After leaving Hong Kong, the Snow Knight broke through the storm and left Hong Kong, and successively stopped at Nha Trang in Annam, Pattaya, Thailand, and Singapore to recuperate, and then crossed the Strait of Malacca, coasted north to Phuket, Thailand, and crossed the Bay of Bengal from the Andaman Sea, and arrived in Colombo, Sri Lanka a few days later.

After three days in this gem country, we set off again.

Passing through the Maldives, carrying a batch of supplies for the local capital Male, then heading southwest into the Indian Ocean, near the edge of the windless belt of the equatorial line, passing through the Seychelles Islands, all the way to Mogadishu, the capital of Somalia on the east coast of the African continent, to make final replenishment preparations for entering the Gulf of Aden, and at the same time agree on the itinerary of the warship escort.

After all, the pirates in the Gulf of Aden have always been there, and the cruise ship full of high-rollers is definitely a big fat sheep, and if you kidnap a few at will, it will be a lot of money, so an armed escort is necessary.

Escort warships are sometimes US military, sometimes Russian military, or Chinese, basically multinational countries take turns to escort the ship, the most exaggerated one, the waters of the Gulf of Aden once gathered a quarter of the world's maritime combat forces.

With a day to go to Mogadishu, the cruise crew knocked on the door one by one to inform the passengers who were about to disembark at the approximate arrival time, and the empty cabins would be occupied by the newly boarded passengers.

The cruise ship is like a bus, with passengers constantly getting on and off at stops along the way, and the Snow Knight's route basically cruises between Asia and Europe, constantly going back and forth.

On the evening of the last day, Sun Nanzheng and Ximendong began to pack their personal luggage.

Mogadishu's arrival time is around 9 a.m. local time the next day, which means that after breakfast, it is time to set foot on the African continent.

The reason why I chose a cruise ship is that in addition to not being in a hurry, I can also carry enough accompanying materials.

If you take a plane, it will be faster, but the baggage allowance will make it impossible for them to carry too many things, but the cruise ship does not have this worry, as long as you can take it around, you can take it on board casually.

Just like Sun Nanzheng, one person brought two 28-inch suitcases, as well as a large-capacity backpack, which contained a whole box of instant noodles alone.

For many Chinese people, instant noodles are often a must-have when they are away from home.

The Ximen reporter still reported to the Beijing training base with the same luggage, a large suitcase and a backpack, but there was an extra large duffel bag, which was full of food and medicine, and was fully prepared for the long trip.

With the storage ring in his hand, Li Bai is still light and simple, a suitcase is enough, and he doesn't need to hold too many things in his hands.

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In the middle of the night, a shrill siren suddenly sounded on the cruise ship.

"Please note that in the event of an emergency on the cruise ship, please close the doors and windows, do not go out, and do not open the door to strangers......"

In the corridor of the cabin, the captain's voice rang out in the dining and entertainment venues, repeated several times in Chinese, Japanese, English, Korean and Thai.

The phones in each cabin rang in unison, and the same content was the same after answering.

Almost immediately, all the passengers panicked.

"it, what's going on? It's not going to hit the iceberg, is it? Dr. Li, Dr. Li, come out and see what's going on!"

Sun Nanzheng, who was still bursting the liver code, opened the door and ran to the balcony to look out, while shouting at Li Bai's balcony.

When he heard about the emergency on the cruise ship, he immediately thought of the Titani.

It's just that the probability of hitting an iceberg near the equator is very small.

"It's a pirate!"

Li Bai, who came to the balcony of the guest room, pointed to the sea outside where he couldn't see his fingers, and there was a faint sound of a motor.

His eyesight was far better than ordinary people, and he immediately spotted several speedboats chasing the cruise ship at sea, and the distance between the two sides was getting closer and closer.

As if to confirm Li Bai's words, a sound of ping-pong came from afar, and there was a striking firelight flickering, which was particularly eye-catching in the night, and the location of those speedboats was revealed at once.

Sun Nanzheng, who had been shooting a lot of guns at the training base in the capital, was no stranger to gunshots, and immediately blurted out: "It's gunshots! It's really gunshots!"

He then shouted hoarsely, "There are pirates!

Sun Fatzi's voice was like a stone stirring up a thousand waves.

On the nearby balcony, there were also many brave passengers who did not heed the captain's warning, still looking out curiously.

After hearing Sun Nanzheng's shout, it was immediately like a fried pot, and the reaction was strong.

"Pirates, how can there be pirates here?"

"Really!"

"Is this gunshot?"

"The pirates are firing at us!

"Ahh

"It's really gunshots, close the doors and windows, and hide the money!"

For a while, shouts and screams came and went, and the frightened people fled back to the cabin, closed the doors and windows, closed the curtains, and hid in the room shivering.

The cruise captain's reminder was right, if you continue to stand rashly on the balcony, it is no different from a live target.

God knows if those vicious pirates will kill the killers and slaughter a few unlucky children first.

Sun Nanzheng was stunned all of a sudden, shouted at Li Bai, and was about to retract into the room.

"Hide!"

"Hide in the bathroom, one more wall, it's safer. ”

Li Bai stood on the balcony, did not move, and reminded him.

With only the double-layer tempered glass between the guest room and the balcony, if you want to block the bullet, I'm afraid it's enough to choke.

Hiding in the bathroom is more secure.

"Oh, got it!"

Sun Fatzi slipped away in a blink of an eye.

“STOP！STOP......”

The speedboat followed the cruise ship closely, and someone was shouting with an electric horn, presumably trying to stop the behemoth.

A daring speedboat simply stuck up and tried to board the ship.

Smack!~

Two red flares were fired into the sky from the cruise ship, presumably calling for help from nearby ships.

The atmosphere aboard the Snow Knight suddenly became tense.

Li Bai simply took out a few sodas, leaned against the balcony fence, and became a melon-eating spectator.

He wasn't afraid that the pirates would actually shoot at him.

The cruise ship was not really unarmed, and according to Li Bai's understanding, the security guards on board were armed with guns, but they were limited to a few pistols and shotguns, with limited bullets, and the intensity of firepower was far from comparable to that of pirates equipped with automatic weapons and rockets.

If the front is tough, it is obvious that the food will be exhausted in minutes.

There were also people on the cruise ship who were shouting with electric horns, trying to negotiate with the sudden arrival of pirates.

Open the door to do business, you can't understand how to do it in black and white, especially on cruise ships that specialize in international routes, there are naturally some people on the Snow Knight who are responsible for dealing with the forces in the gray or even black areas.

The electric horns on both sides crumbled and shouted obscure black words to each other, and the pirates also had their own code words, which the layman who did not understand at all would often be confused.

Probably because the conditions were difficult to negotiate for a while, the cruise ship did not slow down, still sailing towards Mogadishu, and those speedboats did not give up, and followed closely to the side, like a vicious wolf staring at a big buffalo, constantly swimming around, waiting for an opportunity to find a place to go down.

A dark figure climbed onto the cruise ship with difficulty with both hands and feet, stood on the balcony of the cabin on the lowest floor, raised the AK automatic rifle in his hand, and howled proudly.

"Ollie gives ......"

Burst!~

Li Bai directly sprayed a sip of Fanta soda.

Nima, what the hell is this?

Also Ollie gives, why do you see too much at station B, right?

He flipped through an unopened can of soda and tossed it out.

I don't know if it's a good fate or a bad fate, the goods are climbing directly below Li Bai, across the five or six floors of the balcony.

The cans came silently, and in the next second of taking off their hands, they hit the target.

"Ao ......" naturally became "......"

After the condescending full can is endowed with acceleration kinetic energy, can it be better to hit the head again?

The black pirate holding the AK47 in one hand was directly smashed by the canister with a gun.

Triumph turned into screams, which was dramatic.

Below the cruise ship, where Li Bai couldn't see, there was a squeak, obviously those pirates didn't know what was going on.

After a while, another thief-headed pirate climbed up, still wearing a striking white T-shirt and a half-new helmet on his head, and he could faintly see the bullet holes and scratches, and he didn't know where he had come from.

He was about to tumble onto the balcony when he was hit the head without warning.

Before he could scream, he repeated the mistake of the previous one, and went back to where he came from.

Li Bai was still holding a can of car in his hand, throwing it up and down.

Xiao Li Fei's "knife", there is no false hair.

On the table on the balcony, there are also a few sweet oranges, cans of soda, red wine bottles, and two-pot heads, which can be described as "full of ammunition".

It is estimated that there are not enough pirates on a speedboat.

The pirate speedboats that followed the Snow Knight were a little confused, and they failed inexplicably to board the ship twice in a row.

The two pirate accomplices who fell, one was lucky, fell into the speedboat, but was thrown half to death, and the other was even more unlucky, falling directly into the sea, and the black light is blind, and it is estimated that he will not be able to get it back.

Ping Pong, a few more shots rang out outside the cruise ship, the pirates couldn't get on the ship, and the cruise ship couldn't negotiate the terms, and the two sides were deadlocked.

However, over time, it will be advantageous for the Snow Knight Cruises, after all, the closer it is to the African continent, the more reinforcements may arrive at any time.

The eastern sky gradually began to brighten, and dawn quietly came.

The speedboats that were chasing the cruise ship suddenly clinged to each other, trying to forcibly board the ship en masse, and control the entire Snow Knight in one fell swoop.

The atmosphere on board the ship immediately became tense, and the security guards with guns were in place, ready to engage the pirates on board.

To be honest, the security guards were even more jealous at this moment, not daring to take the initiative to open fire easily, on the one hand, because of the serious lack of firepower, it was difficult to resist the pirates' onslaught, and on the other hand, they were afraid of angering the pirates and causing a retaliatory massacre.

As for the unspoken rules of Somali pirates in the Gulf of Aden, even if they seek money rather than life as rumored, no one dares to bet all their bets on the credit of the pirates, who knows if they will turn their faces and deny people in the next second.

Either way, it is a serious damage to the business reputation of the Snow Knight, and who will dare to take this cruise ship that cannot guarantee the safety of passengers in the future.

I don't know if these pirates are lacking in heart or overconfident, they did not disperse from the left and right sides of the cruise ship to board together, but concentrated on one side.

However, Li Bai didn't know that the other party was so stupid, he only saw pirates poking their heads out of the balcony fence at the bottom floor, sweet oranges, cans, and wine bottles flew out one by one, just casually.

Like whack-a-mole, all the pirates who came up were smashed down.

The pirate who was the furthest away, half of the red wine bottle left crossed a parabola and fell straight down from the sky, and it fell straight on his head, and he opened the scoop on the spot, his eyes rolled white, and he still had the strength in his hand, and the whole person fell.

The pirates who kept falling like dumplings startled the accomplices on the speedboat.

What's going on?

For a while, those speedboats close to the cruise ship scattered in a hurry, and some turned around to fish for their accomplices, in the vast sea, once they fell into the sea, they would have to worry about their lives.

After a while, there were only two speedboats left on the side of the cruise ship, and they were still insisting on chasing.

Although the pirates did not give up, for the Snow Knight, the pressure was greatly reduced.

The security guards turned their eyes to see which heroes made a move to knock those pirates into the sea one by one, but Li Bai had already returned to the guest room, ready to make up for the cage.

A speedboat following the cruise ship suddenly rose into flames, and some of the pirates on it jumped and jumped, trying to shake off the flames on their bodies, some took off their clothes and kept plopping, and some simply jumped into the sea.

In addition to the guns in their hands, there were sweet oranges, cans, and unopened two-pot heads that fell with the pirates.

The degree of the second pot head is above 60 degrees, and it is basically ignited when you see the fire.

The pirates watched their accomplices fall from above, not noticing anything else strange that had fallen into the speedboat.

Coincidentally, a bottle full of two pots smashed into one of the speedboats, and high-purity alcohol flowed everywhere, and a pirate smoked and lit the fire, accidentally igniting the alcohol, and the fire suddenly broke out.

Boom!~~

An even larger flame rose and blew the entire speedboat upside down.

In order to sail to the open sea to intercept the cruise ship, these speedboats carried two extra barrels of gasoline on board, one of which was not tightly covered, and was directly ignited by the diffused alcohol flame and other items that were ignited, and in just a dozen seconds, the fire on the speedboat was completely out of control.

The explosion of the oil barrel was quite powerful, and it immediately swept the pirates on the ship away.

However, the pirates who jumped into the sea in advance were quite prescient and were not affected by the explosion, but they could only float in vain, waiting for rescue.

The last speedboat had to abandon the Snow Knight in order to save its accomplices.

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