Physician’s Odyssey

After a small-scale exchange of fire, the pirates gave up the strong attack, besieged the doorway, and stared at the resisters not far away.

After a while, a handsome-looking man appeared among the pirates. He held a megaphone in his hand and said in English: "This ship has been taken over by us. Give you 15 minutes. Everyone will lay down their weapons. If If you continue to resist, then we can only blow up this ship. If you surrender actively, we will not harm your lives. As long as you hand over enough ransom, we will let you leave safely."

While talking, the man snapped his fingers, only to hear a whistling explosion. A cannonball flew from a pirate ship in the distance and hit the hull accurately. Although the cruise ship had a large tonnage, after being hit, Still shaking violently, the tourists and staff in the ship had already gathered together. Under the strong sense of tremor, the hall was suddenly messed up, and they were all smashed.

Because he was standing on the deck, the man was also affected. He swayed from side to side. He finally got his footing. He cursed the gunner on the pirate ship for being crazy. How to use such a powerful cannonball? Isn't it just a threat?

There was chaos in the hall, with cries and curses flooding together. As an ordinary person, facing such a predicament, his mood was very broken.

A couple hugged their daughter, with a sad expression on their faces, regretting taking part in this trip.

"Mom, will I die?" The daughter looked at her mother ignorantly.

The mother gently stroked her daughter's hair and said softly: "No, we will survive this crisis."

The daughter shook her head and burst into tears, "Mom, I want to go home..."

Mother sighed and said with red eyes: "We will go home soon, don't cry, be good..."

Seeing that the mother and daughter were so frightened, Dad stood up in grief and said with his fist: "We are willing to pay the ransom, please stop fighting the pirates."

"Yes, they promised that as long as you give up resistance, we will not be in danger of life, and we don't want to die." The others agreed.

Similar pessimism continued to spread, and some people even argued with the security personnel on board to maintain order, and the scene was chaotic.

Du Ziqian looked at Su Tao anxiously, and said solemnly: "What should I do now? The enemy didn't enter, we were in a mess first."

Su Tao sighed and said helplessly: "This is the opponent's tactics. He wants us to be like this. Now you must come forward to stabilize the military. You must tell these tourists to understand the reality and what kind of person the pirates opposite us are. Give up the resistance, they will face the end."

Du Ziqian nodded. He is the captain of this cruise ship and has the obligation to stand up at this time.

Du Ziqian found the microphone, took a deep breath, and slowly said in English: "I am Du Ziqian, the captain of this ship. I apologize for being attacked by pirates."

Du Ziqian came forward at this moment to temporarily stabilize everyone's emotions.

"We already know the origin of this group of pirates, it is the notorious ghost pirate group. You can find their information. Indeed, some pirates will not kill hostages indiscriminately, but ghost pirate ships will definitely not be so kind. They will kill cruelly. All the hostages were killed, and the ship was looted. This is why we resisted fiercely." Du Ziqian said solemnly.

Someone below loudly questioned: "Is it useful to resist? The other party has powerful artillery shells. Our ship will be sunk, and eventually it will die!"

Du Ziqian smiled helplessly: "We need to wait! We have sent a distress signal to the China Navy. As long as the warship arrives in time, we can be rescued."

"Wait? How long do you have to wait? You must give us an accurate answer." The questioning voice continued.

"Shall we surrender? At least there is still a possibility of survival." Someone pleaded crying.

In the face of life and death, the true emotion of fear of life and death is fully expressed, but no one will laugh at such cowardice, because it is human nature.

Du Ziqian stood there a little embarrassed, he could no longer control the spread of pessimism on the court, and even an inexplicable exhaustion appeared in his heart, wanting to take the initiative and bow his head with the pirate group.

Su Tao saw Du Ziqian's emotions, walked to Du Ziqian's side, and said solemnly: "Captain Du, you have to grit your teeth at this moment. We haven't lost yet. There are only a few hundred pirates, but we have a few in total. Thousands of people, although they are fully equipped, we have a large number of people. If we get discouraged at this time, our previous efforts will be wasted."

Du Ziqian returned to his senses and stared at Su Tao. Although the matter is related to Su Tao, more importantly, his first deputy Sun Guowen colluded with the pirate group. Even without the fuse of the Heavenly Sage Bronze Man, he was caught by the pirate group. Looking at similar things will explode sooner or later.

Du Ziqian continued: "There are more than 3,000 people on our ship, most of them are men, and the other pirates only have a few hundred people. Are we just lambs to be slaughtered in a cage, without a bit of blood? To the executioner, why not take the responsibility of protecting relatives and friends on your own body. If you are men, fight side by side with me, so that you will not be in vain in this life."

After the stimulation of Du Ziqian's words, all men remained silent, thinking about the power of Du Ziqian's words.

Du Ziqian said again: "I am the captain of this ship. If we can rescue everyone, why should we refuse the offer from the other party? Because the risk and cost of our giving up resistance is too great, I cannot make such a decision. We let go The moment the weapon is armed, the other party will aim the weapon at us, and then we will not even have a chance to negotiate."

Someone finally started to support Du Ziqian, "Yes, there are so many of us, are you afraid of them."

"Fight with them. Kill one is enough, kill two to make money."

The classic words of the anti-Japanese drama rushed out, this guy had forgotten that the other party had a gun in his hand, and could easily collapse a dozen unarmed people.

Du Ziqian breathed a sigh of relief, and said: "There are professional soldiers to protect our safety. We can't mess around now and wait patiently for support."

Du Ziqian's expression looked confident, but his heart was uneasy, because the support seemed to be far away.

Seeing that Du Ziqian had calmed everyone's emotions, Su Tao was slightly relieved. He waved to Jiang Jing and said in a deep voice, "When will the navy arrive?"

Jiang Jing smiled helplessly: "It is estimated that there will be another hour."

Su Tao sighed secretly and said, "We must delay it until that time."

Jiang Jing frowned and said, "I'm afraid the other party won't give us this opportunity."

Su Tao gritted his teeth and said: "I'll go to negotiate with them, this can delay time."

"That's too dangerous." Jiang Jing shook her head. "Our first task is to protect your safety."

Su Tao shook his head and smiled bitterly: "If this ship is sunk, none of us can escape."

Jiang Jing whispered: "If you want to escape now, we can take a yacht with a success rate of more than 90%."

"I can't do it!" Su Tao stared at Jiang Jing very seriously and said coldly.

Jiang Jing was silent for a few seconds before sighing, "That's right. If you do that, you don't deserve to be the new Vulcan."

Su Tao nodded towards Jiang Jing, and said, "Contact the pirate ship, and I will negotiate with their leader."

Jiang Jing sighed. This is the only way to delay time at the moment. Su Tao is also the only person on board who can bargain with Cruise.

Jiang Jing went out to arrange personnel to contact the negotiating pirate.

The pirate hesitated slightly, and then relayed the news to Cruise who was still on the pirate ship.

After listening to Cruise, he smiled slightly and said: "What an interesting guy, is there such a stupid person in the world? He would even fall into the trap."

The confidant quickly reminded him in a low voice: "I investigated Su Tao. I was Mr. Qin's mortal enemy, a wealthy man, and a doctor with excellent medical skills."

"Doctor?" Cruise said with a faint smile, "Then let him come and meet."

With Cruise's permission, Su Tao boarded a distant pirate ship through a yacht under the strict escort of the pirates.

After the two met, they looked at each other for a while.

Cruise smiled in Chinese: "I didn't expect you to be so young."

Su Tao said calmly: "I didn't expect your Chinese level to be good."

Cruise said with a faint smile: "I am a Malaysian and there are many Chinese in China. I went to school in a school founded by Chinese descent, so I can speak Chinese."

Su Tao looked around and said, "No wonder there are many Chinese in your pirate group."

The conversation between the two didn't mean anything to compete, as if they were friends who hadn't seen each other for a long time and were a little strange.

After staring at him for a while, Cruise, who was smiling all the time, suddenly turned from sunny to dark. He took out a Magnum revolver from his waist, pointed it at Su Tao's temple, and sneered: "Go ahead," What do you want in exchange for the life of a boatman, if I am not satisfied, let you leave this world now."

Su Tao placed his hand on the left-wheel pistol, pressed it down gently, and said with a smile: "Qin Jingyu promised to give you the promise, I can double it to you."

Cruise laughed loudly and said: "I have worked with Mr. Qin for many years, so why can I trust you?"

"It's because I can make Stein disappear from this world with no effort." Su Tao smiled faintly, calculating the distance between himself and Cruise, and he seemed to walk inwardly and said, "You were originally It should be Stein’s mercenary group waiting here, but I didn’t expect it to be me in the end?”

Cruise stared at Su Tao and hesitated in his heart. It was not particularly pleasant to cooperate with Qin Jingyu for many years.

And Su Tao does have some strength.

At this moment of hesitation, Su Tao raised his brows and flashed away quickly. The speed was so fast that Cruise didn't react at all.

Su Tao was already standing behind Cruise, a folded hand twisted Cruise's arm behind.

Click, the revolver hit the ground hard.

The confidant who had been standing behind Cruise reacted faster. He picked up the revolver with his toes, but with the muzzle against Cruise's temple.