Fatal Strike: Paladins Mercenary Road

Chapter 271: Forced Ascension
The mountain eagle released the crows before anyone saw the cruise ship...

The more technologically advanced Crow provides Mountain Eagle with sufficient vision, allowing him to command the Black Hawk helicopter to quickly find the cruise ship's location while also observing the conditions in the surrounding sea.

The Diamond Queen cruise ship is so large that when it sails on the sea at night, it is as eye-catching as a torch.

But this is just an illusion, because once the pirates control the cockpit, they can cut off the cruise ship's external lighting, and then just turn and travel a certain distance to create a huge obstacle for those searching the cruise ship.

Once it deviates from its route and enters the high seas, it will require good luck to find its location in a short period of time.

No matter how hard Shanying and his men tried, they were still a step behind, but the situation was not yet the worst!

Although the warning did not change the course and speed of the cruise ship, it made the captain and security personnel on board more vigilant.

Although they still lost control of the cruise ship, they guarded the first floor and outside the cockpit to prevent the pirates from attacking the passengers, which objectively bought Shanying and his men some time.

The crows were flying at a very high altitude, and due to the shape of the cruise ship, the mountain eagle could not see the battle between the crew and the pirates...

Many people call cruise ships palaces on the sea, but in fact, in Shanying's opinion, this thing is actually a pigeon cage-style apartment with a length of 100 meters, a width of 55 meters, and a five-story interior built on a super cargo ship.

The deck where the pirates were located was completely blocked from view by buildings except for the outer aisles on both sides.

On the contrary, the view from the top floor is excellent. Several security guards in black clothes blocked the outside of the cockpit under cover, preventing the mutinous first mate and his men from rushing out.

However, the mutineers were obviously not in a hurry. They would definitely be willing to wait for the pirates to come and attack them, and then steadily control the cruise ship to where they wanted to go, so there was a stalemate for a while.

Shanying couldn't see the situation on the first deck clearly, but the constant burst of gunfire from both sides of the ship let him know that the battle there was very fierce.

Through the crow's vision, looking at the dozen speedboats and rubber boats cruising around the cruise ship, Mountain Eagle made a rough estimate and felt that there were probably 60 to 80 pirates boarding the ship.

This group of people were very well prepared, but they certainly didn't expect Shanying and his men to arrive so quickly!
Shanying rushed to the Black Hawk pilot, spoke a few words loudly, then returned to the cabin, picked up a Minimi machine gun, sat down at the door, tied a safety rope around himself, and shouted, "There are pirate speedboats near the cruise ship. I don't know if they have heavy weapons. We need to clear one side of the cruise ship first..."

Black Hawk will lower its flight altitude for a surprise attack. Everyone, get ready. Measles and Eddie will take care of the sea surface. The others, come with me to give the pirates on the first deck a little surprise..."

Flying at low altitude at night is a huge test for Thai pilots, but the people arranged by Tagore this time are obviously true elites.

The Black Hawk made a slight circle and launched a low-altitude attack from 4 kilometers away from the stern of the Diamond Queen.

The noise on the sea was very loud, and with the added cover of night, the speedboats cruising around the cruise ship did not notice anything was wrong until the Black Hawk advanced to a position of about one kilometer.

Then, just as these people were wondering if they had heard it wrong, the Black Hawk had already cut from the left side of the cruise ship to the middle of the cruise ship...

To ensure safety, the Black Hawk cut in from a height of 40 meters above the sea surface, about 400 meters outside the port side of the cruise ship.

When the nose of the plane passed the rear of the cruise ship, the measles in the machine gun position behind the co-pilot in the cabin opened fire first...

The PKM machine gun fired a long whip of fire towards the dark sea surface, with one tracer bullet for every three bullets.

Because it was relatively close to the sea surface, the distance between the flames was not very large, so when the whip hit an inflatable boat, it instantly whipped the boatman into a bloody mess, and at the same time the inflatable boat began to leak air and sink rapidly.

Once the measles succeeded in hitting the target, it began to turn the muzzle of the gun and fired wildly at the speedboat and rubber boat under the port side of the cruise ship...

At this time, the Mountain Eagles gathered at the hatch also opened fire at the same time...

Shanying controlled the Minimi in his hand and fired at the outer aisle on the left side of the cruise ship in the direction of the Black Hawk's advance.

At the same time, Killer Bee, Big Mouth, and Broadcaster fired at the same time with the M16 provided by the military...

Because of the distance and the structure of the cruise ship, the shooting effect of Shanying and his men was only average, but they did scare the pirates in the outer aisle and made them lie on the ground, giving the crew some time to catch their breath.

When Dalia picked up the multi-barreled grenade launcher and fired six grenades at the first floor, the pirates were completely suppressed and began to crawl to the sides to escape.

At the same time, counterattacks came from the bow and the sea.

However, the other side obviously did not have night vision goggles to assist, so counterattacks from the sea surface at a relatively close distance were still a bit threatening. The bullets fired from the deck of a ship more than 400 meters away were not much better than blind shooting.

Everyone present was a veteran fighter who had their own sense of the on-site combat situation, so they were not too nervous.

But the Black Hawk pilot, who had obviously never experienced actual combat, was in trouble. When several stray bullets from the sea hit the bottom armor of the Black Hawk's cockpit, he immediately changed direction and made the Black Hawk quickly disengage to the left.

The tilt of the fuselage caused the measles machine gun to stop firing temporarily, and at the same time, the Eagles sitting at the door of the cabin could not help but lean back...

"FUCK..."

The pilot's sudden action almost caused Big Mouth to accidentally fire his gun and hit his own foot.

Just when he was about to lose his temper and scold the pilot, Eddie, a Bajau man who had been inactive, suddenly untied the safety rope, stood up, and pressed a switch hard... With Eddie's action, the rubber boat hanging at the bottom of the Black Hawk instantly fell off and fell into the sea.

Then Eddie snatched the grenade launcher from Dalia, hung a grenade strap on himself, and stood at the left door. He held the radio and shouted loudly: "Mountain Eagle, the pilot can't stand the pressure. It will be dangerous to rappel. I will go to the sea to cover you...

Remember, when rappelling, have Measles point a gun at the pilot's head..."

The Eagle had no time to react. When he looked back, he saw Eddie jumping down from the hatch with his arms folded across his chest...

The Eagle was stunned for half a second, then he untied the safety rope and crawled to the left hatch, sticking his head out and looking down.

A small splash of water appeared on the green sea surface shown by the night vision goggles.

Nearly half a minute later, Shanying saw a man emerging from the water and quickly approaching the rubber speedboat that had fallen into the sea like a fish...

"FUCK, are you crazy? This is more than 30 meters long..."

Eddie on the other end of the radio quickly climbed onto the speedboat, quickly pushed the two parallel outboard engines into the sea, and then quickly started the speedboat...

"Mountain Eagle, you have to understand what your subordinates are good at, instead of asking everyone to follow your pace."

While talking, Eddie loaded the grenade launcher, and then approached the pirate speedboat and said, "It's too dark, they can't see me...

Let's do it again, this time I'll help you get on board!"

Shanying watched as Eddie fired several rounds of rifle grenades in succession, hitting a moving speedboat, causing the surrounding speedboats to lose their focus on the helicopter...

He immediately understood what Eddie meant, rushed to the cockpit, grabbed the pilot who was trying to control the helicopter to climb, and shouted, "See? My people have already gone down. Let's fight one more round, and then you take us to the top floor..."

There is a helicopter pad on the top floor. As long as you fly low enough, the pirates will not have enough shooting angles.

Don't be afraid, they don't have heavy firepower!"

Seeing the helicopter pilot nod vigorously, Mountain Eagle rushed back to the right cabin, and first cooperated with Eddie from a high position to create chaos among those speedboats...

Then, when the Black Hawk bravely descended to an altitude of more than 30 meters again and approached the cruise ship, everyone opened fire again to suppress the pirates on the port side of the cruise ship, while also attracting the attention of the pirates on the starboard side.

At the same time, Eddie drove the speedboat and began to drive around the cruise ship at high speed...

The turbulence of the sea did not seem to have any effect on Eddie. Relying on his faster speed and better vision than his opponents, and taking advantage of the fact that his opponents had no night vision and could not identify him, he used a serpentine maneuver to break into the speedboat route surrounding the cruise ship.

"boom"

"boom"

The occasional explosions stunned all the pirates on the sea. They realized that there were enemies among them, but unless they all stopped, there was no way to lock on to Eddie.

In fact, even if they locked onto Eddie, they wouldn't have much to do with him. These pirates were not capable of making accurate shots on the bumpy sea.

Compared to Shanying, who always imagines his opponents to be very powerful and is used to pushing the tempo to explosive levels, veterans like Eddie are obviously more comfortable and cunning.

His choice seemed to be risking his life, but in fact, as long as his driving skills were good enough and he had the twin-engine speedboat to rely on, those pirates would have no way to deal with him.

When the sea surface fell into chaos, Shanying and his men also found an opening...

When the gunfire on the port side of the yacht began to increase, Shanying replaced a new ammunition bag and shouted loudly while firing frantically: "Now..."

Following the Mountain Eagle's cry, the Black Hawk suddenly began to climb and quickly approached the top floor of the cruise ship.

The pirates who focused on the port side suddenly lost their focus. No one was hit on the left, and the attack on the right side also slowed down.

The yellow-haired pirate rushed to the port railing, leaned over the railing, raised his gun and fired a burst of bullets in the direction of the Black Hawk. After the Black Hawk left his shooting range, he picked up the radio and shouted loudly: "Don't just stand there, go ahead, go ahead, they don't have many people...

As long as we capture enough hostages, we win!"

As he spoke, Huangmao kicked a stunned companion and urged him to join the attack. Then he adjusted the radio channel and said, "Water Monster, someone is heading to the top floor. Don't just stand there and attack with us..."

Inside the cruise ship's cockpit, a middle-aged South Asian man in a white uniform and a neat mustache put down the radio...

Looking at the Black Hawk that was descending not far away, he said to the dozen guys around him in cruise ship uniforms, "FUCK, why is this happening?

Let’s rush out…”

(End of this chapter)