Of the other two criminals, one was pointing a gun at a well-dressed middle-aged man, and the other was asking him something.
The middle-aged man looked frustrated, but he answered the questions dutifully.
Suddenly, Luke frowned and looked at the night sky in the distance.
Two helicopters were flying over from a great distance away.
Luke had a bad feeling about this.
The two helicopters were very quiet, and even with his keen hearing, he could only pick up some unusual noises in the wind.
Also, they hadn't turned on their external beacons, which meant that they definitely weren't regular planes.
As long as a regular plane was flying, its external beacons had to be turned on, which was a safety measure that couldn't be omitted.
A moment later, Luke saw two dots on the surface of the sea. Were they … speedboats?
Luke frowned even harder. Could it be some secret force that had come to rescue them? That didn't make sense.
Under normal circumstances, the authorities would try to negotiate with criminals who had taken so many passengers hostage.
At the very least, they had to figure out the criminals' equipment and purpose before they could decide what to do. Otherwise, it would definitely be big news if something happened to a thousand tourists.
The speedboats closed in for a while before they stopped again.
Luke could only see two vague black spots on the surface of the sea in the dark. The criminals didn't react at all, and didn't seem to have noticed them at all.
Ten minutes later, Luke raised an eyebrow and looked at the twenty extra grappling ropes on the side of the boat. Were they going to attack them directly? That was too much!
He thought for a moment, but didn't move.
It was only a matter of time before these people alerted the criminals.
Luke had already made up his mind to escape with Robert and Catherine as soon as he confirmed that something was wrong.
The twenty people who had quietly boarded the boat were definitely the elites of the special force. They were very professional in both their equipment and their movements.
The criminals weren't bad, but since they hadn't noticed them in advance, the special force had still boarded the boat and occupied several key points.
Looking at the positions of the special force, Luke knew that he had guessed correctly — this secret special force wasn't here to rescue the passengers.
The positions they occupied were for the sake of attacking the aft deck, and had no intention of rescuing the tourists at all.
More than twenty special forces troops were going to take on one or two hundred criminals. They were going to risk their lives.
Luke reported the situation to Robert in a low voice and told them not to worry about the battle that was about to take place, since he was just a bystander.
Robert was speechless for a moment, then relayed his words.
Catherine looked at him suspiciously. "Are you sure he's not going to make a move?"
Pondering for a few seconds, Robert said, "Darling, if he says it's not, then it's not."
The battle at the rear deck finally began.
The criminals regularly reported the situation to them, and the special forces were exposed in less than five minutes.
The criminals reacted very quickly. When they noticed that something was amiss, they moved closer to the positions of their comrades whom they had lost contact with.
When the special forces realized that their opponents were not a mob, they immediately took the initiative and attacked first.
Concentrated gunshots rang out, and the battle between the two sides instantly entered a white-hot state, with a frenzied exchange of fire near the stern deck.
The special forces had the upper hand and were well hidden.
The bandits weren't weak, and only three to five of them were knocked down.
Pondering for a moment, Luke maintained his silence.
After the tourists were gathered, apart from restricting their range of movement, the criminals ignored them.
Therefore, the criminals weren't after the tourists, but the unknown substance in the milk barrels.
The special forces didn't care about the tourists' safety at all. Who knew which side they were from?
Naturally, Luke wouldn't help them. Robert and Catherine were tourists.
However, there was the sound of helicopters again, and they were quickly approaching.
The exposure of the special forces meant that there was no need for the helicopters to hide, and they came to reinforce their teammates.
In less than two minutes, two black helicopters that didn't have any paint on and were rather rare in appearance appeared at the stern.
Bursting flames were particularly eye-catching in the night sky, and two six-barreled machine guns started plowing at the criminals' location.
The criminals were beaten into a sorry state.
Helicopters attacking infantry was cheating in the first place, and machine guns attacking rifles was even more so.
Luke's lips curled into a cold smile.
He could already see that two criminals had already taken out … a Russian SA-18 shoulder-fired anti-aircraft missile at one of the exits.
In the next moment, there was a whoosh, and a line of fire shot out.
One of the helicopters had only just tilted its body when it was hit.
Boom!
Fire rained down from the sky, and a huge fireball fell from the sky into the sea.
Like a cat that had been stabbed in the butt, the other helicopter tilted its head and instantly moved away from the cruise ship.
The criminals, who didn't dare stick their heads out after being bombarded by the helicopter's two machine guns, immediately regained the initiative and continued to press down on the special forces.
However, the criminal leader clearly didn't care much about the special forces or the escaping helicopter. He simply ordered his subordinates to continue moving the milk barrels.
Luke sat leisurely on the edge of the top floor and watched them fight.
However, neither the criminals, the special forces, nor Luke, who was sitting on top and watching, noticed that one of the milk barrels had been hit by a piece of the helicopter's explosion and had fallen into the sea.
In the milk barrel, ruby-like liquid spread into the sea through the hole in the barrel.
In the ocean, a fish more than twenty centimeters long swam leisurely. Suddenly, it swung its tail and abruptly turned around to charge in one direction.
A moment later, it charged into a pool of light red seawater and greedily devoured it.
But a few seconds later, a huge mouth opened and swallowed it along with the seawater. It was a big fish that was half a meter long.
The big fish took over the small fish's job and gulped down the light red seawater.
But a few seconds later, a shadow enveloped it. A manta ray's enormous, flat body slapped over and knocked the half-meter-long fish unconscious.
Along with the battle on the cruise ship on the surface, an even more bloody and cruel battle unfolded under the ship's surface.
Luke didn't sense anything unusual.
His Sharp Nose wasn't strong enough to penetrate the water and smell the fish in the sea yet.
He continued to patiently watch as the onlookers watched.
From the looks of it, the special forces could hold on for a few more minutes at most.
Without the helicopter's machine guns to support them, they were at an absolute disadvantage in terms of numbers, and the criminals weren't rookies either. The special forces were soon completely suppressed.
The criminals weren't in the mood to fight either.
As the number of milk barrels dwindled, the criminals on the cruise ship started to retreat as well. It was clear that they were retreating.
Several boats belonging to the criminals were waiting for them at the stern of the cruise ship.
Luke was reassured.
The criminals didn't have the smell of drugs on them, and from what he heard, they didn't have any intention of destroying the cruise ship.
Now, as long as they finished robbing and called it a day, the cruise ship would naturally be safe.
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