132 I Accede to Your Reques (2/2)
”Leader, leader…” Brock pointed at the screen of the satellite positioning with his trembling finger. ”Just a moment ago, another ship met with a mishap!”
”I got it. Get the nearby ship to rush over to help…” Abadi stood behind him with his hands on his back.
It must be that Asian kid. It must be that Asian kid! Abadi's face was extremely gloomy, but he couldn't figure out how the kid was able to damage the ships without making them sink immediately.
Could it be done by launching uncharged torpedoes? Abadi could only come up with this possibility after thinking for a long while. Although he didn't have the ability to get high grade goods like torpedoes, he was no stranger to having knowledge in this area. A torpedo traveling at fifty to sixty knots and hitting the bottom of a small ton ship that is twelve-millimeters thick would cause the ship to sink within a short period.
As a matter of fact, Abadi couldn't be blamed for focusing his guess on torpedoes. Beneath the surface of the sea, only torpedoes and anti-ship missiles could cause this situation. However, it would be too far-fetched to say that it was an anti-ship missile attack, because the cost of one anti-ship missile was the same as a small size submarine. No idiot would burn his money this way, even if he was a rich American.
Although his guess was totally unrelated to the truth, even if he got high on one kilogram of heroin, Abadi would never think that the culprit was a seventy-meter-long electric eel holding a forty ton pike. After all, this was a world of materialism. Even if Abadi saw the electric eel with his own eyes, he would just think of it as a humongous sea creature, instead of someone's ”criminal tool”.
Just as Abadi was steeped in fantasy, the thrilling shout from the radio brought his thoughts back to reality.
”Headquarters, headquarters, this is Ship Number Three, this is Ship Number Three. We've also hit an underwater reef, please send help immediately…” As he listened to the heart-wrenching voice in the radio, Abadi felt a flame burning from under his feet which shot all the way up to his skull.
”Adjust the frequency to public waveband.” The joints of Abadi's hands gave out a cracking noise.
After a series of disorderly sound waves, Abadi grabbed the voice transmitter of the radio. ”Hello, this is Abadi. Listen up everyone. Take an S-shaped route at maximum speed immediately. If there's anything unusual, send a sailor to watch the surface of the sea and make a detour immediately.”
”Yes, sir!” Dozens of replies came together from the speaker. However, when the handmade Cuban cigar in Abadi's mouth was smoked halfway, the radio gave out a depressing sound again.
Bang! Abadi pounded his fist angrily on the table, and sent everyone in the room trembling.
”Interpreter officer, come over here!” Abadi took out his mobile phone and pressed a few numbers.
When the interpreter officer rushed over, there were already thirteen ships that suffered the same fate.
Damn it! How many submarines did he need to do this? Abadi had initially thought that the other party could only have three submarines at the most, but now it seemed like this figure was way too conservative.
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Over seventy pirate ships were sailing in all different directions. After destroying thirteen of them, the electric eel's search became more difficult. After searching for around five minutes at its speed limit of eighty knots and not seeing anything suspicious, Chen Fan controlled the eel to gradually slow down its speed to sixty knots.
It was too tiring to swim at that speed. Just like the case of a sprinter, although the explosive speed is very fast, it can not be maintained for long.
Ring!! The mobile phone on the cabinet rang non-stop. At over thirty meters deep, the electric eel looked from a distance away and saw that there were no vessels for the time being. Therefore, Chen Fan retrieved his thoughts and answered the phone.
”Hello, Mister Interpreter Officer, your leader changed his view so fast?” Chen Fan bantered.
”I'm Abadi!” The interpreter officer translated word for word, and even his tone was exactly the same.
”Hey, what's up?”
”I would like you to put a stop to this immediately!” Abadi took a deep breath. ”As for the compensation, we can discuss it.”
”500 million, there's no room for discussion!” Chen Fan sounded calm. ”Didn't you kidnap my crewmen and even threatened to kill them? I'm one who bears grudges.”
Abadi frowned deeply, and he was on the verge of collapse. What exactly was the background of the other party that he had such abilities? ”The most I can do is return you the ransom money, and pay you another 50 million USD!” Among all those who had been blackmailed by him, Chen Fan was probably the only one who could make Abadi say something like this.
”You seem to have overlooked one thing.” Chen Fan's voice was still very calm. ”You're not in the position to bargain with me at all. As long as you're still in the pirate trade, I'll be able to target your Achilles heel. So, I think you better get the amount ready that I requested. Although this amount is painful to you, your loss will only get bigger if you don't do this.”
”In the end, you will realize that you don't have any ships to sail out to sea. This means that all the pirates under you can only sit back and watch all the cargo ships at sea which represent ”money” and not be able to do anything.”
The other end of the phone was silent for half a minute.
”Alright, 500 million!” Abadi finally said as he gritted his teeth. ”I'll raise 500 million within three days, but you have to stop the attack on my ships during this period.”