Mercenary's War

This notorious arms dealer, who else could it be but Grand Ivan.

Things were getting complicated, but it was advantageous for Gao Yang, as long as what Karl Stemonsen said wasn’t a prelude to a move.

Gao Yang remained silent, his leg muscles were already tense and ready to kick out at any moment.

After ten seconds of silence, Karl Stemonsen was still staring at Gao Yang, but he didn’t move, so Gao Yang relaxed the muscles in his legs. After making a few small gestures with his crossed hands, he said in a deep voice, "Revenge, revenge! Frankly, everyone, as a businessman, I try to avoid getting involved in such futile conflicts. So, that arms dealer, who is he?"

"It’s none of your business."

"It is my business."

Gao Yang raised his hand, looking helpless, and said, "Gentlemen, you plan to make some money and then carry out your revenge plan, while I plan to hire you, have you perform some high-difficulty, high-risk combat missions, and then pay you a large sum of money that you need. In that case, you have a relationship with me, and after you have a relationship with me, then go and take revenge on a very powerful arms dealer, guys, the synonym for notorious is very powerful, right?"

Karl nodded and said, "Very powerful."

Gao Yang smiled a little, then said in a deep voice, "You take revenge, after leaving my company, then I think this is not a good thing for me."

Karl Stemonsen nodded, then he stood up and said sincerely to Gao Yang, "Sorry for wasting your time, we’ll take our leave."

Just then, the waiter started serving the food. Looking at the large steak placed in front of him, Gao Yang suddenly sighed and then said to Karl, "Please sit down, the food is served, wasting is not good. At least finish eating before you leave, then let’s pretend we never met, reiterating, this meal is on me."

Karl hesitated for a moment, then sat down again, nodding, "You’re right, wasting is not good."

Gao Yang sighed, squeezing a pile of ketchup onto his fries, then handed the ketchup to Karl, and with a helpless bitter smile, he said, "I know I shouldn’t ask, but I’m curious, I want to know how much that arms dealer owes you?"

Karl took the ketchup bottle, squeezed it slowly, and said, "Seventy-six lives, plus a leg."

Gao Yang, who just picked up his knife and fork, froze, and Joseph also made an extremely shocked expression at Karl.

The four members of Cerberus all had solemn faces, and Gao Yang said in astonishment, "Seventy-six lives, not money, I thought it was money..."

"And one leg!"

The one called Mike said viciously, after skewering a piece of steak into his mouth, he said fiercely, "As for the money, that has to be settled with the gentlemen of the Ministry of Defense!"

Karl turned his head and glared at Mike, who immediately lowered his head and dared not speak again, just quickly cutting the steak with a knife.

Gao Yang was stunned for a moment, then shook his head, placed the knife and fork on the steak, and said in a low voice, "I don’t know what happened, I don’t want to know either, and I shouldn’t advise you anything, but guys, normally, with only four of you, to launch revenge against a big arms dealer, I think it’s not very wise. I know something about mercenary work, mercenaries don’t seem keen on revenge."

"We’re not mercenaries."

Karl said flatly, after putting a fry in his mouth, he continued flatly, "We are soldiers, executing a secret mission according to orders, my men almost all died, another lost a leg, another inhaled too much toxic gas, he’s not dead but his lungs are ruined, he’ll live in pain for the rest of his life."

After speaking with a calm face, Karl continued, "My superior officer blamed us, I wanted to bear it myself, but my brothers had to bear it with me, the ones who died in battle were fine, their families got compensation, four hundred thousand US dollars, a one-time payment, but no subsequent family preference, because they died in a secret mission that would never be acknowledged, the wounded got two hundred thousand US dollars, a one-time payment, no follow-up, we survivors, haha."

Gao Yang’s face turned ugly, Karl smiled slightly, and then he continued, "Can you roughly guess what happened? Yes, we were thrown away like rags, this kind of thing is very common, very common in America, I didn’t believe it before, but now I have to."

Gao Yang waved a fork, then said with a troubled face, "This kind of thing... So you plan to take revenge yourself?"

Karl whispered, "Yes, I have to seek justice for my dead brothers."

Gao Yang put down the fork, picked up the beer and took a sip, and then said with a puzzled face, "I don’t understand, if your brothers died in a secret mission, I guess the target was that arms dealer, since you were acting on orders, then this is the official government’s matter, so why are you the ones who are taking revenge, not the official government?"

Mike said viciously, "We don’t know, but I think those officials were scared out of their wits, or maybe they made some unspeakable deal with that arms dealer, we were ordered not to mention this, no revenge, no follow-up action, that event just passed like that, as if nothing had happened!"

Karl said with a solemn face, "I should be dead, but I’m not, since I’m not dead, the people who should be dead have to die!"

After speaking, Karl exhaled, then said to Gao Yang, "We need money, because we didn’t get a cent when we left, we were forcibly retired, there was supposed to be a sum of money, but after some people discovered our plans, they withheld the money we deserved as a means of control, but!"

Karl continuously waved his finger, and said in a deep voice, "Nothing can stop us!"

Gao Yang exhaled, helplessly saying, "I’m sorry I can’t help you, here, well, sorry everyone, I can’t take on the risks you might bring."

Karl nodded, but he didn’t seem to have given up, saying in a low voice, "I’m saying this to tell you, we few don’t plan to survive, so if you can provide us with a chance to make money, we can do anything for you, that’s why I’m telling you this, you really don’t need to worry about us leaking secrets, because we have no chance."

Gao Yang seemed hesitant, and just as he was hesitating, his phone rang.

"Get out! Get out! Get out!"

As Gao Yang answered the phone, he heard the cleaner, who had been in contact with him that afternoon, urgently repeating for him to leave quickly, then urgently said, "CIA! Stay calm, evacuate quickly!"