The armed man obviously did not expect that an outsider would come to the ship at this time. When he walked leisurely through a cross corridor, Meatball quickly ran behind him and strangled his neck with one hand. , covered his mouth with the other hand, and exerted force with both hands. In just a few seconds, the man went into shock due to lack of oxygen. And Saji grabbed the guy's legs and lifted him into a room on the side.
This is a luxury cruise ship with rooms everywhere.
"Pry open his mouth, I want to know what is going on here!" Kai ordered the goat while taking off the communicator from the unlucky guy and throwing it to the kid. He needed the kid to monitor the other party's call.
Goat is also proficient in interrogation. In fact, the people in this team are all talents. Although Goat is usually taciturn, he is actually extremely proficient in interrogation. It’s just that his interrogation style is not accepted by most people... He is that kind of person. An interrogator who focuses on physical torture to obtain the information he wants. Generally speaking, few prisoners who pass through his hands can grit their teeth. Of course, it is normal for them to die or be disabled afterwards.
If this kind of person were left outside, they would have been criticized by human rights organizations.
The goat nodded, and quickly tied the prisoner to a chair in the room. At the same time, he took out a bunch of strange torture instruments from his backpack, none of them were big ones, they were all small instruments that didn't look like much. Not much lethality.
But when other people saw these things, they all shuddered, and they all found trouble and left there, going outside to be on guard. Because they knew that the next scene would be even more forbidden than the 18-year-old boy. Duke was quite brave, but after watching the torture of a goat, he couldn't sleep well for three whole days.
…
Time passed quickly. In less than ten minutes, the goat wiped his hands with a towel and opened the door and came out.
"Already done."
According to what the unlucky man said, they are indeed not good people. They are a group of robbers. The purpose of coming to this ship is naturally to rob it. According to their boss Hanover, they are going to do something big this time. They plan to rob everyone on the ship, and then they can quit and everyone will become a rich man.
In order to rob the world's most luxurious cruise ship, they also prepared an internal agent in the ship. Once the internal agent parked the ship on the high seas, they could easily rob the entire ship. As for who the spy is, no one knows except their boss Hanover.
The plan was very good. A large ship that had lost its communication function was parked on the high seas without any security forces, waiting for them to plunder.
It's a pity that the plan went wrong at the beginning. They are robbers and they don't know how to make clever plans. They first encountered a storm, and when they finally boarded the ship, they found that there was no one on the ship.
"Where have everyone gone?" Kai asked curiously.
The goat was silent for a while, seeming to collect his thoughts.
"The guy said... there was a monster on the ship, and most of the people on the ship were eaten by the monster... I confirmed several times that he was not talking nonsense or trying to deceive us."
This is also the reason why Goat hesitated just now, because it is too fantasy.
monster? Still eating people?
But Kai is very calm. He has seen many monsters. Can they eat people? What monster doesn't eat people?
"You just need to tell me if the target person is still alive?" Kai didn't care about the monster. monster? How scary can it be? Even if the monster doesn't come to him, he will go to the monster. In any case, it is also a rare 'experience package'. What he cares about now is the presidential candidate. If he dies, don't say anything, just plant bombs everywhere on the ship, blowing up the monsters and the ship together. If they were to stay alive, they would need to waste some energy.
"I don't know. That guy doesn't know who Benjamin Asher is. There are dozens of people still alive on the ship, and he can't remember who is who." The goat shook his head.
"Well, now it seems that we need to waste some time." Kai shrugged and asked the goat: "What are the characteristics of that monster? Where is it? What are the number and weapon configuration of the robbers? All survivors are there where?"
"There are more than forty survivors in the central hall on the sixth deck." The Yago has ten decks. Except for the uppermost top deck, driving deck and bottom deck, the other decks are entertainment and accommodation facilities. The sixth deck is considered the most important deck, which includes various high-end casinos, clubs and restaurants, as well as several heated swimming pools. It is the core part of the entire cruise ship.
"Including that idiot, there are only 10 robbers, seven militants and three crew members. The converted cargo ship outside belongs to them. All the robbers have similar weapons and equipment."
"Very good, listen." Kai called everyone together, and then assigned everyone a task: "Me, Meatball, Duke, and Portman are in a group, and Sage, Destroyer, Goat, and Imp are in a group. , outflank the group of robbers from both sides of the central hall, remember to be precise and not cause unnecessary casualties! Especially the target person, protect him as soon as he discovers the target mission. Is it clear? "
"clear!"
"understand?"
"clear!"
"Very well, let's go! Huha!"
"Huha!"
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In the central hall, the captain and cruise ship owner Simon are trying their best to persuade the robber leader Hannover to leave the cruise ship as soon as possible. They were already frightened. There are monsters here!
"Listen to me, we have to leave immediately, right now! Those monsters will come soon, and they will eat us all up. We must escape immediately. As long as you can take us away, I can give you money, a lot of money! "
This is Simon, the owner of the cruise ship. He is a rich man. He has his own casino in Las Vegas and some properties in Washington. Pretty rich.
Unfortunately, his tactics were of no use to the robber leader.
Hannover and Simon have known each other for a long time. Simon runs a casino. No one who opens a casino in Las Vegas is clean. Where is the world's largest money laundering site? Right in Las Vegas! Simon is in the money laundering business. Hannover is one of his clients.
And this time Hanover came here to rob because of Simon's invitation.
Yes, Simon wants to rob his ship. The ship cost Simon approximately $500 million to build, license, decorate and set sail. This caused serious problems in Simon's capital chain. Even if the cruise ship was full on its first voyage, Simon still felt that he could not support it. You must know that the operating expenses of the cruise ship were astronomical.
Simon already owed a large amount of money to the bank. Although the proceeds from the cruise were large, they were not enough to raise enough to pay the bank loan in a short time. If the loan is not repaid when due, the bank will repossess the cruise ship.
In the United States, the biggest gangster has never been the government, nor the gangs, nor the soldiers, but the banks! American banks have penetrated into every aspect of American life.
For example, advance consumption, this consumption model is the masterpiece of banks. Almost everyone in the United States has a loan. Even the rich are no exception. Once the loan is repaid, the bank will immediately take over the borrower's assets.
Relying on this, American bankers have made a lot of money. For example, Simon raised funds and spent several years to build this cruise ship. In order to obtain the cruise ship license, he also consumed countless resources. Whether it's material or personal. Then inviting casinos, restaurants, and various shops to the cruise ship also requires a lot of energy.
After he got everything done, the cruise ship set sail and started to make a profit. As a result, now the bank wants to take it all away.
To put it simply, all the work Simon did in the early stage was in vain for the bank!
This is a profit-making method for banks. It perfectly avoids the initial investment and enjoys the fruits directly.
It’s strange that Simon is willing to do so!
So he thought of a crooked trick, he planned to defraud his own cruise ship!
His original idea was very simple, which was to destroy the cruise ship's operating system. As the world's largest cruise ship, the operating system on it is also the world's top, very complex and very advanced, and is completely controlled by a central computer. But like all sophisticated technologies, it is very easy to be destroyed, such as blowing up the central computer.
Of course that would be too obvious, so he uses a virus specially written for the central computer, which directly paralyzes the computer system on the cruise ship. All functions of the cruise ship will be disabled.
This is only the first step. The second step is to let Hannover board the yacht, rob it, and then blow up the yacht. Of course Simon didn't go out of his way to kill everyone, he just destroyed part of the cruise ship. For this reason, Hannover prepared six small torpedoes obtained from Russia, which were enough to cause the cruise ship to lose power, but would not destroy the entire cruise ship.
The reason Simon did this was certainly not to take revenge on society. All he wants is a settlement from the insurance company. The cruise ship’s insurance settlement is as high as $1 billion! Once something goes wrong with the cruise ship, the insurance company must compensate. At that time, not only can he pay back the money to the bank, but he can also make a lot of money. Then the cruise ship can be repaired and set sail again, and he can still make money!
It has to be said that American businessmen are not good people either.
But Simon's plan does have high feasibility.
Unfortunately, as soon as Simon stopped the cruise ship, he encountered an accident.
The monsters came before Hanover!
Until now, Simon and the others don't know what the monster is. They only know that within 52 hours, more than 3,000 people died on the ship! This is also the maximum load capacity of the cruise ship, which means that except for them, everyone on this ship has already died!
"Yes, we are not far from the Chilean coastline now. As long as we leave here, we can use the satellite phone to call for help, and then we will be rescued!" The captain also tried his best to persuade Hannover.
"No!" But Hanover was unmoved. “I’m going to get my money or I’m not going anywhere!”
Hanover spent almost all his savings on this operation. Not to mention anything else, those six torpedoes alone are worth more than 30 million! If he can't get the money, he will go bankrupt if he goes back. That was more unacceptable to him than death.
"But after the electronic system was paralyzed, the safe was locked! You can't open it now!" Simon almost collapsed. He also didn't expect that the safe was actually connected to the central control computer. He is the boss, not a security guard. How could he have known that it would end up like this.
"Then use violent means to open it!" Hannover said decisively.
There is no safe that cannot be opened. As long as conditions permit, an oxygen cutting machine can do it. It's just time consuming. It just so happens that the cruise ship's damage management department has those equipment.
"But those equipments are all on the bottom deck!" Simon said helplessly. Who would put this kind of industrial equipment in an entertainment hall?
Hanover was also ruthless. He grinned, then took out his pistol and pointed it at the survivors. "Let them get it!"
He is not like Simon, who has a family and a job, and wants to return to the United States. He will not kill anyone at all. Hanover will remain anonymous from now on, so killing people is not a big deal for him.
A group of survivors immediately gathered together screaming, like a herd of animals meeting a lion, hoping to increase their sense of security in this way. It's a pity that Hanover didn't care about this at all. He fired a shot at the ceiling and said to those people: "Ladies and gentlemen, I need some brave people to help me get the equipment. I personally hope that someone will come forward. I don't want to What kind of bloodshed could there be at such a moment. But don’t test my patience!”
bump!
Another shot.
A group of people were frightened and trembling.
Finally a handsome man stood up. This man's appearance is that of a typical American decent protagonist. He is tall and strong, with a square face and a butt-shaped chin. Although I don’t know where this weird aesthetic comes from, since the 1960s and 1970s, this face shape has been associated with the screen images of soldiers, policemen, and heroes. Many American heroes have this image.
Even the most popular portrait of Captain America has this face shape.
"I go!"
"Oh! A brave man has appeared!" Hanover was very happy.
The man's female companion, probably his wife, was crying and trying to hold him back, and there was a five- or six-year-old boy who was also crying for his father. Looks like a family.
"Sorry, honey, I have to stand up." The man looked at his wife and children apologetically and said resolutely. Very majestic and righteous.
"Wait a minute! Wait a minute! We can't let him go! Listen, man, you can't let him take risks!" However, Simon was so frightened that he almost peed when he saw the man standing up. "If something happens to him, you will be hunted by the US government for the rest of your life!"
"Why?" Hanover asked.
"He is the Democratic presidential candidate!" Simon shouted out the man's identity.
But the moment he revealed the man's identity, Kai, who had already entered the combat position, immediately said to the intercom: "Target confirmed! Fire!"
Bump bump!
The three gunshots appeared very suddenly, and experienced people would immediately know that these were three bursts of automatic rifle fire. This shooting method is to strike a balance between accuracy, functional positioning of the rifle, and firepower density. It is a very common shooting method in the military.
Hanover also heard it, but unfortunately it was over. It was Kai who was aiming at him. The recoil of the MK17 assault rifle in his hand was of no use to him. All three of his shots hit. One to the head, one to the heart, and the last to the black companions in Hanover.
Other team members opened fire next from the second floor of the concourse. The gangsters wanted to fight back, but unfortunately Kai's team had already taken advantage of the situation. They were on the second floor and surrounded the robbers from a high position.
After a burst of gunfire. Of the remaining seven robbers, four were killed on the spot, and the other three robbers dropped their weapons and raised their hands the moment Kai and the others opened fire.
"Clean!" Goat and Portman raised their thumbs to indicate threatening contact.
Kai immediately walked down to the second floor with the other members of the team and rushed towards Benjamin Asher, while Goat and Portman continued to control the situation from high up. Meatball, Imp and Destroyer immediately took control of the three surrendered robbers.
"Benjamin Asher?" Kai asked formally.
Benjamin was a little dazed, everything happened too fast. In just about five seconds, all the gangsters who had been showing off their power just now were dead! Even Benjamin's wife forgot to cover her son's eyes, allowing the five-year-old kid to watch the entire killing process.
"Benjamin Asher!"
"Ah...yes! I am Benjamin Asher!" It was only then that Benjamin came back to his senses. "Are you here to save me?"
As a result, Kai ignored him and snapped his fingers at the kid. The kid immediately took out an encrypted satellite phone from the pocket of his tactical vest. This phone is not on the same satellite system as the AWIS Army Global Military Command and Control/Information System used by Kai, which also avoids trouble.
Kai wanted to report the mission progress to General Hawke and wait for the next action instructions. After they found Benjamin, they were about to retreat according to their pre-planned plan, which required General Hawke to contact surrounding ships for support. There are more than forty people here, and their RHIB rigid inflatable boat cannot carry so many people.
Unfortunately, the satellite phone was silent.
"What's going on? Why can't we contact you?"
This is a question to the kid. He is a correspondent and all the communication equipment is kept by him. Kai suspected that this kid had caused some trouble and caused the satellite phone to break.
"How is that possible?" The kid immediately picked up the satellite phone. After trying it, he also used his own communication device to try to contact the outside world, but there was still no response. "No! The phone is fine, but the signal transmission has been cut off!"
Kai and his men all looked at Simon and the captain.
The two of them were also confused. "No! We didn't do this. There is no signal blocking device on the ship, and the satellite phone has been out of service for a long time!"
"No wonder... nothing about the situation on the ship was spread." There are thousands of people on this ship, and it is impossible not to have a satellite phone. Now I understand, it turns out that satellite phones have become a decoration.
Kai didn't panic too much. This kind of thing was difficult, but it was nothing. The cruise ship can't move, but isn't there a converted cargo ship nearby? Although the cargo ship is not very big, it should not be a problem to bring some people on board.
But just when Kai was about to speak, there was a sudden sound of metal squeezing.
Kaz~Katz~
The team members immediately pointed their guns around, and everyone else silenced them in unison. They knew what it was, the voice that was followed by carnage every time it appeared. They know that as long as the sound is known it is better to shut up and not make the sound.
