ca-book Chapter 1 Almost Blown Up
Chapter 1 Almost Blown Up
The high seas of the Gulf of Aden.
The tanker is temporarily docked at the bridge.
"Go away, I'm not buying."
"Get out of here right now."
Su Xuan stood in front of the window, looking down at the crew members through the glass as they drove two wooden boats loaded with fruit.
Four local Black men on the wooden boat held up fruit, begging the crew to buy some.
"Don't pity them; they might be pirates disguised as spies."
The captain stood to the side and said.
The captain had extensive sailing experience and had encountered pirates several times, especially in the Gulf of Aden near Somalia, which was a notorious pirate stronghold.
Somali pirates once hijacked an oil tanker carrying $100 million worth of oil, shocking the world and demanding a ransom of tens of millions of dollars.
Ever since the pirates tasted success, they have become even more arrogant.
They only make a little money by selling fruit to cargo ships passing through international waters.
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At the guardrail.
"Why don't we become pirates, kill them, and take the goods?"
"Damn it, a Shichibukai."
"Then we won't be pirates."
Four Dragons players, each holding an AK47, looked down at several Black men talking on a wooden boat below.
The Delta expansion introduces new worlds where players can freely explore without any set quest frameworks.
[Eggplant, turn your perspective around so we can see the boss.]
The boss is truly wealthy and powerful; without a word, he spent 100,000 to recruit ten demon kings as guards.
That 100,000 was paid as a weekly wage, 10,000 per person per week.
Player Eggplant, who was live streaming, turned his view at the request of his viewers and looked at Su Xuan standing in front of the window.
Su Xuan disguised himself as a member of the Weilong Commando Team, wearing the uniform of a Jiaolong Commando member.
Su Xuan's original body has transmigrated to this world, and he may encounter danger at any time. Unlike other players, he cannot treat this world as a game.
Players can be resurrected after dying, but if they die by accident, they are truly dead.
Having no other choice, he took out all his wealth in the real world and recruited ten demon kings to protect the players. He had only one requirement: the players had to be full-time and on call 24 hours a day, available whenever needed.
In order to attract the top players in the country, he still paid them a weekly salary of 10,000 yuan.
"I hope everything goes well."
Su Xuan said that he could earn back the money he spent in reality in this world. He would receive 100,000 US dollars for completing this oil tanker escort mission.
After paying players' salaries, he still has a profit to make from the $100,000.
For Su Xuan, every world is the real world. He had already agreed with the shipowner and cargo owner that he would settle the matter with gold and silver worth 100,000 US dollars after completing the escort mission.
The boss is so handsome!
[Rich guys are different. They charge for escort services by the week. I'd hesitate if they charged me 100 yuan an hour for an escort service.]
[Does the boss still want any more mouse players? I can be the one to collect resources for the boss.]
As the comments streamed by, all the focus was on Su Xuan.
In Su Xuan's eyes, the black man on the wooden boat suddenly reached under the black cloth and pulled out an RPG rocket launcher, aiming at the bridge and firing a rocket.
Everything happened too fast; no one expected that the pirates would disguise themselves as having rocket launchers hidden on the wooden ship.
boom!
The rocket pierced the glass and exploded inside the cockpit, leaving a flash of fire and an instant mess in the shockwave.
Holy crap! The boss got bombed.
The boss disappeared as soon as the business started.
[Orders were cancelled! Orders were cancelled! Orders were cancelled live on stream!]
The sudden turn of events caught the escorting players off guard, and the viewers in the live stream went wild.
"Female doctor! Bee doctor! Hurry, the boss has been shot!"
Player Eggplant was the first to get up from the ground and check on Su Xuan's condition.
"Boss!"
Eggplant turned Su Xuan over and found that his neck had been cut by shrapnel and blood was trickling out. Upon seeing this, Eggplant felt a chill run down his spine.
Player Eggplant, a former professional gamer who has now retired, has millions of fans across the internet and easily earns hundreds of thousands of yuan every month. He doesn't care about the 10,000 yuan that Su Xuan gives him every week. He only accepted Su Xuan's job because he wanted to do his live stream on the hour.
"Boss, don't die!"
Hang in there.
Eggplant sat in front of the computer screen, sweating with anxiety.
Ten top-tier demon kings were guarding the area, including one former professional star player who dumped his order in front of everyone during a live stream. I wonder how much of a joke this will become if word gets out.
"Boss."
The female doctor and the bee doctor rushed into the driver's seat with needles in hand. Without saying a word, one of them gave Su Xuan, who was lying on the ground, a needle.
After pricking Su Xuan's wound, medical gauze was used to bandage it.
The injection was a hormone injection, and Su Xuan did not feel much pain when he woke up from his coma.
"Thanks."
When Su Xuan woke up, he realized how dangerous everything that had just happened had been; he had almost lost his life.
"Captain, Captain."
Realizing what was happening, Su Xuan noticed the captain lying motionless on the ground and quickly knelt down to check on him.
"Captain! Don't die!"
"If you die, I'll shut down the order."
Su Xuan saw a large bloodstain on the captain's head on the ground, and realized that his behavior was exactly the same as that of the player Eggplant in front of him.
The escort contract that Su Xuan accepted required him to protect both the people and the cargo. If the captain died in front of him, it would be considered a failed contract.
[This is hilarious! The boss and the support team almost canceled their orders at the same time.]
[Hahaha, this is hilarious! Even the boss got a bad deal.]
The boss took on a protection contract, and to ensure safety, he hired a protection team to escort him. This isn't about buying insurance for someone else.
The occurrence of this "order explosion" scene has created a huge entertainment effect, and now the viewers in the live stream are just watching the show and having fun.
"Boss, I'll take care of it."
The bee doctor took out a syringe and gave the captain another injection.
After one injection, the captain, who had been unconscious, immediately recovered and woke up.
Upon waking, the captain was the first to get up and go to the bridge to send a distress signal, and also quickly sent a message to the company's security department.
At the same time, the shipowner and cargo owner are notified, and then the shipowner and cargo owner notify the insurance company to prepare for the worst, which is to prepare for ransom.
……
bang bang bang...
The player on the deck unleashed his fury at the attacking pirates, and the blood of the four pirates on the wooden ship mingled with watermelon juice.
"This is the vanguard suicide squad."
The player looked at the pirate who was beyond dead and said.
"They're here."
One player noticed a speedboat in the distance, leaving a trail of wakes as it sped toward the tanker.
[Everyone, everyone, crew, proceed to the safe room. First mate, come with me to the engine room to restart the ship.]
The captain called out to the entire ship through the loudspeaker.
"The rest is up to you. The fastest warship will take two days."
After calling all the crew members, the captain glanced at Su Xuan and went to the engine room.
The tanker immediately activated its emergency plan, turning on water cannons from all its pipes and creating a wall of water around the entire ship.
"You two stay with the boss just in case."
Eggplant instructed his two teammates to assist him before heading down to fight the pirates.
bang bang bang...
Eggplant went up to the deck, picked up his gun, and fired at the assault boat in the distance.
As a professional gamer, Eggplant aimed and fired with ease, easily hitting the assault boat and killing all the pirates on board.
The other players each focused on a speedboat, wielding AKs with extremely accurate burst fire, hitting their targets every time.
For experienced players, recoil control is a fundamental skill. Even if you can't hit a target from a kilometer away, you can still hit it with one shot, not to mention that there is a crosshair in the game.
Driven by immense profits, the pirates were fearless and reckless. When the assault boat in front was hit and stopped, the pirates followed closely behind to close the distance.
Players swept from afar and up close, and more than 200 assault boats surrounded them from all directions.
There were too many assault boats; after the player finished one, another one would appear, and the pirates also began to launch a counterattack from a distance.
Da da da……
The pirate speedboat was equipped with an MG3 light machine gun, which opened fire on the player.
Da da da……
A player is firing back with an M249 light machine gun mounted at the stern of the boat.
The player used the M249 to fire in short bursts, and most of the bullets hit the target, which was much better than the pirate's random shooting skills.
"We're coming up."
Pirates swarmed in from all directions, and there were always one or two that managed to slip through the net and get close to the big ship.
boom!
The approaching pirates, without saying a word, fired their rocket launchers at the player.
The player lay prone to avoid the rocket, which struck the railing and exploded, tearing a hole in the outer barbed wire fence.
"They've already destroyed more than a dozen speedboats, but they're not afraid at all."
Players have gone from standing still and firing without dodging bullets to now not changing positions to counterattack.
In the eyes of players, pirates are no different from a rabble. Logically, after destroying more than a dozen speedboats, the pirates should have delayed their attack.
Why were the pirates so crazy? Because the oil tanker was carrying $200 million worth of oil, not counting its own 300,000-ton carrying capacity.
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