Chapter 168: Tragedy on the Amazon River
$100 million!
Antonio's composure was shattered in an instant, and his voice trembled violently: "This is impossible, my fleet is far from worth this amount even if it is all sold!"
"Your Excellency has monopolized this route for 20 years, and you have been operating at sea for many years before, and it is only 100 million US dollars, how can you not come up with it?" Gogio said coldly.
"Captain, they've confiscated the ship's satellite phone and search and rescue radar!" Chief Engineer Santos whispered.
Santos Sr. was the father of the first mate, a few years older than Antonio, and because of his experience in sailing and familiarity with the operation of various machinery, Antonio still took him with him on this voyage.
Old Santos then said indignantly to Gogio: "God will not spare you, you bandits are waiting for ......"
Bang————
Old Santos had no time to finish his last words in this world, and he only heard a gunshot and fell on his back.
The moment he fell, everything in his eyes turned blood-red, and he couldn't tell whether it was the sunset like blood, or the blood like the sunset?
Gogio blew lightly on the smoke from the barrel of the gun, and said leisurely, "What are we waiting for?"
There was a commotion in the crowd, and Antonio was in agony: "Oh my God... Santos... OMG......"
Gogio has always been gentle and polite, and Antonio never dreamed that he would suddenly shoot.
"Daddy, Daddy......" A young man rushed out and threw himself on the corpse of old Santos and wept bitterly. How could little Santos have imagined that this voyage would be his father's fateful trip!
He desperately got up and rushed to Gogio, his face distorted with rage.
Bang————
Antonio, who was close at hand, didn't have time to stop it, and another gunshot rang out, and Santos Jr. fell on his back.
The moment he fell, a blood flower bloomed on his forehead, a blood flower blooming in the twilight of the Amazon River, evil and bewitching.
Antonio's mind went blank, and his nerves had completely collapsed. He had been at sea for many years and had encountered pirates and drug dealers more than once, but had never seen them kill. He suddenly realized that he was not strong, he was afraid of blood, he was afraid of death.
"Fight them!" the bloody sailors were ready to move. The captain ordered that they could not resist, their weapons had already been confiscated by the drug dealers, and the heavily armed drug dealers had surrounded them!
Little Santos's best friend, Miller, quietly distributed a few fire axes to the sailors around him, and he brandished one himself to kill out first - seeing the tragic death of his friend's father and son, Miller let go!
With a loud roar, a drug dealer was slashed down by Miller's axe! Several sailors behind him were greatly excited, and they all brandished fire axes to kill the drug dealers.
Gogio shouted angrily, and the barrel of the six-barreled Vulcan cannon mounted on the high place slowly turned, instantly spewing out viper-like flames at a speed of more than 4,000 rounds per minute, and Miller and five or six sailors immediately fell in a pool of blood.
Antonio woke up from a dream and screamed: "I'll give, I'll give! I'll give you as much as you want! Don't kill again......"
He couldn't hold his knees anymore, and he fell to his knees on the deck, and his voice was so weeping that he couldn't hear whether he was yelling or crying.
The young sailors turned their heads and could not bear to look at it anymore, both saddened by the deaths of Santos and his son and Miller, and humiliated by their captain.
Gogio grinned terribly again, and made a gesture, and the six-barreled Vulcan stopped firing. Then, he patted Antonio on the shoulder and said, "That's right, if you express your stance earlier, these people won't die." Alas, what a good lad......"
He looked at the bodies of Santos Jr. and Miller and sighed with a look of pity.
"If you let me go back, I'll raise money right away! No one must be killed again......" Antonio's tone bordered on pleading.
"That's not going to work, you're here to figure it out!"
Gogio motioned for his men to take a satellite phone and hand it to Antonio, and said, "Now, you can call." Remember, if you imply that the other party call the police, I will kill everyone on board!"
Antonio just nodded, he didn't have the courage to say a "no" anymore.
The first call was made to his second son in the United States, and Antonio told him not to ask anything and raise as much money as possible!
The second call was made to his eldest son, who was in Rio de Janeiro, and he was asked to immediately start selling off the fleet and the family's newly purchased mansion.
Antonio can't care about anything, saving everyone's lives is the first priority right now, the death of Santos and his son has made him extremely heartbroken, and such a tragedy must not happen again!
Thinking of this, he felt guilty in his heart. He has bought mansions in the wealthy neighborhoods of Rio de Janeiro and in Europe, and the old brothers still live in the slums. If it weren't for the purpose of raising money for his son's marriage, old Santos would not have gone on this boat with him when he was old......
An hour later, the satellite phone rang, and Antonio answered it with trembling hands, and the voice of his second son came from the phone.
He was very disappointed in the results, and the second child could only raise $10 million in cash by all means. Only counting on the boss, Antonio dialed the eldest son again.
"I'm sorry, Dad... I contacted a number of people, and at most I was willing to bid $20 million for our fleet, and Rossinia's house was crushed to $1.5 million by the gang...... Daddy, what are you doing with all this money? What the hell is going on......
Antonio did not answer, and the satellite phone slipped on the deck. His heart was cold, he could only raise more than 30 million US dollars, which was far from the 100 million asked by Gogio, could he let everyone go?
"Oh my God, you don't have long eyes!" the old captain cried out in despair.
Gogio looked at him coldly, and suddenly grinned: "I don't care what method you use, anyway—" He raised his wrist to look at his watch, and continued: "It's 19:21, and by this time tomorrow, Mr. Dzoco must have twenty million dollars in his account! You can raise the rest of the money in three days!"
Antonio stared at him blankly, desperate, unable to say a word.
Gogio smiled cruelly and said, "Remember, tomorrow at 19:21, if I don't see the money, I will kill one person every hour! Your old brothers are all in this boat, right? I heard that your most beloved youngest son is also among them, right? Your Excellency should not let them die because of you, hahaha!"
His laughter can send people into the deepest nightmares. Moreover, he knew the situation on the ship well, which showed that it was premeditated.
Antonio shuddered and turned pale. He himself is not afraid of death, but if he can't keep his most beloved third son, what will he look like when he dies in the future to see his deceased wife who has been dead for many years?
Also, Shi Xiaofeng, a year-old friend from China, must have also fallen into the hands of drug dealers, if there is anything wrong with him, how can he explain to his old friend Shi Yuntian?
Antonio's entire fleet, from the pilot ship to the stern boat, has been controlled by drug traffickers. Shi Xiaofeng was the only one who had been sleeping in his room without being discovered by drug dealers, and he was not aware of the great changes on the ship.