Another four days passed, during which the crew lifted a body from the cabin and threw it into the sea.

The next thing I learned was that death was a common occurrence on such smuggling journeys, and that the conditions in the cabin from the bottom up were very poor, with no fresh water and food, and the temperature and ventilation were so bad that it was difficult to breathe. If a person who is in poor health gets sick at sea, he can only hold on.

On this kind of smuggling boat, you don't expect them to prepare the doctor's medicine for you! But that's not what scares me...... What really makes me feel a little cold is the smuggler crew of these smugglers and their attitude towards people.

The same people, the same kind, were kept in the cabin and were not allowed to come out...... It all makes me feel like the slave trade in those old movies!

This kind of hearing made me feel a little more alienated from the old snake and his men.

But then at dinner, the old snake pulled me to chat, and I couldn't help but ask him: "If the people below die, won't you not be able to receive the money?" Why not give them more food and water? ”

The old snake smiled, his smile was very cold, and he gave me a strange look.

"You are Chinese and do not understand the market." The old snake replied lightly, and then he smoked a cigarette and pointed to the bottom of the cabin with contempt, and said, "These people, dead, are worthless. ”

I deliberately tricked him into some words, but the old snake didn't care, and casually told me a little about the situation in this industry.

Smuggling is a problem that is inevitable anywhere. From the perspective of East Asia, the smuggling of human and snake groups is divided into two waves, one is China's domestic coastal areas, mainly in Fujian.

On the other hand, there are some scattered snakeheads in Southeast Asia.

"We are different from you Chinese." These are the exact words of the old snake.

In the seventies and eighties of the last century, the human snake syndicate in Fujian smuggled many smugglers from the mainland to Southeast Asia. Hong Kong and Macau, and of course Rì Ben and the United States.

It can be said that it was a golden age of smuggling...... It's ridiculous to say, mainly because the country's economy was not developed at that time, it was not open, it was relatively backward in all aspects, and there were few communication channels with the Western world. Most of the smugglers went out with the mentality of going to the West to make a fortune.

To put it in a ridiculous phrase, it was a "seller's market" and the golden age of human smuggling syndicates, and the price of smuggling to the United States was high. And most of them are non-bargaining...... What's more, the money will be paid first, and then the boat will be on board!!

The immediate consequences of such actions are: At that time, almost all the local snake groups lacked the awareness of "after-sales service".

When the people got on the boat, the money was received, and the human snake syndicate usually transported the smugglers like slaves, using the most frugal methods...... The cabin is full of Cypriots, and one more is an extra sum of money! The food of Shimizu is all brought less, because the less goods you can bring, the more people you can bring!!

In that period. The cripple rate of smugglers is very high!

Speaking of this, the old snake seemed to smile and said, "Don't look at the suffocation of people in smuggling boats or car fuel tanks that I said two years ago, these news will make a lot of noise...... In fact, ten or twenty years ago, the number of dead people was many times higher! It's just that the media was not developed at that time, so there was not so much publicity. ”

However, with the nineties of the last century, China's economy took off and its national strength gradually strengthened. Exchanges between China and the Western world are also becoming smoother, and it is no longer difficult to go abroad. Moreover, the country's economic standard has increased, especially the improvement of the living standards of the people in the southeastern coastal areas, and the smuggling of people abroad is not very attractive. During this period, the business of the smuggling snake group was relatively bleak.

It seems to be a joke, and it seems to confirm the truth that "the market dominates everything". The smuggling business has gradually changed from a seller's market to a buyer's market...... It sounds a little ridiculous.

However, in order to attract business, the Human Snake Group has also taken a lot of measures to adapt to the cháo flow.

For example, price movements...... The old snake said that there was even a situation where several companies on the road were fighting for prices and routes...... "It's like your domestic travel companies fighting a price war." ”

Secondly, it is after-sales service!

In recent years, there has been too much propaganda about the smuggling of dead people, so that many people dare not smuggle out of the country, so now the smuggling of people and snakes is taking the method of collecting half of the money first, and then collecting the other half after arriving at the destination safely.

In this way, until the money is confiscated, they will not dare to abuse the smugglers as before. Because when people die, they don't get the final payment!

"But...... The two people who died in the past two days ......," I asked, frowning.

The old snake's eyebrows raised, and there was a hint of cruelty and cunning on his thin face: "I'm talking about your situation in China. We are different from you! ”

He then explained that in many small countries in Southeast Asia, the national economic level is still very backward, and the rules for smuggling business are still the same as those of China more than a decade ago.

That is, collect all the money first, and then get on the boat!

Such a situation also makes these snake smuggling groups in Southeast Asia not care about the life or death of the smugglers...... Anyway, the money has already been received!

"There were Vietnamese people, Indonesian people, and Malaysian people." The old snake said lightly: "They all paid first and then got on the boat." ”

Then he casually mentioned one thing as if inadvertently: there are even some ruthless human snake groups...... After collecting the money, when you arrive at the destination, you will join forces with the local gangsters to make a black and black deed! Sell the people on the boat directly to the local gangsters, and I heard that some people are sold to South American drug plantations! I don't know if I live or die......

Hearing these words, my heart jumped, and I immediately couldn't help but look at the old snake's eyes with a little more meaning.

The old snake laughed, patted his chest, and promised, "Don't worry." I'm very trustworthy! You're a friend. I won't sell your land! ”

Looking at this guy's flickering gaze and somewhat obscene smile, I secretly thought to myself, believe in you to have ghosts!

But then I felt a little more jealous and jealous of these people, and I also had a lot of jǐng when I slept at night, and I was originally close to the crew, but now I am all estranged from these people...... These are real killer guys!

Day by day, the ship went north. It's getting less hot, and it's even cooler in the mornings and evenings!

I don't know if it was because I was lucky, we were all calm along the way and didn't encounter bad weather. Since the sixth day, the old snake has been babbling every day from the morning to not knowing what to say, as if praying that there will be no storm.

As the climate got colder, there were finally no more dead people in the cabin. It was a relief for me.

Even though I told myself in my heart that it wasn't my business, let me watch someone die in front of me. It's not always a pleasant thing.

Although the old snake said that those were Vietnamese and Indonesian.

That night, I was still asleep when I was woken up by the noise outside. I immediately rolled out of bed, just in time to see the old snake push open the door and call out to me, "Come out, you've arrived." ”

I was a little puzzled, and I walked out of the cabin to the deck, only to see a scene that surprised me!

The fishing boat I was in had lowered its sails and the motor had stalled. Beside it, there was a larger ship, which looked black in the night, with a metal shell, and a much higher side than ours.

Now the two boats are side by side, with two planks in between as an improvised bridge.

The old snake stood beside me, his hand touching his waist...... It was a gun. And several of his crew members also stood by with guns in hand.

What amazed me even more...... The door to the cabin under the fishing boat is open! A group of people are coming out from underneath and moving to the big ship through the two planks on the ship's ground!

I couldn't see the smugglers in the dark, but most of them were men, few women, and they were all dressed in ordinary clothes. Everyone was carrying simple luggage, not much stuff, and at night, no one spoke, and they were all quietly queuing up to move from the board.

Most of them have vain steps and look very weak. Most people walk alone, rarely in groups, and everyone walks with their heads down, even if they or the people around them are weak and almost fall, no one will help each other!

And on that big ship, I saw several black-pressed figures standing on the deck, guns with black holes in their hands, and their eyes flashed like wolves under the dim light bulbs.

"What the hell is going on? Old snake? I glanced at the guy next to me with some jǐng.

The old snake smiled a little weakly, but then said in a low voice: "I can only send it here, you are going to change ships now, you take that boat, they will continue to carry you to your destination." ”

I was faintly annoyed: "Why didn't you mention this before?" Square...... Does he know about your arrangements? ”

Looking at the old snake's embarrassed smile, my heart immediately brightened...... This guy's arrangement, it seems that the fat man doesn't even know about it!

Strictly speaking, what the old snake is doing now is a bit like the kind of business often said: "two dealers", but the difference is that the two dealers sell the goods to the next family, while the old snake sells stowaways!

Despite my anger, I wisely kept my mouth shut. I know it's useless to protest against the old snake at this time...... These people are all murderous without blinking, and I say how useful it is now? said that he was annoyed by others, so he shot me directly and threw me into the sea, and there was nowhere to shout injustice!

The old snake accompanied me to the big ship, and I found out that the crew of this boat were all ghosts, and the first fellow was a black man, shirtless like half a black iron tower, with a cigar in his mouth, a hideous face, a calm gaze, and a military dagger in his hand.

The old snake went up to say hello to him, and I clearly saw the black man looking at the old snake with a hint of disdain in his eyes, and then the old snake muttered a lot to him, and then pointed at me. The black man didn't speak from beginning to end, just looked at the old snake coldly and waited for him to finish.

Finally, the old snake wiped his sweat, turned to me and said, "Okay, I've explained, you go with them, what about your belongings?" ”

I patted the bag I was carrying, and I had taken it with me since I saw the dead man on board.

The black man looked at me coldly for a moment, and I could feel that his eyes were cold, and there was something yīn in them, and when he looked at me, I felt as if I was being stared at by some kind of beast!

Then the old snake talked to him twice, basically the old snake said, and the black man occasionally hummed.

Finally, the old snake patted me on the shoulder, and the smile on his face was very hypocritical: "Have a safe journey!" ”

Then he ran back to his own boat, removing the planks that connected the two boats.

This bastard!! I couldn't help but curse.

Being a human snake actually changed hands!!

Then I sighed and glanced at the black man, who was also looking at me, but then he turned away, not seeming much interest in me. A crew member next to him, with a gun in his hand, came over and pointed ahead.

That means: the past!

I took a look, and it turned out that the dozens of stowaways had already entered through the door of a cabin, and it seemed that on this ship, they would continue to be locked up in the cabin below deck, and continue to live through the rat-like rì.

The difference is that the crew next to me signaled me with a gun, which means that I should go with them!

I hesitated to tell what I wanted, but the black man was far away and didn't pay any attention to me. And this crew member has a murderous and arrogant look, and it seems that if I don't move the place again, he will probably not hesitate to come up and give me a rifle butt!

I finally recognized the situation I was facing, and my first-class treatment along the way was over! I'm going to live with the stowaways in the cabin below......

I held back the anger in my heart, I knew that the situation was pressing at this time, and I couldn't have any room for resistance, so I could only walk over silently, and follow the people outside the cabin to slowly line up and walk into the cabin leading to the lower deck, and there were crew members on both decks with guns urging from time to time.

Probably because I was too slow, the last time I got into the cabin, the bastard in the back kicked me, and I staggered down, and the hatch behind me slammed shut!

It was dark in the cabin, and I could feel that the place was not big, very small, and it was filled with a strange stench, and the dozens of people who had come in first had already dispersed to find a place to sit and lie down, and it was difficult to find a place to put their feet on the ground.

The door was occupied by three or four men, and I was about to sit down when they came and pushed me and motioned for me to go inside.

It turns out that the location of the cabin door is actually very "popular"! Because the outside crew comes down every once in a while to deliver water and food, they are randomly thrown at the hatch, so the closer to the hatch, the more food and water can be grabbed...... And only the physically strong can grab this good position!

The old and infirm were squeezed inside.

The innermost place is the least airy, and usually the most stuffy, cold or hot place!

I didn't want to cause trouble, so I didn't clash with the people at the door, but chose to avoid it for the time being, and walked into the cabin, where the space was really not so crowded, but the air was stuffy and full of a musty and rancid smell. I almost suffocated, and I sat down in a random empty spot, only to hear a few coughs from around me.

Intuitively, I could tell it was a woman, probably not very old. Moreover, her coughing voice sounded weak and seemed to be sick!