Multiple pirate forces in the Gulf of Aden mobilized in unison and hijacked six cargo ships at noon that day.
The news came out and shocked the whole world!
Including Ye Chen who was in China, everyone received push notifications from major news media immediately.
The way pirates hijack cargo ships in the Gulf of Aden is very simple and crude. They use speedboats to chase slower-moving cargo ships, use various weapons to scare the other party into giving up resistance, then board the ship to control all the crew members, and then drive the ship to their own
Go to the base camp and wait for the shipowner to get money to redeem you.
This time, when they hijacked several other ships, they were resisted by international security personnel, and both sides suffered casualties.
However, the process of hijacking the Xinglong was extremely smooth.
Because there was almost no resistance from the Xinglong throughout the whole process, it was just a few crew members who symbolically sprayed high-pressure water jets with high-pressure water cannons. After the pirates fired threats, the crew members were so frightened that they even stopped the high-pressure water cannons.
Later, the pirates successfully boarded the cargo ship and were delighted to find that the owner of the Xinglong was too stingy and did not even hire security personnel for the ship.
So, they happily took control of the dozens of crew members on the entire ship.
Immediately afterwards, the Xinglong began to change course and sail towards their base camp.
As soon as the Xinglong turned around, the pirates couldn't wait to report the news of the successful hijacking to their leader.
When the leader heard that he had successfully robbed a cargo ship with nearly 20,000 containers, he was naturally very happy and felt that he had caught a big fish.
Therefore, he immediately released news to the outside world, claiming that the Xinglong had been hijacked by him, calling the shipowner of the Xinglong and demanding that the shipowner pay them a ransom of 10 million US dollars.
They had no idea who the owner of the Xinglong was.
However, according to their experience, as long as they disclose ship information to the outside world, ship owners will come to them non-stop.
According to past experience, after confirming that the ship has indeed been hijacked, the shipowner will immediately communicate with the leader of the pirate organization, asking them not to harm the crew on the one hand, and bargaining on the price on the other hand.
Pirates can afford to delay hijacking, but shipowners cannot.
Nowadays, shipping prices are so high that one trip can make one hundred million U.S. dollars. If it is delayed for a period of time due to being hijacked, not only will the transportation revenue be severely lost, but the cargo owner will also have to be compensated for the loss.
Sometimes, the loss caused by a delay of one day may exceed millions of dollars.
But what the pirate leader didn't expect was that Ys Shipping from China didn't contact them immediately.
On the contrary, Ye Chen received a call from He Zhiqiu immediately.
As soon as the call came through, she said nervously: "Mr. Ye, our ship has been hijacked!"
"Yes." Ye Chen smiled slightly: "I saw the news."
He Zhiqiu said anxiously: "The robbers threatened to ask for a ransom of ten million US dollars. I haven't replied to them yet. Didn't you just arrange for people from Wanlong Palace to escort the ship? This ship just reported the news eight hours ago.
, saying that soldiers from Wanlong Palace have already boarded the ship, how could something like this happen again..."
Ye Chen smiled and said: "This is the request I set for Wanlong Palace."
"Ah?" He Zhiqiu was stunned and blurted out, "Why?"
Ye Chen smiled and said: "Don't worry, the ship will definitely be fine. As for why, you will know soon."