Spell Return: The Wheel of Time

Chapter 348: Hijacking Unwitting Prey
"Emergency! The cruise ship has been hijacked by criminals, and a large number of wealthy and upper-class people at home and abroad are in danger. The police are reporting..."

Before the whole nation had woken up from the heated discussions on the program "Strange News", another breaking news suddenly appeared on the front page of the news on this ordinary day.

Basically, a cruise ship was hijacked by a group of terrorists, which would have been big news in the past. But in the face of a topic of the level of supernatural existence, theoretically it would not be enough to overwhelm the discussion, even if it was only temporary.

But its situation is very special, especially the group of people who were held hostage on the cruise ship. These people are either rich or noble. If they all died on the cruise ship, it can be said that it would inevitably cause a stir in Japan and even the outside world.

At this point we have to mention some of the peculiarities of Neon. Although it is slightly better than its nearest neighbor, Neon can also be considered a semi-colonial country.

It's just that as an important chess piece, its autonomy is slightly higher, while part of the country's sovereignty lies in the hands of its government, and the other part lies in the hands of the chaebols who can influence its stability.

With the invasion and influence of capital, it is natural that the political system and laws here will change. First of all, guns are banned in Neon, which is the same as its huge neighbor. However, the pornography and gambling industries have become legal industries after going around here for a few times.

Even the last and most hateful of the three major malignancies is banned in Japan on the surface, but the intensity of the pressure from the relevant authorities is intriguing. As a result, outside the public's view, Japan has established a very mature den of vengeance both at home and abroad.

For example, the huge Fukuang cruise ship is a mobile palace that contains many behaviors that are on the edge of the law or even violate the law.

Any enjoyment you can think of can be enjoyed by you in this paradise on earth. As long as you have enough money, you will be the supreme ruler in this palace even more supreme than the ancient emperors.

Almost all human desires can be released there. Countless people, men and women, whether they go there to enjoy themselves or try to promote themselves for profit, yearn for it.

But now a group of robbers broke into the palace and put swords on the delicate necks of those dignitaries. This situation should be impossible in theory.

Those so-called upper-class people will certainly not be stingy with money to protect themselves for the sake of their own safety. To a certain extent, the security service on that cruise ship is an armed force that cannot be underestimated.

Small groups of terrorists or pirates are simply no match for them, and larger armed forces must first break through Japan's territorial waters without being discovered to succeed. So this is basically a paradox: too few people will not be a match for the security forces on the Fukumitsu, and too many people will make it almost impossible to enter the territorial waters and approach the land quietly without being discovered.

But this is what happened. The terrorists quietly entered the inner circle of the territorial waters, broke through the security forces of the Fukumitsu and completely took control of the ship.

However, there was a strange situation that did not appear in the public eye. That is, the robbers did not immediately call the family of the wealthy man on the ship to demand a ransom, but arrogantly called the police to inform them of their actions.

After verifying the situation, the police immediately felt they were facing a major enemy. The power and money represented by those guys on the ship were too enormous. If they all died there, it was unimaginable what the impact would be.

But the robbers' strange attitude gave the police a headache. Soon they found some news that disclosed the incident. The furious police officers immediately ordered an investigation and found that it was also done by the robbers on the ship.

They not only notified the police, but also notified various authoritative media. Those workers in the news industry were like sharks smelling blood, and they immediately stirred up the waves and pounced over.

The factions behind these media outlets were also very complicated, and the police could not even force them to remove all of these reports. After considering that cases with such an impact could not be concealed, the police immediately held a public meeting.

No matter what happens in the future, they must now make up their minds to solve the case. As for the consequences, even if they don't make any guarantees, if anything happens to those people on the ship, these senior police officers will not have a good time.

So after three hours of fruitless contact, the robbers finally took the initiative to contact the police and put forward their demands. The content was relatively simple. They only asked for the sky-high ransom to be sent to the vicinity of the cruise ship by a small boat. Of course, they did not want to see any armed personnel approaching, otherwise they would kill them immediately.

……

Let’s not talk about the chaos and confusion that the police are in, and let’s focus on the hijacked Fukuang.

There is no doubt that the hijacking of the cruise ship was done by that group of curse masters. The proposal put forward by Zuosuo is actually not complicated. It all comes down to one sentence - it is better to strike first.

According to Luosuo, the sorcerers will gradually make their spells public so that people can get used to them slowly and avoid a sudden outbreak of chaos. At the same time, they will also clean up unstable factors such as the sorcerers to prevent them from causing damage when the sorcerers are too busy to take care of other things.

As the saying goes, if the enemy wants to do something, you have to destroy it. Since the sorcerers want to gradually disclose the existence of the spell, it is better to let them speed up the process, completely disclose the spell to the public in one fell swoop, and then muddy the water in advance.

In addition, the so-called "ancient magicians" provided by Nozomi are actually, to some extent, a group of cursed spirits who are about to be reborn in the flesh. By exposing the curses in advance, causing public panic, and letting these resurrected ancient magicians attract some of the firepower, wouldn't they be able to fish in troubled waters?

The reason for choosing the Fukuguang is easier to understand. No matter what kind of pursuit they will face in the future, it is necessary to prepare some money in advance. In this way, even if they are forced to leave Neon, at least they will have money to support their escape, right?

So the curse masters cooperated and eliminated the armed forces on the Fukuguang. These wealthy people even hired a few wild sorcerers, but those mediocre guys were no match for these vicious sorcerers.

As for those ordinary armed forces with guns, it was even less likely that they would be their opponents. After ruthlessly killing several security personnel with strange means, the curse masters completely took control of the ship.

"How is it possible...are these guys still human?"

The interior of the huge yacht was extremely spacious and luxurious. Now all the hostages on board were gathered in a hall. The robbers did not restrict their movements. Anyway, the important places were strictly guarded by the curse masters. Now they were at sea, and there was no way the hostages could escape without anyone to pick them up. At this moment, those who had settled down a little in the crowd could not help but discuss what had just happened.

"Sorcerer..."

"what?"

It was obvious that some of these wealthy people had paid attention to the hottest topic of the moment. There was no doubt that the strange and unpredictable methods used by the previous robbers made them think of supernatural forces, that is, the Yin-Yang masters of the past, or the so-called "sorcerers" among the people.

Yes, these wealthy people's knowledge of sorcery is actually not much more than that of ordinary people, and the reason is very simple, that is, these people are the new generation of forces. They all rode the waves and leaped into the upper class of society when the country's gates were blasted open by powerful ships and cannons and Japan became a pawn in the struggle between two behemoths.

At that time, spells were still kept secret, and there were naturally conflicts between the new and old dignitaries, so they had no way of knowing about the existence of spells.

However, the new generation of dignitaries were not completely unaware of this. After all, money could always attract some wild sorcerers. However, those sorcerers were also intimidated by the bans issued by the high-level sorcerers, and thus attracted professionals to hunt them down.

Therefore, no one revealed the information about spells to these new-school dignitaries. They simply thought that there were some people with superpowers in this world, but such people were extremely rare, and with their financial resources they could only recruit a very small number of them.

It's not that the curse masters hadn't thought about targeting them in the past, but most of these people were under the supervision of relevant personnel. It would be fine for them to contact some marginal figures and defraud some money, but if they wanted to do anything further, it was estimated that a sorcerer would soon come and execute these wanted curse masters.

Therefore, these dignitaries only now know that those people who they used to think were people with super powers have another name here, and their history and the degree of integration with those old-school forces seem to be far beyond their imagination.

And those people who kidnapped them seemed to be the terrorists among the so-called sorcerers. Thinking of their strange methods and their indifference to human life, none of the new-school dignitaries on the ship could remain calm anymore.

Because they all roughly have a similar idea: Are these people...really in this for money?

But all the security personnel on the ship were eliminated, and the super-powered... sorcerers they hired were also killed. Now, no matter how powerful and wealthy they are, they are nothing more than fish on the chopping board.

……

"Tsk, these people really know how to enjoy themselves."

Some of the curse masters sighed inexplicably as they looked at the hall that was so magnificent and looked like a palace. Curse masters have power and can get a lot of money from their channels, but the luxury of this mobile palace really shocked them.

There were also those half-naked, dazed men and women, and they were amazed at the unprecedented ways of playing, but the way they looked at those people was not very friendly, it was more like looking at pigs.

In fact, the fate of these people is not much better than that of pigs. The so-called ransom is both true and false. It is true because they really need the extra money, and it is false because they have no intention of giving up these lives.

The carriers for those ancient magicians to be reborn in flesh cannot be just anyone. According to Nozomi's plan, they will use all the people here on the ship for experiments. In the end, about 30% of them will "survive", but they will completely turn into another "ghost" who has died long ago.

At the same time, while the Fukumitsu is attracting attention, Nozomi will carry out another part of the "resurrection plan" on land, and eventually the combined efforts of both sides will completely disrupt the current situation.

The era of spells will suddenly arrive, shattering everything.

"You said that Nozomi didn't come with us to the Fukumitsu. Could he have some conspiracy? The Oshenpo and the others..."

"Humph, he's just a rat that's good at escaping. Wouldn't it be better if he didn't come here? We can have one less person to share things with, right? Besides, even if he has some conspiracy, with so many hostages here, how dare those sorcerers take action unless they want them all dead?"

Hearing this, the curse master couldn't help but feel excited when he thought of the treasures collected on this ship alone. It was a pity that there would be only one chance to do such a thing. If they didn't have the backup plan of disrupting the situation, they would never dare to do such a thing.

Targeting the sorcerer and leaking the existence of the spell to ordinary people on a large scale will both lead to counterattacks of different levels.

"Hehe, that's right. That guy, Nozomi, didn't come, so we just kicked him out. This guy's origins are unknown, so it's safer to kill him if we have a chance."

"Ah-"

Noose, who was far away on the land, sneezed, then withdrew his gaze from the distance and focused it on the countless wailing people in the basement at the moment, but his focus did not seem to be on the current scene.

"New school dignitaries and those curse masters, you should be very satisfied with this gift. You are such a pitiful bunch of people. You are probably still feeling complacent about those meaningless things. Unfortunately, you don't know what you are about to face..."

(End of this chapter)