A certain dog grinned, turned his head and looked at the scenery outside the car.
Luke then dialed Selina's number and told her the general situation.
Selina: "No problem, I'll help you with everything here, just be careful."
Luke: "I have the gold nugget, you..."
Selina didn't care: "It's okay, that guy is very powerful, I'm glad he can help you."
Luke just hummed and hung up the phone.
There was no need to say thank you for something like this between him and Selina.
In less than twenty minutes, he arrived at a private airport in the suburbs. Luke, who had concealed his appearance and figure, simply gave Ginny's name and was greeted by the flight attendant on standby and taken on the plane.
Luke was in no mood to flirt with this beautiful passenger. He simply said thank you and said, "We can take off now. I'm in a hurry."
The flight attendant didn't say much. There are few people who are not in a hurry for such an emergency flight at night.
Although Luke is not her employer, her employer is powerful and those who can borrow this plane are not ordinary people.
Luke got on the plane, took out his notebook and started checking the intelligence.
Of course Luke knew about Robert and Catherine's travel plan, but he had never studied it carefully. Now when he took it out and found the location of the cruise ship, he frowned.
This is a cruise ship sailing from New York to Europe. Its current location is just as Robert said, not close to anywhere.
The cruise ship is hundreds of kilometers away from the nearest land, and New York is nearly a thousand kilometers away.
Considering what Robert said, that group of people might have come prepared, and Luke felt that the situation was worrying.
Forget about calling the police or anything like that.
In a major case like this where thousands of people are held hostage on a cruise ship, the police's first choice is to negotiate with the robbers.
It may take more than ten hours before a professional team is dispatched to carry out a rescue operation by force.
For the police, the number of tourists who died during the rescue operation was just a matter of numbers.
As long as no important people died, it didn't matter who the victims were.
Luke only wanted to ensure the safety of Robert and Catherine. The safety of other tourists was not a problem he could solve. He could not take care of thousands of tourists.
As the business jet headed east, Luke checked the messages Robert sent on the satellite phone from time to time.
The situation is neither good nor bad.
The criminals on the cruise ship seemed to have a clear target. They did not kill the tourists, but gathered them in batches and locations, as if they were looking for someone.
But as tourists were driven to several detention sites one after another, Robert and Catherine's room for maneuver was getting smaller.
The number of these gangsters has exceeded two hundred, with clear division of labor and detailed and professional plans.
They set up control and cleaning on the cruise ship layer by layer and cleared all the tourists out.
Robert didn't dare to do anything.
These criminals all have walkie-talkies, and they work in groups, reporting safety regularly.
If he moved, he would be discovered within ten minutes, and then a group of gangsters would come to search for him.
At the same time, key points of the cruise ship were also blocked by the gangsters.
If Robert were alone, this blockade would be meaningless.
But with Catherine, he was not sure he could hide back in the place that had been cleared out by the bandits.
Fortunately, the cruise ship was very large, the criminals were not impatient, and the carpet search operation was also time-consuming.
Luke calculated the time silently in his mind, still feeling a little anxious.
The best case scenario is that he arrives first.
That way he could be absolutely sure of Catherine's safety.
There is no need to worry about Robert's safety. This guy is not an ordinary person.
Therefore, the worst case scenario is that Robert and Catherine are also found out. Luke just hopes that Robert will not act impulsively at that time.
But the business jet had only been flying for three hours when Robert broke the bad news: the police had received information that the cruise ship had been hijacked.
Apparently, Robert wasn't the only one on the cruise ship with a satellite phone.
This made the gangsters act more impatient and their methods became much more brutal, and the first unlucky person to be shot appeared.
He was a policeman who was traveling with his wife. When his wife was pushed by the gangsters, he got excited and started a fight with the gangsters, and one of the gangsters opened fire.
Luke's brows furrowed.
He was afraid of this situation.
Bandits in a relaxed state will be less wary of the outside world, and their actions will not be too hasty in an environment like a cruise ship.
But with the police's threat, it is bound to cause a chain reaction.
Moreover, the bandits had already shot and injured people, so they naturally didn't care about shooting and injuring the next rebel.
Finally, in the early morning hours in New York, Luke hurriedly got off the business jet and boarded another small plane at the private airport.
The pilot was a bearded man. He just listened to Luke report an order number and the coordinates of the destination, then started the plane and took off.
The pilot didn't care what this customer, who was covered in black and couldn't even see his face, was doing in the deep sea in the middle of the night.
Who asked this client to pay ten times the normal price for the task
For the windfall, the pilots don't mind taking a little risk.
He is not a law-abiding citizen either. This plane has been modified without permission, and it is absolutely illegal to use it to pick up passengers. But it flies faster and farther than the average small plane.
A round trip of nearly 2,000 kilometers is not something a normal small plane can accomplish, and the guest will also skydive halfway, which is an extremely rare request.
But what does it matter? They paid for it anyway.
In the vast night, the small plane climbed rapidly, leaving the brightly lit metropolis of New York behind.
Luke looked at the speed of this guy and asked, "How many hours will it take to reach the destination?"
Bearded man: "Within three hours."
Luke looked at his watch again. It was ten past twelve.
After a moment's silence, he asked, "How long can it take to get there without affecting safety?"
He wanted this small plane to be able to fly at the speed of a rocket, but he was afraid that it would disintegrate in the air and fall freely.
The bearded man was silent for a moment: "If you want to advance, you have to pay extra."
Luke: “Okay.”
Bearded man: "I can guarantee that I will arrive within two and a half hours. How much more can you add?"
Luke: “Two hundred thousand.”
The bearded man turned his head and glanced at him: "No checks."
Luke casually rummaged in his backpack, pulled out a black bag, and threw it next to the bearded man: "The timer has started. If you are not at the designated location by 2:40, you will not get a penny of the money."
The bearded man didn't care at all. He just reached out with one hand, quickly sampled two stacks of bills, and then stuffed the bag into a space under the seat: "As long as you have money, it's fine."
As he spoke, he pressed a few buttons on the dashboard, and the speed of the small plane suddenly increased.
Luke completely understood the bearded pilot's behavior.
If you are not a money-hungry person, why would you dare to take private jobs in the middle of the night and fly a thousand kilometers overseas
If you are not here for the money, why would you turn a blind eye even when a customer wants to skydive halfway