The other two gangsters, one was pointing a gun at a well-dressed middle-aged man, and the other was asking the middle-aged man something.
The middle-aged man looked depressed, but he kept answering the questions honestly.
Suddenly, Luke frowned and looked into the night sky.
Two helicopters were approaching from a distance.
Luke had a bad feeling in his heart.
The movement of the two helicopters was quite quiet, and his keen hearing only detected a few unusual noises in the wind.
Moreover, they did not turn on their external beacon lights, which definitely meant they were not ordinary aircraft.
As long as ordinary aircraft are flying, the external beacon lights must be turned on. This is a safety measure and must not be omitted.
After a while, Luke saw two small dots on the sea. They were... speedboats
Luke frowned even more: Could it be that some secret forces came to carry out rescue work? This didn't make sense.
Normally, the authorities would first try to negotiate with the criminals who held so many passengers hostage.
At least we have to understand the criminals' personnel, equipment and purpose before we can decide how to act. Otherwise, if thousands of tourists get into trouble, it will definitely be big news.
The speedboat approached for a distance and stopped again.
Luke could only see two vague black spots on the sea in the dark night. The bandits did not react at all and seemed to be completely unaware.
More than ten minutes later, Luke raised his eyebrows and looked at the more than twenty hooks on the side of the ship: Just do it? This is too exaggerated!
He thought about it and didn't move.
It was only a matter of time before these people alerted the criminals.
Luke had already made up his mind that as long as he was sure that something was wrong, he would take Robert and Catherine and run away.
The twenty or so people who quietly boarded the ship are definitely the elite of the special forces. They are extremely professional in both equipment and actions.
The bandits were quite skilled, but without any prior notice, they were boarded by the special forces and occupied several key points.
Looking at the position of this group of special forces, Luke knew that he had guessed correctly that this group of secret special forces was not here to rescue people.
The positions they occupied were all intended to launch an attack on the stern deck, and they had no intention of rescuing the tourists.
More than twenty special forces are about to attack one or two hundred bandits. It's a fight to the death.
Luke quietly informed Robert of the situation here, telling them not to worry about the upcoming battle, as he was just a bystander.
Robert was silent for a moment and then repeated his words.
In return, Catherine looked suspiciously: "Are you sure he's not going to do it?"
Robert hesitated for a few seconds and said, "Dear, if he says it's not, then it's not."
The battle on the rear deck finally began.
The bandits regularly reported the arrangements of each point, causing the special forces to be exposed within less than five minutes of their infiltration.
The bandits reacted quickly and when they discovered something unusual, they moved towards the location of their companions who had lost contact to provide cover.
The special forces discovered that their opponents were not a mob, so they immediately took the initiative and launched an attack.
Intensive gunfire rang out, and the battle between the two sides instantly became intense, with a crazy exchange of fire near the stern deck.
The special forces had the upper hand and were well hidden.
The quality of the bandits was not low, and only three or five of them were knocked down.
Luke pondered for a moment and continued to remain silent.
After the tourists were gathered together, the criminals ignored them except for restricting their range of activities.
Therefore, the criminals were not targeting the tourists, but the unknown substances in the milk barrels.
The special forces that came later had no regard for the safety of the tourists at all. God knows which side they were from.
Of course Luke wouldn't help them, Robert and Catherine were tourists.
However, the sound of a helicopter was heard again, approaching rapidly.
The exposure of the special forces meant that the helicopter no longer needed to hide, so it came to support its teammates.
In less than two minutes, two black helicopters with no paint and quite rare shapes appeared at the stern.
The exploding flames were particularly conspicuous in the night sky, and two six-barreled machine guns began to plow the ground at the location of the bandits.
The gangsters were badly beaten.
Using helicopters to attack infantry is cheating in itself, and using machine guns to attack rifles is even more of a cheat.
A sneer appeared on Luke's lips.
He had already seen that at an exit, two gangsters had created a door... Russian SA-18 shoulder-fired anti-aircraft missile.
The next moment, with a whoosh, a line of fire shot out.
A helicopter was hit by a bullet as soon as it tilted its fuselage.
Boom!
Fire rained down from the sky, and a huge fireball fell from the sky into the sea.
The other helicopter was like a cat that had been stabbed in the anus. Its nose tilted and it instantly moved away from the cruise ship.
The bandits, who were afraid to show their heads due to the fire from the two machine guns of the helicopter, immediately took back the initiative and continued to press towards the special forces.
However, the gang leader obviously didn't care much about the special forces, let alone the escaping helicopter, and simply ordered his men to continue carrying the milk barrels.
Luke sat leisurely on the edge of the top floor, watching these guys fight.
However, neither the gangsters nor the special forces, nor Luke, who was sitting on top and watching the show, noticed that a milk barrel was hit by a piece of debris in the explosion of the helicopter and fell into the sea.
In the milk barrel, a ruby-like liquid spread out from the gap in the barrel into the sea.
In the ocean, a fish more than 20 centimeters long swam leisurely. Suddenly, it swung its tail, turned around sharply, and rushed in one direction.
After a moment, it rushed into a pool of light red sea water and greedily swallowed the sea water.
But a few seconds later, a big mouth swallowed it together with the sea water. It turned out to be a half-meter-long big fish.
The big fish took over the small fish's job, gulping down the light red sea water.
But seconds later, a shadow enveloped it and the huge, flat body of a manta ray swooped over, knocking the half-meter-long fish unconscious.
Along with the battle on the cruise ship on the sea, an even bloodier and more brutal battle was simultaneously unfolding beneath the surface of the cruise ship.
Luke didn't notice anything unusual either.
His keen sense of smell was not yet good enough to penetrate the water surface and smell the traces of fish in the sea.
He continued to patiently serve as a bystander.
Judging from the situation, the special forces can only hold out for a few minutes at most.
Without the support of the machine guns on the helicopter, the special forces were at an absolute disadvantage in terms of numbers, and the bandits' technical and tactical levels were not rookies either, so they were quickly completely suppressed.
The bandits had no intention of fighting.
As the number of milk barrels gradually decreased, the gangsters on the cruise ship began to recover all of them, which was obviously a sign of evacuation.
At the stern of the cruise ship, there were several ships belonging to the bandits waiting for them.
Luke felt relieved.
There was no smell of drugs on the bandits, and from the sporadic conversations he overheard, they had no intention of destroying the cruise ship.
Now, he just wanted them to finish the work and the cruise ship would be safe.