Peng Fei glanced at the two people at the door, waved, and said, "Liu Wu, Zhao Jun, you two come over here too, is that alright?"
Although Peng Fei's men were well-trained, their only shortcoming was a lack of real combat experience.
Moreover, although they are soldiers from special forces, many of them have never had blood on their hands. Peng Fei wanted them to truly experience a life of blood and fire.
Upon hearing Peng Fei's words, the two security guards at the entrance immediately stood at attention and shouted, "Reporting, Captain, no problem..."
After the two followed Peng Fei into a room next door, Li Zhen turned to Zhuang Rui and asked, "Brother Zhuang, what should we do with those two?"
"Our ship has suffered such great damage, shouldn't we get some compensation?"
Zhuang Rui laughed upon hearing this, and continued, "That skinny guy is the third-in-command in Liu Minghui's organization. I believe he knows a lot of things. Shura, this matter depends on your methods..."
Zhuang Rui had met Lao San at a casino in Macau and knew that he was the strategist in Liu Minghui's organization. People like him were the ones who knew the most.
"Brother Zhuang, don't worry, my skills are almost as good as Peng Fei's..."
Upon hearing Zhuang Rui's words, Li Zhen stood up and intended to go to the room where the two men were being held in solitary confinement.
"Wait a minute, I'll go with you later..."
Zhuang Rui suddenly heard a few muffled groans coming from the next room. Knowing what had happened inside, he felt a tightness in his chest.
Chapter 945 The Aftermath (Part 2)
About seven or eight minutes later, Peng Fei walked out of the room next door with a blank expression, while the two people behind him were pale and looked very unwell.
"Liu Wu, you usually train really hard, why are you chickening out now?"
Peng Fei seemed dissatisfied with one of them, and started scolding him after they came out.
Upon hearing Peng Fei's words, Liu Wu's expression turned even more grim. He glanced at Zhuang Rui inside the room and whispered, "Team...team leader, they...they are human beings too, not chickens to be slaughtered..."
Liu Wu was a model trainee in the army and thought he could do the same here, but Peng Fei's performance just now made him realize what cold-bloodedness and ruthlessness really meant.
"You...you fucking..."
Peng Fei glared at him, about to unleash a torrent of abuse. In their unit, there was no such thing as persuasion or education; whoever had the bigger fist was right.
“Peng Fei…”
Zhuang Rui stepped forward, stopped Peng Fei, and asked, "Liu Wu, how many people did these people kill in total?"
"About 40 or so. They killed more than 30 crew members when they hijacked the oil tanker a few days ago..."
Liu Wu was right next to Peng Fei when he interrogated these people, so he knew the exact numbers very well. He just didn't understand why Zhuang Rui was asking this.
Where are the women?
Zhuang Rui then asked.
"Ten...eleven women, all of them were raped and then murdered..."
As Liu Wu spoke, he slowly raised his head, which had been lowered, and straightened his chest. He seemed to understand Zhuang Rui's meaning.
After seeing Liu Wu's complexion return to normal, Zhuang Rui patted him on the shoulder and said, "It's good that you know. These people don't deserve to be called human. Death is the best end for them. If they didn't die, who knows how many more people would have died in this world..."
"Yes, Mr. Zhuang, I understand."
After being comforted by Zhuang Rui, Liu Wu finally resolved his inner conflict.
"Hehe, from now on, just call me Brother Zhuang..."
Zhuang Rui laughed. Sending such young men to witness death, even if their hearts are strong enough, would take them a while to process.
At that time, Zhuang Rui hated Muta to the core, but when he saw Muta being toyed with by King Kong and on the verge of death, he felt a pang of pity. However, he understood even more that being lenient with the enemy was being cruel to himself.
"Alright, Li Zhen, bring those two people out..."
Zhuang Rui glanced at his watch; it was already past six in the morning. He figured that more and more people would wake up soon, and the ship's security personnel wouldn't be able to keep things under control. Those employees from mainland companies had no sense of discipline whatsoever.
After hearing Zhuang Rui's words, Li Zhen turned around and went into a room. In just a few seconds, he dragged two people into the room where Zhuang Rui was.
"Oh……"
Even though what had just happened in the room next door, Zhuang Rui couldn't help but laugh when he saw the two of them.
It's unclear whether Li Zhen did it or Peng Fei tied them up, but the two men were in a rather strange position. Their thumbs were tied upside down behind their backs, and their feet were also bent backwards, tied together with their thumbs like an acrobatic act, making their whole bodies appear as if they were in a reverse bow shape.
"Ptooey, ptooey..."
After Li Zhen threw the two men on the ground, he took the smelly socks out of their mouths, and the two men hurriedly spat out the socks.
"Big brother, big brother, I didn't mean to throw up on you, it just smells awful..."
The third brother, with his keen eyesight, saw Li Zhen's face harden and immediately began to explain, fearing that if things went wrong, his life would be over.
"Alright, Third Brother, we meet again..."
Zhuang Rui squatted down in front of the third brother. He knew that this man was Liu Minghui's strategist, but he didn't know whether he deserved to die or not, or how many bad things he had done.
"Mr. Zhuang... Mr. Zhuang, this... this isn't my fault. I advised my brother not to oppose you, but he's bewitched and just won't listen..."
When the third brother saw Zhuang Rui, his eyes darted around, and he squeezed out a few tears, loudly complaining that he looked just like a little wife who had been taken advantage of by Brother Hui's mother.
"##@￥%……"
While the third brother was speaking, the person next to him started babbling incoherently, but he wasn't speaking English or Chinese, leaving Zhuang Rui completely confused.
"Brother Zhuang, he said he has some things to be honest with..."
Li Zhen understood; the man was speaking a local dialect of Malaysia, which most people wouldn't understand.
Zhuang Rui glanced at the third brother, nodded, and said, "Take him to the room next door..."
Seeing the Malay being taken away, the third brother had a bad feeling and quickly said, "Mr. Zhuang... Mr. Zhuang, you... you are a civilized man. If you are willing to let me go, I will tell you everything about Liu Minghui..."
Zhuang Rui smiled and shook his head, saying, "I'm a civilized person, but your behavior is far from civilized..."
"This...it was all Liu Minghui's idea. I'm just a nobody, there's no point in me saying anything..."
The room where the third brother was just being held was well soundproofed, so he had no idea what had happened in the room next to him. He was still thinking of sneaking out and escaping with his life.
While the third brother was speaking, Peng Fei, along with Liu Wu and Zhao Jun, used the ship's luggage cart to transport all the dead bodies out of the room, passing right by the open doorway.
According to Peng Fei, there are many sharks in this area. He just poured a basin of chicken blood into the sea, and it won't be long before a group of sharks will come to the sea below the boat. If these people are thrown in, they won't even be found in time.
The third brother, who had fallen to the ground, came face to face with Huo Jiang, who was staring with wide, unseeing eyes. The third brother, who had been babbling in defense of himself, turned pale and shut his mouth tightly.
Even if you beat Lao San to death, you would never have imagined that Zhuang Rui, who seemed so refined and gentle, would be so ruthless. They had not provoked a sheep, but a ferocious wolf.
Li Zhen worked even faster than Peng Fei, coming out in just a few minutes. He walked up to Zhuang Rui and whispered, "Brother Zhuang, I found out. This plan was devised by him and Liu Minghui. They even said that everyone on board would be killed, including the women..."
Li Zhen stopped there, because Zhuang Rui was already furious. He kicked Li Zhen in the face. His wife and children were Zhuang Rui's Achilles' heel, and no one was allowed to disrespect them.
"Awoo!" When Zhuang Rui got angry, Jin Gang, who had been squatting at the door pretending to be well-behaved and had almost been forgotten by Zhuang Rui, suddenly rushed over and lifted the third brother, who was half-bent on the ground, up with one arm.
"Holy crap, a ghost!" The third brother had two front teeth kicked out by Zhuang Rui, so he spoke with a lisp. Moreover, he hadn't seen King Kong since entering the room. Now that he suddenly saw King Kong, he was terrified.
"Awoo!" As if it understood what Li Zhen had just said, King Kong changed its usual docile demeanor and slapped the third brother across the face with its right hand.
"King Kong, stop! Don't kill him!"
Zhuang Rui was alarmed. Although he did not intend to spare Lao San's life, the money that Liu Minghui had hidden was going to end up in Lao San's hands. If Lao San was killed by Jin Gang, wouldn't that be a waste?
Zhuang Rui stopped him a little too late. After being slapped by Jin Gang, Lao San's head slumped down, and blood kept spilling from the corner of his mouth.
Li Zhen went up and placed his hand on Lao San's neck. After a dozen seconds, he looked at Zhuang Rui and said, "Brother Zhuang, he's dead..."
A single slap can break a person's cervical spine. How much strength does that take? King Kong's display of power made Li Zhen look at it differently. He originally thought this big guy was harmless, but he didn't expect it to be so fiery.
“Aww…hoho” King Kong pointed at the third brother on the ground, and then gestured. Zhuang Rui understood that King Kong meant that the third brother was a bad guy who was bullying Fang Fang and Yuan Yuan, so it killed him.
"Alright, don't get excited. But from now on, you're not allowed to hurt anyone without my help." Zhuang Rui couldn't bear to scold King Kong. It only had the intelligence of a six or seven-year-old child and usually judged things based on its own preferences.
However, what Zhuang Rui regrets is that King Kong's slap has cost a lot of money. Modern pirates usually deposit their money in banks, so who knows which foreign bank will benefit from this?
Before Zhuang Rui could finish regretting his actions, Li Zhen gave him a surprise. He stood up with a USB drive in his hand and said, "Brother Zhuang, he has a USB drive on him. Do you think it might be useful?"
"Jin Gang, hand him over to Peng Fei..."
Zhuang Rui's eyes lit up as soon as he saw the USB drive. After calling out to Jin Gang, who was pretending to be innocent, he hurriedly left the room with the USB drive.
"Damn, being a pirate is a really promising career..."
In the monitoring room, Zhuang Rui and Li Zhen looked at each other, dumbfounded as they stared at the numbers on the computer screen.
Hui Ge's money was deposited anonymously in three Swiss banks. As long as you have the account number and password, you can withdraw it via telephone transfer. The total amount was 140 million US dollars, all of which went to Zhuang Rui.
A hundred million US dollars wasn't enough to make Zhuang Rui lose his composure. He just thought Hui Ge was really amazing. He had lost over a hundred million US dollars last time, but he was able to make up for it in such a short time.
After thinking for a moment, Zhuang Rui said, "Shura, take ten million US dollars from this. Also, give each of the security personnel on the ship 500,000..."
Having received over 100 million US dollars, Zhuang Rui felt it wouldn't be fair to only give each person a reward of 100,000. He decided to give each person 500,000, so that even if he got the meat, his subordinates would at least have some soup to drink.
As for Li Zhen, Zhuang Rui gave him ten million not to shut him up, but because he felt Li Zhen deserved that much.
If Li Zhen hadn't discovered Jack's collusion with pirates, he probably would have been in grave danger. With a well-intentioned but unprepared attack, even if Peng Fei and Li Zhen were incredibly capable, the ship would likely have suffered heavy casualties.
Moreover, it was Li Zhen who ultimately discovered the USB drive; otherwise, Liu Minghui's fortune would have been lost at sea forever, perhaps only to be found inside a fish decades later.
Upon hearing that Zhuang Rui was offering him ten million US dollars, Li Zhen nearly jumped up in shock and quickly said, "Brother Zhuang, I don't need that much, 500,000 is enough..."
"Well, having too much money isn't always a good thing. Take 500,000 for now, but if you need anything in the future, you can tell me or Peng Fei. Just name your price..."
Zhuang Rui nodded. He wasn't a stingy person, but giving Li Zhen ten million dollars directly was indeed ill-considered. Li Zhen was only 26 years old this year, and receiving ten million US dollars might not necessarily be a good thing.
"Thank you, thank you, Brother Zhuang..."
Li Zhen's vision blurred. He was a strong-willed person and hadn't even told Peng Fei about his mother's illness.
I had planned to have 100,000 yuan after this mission, and then borrow some more from Peng Fei to send my mother to a big hospital for treatment. Unexpectedly, I suddenly had another 500,000 yuan, which was enough for my mother's medical treatment.
"Why are you being so dramatic, kid?"
Zhuang Rui gave Peng Fei a disgruntled look, put away the USB drive, and said, "Go downstairs and help. The bullet holes on the hull can't be removed for now, but clean up all the other traces so the platform staff won't make a fuss..."
After this incident, Zhuang Rui found himself unsure whether he had become more cold-blooded or simply broadened his perspective; in any case, the loss of seven or eight lives before his eyes didn't evoke such a strong reaction from him.
"Zhuang Rui, you're back. Are you alright?"
When Zhuang Rui pushed open the door and walked into the room, everyone's eyes turned to him. Qin Xuanbing even ran over and looked Zhuang Rui up and down.
"It's alright now. Our ship was attacked by pirates this morning, but we were repelled. Everyone, don't worry, let's go down for lunch..."