The ship is not very eye-catching, and there is nothing of value on board. The reason why Petru is interested is entirely because it came from Egypt.

Petru has set special rules for all ships sailing out of Egypt:

If it has nothing to do with the government, it will detain one-tenth of the goods or the equivalent value in accordance with the usual rules; if it is a Coptic ship, it will be released directly; if it has a relationship with the Egyptian government, then he is not welcome, or it will be rectified. The ship drove away, or emptied all the cargo, not even a drop of fuel was left. If there are civilians on the ship who are willing to join the pirates, he will welcome them. If anyone resists, they will be killed. Those who did not want to join or resist, let them float on the sea in a ship without fuel until someone came to rescue them.

Although Egypt is not a big exporting country, the targeted actions of the Red Beard have severely hindered Egypt’s maritime trade. Not only is the risk of domestic ships going out to sea increased, but many trading partners who ship goods to Egypt through the Indian Ocean-Red Sea route have also increased. At least one-tenth of the price to offset their possible loss of pirates.

The Egyptian government had to take countermeasures and deployed more coast guard forces to patrol the Gulf of Aden. Every time a large freighter or cruise ship goes out of the Red Sea, the Navy will send a Mubarak-class frigate to guard it. Although this greatly increases the cost, it at least guarantees normal sea trade in Egypt.

However, this ship is an ordinary freighter. When it exited the Red Sea and entered the Gulf of Aden, there was no warship accompanying it. Judging from the waterline of the ship, the cargo it carried was not heavy, and it might be lightweight materials such as cotton textiles. Or ceramics that take up a lot of space, these are Egypt's important export items besides crude oil.

It seems that this is just an insignificant ship, perhaps Coptic, so even the Egyptian government doesn’t bother to take care of it.

Of course, such a ship wouldn't let the great Red Beard do it himself, so he just sent a small group of pirates to stare at it.

They are ready to deal with the ship in accordance with the rules set by Petru, and then deal with the red beard boss. However, the small group of pirates composed of seven or eight speedboats never returned, as if swallowed by the wind and waves of the Gulf of Aden.

Petru was shocked when he got the news.

The Gulf of Aden is their most familiar sea area. These children who grew up in Somalia can walk back and forth from Cape Santfeng to Socotra Island in a canoe. How could dozens of people disappear into the sea at the same time?

Moreover, since Petru organized the pirates, ships and people specializing in communications were on the periphery of each operation. The ships had radio communication equipment. The pirates also had maritime walkie-talkies using encrypted frequency bands. When the navy met, there was at least time to report. How could it be possible that dozens of people on seven or eight ships were missing at the same time?

Petru's first instinct is that this is a trap.

During the years of turmoil on the sea, the Egyptian government always wanted to kill him. They once united with neighboring countries to jointly carry out a bandit operation called "Thorn Red" in the Gulf of Aden waters, intended to get rid of the red beard.

The number of countries participating in the "Sting Red Operation" reached 21. A total of more than 50 large ships and more than 20,000 naval officers and soldiers from various countries patrolled the waters of the Indian Ocean and the Arabian Sea. It surpassed the U.S.-led Circum-Pacific exercise, which is known as the largest maritime joint counter-terrorism operation in history.

Fortunately, Petru got the news in advance and made sufficient preparations, but the major powers that apparently supported the participation in this operation were just acting.

Petru knows very well that whether the United States, China or Russia, whether there are pirates in the Gulf of Aden, these countries actually don't care at all. What they care about is the maritime control of the Indian Ocean and their interests in Africa.

He took full advantage of this, avoided the edge of the great powers, allowed the warships of these countries to check and balance each other at sea, and deliberately sent some heads to them, so that they could maintain a good reputation in the world.

Due to the rivalry between these forces, the Indian Navy, which originally wanted to take this opportunity to take the opportunity to avenge Petru, was fettered and shrank at all times, completely unable to display it.

Petru doesn't care much about the remaining small navies, as long as they avoid their sharpness and don't be stupid enough to fight hard, it's nothing serious. He hid the Red Beard's fleet in a safe place, and then gave the brothers a big vacation, letting them relax in the casinos and brothels of the Mediterranean coast for a few weeks.

Of course, with such a large-scale operation of "Thorn Red", it is impossible to prevent them from catching a group of pirates without giving them a little sweetness. Petrullo played a sub-scheme and came with one stone and two birds with one stone, pushing out some powerful pirate gangs who usually didn't get along well with him.

At the end of the operation, the multi-national coalition forces did gain a lot, and wiped out many pirates, claiming to give the world a calm Gulf of Aden.

But in fact, the "Stabbing the Red" operation not only did not cause any major losses to Petru, it also helped him eliminate the opposition to Redbeard and further improved his strength. The pirate organization was also unprecedentedly united, almost already. No objections to the red beard can be heard.

Of course, the Egyptian government was not reconciled. Later, they sent troops to attack Red Beard several times. In addition to the navy, they even used the most elite lightning troops.

But in Petru's view, Egypt's special forces are too good. He was originally a special soldier, but now he is rich and powerful, has people and has weapons, how can he be afraid of a few special soldiers from the Lightning Unit!

After several unsuccessful actions, the Egyptian government began to become cautious and cunning. They first cooperated with the armed forces in Somalia such as Somaliland and Puntland~lightnovelpub.net~ to use their worries about the Red Beard’s landing to divide and fight against the Red Beard’s forces. At the same time, their anti-bandit actions have also become More and more attention to strategy and tactics.

Therefore, Petru suspected that the ship was a trap designed by the Egyptian government.

But as the king of pirates in the new era and the spiritual leader of the pirates in the Gulf of Aden, Redbeard Petru certainly couldn't let his dozens of brothers disappear in vain.

He sent people to watch the ordinary-looking cargo ship, but in the waters surrounding the cargo ship, no trace of the navy was found, and there were no submarines underwater.

The cargo ship headed southeast after leaving the Gulf of Aden. It did not look like a trading ship going to Arab countries. It might be heading for somewhere in Asia or Australia.

Petru was even more puzzled. Where did his brothers go? Could it be possible that there was a peerless beauty on the boat that took away the souls of these heroes?

In any case, Petru decided to get on the ship and take a look. So he stopped the ship and rushed up with the pirates.

The strange thing is that there is actually only one person on a large ocean-going freighter.