Chapter 14: The Ethereal Water Cloud (I)
As she walked past a small roadside shop, Kebeline stopped suddenly, nodded to the shopkeeper, reached out and took off the backpack that was being sold hanging on the wall, swept a large handful of biscuits, canned food and bottled mineral water from the counter into her backpack, and took out a brand-new Chinese-made mobile phone and a phone card that could be used locally in Somalia from the corner of the counter.
The backpack was already stuffed with all kinds of food, and Kai Belin didn't even pay the money, pulling Shi Shaoying and striding forward. She spread her legs and walked faster and faster, so that in the end, even Shi Shaoying had to run a few steps from time to time to barely keep up with the pace of this woman who was more than ten centimeters taller than herself.
She jumped into a small speedboat equipped with four engines, quickly checked the engine and fuel condition of the motorboat, and made sure that the whole boat was in the best condition and ready to sail out of the port, and after Kaibeline lifted the rubber mat on the right side of the speedboat and rummaged for a key from underneath.
Turning around and seeing that Shi Shaoying was still standing on the shore at this time, Kai Berin said in a low voice: "Don't come down quickly!" ”
Shi Shaoying jumped on the speedboat like Kai Beilin, he just saw Kai Beilin jump into the speedboat, the whole boat was so quiet that it was almost immovable, it was because of this scene that Shi Shaoying had a wrong judgment on the stability of this speedboat on the water, he just landed on the deck, he felt that the whole ship first sank down fiercely, and then swung violently to the left, if it weren't for Kai Beilin's quick hand to grab his arm, Shi Shaoying would probably have been thrown out of the cabin and fell into the water with the most embarrassing action.
Looking at Kai Belin, who stood as steady as Mount Tai no matter how the speedboat rocked, Shi Shaoying gave her a thumbs up convincingly. As the saying goes, the industry is good at the specialty, and without the experience of begging for a living on the water for many years, Cabeline would never have such a superb balance on the water. But Kai Belin was really in no mood to pay attention to Shi Shaoying's praise at this time, she threw a life jacket to Shi Shaoying, and then silently untied the cable.
With the roar of the motor, the high-speed speedboat rushed straight into the wider blue sea in the distance like an arrow from the string, leaving an almost straight white wake on the water.
After charging through the sea at an astonishing high speed for more than ten minutes, the small city of Elle had already been thrown off to the point where there was almost no trace of a side, and Shi Shaoying suddenly saw a piece of ship connected by iron chains and anchors on the sea. There were at least twenty of them, some of them were ocean-going freighters, some of them were large fishing vessels, and some of them seemed to have been in this area for a long, long time, and the outer side of the hull was overgrown with sea shells but no one cleaned them, and they looked like reefs sticking out of the water.
The distance between the two sides was getting closer and closer, and Shi Shaoying could see more than a dozen people hanging on the deck of a freighter, they were obviously not from the same group, some of them were wearing camouflage uniforms, putting automatic rifles aside at will, and enjoying the pleasure of hanging while leisurely smoking cigarettes; The rest of the group, judging by their skin color and facial contour features, were probably from Asian countries such as India, China, and Vietnam, and they held the fishing rod in both hands, but their eyes were a little hollow and didn't know what they were thinking, and when they heard the sound of the speedboat crashing into the wind and waves, and their eyes slowly fell on Shi Shaoying's face, their eyes suddenly regained a little brightness.
Probably they thought that Shi Shaoying, who also had black eyes and yellow skin, was probably here to pay the ransom and take them home, right?
"Bang! Bang! Bang......"
There were suddenly a few crisp gunshots in the air, and Shi Shaoying Huo Ran turned his head to look in the direction from which the sound came. A crew member was tied to a pillar in the bow of the ship, and a black cloth scarf was fastened on his head, although it was not clear what happened to him, but as long as he looked at the twenty or so crew members kneeling on the deck and trembling under the threat of seven or eight AK rifles, Shi Shaoying understood that apparently for some reason, the pirates on that ship had just used the slaughter of hostages to carry out a shocking force deterrent.
"We don't usually do that."
Hearing the gunshot, Kai Belin subconsciously slowed down the speed of the ship, and saw Shi Shaoying's face quickly gloomy, I don't know why, Kai Belin, who has always been independent and strong, and never cares about what others misunderstand, actually Kai Belin actually opened her mouth to explain: "Unless one of them takes the lead in trying to resist, or the shipowner is too tough and refuses to pay the ransom, they will use this most extreme method." ”
Shi Shaoying snorted lightly: "When you pulled the trigger on the hostages, did you ever think that these crew members were just poor people who made money by selling their labor, and there were relatives and friends waiting for them to return home safely?" ”
Kai Belin turned her face to look at Shi Shaoying: "Either starve to death, or pick up a gun and become a pirate." Shi Shaoying, can you tell me, if it were you, what would you do? If one is your relative and the other is a stranger, and one of them has to die, let you choose, will you choose your own relatives or the stranger you don't know? ”
Shi Shaoying was silent.
If you put yourself in the shoes of the person you love, in order to let the person you love live instead of watching her or him starve to death, don't say that you are a pirate, even if you let him carry the explosive bag to storm the White House in the United States, Shi Shaoying will not hesitate to do it!
Love is selfish. As for those who sacrificed their lives for the country and the people, saved other people's children and let their children die, such a selfless fraternity, let the saints do it!
"You live in a privileged environment, you have clothes, you have food, you have a house, you can go to the hospital when you are sick, you can go to the Internet and watch movies and go to the park, and when you are bored, you look down on Somalia from above, so you may never understand that if there is a choice, we don't want to be pirates; If we have a choice, we would rather exchange our own hands for the fruits of our labor than get rich overnight and then live a life of horror. ”
Speaking of this, Cabeline pointed to the pirates on the deck and raised her voice: "Believe it or not, they used to be fishermen, and they earned better as fishermen a few years ago than they do now. ”
Shi Shaoying subconsciously wanted to shake his head, being a fisherman's income is better than being a pirate, this is too strange and illogical, right?! But facing Caberine's turquoise eyes and looking at her face that had become serious because of seriousness, Shi Shaoying was silent again.
Using one's limited knowledge to evaluate a world that one has not really touched, and then insisting on imposing one's own values and morals on people living in another world, is in itself a manifestation of arrogance and injustice.
Just like Kabeline said, if you can live in the sun with food and clothing, who wants to live a dark life where you dare not put money in the bank even if you have any money? If they really make more money fishing than they make when they rob pirates, and there is no special reason, who will get their heads in the water and abandon their jobs that are not dangerous but have more profits, and become the public enemy of the whole world?!
The two men were thinking about their own thoughts, and for a moment they both kept their mouths shut, except for the sound of the speedboat breaking through the sea.
This near-awkward silence lasted between the two men for nearly an hour, until the speedboat came to a stop in front of a flat stretch of sand.
Kebeline handed Shi Shaoying a travel bag full of food and mineral water, and stretched out her hand to point ahead: "You keep moving forward, and you can enter Garowe on foot for a maximum of two or three hours, and find a way to find a car there, and you can get to Bossaso along the Beledvin Bo Au road." Bossaso has direct flights to Kenya. ”
Kai Belin gave Shi Shaoying her mobile phone along with her mobile phone card, "If there are any friends who can help you, call them immediately and ask them to find a way to help you find a ticket for your last flight and leave immediately." Remember, don't wander around in Garoway or in Bossaso, anyone you see in Garowe is probably a pirate or a former pirate, and in the port of Bossaso you see anyone who is an eyeliner for Jacques's father's service! ”
Seeing that Shi Shaoying's face was calm now, and he seemed to be disapproving of her words, Kai Belin was really a little anxious, "What you did was very secretive, and your method of killing Jacques was very clever, but Jacques's father was by no means a person who would reason with you." He suffered the loss of his son, and for whatever reason he would find someone to bury his son with. And you, will become the biggest target in his eyes. As for American agents and the like, you can scare Jacques into running away, but you can't scare his father! ”
Shi Shaoying absolutely believes this. Jacques's father, Abduhir, can cover the sky with one hand in the pirate-infested city of Leet, no matter what he has experienced and what he has achieved today, he must have a will as hard as steel, but also have the madness and violence of an outlaw, otherwise, in the face of such a huge benefit as sea robbery, he would have been overthrown by the people below and there is no place to die!
What's more, this person has spoiled his son to the limit!
The plastic mobile phone still has Caberin's body temperature on it, and it is warm in the palm of the hand. Shi Shaoying stood quietly in front of Kai Belin, smiling as the woman looked anxiously rummaging back and forth in her pockets, and when she took out a thick stack of hundred-dollar bills, she did not hand them to Shi Shaoying.
(To be continued)