Chapter 11 (I) Searching for the Dragon and the Phoenix
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"I don't know." Lin Suotu shook his head and said, "Also a soldier?" â
Tang Shuxing squeezed out a smile and nodded in disappointment, Ji Kefeng was also disappointed, but at the same time, he also saw something on Tang Shuxing's face that he had lost for many years - the kind of friendship between the young. Tang Shuxing always remembered the three of them when they were young, and he ignored too much because of his father's affairs, if it weren't for Tang Shuxing's father Tang Dingfeng also disappeared at the same time, maybe he would be too busy to forget about Tang Shuxing.
"It's a little famous in Southeast Asia, and there are very few people from military backgrounds, but I know that there is a person surnamed Tian, but he is not very old, and he is about the same as you, I forgot what his full name is, I used to open a mercenary company, and then because I was unwilling to cooperate with drug sellers, I was forced to close." Lin Suotu said while eating barbecue, and drank beer in a big gulp, looking very bold.
"And then?" Tang Shuxing asked casually, but there were other things in his mind.
Later, he got the funding of a boss surnamed Mo, who opened a global security company, although the number of people is small, but all of them are elite soldiers, and I heard that they have a good relationship with the government, so they don't dare to touch him, I don't know what the background is. It is rumored that the person surnamed Mo was one of the best killers in the world back then, but the age that came out was too young, hey, it's just rumors anyway. Lin Suotu ate and drank, and pointed to his howitzer and said that some people thought that he could only be king with a cannon on land, but he didn't believe it. I simply put the howitzer on the ship and tried it, at first it didn't work, the hull shook too much, but after mastering the frequency and method, I found that I could still point where to shoot.
In this way, several people ate and drank on board, and three days passed quickly, and after completely sinking the target ship, the alert ship approached Thai waters again, waiting for the helicopter to go to get the cashier's check. This time. Pirates such as Coconut Mulberry who had to follow were highly nervous. Because there was a possibility of being surrounded and sunk by the Thai Navy at any time, but in the past three days, there were several encounters with patrol boats of the Thai Navy, and the other party only came up to make a simple inquiry. Then salute and leave. Don't make it difficult.
The promissory note was delivered to Gu Huaiyi as scheduled. He handed it over to Tang Shuxing, the reason being: although Tang Shuxing was confused all day long, the money was handed over to him. He won't lose his money if he loses his life.
In the early morning of the fourth day, as soon as the sun rose above the horizon, the four of them jumped into the pirate ship and left. At this time, Ji Kefeng suddenly remembered the helicopter docked on the target ship, as well as the deceased, and immediately asked what was going on?
Gu Huaiyi just smiled, and waited for Lin Suotu's guard ship to sail away before he spoke: "In this world, money can solve many things, for example, the medicine has to be tested at sea, and Zheng Guoyuan wants to shoot targets at sea, and they only need to spend money to buy the surrounding countries that will patrol the sea, and they will immediately become blind and deaf." â
"Drug dealers and the government cooperate? It's ridiculous! Ji Kefeng shook his head and said, in fact, he himself hadn't noticed that among the three of them, he was just a blank slate.
"Nothing ridiculous." Tang Shuxing sat on the deck wearing sunglasses and was ready to bask in the sun, even the sunscreen was ready, "Do you think these Southeast Asian countries are rich?" Take Vietnam as an example, in the early years, it was a country that the prince of China ran to establish, and later it has always been a vassal country, when it was invaded by France, it relied on the Qing Dynasty to help, and later relied on China and the Soviet Union. â
Tang Shuxing paused after speaking, looked sideways at Gu Huaiyi and asked, "Hey, what does your grandfather have to do with Yaojin?" Your grandfather has a share of that medicine, right? If you inhale this drug, you will die immediately, and you can't sell it, right? â
"I said, Yaojin and Zheng Guoyuan are allies, and I have nothing to do with them, if possible, I would rather change all the blood in my body, I don't want to have a blood relationship with drug dealers." Gu Huaiyi said this, but there was a smile on his face.
Ye Sang led his two pirates out of the cabin with plates and drinks, and respectfully handed the drinks to the three of them with both hands, with great respect. He doesn't want to respect it, first of all, these three people made such a big case in Thailand, and secondly, the "family" of the kid surnamed Gu can actually buy the entire warship, and he has such a good relationship with the Thai Navy, if he wants to destroy his "pirate fleet", it is not a matter of words?
"Three masters-slow use." Ye Sang has a servile face, and he almost didn't call him "three grandfathers", and now he knows that his group of pirates is a hair? These three are the big people who can really call the wind and rain.
Ji Kefeng stood there in a daze with a drink, thinking that things were much beyond his expectations, and he couldn't control them at all, and even if he wanted to control them, there was no way, Tang Shuxing and Gu Huaiyi were essentially crazy psychosis, what they were going to do next, he couldn't expect it at all, so he could only try his best to stop it, and not let them lose their lives.
"Let's go now, let's go in search of the dragon!" Gu Huaiyi pointed in a certain direction and instructed Ye Sang, "There is enough oil, enough food and water, let's go!" â
Ye Sang immediately grabbed the radio and excitedly ordered his men to rush towards the coordinates of the dragon's lair on the children's map.
It was another three days and two nights, until the evening of the third day, when they were finally very close to the coordinates, and the pirates, who climbed on the top of the mast of the fishing boat, looked around with their binoculars, and kept telling the people below what they had seen with their walkie-talkies, but in the light of all, they found nothing, no ships, no islands, nothing.
"Wait!" The pirate in charge of the observation suddenly shouted, pointed in one direction, and said to the people below, "At 3 o'clock in the bow of the ship, there is a flock of strange seabirds, all fiery red, see?" â
Tang Shuxing and the others below all looked in that direction, and understood the meaning of observing the pirates, what he meant was that as long as there were birds flying somewhere, and it was in the evening, it meant that there was a foothold nearby, and it was the location of the nest of this group of birds, otherwise it would be impossible for them to fly in groups in that direction at this time.
"It's a firebird!" Gu Huaiyi grabbed the binoculars and smiled. "The map is real."
"Firebird? That thing written in Osamu Tezuka's manga? Isn't that a phoenix? Tang Shuxing also looked in that direction, but it was to the west, where the sun set, and the sunlight from the sun's setting was even more dazzling.
Ji Kefeng put down the binoculars and said: "I can't see clearly, it's facing the sun, it's all fiery red, and I can't even see how big those birds are." â
"Follow the birds! Fast! Gu Huaiyi picked up the walkie-talkie and ordered, now he is like the captain of this group of pirates, and Ye Sang is only a first mate at best, no. He has been directly demoted to the rank of cook. The seafood that he was busy catching in the kitchen, but most of them were shrimp crawlers and the like, and Tang Shuxing had to vomit in the past three days.
"That's the legendary phoenix chick, which used to be in the mouths of fishermen. Spread four words. It's called 'Finding the Dragon and Solving the Phoenix'. It means that in order to find the location of the dragon, the mystery of the phoenix's lair must first be solved. Gu Huaiyi had an excited smile on his face.
Ji Kefeng shook his head and expressed disbelief: "Although I have seen strange things. But to say that dragons exist in zĂ i, I don't believe it, at least not the kind of dragon in traditional Chinese mythology, maybe a water monster or something. â
"Maybe there really is." Ye Sang cautiously leaned over, raised his hand to signal if he could continue, Tang Shuxing, who was sitting on the dilapidated recliner, nodded, and Ye Sang said, "That dragon horn is the best proof!" Decades ago, in Malacca, countless people witnessed nine tornadoes appear on the surface of the sea, and then merged into one, becoming a huge tornado, sucking the sea water towards the strait, all the fishing boats were so frightened that they turned around and ran, but the strange thing is that the tornado stopped after reaching the cliff on the shore, and then everyone saw a shadow in the tornado hit the mountain, broke apart and fell into the sea, and then the tornado gradually disappeared......
In the aftermath of the disaster, which caused no casualties, rumors of dragons spread throughout the Straits of Malacca, and a few days later, daring fishermen dived into the waters below the cliffs and searched the reefs to find evidence of dragons. After all, if the dragon crashes into a cliff, then at least a few pieces of scale armor or something like that will be dropped, right? It is said that dragon scales can cure all kinds of diseases, and their hardness is comparable to diamonds and diamonds.
"Wait!" Tang Shuxing waved his hand to stop, "Kakaka!" The play is not right, it has to be so hard, can it fall from the dragon? ! We are all knowledgeable, educated and young people who love science, you are preaching feudal superstition, hurry up and change the script and start again. â
Ye Sang made a bitter face, maintained a half-squatting posture, and the appearance was similar to that of the eunuch asking for peace, and came to Tang Shuxing's side and said: "I also heard that, and everyone said so, and I can't go to the verification." â
"I've also heard the rumors he said, and the version is similar every time, which proves that eight or nine are not far from ten, at least the thing really happened, if you hear ten different versions of a rumor from ten people, then this matter needs to be strictly verified." Gu Huaiyi pointed to the distance at this time and said, "Look, that group of birds is starting to hover in front of you, which means that the dark island is down there!" â
If a seabird is hovering somewhere on the surface of the sea, there are only a few possibilities: one is an island, a reef, or a boat, two is the carcass of a large animal in the sea floating up below, three is the wreck of a ship that has just sunk underneath, and the last possibility is the one that is right now, a dark island that has risen and dived because of some natural law.
"Get closer!" Coconut Sang immediately commanded, and then the pirates activated all the engines of the fishing boats, as well as the engines installed to pursue the merchant ships, and approached the seabirds at great speed, and the seabirds circled in that position faster and faster, giving the impression that they were trying to create a huge air flow by flapping their wings en masse, allowing the air to suck the sea water from the surface of the dark island.
"It's so spectacular-" Ji Kefeng looked dumbfounded, and Tang Shuxing slowly got up from the recliner and stood beside him, watching this scene in amazement.
"Why hasn't the Dark Island appeared yet?" Ye Sang was a little anxious, and ordered to continue to approach, and immediately rushed to the sea below where the seabirds were circling, although it was very risky, but there was nothing to be done.
"Something is wrong." Gu Huaiyi raised his hand to stop Ye Sang, but Ye Sang's order had already been given, and the three pirate ships rushed to the edge below the flock of birds as fast as they could, and it was impossible to retreat.
In the distance, only one-fifth of the sun on the horizon sprinkled a strange light, obviously fiery red, and then turned golden yellow, stabbing people's eyes can't open, after spreading on the sea, like a long and thick arm, directly on the sea surface below the seabirds, illuminating the sea surface transparently, the reflected light was cast on the body of the group of seabirds, making Tang Shuxing and the others feel that there was another sun close at hand on their heads.
"Everyone, close your eyes! Sentence two, you put on sunglasses and try to see if you can see the situation clearly! Ji Kefeng grabbed the railing and shouted, dizzy and weak.
Tang Shuxing took off his sunglasses and groped for them and handed them to Ji Kefeng: "Wear a chicken feather!" If you want to wear it, I feel blind when I wear it. â
Gu Huaiyi grabbed the railing with one hand, raised his hand and blocked his eyes with his wrist, signaling everyone not to move or open their eyes.
I don't know how long it took, the light gradually dimmed, everyone slowly opened their eyes, and found that the group of seabirds on their heads were gone, they were taken aback, and subconsciously walked towards the sea below the hull......
Tang Shuxing slowly moved his head to look towards his right side, and after seeing it clearly, he immediately pulled the corner of Ji Kefeng's clothes next to him with his backhand, Ji Kefeng thought that he was committing two crimes again, and hurriedly whispered: "Second sentence, don't make trouble!" â
Tang Shuxing pulled again, Ji Kefeng turned around impatiently, and then he also saw the thing, and then he was stunned, and after ten seconds, he began to pull Gu Huaiyi again, Gu Huaiyi had already turned around when he turned around, and found that thing.
"What is this...... at the same time, Ye Sang also whispered, and everyone turned their heads to look in the direction that Ye Sang was looking at, and saw that there was an identical thing standing somewhere on the deck, and then looked at the other parts of the ship, as well as the other two fishing boats, only to find that they only cared to look at the sea, and did not notice that there were strange birds parked in all parts of the three boats.
It is said to be a bird, but it has scales, and the scales reflect a colorful light in the last shimmer of the sun; It was a fish, but it was clearly a bird, and the scales were mixed with feathers, and the golden-looking feathers were falling off in pieces, as if the feathers were falling off and the scales were growing.
Moreover, when the birds opened their blue-black beaks, they could clearly see the fangs inside their beaks.
Tang Shuxing slowly turned to look at the sea and muttered, "Damn, if these things are phoenixes, then I must be Pixiu!" (To be continued......)