tools, a set of welding tools, and some electronic components needed for use, preparing to modify the stun guns after buying them.
This was of course illegal.
However, Mark didn’t usually use them anyway.
When real danger was encountered, who would care whether it was illegal or not!
Three days passed in the blink of an eye.
The cast and crew had not officially started shooting these three days.
Caleb led the staff to make the final arrangements on the set, while Rosalie and other actors gathered every day to interpret the script.
After Mark went just once, he felt bored and stopped going, returning to his room to continue refining Alice’s code.
As the female lead, Rosalie of course had to go every time and couldn’t possibly be absent.
After she displayed her current acting skills, the other actors gradually accepted her as the protagonist of this play.
Only Rachel and another actress named Tracy still spoke to Rosalie in a sarcastic and subtly mocking manner.
With Rosalie’s personality, it wasn’t good to directly fall out with them in front of so many people, so she could only suppress her frustration secretly.
“Mom, I bought some things, can you help me go to the hotel entrance to receive them!”
On the morning of the third day, Mark called Rosalie.
The things he ordered online had already been delivered to the hotel entrance by the delivery person.
Mark was still a minor, so these things could of course only be purchased in Rosalie’s name.
Rosalie went to the lobby downstairs to find the delivery person, swiped her card to pay, and then had the other party carry the things up to Mark’s room.
“Mark, what kind of things did you buy?”
Looking at the large box carried into the room, Rosalie asked in surprise.
After the delivery person left, Mark closed the room door, unpacking and answering at the same time.
“These are drones? Mark, what are you buying so many drones for?”
Rosalie quickly saw the things inside the box and couldn’t help asking doubtfully.
As for the two stun guns at the bottom, she didn’t pay attention to them.
“In the future when we go out, I will let Alice control the drones to hover above us, responsible for monitoring whether there is any danger existing near us…”
Mark explained to Rosalie while assembling the drones.
After he finished assembling and debugging, he immediately ordered Alice: “Alice, check the surrounding area of the hotel for safety hazards.”
“Okay, Mark.”
One of the drones immediately flew out from the room’s window position.
The Hilton Hotel where Mark was staying was surrounded by dense buildings, including office buildings, supermarket buildings, residential apartment buildings, and other hotels.
The drone flew past these buildings quickly.
As long as it didn’t stay for a long time, it wouldn’t attract the attention of others.
Through the monitors connected to the drones, Mark and Rosalie could see the detailed images captured by the drones.
Originally Mark just wanted to test the performance of the drones, but soon Alice’s urgent voice sounded in the room.
“Dangerous target detected! Dangerous target detected!”
Afterwards, an image on the monitor froze instantly.
Seeing clearly the image on the monitor, the expressions of both Mark and Rosalie couldn’t help changing.
What the drone filmed was another hotel not far from the Hilton Hotel.
Through the gap in the curtains, a White youth wearing a camouflage vest, with a full beard and bulging muscles, could be seen standing at the window of the hotel room, holding a pair of binoculars aimed at the direction of the Hilton Hotel.
What made Mark even more vigilant was that at this youth’s feet, there seemed to be a sniper rifle placed as well!
Although only half of the gun body could be seen, it was already shocking to look at.
“Ah!”
Rosalie couldn’t help crying out in surprise, her face turning somewhat pale from fright.
She had originally thought Mark was worrying excessively, but after seeing this scene at this moment, she finally felt scared.
“Mom, don’t worry, his target shouldn’t be us.”
Mark comforted Rosalie.
According to the other party’s line of sight, he judged that this youth’s target should be living on the top floor of the Hilton Hotel.
Although saying this, Mark still walked over to close the window facing the other party and drew the curtains.