Leaf, who had been a soldier in an armed group of warlords in Somalia, had been wiped out by the larger warlords who had been annihilated during the melee, and like the rest of the soldiers, he had fled back to his hometown with a gun, a small seaside village called the Alamo. ^//^

The Alamo was poor, and the villagers had a hard time living by planting a few acres of thin fields and fishing in the Gulf of Aden. Unable to stand this impoverished and hopeless life, Leaf assembles a gang of a dozen outlaws and follows the example of the others in the unwarranted business of piracy.

It is not true to say that pirates don't need capital, at the very least, they need to have weapons and motorboats that can shuttle the seas, otherwise they can't get close to those merchant ships. Leaf's gang only had a second-hand motorboat that needed to be powered by oars, and a few broken guns, so at each time they acted, they had to team up with pirates from other places, scrape together the numbers for others, and get a piece of the pie.

Leaf had always fantasized that he would one day make a fortune and buy a few brand new speedboats, complete with a dozen AK47s and a few bazookas, and then he would be able to challenge the passing merchant ships alone, and not share everything he could grabbed. Of course, it would be even more beautiful if I could be richer, buy a few large merchant ships, and stop on the shore every day to grab enough for myself......

Leaf dreams every day, but never imagined that one day it would come true. More than a month ago, a European found out about his name and traveled thousands of miles to this small village of Alamo, where birds do not lay eggs, and directly approached Lief and asked him if he would like to take on a business.

At first sight of the European, Leaf's first thought was that he must have been the owner of a ship he had robbed, and that he had come to him to ask him for his guilt. Unexpectedly, the European said the exact opposite, he wanted Lief to hijack a ship.

"Sir, you mean you want me to rob a boat?" Leaf stammered, the expression on his face very ugly. Think about it, if a cat came running and suggested that a mouse steal the owner's cheese, would the mouse's expression be good?

The European nodded and said, "Yes, I will pay you." ”

"So······ Will the seized ship be handed over to you for disposal? Lief asked, he guessing that perhaps the Europeans had taken a fancy to the cargo of a certain ship and wanted him to help grab it. [].

"No, no, no, we don't want anything from the boat or anything on it. All I need is for you to keep the ship under control and keep it from leaving.

Of course, it would be ideal if you could blow up the ship and let it sink to the bottom of the sea. "European humane.

Leaf, who was also a veteran pirate, shook his head when he heard this request from the Europeans, and said, "Sir, it is not possible to destroy the ship, as it will incur the revenge of the shipowner." We usually only need the ship's belongings and demand a ransom, and as for the ship, we will definitely return it to the owner. ”

"Hmmm······" The Europeans thought about it and felt that there was some truth in Leaf's statement, and from his own side, he didn't want things to be too big, otherwise it would be difficult to handle if Interpol was alarmed. The commission he received was simply to find a group of pirates to delay a certain ship for a while, and there was no need for extraneous complications.

"Okay, just do as you say, what I'm asking for is to delay the ship with you for at least 15 days." The Europeans said to Lief, "This matter, $100,000, half of it upfront, half of it afterwards, what do you think?" ”

$100,000!

There was a rush of ecstasy in Leaf's heart. The profession of piracy sounds majestic, but it is not so easy to make money. Most of the time, third-rate pirates like Leaf do not dare to hijack ships, because the goal of a ship is so large that there is no place to hide it, so they can only put on a posture of living and dying with the ship, forcing the ship's owner to negotiate the ransom of the ship. But in this way, their identities are exposed, and it is still very easy for those rich and powerful shipowners to take revenge on a few pirates. …,

For this reason, pirates like Leaf often simply rushed to the merchant ship, snatched the cash and valuables from the crew, and then fled far away. No one would go out of their way for the little cash they had on hand, and that would make the pirates less risky.

When the risk is reduced, the benefit is bound to be reduced. When the crew goes to sea, it is impossible to bring too much cash, and as for the valuables such as watches that they carry with them, it is difficult for the pirates to sell them after they are robbed, so they can only sell them to some professional people who are responsible for selling the stolen goods at a low price. Therefore, these pirates do not actually have a high income, that is, they can barely make ends meet.

Now, a big financier suddenly fell from the sky in front of Leaf, a mouth is a reward of $100,000, and all that needs to be done is to seize a boat. If you don't take into account the ransom demand, it will be much less difficult to arrest the ship. It even occurred to Leaf that he could force the crew to turn the ship in the opposite direction and release all the fuel on board, so that a delay of ten days and months should be no problem. By the time the shipowner heard the news, they had already flown away, where could the shipowner go to find them?

"But ······" Leaf hesitated for a moment, but finally raised the question in his mind, you know, he was a very inquisitive pirate: "Sir, why did you come to us to do this?" ”

The subtext of Lief is that there are many pirate gangs that are more powerful than Talif on the Somali coast, so why don't the Europeans go to these powerful factions and find his head? If you don't figure this issue out, Lief won't dare to take on this business, what if it's a trap?

The European smiled slightly and said, "I don't want too many people to know about this, I think it is more appropriate to choose you to do this." ”

Lief roughly understood that the Europeans meant that he Lief was not famous, which was both a disadvantage and an advantage. The advantage is that what he does is not too noticeable. The bigger the gang, the easier it is to be targeted by others, and a gang like Lief, whoever is well fed will not pay attention.

"Ok, ok, I see. Sir, don't worry, we are absolutely trustworthy in what we do, and you don't have to worry about us divulging our customers' secrets. Leaf spoke fluently, as if he had been taking such orders since he was born. In fact, he just learned this rhetoric from American blockbusters, and the black bosses in those blockbusters often talk like this, which Leaf thinks is very cool.

The Europeans left $50,000 as a deposit, and then it disappeared.

Leaf scooped up the money and first gave 500 to each of the minions who were with him, and let them spend a lot of money on it. Then, he bought a few brand-new motorboats and a batch of weapons through the black arms market, and began a noisy sea training with his minions.

His so-called sea training is actually driving a speedboat on the sea and having a good time. Previously, due to financial constraints and the fact that the only speedboat was slower than a cow, they had long since suffocated. Now that you have a new boat and can afford barrels and barrels of diesel, why not go and have a dashing look?

When they reached the vast sea, the bandits began to shoot aimlessly, in the name of practicing marksmanship. In this kind of place with wide sea and sky, the target that can strafe is the sea and the sky, and for such targets, they are generally able to hit every shot.

The European had been gone for a month, and there was no news, and Leaf prayed every day that something would happen to the European, so that he could make $50,000 for nothing, and not have to go on a mission to rob ships. Unfortunately, nothing happened to the European, and he reappeared a month later. This time, he brought photos of the target ship, its route, and the estimated time it would take to pass through the area. ..., needless to say, the Europeans asked Liv to deal with the ship Hanyuan, which transported the equipment of the Equatorial Power Plant in Goma. This European is actually a professional broker, and the person who entrusted him with this lack of ethics is Khedira, the sales director of the German company AMK.

Khedira had been planning this situation as early as last year's Frankfurt exhibition. He asked Nuzama, Goma's industry minister, to link the power plant project to the Independence Day celebrations, and then tricked the president into inviting dignitaries from other African countries to attend the ceremony. Subsequently, Khedira found a professional broker who specialized in inciting war in Africa, and asked the broker to contact Somali pirates and rob ships transporting Hanhua equipment at sea, so that the equipment could not arrive on time.

As long as this step can be completed, Khedira can instruct media reporters to hype it up, accusing Chinese companies of lacking the supply capacity and failing to deliver on time. He believes that Goma has made such a big pomp, and the equipment will not be in place at that time, which is equivalent to the guests coming, but the dishes are not coming, such an embarrassing scene will definitely impress all the guests.

As for the idea that a senior executive in a German company would be involved with pirates, this is not Khedira's concern. Europeans have a long tradition of being pirates, and even though they look like gentlemen today, they still retain the pirate nature of their ancestors. Is it strange that the children and grandchildren of the older generation of pirates have joined forces with the new generation of pirates?

Leaf and his men stayed at sea for two days, and finally ushered in the freighter appointed by the European brokers. He immediately used the wireless walkie-talkie to call several motorcycles over, and rushed towards the Hanyuan No. 4 ship with a roar.

"Brothers, that's the ship we're going to plunder, rush up and take control of it! $50,000 is in hand! Leef stood on one of the motorboats at the front, holding on to the handlebars of a seat in one hand to stabilize his body, and brandished an RPG bazooka in the other, shouting feverishly at the minions.