Chapter 197: The Bloody Baron! Is this still a pirate? ...
Chapter 197 Bloody Baron
It's hard to say whether it's God's will, but it can certainly work.
The information Yan Jiuru received when he received the task was very vague.
He saw that in addition to English and French, there was also Japanese.
These vague messages corroborate each other. Some mentioned Russia's "laser weapons", some mentioned "space-based", and only one piece of intelligence mentioned "outer space domination" and "space-based laser weapon platform".
But there is no information about what the specific model looks like or how large it is.
This shows that intelligence is hard to come by.
Even now, I don’t know how many agents have worked hard to produce these contents.
In terms of intelligence capabilities, apart from Great Russia, the only countries in the world that have intelligence capabilities are probably the CIA of the United States and the CIA of the United Kingdom. After all, we haven't even heard of such important cutting-edge weapons of Great Russia, but they have already produced the stuff and the people.
It has to be said that he has the ability, but he is too arrogant.
The company could have enjoyed decades of success, but ended up collapsing halfway through its business. The two R&D personnel who were rescued were brutally killed, and the documents and models disappeared without a trace.
That would be fine, the key point is that not only did Russia know about it, but the whole world got involved.
It is simply shameful to show your failure to your colleagues all over the world.
***
Ever since Yan Jiuru started clearing out the pirates in the waters around his island, he has been searching for the souls of these guys and has mastered some of the pirates' methods of operation.
Pirates are extremely vicious people.
Don't be under any illusions, none of the pirates are kind.
Originally, some of them were indeed poor fishermen who could not make a living, but after tasting the sweetness of robbery, these people have long since changed beyond recognition.
In their own words, when they become pirates, the first thing they do is pluck out their own hearts and feed them to the sea gods and sea ghosts, and what is left is just a human shell.
After a long and bloodthirsty career, there is no trace of mercy or kindness at all.
What they like to see most is the rich gold, silver, treasures and various valuable materials on the looted ships. Their favorite show is pointing guns at the people on the ship and watching them desperately take out all kinds of hidden goodies in exchange for a chance to live.
However, after all the treasures were squeezed out, they would throw them into the sea amid the pirates' laughter and add another magazine of bullets.
As long as one person is shot and bleeding, sharks will come uninvited, and anyone thrown into the sea will have no chance of survival.
Having said that, you should understand why there are basically no women on ships.
Not to mention that sailing on the vast ocean can take months, coupled with constant battles with wind and waves, and the worry about pirates, all these make the crew's temperament easily irritable and impulsive. Women on the ship, even the captain's daughter, may not have a good ending.
Even for robbing women, the captain could be killed by mutinous crew members.
As for encountering pirates, male crew members might lose their lives in exchange for a ransom, but for women, not to mention the young and beautiful ones, even the ugly and old cooks and children of a few years old could not escape being raped by pirates.
Fantasizing about being kidnapped by pirates and becoming their wife based on your looks, haha, you must have read too many novels. Unless you have the ability or strength to control an entire pirate gang.
In fact, real pirates would not allow any outsiders who would expose their whereabouts to join.
The growth of a pirate gang is either by annexing other pirate organizations or being annexed. Apart from this, they will not accept any other form of "joining".
This is also the experience that pirates have gained through years of bloodshed.
Of course, as pirates have become younger in recent years, they have learned to value the cargo on board, and they will also ask about the departure date and the losses that delayed delivery will cause to the shipowner or cargo owner, and then demand a high ransom.
As for those ships that no one redeemed, the pirates would empty them and slaughter all the people on board, taking them for themselves and using them as temporary bases or converting them into new pirate ships; those that had no value were abandoned at sea and became drifting ownerless ghost ships or ghost ships.
Now when you see a pirate's skull flag ship at sea, there are two options:
Either surrender quickly and ask the boss to pay a ransom in exchange for personal safety; or if you have the strength to fight, try to get rid of the pirate ship.
However, current international maritime law does not allow merchant ships to be equipped with weapons, and pirates' speedboats are much faster than merchant ships, so it is difficult to escape pirates by relying on speed.
As for the fire hoses and high-voltage power grids on the ship, they are useless against pirates. Pirates know to use insulated scissors to deal with high-voltage power grids!
The water pressure of the fire hose is almost the same as rain, which is useless except for angering the pirates.
***
After searching the pirate's soul, Yan Jiuru's horizons were broadened.
He didn't even know that pirates have kept up with the times in recent years!
"Fuck, pirates are educated, who would believe it?"
Yan Jiuru spat.
However, his attention was soon drawn to the information in the head of Onya, the leader of the 'Shark Gang', the fourth pirate organization he had wiped out.
Soul search revealed that this was actually a pirate organization that specialized in obtaining information from insiders in relevant departments, and then hijacked ships carrying "special" cargoes.
This group of pirates specializes in "big business."
For example, they hijacked a "special" cargo ship years ago, which was loaded with dozens of tanks!
Such large-scale weapons orders are all national orders. Importing main battle tanks from far away must be "concealed". If you don't want the whole world to know, you have to pay a high ransom.
Of course, the pirates demanded a ransom of 30 million US dollars.
After some bargaining, the deal was settled at five million US dollars.
Haha, this would be considered aiding the enemy in wartime!
Yan Jiuru laughed heartily, his beard cocked, revealing his gold teeth. He patted Onya's shoulder vigorously and praised him in thick American English: "Well done!"
The ransom is all in the form of airdropped US dollar cash!
In addition to the share given to the insider who provided the information, some benefits to the local government, and rewards to the pirate members, the pirate gangs used the money to upgrade their pirate ships and weapons and ammunition!
After spending all this money till now, there is still more than 3 million US dollars in cash left!
This is really a good deal for him!
Not only that, Yan Jiuru also learned from Onya that at the beginning of the year, another group of more arrogant pirates called the "Bloody Barons" hijacked a giant oil tanker!
The ransom for that ship of oil was even higher than their tanks.
Because that group of pirates was very rampant and educated, they threatened to dump oil into the sea if the ransom was not paid!
They even know that if oil pollutes the sea, cargo owners or ship owners will have to pay huge additional environmental cleanup fees.
After adding the two together, weighing the pros and cons, and negotiating with the middleman, the pirates received a hefty ransom.
Now we are celebrating.
***
It doesn't matter whether you have money or not.
Lord Demon would never admit that he was tempted by this little money.
His main purpose is to maintain peace in this sea area.
After all, Emerald Island is a tourist island, and pirates come to harass it from time to time, affecting his business, so he must be compensated.
This money is only part of the compensation.
What?
You said it wasn't your Shark Gang who did it?
I said it was you who did it!
You're already a pirate, and you still want to be reasonable?
There must be too much salt in your brain!
***
Yan Jiuru gave loyalty talismans to Onya and a dozen of his capable right-hand men and cleared their memories, and the remaining useless pirates were dealt with efficiently.
"Move the supplies that need to be moved. Oh, and leave some for Onya and the others to live on."
He planned to take this group of pirates for himself.
It's not that they were asked to rob passing ships, but mainly to patrol the relevant waters and crack down on other pirates who wanted to come to Emerald Island.
Of course, there is also the idea of developing new forces.
Just look at the mercenaries who turned against us and you will know that another group of forces must be introduced to act as a check and balance.
Otherwise, let alone the fact that he might not come here once a year, even if he stayed on the island every day, it would not be surprising that these subordinates would form cliques, engage in intrigue, or even be bribed.
This time he killed the chicken to scare the monkey, and then made another warning to scare the tiger, which might at least stabilize the situation for a while.
***
"Lead the way, Onya, let's go and get him! Hahaha——" Yan Jiuru was in a hurry, so he didn't let anyone rest and led the team away in a speedboat.
The Shark Gang has more than thirty members, which is considered a large pirate organization in this area. The so-called "Bloody Baron" has less than fifty members.
From Onya, he learned that the two groups of pirates had not had much conflict in the past, mainly because their "businesses" were different.
Before the development of their business, the Shark Gang also roamed among the thousands of islands and reefs in the Bahamas, and their main targets of robbery were private yachts and the like.
Because there are thousands of visible reefs and countless hidden reefs in this sea area, ordinary ships cannot navigate.
However, the tourism resources here are very good. Despite the presence of pirates, it still attracts many wealthy and powerful tourists to come for vacation and leisure.
Especially after the development of Emerald Island, with its own armed forces patrolling, tourism in this area has become even more popular.
It is conceivable that because some mercenaries tipped off the pirates, Yan Jiuru's losses amounted to several million US dollars every year.
Killing a few traitors will never ease the hatred in the heart of the Demon Lord.
We must double it up and make him work illegally for the rest of his life!
Oh, I’m getting off topic.
But the Shark Gang has changed its leader now. Onya has some connections in the local area, so he expanded the scope of his business to special areas and started to specialize in robbing specific targets.
The pirate organization called "Bloody Baron" is quite far away from this sea area. Even for Onya's new armed speedboat, it takes more than three hours to drive there, and he has to refuel during the journey.
"Look there!"
Onya pointed at a small black dot in the distance and said, "That's the Bloody Baron's ship. They're nearby."
Yan Jiuru had already released his spiritual sense, and the small black dot in the eyes of others was clearly visible to him: it was a medium-sized armed speedboat!
There were five or six armed men on the speedboat, scanning the sea with binoculars.
This is the patrol boat.
Yan Jiuru passed by the patrol boat and his sights quickly fell on a large trawler floating more than ten nautical miles away.
The fishing boat must be at least one thousand tons, with the Bahamian flag flying high on the mast and the fishing boat number clearly marked on the hull.
However, if you look closely, you will find that the boat is full of militants and there are no fishermen at all!
This is the so-called pirate mother ship!
Yan Jiu ordered: "Slow down!"
"What's wrong?"
"Damn! These guys have heavy weapons!"
He pretended to take the latest American military binoculars that Onia had 'friendly donated', and his mind fell on the tugboat:
Holy crap!!!
There were five guns on each side of the ship, plus three Soviet-made anti-tank rocket launchers! Equipped with more than a dozen armor-piercing rounds!
In addition, there are three 12.7mm heavy machine guns mounted on the left and right sides of the ship!
47 AKM assault rifles, plus 300 magazines!
20 pistols, 129 magazines! Six armed personnel carrying pistols.
There are also 90 defensive grenades hidden in a dark layer under the deck, which should be used by the leaders to deal with foreign forces.
The most important thing is that this thing actually has satellite communication jammers and encrypted radios!
Encrypted radio stations and the like are fine, the key point is the satellite communication jammer!
As far as he knew, this thing had not yet been developed in Xuan Country due to technical barriers and foreign blockades.
Is this still a pirate?
This equipment is even as good as the navy!
Yan Jiuru wiped the saliva that was dripping from his mouth, stared at the sea in front of him without blinking, and gently made a stop gesture.
Others didn't know what was going on, but the deputy captain of the mercenaries knew at a glance that the island owner was jealous.
Okay!
Who knows what kind of spoils we'll be dragging back to the island this time.
These bloodthirsty people like to share the spoils the most.
Although there may be casualties in the process, the profits are indeed huge.
It can be said that a large proportion of mercenaries and pirates are retired soldiers from neighboring countries.
These countries have been in military conflict for many years. Some people who withdrew from the armed forces after a phased ceasefire have no one to rely on. They either recruit a group of people to become pirates or become mercenaries and continue to carry guns and work for others.
Anyway, whether you are risking your life or not, it’s the same.
***
Yan Jiuru ordered his troops to ambush in a hidden place on an island or reef fifty nautical miles away from the Bloody Baron.
"Stay here tonight and wait for me to come back!"
He jumped into the sea himself and dived towards the mother ship.
The art of war says: Only by knowing yourself and the enemy can you win every battle.
At such a long distance, it would definitely not work if he used all his spiritual sense to explore. Once he consumed too much, it would be very dangerous for him.
After all, none of the hundreds of people around me are good people.
***
The sea water is still very cold in the evening in May.
Yan Jiu felt colder as he dived more than 20 meters.
After making sure that no one on the sea could see him anymore, he took out a scale shed from a transformed dragon that he had obtained in an unknown year and held it in his hand.
After being activated, the scales transformed into a virtual dragon, which was controlled by Yan Jiuru and flew quickly towards the mother ship.
"I wonder if this boat has a fish finder~"
Fish finders are a type of civilian sonar device, some of which can cover a very wide range.
Yan Jiuru had to be cautious.
As they approached the Bloody Baron, Yan Jiuru's expression became unclear.
He discovered that this Bloody Baron, although he had robbed a legitimate trawler and modified it, he had removed the fish finder!
This is equivalent to poking out one's own eyes and becoming a blind person under the sea.
On the other hand, the pirates are very vigilant. Even when anchored, half of the engines are still idling, and the huge stirring force of the propellers is still very dangerous to anyone approaching.
If you are not careful, it can be sucked over and crushed.
Of course this applies to most people, but it is not a problem for Yan Jiuru.
He quietly approached the cabin of the crew's living area, where he could hear the conversations on the ship more clearly.
In order to save energy, Yan Jiuru clung to the bottom of a suspended ladder immersed in sea water. The virtual dragon turned back into scales and stuck to his chest, providing him with heat and reducing the impact of the water flow.
The pirates on the mother ship had some remnants of Spanish in their accents, and they were talking and laughing loudly and unscrupulously while preparing to have dinner.
At this time, they were still immersed in the huge harvest they had recently achieved.
From their disjointed conversation, we learned that the exact time of hijacking the oil tanker was February, but the actual negotiation and collection of the ransom did not take place until mid-April.
The negotiations during this period were extremely difficult and lasted for more than two months.
Less than a month after receiving the money, Yan Jiuru felt that this shipload of high-end goods might have been purchased in exchange for the ransom.
***
Yan Jiuru observed patiently.
It was not until dinner was served on the boat that Yan Jiuru saw the pirate leader, the Bloody Baron, appear.
He had the usual pirate beard and wore a captain's hat. He spoke a few words to the guards and took a military telescope to personally check the sea conditions.
Afterwards, a brief conversation was conducted via radio with three speedboats on alert duty.
He asked, "What's the weather like on the sea there?"
The other party replied: "The sea is calm", "No fish found yet", etc.
It's easy to tell that this is a code word, and it's easy to understand and easier to disguise.
Because most fishing boats do use these words frequently.
The Bloody Baron did not eat with the crew. He just chatted with a few confidants and then returned to his cabin. During this time, someone brought him dinner.
Yan Jiuru patiently observed for another hour.
He found that the Bloody Baron kept a sufficient distance from his men and rarely showed up unless necessary.
Moreover, he was indeed brutal.
He witnessed with his own eyes the guy shooting and killing a member and throwing him into the sea.
It reduced his risk.
It was simply because that member got drunk and yelled, "Didn't we ship to Jamaica before? Why are we going to Nassau this time?"
These words made Yan Jiuru's heart move.
As the owner of the island, he is very familiar with some of the rules of this sea area.
These two are generally the places where smuggled goods or pirates sell stolen goods, but there are some differences between them.
The smuggled goods generally handled in Jamaica are mainly bulk goods such as tobacco and alcohol, and industrial raw materials from hijacked ships;
Nassau in the Bahamas mainly deals with valuable items such as jewelry, precious metals, valuable equipment removed from hijacked ships such as radar, fish finders, navigation devices, etc., as well as some small but high-value high-tech items.
Because the ship was modified and installed with very thick steel plates, a lot of pirates' belongings were stored in the cabin, many of which were sealed and reinforced boxes that could not be easily penetrated by spiritual consciousness.
Although it was a bit risky, Yan Jiuru still decided to go on board and take a look.
***
He did not wait until late at night, but took advantage of the pirates' drinking and made an invisible charm, then quietly climbed up the ladder.
The hidden talisman is more advanced than the invisibility talisman. It not only hides the body shape, but also leaves no trace.
He had not forgotten that when he was exploring a certain Nidi Space Center, he almost let someone discover the depression in the grass where he sat down.
For example, now, when he comes up from the sea, he may leave water stains on the ladder, which the guards may notice if they are more careful, including the footprints left by him walking on the deck and the smell of the sea.
People who have been at sea for a long time are very sensitive to the taste of fresh sea water.
The concealment talisman does not have these hidden dangers. It can not only hide the entity but also eliminate all auras.
Even if you bump into someone, you won't notice.
It's almost like air.
Of course, the concealment talisman's effectiveness is shorter, only one hour.
Yan Jiuru quietly passed through the pirates and headed straight for the cargo hold at the bottom of the ship.
This ship had five cargo holds of different sizes. One large hold that he could see with his spiritual sense was filled with weapons and ammunition, and next to it was the pirates' looted belongings. Now he could clearly see that there were boxes of gold and US dollars inside!
The other middle cabin was full of opium!
One of the remaining two cabins contained the pirates' necessary food, drink and other supplies, and the other cabin was full of fuel.
"Guessed wrong again?"
Yan Jiuru couldn't help but fall into deep thought.
He never doubted his intuition. He felt that what he was looking for should be on this ship or somewhere related to this ship.
But, there is no such thing.
Not to mention ten large boxes of disassembled model parts, just some paper materials...
Paper?
Thinking of this, Yan Jiuru suddenly realized that he had also fallen into a misunderstanding:
Who says stolen information must be in paper form?
Now it is entirely possible to store it on a floppy disk!
I cursed a few times in my heart, thinking that someone must have deliberately misled everyone.
Yes, some people want to obtain this technical information, while others want to destroy it or take it back. How can the news that has been spread be true?!
After figuring this out, Yan Jiuru went to the captain's lounge to check.
He found that the Bloody Baron was not sleeping, but was busy doing something with the cabin door closed.
Through the hatch, he could see an unknown metal box piled on the table. Inside was neither manuscript paper nor floppy disks, but a stack of computer hard drives!
Damn the horse!
If his Russian is correct, this should be the document everyone is looking for.
He realized at this moment that what the Bloody Baron was busy with might be the model of the space-based laser weapon platform that Great Russia had lost!
The only model.
Just at this moment, someone on night shift came to report the situation at sea.
Yan Jiuru's heated mind suddenly calmed down.
Whether he just wants to get the things or take over the ship, he must first consider how to evacuate safely, otherwise he will not be able to bring the things back.
. . . . . .
***
The Bloody Baron did not let his men enter the cabin, but walked out himself and closed the cabin door.
After the two of them walked away while talking, Yan Jiuru went straight to the table.
Yes, he came in in the ten seconds it took the other party to open and close the hatch.
He couldn't read the contents of the hard drives, but the labels on each hard drive were in Russian and numbered from 0 to 9!
No matter what, just put it away first!
Looking at the model parts waiting to be assembled, which exuded a cold grey luster, he picked up a piece and found it was indeed heavy, with a density comparable to gold, and the fingerprints left behind disappeared almost instantly.
This is tungsten gold material used only in the military!
Tungsten itself is not expensive, but its export is strictly restricted.
Whether it is armor-piercing bullets, high-temperature resistant components of rockets or key materials for nuclear protection, tungsten is used!
At the military level, tungsten is a military consumable and is irreplaceable.
Therefore, the main tungsten producing areas such as Russia and China strictly restrict exports. Other countries, including the United States, can only obtain tungsten from third parties through re-export and other means.
Glancing over, I saw four assembled pieces on the table, and a dozen or so loose parts.
Yan Jiuru even suspected that this guy was treating the models he was frantically looking for all over the world as building blocks?!
But these are obviously not all.
Yan Jiuru moved his feet and almost tripped.
Looking down, I saw an inconspicuous metal box casually placed on the ground.
Wow, it turns out these boxes have been specially treated, and the human eye can easily be deceived and overlooked.
No matter what, you can't miss it if you come across it.
Yan Jiuru quickly tightened the storage ring, thought for a while, took out another piece of phantom wood, smashed it with a palm, and transformed it into the shape of a storage ring for the hard drives and spare parts.
He was just about to continue checking the cabin when he heard footsteps outside. It was the Bloody Baron returning!
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