Zhou Xuan woke up Li Junjie, who was weak but still conscious, and Fu Tianlai's bodyguard, and said, "Junjie, you two watch the boat and the people. I'm going to dive down into the sea again to see if I can catch a fish!"
Li Junjie nodded. Zhou Xuan was about to jump into the water when he suddenly tilted his ear and listened for a while.
Li Junjie heard nothing and asked curiously, "Zhou Xuan, what are you listening to?"
Zhou Xuan raised his index finger to his lips in a shushing gesture, then listened intently for a while before his expression brightened. He said in a deep voice, "Everyone, pay attention! A boat is passing by!"
Upon hearing Zhou Xuan mention a boat, Fu Tianlai, Fu Si, and Fu Ying all stood up and gathered around, staring at Zhou Xuan with tense expressions.
Zhou Xuan tilted his head and listened for another ten seconds or so. Then he pointed in one direction and said, "That way, the ship!"
Li Junjie and Fu Tianlai's bodyguards didn't say a word.
Volume One: The Lotus Buds Just Begin to Emerge, Chapter 186: Fu Tianlai's Will
…However, when the wrecked ship was only two hundred meters away from their speedboats, gunfire erupted from the opposite vessel.
However, it wasn't the heavy machine gun, but bullets fired from a semi-automatic rifle. The bullets clearly went astray and hit the sea surface more than ten meters away from Zhou Xuan and his speedboat!
Zhou Xuan quickly said, "Put your hands on your heads and don't resist. I'll take care of the rest. Remember, don't resist in any way!"
After Zhou Xuan finished speaking, he quietly slipped into the water from the back of the speedboat, then swam forward, stealthily heading towards the fishing boat.
He understood the pirates' actions perfectly. They didn't intend to hurt anyone; they just wanted to kidnap hostages and extort ransom. Money was the most important thing to them, and they wouldn't kill anyone unless absolutely necessary, because killing hostages would mean not getting the ransom money, which would be of no benefit to them.
As the fishing boat drew closer, Zhou Xuan swam forty or fifty meters. The ice aura could almost detect the fishing boat. When it got ten meters closer, the light boat slowed down considerably because it was also close to the speedboat. Zhou Xuan secretly pressed himself against the bottom of the fishing boat.
The released icy air detected that the fishing boat could carry at least sixty or seventy people, but there were only twelve pirates on board. There were twelve semi-automatic rifles and only one heavy machine gun. However, the drinking water and food that Zhou Xuan cared about most were plentiful in the cabin, which made him very happy!
Several pirates on the bow fired a few shots before stopping. The speedboat was clearly out of fuel, and everyone on board was crouching, hands covering their heads, including several women. There was no need to waste bullets; capturing the hostages was enough. Judging by their appearance, they figured they could probably make a small fortune!
When they were still twenty or thirty meters apart, Zhou Xuan released his icy aura to lock onto the twelve pirates, keeping close to the ship's hull. When he reached the speedboat, the wrecked ship came to a complete stop.
The bodyguards and Li Junjie, who were crouching at the front, saw Zhou Xuan gesturing to them from the bottom of the other ship, but they didn't dare to look down.
Seeing that there was no danger, ten pirates stood on their own ship with guns pointed at them, while two others jumped over, first taking away two rifles and the dagger, and then ordering them to come to their ship.
Although they couldn't understand what the pirates were saying, they could tell from their expressions and actions that they wanted to force their men onto their ship.
Li Junjie saw Zhou Xuan make a gesture of camaraderie to him in the water. Not understanding what it meant, he paused for a moment, but suddenly realized that apart from the pirate beside him, the ten pirates on the other ship and the other pirate on his own boat were all frozen in place.
The pirate beside Li Junjie was grinning as he looked at Fu Ying, Yang Jie, Gao Yuzhen, and the other two women. He thought they were very beautiful and definitely worth a high price. He excitedly said a few words, but when no one answered, he looked up in surprise at the pirate beside him. He saw his companion standing there dumbfounded and assumed he was stunned by Fu Ying's beauty. He reached out and nudged him. With this gentle push, the pirate tumbled into the sea and sank motionless!
The pirate was startled and immediately screamed in terror, raising his gun to fire wildly!
Li Junjie didn't give him a chance to react. He immediately lunged forward, twisted the pirate's arm, and took his gun. Without hesitation, he pointed the gun at the opposite ship and fired!
Amidst the clashing of gunfire, the ten pirates opposite him stood motionless as Li Junjie felled them one by one. Blood spurted out!
After killing all the pirates on the opposite ship, Li Junjie jumped over to search for any remaining pirates who had escaped and were hiding.
On their side, Fu Tianlai's bodyguards were stomping hard on the injured pirate lying on the deck, controlling him, while Fu Tianlai and Fu Se also jumped onto the opposite pirate ship to help Li Junjie.
Fu Ying quickly reached out and pulled Zhou Xuan, who had swum over, out of the sea. Once on the boat, Zhou Xuan felt relieved. His icy senses detected that, apart from the injured pirate on his boat, there was no other living person on the other side.
After searching the fishing boat thoroughly and finding no more living pirates, Li Junjie went up to the deck. Together, they threw the dead pirates overboard, turned on the high-pressure water guns to wash away the bloodstains on the deck, and then called the people on the boat over.
Zhou Xuan and Fu Ying helped Yang Jie over, then Zhou Xuan came back to help Gao Yuzhen, and finally Fu Tianlai's bodyguards escorted the injured pirate over.
The pirate was terrified!
They clearly had the upper hand, so how did someone manage to snatch their guns and kill so many people on their ship? Were they all stupid? Were they just obediently waiting to be shot at one by one?
He couldn't understand it, because Zhou Xuan had used ice energy to instantly transform the brains of these people, and they had lost their lives in that instant. When Li Junjie attacked, there were already ten corpses!
But apart from Fu Tianlai, no one else suspected anything. It all happened so fast; it clearly looked like Li Junjie had seized the gun and then shot and killed ten pirates on the other ship.
Li Junjie didn't think that much about it. In such a dangerous environment, it was either you die or I live. And now, the other side was the one who died, while his side was the one who lived. That was enough!
The pirate fishing boat had a small cabin of about ten square meters. Zhou Xuan and the others quickly helped Yang Jie and Gao Yu Xiaozhen into the cabin, gave them some fresh water to drink, and then let them rest on the blankets in the cabin.
The environment is much better than on the speedboat. At least you can't be exposed to the sun, there's water and cooked food, and the fishing boat has communication equipment.
The pirate tied Li Junjie and Fu Tianlai's bodyguards to the mast. The pirate was so scared that he was trembling and muttering something incomprehensible to everyone.
These pirates were terrified of death. They were usually the ones in charge, but today, their companions had all died for no apparent reason. They assumed it was the work of a deity.
Fu Ying saw that there was a lot of food on the boat, so she used the boiling water in the pot to keep it warm.
Yang Jie and Gao Yuzhen were mainly exhausted. After drinking some water, they gradually regained their senses and felt much better in the cabin.
Zhou Xuan found a map of the Gulf of Aden in the cockpit and gave it to Li Junjie, instructing him and Fu Tianlai's bodyguard to escort the pirate to the port in Kenya according to the map.
A few minutes later, Li Junjie returned to the cabin and said with a smile, "Grandpa, Uncle, you can rest assured. That pirate is very afraid of death. Although he couldn't understand what we were saying, he kept nodding as he pointed to the port in Kenya's Coastal Province. The ship is heading in that direction. He indicated a time of six hours. We will be back at the port in Kenya in six hours."
Fu Tianlai nodded, though he was pleased, he remained quite calm and said, “Junjie, go and help him. The two of you keep an eye on that pirate, make sure he’s on the right course, and don’t go the wrong way again.”
"Grandpa, don't worry." Li Junjie replied with a smile, "There's a heavy machine gun on the ship, and a small radar scanner in the cockpit. I know what that is; it can scan targets within a ten-kilometer radius. Although the range is a bit small, it's more than enough to avoid pirate ships. Anyway, as long as we avoid all the ships we might encounter and return safely to the port of Kenya, that's enough."
Fu Tianlai waved his hand and instructed, "Just be careful, Xiaosong!"
Inside the cabin, Gao Yuzhen and Yang Jie slowly ate their hot food, and had basically returned to normal.
Fu Sun picked up a soft cushion and said, "Dad, sit down and rest for a while!"
Fu Tianlai glanced at the hatch and asked softly, "Where's Yingying?"
"Let's chat with Zhou Xuan on the deck!" Fu Lian sighed, looking at Fu Tianlai with a wry smile. "Dad, what's your opinion of Zhou Xuan?"