Volume 1 The End of the World Chapter 003 Maritime Supermarket
Fatigue is not the reason. Being away from the army for a long time will dull your sensitive nerves.
Ye Te didn't expect to sleep for so long, more than one time. On the moving sea, the sun was bright and dazzling, and he could see that it was the sun at noon. Thinking of the new diving watch he got yesterday, he raised his wrist and saw that it was a few minutes before noon.
Twelve o'clock. The wind was calm outside the window, and the speed of the ship slowed down. Probably to save fuel, it was switched to a diesel engine for propulsion.
"Good morning! Oh, and good afternoon. The toothbrush and towel are in the bathroom, go and wash up!"
Lao Ye's kind smile melts away all the energy to wake up.
Lifting the blanket that had been covering him for some time, Yete sat up from the sofa and nodded in frustration. For more than a day, his life had been handed over to a person he had known for two hours, and he was angry at himself.
"Eat whatever you want for lunch, and I'll cook you a Christmas dinner in the evening."
Lao Ye didn't smell like alcohol all over his body like yesterday, and he sounded like he was both a father and a mother. Ye Te really wanted to grab him by the collar and ask: If this continues, how can I pull the trigger? He walked to the bathroom depressedly.
"Your escape was basically successful."
The cabin was clean and tidy, with no trash or a bottle in sight. Ye Te washed up and sat down at the dining table. Ye Te announced with a smile: "In the past twenty-seven hours, we traveled more than 600 nautical miles.
This is already off the coast of Mexico. Walk three hundred nautical miles east and you can land in Puerto Vallar."
Yate finished a glass of water, poured milk and said, "Colombia is still far away."
For him, his escape will never be successful, he will never be able to return home, and he will never be able to return to a normal life. He just wants to take one step at a time, without thinking about the future. The lunch he eats is also very rich, including two steaks and two sausages.
, a plate of dumplings, a plate of fried eggs, and a plate of fruit salad. Obviously, a certain father made them based on his consumption yesterday.
Lao Ye said softly: "If you change your mind, I have some connections in Mexico and may be able to help. Anyway, I will be dead by then, so I am not afraid of being implicated." Ye Te said calmly: "Thank you, I am used to relying on myself."
"What are your plans when you get to Colombia?" Lao Ye asked with great concern.
Yate hated this kind of tone, and for the sake of the food on the plate, he was reluctant to answer: "There is a friend there who is also a bodyguard and is spending Christmas vacation in Cali."
Domestic real estate is booming, and there are a lot of foreign funds wanting to get a share of it. His employer is a descendant of a real estate businessman, and he often takes him to meet some investors, and he also meets many colleagues. The so-called friends are stationed in Los Angeles to take care of the boss's mistress and illegitimate son.
We often practice shooting together. You teach me Spanish, and I teach you English and Chinese. In the past two years, we have become closer.
"Cali? What made me think of Pink Dealers? Are you going to work for Pink Dealers?"
"I don't know, at least he can help me get a reliable fake passport."
"Colombia is too complicated. If you believe me, just get a passport and go to Brazil. I know an underground hospital in Sao Paulo that does very good plastic surgery. I often hire doctors from Seoul. After you have plastic surgery, spend some money to get a real one in Brazil."
Passport, still a free man. Oh, let me get you something."
In the past few years, Ye Te has spent more time taking care of others and less time being taken care of. He is very uncomfortable with Lao Ye's enthusiasm.
Lao Ye hurried into the bedroom, then hurried out, put a bank card and a piece of paper on the dining table, sighed and said: "This card is temporarily issued to facilitate navigation, and it is not included in the property will. When I die, Cheap Bank
There is probably more than one million knives in it, plus the cash on the ship, which is enough for you to regain your freedom. However, please remember not to contact your relatives and friends within three years, let alone return to your country. The black and white will pursue you.
The pursuit will probably be relaxed after five years."
"Ahem..."
Ye Te's heart sank and he drank milk into his nose. He was somewhat mentally prepared for what he was going to do. At that time, he was dealing with a dozen gangsters with guns and had to protect his careless employer. He grabbed a gun and almost shot him in the head.
After escaping, he knew he had no choice but to flee.
He coughed a few times and said with a smile: "Thank you, what do you mean by that? Oh, people are dying, so there is nothing better to do... No one can be cheaper than the bank. Haha, it is only useful to dock."
He doesn't pay much attention to money. His family has been rich since he was a child, and he has no worries about food and clothing. After studying abroad, his employer is like him and gives him the treatment of a company executive, including food, housing, transportation, and entertainment. It's just for the annual NBA season.
Tickets, playoff tickets, and finals tickets cost no less than 100,000 US dollars. Therefore, I don’t regret much about wiping my employer’s ass and getting into big trouble.
"When a man is about to die, his words are good; when a bird is about to die, his song is also sad!" Lao Ye recited word by word and stood with his hands behind his hands.
The sound fell, and the cabin fell into silence. The navigation alarm sounded at an inappropriate time, which meant that there were obstacles or ships thirty nautical miles ahead of the route. Lao Ye moved quickly and rushed to the bridge in one stride. He looked left and right for a while, and then rushed out of the deck.
"It can't be a reef, right?" Ye Te was lucky. The radar showed that there was an object ahead, but couldn't tell what it was?
Lao Ye denied: "The reefs are not arranged regularly. Moreover, there are many moving objects."
"well!"
Standing in front of the radar screen, Ye Te sighed heavily. He stared at the screen and murmured: "With so many ships stopped, the Coast Guard must be searching." He couldn't avoid what was coming. He really had to face it, and his hands trembled involuntarily.
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Lao Ye turned his telescope to the sky at the end of the outer deck and looked at the four angles of east, west, south and north for several minutes. He entered the cabin and said with a relaxed smile: "It's not a search. If so many ships are intercepted and searched, helicopters will be indispensable in the sky. Look, there is not a single bird in the sky."
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"Shipwreck rescue?" Ye Te tapped on the screen in confusion.
Lao Ye said enigmatically: "If my intuition is accurate, I should have encountered smuggling. In the past, I heard from sailing friends that the area from Baja California to Central America deviated from the customary route and sailed hundreds of nautical miles deep in the Pacific. If I encountered
There is only one possibility for large-scale fleet assembly, and that is the legendary 'supermarket on the sea'."
Sea routes are similar to land roads. Those with more boats take the big roads, those with fewer boats take the small roads, and those without boats are the wild roads. The first two are customary sea routes. It is natural to choose the wild road to escape. Yete did not expect to take it.
There is also a "supermarket" on Yelu.
"Haha...we actually met? Oh, Christmas, a magical day!" Lao Ye raised his head to the sky in excitement and opened his arms. It is a bad habit of sailors to encounter strange things at sea, just like Columbus discovered the New World. What if
It would be great if someone asked me for an explanation.
A smuggler's supermarket lacks armed guards? Ye Te frowned, fearing that it would cause trouble. Instead of catering to Old Ye and asking some curious questions, he said: "Let's go around it."
"No need." Lao Ye shook his head in disappointment, "Their radar is more advanced than ours and saw us earlier. If we change the course now, it means we are hostile. This is a maritime rule and can easily cause misunderstandings. Besides, those fifty and sixty knots
We can't escape from such a small distance in a high-speed armed speedboat. It's safer to go through the same route. Smuggling and transshipment is the exchange of containers and goods between ships. People are not afraid of you seeing it, and you can't see anything. It's transshipped with the port.
No different."
Yate was persuaded and nodded in agreement. After thinking about it, he felt something was wrong and wondered: "It seems that some ships have anchored and stopped. How can they anchor and stop?"
The sea water is flowing, and the ships are anchored by relying on the friction between the heavy anchors and the water bottom. It is in a port or near the coast, and it cannot stop at all without anchoring in the deep sea. However, many suspected ships on the radar remain motionless.
"Haha, the sea and land soldiers know something about sailing!" Lao Ye was waiting for him to ask the question and smiled happily, "In the sea, unless it is an emergency situation, the ship will usually not be parked close to it. The water depth so far away from the shore is even shallower.
Kilometers. How long can the anchor chain of an anchor be? The longest is twelve sections, each section is about 27 meters, and the total is about 300 meters. In other words, if it is more than 100 meters deep, the anchor cannot stop the ship. However,
Those ships stopped. What does that mean? It means that this is a specially selected anchorage. There is probably a sunken island below, and the water depth is fifty meters. Because of this, I decided that it was a maritime supermarket. People dare to have so many ships anchored.
, premeditated, organized, planned, all aspects considered in advance.”
Yate secretly rejoiced that "kidnapping" an "old captain" was the right thing to do. If he had gone alone, he would not have been caught by the coast guard, and he might have been killed by smugglers.
"The prerequisite is that the weather is calm and the sea is calm, and cargo transfer between ships can be carried out. Don't underestimate this. If there are wind and waves, even if there are small winds and waves, there will be a risk of collision between ships when they dock together.
The crane used to transfer cargo is even more difficult to control, and it is easy for the cargo to be destroyed and people to die. No fool would do such a thing. In the past few years, the Lao Mi Navy used a new crane to transship the cargo in one-meter-high waves.
More than a hundred containers are also claimed to be a great invention."
"No wonder, the weather is nice today. Oh, what are they smuggling, powder, weapons?"
"There must be powder, weapons, and even slaves. It can be said that you can get whatever you want. Otherwise, it wouldn't be called a maritime supermarket. If it is convenient later, I would like to buy some oil with them. The ones with the largest transaction volume are some
Like ordinary goods. You know, there is an embargo in Western countries. In the past, it was mainly targeted at Old Soviet Union, but now it is targeted at us and some so-called rogue countries. The profits of this kind of embargoed materials are very high, and the content is extensive, such as high-precision machinery
, precision instruments, computer chips, synthetic materials..."
Lao Ye introduced "Sea Supermarket" like a salesman and talked non-stop. Ye Te was grateful to be a good student and asked questions from time to time. Lao Ye felt relieved and became more and more engaged as he talked. Maybe he was preparing to talk about sailing with his son.
Speak out. Sometimes it goes too far, and Yate has to pull it back.
"...Powder traffickers, human traffickers, and arms traffickers are just the surface. Behind the scenes, the largest participants in the maritime supermarket are various countries. The national level's contribution to the total annual smuggling accounts for at least 90%. Therefore, there is economics
People joke that offshore supermarkets are the real free trade. Think about it, why does our country buy so many U.S. debts? It’s because we are forced to buy what we want because we have money. It’s like, there is only KFC in Los Angeles.
It’s open to you, but other restaurants won’t let you in. No matter how rich you are, you’ll still eat junk food every meal. What is money? Bills, no matter U.S. dollars, yuan, or currency. In my eyes, they are just bills.
Bai Tiao…”
"Who is the organizer?"
Chapter completed!