Chapter 179: Crossfire
Fu Tianlai said a few words to Jonny, and his face suddenly became grim!
After a pause, Fu Tianlai said: "The kidnapper of my son and his wife is the largest pirate gang, and they have already contacted and negotiated with my nephew Jonny, and their negotiator has admitted his identity!" ”
Zhou Xuan gritted his teeth and pondered for a while, then asked him, "Did they mention Yingying and these people?" If it falls into their hands, they should propose a ransom, the main thing for these pirates is business, it is to ask for a ransom, if not, I estimate that Yingying and they are in danger, but they have not fallen into the hands of pirates! ”
Fu Tianlai's brows were furrowed very tightly, and he said in a deep voice: "Jonny is very experienced, he is very good at business negotiations, of course he will knock on the side to detect this matter, but the negotiators of the Somali sailors did not mention this matter at all, the hostages are only the crew members on the ocean liner and my son and his wife, originally the pirates did not know the identity of my son, but there were a few scared crew members on the ocean liner who confessed, so the pirates delayed the negotiation for a few days, because they were also discussing how to set the price!" ”
This Zhou Xuan understands that strange goods can be lived, the second-generation head of the Fu consortium, this is worth a lot of money, how much ransom should be not easily determined, more is not afraid, less is not cost-effective, tying such a vote is far more profitable than tying other ordinary hostages dozens of times!
However, there is also an advantage, that is, Fu Jue and his wife are not in danger of life at least temporarily, and their situation is even much better than that of ordinary crews.
"That's what I thought too!" Fu Tianlai frowned and said, "It's just that Yingying has lost contact with me for four days, if it wasn't in the hands of the Somali sailors, where would it be?" ”
Brooklyn asked Gao Yuzhen to translate for him, thought about it, and said: "Mr. Fu, I have carried out many missions in the waters west of the Gulf of Aden before, and I am familiar with that area, which is the range of activities of Somali sailors, and I estimate that it is very likely that your granddaughter will be stranded on those desert islands!" ”
Fu Tianlai was stunned and asked, "How can you be so sure?" Can't they be on the Somali coastline? Besides, if there is no connection, how can you be sure that they will not fall into other pirate gangs? ”
Brooklyn replied with a smile: "Mr. Fu, among Miss Fu's twenty mercenaries, at least seven of me are my former comrades-in-arms, and their abilities are not something that ordinary pirates can deal with. And the place where they lost contact with you is the western part of the Gulf of Aden, in this area, except for Somali sailors, other pirate gangs have not reached the distance of crime, because it is more than two hundred nautical miles away from the coast, and no other pirate gang has come forward to negotiate a ransom, which means that Miss Fu's team has a great possibility that it did not fall into the hands of pirates, I estimate that after the exchange of fire with pirates in the sea, the ship was damaged and the communication equipment was lost, this result is the most likely! ”
Zhou Xuan also felt that Brooklyn's thinking was very reasonable, if the pirates in this area of Somalia were all organized by refugees and ordinary people, even if they were ruthless, but they did not have strong personal ability, Yingying's skills, he understood very well.
It is better to find a target in the vast sea, Zhou Xuan nodded at Fu Tianlai and said: "I think Brooklyn's words are very reasonable, it is better to go to the desert island in the west of the Gulf of Aden to find it first!" ”
Fu Tianlai thought about it and agreed to this plan, after Gao Yuzhen translated it in English, the yacht master also adjusted the direction, he was still willing, because his yacht was fast, but if he encountered a large number of fishing boats and speedboat pirates, it was also very troublesome, if it was surrounded, bullets and shells were faster than his speedboat, and the possibility of encountering pirates was much less when running to a distance of hundreds of nautical miles, after all, the general pirate gang did not have such a strong range of activities.
The distance of the voyage just now was only twenty or thirty nautical miles of the coastline, and the pirates who encountered them were probably the greatest, and the pirates who first encountered the fishing boat were obviously a small organization that did not enter the stream, and fled as soon as they saw a bad situation.
After sailing for two hours, the distance from the coast had reached one hundred and fifty nautical miles, and the sea was vast on all sides, and there was no trace of land.
Zhou Xuan actually didn't really go to the deep sea, he used to be at the seaside in Chongkou, even if he took a boat, he never left the coast within twenty miles, and later after he went to New York with Fu Ying, he practiced diving a few times off the coast of New York, but they were only twenty or thirty miles away from the coast, not far, and this time he really entered the depths of the vast sea.
Among several people, only Gao Yuzhen was really afraid, and when she encountered the pirate firefight, she even fell on the deck of the speedboat in embarrassment and trembled.
After moving forward for another hour at a speed of more than 70 knots, Brooklyn measured the direction with a locator, adjusting the direction as he went, and after encountering the fishing boat pirates, he never encountered pirates again, and Gao Yuzhen's nervous expression slowly relaxed.
Thomas looked through his binoculars, then pointed ahead and said, "There's an island ahead!" ”
Several people immediately perked up, and they all sat up straight and looked in the direction pointed by Thomas, and on the vast coastline, only a small black dot was faintly visible, and they couldn't see it at all if they didn't pay attention.
This distance is estimated to be at least more than ten miles.
The yacht master slowed down, and at this time, Fu Tianlai received a call from Jonny again, Jonny revealed that the other party to the negotiation showed a video video, which showed Fu Jue's wife and part of the crew, and the hostages were safe for the time being, but the other party insisted on the ransom of one billion US dollars, which was also the highest ransom since the Somali pirate kidnapping, which caused a lot of attention from all sides, so both sides were very cautious.
Jonny still couldn't get the slightest information from the other party's mouth that had anything to do with Fu Ying's group.
Fu Tianlai put down the satellite phone and looked in front again, the shape of the island was already very clear, and the light was full of rocks, as if a rock was sticking out of the sea.
The closer the yacht gets, the larger and wider the shape of the rocks becomes.
"The island is a dead island, about 1,000 square meters in size, and it's all rocky, so there are no plants or animals to survive," Brooklyn said.
The yacht master went around the island according to Brooklyn's requirements, and Thomas and Zhou Xuan and several other people carefully looked at the barren rock island with binoculars, and after making sure that there was no one on it, they asked the yacht master to continue walking.
When I found the second island, it was already half an hour later.
The second island is a small island covering an area of about several kilometers, and the mountains are full of trees, and there is no way to see if there are people on this island from the outside of the island, and it is not convenient to go around the island again.
In this regard, Brooklyn and Thomas have the best experience, the two of them observed with binoculars for a while, and from the observation, no traces of man-made were revealed, but of course, it cannot be concluded that there is no one on this island, because Fu Ying's group of mercenaries are all selected elite veterans, their abilities are not ordinary, and the hidden figure is just pediatrics.
Brooklyn and Thomas were discussing how to move when they suddenly heard a sudden noise.
The yacht master was the first to exclaim!
"There are pirates!"
Zhou Xuan couldn't understand what he said, but looking at his face, he also knew that several people on the yacht immediately bowed down, turned around and looked, there were two speedboats that could carry more than ten people hundreds of meters away, and there were four motorboats near the speedboat, two of which had already outflanked their yacht from left to right.
Brooklyn immediately instructed the yachtsman to quickly lean over to the edge of the island, trying to find a convenient place to pull over, while he grabbed a semi-automatic rifle with Thomas, lay down at the front of the boat, and fired a shot at the approaching motorboat.
Brooklyn's marksmanship was so accurate that it knocked the man in the back seat of the jet ski into the water.
Seeing that the other party had guns, and that the marksmanship was very accurate, the two motorboats immediately made a half-bend, reversed back, and leaned towards the speedboat, and the pirate who had fallen into the water also struggled to swim towards the speedboat.
Brooklyn's shot pierced the right arm of the pirate on the jet ski, and the pirate pulled the speedboat aboard as it approached.
However, because of the exposed fire, the opponents dispersed, and the long guns and short guns also fired.
The opponent's marksmanship is obviously far inferior to Brooklyn, but the victory lies in the large number of people, two boats and four motorboats, scattered to outflank, Zhou Xuan and them are a little at a loss, the gun is shot in the nearby seawater, "snort" straight sound, the bullet is not long-sighted.
There was no terrain to cover up, and Brooklyn could only urge the yacht master to hurry closer to the edge of the island, and only after getting to the island could there be cover.
Originally, like pirates are also more experienced, for the kind of weapons, small boats and boats with few people generally do not touch, these people are not vegetarians, two are worthless, three to hard touch will definitely damage each other, the gains outweigh the losses, pirates like the most is the kind of surrender as soon as the force is intimidated, after hijacking, they only wait to contact the owner to get the ransom.
But just now Brooklyn shot and wounded one of them, provoking the pirate's ferocity, and screaming in all directions.
Thomas took a look at the bazooka, but the yachtsman was flustered at this time, and he was driving so fast that he couldn't stabilize his body, so he couldn't aim.
Fortunately, because the pirates were too fast, and the marksmanship was inaccurate, there were almost no bullets on the yacht, and Zhou Xuan and several people were lying on the deck tightly, but no one was injured.
The yachtsman drove diagonally to the lower beach, with rocks more than ten meters high in front of him, making it impossible to go ashore, and on the left was a beach connected with water and sand, which was the best place to go ashore.
Suddenly, a shell fell in the sea water five or six meters on the right side and exploded, and the sea water and the explosion sound were overwhelming, and the yacht tilted by more than half at once, Gao Yuzhen screamed, if it wasn't for Zhou Xuan's hand to drag her quickly, this time it would have fallen into the sea!
The pirates should be counterattacked with the same ruthlessness, and Brooklyn's first wounding also provoked the pirates' ferocity and fought back more violently.
The pirates actually used rockets first, which is no better than guns, and they all hang up when they are hit.
Fortunately, the pirates were also very afraid of them, because the first shot, such a long distance could accurately hit people, which was not something that ordinary people could do.
Seeing that the situation was critical, Thomas could no longer care about accuracy, and on the undulating yacht, he took a slight look at the direction and launched it.
As expected, the shell exploded in the sea almost ten meters away from the motorboat he was aiming at.
The weapon is the deterrent, and as soon as this cannon was fired, the two happy boats and the four motorboats were twenty or thirty meters away from them, but they still slowly pressed in the form of encirclement, but they did not leave.
Zhou Xuan's ice qi can't hurt people at such a long distance, and if bullets and shells come, there is no way to protect himself, and the only way is to dodge if he can.
But the pirates, fearing their weapons, also gave them a chance to breathe, and the master took advantage of the opportunity to drive the yacht to the beach.
When it ran aground more than ten meters away from the beach, the yacht master jumped off the yacht and ran forward in the sea.
The sea water here is only half a meter deep, Fu Tianlai and the bodyguards, Brooklyn, and Thomas jumped into the water with their own luggage, and Zhou Xuan dragged Gao Yuzhen, but at this time he found that Gao Yuzhen had fainted!
It's really early and late, and it's really dizzy at this time, it's really dizzy!
couldn't throw her down, after Zhou Xuan jumped into the sea, he dragged her off the boat, carried her on his shoulders and ran forward.
At this point, several of them became live targets, and the pirates sped up and gathered around, firing fiercely as they went.
A large area of the beach was empty, without any cover, and at least two hundred meters of running behind the beach were rocks and woods, but on the beach they could only be beaten.
Zhou Xuan glanced back as he ran, the pirates attacked them so fiercely, didn't they want hostages and didn't want to extort a ransom?
It seemed that the pirates really didn't have this idea, and when Zhou Xuan looked back, he realized that the pirates had not fired at their yacht, and suddenly realized that these pirates just wanted their yachts and weapons!
Brooklyn and Thomas were well-trained soldiers with good physical strength and well-trained soldiers, carrying their luggage and running at the front, but the yacht master who got off the boat and ran at the beginning was behind them, Fu Tianlai and his bodyguards were running in the middle, and Zhou Xuan was at the back.
Zhou Xuan gritted his teeth and ran desperately with Gao Yuzhen on his shoulder, the sound of the bullet "swishing" sounded, and the sand around him shot up to the bullet.
Zhou Xuan could only ask the Bodhisattva to bless him in his heart, but the Bodhisattva usually doesn't have long eyes.
When he only ran half the distance on the beach, Zhou Xuan suddenly felt that his right leg was like an electric shock, and a stream of heat quickly collapsed and he fell.
Gao Yuzhen also rolled on the ground with him, and when he lay down on the beach, Zhou Xuan clearly saw the blood on his right thigh.
He's been shot!
(To be continued)