Wang Changlong guessed that these pirates were instigated by someone behind the scenes, with the aim of causing trouble for Jiuzhou or Tianyu Group.
However, pirates are insatiable, and they themselves are inherently greedy for money.
Therefore, when he encountered the pirate leader again checking on the captives, he proactively stepped forward and said that he came from a prominent family, had power and influence, and was very wealthy.
He claimed to have hundreds of millions of dollars in his own account, and as long as he and the crew were released, the money could be immediately transferred to him via international banks or digital currency.
As expected, the pirate leader was tempted.
But releasing them was clearly impossible; he ordered his men to take the other captives away and guard them separately, while he personally interrogated Wang Changlong, intending to force him to transfer the money through torture.
Wang Changlong was indeed wealthy, but he could only produce tens of millions of jiuzhou currency; hundreds of millions of dollars in deposits was pure nonsense.
Nevertheless, his objective was achieved.
The pirate leader didn't trust his subordinates to carry out the torture, so he personally took charge.
The pirate leader stayed with Wang Changlong the entire time, so the remaining pirates naturally didn't dare to kill the captives casually.
After all, these were not ordinary captives, but key pawns involved in international power struggles.
This also served to protect the crew.
But he himself suffered greatly.
At sixty years old, after a round of torment, there wasn't a single good patch of skin left on his body.
Yet, from beginning to end, he gritted his teeth and insisted that he would only give the money after seeing them released.
He certainly couldn't admit that he was deceiving them; otherwise, it would be hard to say whether these villains, upon realizing they had been tricked, would kill a few people to vent their anger.
Just as Wang Changlong's consciousness was blurring from the torment, the pirate leader, after receiving a message, suddenly ran out in a panic.
Vaguely, he heard the pirates shouting something like, "Tianyu Group's people are attacking!"
After hearing the sudden gunfire and explosions outside, Wang Changlong was stunned for a moment, then finally tilted his head and fainted.
His last thought before passing out was:
"Damn it, if I had known they'd come so fast, I wouldn't have tried to be a hero and suffer like this!"
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Bang~!
The Power Armor violently kicked open the door to a small room in the villa, revealing seven or eight small black figures huddled together.
They were all clutching AKs, but facing the Power Armor before them, they didn't even have the courage to shoot.
Just moments ago, they had personally witnessed a Power Armor endure a barrage from a heavy anti-aircraft machine gun on the roof, slowly descend to the rooftop, and tear apart the people firing it with his bare hands.
Facing a monster that even a heavy anti-aircraft machine gun couldn't harm, the flimsy AKs in their hands offered them no sense of security whatsoever.
Su Yi glanced at the room full of small black figures, paying them no mind.
His gaze scanned the room and landed on a relatively new-looking tablet computer.
He knew without looking that this device had been stolen by these people from the crew members.
Of course, Su Yi had no intention of taking the item back; he had specifically come here because someone had just requested a confrontation, so he came.
Under the terrified gazes of the small black figures, he strode over, picked up the tablet, and Tianshu instantly bypassed its password lock.
After a quick search, he found the message history of the person who had been taunting him on social media earlier.
"Alright, didn't get the wrong one."
Su Yi opened the electromagnetic rifle on his Power Armor's arm, casually destroyed all the mostly useless AKs in their hands, confirmed that these people should be unarmed, and then opened his faceplate:
"Who was it just now who used this computer to mock me on my social account?"
"Come out, I'm here, what do you say?"
With the Myriad Realms Language Comprehension Card, he was proficient in the languages of countless worlds, and naturally fluent in the Gallic language commonly used by these small black figures.
He could communicate without any barriers.
The small black figures exchanged glances, then unhesitatingly pointed simultaneously at a young man who looked to be under twenty.
The person being pointed at turned pale, losing all color in his face, and quickly said:
"Sir, it wasn't me, it wasn't me! He made us film the video and send it out, he said those things first in the video, you can't blame me!"
However, Su Yi completely ignored his excuses, walked directly to him, grabbed him by the shoulder, and lifted the young man up.
Looking at his terrified expression, Su Yi sneered:
"Why don't you take a good look at yourself, what kind of creature you are? An uncultured primitive, daring to harbor designs on my wife?"
The small black figure was about to argue, but the next moment, the Power Armor's fingers gripping his shoulder gradually tightened.
Excruciating pain instantly cut off his words, followed by the grinding sound of bones breaking.
When Su Yi threw the pirate, whose shoulder blade had been crushed, to the ground, the man instantly writhed like a maggot in pain, contorting into a ball.
He kept making "ho ho" sounds, too much in pain to even wail.
"Stop calling out." Su Yi kicked him over, grabbed his dirty dreadlocks, and pulled him up again.
Then he picked up the tablet, took a selfie with him, and even posted it from the same account on the tablet:
"See, this is the consequence of being a keyboard warrior and mouthing off online."
The other small black figures in the room watched his actions from beginning to end, not daring to move an inch, trembling with fear.
After doing all this, Su Yi threw the man to the ground and casually stomped on his head, crushing it.
Looking at the remaining small black figures in the room, he expressionlessly opened his electromagnetic rifle, and with the aid of the aiming module, fired six shots in quick succession in the blink of an eye.
Not one was left.
The remaining six people were almost all shot through the forehead by the mass projectiles, without missing a single one.
With the help of the Power Armor's built-in war AI, Su Yi's shooting was like having auto-aim in a game; at this distance, there was no possibility of missing a shot.
"The keyboard warrior who mouthed off by typing is dealt with, there's also one who mouthed off on video."
Su Yi walked out of the small room.
He casually killed a pirate who was panicking and trying to escape, then opened his radio and asked:
"Have you found the pirate leader yet?"
Responses immediately came through the radio:
"Reporting, Chairman, Squad One has not yet!"
"Reporting, Chairman, Squad Two has not yet!"
"Chairman, I am the captain of Squad Three. I've noticed that the armed militants in the city are shifting positions unusually quickly; some of the militants we intentionally let go quickly reappear on the other side of the street. I suspect there's an extensive tunnel system in the city, and the pirate group's leaders, as well as some of the hijacked crew members, are very likely underground."
Hearing these reports, Su Yi immediately said:
"Each of you, perform your duties and secure your respective areas. I will immediately have the landing craft activate its high-power detector to scan the city's structure. If underground structures are scanned, they will be immediately synchronized to the maps built into your Power Armor. At that time, each squad will draw three people to form small teams and explore separately."
"Any armed personnel are to be killed without mercy. If you encounter the pirate leader, you can spare his life for now; I need him for something."
"Yes!"
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