CHAPTER XXIX

Although Park Taixi thought that it was extremely unlikely that the Chinese security personnel would chase him to the port of Larta, after receiving the news of the disappearance of Jameel and Jung Eun-joon and the fierce attack on the warehouse, Park Taixi also became nervous, he did not know how the Chinese personnel quickly tracked them in place, Wenbo's caution made Park Taixi much more relaxed, and with the escort of the local guerrillas, they arrived safely at the port.

Even so, at the moment when the car was abandoned and boarded the ship, Park Taixi was really nervous, but fortunately, everything was calm.

It's been nearly a whole day on the high seas, the deep blue of the Mediterranean Sea has made Park Taixi and others completely relaxed, although sometimes you can see the Mi warships cruising in this area as far as the eye can see, but everything is safe, now the sky over the Mediterranean Sea is shrouded in night again, and the wind has strengthened, it doesn't matter, the night and the wind and waves bring this bulk carrier a safer mode of travel, as long as you hold on for a few more hours, before approaching the Suez Canal in the early hours of tomorrow morning, They could slip off the ship at night and transfer to another Panamanian-flagged tanker on the same route.

It was past midnight, the wind and waves on the sea gradually increased, after a few days of intense running, the relaxed Park Tae-seo and his men have entered the dream, most of the crew members who have been busy for a day have returned to the cabin to rest, the cargo ship is like a fallen leaf drifting with the waves on the vast sea, and the noise of the engine is drowned in the depths of the vast sea.

In the night sky, three-quarters of a nautical mile away from the bulk carrier, two helicopters had been flying with the cargo ship for nearly an hour, and Captain Steve, a retired former Navy SEAL officer dressed in black and covered in oil paint, was watching the ship's every move with binoculars.

"Mike, we've identified the target, and everything is working fine there now."

Having flown around the ship several times from afar, Steve observed no unusual movement on the ship, except for the occasional sailor or two on the deck, and he was given instructions by Mike to act.

Mike's plan to mobilize warships to intercept the bulk carrier was ruthlessly rejected by his boss Tim, but it didn't matter, he didn't expect to get official support at all, what Mike wanted to know was the bottom line that the upper side could afford.

A black object was thrown from an MH-60L Infiltrator helicopter hovering over the sea, and quickly expanded and unfolded the moment it touched the sea, and then Steve and four other men in black also jumped into the water, and then quickly boarded the rubber boat floating on the sea, one person was installing outboard thrusters, and the other two received the equipment bags lifted from the helicopter, and soon several people were fully dressed, and Steve made a gesture to the two helicopters overhead, The rubber boat quickly started and headed for the cargo ship in the distance.

The speedboat approached quickly from the rear wing of the bulk carrier along the wake, and in the vast sea, the presence of this blade of the speedboat was almost negligible, and the speedboat quickly attached to the suspension ladder attached to the bulk carrier.

"Goal security, action."

Lewis, who was also staying in the 'Little Bird' helicopter nearly a mile away, had been closely watching every move on the ship as an observation post, and when he saw that Steve's team was already in place, he gave Steve an attack command, and saw that Steve and the others had successfully boarded the suspension ladder using the suspension cable, Lewis waved his hand to the helicopter pilot, and the Little Bird helicopter quickly approached the cargo ship in a beautiful arc.

In the cabin of the cargo ship, several attendants were mechanically manipulating the equipment in front of them, not noticing that someone had approached the string window, and Steve and Heller, who were guarding on both sides of the cockpit door, took a brief observation, and when they saw that there was nothing abnormal, they broke into the cockpit with guns.

Steve quickly pressed out the current location of those North Koreans from the mouths of several stupefied watchmen, the bird was already in place and hovering above the deck ready to land, Lewis and two other intelligence agents were on the landing gear of the helicopter, when the bird was still two feet away from the deck, Lewis couldn't wait to jump off the helicopter, and ran quickly to the cockpit with a gun, Steve left one person to control the cockpit, The rest of the team and Lewis would search the crew lounge along both sides of the ship.

Park Taixi lay on the cramped crew rest bed and never slept steadily, as the person in charge of this part of the journey at sea, Park Taixi is under a lot of pressure, drifting on the endless sea, if there is no problem, then everything is fine, but once there is a problem in this part of the trip, then he has almost no room for maneuver, there are still two or three hours before the cargo ship will enter the Suez Canal, before entering the canal, he has to complete a sea handover with another group of overseas team members on standby, There is still more than an hour left before the appointed time, and as long as he persists in this time and completes this handover, then he is done.

He couldn't sleep left and right, and the noise of the engine made him even more upset, Park Taixi simply sat up, and when he saw him sit up, Yoo Sang-nao on the other side also sat up:

"What? You can't sleep either? ”

"I can't sleep well because I have something in my heart, how long is it until the handover?"

Park Taixi raised his hand and looked at the luminous watch on his wrist and said:

"There is less than an hour and a half, and it's almost there, so let's get up and pack up and get ready for action."

Liu Xiangzhi agreed, got up and put on his clothes and walked out of the crew rest cabin.

Standing on the narrow passage, Liu Xiangzhi stretched a lazy waist to look left and right, and happened to see a crew member wearing an orange reflective jacket, a tool bag on his shoulder, and a pair of suede gloves in his hand climbing up from the passage below, and I don't know if he has just finished the repair work or is going to repair something, most of the crew on this ship are from the Philippines and the Northern Dynasties, and the one who came up from below is a Northern Korean crew, Liu Xiangzhi has talked to him before, and he is a more familiar crew member, seeing the other party looking at himself from the bottom, Liu Xiangzhi raised his hand and waved at the other party, and the crew member waved in the same way, and then stepped on the iron ladder leading to the upper floor, Liu Xiangzhi turned around and knocked on the other cabin next to him.

The moment his companion in the house opened the hatch, Liu Xiangzhi suddenly heard something unusual in this noisy space, as if there was a sound of struggle, and out of the corner of his eye, he saw the pair of suede gloves held by the previous crew member rolling down from the iron ladder, Liu Xiangzhi suddenly felt that something was wrong.

His companion who came out of the cabin was about to speak, but Liu Xiangzhi quickly stopped him, he reached out and grasped the handle of the gun under his ribs, and at the same time turned his head to look at the iron ladder where the sailor climbed.