"Okay, one kiss each, then watch TV obediently..."
After kissing each of his children on the cheek, Zhuang Rui gave Qin Xuanbing a reassuring look, then turned and opened the living room door.
"Aww, ho ho..."
Just as Zhuang Rui was about to leave, Jin Gang emerged from another room. This guy was a heavy drinker; yesterday he drank eight or nine bottles of Moutai by himself, and it took six or seven people to carry him back to his room.
However, gorillas are not as physically strong as humans. After sleeping for a few hours, King Kong was also awakened by the gunshots outside. His legs were still a little weak, and he staggered towards Zhuang Rui.
"King Kong, you're not going anywhere today. Stay in your room obediently, understand?"
When Zhuang Rui saw that Jin Gang also wanted to go out and join the fun, he quickly straightened his face. This guy didn't know how dangerous a gun was; if he got shot, it could be fatal.
"Waaaaah..."
Seeing Zhuang Rui's stern expression, King Kong twisted its mouth and pretended to be pitiful. It learned this from Fang Fang and Yuan Yuan. It found that as long as the two little ones cried, their general needs could be met, so King Kong quickly mastered this skill as well.
"You're not allowed to go out, or you'll never have meat to eat or wine to drink again. If you disobey me, I'll send you back to the deserted island..."
Zhuang Rui's expression was unusually stern. He knew that King Kong could understand him. This guy was cunning; if you gave him a smile, he would take advantage of you.
Sure enough, after realizing that his act of feigning helplessness had failed, King Kong snorted a few times in dissatisfaction and went to the sofa to play with Fang Fang and Yuan Yuan.
"Honey, be careful..."
As Zhuang Rui opened the door and went out, Qin Xuanbing's voice came from behind him.
"Zhuang Rui, what exactly happened?"
Just as he stepped into the corridor, the door next to him opened, and Huangfu Yun, wearing only shorts, rushed out with a tense expression. Although he had handled many cases as a lawyer, the constant gunfire outside still made him a little panicked.
Standing behind Huangfu Yun was Yun Man, whose thin gauze nightgown only reached her upper thighs, revealing her long, slender legs and her graceful body, which almost made Zhuang Rui's nose bleed.
"It's alright. If you're scared, take Yunman to my room to watch TV..."
Zhuang Rui patted Huangfu Yun's shoulder with a smile, but he dared not look at Yun Man again. Although I don't take advantage of my friends' wives, you don't have to put me through this kind of test, do you?
"ah?"
Yunman seemed to realize that she was wearing too little clothing, exclaimed in surprise, and turned to go back to her room to get dressed.
"Don't worry, go back to your wife, just lock your room door and don't come out. There will be an announcement on the ship..."
Zhuang Rui suddenly remembered that his wife wasn't wearing much either, and he couldn't let Huangfu Yun get away with it, so he dropped the idea of him going to his room to watch TV and pushed him back into the room. ...
When Zhuang Rui entered the monitoring room, Li Zhen had a cigarette in his mouth and was shouting at the screen. When he heard the door open, a huge Desert Eagle appeared in his right hand as if by magic, with the muzzle pointed directly at Zhuang Rui's forehead.
Zhuang Rui was startled by Li Zhen's actions and quickly shouted, "Damn it, why are you so nervous? Put the gun away..."
"Brother Zhuang, why are you up?"
When Li Zhen saw it was Zhuang Rui, he smiled sheepishly and muttered, "You've regressed, you've regressed. I didn't even notice you opening the door..."
"Alright, enough nonsense, hurry up and explain the situation..."
Zhuang Rui looked at the flashing fire on the screen and his expression became serious. These dark bullets didn't have eyes, and it would be troublesome if they hurt one of his own people.
"Brother Zhuang, everything is under control, so please don't worry..."
Li Zhen also became serious, switched perspectives, and pointed to several masked men who were almost at the bottom of the ship, saying, "They were preparing to board the ship ten minutes ago, but Peng Fei subdued six of them. Of the remaining six, one has already been killed, leaving five..."
"Our firepower isn't inferior to theirs, is it? And we're on higher ground, so how come we're being suppressed?"
Although Zhuang Rui didn't understand military affairs, he could still see some clues from the screen. Peng Fei and the others seemed to be suppressed and unable to raise their heads. It looked like the other side was about to go down to the bottom of the boat and board the speedboat.
"Peng Fei, did you fucking skip dinner yesterday? What happened? You're such a wimp! Damn it, if you can't handle it, come up here and see how I take them down..."
No sooner had Zhuang Rui finished speaking than Li Zhen picked up the walkie-talkie and launched into a tirade of abuse. He had long been fed up with Peng Fei's behavior and, for some reason, lit a cigarette and squatted down to smoke it.
"Isn't it because I'm afraid of being hit by stray bullets in the dark? Alright, you can leave that frigate here, I'll take care of these people..."
Upon hearing Li Zhen's words, Peng Fei's face flushed slightly. He spat out his cigarette butt with a "poof," picked up the submachine gun he was carrying, pulled the breech, and then half-squatted up, leaning his back against the ship's railing.
Suddenly, Peng Fei stood up abruptly, pressed the submachine gun against his shoulder, and without even aiming, fired a single shot with a "bang".
The firing point below, which was shouting merrily, immediately fell silent. After exposing his hiding place, Peng Fei made no attempt to evade.
Four gunshots rang out in quick succession. Three of the four people on the spiral staircase were shot between the eyebrows, and the remaining one was hit in the shoulder, screaming as he fell into the water.
"How about that, buddy? My marksmanship is pretty good, isn't it? Shura, you're still a bit lacking..."
Peng Fei put away his gun, gave a thumbs-up towards the camera, and looked smug.
"Damn it, get down..."
Just as Li Zhen was about to say something to Peng Fei, he suddenly caught a glimpse of a burst of fire from the opposite ship out of the corner of his eye, and quickly shouted a warning to Peng Fei.
Peng Fei reacted quickly, diving and lying prone on the deck. At the same time, a burst of gunfire rang out, and sparks flew from the ship's side. If Peng Fei had been a little slower, he would probably have been riddled with bullets.
"Damn it, Shura, what the hell are you doing? Shoot down that frigate, there are already enough survivors on that ship..."
This time it was Peng Fei's turn to berate Li Zhen. The enemy ship's 10mm squad automatic weapon was practically a small cannon, and it even deformed the thick deck at the hull.
"Brother Zhuang, we've found out it was Liu Minghui's gang who did it. What do you think we should do?"
Li Zhen ignored Peng Fei and looked at Zhuang Rui instead. On this ship, only Zhuang Rui had the right to decide the fate of the pirates.
Chapter 941 A Fight to the Death
"Liu Minghui?"
Zhuang Rui was stunned for a moment upon hearing this. He hadn't expected that even after several months, "Brother Hui" was still haunting him. It seemed that this was not a coincidence, and the other party must have been watching him for a long time.
"Brother Zhuang, what should we do? Shoot down their ship?"
Zhuang Rui remained silent in deep thought, but Peng Fei on the deck was having a much harder time. The enemy's squad machine guns were pinning them down, and they didn't dare to raise their heads at all.
Moreover, the ship's several high-powered lights were also shattered by machine gun fire. This was the time of day when the fog was thickest, and it was impossible to see the situation on the other ship with the naked eye. The result of firing a few shots randomly was that the other ship was suppressed by machine gun fire.
"Shura, what the hell are you doing? Just blow that ship up..."
Peng Fei lay on the deck feeling a bit frustrated. Although he changed positions several times, trying to take out the enemy's machine gunner, firstly, it was dark and foggy, and secondly, there was a shield in front of the machine gun, so even if he hit it there, he couldn't hurt the person behind the gun.
Shura was also getting anxious. Pointing to a bright spot on the monitor, he said to Zhuang Rui, "Brother Zhuang, they're trying to escape. Their ships have started moving. What should we do? Give us an answer..."
Given the firepower of his ship, Li Zhen would feel ashamed if such a frigate escaped. Although the torpedo was expensive, having such a quasi-warship accompany it was worth it.
Upon hearing Li Zhen's words, Zhuang Rui's expression changed, and he said, "Shoot him down! We can't let him get away..."
If you don't nip it in the bud, it will eventually become a major problem. Zhuang Rui didn't pay attention when he won money last time, and he didn't expect Liu Minghui to be waiting for him here. If he lets the tiger return to the mountain again, it might shoot him in the back next time.
Even if Zhuang Rui has bodyguards, his family doesn't. When Zhuang's mother lives in the courtyard house, she goes out to buy groceries and does other things just like any other old lady. If she is kidnapped by these people, Zhuang Rui won't have anywhere to turn to.
After returning from Africa, Zhuang Rui understood a principle: to live a comfortable life in this world, one cannot be soft-hearted; eliminating enemies physically is the best way.
"Alright, Brother Zhuang, just you wait and see, the fireworks are about to start..."
Upon hearing Zhuang Rui's command, Li Zhen became extremely excited and began rapidly typing the password on the keyboard.
Zhuang Rui, who was standing nearby, saw the scene at the bottom of the hull on the screen. The torpedo, which was more than a meter long, was lying flat on a launcher. As Li Zhen moved, the launcher slowly began to move.
At the same time, one wall in the room rose up, revealing a two-meter square opening. From the screen, it was clear that outside the opening was the undulating sea.
"Target, frigate 200 meters ahead, locked, speed 30 knots, fire!" Li Zhen muttered technical terms that Zhuang Rui couldn't understand. After typing a long string of numbers on the keyboard in front of the screen, he slammed his right hand on the Enter key.
The launch pad on the screen seemed to move slightly, and a wisp of blue smoke appeared. The torpedo, which was more than a meter long, was launched, but it did not travel far in the air, only five or six meters, before plunging into the sea.
"This...this thing won't turn around and come at us, will it?"
Zhuang Rui saw the torpedo flying at a distance as close as water to his cruise ship, and couldn't help but feel a little worried. This thing was launching so slowly, it didn't seem to have any rocket boosters.
"Damn it, did Peng Fei buy a fake?"
Zhuang Rui immediately connected this to his profession. This foreigner selling weapons might be selling inferior goods, perhaps even adding less food additives to the fish.
"Brother Zhuang, do you really think this thing is a rocket? That it'll just whoosh and fly away?"
Hearing Zhuang Rui's words, Li Zhen was both amused and exasperated. Torpedoes weren't cannonballs that could hit targets directly in the air. If that were the case, they might as well bring out those two cannons, although that would make too much noise.
In the time it took to speak, more than ten seconds had passed. Zhuang Rui saw the torpedo dot on the screen, still more than a hundred meters away from the enemy ship, and couldn't help but say, "It shouldn't be this slow, right?"
"Alright, Brother Zhuang, just you wait and see. If it misses, I'll just grab a bomb and swim over there myself and blow that boat up..."
Li Zhen was completely defeated by Zhuang Rui's amateurishness, and simply fell silent, his eyes fixed on the torpedo's trajectory. ...
While the machine gunners on the command ship were providing suppressive fire, Hui Ge's escort ship had already started up and was slowly heading in the opposite direction from the cruise ship.
The frigate's maximum speed is thirty knots per hour, but it has just started up and hasn't picked up speed yet, so it doesn't seem to have created any distance between itself and the mountain of cruise ships in front of it.
When the third brother saw Hui order a retreat, he rushed forward and grabbed Liu Minghui, pleading with tears streaming down his face, "Big brother, you can't leave Lao Wu behind! He's been your brother for almost twenty years..."
When the third brother was making white paper fans, he once tried to scam people in Indonesia, but they saw through his scheme and detained him. One of the scammers had a relative who was a general in power in Indonesia, and he said he would take the third brother to be shot at.
In Malaysia and Indonesia, the military wields immense power and can execute people without trial. The third brother had already resigned himself to his fate when, one night, Huo Jiang single-handedly stormed into the businessman's rubber plantation and rescued him.
So when Ming Huo was facing imminent death, the third brother was quite righteous and begged Liu Minghui to rescue him.
"Save them? How can we save them?"
Hui Ge looked helpless and said, "Are we just going to rescue them with only four or five of us?"
After removing the twelve people who went to attack the cruise ship, there were only four or five people left on board. Apart from the helmsman, only the machine gunner could be considered a combatant. As for Liu Minghui and Lao San, although they were not exactly helpless, they were not much better off.
All twelve people were taken down in the blink of an eye. Brother Hui was heartbroken. Five or six of his old brothers were among them, not to mention Fire General, who had always been the organization's number one fighter.
"Speed up, get out of here..."
Hui kicked the third brother, who was blocking his way, onto the deck. He roared into the cockpit, his face contorted with rage. His fists were clenched so tightly that his nails dug into his palms, and bright red blood flowed from between his fingers.
There's an old Chinese saying: "Where there's life, there's hope." As long as you're alive and have money, you can quickly gather a gang of outlaws.
Hui was already planning whether to unite the pirate gangs in the Strait of Malacca to deal with Zhuang Rui. He didn't care about money anymore; what he wanted most was Zhuang Rui's life.
Suddenly, the retired Malaysian Navy soldier in the cockpit stammered, "B-Brother, yeah... the enemy ship launched torpedoes..."
Although the ship's heavy weapons and naval guns had been removed, a set of early warning information equipment was retained. As soon as the torpedoes on the cruise ship were launched, the alarms on the frigate went off frantically.
"Wh...what? A torpedo?"
When Hui heard what that person said, he was dumbfounded. He never dreamed that Zhuang Rui would equip a merchant ship with torpedoes.
Such a thing is as unbelievable as a missile being mounted on a civilian airliner.
"Speed up, speed up!" Hui Ge knew that if his small frigate, only a few dozen meters long, were hit by a torpedo, it would definitely catch fire, explode, and sink. He panicked and shouted at the driver to speed up while running to the back of the ship.