The sun sets, and the red glow reflects the sky.

The sea level and the horizon that seem to be connected in the distance are fiery red and gorgeous.

The gentle breeze ripples on the pale red sea, refracting the red glow of the distant sunset.

Several seagulls flutter their wings in the wind and soar in the evening sky, moving sensitively and quickly, accompanying the behemoth that sails slowly on the surface of the sea.

The entire Cangyun ocean-going freighter, at a speed of 20 knots per hour, slowly sailed on the boundless sea.

"To be reasonable, I hate boats."

At the top of the bow deck, after dinner, he held a bag of lychees with sandwich biscuits, looked at the sea around him, which had not changed at all, and sighed.

After the words are finished, take out a sandwich biscuit and stuff it into your mouth as a supplement after eating.

When you come, you take a boat, when you come back, and the life of wandering the sea and traveling around the world seems to be comfortable and comfortable, but in fact it is extremely boring.

"Almost, it's almost the Sulawesi Sea, and I'll be back home in four days."

Standing next to him was Zhou Hai, dressed in ordinary casual clothes and jeans, standing tall, holding the chocolate that had just torn the wrapper in his hand, after hearing the sighs and complaints of Lychee, he smiled, took a bite, and looked at the green island more than thirty nautical miles away in front of him, as well as the continuous hard reef in the outer area.

This small, uninhabited island of greenery and sandy beaches, owned by the Beo Islands and administered by Indonesia, is the last uninhabited island at the eastern exit of the international shipping lanes of the Sulawesi Sea.

Now, after 19 days of safe sailing, the Cangyun has traveled more than 10,000 kilometers to return the same way as it was in the Pacific Ocean.

Initially starting from the port of Madryn, it sails around the icy Drake Passage, which is covered with fine ice, across thousands of kilometers of the South Atlantic Ocean, through the high seas between New Zealand and Tonga, into Oceania and Southeast Asia, and then sails from the international shipping lanes at the tip of the Solomon Islands to the western Pacific region, where it continues for more than 2,600 kilometers.

Here, only a hundred kilometers away from the Sulawesi Sea!

Coming here, you are about to step into the Sulawesi Sea, which is located in the western Pacific Ocean, which means that you are only 1,300 kilometers away from the southern sea.

From the port of Guangcheng in the south, there are only the last 3,200 kilometers left!

Argentina's return trip has come to an end.

"Hmm."

Facing the sea breeze, Lychee held the sandwich biscuit box in his hand, kept chewing in his mouth, and after swallowing, he sorted out his thoughts and said slowly: "This is a good place, the eastern exit of the Sulawesi Sea, the choke point, if we can establish an air base belonging to us on Beo Island, equipped with J-16 and J-20, we can almost radiate Southeast Asia." ”

Lychee, who has learned the route map, naturally understands that the Cangyun is about to cross Beo Island and sail into the Sulawesi Sea.

And different people look at things from different angles and directions.

In the eyes of the military, there is only war and preparation for war.

Beo Island, part of Indonesia, occupies an inconspicuous position in peacetime, but it is crucial in wartime.

The island is located at the center of the eastern outlet of the Sulawesi Sea, guarding the entire important international shipping route, bordering the Pacific Ocean to the east, Oceania to the south, the Indian Ocean to the west, and the southern seas to the north.

From a military strategic point of view, if a well-established large-scale air base is established here, according to the combat performance of the J-16 and J-20 heavy aircraft, it can radiate the entire central region of Southeast Asia, threaten the most important Guam base in the western Pacific region of the US military, and then contain the radiation range of the other side.

"Unfortunately, this place doesn't belong to us." Zhou Hai shrugged his shoulders and took a bite of chocolate.

That's right, but it's useless.

Beo Island, which has a difficult terrain, does not belong to China, and there are no basic conditions and prerequisites for the establishment of an air base.

As a matter of fact, the establishment of an air base anywhere in eastern Southeast Asia can radiate a large area of Southeast Asia and have the strategic effect of containing the US military base on Guam.

But again, this place does not belong to Huaxia.

Of course, if the motherland gives relevant tasks, Zhou Hai will not mind snatching these fertile and priceless lands.

"It's a pity, forget it, don't talk about it."

Lychee nodded, with a smile on his face: "There are four days to return to China, after going back this time, I can finally rest for a while, by the way, accompany my wife and children, I am going to travel to Mount Emei, see the golden monkeys, go to Jinding to experience the feeling of sacrificing the cliff, and then go to Xicheng to see the Mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang, the child has not been there, and has been shouting to go." ”

"Sacrifice Cliff? Mausoleum of the First Emperor? I have the feeling that I suddenly don't want to talk to you, that you're both topic busters...... Well? ”

Zhou Hai's face was speechless, his eyes looked at the sunset that was gradually setting on the sea in the distance, and at this moment, he suddenly found something, and he was a little puzzled, and his attention turned to the lychee beside him: "Eh...... Lychee, I want to ask you something. ”

"What's the matter?" Sensing Zhou Hai's gaze, Lychee, who was looking forward to returning to China for a trip, was slightly puzzled and a little curious.

"There are pirates in the Sulawesi Sea?"

Zhou Hai nibbled on the chocolate, retracted his gaze, and re-threw himself at the four speedboats that were hiding in the dazzling red glow at high speed, and said the problems in his heart.

If Zhou Hai is not mistaken, about 30 men in black turbans sit on top of the four high-speed speedboats, each armed with the iconic AK-47 assault rifle and RPG-7 bazooka.

This, it seems, is a modern-day pirate?

Pirates in Southeast Asia?

Isn't this stuff unique to the world-famous Somalia?

Lychee was stunned, momentarily stunned, and hurriedly said, "Pirates? Zero, don't be kidding, it's a big deal. ”

Pirate?

Pirates preparing to attack the ocean freighter Cangyun?

This kind of thing is no joke.

You must know that the seemingly ordinary Cangyun freighter carries the most valuable wealth of the Air Force, four fighter pilots of the instructor team to Afghanistan, and a ground service squadron that has mastered the maintenance technology of J-10C, Qingjiao and Jade Bird!

"In the direction of the setting sun, at a distance of about twenty nautical miles, four speedboats, full of suspected pirate militants, the number of which is unknown for the time being, are heading towards us at high speed, you can visually determine with binoculars."

Zhou Hai, who didn't get an answer from Lychee's mouth and was puzzled in his heart, snorted his mouth, ate the chocolate snacks in his hand with three times and five divided by two, and his extremely keen eyes carefully observed the four speedboats sailing at high speed on the sea, and said slowly.

Pirate?

Looking at this posture, there are a large number of people, AK-47 and RPG-7 are complete, taking advantage of the right time in the evening, adopting the tactic of using the afterglow, hiding their whereabouts, and speeding up to approach the slow-moving Cangyun freighter, it seems that it is really a pirate.

The question is, there are actually pirates in the Sulawesi Sea?

Zhou Hai couldn't figure it out, could it be a new market opened up by Somali pirates who traveled thousands of miles to open up?