He Ao glanced at the options in his field of vision, frowned, put his bone sword on his back, picked up the Miracle Wand, and opened the bedroom door.
As soon as he opened the door, he saw Liu Nan running over.
"What's wrong?"
He Ao looked at the hurried girl with some confusion.
"There are pirates."
"pirate?"
He Ao was stunned for a moment.
Xidu is an inland city, and He Ao's memory of the sea and what happened at sea only remains in the scenes on TV. This time attending the ruins was the first time he saw the sea.
It was my first time to see the sea, let alone pirates.
"Well, let's go on the deck first."
Liu Nan was obviously a little surprised. Her hair had been straightened out again and was not as messy as when she just came back from the ruins. The blood stains on her body had also been washed away, but some places were still wrapped with gauze and her hair was still dry.
"Um."
He Ao nodded slightly. There were stitching marks on his body now, but after he came back from the ruins, as usual, he felt that his soul power had been supplemented and improved, and even the wounds on his body were recovering quickly.
He was slightly curious about pirates, something he had never seen before.
Among the extraordinary beings in this boat, any one who has no foresight would come to trouble them.
The two quickly walked up the corridor stairs to the deck.
At this moment, there were many people standing on the deck, most of them were people who had returned alive from the ruins. Although they were a little surprised, they were not that panicked.
No matter how scary the pirates are, they are still human beings and cannot be compared with those twisted and crazy monsters in the ruins.
The researchers here have experienced life and death in the three days at the ruins, and now they have more or less extraordinary items in their hands.
At this moment, the cruise ship that everyone was on was still moving forward, and about five or six small boats were approaching quickly from a distance.
There were six or seven people on each small boat. One person who looked like a leader was driving the small boat, one was standing next to him carrying a rocket launcher, and the remaining few were holding light submachine guns and watching with vigilance where He Ao was.
cruise ship.
They basically all wore simple trousers, and most of them were naked from the waist up. They stood barefoot on the small boat, riding the waves towards the cruise ship.
Compared to the half-rotted lizard monsters in the ruins, these pirates are pretty good-looking.
When everyone got on the deck, Yang De also came up.
He was wearing a straight formal suit and was neatly groomed. His previous fierceness had been restrained, and he looked pampered and wealthy, like a serious shipowner.
Next to him was a young man holding a loudspeaker, watching the pirates rushing over.
At this moment, there was already a leading speedboat traveling side by side with the cruise ship. The two boats were relatively stationary. Beside the speedboat, a thin pirate held a microphone and shouted to the cruise ship in broken Chinese dialect, "Listen... the ship...
···Stop···Chuan···”
Yang De glanced at the young man next to him and said loudly to the pirate boat, "We have already paid the toll, and we have permission!"
The young man next to him quickly translated the sentence into another language and broadcast it through the loudspeaker.
"The pirates here are actually the warlord army entrenched in the nearby Federal Republic of Alano. Alano is a relatively large island country. It has been in a civil war for decades, with domestic warlords separatist and fighting for years. Alano happens to be close to this sea area
There is an important route with frequent ships, and this route is relatively narrow, so ships generally slow down.”
A small head suddenly popped out from beside He Ao, "Since a few years ago, the warlords of Alano have been working as pirates near here, making a living by hijacking ships for ransom or collecting protection fees from passing ships."
How did this guy show up?
He Ao glanced at the commentator beside him,
The commentator's husky mask came out of the ruins ruined, revealing a cute and cute face. This guy seemed to have recovered from the blow of the ruins. He came out to join in the fun with gauze tied on his face.
But he just glanced at it and didn't answer this guy's words.
"How did you know?"
However, Liu Nan on the side was a little curious and came over to ask.
"When I was chatting with the uncle who cooks in the restaurant this morning, he told me that he knows a lot," the commentator took the opportunity to get closer, "Sister, you have so much hair, how do you maintain it..."
He Ao glanced at the two people who were already chatting and said nothing.
Liu Nan is very smart and knows what to say and what not to say, and will not expose He Ao's information.
He Ao's eyes continued to move forward, looking at the pirate boats outside.
At this moment, the thin pirate with the big horn was already chatting with the young man next to Yang De.
The language used was still that strange language, which should be the language of the Alanor Republic that the speaker just spoke.
After the young man finished the exchange, he turned his head to Yang De and whispered softly, "They asked us who we paid the protection money to?"
"Reply them, it's the Alano Coast Guard."
Yang De said softly.
The young man nodded slightly and continued to shout to the pirate with a loudspeaker. At this moment, the remaining pirate speedboats had also approached the cruise ship.
Yang De didn't deliberately lower his voice. The people around him were all extraordinary people, and they basically heard what he said.
"The Alano Coast Guard is the largest force among the Alano pirates. They are different from other pirates who want to prevent fires, kill people, or seize ships. Once they enter their sphere of influence, they only need to pay enough tolls to pass safely.
During the journey, they will even help drive away some small pirates."
The commentator came over again. She seemed to be worried about He Ao not answering her words.
"It is said that they often robbed and seized ships before, committing all kinds of evil, but a new boss was replaced in the middle and the old boss was killed.
The new boss believed that blindly plundering would cause ships to detour to other longer routes for safety reasons, which would also attract retaliation from the navies of various countries, which was not conducive to long-term development, so he changed the original plundering mode to
In the protection fee model, the charges are relatively high, but much lower than the detour loss. The protection fee is within the acceptable range of the ship owner to ensure the safety of the ship.
Coupled with Lei Lei's decisive methods, it has slowly developed its power and has become the largest power in the Alanor Sea."
What strategies for sustainable development...
He Ao thought for a moment.
This method is indeed safe enough and the income is stable enough. The more prosperous the route is, the higher the income will be.
However, the disadvantages of this approach are also obvious. Firstly, the money comes slowly, and instead of directly grabbing the high income, this force should have other ways to make money. Secondly, this does not preserve the force, but only prolongs the time of its demise.
In the final analysis, this approach is just a pirate who collects premiums, and coupled with the inability to stop the behavior of other colleagues who do all kinds of evil, sooner or later they will attract attacks from the navies of various countries.
Just as He Ao was thinking, the young man who was holding a loudspeaker to communicate with the pirates suddenly turned his head and looked at Yang De, "They said they are not the coastline defense force, but free sailors. They asked us to stop the ship. They want to get on the ship now."
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