Chapter 703: Pursuit at Sea
Ye Tian was stunned for a moment, looked at the port outside, and said: "The roads here are also accessible in all directions, and the surrounding coast can't stop him from going ashore, he can easily slip away, do you have any way to trap him on that ship?" ”
John smiled and said, "Stupid, you just need to use your brain a little, and you'll understand." Pen Fun Pavilion www.biquge.info"
Ye Tian frowned and thought about it carefully, couldn't help but be shocked, and said, "You mean, wait for the ship to set off, and then do it on the sea?" ”
John nodded and replied: "That's right, when the boat reaches the middle of the sea, he can't fly in front of the village or behind the store, and there is no helicopter on that ship, as long as we control the lifeboat, he will be trapped on this ship!" ”
Ye Tian was stunned for a while before he said: "This method is good, but what I'm worried about is that what if he jumps over the wall in a hurry and captures the crew as a hostage?" It is with this in mind that I want to do it in the port, so as not to hurt the innocent. ”
John replied, "So let's secretly inform the crew, and let them all hide once they are on the sea, so that they don't find them, and then come out until we catch him." Even if an accident happens, it is an inevitable sacrifice, because if you let him escape, more people will die at his hands in the future! ”
Ye Tian frowned, although John's reasoning was correct, he always felt that it was still a little unbearable to risk the lives of dozens of crew members.
John also saw Ye Tian's thoughts, and he said lightly: "Think about your friend who died tragically, if you let him escape, I'm afraid your other friends will also suffer." ”
Ye Tian's pupils shrank, and when he thought of Caltex who was in a different place, he couldn't help but be angry, slapped his thigh and said, "Okay, just do as you say, then we have to find a way to get on the ship, and we can't let him find out." ”
John pointed to a table next to him and said, "Look at the people at the table over there, they're the crew of the Mary, it's up to you." ”
John is an introvert and unsociable person, while Ye Tian is the opposite, his mouth is very sharp, so this kind of intelligence is what he is good at.
So Ye Tian ordered a few bottles of good wine, took the wine bottles and walked to the table of the sailors and sat down, and mingled with these people in a few words, men's communication is nothing more than two things, one is cigarette and the other is wine.
An hour later, there were only empty bottles of good wine, and the sailors were drunk and helped each other out of the tavern, and they all said goodbye to Ye Tian warmly before leaving, obviously they had become friends.
Ye Tian returned to his seat and said: "I have inquired clearly, there was indeed an Oriental on their ship a few days ago, Liu Dezhu made up as a cripple man in his sixties, and gave them a large sum of money, saying that he was going to smuggle to Africa to find relatives, and the captain was greedy for money, so he agreed to let him live in a warehouse on the ground floor, he stayed on the ship every day, and he never got off the ship in the past three days, and he was still on the ship." ”
In places like South America, smuggling is a very common thing, even if it is not a professional smuggling vessel, it will occasionally carry a few smugglers, because the price is too tempting, under the desire for profit, even drugs and arms dare to smuggle, let alone smuggling, so this is also a very common situation, and there is nothing suspicious.
John nodded, "Then how do we get on board?" ”
Ye Tian said with a smile: "Swaggering on the boat, don't hide it, because we have a regular passport, and I promised to give the captain a little more money, let him help us keep the secret, and don't let Liu Destick know, don't worry, they will take us on the boat tomorrow night, and we will rest for a night tonight to recuperate." ”
John thought for a moment and said, "Well, I'll guard the ship tonight, I'm afraid that if he gets the wind and slips away, you go to rest, and tomorrow during the day you go to watch, and we take turns to take turns and he won't have a chance to escape." ”
Ye Tian thought that this was also a very safe measure, so after eating, Ye Tian found a hotel to open a room and sleep, while John drove not far from the Mary and monitored the cargo ship in the car.
The next day, Ye Tian came to the port to replace John, and John went back to rest. At the end of the day, except for the sailors coming in and out, as well as the workers loading and unloading the goods, Liu Debang did not show his head, and it is estimated that he did not dare to step out of the cargo hold before the cargo ship departed, after all, he is now the target of hunting all over South America.
In the evening, several sailors brought Ye Tian John onto the cargo ship as agreed, and the two met the captain and the first mate, and then Ye Tian gave each of them a large sum of money to keep it a secret.
Money makes the devil grind, and this iron law is common everywhere in the world. When the captain saw a wad of green bills, he smiled and arranged Ye Tian and John into a VIP lounge.
Ye Tian also bought a sailor and asked him to pretend to go to the warehouse to deliver food, but in fact, he inquired about Liu Deba's situation for Ye Tian, and the sailor reported after returning that Liu Deba's stick was still hiding in the bottom warehouse and did not escape.
Ye Tian breathed a sigh of relief, "This bastard has finally fallen into our hands, just wait for the ship to leave the port early tomorrow morning, he will be unable to fly." ”
But for the sake of insurance, the two of them still took turns guarding the exit this night, for fear that Liu Debao would slip away while they were asleep.
When the day finally came, with a long whistle, the Mary pulled anchor and sailed out of the harbor and headed out for the vast sea.
After the cargo ship, Ye Tian and John began to discuss the specific details of the arrest in the VIP lounge.
On the table was a structural map of the whole ship, which was obtained from the first mate, Ye Tian pointed to the map and said: "Liu Destick is in the innermost cargo compartment on this floor, and the safest place for the whole ship is in the sealed cabin on the third floor, and after the cargo ship leaves the coastline for a day and a night, we let the crew hide in this sealed cabin, and then we go directly into the cargo compartment to arrest people." ”
John thought for a moment and said, "I ambush you in the shadows, you go in and lure him out, this warehouse is spacious, it's not easy to do it there, we have to sneak up on him in the narrow terrain to have an advantage." ”
Ye Tian nodded, pointed to the map and said, "Then let's do it here." "That location is at the exit on the second floor.
After the plan was decided, the two breathed a sigh of relief, lying on the sofa and drinking wine, waiting for the cargo ship to stay away from the coastline, only when the ship reached the center of the sea before starting, Liu Debao could not jump into the sea and escape.
Originally, this plan was under Ye Tian's control, because they had obtained the president's confidential information, they had already seized the opportunity, and Liu Debao didn't know that they had secretly gotten on the same boat, and this arrest should be nine out of ten.
But people are not as good as heaven, and things will always happen unexpectedly.
Just twenty-four hours after the Mary went to sea, it was the morning when Ye Tian and the others were about to make a move, a big storm suddenly appeared ahead, and the weather on the sea was rapidly changing and unpredictable.
When the captain learned the news, he immediately came to the cockpit, picked up the telescope and looked into the distance, and couldn't help but be shocked when he saw it, and immediately ordered: "Turn the bow of the ship and return at full speed!" ”
Ye Tian and John stepped forward and asked, "What happened?" ”
The captain didn't answer, and directly handed the telescope to Ye Tian, Ye Tian picked it up and took a look, only to see that about ten nautical miles ahead, dark clouds suddenly appeared covering the sky, the sky was shrouded in rolling dark clouds, and faintly you could see thunder and lightning flashing in the dark clouds, the scene was very terrifying, like the end of the world.
Ye Tian was also startled and handed the telescope to John, and asked, "Mr. Captain, how strong do you expect this storm to be?" ”
The captain wiped the sweat from his forehead, and said with a serious face: "I am afraid that the intensity of a storm of this scale is above the fourteenth level, that is, a storm of typhoon strength, our ship may not be able to withstand this kind of big waves, and we must return to the harbor as soon as possible to take refuge, otherwise there is a danger of capsizing." ”
The first mate drew a cross in the air with his hand and said, "May the merciful Lord bless us." The storm is moving very fast, we are far from the coast, captain, I estimate that within two hours the storm will catch up with us, and it will be very difficult for us to escape. ”
After John saw it, he also said with a serious face: "The speed of this cargo ship is less than ten knots, and the speed of this storm is more than one hundred and twenty kilometers per hour!" I'm afraid it will only take an hour to catch up with us, and the captain will have to change course. ”
The captain replied, "I know it too, but now the situation is urgent, and we have no other place to take refuge, and the nearest island to us has a day's voyage, and it is too late to pray, so we can only pray to God." ”
At this time, the first mate's eyes suddenly flashed, and he said: "Captain, I know that there is an island where we can take refuge, just to the southeast, a distance of twelve nautical miles, if we are lucky, we can just escape to the island for refuge." ”
The captain frowned, then shook his whole body and said, "What you said ...... Ghost Island?! No, that island is too dangerous, and going there is tantamount to death! Although this storm is very big, after all, we are also a 10,000-ton cargo ship, and if we go down the wind, there is still a certain chance of escape, but if we land on that island, it is equivalent to a dead end! ”
When Ye Tian heard this, he couldn't help but ask curiously, "Ghost Island?" What kind of island is this? Could it be that there really are ghosts on the island? ”
The captain replied with a look of fear: "I don't know what exactly is on that island, but there is a legend more than a hundred years ago that there are terrible ghosts living on that island, and as long as you pass by the ships near this island, you will be charmed by the ghosts on the island, and then the crew will all disappear, leaving only an empty ship." When I was a child, I saw with my own eyes an empty ship like this, and nothing on board was touched, but more than a hundred crew members all disappeared inexplicably, and there is still no whereabouts, that island is too terrible to go! ”
John also frowned, and said: "I have also heard legends about ghost ships and ghost islands on the side of Tianzhu Sea back then, but most of them are just stories, and some of the so-called ghost islands are just pirate strongholds, in order to prevent others from approaching, deliberately made up lies to scare people, I don't believe that there are really any ghosts in this world." Captain, take refuge on that island, I don't want to feed the fish. ”
The captain immediately shook his head like a rattle, and said resolutely: "Absolutely not, I would rather face the storm than go to that island!" Can't go! ”
The first mate hurriedly said: "Captain, when is it now, do you still believe these nonsense, we have sailed in this sea area all our lives, and we have never seen any ghosts, it is just a scaring story, now it is important to save your life, don't hesitate, it will be too late to hesitate!" ”
The captain sighed, "You young people haven't seen that empty ship with your own eyes, you don't know ......"
He was about to tell the story of the year, but Ye Tian immediately took out a few rolls of dollar bills to shut him up, these rolls of dollar bills were at least 100,000 US dollars, which was comparable to his income for more than a year.
"Go, if we are safely saved, how about I pay you another hundred thousand dollars when we get back to land?" Ye Tian knew that at this time, only the US dollar was the most convincing.
Sure enough, after the captain saw the dollar bill, a pair of eyes began to glow, and he was still hesitating in his mouth, but he had already taken the money with both hands, then nodded and slapped his thigh, "Okay, today Lao Tzu will fight, everyone immediately move towards the southeast at full speed!" ”
When the crew heard this, they mustered up their motivation and turned the bow of the ship to the southeast, although there was a terrible legend of Ghost Island, but the storm behind was even more terrifying.