In the Bay District of Warwick, Rhode Island, a deep beach surrounded by improvised wire, a wooden sign stands at the door: Hawk Shipbreaking Yard.

In addition to these words, there are also scribbles on it that are clearly written by children.

At this moment in the shipbreaking yard, Colin Hawke was shirtless, sweating and cutting a steel plate with a cutting machine, and not far away were his right-hand men and laid-off workers, disassembling other parts.

It wasn't until the steel plate split in half that Colin dropped his tools, shook his messy and wet long hair, and straightened up to check the efficiency of his old fellows: "Morin! Get those screws clean! OK？ Ten screws are enough for a glass of beer! The screws you ignore every time add up enough for a group of us to drink in the little bar for a month! ”

"Hull! Separate the radio from the light bulb! Do not put it together with other parts! Scrap traders don't pay us more! Fix the light bulb and radio station, and find a way to sell it to in the second-hand market! Earn more! ”

Seeing that his men all raised a respectful middle finger at him, Daddy Colin nodded in satisfaction: "You all have to learn from Wilson fucking speaking!" As long as I'm still in the day, Wilson will always be the best employee of the Hawker shipbreaking yard, look at Wilson, obviously a fishing boat, he can always take care of a ship and a half parts! That's why he always earns the most paychecks every week! Which boss doesn't like Wilson! ”

"If you can like him, it means that the entire Warwick scrap car parking lot hates Wilson to death, and the scrapped ship bought by the Hawk shipbreaking yard can actually dismantle fucking car scrap." Ashley's father, Hull, laughs, says, "The most exaggerated time was when I was on a fishing boat and pulled out three car gearboxes and five car horns. ”

Daddy Colin took out a cigarette and lit it in his mouth: "Old man, this is called extra value, who stipulates that car parts cannot be installed on ships." ”

"Dididi~~Dididi~~" The pager on Colin's waist rang, he looked down, and shouted to everyone proudly: "My dear son Tommy, has sent me a message of concern from distant California. ”

He walked to an office that was converted from a scrapped RV, directly pulled the telephone line and carried the landline to the beach, dialed the number back in front of everyone, and deliberately stimulated these guys in his mouth: "Envy, my son wants to report to me his recent scientific research achievements in the university, listen carefully, this is the closest you are to knowledge!" ”

"My dear son~~ Are you okay? We'd love to ...... What？ After Colin's connection, his voice was originally proud, but it quickly turned into doubt:

"You're saying someone is going to trouble me? Not a hassle? Is it a survey? Investigating is a nuisance for me! There is no difference! ”

"What the have you done, son, are you studying in California or working as a trafficker in California!"

When several other workers heard Colin's words, they all stopped working and gathered around, Wilson was carrying a beer in his hand: "I said earlier that Tommy can't go to college, in fact, he is in the drug business in California, and I have a relative who runs a convenience store in New York, and he asked him to send the goods, and we ......."

"Shut up!" Colin suddenly covered the earpiece and yelled at Wilson's hideous face, then glanced at these old fellows with fierce eyes, and continued to say to the earpiece: "You mean, the opposing lawyer will let people come to me, Tony, Ashley and even Bessia for trouble?" ”

Seeing Colin's expression, and hearing Colin's words, several old fellows turned around and picked up various large tools, and Ashley's father Hull walked out of the office with a shotgun.

Soon, Colin hung up the phone, spit out the cigarette in his mouth, and looked at several people: "First of all, my son is still a college student, not a fucking drug dealer, but he is now facing the same problem as a drug dealer, that is, he was sued in court, and the other party's lawyer is likely to let people come to Warwick City to learn all the news about him and Hawke's family in order to investigate and collect evidence or some other bullshit procedure, so, first, you better forget about the trivial matter of smuggling cigarettes, and second, I am going to see Tommy's high school principal now, Third, you're here waiting for Tommy to find a lawyer for us. ”

"What the are you going to see the headmaster?" Green asked, puzzled.

"I'm going to have to ask him to write some lines complimenting Tommy, and then have you and the guys in the block memorize them, you know? In the same way that the world worshipped Jesus, you had better worship my Son. Colin says:

"Maureen, you go and call Herbs, and tell him to get in touch with his son Dennis, and get the lines right! It's the same with Mr. Marveill! ”

While Colin was helping a few old guys with assignments, a limousine stopped outside the shipbreaking yard, and several people were looking towards the luxury car.

"You're talking about the investigating lawyer coming so fast?"

"Andy Nelson, which one is Mr. Colin, Tommy should have told you that you are going to listen to me during this time, so, can that gentleman put down his gun?" Lawyer Andy, who had helped Tommy's aunt Melonie send her ex-boyfriend to prison, got out of the car and saw a group of fierce men carrying various tools that were definitely not ordinary tools and a shotgun, staring at him fiercely, and said directly to the point.

Wilson looked at the car behind Andy, "Any of you fucking fucking fuck this idiot, just give me five minutes and I'll be able to unload the five tires of that car and put it on our boat, it's so beautiful." ”

"This guy is in league with us, Wilson, calm down." Daddy Colin patted Wilson on the shoulder: "Wait for the other party's people to show up, don't talk about fucking tires, you can put all the parts of the other party's car on our scrap ship, and then sell them to scrap buyers, in such a difficult time, it really warms my heart to hear employees like you think about the benefits of the factory, I will ask for beer in the evening." ”

"So should we listen to you, or should we listen to this guy who seems rich and underpaid?" Mo Lin scratched the top of his bald head and asked puzzled.

Colin sighed, "My son wants us to listen to some of the advice given by this professional, but I'm Tommy's father, and as a father, I have to have some ......"

"Good, shut up, Colin, we know the answer." Hull interrupted Colin, turned around with a shotgun, and said to the others, "Tommy said, don't listen to his dad, but listen to this guy named Andy Nelson." ”

……

Late at night.

Susan Curtis was once again awakened by the glare that suddenly shone into the bedroom, she sat up from the bed, blocked the glare from the window with her hands, and glanced at the alarm clock on the bedside table, it was just one o'clock in the morning.

Even though the curtains have been drawn on the windows, the curtains do not block the glare of the special flashlight.

"Damn bastards! F*ck！ Susan walked to the window and opened the curtains, and looked out, and sure enough, two figures were standing across the street with bright flashlights.

She and Mark's lives have changed a little in the past two days, although Tommy has said before that once the case enters the second stage, large companies will often do anything to investigate and collect evidence and even force some people they feel may be critical enough to cooperate, but listening to Tommy talk about it is obviously lacking in intuitive sense compared to what happened in person.

Since the detective began the so-called investigation and evidence collection, she and Mark began this extremely uncomfortable life, first 24-hour tracking, then the garbage dumped by the Actor company and their own residence will be carefully rummaged through by them, and then in the middle of the night, the three watches used strong light to affect their sleep, and suddenly called themselves, allowing them to choose to cooperate with them and serve as their witness to the Actor company, in exchange for peace.

"You're just going to stand across the street? Would you like to come in and play with me? Susan opened the window and scolded the two figures across the street in trench coats and caps, whose faces were completely invisible: "You two are the worst men I've ever met, you two know where the door is, but you only know how to wait outside the door with that thing in your hand!" ”

This level of harassment is nothing to Susan Curtis, and now life is much better than in the San Jose ghetto, where you used to have a bright light, if you can't hear gunshots next door or on the street in the middle of the night for three days a week, you shouldn't be worried about the improvement of security, but about hearing problems in your ears.

After closing the window and closing the curtains again, Susan picked up the glass of water on the bedside table, walked out of the bedroom in her pajamas, knocked lightly twice on the door of the other bedroom where Mark Warren lived, took a sip of water, and asked, "Are you okay?" Mark? ”

Mark's voice rang out, not in the bedroom, but on the living room couch in this apartment: "Here I am, Susan." ”

"You haven't slept yet?" Susan turned her head and saw Mark sitting on the sofa, so she simply turned on the light in the living room, and then saw Mark dressed in pajamas and sitting on the sofa with an ugly face.

Mark looked at the coffee table in front of him, on which was a pizza box: "Before I changed into my pajamas and was ready to go to bed, someone knocked on the door and brought it. ”

"What is this?" Susan walked over and opened the pizza box, which was not pizza, but there was a box of videotapes, and a piece of sticky notes that read, "Stand up and cooperate with the court." ”

If you look closely, there is also a line of address written on it, and it is clear that it is the address of Mark's family.

The other party investigated Mark's details thoroughly.

Mark looked at the video tape in the pizza box with a blank face: "I told my family that I studied at a community college and now I am a data engineer for a software company, enjoying company benefits, health insurance, and a pension, and they are very happy and proud of me." ”

"So, you're going to testify for Lotus? Biting back at the Actor company that changed your fate? Susan asked, sitting next to Mark on the couch and looking sideways at him.

Mark covered his head and said in a low voice, "I don't want my family to know about my stupid past, maybe I can try to meet them?" But I'm definitely not going to reveal ...... Actor company."

Without waiting for Mark to finish, Susan poured the glass of water in her hand directly on Mark's head.

Irritated by the cold water, Mark raised his head suddenly, wiped the water stains with his hands, and looked at Susan angrily: "What the hell are you doing?" ”

"I think you need to calm down, Mark." Susan's eyes stared straight at him:

"Your family knows your past, and you have our companions around you to encourage you and comfort you, but you cooperate with them, and our companions are your enemies, and your family will not only know about your past, but I guarantee you have nothing, do you believe that those people out there, after getting the news they want, will give you a warm hug?"

The first more ~~

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