As the sun sets, a 50,000-ton Handysize bulk carrier slowly leaves the port of Dar es Salaam along the channel and ends in a city in southern China.

The owner of the bulk carrier is a bulk carrier chartering company located in South Africa, which has various types of cargo ships and experienced middle and senior crew members, and has served a large mining trading company for a long time, but it is only a muffled fortune and has no reputation outside the industry, which is the basic situation that Anne told Song Xiaoshuang when she left the dock, as for the more specific situation, Anne said that someone would come to contact him.

It's just that until the contours of the African continent where the freighter left the port, sailing at a speed close to eighteen knots per hour in the blue western Indian Ocean, Song Xiaoshuang, Zheng Hailing, and Sima Yuru, who were staying on the deck of the stern boat and blowing the sea breeze, did not wait for a single person to come and say something to the three of them.

In addition to the three people who temporarily boarded the ship, there were only dozens of crew members working in strict accordance with the procedures on this freighter, and most of the sailors and pilots who could be seen were ordinary sailors and pilots in the deck department, and none of the officers in the engine department were seen, because the three of them were on board late, either staying on the officer deck and staying on the captain's deck, or staying on the pilot's deck, Song Xiaoshuang and the three of them knew that they were just hitchhiking, and they couldn't go to other decks without important things, and they didn't see the senior crew and captain with a few bars on their collars and sleeves.

After all, the freighter is not an ocean-going passenger ship, and other boarding personnel can only stay on the deck of the boat to blow the sea breeze according to the rules, and when the sea breeze blows enough, they will go back to the deck guest cabin to rest.

Ocean freighters also have guest cabins, but there are very few, and the living conditions of the crew of the current ocean freighter are not as good as those of passenger ships, and the conditions are better to allow the crew to watch satellite TV broadcasts, and the communication service is satellite telephone, but the price is expensive. There is no need for no one to use at all, there are no other entertainment facilities at all.

The crew who does not have a shift is either resting in the cabin or blowing the sea breeze on the deck to watch the sea, because the boat deck is a large deck in the stern deck (the boat deck is a lifeboat, the boat deck must be wide enough when it is manufactured, so that the crew can quickly put down the lifeboat to escape when the ship is in distress, except for placing the lifeboat is an empty deck), whether it is a senior crew or an ordinary crew (one water, two water, carpenter) has nothing to do like to stay on the boat deck, Cooks and waiters who don't have shifts are usually on deck, and the chefs listen to the crew's complaints and change the recipes, while the waiters take note of the other crew's requests. Reservations are reserved for different meals for each crew, and the taste of food for the long-term ocean voyage is always changing.

Now there are only three people on the deck of the boat, and the crew members who can go ashore to hang out soon after the freighter leaves the port are either working in shifts or resting in the cabin, and the boring voyage has just begun.

Of course, Song Xiaoshuang and the three of them did not board the ship as trainee sailors, but as staff members of the African Exploration Department of a large mining company, and anyway, Anne obtained a number of documents for offshore docking to show that Song Xiaoshuang and the three of them were employees of the mining company, and it was reasonable to get a visa to follow the cargo ship leased by the mining company to return to China, and the specific identities were: the mining company's prospecting experts, assistants, and bodyguards of the security experts and assistants in the field.

Of course, Song Xiaoshuang boarded the ship as a bodyguard. In Annie's opinion, the killing aura on Song Xiaoshuang's body is highlighted, which can scare people stupid, and putting away the killing aura is a proper bodyguard image, because experienced old fritters, especially old fritters from military backgrounds, only need to have a little contact with Song Xiaoshuang. will vaguely feel the faint mercenary aura from Song Xiaoshuang's body (Song Xiaoshuang can say that the killing aura on his body is like hemp, it is difficult not to be noticed by people with relevant experience), Song Xiaoshuang has no way, it is indeed because he has killed too many people recently, and the killing aura is too heavy, and it depends on time and the polishing and understanding of practicing the exercises to clean up his heart and hide his bloody aura. It is still recognized by the identity of the bodyguard of the African exploration department of the mining company given by Anne, and gives him the identity of a young scholar and expert, although the strength is enough, but it does not look like it is not good.

Zheng Hailing, who has recovered from various human experiments and gunshot wounds in Parker Labs. Only need to pay a little attention to the strong atmosphere of the scholar, a proper image of an experienced expert, Anne's identification document in advance is a mineralogist in the exploration department of the mining company, Zheng Hailing pretends to be a mineralogist with few flaws, as a high-achieving student of the police university, a double master's degree and rich knowledge and experience are real, although it is a study of virology rather than a study of ore, but it does not prevent Zheng Hailing from pretending to be an expert in prospecting.

Sima Yuru, who pretended to be an assistant to prospecting experts, was originally an intelligence officer of the military intelligence system, so he naturally acted like something, because he did not have the same high knowledge as Zheng Hailing at first glance, Anne gave a set of staff of the African Exploration Department of the mining company, specifically the identity documents of the expert assistant.

Although Sima Yuru did not get more specific information from Anne in person, Anne once said that such an arrangement was handled by the Heterogeneous Commission, and did not say much else, and Sima Yuru still understood the subtext.

The matter involving Song Xiaoshuang's return to China should be in charge of the heterogeneous investigation committee, there is nothing to do with the military intelligence system of her superior department, from the beginning of Mauritania to the Air France passenger plane, the task that the superior asked her to complete is to monitor Song Xiaoshuang's every move until Song Xiaoshuang returns to China, because of the special and complex nature of the hidden intelligence front, Sima Yuru has never contacted her direct superiors in a special way, since Anne has made relevant arrangements, and let Sima Yuru follow Song Xiaoshuang's side, She doesn't have to guess how many departments are involved behind it, she just needs to play the identity of an expert assistant until she returns to China.

In fact, following Song Xiaoshuang all the way, Sima Yuru knew a lot of hidden intelligence clues that he didn't know before, some of which were still first-hand information that few people knew and had great value. Sima Yuru himself is a dormant agent who will withdraw from the relevant intelligence system in accordance with the procedure when he returns to China, knowing a lot of first-hand information with great value, which will make the superiors have a lot of bright spots in the overall assessment, which is very beneficial to Sima Yuru, the reality is like this, with cruelty, you let the superiors pay attention to you, you have to speak with valuable information.

In fact, Song Xiaoshuang's tone is very strict, and he is extremely rigorous in doing things, taking into account the particularity of Sima Yuru's intelligence work, and giving Sima Yuru some first-hand intelligence clues, some of which Liang Li didn't know in advance, so that Liang Li was dissatisfied. felt that Song Xiaoshuang was stupid, and he was a little annoyed with Song Xiaoshuang.

Of course, Song Xiaoshuang understood what Liang Li thought, so he asked Liang Li to "comfort" Liang Li on the wooden fishing boat, so that Liang Li really passed the queen's addiction, and asked Song Xiaoshuang to do what he loved to do this and that, but unfortunately Liang Li's excessive demands made it difficult for Song Xiaoshuang to parry, of course, men's body structure is different from women, eleven times a night Lang is just a legend, no matter how good the physical fitness is, it has become tired in the face of excessive requirements. forced Song Xiaoshuang to jump into the sea through the wooden plank of the cabin, and performed a funny scene in front of everyone on the boat, which made people laugh and couldn't help but feel nonsensical.

Jerry and the others, who were on the fish boat at the time, didn't think that Song Xiaoshuang couldn't deal with sharks, knowing that Song Xiaoshuang deliberately dived into the water to make Liang Li anxious, saying that looking for shark repellent and spear guns was just for Liang Li, and no one really did it. Only Liang Li, who is the heroine, did not come back to her senses for a while, and was really startled by Song Xiaoshuang, tears came out, and only then did she realize that she was a little stunned, and she felt embarrassed that she did not ask Song Xiaoshuang too much to restore the image of a wise and capable female man.

"Still thinking about her, right? It's a pity that her personality is too strong. Saying that they would not go back to China."

Zheng Hailing, who looked capable in light yellow field work clothes, stood on the deck with both hands on the railing of the boat deck, staring at Song Xiaoshuang, who was also dressed and did not speak, but looked at the sea water in a daze. The voice is soft, and the tone reveals the affection of a mature and wise woman for her beloved.

Zheng Hailing is not stupid, Sima Yuru is almost inseparable from Song Xiaoshuang, and now he is still the assistant of his own fictitious expert, standing a few meters away holding on to the railing and looking at the blue Indian Ocean, after the three of them got on the boat, they were taken by an English-speaking Arab waiter to two cabins adjacent to the crew deck of the stern building, and told the three captains that two cabins of different specifications had been arranged, Zheng Hailing and Sima Yuru used a slightly larger one, and Song Xiaoshuang used a slightly smaller one.

Up to now, Zheng Hailing had no chance to stay alone with Song Xiaoshuang and say something private, the three of them stood on the deck of the boat and looked at the scenery of the Indian Ocean at sunset, of course Zheng Hailing couldn't say something that made Sima Yuru feel embarrassed, and found that Song Xiaoshuang was silent as if in a daze, Zheng Hailing couldn't help but think of Liang Li, who was separated from the three of them, and said it after thinking about it.

"Who do you say will come to the deck?"

Of course, Song Xiaoshuang was not in a daze, but in his mind thinking repeatedly, hearing Zheng Hailing put down the posture of a scholar and said affectionate words as a woman, Song Xiaoshuang turned his back against the railing, looked at Zheng Hailing with a shallow smile on his face, and then glanced at Sima Yuru not far away, his expression was relaxed, and he spoke in a hearty voice. On the freighter above the ocean, the sky is higher and the sea is bigger, the sea and the sky are colorful, and the scenery under the sunset is infinite, and Song Xiaoshuang is actually in a good mood when he takes the freighter for the first time.

Noticing that Song Xiaoshuang mentioned himself in his words, Sima Yuru's eyes returned to normal after being stunned, holding the railing with one hand and sweeping his eyes over Zheng Hailing and Song Xiaoshuang, and said in a bold and low voice: "I guess it is the people of the engine department, the sailors in the deck department seem to be black, Arab and South African white, I didn't see an Asian or Chinese with an eastern face, I just asked the Arab waiter, he said that the senior crew is basically white South African, but the captain is Italian, There are several Asians in the marine engineering department, among which there seems to be interns and the like, and the waiter does not know the specific situation, this waiter himself is an intern who has just been on the ship, although he can walk around, but he does not know much about the origin of the crew on the freighter. ”

Zheng Hailing didn't speak, just nodded slightly, she still agreed with Sima Yuru's words.

The crew is divided into grades, and according to Anne, even if someone picks up the three of them on the ship, it will not be an old sailor who has been on the ship for a long time and has really served the ship for a long time, Zheng Hailing also narrowed the scope of the person to the trainee crew who temporarily boarded the ship, and the monotonous and boring "free" senior crew members who have obtained various crew certificates on the freighter ship are also common to work on an ocean-going freighter for half a year or a few months before getting off the ship, from the boatswain to the third officer, the second officer, the first mate and even the captain of such a level of senior crew, Since the Arab waiter said that the senior crew members were all white South Africans, and the shift crew that the deck department could see did not see anyone with an oriental face, Zheng Hailing naturally agreed with Sima Yuru's guess.

Of course, Sima Yuru and Zheng Hailing already knew that Song Xiaoshuang had that weird spiritual power detection ability, and he paid attention to the surrounding environment wherever he went, not to mention that the freighter was a collection of steel materials, and there were steel plates painted with anti-rust paint everywhere, which did not prevent Song Xiaoshuang from observing the specific people on the entire ship, within the effective radius, his spiritual power could see what was behind through the wall, since Song Xiaoshuang asked so, obviously he had already guessed, guessed who was the person with suspicious tendencies, Sima Yuru and Zheng Hailing simply answered Song Xiaoshuang's question.

There is a strange person like Song Xiaoshuang on the ship, even if it is a 10,000-ton freighter, it is difficult to hide from being discovered by Song Xiaoshuang, the total length of the 50,000-ton bulk carrier is less than 200 meters, only more than 180 meters, and Song Xiaoshuang's spiritual power exploration radius reaches 90 meters, when leaving the dock and boarding the ship from the gangway, through the exploration of spiritual power, Song Xiaoshuang basically already knows what people are on the ship, until now Song Xiaoshuang said, obviously Song Xiaoshuang did not suddenly think of it on a whim, but the result of his careful consideration, For Song Xiaoshuang's ability to be ridiculously strong, Zheng Hailing and Sima Yuru are deeply touched.

As soon as Sima Yuru's words fell, Zheng Hailing nodded slightly, a crew member of the marine engineering department wearing orange engineering department overalls, wearing a hard hat on his head, and holding a record book in his hand, walked from the crew deck passage to the boat deck, and walked straight to Song Xiaoshuang's side, and the moment they saw the crew clearly, Zheng Hailing and Sima Yuru both flashed a big question mark in their minds, because this marine engineering crew member was actually a capable Chinese woman! (To be continued......)

PS: There was a female engineer crew member on the freighter, which surprised Zheng Hailing and Sima Yuru!