Chapter 1149: Pirate Exchange

If feelings want to help the people here, they must also secretly help. It is not good for them to help them directly. What is this special thing!
Ishana was rescued from the ghost door, Mukala was a little more relaxed, but he didn't plan to let Al Shabaab just like that--they must pay the price.
But Xiao Peng really never thought that the ‘price’ paid by the Al-Shabaab was so low. It’s just that when a child was given to Mukala at the Pirate Exchange, the matter would have passed.
Xiao Peng looked at the child that Mukala and Al-Shabaab were coming to be puzzled: "Are you short of servants in this family? Just forget it if you have a child?"
Mukala asked Abadi to send someone back to Xiao Peng and said to Xiao Peng, "Mr. Xiao, this child is likely to be a layer of protection for me in the future."
Xiao Peng didn't know, so: "What are you doing? Are you going to train him to be a bomber?"
Mukala shook his head: "You don't know the identity of this child."
Xiao Peng asked curiously: "What? What kind of big man is his father?"
Mukala smiled and said, "No one knows who his father is, but his mother knows it. It's Amanda Linhovot."
Xiao Peng was taken aback: "Why do you sound like a Westerner by name?"
McAfee knew the name: "Oh, it turned out to be the woman who died, her child is already this old? Oh, yes, now this child should be ten years old."
Xiao Peng asked curiously: "McAfee, who is that person you are talking about?"
McAfee explained: "Outsiders say that I am dead all day long. In fact, I do everything within my control. So you see that I can still be alive and kicking when I am so old. But that woman is gone. A real act of death."
After speaking, he told Xiao Peng briefly and concisely about the story of this woman named Amanda.
As Xiao Peng guessed, Amanda is indeed a Westerner, that is a girl from Maple Leaf Country.
She calls herself a'female reporter', but apart from writing a column for a newspaper in her home town, she is not hired by any media, so she is more like a'freelance writer', but she can't stand her courage, go I have been to Afghanistan and Iraq. Relying on Maple Leaf Country as the backing, it's a surprise all the way.
After seeing the benefits, she became courageous and flew away. She went to Mogadishu with her boyfriend and was going to interview the western region controlled by Al-Shabaab.
So far, no media in any country has dared to do so. Even the security personnel hired by Amanda dare not go to the boundary. As a result, Amanda and her boyfriend hired two drivers ignorantly and went there.
Speaking of which, they should be unlucky. It happened that National Geographic was filming a show in Mogadishu at that time, and the Al-Shabaab people had been planning how to kidnap these people. However, "National Geographic" is rich in wealth and employs a large number of security forces. The Al-Shabaab has been unable to do so. Now it is good. Someone delivered it directly. Maple Leaf Nation and Stars and Stripes Nation are almost the same. They are rich people. In trouble, she tied Amanda and her boyfriend and asked for a ransom of three million dollars.
Where did these two pay so much ransom?
If it is not for the purpose of making money, can two people leave their homes and run to such a dangerous place for interviews? In the end, the two people's family pooled together only 25,000 US dollars. This money wants to let the kidnappers release? Isn't that a dream?
The next fifteen months will be Amanda's nightmare: strong X, round X, beatings. . . . . . He even gave birth to a child, this boy named Osama. Of course, I don't know who his father is. After all, at that time, cough cough cough cough. . . . . .
Fifteen months later, without knowing whether it was enough or why, the kidnappers agreed to the Amanda family’s request for a crowdfunding of 680,000 US dollars to release the people. Needless to say the miserable situation: nails fall off, hair condenses into clumps, and fungus on his face. But somehow his life stayed.
But after returning, Amanda accepted interviews everywhere and became a real reporter. She also wrote a best-selling book "Castle in the Sky" based on her own experience, but this memory in Somalia became her indelible memory.
Xiao Peng frowned and said, "I'm afraid this child is the one Amanda doesn't want to see in her entire life, right? What kind of protection is there?"
McAfee laughed and said: "If you take this child out now, it will definitely not be of any use, but if it is taken out at a critical time, it is not necessarily. What is the Maple Leaf Country? Isn't it just the "Mother"? What is the real thing? At that time, for Mukala, it will be a good bargaining chip when dealing with Maple Leaf Country."
Xiao Peng didn't know how to evaluate this matter. What he regrets now is why he didn't take pictures of what he saw and heard here for people to see.
There is really nothing in the world more precious than ‘peace’. Compared with this, Gina and the others live in the sewers in Odessa.
Want to help people here? How to help? Too many people need help! Give them food? What to do after eating? This country is hopeless!
The things in the pirate exchange made Xiao Peng wonder what to do. It was not so much an exchange as a vegetable market.
More than 70 pirate organizations sent representatives there, and they kept boasting about their organization's record in previous years, the success rate of the robbery, and the more brilliant the record, the greater the possibility of getting funding.
Those pirates are the masters of the prodigal family. After receiving the ransom, they will squander all the money within a few days, and wait until they squander it before going out to robbery. When they squander it, they find that they have no gas money, so Only here to seek funding. Although this means that a large amount of profits will be shared after success, it can also reduce the cost of crime to a minimum and turn it into a real "no-cost trading". Therefore, since the establishment of this exchange, it has been welcomed by various pirate organizations along the coast of Somalia. It turned out that many people who had no money, boats or guns also joined in, and if they could get the investment, they would dare to go out and robbery.
This pirate investment exchange has further promoted the pirate industry.
No wonder this country can't ban piracy. In a country where there is nothing, piracy has become the largest industry in Somalia now! It turned out that the place with the most pirates is Puntland, which is close to the Gulf of Aden, and tens of thousands of ships pass in front of them every year, but now all countries have dispatched fleets, and their business has been seriously affected, so now they set their targets. In the waters of East Somalia, where there are many fishing boats, the risk of looting fishing boats is small, and there are still rich returns. Somalia has a more geographical advantage than Puntland. Now many pirate organizations in Puntland have gone to Mogadishu to seek cooperation.
The most popular pirate organization at the trade fair today is called the ‘Somali Sea Guardians’. The reason for their popularity is that the pirate organization that received investment last time was the only one that gained: they robbed a Spanish fishing boat.
This time Mukalla did not invest in them. In his words: "These pirates just succeeded, so they won't do their best in the next robbery. This kind of investment is like a'venture investment. The greater the risk, the greater the return!" So he invested in a rookie pirate organization that has not successfully robbed four times in a row.
And his investment is also very generous: a fully armed team of twenty people, six speedboats, positioning systems and satellite phones, and a lot of drugs. In addition to the AK-47 in the weapon, Xiao Peng was also surprised to see the "40 Fire" produced by China, which is the legendary 56-type 40mm bazooka.
This is a rocket developed by China in accordance with the former Soviet Union’s RPG-2 rocket launcher. Now this thing can only be seen in the military museum in Huaxia, I didn't expect it to be there!
Mukala told Xiao Peng that this was the weapon and equipment provided by Huaxia when it assisted Somalia. The quality is excellent and it is very popular with people here. Much easier to use than Soviet-made RPG! I was also very happy to invite Xiao Peng to experiment with the power of this '40 fire'.
Xiao Peng did not hesitate to reject Mukala’s proposal: he was afraid that this thing could explode on his shoulders-56-type rocket launcher, it’s been more than half a century today, what a long time ago Is it past the expiration date?
Of course, his worry is a bit redundant. In fact, there is a 40-fire production line under Mukala's hands. This is also a product left over during the China's aid period. It has now become Mukala's private asset.
It's no wonder that Mukala can still be so open in such a chaotic country. People do have the capital.
Mukalla’s investment is less than US$200,000, but 80% of the ransom must go to him, which is 10% higher than the 70% market price. Based on the average ransom of 3 million US dollars per ship, especially It’s a high probability that people ship weapons can be used again next time, so this is really a lucrative investment, and most of the rest of the money goes to the commanders and warlords of piracy. Those pirates can get it. One or two thousand dollars is not bad. But this is astronomical for them. That's why so many people enthusiastically join the piracy industry.
The most funny thing is that Xiao Peng also saw a billboard on the road, which reads'Be kind to the hostages, don't get fat and don't go home'. This is to not anger foreign military forces and create a better robbery environment for himself. They even have rules: We are not Al Shabaab, we do not kill, we do not force X, we only need money.
Xiao Peng also laughed at this rule: in the sea, most of them are men, who is going to force X?
As a result, after hearing this, Mukala asked Xiao Peng with surprise: "Who said that you can only force X women?"
Xiao Peng only felt the chrysanthemum tighten after hearing this. . . . . . .
However, Xiao Peng couldn't refuse Mukala's next proposal:
"Mr. Xiao, do you want to look at the hijacked fishing boat?"