Just as everyone's attention was focused on Justin Hammer and Heinrich, who had just arrived, a clear, hearty voice, characteristic of a young man, came from the other side.
"Apologies, I should have personally gone out to greet you both upon your arrival. I was just adjusting some equipment and was about to set off when I realized you had already arrived."
Luca, in a sharp suit, strode towards the two, his face beaming with smiles and warmth.
However, upon seeing Luca approach, Justin's expression remained unchanged.
He merely scrutinized Luca with a look of unclear meaning before nodding coldly.
He didn't speak, directly adopting a stance that kept people at a thousand-mile distance.
This attitude left Luca somewhat puzzled, unsure what the other party was thinking, to personally make a trip to observe this internal test.
Conversely, Heinrich, standing beside Justin, showed considerable warmth towards Luca.
With a gentle smile, he stepped forward two paces, lightly patted Luca's shoulder, and said with some emotion:
"No need to be so polite."
"Your parents and I have always had a good personal relationship. I didn't make it to Hermann's funeral, which was… I should be the one apologizing to you."
Heinrich's words were very gentle, truly embodying the demeanor of an elder filled with remorse and concern for Luca.
This also perfectly matched the warm attitude Luca displayed.
However, at this moment, Luca looked at Heinrich's eyes with a somewhat strange expression, even stumbling slightly over the words he was about to say.
Although he quickly and discreetly covered it up, Heinrich, standing so close to him, naturally couldn't fail to notice.
He touched his slightly wrinkled cheek with a strange expression and asked Luca with a hint of embarrassment:
"Is there something on my face?"
As he spoke, he deliberately looked at Miss Hammer beside him and said playfully:
"Miss Hammer, why didn't you remind me along the way?"
Justin's attitude towards Heinrich was noticeably better. Although she knew he was just teasing, she still cooperated by responding:
"Nothing's on it. I think Mr. Orange was just momentarily lost in thought, seeing you, an elder he hasn't seen in a long time."
Luca, who quickly regained his composure, then decisively followed the cue given by Miss Hammer and continued:
"Haha, indeed it's been a while since I've seen Uncle Heinrich. I remember that was already a year ago at the Orange banquet."
Hearing the address 'Uncle' from Luca, the smile on Heinrich's face deepened, and he even joked about himself directly:
"Hahahaha, I never thought that I, an old man, could be more eye-catching than a great beauty like Miss Hammer. The last time this happened was back at my college graduation ball."
"Getting old, getting old. Back in the day, I was quite the popular figure in the fraternity."
The few people nearby heard this and cooperatively showed some smiles and flattery.
Miss Hammer merely covered her mouth and chuckled softly.
Luca then timely led these people to their seats.
"Uncle Heinrich and Miss Hammer, you can rest here for a moment while I make some adjustments."
"The preparations over there are almost complete, and the demonstration should begin very soon."
As he spoke, Luca left first with a hint of apology on his face, and the others naturally said nothing about it.
However, after Luca left, Miss Hammer took two steps back, putting a little distance between herself and the others, and quietly exchanged words with Heinrich beside her:
"What do you think? Didn't you all think highly of him? Why didn't you talk more?"
At this moment, Heinrich's gentle smile remained on his face, and he even picked up a stemmed glass, greeting other acquaintances among the guests from a distance.
However, his tone of voice was far from the earlier warmth, instead being eerily calm.
"A few words can't tell much. Ultimately, it still depends on the product test later."
"Moreover, it's not that I think highly of him; it's just that the person who does think highly of him needs me to observe and assess his qualifications."
As they spoke, several other guests who knew them also approached with their wine glasses from a distance to greet them, and the two immediately fell silent, as if their previous conversation had never happened.
In fact, Luca, who had walked away in the distance, also no longer had his previous politeness on his face.
It wasn't that Luca noticed the two's earlier pretense… well, he did notice that.
However, in business, it's perfectly normal for interactions between people to involve a bit of a false mask.
So Luca wasn't concerned about that.
It was just a moment ago.
Only after approaching the two did Luca notice that Heinrich, the capital representative and an old acquaintance of his parents, had a faint white glow emanating from his left eye!
Yes, Luca wasn't looking at the other party's face at all just now; his entire gaze was drawn to that white-glowing left eye.
And from the attitudes of others, it was clear that such a white glow did not exist in their eyes.
Luca was all too familiar with this situation.
'What's going on? Can a human eyeball also be judged as a core component?'
'What would that synthesize into? It can't be some flesh-and-blood item like a Sorcerer's Eye, can it?'
Luca, walking towards the equipment room at the edge of the venue, had all sorts of wild thoughts flash through his mind, but he quickly reacted.
'Could that guy's left eye be some kind of prosthetic eye?'
Luca carefully recalled the scene just now; it indeed seemed that only the other party's left eyeball emitted white light, and even the parts covered by the upper and lower eyelids were perfectly normal.
This was also why Luca didn't notice the white light in the other person's eye until he got close.
Just like when he previously discovered the core components of the crime tracking glasses, as long as the glasses were placed in their case, Luca couldn't detect them at all.
When the other person smiled, their eyes would narrow, and the white light from the eyeball would naturally become even less noticeable.
'However, I've never heard that Heinrich's left eye was injured?'
Heinrich saying he was familiar with Luca's parents was not a lie.
As old friends for over a decade, if such a thing truly existed, Gina and Hermann would have known some information about it.
'And, that level of realism? Is it really a fake eye?'
Unfortunately, White was still at the Villa accompanying Gina and was not brought along by Luca today.
He himself couldn't just go up and ask the other party, 'Can I touch your eye?' to trigger the golden finger panel.
It seemed there was no way to figure out why the golden finger judged the other party's left eye as a core component in the short term.
Luca could only make a note of this matter for now.
After all, the most important thing today was still the weapon demonstration.