Chapter 360: 50 Million Reward
The old crew member stared at Su Ming's face for a long while, then stood up in the swaying airship and ran towards the cockpit. He rushed into the cockpit and asked loudly: "Su Ming said that he might be able to shoot down all those airships. Do you want him to do it?"
Holander was concentrating on piloting the airship. After hearing his subordinate's report, he thought quickly for a few seconds and replied loudly: "Tell him not to do it!"
Holander was sure that Su Ming could use his supernatural powers to shoot down all those airships, but if he did that, it would be difficult for them to deal with the Red Tomato Sky Pirates when they encountered them in the air again. When a chase was launched in the sky, neither side was allowed to use force to destroy the airships. Instead, they were required to use encirclement and other offensive tactics to stop the movement of the airships. This was an unspoken rule that both sky pirates and ordinary airship drivers abided by.
The reason for this unspoken rule is simple, because the sky pirates do not want the shot-down airships to fall into the sea. Their goal is to seize the resources on the airships, rather than spending effort to destroy the target and get nothing in return.
Ordinary airships would not retaliate with excessive force against the sky pirates' chasing airships, because once they retaliated, the other party would very likely launch a counterattack depending on the situation, and by then not only the goods would be lost, but the people might also be lost.
If you just chase and race with the other party, then after being caught up, the other party will most likely just take away all the goods and let you go.
The pirates' unspoken rule of releasing people is also to send a message to other ordinary airship drivers: we just want the cargo on your ship, don't let both sides suffer, if you are capable, then escape, if you are not capable, then leave the money and cargo behind.
These are the orthodox rules of sky pirates. As for the unorthodox ones... there are also many. After all, there are many mentally ill people working in this industry.
But Holland knew that the captain of the Red Tomato Sky Pirates was still mentally sound. He had been captured by the other side once, and he lost a total of 300,000 worth of goods. In order to make up for the loss of this trip, it took him half a year to make up for the funding gap.
If they were encountering other air pirate groups this time, Holland might have asked Su Ming for help, but as for Red Tomato... he had better use his own driving skills to fight them!
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Ten minutes later.
All the crew members of the Holland stood on the deck of the Red Tomato airship.
The Red Tomato was completely different from the Holland. The Holland's airship deck was completely exposed, and people could not do anything on the deck during the flight. However, the sky above the Red Tomato's deck was wrapped by a semicircular high-strength glass frame, which was actually considered indoors.
"Their ships are more advanced than yours." Su Ming said as he looked at the layout above his head.
Long Haisheng looked around carefully, approached Su Ming and said, "I heard that their ship can not only fly in the sky, but also float on the sea after removing the pumice! Also... also, you should pay attention, the Tomato Sky Pirates have many powerful psychics, and they even have an S-level psychic!"
"S-rank?"
Su Ming frowned when he heard this, thinking that pirates are an illegal profession. Do people like them also have special instruments to test abnormal values?
You know, the testing equipment at the Investigation Bureau that looks ordinary in appearance actually contains the devil's magic core, which is actually of great value and cannot be bought with money. Pirates like these shouldn't have such an equipment, right?
If that's the case, how do they determine the level of their abilities?
"How does that person know that he is S-level? Is he making it up?" Su Ming questioned directly.
His voice was neither loud nor soft, but it was just loud enough for the people around him to hear. The pirates around him cast unfriendly looks at Su Ming. Long Haisheng was frightened and shivered. He shrank to Su Ming and lowered his voice, saying, "Can't you be gentler? He is a genuine S-level. He got it by killing an S-level mutant from the alliance!"
Although Long Haisheng asked Su Ming to speak softly, his own voice was loud enough for others to hear. When the pirates who had cast unfriendly glances heard Long Haisheng's flattery, the malice in their eyes disappeared a lot, and there was a little more disdain on their faces, as if to say to Su Ming: Boy, are you dumbfounded? Our ace has actual combat records.
Su Ming looked at Long Haisheng meaningfully, thinking that although this kid looked honest, he was still quite smart. At least he knew that if other pirates heard such words, they would be happy.
Although Su Ming still had some doubts about the so-called S-level, he did not intend to anger these pirates too much, so he remained silent.
In fact, what he wanted to say was that there were many ways to kill an S-class. The death of an S-class did not mean that he was killed by one person, but perhaps he was besieged and killed by many people.
Su Ming and the others stood on the deck, watching the pirates in their antifreeze suits carrying supplies from the Holland to the Tomato. A bald man opened metal boxes one by one and counted the value of the goods.
"They are all spiritual salts, and high-quality spiritual salts at that. They are marked as Grade B, so there should be no mistake." The bald man looked up and sneered at Holander, with a gloating look on his face.
Holander frowned, his expression looking as if his mother had died. These spiritual salts were extremely valuable, and all of them would cost millions. This time, all the goods were taken away, which meant that all his efforts over the past few years had been wasted.
Damn, this is the bad thing about working in the smuggling business. After working hard for several years, you are back to the situation before liberation. What’s more important is that the profit is quite high, so you don’t want to stop at all.
The door of the cabin behind him opened, and a bearded man came out with a group of young men and women. Su Ming glanced at these people briefly and labeled them one by one in his mind.
Then the bearded man should be the captain of this airship, and those people behind him... don't seem like simple subordinates, but more like children.
This person is particularly noteworthy. Su Ming's eyes fell on Sun Yihao, and at the same time, Sun Yihao's eyes also fell on Su Ming.
"Haha, I caught you again. This is the second time, Holander." Sun Shaotao walked up to Holander and laughed triumphantly. He turned around and glanced at the goods behind him, with a hint of joy in his eyes. "It seems that you have transported a lot of things this time. You are unlucky."
"We only have so much stuff on the ship. Let us go after you've moved everything." Holander said unhappily.
Sun Shaotao turned his head and looked at the bald man. The bald man nodded at him, indicating that all the goods had been moved.
"Very good, you can go now, I wish you better luck next time."
"Dad, wait a minute, this person has to stay." Sun Yihao raised his hand and pointed at Su Ming, then took a step forward and stood in front of Sun Shaotao.
Holander and the others' faces all changed, as if they realized something. Su Ming raised his eyebrows slightly, already knowing the reason.
The reason is very simple. The alliance has issued a wanted notice for him, and there should be a valuable bounty on him online.
"Someone has issued a wanted notice for this person on the Free Intelligence Network." Sun Yihao recited the information he remembered in his mind expressionlessly, "He used to be an S-level superpower who was a commissioner of the Investigation Bureau. He once killed a second-level demon alone, but his real identity is a murderer who likes to torture and kill ordinary humans... Reward: 50 million."
Once this number was announced, it caused an uproar in the surrounding area. Even the pirates became uneasy, and the crew of the Holland who gathered around Su Ming took a few steps back and away from Su Ming.
They all knew that the person they were transporting was a very dangerous person, but they were still willing to believe that Su Ming was wronged. After all, Su Ming's previous experiences and actions proved that Su Ming was a good guy.
But a reward of 50 million is definitely not a joke. No one would offer a sky-high reward to cause trouble for an innocent person.
If Su Ming was a rich and powerful man, it would be reasonable for someone to want to kill him, but now Su Ming is just a fugitive, why would someone spend so much money to kill him?
Although no one could figure out the reason, no one dared to rule out the possibility that Su Ming was the murderer. Moreover, the crew of the Holland had only known Su Ming for a few days, so it was easier for them to be suspicious of Su Ming.
Even Su Ming himself was very surprised by the reward of 50 million. There was no doubt that someone in the alliance was behind this reward. For some reasons, the rewards issued by the alliance were linked to dangerousness. So according to the regular channels of the alliance, even if he was wanted, they could not post such a high reward. So they changed a method and made a public reward with the employer's identity hidden through the intelligence platform established by the Free Alliance.
The purpose is not only to make the civilian masters who do not serve the alliance tempted by the money, but also to make Su Ming have no place to stay.
I must clear myself of suspicion as soon as possible, it must be done as soon as possible!
"I didn't do those." Su Ming raised his head and said expressionlessly.
Sun Yihao stared at Su Ming and continued , "Regarding the reward offered by the Free Intelligence Network, you can pay a certain deposit to view more specific information about you. It only costs 10,000 yuan, so I watched those eight videos... No matter how you look at it, that's you, right? Although you may have lost your memory now, that's definitely you before you lost your memory."
Su Ming frowned, thinking that the situation was getting worse. Now, in the eyes of most people, he didn't even have the chance to defend himself. Anyone who watched those eight videos would have a preconceived notion of him being an amnesiac murderer.
This time, the forces hiding in the dark want to completely cut off his escape route by destroying his reputation... a very smart move.
"Brother Ming, you, you are not a murderer, right?" Long Haisheng widened his eyes and stared at Su Ming in horror.
Su Ming glanced at the other person and thought that this boy had a very simple mind. His fear was not because he was afraid of Su Ming, but because he was afraid of the fact that Su Ming was a murderer.
In other words, the kid wanted to believe him.
