Sent An An home, ran to the city highway to the airport, the time was quite accurate, and the difference was five minutes and nine o'clock.

It doesn't matter if the brand-new Mercedes-Benz off-road vehicle is thrown in the parking lot, it is estimated that when I come back in two or three days, the parking fee at the airport alone will cost several hundred yuan.

It is easy to understand that you will go to Shantou City by plane, because the closest distance from Shantou City to the Philippine waters is only more than 300 nautical miles.

Everything is arranged, Song Muyi's people have all arranged, take out their ID cards to get tickets and board the plane, take off at half past ten, and walk out of Chaoshan Airport here in Shantou at half past twelve.

At two o'clock in the morning, Luo Chong boarded a 100-ton high-horsepower fishing boat.

Although it was the first time to go to sea to do this kind of thing, Luo Chong was not too nervous, because a large amount of food, drinking water, and a series of life-saving equipment were prepared in the soul devouring space, and bubbles said that even if there was a tsunami at sea, it was guaranteed that you would not die.

With the Soul Devouring Space in his body, in the face of natural disasters, his survivability is a hundred times stronger than that of ordinary people.

The city of Shantou is less than 400 nautical miles from the island of Badge in Philippine territorial waters, and it can be reached in more than a dozen hours at the speed of this specially modified fishing boat.

After getting on the ship, Luo Chong got into the cabin and began to sleep, the first few hours of navigation were in China's waters, there should be no danger. Now that the fishing moratorium has passed, such a fishing boat, and there is no smuggling of goods, even if it is inspected by the maritime superintendent, it will be fine.

At twelve o'clock in the afternoon, Luo Chong was woken up by the crew and had lunch together.

The quality of the meals was not bad, in addition to pasta and canned meat, there were also fruits and freshly cooked and steamed seafood.

The four people who had dinner with Luo Chong were not real crew members, but the security guards of the trip, among them, the middle-aged man who Luo Chong called 'Brother Zhang' was their captain.

"Brother Zhang, is there any danger when you go over there?" Luo Chong asked casually

"There will definitely be, depending on our luck. ’

Lao Zhang replied: "The biggest danger is piracy, followed by the Philippine Maritime Patrol. ”

"And pirates now?"

Luo Chong was very curious, the incident that happened a while ago when the Philippine ** ship used a machine gun to strafe a fishing boat and killed a Taiwanese fisherman caused quite a stir, this kind of thing is known, but I have never heard of the rumors of pirates.

"Of course you have, have you only heard of Somali pirates?" asked Lao Zhang with a smile

"Yes, Somali pirates have been the most famous in recent years. Luo Chong nodded.

"Actually, there are no less pirates in the South China Sea, and many times, they are more brutal and cunning than Somali pirates. ”

Lao Zhang said slowly: "Every year, 50 percent of the pirate robberies in the world occur in Asia, and last year there were more than 170 sea robberies. ”

"Somali pirates like to hijack ships and ask for ransom, but our pirates are not, they are just a group of robbers, they will leave after the robbery, and they are also very poor, sometimes, even a few packs of instant noodles and a few bottles of mineral water on the fishing boat will be robbed. ”

Hearing this, Luo Chong was even more interested, and asked again: "So, are there many pirates in the sea area where we are not going?"

"It's been a little bit less over the years, but it's only temporarily suppressed. ”

Lao Zhang replied: "There are more than 100 large and small islands in that sea area, and some of the people who live on the islands have been pirates for generations, and if they don't do this business, they won't do anything else." ”

Luo Chong smiled and asked, "If we really encounter pirates and find fault, what should we do?"

"When you encounter a big boat, you have to hide, and when you encounter a small boat, you have to fight with them. ”

Lao Zhang sighed: "This mission is very important, the top has given an order, fight for the lives of a few of us, and also send you to that position, and then send you back safely." Also, the time should not exceed three days. ”

"So, there are also heavy weapons on this ship?" Luo Chong asked with a squint

"Heavy weapons don't count. ”

Lao Zhang nodded and replied: "That is, a machine gun, a few rifles or something."

"Individual bazookas, there should be too, right?" Luo Chong continued to ask.

Lao Zhang didn't answer directly, but said gently: "Brother Luo, you don't have to worry about these things, we are all good hands, and we have the confidence to protect your safety." ”

"Well, I'm not worried. ”

Luo Chong bit off the shrimp head in his hand and smiled.

Not only is he not worried, but he is even a little looking forward to encountering some wonderful things, and he can also start his gun, burst into a few shuttles, and kill three or two guys who are not long-eyed.

Anyway, he also has quite a lot of shooting skills, whether it is medium-range point shooting or long-distance sniping, which is definitely much stronger than those pirates who have not received professional training.

At around two o'clock in the afternoon, less than fifty nautical miles from Bagee Island, a crew member shouted a warning that an unknown ship had been discovered.

Lao Zhang and the others ran to the deck and reconnoitred the distance with binoculars; Luo Chong could see without a telescope that on the relatively calm sea, two blue-gray crescent-shaped speedboats were coming from the left front, and the speed was quite fast.

I heard Lao Zhang say in the cabin just now that if you encounter this kind of crescent-shaped dinghy or a black oval hovercraft in the nearby waters, the people on the boat are relatively neatly dressed, and their skin is not very dark, unlike those fishermen who only wear big pants, then, there is a good chance that they are pirates.

Generally speaking, when a fishing boat encounters them, it will immediately stop its operations and sail out of the sea as soon as possible. After all, robbery at sea is not so simple, and a fast-moving fishing boat is not something that can be stopped casually.

However, our ship is not fishing at sea, but must go to Baggi Island, and when encountering pirates, at most it can only avoid it slightly, and cannot retreat and escape.

The two speedboats were getting closer and closer, and according to Lao Zhang's intentions, the boat boss slowed down slightly, just to see what these guys were going to do.

If you want to rob, you can only do it with them.

"Probably not much. ”

Lao Zhang analyzed: "The pirates are also divided into three, six, nine and so on, this group of pirates looks more classy, not so poor that they even rob fishing boats." ”

On the fishing boat, except for the little cash and food carried by the crew, there is only the seafood that is caught, and only the poor, crazy, hungry and crazy low-level pirates will fight the fishing boat idea.

At a distance of a few hundred meters, the two meniscus also slowed down, and one of them approached this way, and someone shouted in English with a loudspeaker: "Leave immediately, turn around, leave immediately!"

The other man standing with him, with a rifle on his chest, made a gesture of slitting his throat as a warning.

"It's a little strange that we're not allowed to move on. ”

Lao Zhang was suspicious, so he asked the captain of the ship to agree with the group of pirates, slightly turned around, changed the course, and slowly accelerated.

The two speedboats followed for a few nautical miles, and then turned away. It seems that they had no intention of robbing the boats at all, but only to expel the nearby fishing boats and not to approach the side of Baggy Island.

"Could it be that they have some important action on the side of Baggy Island to prevent fishing boats like ours from causing trouble?"

Lao Zhang muttered, having a little foreboding.

Luo Chong also guessed: "The worst-case scenario is that the batch of goods we sank to the bottom of the sea was known by the pirates, and they also wanted to salvage it." I don't know if this is possible?"

"It's hard to say. ”

Lao Zhang looked into the distance with a solemn expression: "It was because someone leaked the news that caused this batch of goods to have problems." However, I feel that it is unlikely that this group of pirates will be powerful enough to receive a tip from our coast guard, but rather ...... It's possible that our freighter was seeing a passing fishing boat yesterday morning when it was dropping off Baggi Island, and someone told the pirates nearby about it. Well, that's more likely. ”

"If that's the case, it's a bit of a problem. Luo Chong said in a low voice: "Didn't you say that you want to snatch things under the noses of pirates?"

"After all, it's just speculation, and you have to go over and see it anyway. Lao Zhang asked, "Brother Luo, what do you think?"

The fishing boat was responsible for picking up Luo Chong and did not carry salvage equipment. As far as Lao Zhang is concerned, as long as he can send Luo Chong to walk around Baji Island and then bring him back to Shantou City safely, then his task will be completed.

As for whether Luo Chong's people have the ability to pick up the goods and transport them back, this needs to be decided by him.

"Let's see. ”

Luo Chong did not hesitate and immediately made a decision: "It's just a group of pirates, and it can't scare me." ”

"Good!"

Lao Zhang nodded vigorously, and went to discuss a few words with the boat boss. A quarter of an hour later, the fishing boat redirected and continued in the direction where Baggy Island was located.

At four o'clock in the afternoon, the fishing boat arrived at its destination, but there were no suspected pirate ships in this area of water.

In this regard, Lao Zhang's explanation is: "We have an extremely accurate satellite positioning system, and it is easy to find the specific coordinates when discarding the goods, and the error does not exceed a radius of 200 meters." And those pirates, if they only received verbal relays from fishermen, it is not so easy for them to accurately find this coordinate point on such a large sea. Anyway, they're still searching around here. ”

Luo Chong looked into the distance and asked in a low voice: "But it can't be ruled out that they are waiting for us to come and salvage the goods, and then get something for nothing, right?"

"It's possible. ”

Lao Zhang nodded: "I also think that if we were a salvage ship, just now, they would not intercept us, but would change to secretly surveillance." ”

Luo Chong walked to the side of the ship, held on to the railing and looked down, and asked, "You mean, judging by the coordinate points, the cargo is right down here?"

"Yes, the error does not exceed a radius of two hundred meters, and if it is not fished out, it must still be below. Lao Zhang replied.

"How deep is the water?" Luo Chong asked again.

Lao Zhang replied: "This is shallow water, with a depth of about 50 to 80 meters. ”

"Less than 100 meters, no problem......"

Luo Chong smiled faintly, and said to Lao Zhang: "Brother Zhang, equip me, I want to go into the water to take a look." ”

"Do you really want to go into the water?" Lao Zhang was stunned.

Despite the fact that there are two sets of fairly advanced diving equipment on board, launching in the shadow of pirates is extremely risky.

"It must go down, and it's me going down alone. ”

Luo Chong replied: "I have to see the existence of the goods with my own eyes before I can arrange for my people to come and do things." Suppose there is nothing below, is it necessary for me to let them mobilize the crowd to come? This risk must be borne by me.

"Okay. ”

Lao Zhang could only nod and agree......