The sun was too dazzling today, and the rearview mirror always reflected. It took Joseph a while to pour the car into the parking space. After turning off the engine, he pulled out the key, opened the door and walked out. The heat wave in front of him made Joseph squint his eyes. It was only May, and Los Angeles had already felt the heat. He opened the car door again, took a pair of sunglasses, and then took a step.

In front of you is an American breakfast shop. The bright sunshine makes the front and back ventilated store filled with the atmosphere of summer. The refreshing air from the ocean floats from the beach not far away makes this morning beautiful. The outdoor open seats are full of guests, and everyone is enjoying this rare leisure.

"Hey, Joe." A shout came from his right hand. Joseph subconsciously looked over and saw the amiable smile of Thomas Rossman, the general manager of the 20th Century Fox film department and one of the most powerful top figures in Hollywood. Standing next to Thomas is a senior agent of the Innovative Artist Agency. He also raised his head generously and smiled at Joseph.

Thomas was leaving the breakfast shop at this time, holding a cup of coffee in his hand, and Joseph nodded with a smile, "Are you ready to leave?"

Thomas raised the coffee in his hand and said with the smile of the natural Maitreya Buddha, "The short break for breakfast is over, it's time to go to the company to be busy."

"We are already thirty minutes later than New York." Joseph was also infected by Thomas and chuckled. It was just that he was used to the serious expression, so even if he was joking, he was a little dull.

Thomas shrugged, "We are lucky compared to many people, and at least have a job." This made Joseph laugh out loud, "How about you, everything is still fine lately, right? After Hugo came back to Los Angeles, there was no news. Now it seems that you are on vacation?"

The "Storm and Storm" world tour has ended for more than half a month. The final performance of Madison Garden Square in New York is still talked about by people. The performance of glory to death that night lasted for four hours. It was called back to the stage twice by the enthusiasm of the audience and performed the Encore performance.

The Madison Garden Square, where the seats were opened, accommodated 110,000 audiences, and the concert changed from two to four under the persistent demands of fans; the scalpers' tickets were even hyped up to 10,000 US dollars per ticket, and some people were still willing to spend a lot of money; but even so, they still failed to satisfy the fans' wishes. The entire New England region was completely paralyzed that weekend, with fans flocking from all directions, with an average of more than 60,000 audiences blocking the audience every night.

Even so, at the end of the "Storm" tour, a large number of fans gathered in Madison Garden Square and were reluctant to leave. On the next day, more than 36,000 fans gathered on the scene, strongly demanding glory to continue the tour until death, but the on-site country still had to announce that this mighty tour officially came to an end, attracting a lot of wailing.

The "Storm" tour lasted for a full half year, with 97 performances, mobilizing 6.9 million viewers, surpassing Michael's "Dangerous Journey" three years ago, becoming the largest performance in the history of world tours; earning more than 50 million, becoming the most profitable performance in the history of the tour, and the revenue figure even exceeded the achievements made by the two albums "Storm" and "Bathing Morning Light".

Among them, the surrounding areas sold at the concert site made up to 8 million US dollars of income, and all of this income was collected in the "Sally Foundation" founded by Honor to Death. It is specially used to treat young people and children suffering from serious illnesses, not only terminal illnesses, but also many children who cannot pay high medical expenses due to family poverty.

It can be said that the "Storm" tour has ended, but the impact of this tour has not disappeared, and has still deeply affected every part of people's lives in the past two weeks. The tour has just ended until the death of Glory, and someone has begun to discuss their next performance.

But for Hugo fans, they are more concerned about where Hugo's next work is. It is about to be full of one year since the release of "Independence Day". More importantly, since the filming of "Independence Day" in February last year, there has been no news about Hugo's new work so far.

Not only were the fans anxious, but also the major Hollywood film companies. After Hugo came back from the tour, he disappeared completely. To be precise, after the tour ended in New York, no one captured the news of the members of glory to death, including the paparazzi.

There are rumors that Hugo flew to a Pacific island for vacation; there are rumors that Hugo hid in Asia to experience life; there are rumors that Hugo is now traveling in the Amazon jungle... The paparazzi wandered around Hugo's Malibu villa and Los Angeles apartment almost every day, and even went to the residences of Leonardo, Cameron, Charlize, Alex and others for a long time to monitor. Including Lanchez, they were included in the surveillance range, but Hugo was still not seen.

In fact, Hugo is currently on vacation in Long Beach (long.beach) and is only twenty miles away from Los Angeles, even closer than Malibu, a place that no one expected. However, no one knew that Hugo was in Long Beach, and it was impossible for him to know.

At the end of last year, Hugo asked Samora to quietly go to Long Beach to buy a brand new villa. This villa is right next to the beach, and you can sunbathe, surf, etc. with a 100-yard walk away. The overall area is nearly twice that of the Malibu Villa, about 17,000 square feet. It is divided into a main villa, two vacation cottages and a swimming pool room. Each house is independently designed. The three bedrooms and one living room are basically equipped with a game room, a gym, a study, a garden and a small football field.

Rather than a villa, it is a small manor. After purchasing it, it is renovated, and it costs a total of 15 million US dollars. It is mainly because Long Beach has now developed and is not only a well-developed city, but also a lot of rich people who choose to take vacations here, so the cost is much more expensive than Malibu, which has just started. However, compared with the real estate bubble that has rapidly increased after the 21st century, the cost of this manor is already cheaper.

Pedro, Neil, Fokin and Alfonso also bought a villa in other locations in Long Beach, both large and small. Pedro is closest to Hugo and across the street. The farthest Alfonso can reach it in twenty-five minutes. Pedro even joked that he should buy a yacht so that he can go back to Malibu by sea without anyone knowing it; then buy a helicopter and leave Los Angeles without anyone knowing it.

Because this series of actions is very secretive, no one knows that members of glory to death are quietly on vacation in Long Beach.

Listening to Thomas' temptation, Joseph had already become accustomed to it, and shrugged with a chuckle, but the answer was "work, work, work at all times. Hollywood has never taken a vacation, right?" Thomas asked Hugo, but Joseph answered himself, and the bull's head was wrong.

Thomas didn't care, but just smiled and nodded, "Indeed, I'm working all the time. Then I wish you good luck." After that, Thomas left with his companions.

Joseph frowned slightly. Obviously Thomas' last sentence just now meant something, but what exactly did it mean? But Joseph didn't care too much. He knew that Hollywood was turbulent recently, and almost a little bit of turbulence would trigger a chain effect, but for Hugo, he always took the initiative, so he didn't need to worry too much.

However, before his thoughts were over, Joseph saw the unexpected candidate and suddenly realized that Thomas was just reminding himself.

Rick saw Joseph at the first time and raised his hand to wave Joseph had arranged for Rick to have breakfast here this morning, but an uninvited guest appeared. He was sitting next to Rick. Joseph and Rick exchanged sights and had a basic understanding of the situation. He gently outlined a smile on the corner of his mouth, nodded and walked over slowly.

Rick didn't do anything special, but the stranger sitting next to him stood up with a smile on his face, stretched out his hands to Joseph and met him, "I really didn't expect that I would meet you at the breakfast place."

This was obviously a lying with open eyes, but Joseph kept silent and held the other person's hand with a smile, "Los Angeles is such a small place, isn't it? I just met Thomas Rossman outside."

The name made the other party's eyes lit up suddenly, obviously understanding Thomas' identity. "Of course, this is also the reason why many young people always want to come to Los Angeles. Who knows if the person who eats at the next table is Steven Spielberg." He shrugged and added, "Or it's Hugo Lancaster."

Joseph laughed, but before he could answer, Rick stood up and relieved Joseph, "Joe, this is Curtis Hanson; Curtis, this is Joseph Gibbs."

"Mr. Hanson, of course I know Hugo mentioned the work of "Wild River" and he liked it very much." Joseph was naturally familiar with Hollywood and answered it with ease. "Wild River" was Curtis' previous work, which attracted Meryl Streep and Kevin Bacon to join Hugo, so Joseph's words were not just a silence.
Chapter completed!