234: Chapter 232: Interesting 234: Chapter 232: Interesting The cabin began taking on water, and the stern had started to sink rapidly, with the bow starting to tilt upward.
With the suppression of Glolov’s machine-gun fire, Gao Yang felt significantly less pressure and began to focus on locating the targets with rocket launchers.
Frey also fired a rocket, but the M72’s effective range was very short, at less than two hundred meters.
Although it could reach up to a thousand meters, its accuracy beyond two hundred meters was not reliable.
Therefore, Frey’s rocket fire served more to intimidate the enemies on shore.
Now was Cui Bo’s time to shine.
His anti-material sniper rifle finally came into play, with each shot resulting in a pirate-pushed speedboat getting destroyed.
As long as Cui Bo aimed at the engines, it was enough.
There were seven or eight speedboats of various sizes on shore; Cui Bo’s continuous fire had already disabled four engines, meaning four speedboats would be useless even if they were launched.
Cui Bo only missed once, his shot going awry when a wave caused the ship to jerk just as he was pulling the trigger, making his bullet miss the speedboat’s engine and instead hit a person pushing the speedboat into the water.
Although he didn’t hit the engine, the effect was the same.
When a person exploded into chunks of flesh and a cloud of blood mist, then the upper half of their body fell into the speedboat with a thud, and everyone was splattered with warm blood and slippery flesh, no one could continue to push the boat into the sea as if nothing had happened.
Perhaps some could, but it was certain these pirates could not, so they screamed and immediately began to flee in all directions.
While Cui Bo was reloading his magazine, Li Jinfang’s speedboat finally arrived, and then Antoncel shouted, “Jump, jump off!”
Gao Yang waved his hand and yelled, “Jump quickly!”
Bruce pushed Farah onto the speedboat and then leapt aboard himself, followed by Fernando who also jumped onto the speedboat.
At this time, although Cui Bo had loaded a new magazine, he did not immediately plan to jump down; lying on the already tilting bow, he continued shooting.
Gao Yang grabbed his gun, scrambled up, and before sliding down the tilted fishing boat, he moved next to Cui Bo, kicked him hard, and then shouted angrily, “Are you f**king deaf?
Retreat!”
After firing one more shot, Cui Bo dragged his rifle into his arms and then rolled down a bit.
When he stepped on the cabin of the fishing boat, he jumped onto the speedboat beside the vessel.
Gao Yang was right behind Cui Bo, but the sight that met his eyes as he was about to jump onto the speedboat left him both shocked and furious.
“Sh*t!
F**k!”
After cursing in two languages, Gao Yang finally jumped onto the speedboat and reunited with Li Jinfang and the others, but as soon as he got on the speedboat, he yelled, “Run, a lot of boats are coming!”
As Gao Yang shouted, Fernando let out a wail, pointing at the sea ahead, his face despairing, “My crew, they’ve been taken hostage again, so many speedboats.”
At least ten speedboats were approaching from behind Gao Yang and the others, forming a semicircle that had them surrounded.
The crew members, who had initially escaped, were now once again hostages, and at least a hundred guns were firing from the shore.
The situation, which should have ended in victory, was suddenly turned on its head.
Gao Yang aimed his gun at the oncoming speedboats and angrily said, “Where the hell did all these boats come from?
These pirates respond too damn fast!”
With a face full of frustration and confusion, Jinfang shouted, “I don’t know, we were too busy shooting at people on the shore.
Don’t know when they showed up, what do we do now?”
Gao Yang said bitterly, “Retreat!
Retreat now.
If we don’t leave we’ll be trapped.”
Although the failed success was frustrating for Gao Yang, it was now or never to leave.
For the crew who had just escaped the wolf’s den only to enter the tiger’s mouth, Gao could only apologize; he had no way to save them again.
Just then, as Antoncel steered, he suddenly pointed towards land and exclaimed with surprise, “Look!
Look over there, someone is attacking the pirates!”
Gao Yang turned in astonishment, only to see that the pirates on shore were now in complete disarray, firing their guns towards both sides of the beach.
From where Gao Yang and his group could see, countless black men with AK47 rifles had emerged and were charging at the pirates.
The pirates seemed to be surrounded on three sides, and the only way out was the sea.
Yet, after fighting with Gao Yang and his team for half a day, they didn’t consider the sea as a reliable escape route.
Gao Yang watched in a daze and couldn’t help but exclaim, “What’s going on here?
Are these ships not coming for us?
Did we just happen upon this by chance?”
Just then, Cui Bo shouted loudly, “Brother Yang, look at those ships!
They are not pirates, it’s the Skull Gang!”
Gao Yang turned around once more, followed the direction of Cui Bo’s pointing finger, and took a glance through the scope of his rifle.
On one of the speedboats at the forefront, a black man stood at the bow, holding a stick topped with a skull like a torch, looking extremely arrogant and ridiculous.
Gao Yang finally understood that it was not the pirates on shore who had reacted quickly, but rather the Skull Gang had planned to take down these pirates and they just happened to run into them.
The Skull Gang had surrounded the pirates from both land and sea, and had also encircled them as well.
Having realized what was happening, Gao Yang immediately shouted, “Don’t shoot at the Skull Gang, retreat, let’s withdraw first and talk later.”
At that moment, Frey was alone on a speedboat, and in his hands, the boat was like an unruly child.
Frey was twisting the steering wheel back and forth but still couldn’t reach Gao Yang’s side.
Since it was possible they would need to slip through gaps in the speedboats, and Frey’s driving skills were certainly not up to the task, Gao Yang yelled at him, “Stop, don’t move, we’re coming over.
Let Fernando take your boat.”
The Skull Gang’s speedboats were closing in, now less than five hundred meters away, when Antoncel finally docked his boat next to Frey’s.
As Li Jinfang grabbed onto Frey’s boat to steady it, Fernando quickly climbed in, followed by Gao Yang and Li Jinfang jumping onto Frey’s boat.
Divided onto two speedboats, Gao Yang roared, “Let’s go, fast!
If they shoot, we shoot back.
We’ll aim for the left side, and you take the right, only hitting the closest one!”
Antoncel and Fernando controlled the speedboats, one leading, one following, as they approached the Skull Gang’s boats.
The Skull Gang definitely couldn’t block off the entire sea, but Gao Yang’s breakout was still very risky.
The speedboats provided no good cover, and the guns on over a dozen speedboats were enough to turn their boats into sieves.
Just as they were about to floor it and make a run for it, the man holding the Skull Gang’s stick suddenly shouted through a megaphone, “Listen up, we are the Skull Gang, not pirates.
You don’t need to be scared.
We won’t hold you as hostages and will guarantee your safety.
Our boss wants to have a talk with you, so stop your boats now.
But if you must leave, take your people with you.”
Gao Yang almost couldn’t believe his ears.
As the distance closed in, Fernando asked anxiously, “What do we do, do we stop?”
Gao Yang didn’t see anyone from the Skull Gang’s boats raise their guns, and he noticed that no one from the Skull Gang had boarded the boat where the crew sat.
This made Gao Yang think that maybe the Skull Gang truly had no intention of making things difficult for them.
Gao Yang quickly considered his options and then yelled towards Antoncel on his side, “You guys stay back and wait for us.
I’ll stay and talk to them.
Rabbit, Big Dog, get ready to shoot!”
After yelling, Gao Yang gestured for Fernando to slow down.
Meanwhile, Antoncel sped his speedboat between two Skull Gang boats, the resulting waves causing the Skull Gang’s boats to bob along with the surf, yet no one from the Skull Gang fired any shots.
Gao Yang’s boat circled around on the water and came to a stop.
He put down the EBR and picked up his reclaimed M4 shotgun, checked that the magazine was full, then sat down in the boat with the barrel of the shotgun pointed downwards, waiting for the man with the Skull Gang’s stick, on his boat, to slowly approach.
The two speedboats stopped less than two meters apart, and then the man with the skull stick nodded at Gao Yang with an arrogant expression and said, “Anyway, you’ve got guts.
My name is Abdifablah, but you can call me Abu, or Skull Abu.
I like that name, and I like people with guts.”
Abu was burly, an unusual build among Somalis that Gao Yang had seen, as most looked very thin.
Though not fat, Abu was muscular in a way that exuded strength.
Gao Yang nodded at Abu’s arrogant expression and said in a deep voice, “I’m called Ram.
What do you want to talk to me about?”
Abu shook his head and said, “It’s not me who wants to talk to you, it’s my boss who wants to speak with you.
He just told me over the radio to try to keep you here, but not to use force.
I liked your response; I didn’t use force, and you stopped.”
Gao Yang pointed at the crew and said, “I’m the boss of all these people.
You can talk to me.
You just said that if we want to leave, we can.
I want to know if your word can be trusted.
If the answer is yes, can you let my people go?
Everyone leaves, just me staying.”
Abu displayed a scoffing expression again and said, “I said I would let you go, so I will let you go, but if my boss hadn’t wanted to talk to you, I couldn’t care less about stopping you.
Go ahead, let your people leave.
However, if you choose to stay, I’ll welcome it.”
Abu’s reaction genuinely surprised Gao Yang.
While the Skull Gang seemed odd, they apparently had no ill intentions, so now Gao Yang was really interested in talking with the boss of the Skull Gang.
(To be continued.
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