After dealing with Wang Yifu's affairs, Liu Ziguang didn't even have time to say goodbye to Li Kun, and boarded Hu Qingsong's private jet.

This is a Bombardier cRJ2oo1R regional airliner, Hu Qingsong bought a second-hand plane from Air Canada, although a little old, but very cost-effective, the captain is a retired lieutenant colonel pilot of the 34th Air Division, who used to fly Boeing 737, and his technology is absolutely post.

Liu Ziguang met an old acquaintance on the plane, Professor Yu of the University of Mining and Technology, the old man was dressed in a hunting suit, sitting in the cabin in high spirits, seeing Liu Ziguang come in, his eyes lit up and said: "I have seen you, I have been engaged in it for a long time or the West African iron ore you are now, I have analyzed the samples you left last time, and the taste is quite high, if the commercial reserves of this deposit are more than 10 million tons, there is mining value." ”

"Professor Yu, after preliminary exploration, my colleagues have come up with three billion tons." Liu Ziguang said, and sat down on the seat next to the professor.

Professor Yu waved his hand and said: "This number may not be exact, Africa's iron ore reserves are much lower than Australia and South America, which is determined by the composition of the address, of course, the mystery of nature is that we can never fully decipher, history did not say that there is no oil in China, our older generation of explorers did not still have a large oil field in Daqing?" That's why Xiaohu asked me to come over, and if there is no investigation, there is no right to speak. ”

The two chatted at first sight, and before they knew it, the plane had begun to taxi on the runway, the two stopped talking, fastened their seat belts and sat in their seats, and the Bombardier cRJ2oo took off into the air and flew south.

In order to ensure the comfort of the flight, the flight was arranged in four sections, all to Hong Kong, Hong Kong to Bangkok, Bangkok to Mumbai, the second largest city in India, and the last stop is Aden, Yemen.

Located on the coast of the Red Sea and the Cape of the Arabian Peninsula, Aden is an important port city in the world, where the supply point of the Somali escort fleet of the Chinese Navy is located, and the merchant ships passing through the Red Sea, the Suez Canal and the Mediterranean Sea also dock here for replenishment, which shows the importance of Aden.

According to Hu Qingsong's plan, the plane stayed in Hong Kong, Bangkok, and Mumbai for one or two days, so that the veteran expert Professor Yu could appreciate the exotic customs, so that he could arrive in Aden with the Changle ship that replenished supplies, and then went on his own way to Western Sadamoa after consoling the crew.

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In the vast Indian Ocean, ushered in a rare good weather, the crew who had been holding back in the cabin for a week came to the deck, holding beer in hand, blowing the sea breeze, basking in the sun, moving their hands and feet, a Maldivian-flagged trawler sailed by, and the crew excitedly shouted and greeted the fishing boat.

On the back deck of the trawler, there stood a black man in an Arab robe, his robe was blown by the wind like a full sail, he held a telescope in his hand, looked at the words on the bow of the Changle steamer, and compared it with the fax in his hand.

The 10,000-ton bulk carrier dragged a line of white waves away, the trawler's motor gradually stopped running, began to anchor, a sampan with a motive was lowered, and six ragged black men in costume jumped onto the sampan with AK47 and RPG7 bazookas, and the motor chased after the freighter.

On the Changle ship, a sharp-eyed sailor appeared at the stern of the boat and chased the speedboat, and immediately shouted: "There are pirates!" ”

Piracy off the coast of Somalia is well known, so the United Nations has also set up an escort fleet to escort merchant ships from various countries through dangerous waters, but it is just a short distance from Sri Lanka, in the relatively safe waters of the Maldives, thousands of miles away from the coast of Somalia, how can there be pirates.

When the second officer heard the news, he quickly ran to the stern of the boat, picked up the binoculars and saw that the six black men in the speedboat were dressed in colorful clothes, holding automatic rifles and bazookas in their hands, so frightened that his hands holding the binoculars trembled, and he hurriedly ran to the cockpit.

With a "bang", the door of the cockpit was pushed open by the second officer, and the captain Chen Jinlin was checking the chart, and when he saw the second officer who was lost and depressed, he frowned slightly and asked, "What's the matter?" ”

"Sea ...... Pirate! The pirates are catching up! The second officer said breathlessly.

Chen Jinlin put down the chart, picked up his hat and put it on his head, and said in a deep voice: "Let's go, take a look." ”

At the stern of the ship, a group of crew members were lying on the side of the ship looking at the speedboat that came by the wind and waves, while looking at it, they didn't seem to be afraid, now the captain came, they quickly gave up the best observation position, Chen Jinlin raised the telescope to see, the speedboat was really a group of pirates, as if realizing that there were people watching them on the freighter, the pirates raised AK47 in demonstration, and let go of a shuttle to the sky.

The sound of "da-da-da" gunshots came, and the crew all lay down, only Chen Jinlin did not move, he smiled disdainfully, picked up the walkie-talkie and said: "Attention all units, implement the first anti-piracy plan." ”

In addition to the twenty-six crew members, there are fifty exploration team members, twenty team security guards, ocean-going sailors, and geological exploration personnel, all of which are not comparable to ordinary white-collar workers, and hard-working and risk-taking are their daily routine, not to mention the twenty reserve soldiers.

According to the plan that had been arranged long ago, the crew quickly prepared weapons, hundreds of beer bottles, six boxes of fireworks, high-pressure water cannons, powerful slingshots, etc., on the other hand, the steam turbines were also running at full power, buying time for the crew.

The 10,000-ton ship was far less powerful than the small and convenient speedboat, and it didn't take long for the pirates to catch up with the freighter, and the speedboat sailed close to the freighter, and the pirates brandished automatic rifles and fired aimlessly, shouting and cursing as if no one was around, trying to climb the gangway.

Suddenly, a string of lit firecrackers was dropped on the side of the ship, which continued to explode in the process of free fall, and the red confetti flew wildly, and the pirates were startled, and they all lay down in the speedboat with their heads in their hands, but the firecrackers fell into the sea before they could be exploded, and suddenly there was no sound.

The pirates climbed up, patted the confetti on their bodies, laughed, and seemed to be more energetic.

A black man in a red T-shirt climbed up the gangway with the help of his companions, climbed up barefoot, and just as he was about to board the side of the ship, a row of black holes of guns aimed at them, the captain gave an order, and all kinds of fireworks came in a surge, with strange screams, with flashes, and hit the black uncles, the pirate on the gangway fell straight into the sea, and the five guys on the speedboat were also hit by the fireworks and covered their heads and screamed, and quickly turned around and fled.

The danger was lifted, the crew rejoiced and cheered on the deck, and the pirate speedboat in the distance circled and rescued its companions, but still trailed from afar, as if unwilling to be defeated.

The jubilant crew on the deck suddenly felt that something was wrong, and before they knew it, the ship seemed to slow down, and then the captain's calm voice sounded on the walkie-talkie of the team leaders: "Attention of all units, the steam turbine is faulty, the emergency repair team will immediately put into work, and the security team will implement the second set of plans." ”

The terrible siren sounded on the ship, this time it was really in big trouble, the unpowered freighter was just the fish on the chopping board, at the mercy of the pirates, anyway, the pirates had guns in their hands, Chen Jinlin would not risk letting the crew fight them head-on.

The pirates also saw that the freighter was slowing down, and suddenly they chased after them with a strange scream, and opened fire when they were far away, but they only heard the sound of guns, but they did not know where the bullets had hit, and these old guns, whose rifling had long been smoothed, had no accuracy at all.

No matter how inaccurate the gun is also a weapon to kill, the unarmed crew panicked when they heard the dense gunfire, all retreated to the cabin, all the hatches were sealed, and beer bottles were thrown out of the porthole, which was an original way for Chinese cargo ships to deal with pirates, because the front-line pirate personnel were very poorly equipped, some people did not even have plastic slippers, and they were completely barefoot, and the glass slag on the ground could effectively delay their movements.

The side of the ship was abandoned, the freighter that lost power relied on inertia to move forward slowly, the pirates climbed onto the side of the ship without much effort, and walked on the deck with one hand holding the polished white AK47, as expected, only two of the six pirate brothers wore plastic flip-flops, and the other four were barefoot, seeing the debris of beer bottles all over the ground, they immediately became angry, and picked up the AK47 is a strafing shot, and the bullets hit the outer wall of the cabin, splashing a string of sparks.

In the cockpit, the first mate was calling for support on a maritime radio, but the nearest navy was a thousand nautical miles away, and even if the support was provided by carrier-based helicopters, it would take at least four or five hours to arrive.

"It's better to rely on the sky and the earth than on yourself." Chen Jinlin took a deep breath, patted the shoulder of the security captain red cockroach next to him and said, "Implement the third plan." ”

The red cockroach nodded, and went down to the cargo hold with two crew members.

The pirates shouted and cursed unscrupulously on the deck, threatening the crew to open the hatch with various gestures, and in order not to anger them, the fireworks weapons were not used again, which really drove the pirates into a hurry, and blasted the hatch open with a bazooka, and it was really all over.

Luckily, the Rpg7 in the hands of the pirates only appeared as a deterrent, and there was nothing to rely on if they were really to be defeated, they gestured for cigarettes, beer, and shoes, and the crew hated it to the roots, but in order to delay the time, they still met their non-centrific demands.

A cigarette and half a dozen cans of beer were thrown down, but the shoes were not, and the pirates were tired from being busy for a long time, so they gathered on the deck and began to drink beer, and they were all happy with their big white teeth, and they were very happy.

Under the sweltering and dark warehouse, red cockroaches and others are sweating and cutting the welded steel plates with acetylene gas, and behind the steel plates are boxes of mysterious goods.