Arthur paused for less than two seconds. Instead of escaping, he walked towards the garage again.
When Long Zhan saw Arthur walking towards him, he still held Steve with one hand and said: "This guy is crazy. He suddenly attacked me without warning, and even tried to shoot me with this gun. I must teach him a lesson."
Give him a break."
"This gun belongs to his father Harry, and he should really be angry now."
"What?"
Arthur's answer surprised Long Zhan, but after thinking about it, he wasn't surprised at all.
Arthur first saw Steve's unspeakable guilt and his great tolerance for Steve's mistakes in the mission. Arthur was tricked into killing Harry himself...
A large amount of information converged in Long Zhan's mind, and finally condensed into a clear answer——
Through this silver gun, Steve recognized Arthur as the enemy who killed his father.
After figuring out the ins and outs of the matter, Long Zhan could understand why Steve lost control of his emotions, so he put Steve back on the ground.
Arthur walked straight to Steve, looked into his eyes and said, "I'm very sorry for what happened to your father. I could only do that at the time and had no other choice."
"He is your best partner. You were trained by him. How did you manage to do this? Why did you kill an old man who has disabled legs and can only spend the rest of his life in a wheelchair?"
Steve's eyes were red and full of anger and hatred, and he yelled at Arthur at the top of his lungs.
"Arthur is not entirely to blame for this incident. I only learned the truth yesterday. Arthur is actually a victim. If you are willing to listen, I can tell you."
Long Zhan didn't want the "master and apprentice" to turn against each other, so he decided to stand up and be a peacemaker.
"Don't blame him? Is he also a victim?"
When Steve heard these words, he became even more angry. He laughed angrily and said, "Okay, tell me, I want to hear what is the reason that makes this bastard go crazy and kill a disabled old man who is about to retire."
"The matter is actually not complicated. It starts with the mission your father Harry took alone..."
Long Zhan told Steve everything he knew about the situation in detail, and he did so from a neutral point of view without any bias.
Steve heard that it was the boss of his father's company who produced solid evidence to prove that his father had cheated and killed the five mechanics involved in the operation.
This is a serious violation of the rules of the machinist industry and a serious violation of the company's internal procedures.
The company needed to punish his father by killing him, so they found Arthur to "clean up the house."
Arthur didn't know it was a scam at the beginning. It was a trap set up by the company's boss, Dean, to prevent the secret from being exposed and to kill the company's veteran Harry, who deliberately spent a lot of money to frame it.
Harry, the old mechanic who most abides by industry rules, would violate the company's articles of association. Arthur also felt very incredible at the time.
In order to find out the reason, in order to save Harry.
Arthur tried his best to do a lot of work, and even made an appointment with the company owner Dean in person.
As a result, when he met with the company's boss, Dean, Dean produced ironclad evidence, including Harry's records of large sums of money, the fact that all the insiders except Harry and the boss were dead, etc.
The evidence was overwhelming, and Arthur had nothing to say.
Dean also issued an ultimatum before leaving. For Arthur's sake, he would give him 24 hours. If Arthur didn't move after that time, he would send someone else to do it.
And if another mechanic takes action, according to the company's method of punishing traitors, Harry will not only die, but the death process will be very painful.
When Arthur joins this line of work, he has to act according to this line of work. He cannot save the traitor Harry alone.
In order to make Harry happy and relaxed, Arthur had to endure the pain in his heart and send Harry away in a straightforward way.
Long Zhan's explanation was detailed enough, and Steve was shocked after hearing it.
Although he was still bitter about Arthur killing his father, it would be difficult to dissipate this emotion for a while, and the eyes he looked at Arthur were still full of hatred.
But the thought of revenge in my heart, under the deliberate guidance of Long Zhan during the explanation process, has a new goal -
Killer company boss Dean!
Although Steve was blinded by hatred, he was after all a mature-thinking adult and had the proper understanding to judge things.
It was certainly wrong for Arthur to be tricked into killing his old friend, but he had good intentions after all and did not want Harry to die in too much pain.
With Harry's combat prowess as he is over sixty years old and has disabled legs, any other mechanic who finds him can easily kill Harry.
The company's boss, Dean, is the culprit.
It was he who did things that violated business rules for money, and in the end, he deliberately framed Harry, the veteran of the company, so that the secret would not be exposed.
Steve knew very well that only by killing Dean could he truly avenge his father.
At this point, things are clear.
Arthur is not a good person to begin with. In order to avenge being deceived and killed his partner, and being treated as a clown, Arthur must find Dean to resolve the matter.
Steve learned the truth about his father's murder, and developed a sworn feud with Dean.
As the only person who had no life-or-death feud with Dean, Long Zhan didn't have to participate in the war, but Dean was really unlucky.
The two teams of elites sent to kill Arthur also included Long Zhan among their targets.
Now there's a feud!
In addition, Long Zhan intends to win over Steve and Arthur and make them a powerful trump card in his hand, so there is a reason why this battle must be fought.
Help Arthur and Steve hold up this situation, and the two of them will owe Long Zhan a favor.
But Long Zhan's debt of gratitude is not so easy to repay.
At this point, the goals of the three of them have been very clear. Not to mention the entanglement between Steve and Arthur, killing the culprit Dean has become a common goal.
Once you have a clear goal, start working immediately.
Bring all the weapons and equipment, leave the island by boat and return to the dock, then take a Chevrolet pickup truck and go straight to the northern suburbs of New Orleans.
Because Steve was still worried about Arthur, the atmosphere along the way was very depressing.
Not as pleasant as before!
Emotions need time to buffer. Long Zhan did not forcefully talk about topics to cheer up the atmosphere, giving the two of them enough space to calm down independently.
More than half an hour later.
The three of them, Long Zhan, came to a two-story villa that covered an area of over a thousand square meters. The overall architectural style was that of a European manor, and it looked like it was expensive to build.
He easily defeated the two bodyguards at the door and secretly entered the villa.
Before entering the door, I didn't forget to ring the doorbell, creating the illusion that someone was calling the door outside.