Chapter 252 Instinctive Courage
Chapter 252 Instinctive Courage
Hearing Cheng Yanfei’s order, the frightened crew members dared not hesitate, and everyone ran away immediately.
And Cheng Yanfei began to run towards the bridge.
”Where are you going, Old Cheng?!”
Seeing that Cheng Yanfei was running in the wrong direction, Tan Zhihao immediately asked him loudly.
”Captain’s room! I have to take the backup locator away and report the situation to Zhou Shan!”
”It’s too late! Hurry up and go with everyone!”
”No!”
Cheng Yanfei explained while running: “The locator in the cab will definitely not be saved. If they find the backup locator and start the ship, Zhou Shan will not be able to find us!”
Before he finished speaking, his figure had disappeared.
Helpless Tan Zhihao had to quickly organize the crew to evacuate with two security personnel and hide on the lower deck.
The entire freighter is very huge, and there are many cabins on the lower deck. As long as the lights are turned off, it is not easy for pirates to find a cabin to hide in.
Even if they find it, they may not be able to break the door, so they can delay a lot of time.
This kind of emergency drill has been done many times before, so it is familiar and they can hide quickly.
Swish——
After seeing that the crew had all withdrawn, the pirates finally showed the automatic hook rope and fired it towards the side of the ship.
In the past, they used traditional human-powered throwing ropes, and the rate of being trapped was extremely low, but with the support of the mysterious sponsor, they were fortunate to use the equipment that only agents and special forces in the movies can use.
These hook ropes flew to the port deck more than ten meters high in an instant under the huge catapult, and were successfully hung on the guardrail. Then, driven by the motor, they easily climbed onto the deck of the Xindu.
After using this advanced and efficient equipment, the pirates were all surprised. They kept talking about their experience and excitedly fired a few shots at the sky to celebrate.
At this time, Cheng Yanfei had just taken the spare Beidou positioning and satellite communication equipment from the captain’s room. After hearing the sound from the deck, he immediately realized that the pirates had successfully boarded the ship.
”Fuck, how come it’s so fast?!”
The pirates he encountered before, even if they didn’t resist and let them throw the rope up, it would take some effort to really climb up. As a result, in less than three minutes, they have already fired guns on the deck to celebrate? Without thinking too much, Cheng Yanfei started to walk out of the captain’s room with the equipment on his back, preparing to find a more hidden place to hide the spare GPS.
The first task of the pirates after boarding the ship was to split into two groups, one to the driving room and the other to the captain’s room.
These two places are also relatively important places on the entire ship.
Cheng Yanfei had just run out of the captain’s room, and he was spotted by a pirate after just a few steps. He immediately shouted a few words at him and fired a warning shot. However, Cheng Yanfei quickly found a shelter with his familiarity with the ship’s structure and disappeared in the narrow corridor. The pirate had no choice but to call his accomplices and chase after Cheng Yanfei.
In fact, Cheng Yanfei’s heart was about to jump out of his throat at this time. The crazy secretion of adrenaline made his muscles all over his body a little stiff. After hiding in a crew washroom, he forced his violently trembling hands to turn on the spare GPS locator and stuffed it under the sink.
Such an important thing must not be carried with him. If he was caught, he would be finished. It would be safer to hide it somewhere casually.
After doing all this, he took a deep breath, gently opened the door, glanced at the corridor, and after confirming that the other party had not caught up, he bent his waist and walked out lightly.
Staying in the bridge is definitely a dead end, so Cheng Yanfei’s plan is to hide in the container area on the deck.
For pirates, it’s like a maze, but for him, it’s his own backyard. He can just find a container to hide in, and the other party will definitely not find it for a while. Although the whole transfer process was full of thrills, and he almost ran into the searching pirates head-on once, Cheng Yanfei finally escaped danger with his familiarity with the hull structure. He successfully came to the container area, followed the stairs, and found an unlocked container on the third floor to hide in.
However, in order to ventilate and prevent the closed metal container from affecting the signal of the satellite phone, he did notHe closed the container door tightly, leaving a small gap. After doing all this, he finally sat on the ground with weak legs like a deflated ball…
To be honest, he still hasn’t figured out what drove him to take such a big risk and make such a desperate decision and action…
It was as if his body didn’t obey his orders at all, and was completely driven by instinct and intuition.
”Fuck, I must ask Mr. Liang to give me a raise when I go back… No, I have to increase my year-end bonus tenfold!”
While Cheng Yanfei was muttering, his left hand was still pressing down his trembling legs, and his right hand took out the satellite phone from his pocket and quickly dialed the emergency rescue number.
After two transfers, the call was finally successfully connected to the command room of Zhou Shanjian.
At this time, it had been almost thirty minutes since Zhou Shanjian received the first rescue call from Xindu.
After the Xindu learned that the fastest time for the Zhoushan ship to arrive would take a full seven hours, the Xindu basically gave up the fantasy and did not contact them much. After the pirates approached, all the crew members left the bridge and ran to the deck, completely cutting off contact.
Just over ten minutes ago, the Zhoushan ship’s positioning signal also disappeared from the nautical chart. Fortunately, their backup signal appeared again not long after.
However, Zhoushan ship’s captain Hu Zhi was a little suspicious that the pirates found the backup locator and took it away from the Xindu with a speedboat, with the purpose of confusing them and running away.
Therefore, when Hu Zhi received Cheng Yanfei’s call, his first reaction was that he had been captured. This call was actually a ransom call…
”Captain Cheng, can you hear me?! What’s the situation on your side? Are there any injured crew members?”
”I can hear you! The pirates boarded the ship ten minutes ago. They should have occupied the wheelhouse. Except for me, all the crew members hid in the lower deck. No crew members were injured before they boarded the ship, but now I don’t know…”
Hearing Cheng Yanfei’s words, Hu Zhi was relieved, and then hurriedly asked: “You are not with the crew?”
”No, I hid the spare locator when the pirates boarded the ship, and now I am hiding in a container.”
”So Is the signal of your backup locator accurate now? ”
”A ship this big, they probably won’t be able to find it for a while…”
Speaking of this, Cheng Yanfei paused again, and then immediately explained: “But the equipment of the pirates this time is completely different from the pirates I have seen before. They not only drive armored speedboats, but also have very advanced weapons and equipment. We saw five rocket launchers, and they fired directly at the crew as soon as they came up, which was very brutal!”
”In addition, they boarded the ship very quickly. I suspect they have automatic boarding hooks, so I can’t guarantee whether they have more advanced means to find the positioning device…”
After listening to Cheng Yanfei’s description, the expressions of everyone in the command room of Zhoushan Ship suddenly became more solemn.
“I understand. Thank you very much for Captain Cheng’s bravery in bringing us valuable information. Please try to stay hidden. If you are unfortunately found by pirates, please prioritize your personal safety and do not resist in vain.”
”We have contacted your company. Once we get in touch with the pirates, we will try to solve the problem through negotiation or delay time. At the same time, we will continue to rush to rescue at full speed. Please be patient and wait!”
Solve the problem through negotiation or delay time? From this sentence, it can be seen that Zhou Shanjian actually knows that the possibility of coming to support in time is too low. Although the hull structure is complicated, a few hours is enough for the pirates to search the entire ship, so they have assumed that the initial goal of the pirates has been achieved this time.
Cheng Yanfei couldn’t help but smile bitterly and said, “I understand. Please tell our President Liang that I have tried my best. Also, if something happens to me… take care of my family.”
”…”
(End of this chapter)