The Sumandi Hao had been carrying out crab-pot operations in nearby waters early that morning.
When more than a dozen pirates suddenly appeared at sea.
They drove speedboats and rapidly approached the Sumandi Hao.
Even if pirates carried weapons, they normally found it difficult to threaten the Sumandi Hao, a crab fishing vessel several times larger than their speedboats.
After all, the Sumandi Hao was not unarmed.
Those crewmen all had gun permits.
That was quite common in Alaska.
But no one had expected George, the ship's mechanic, to betray them at the critical moment.
Not only did he successfully subdue the captain, but he also wounded several crewmen.
Most importantly, he lowered the ship's gangway.
That allowed the pirates to board the Sumandi Hao with ease.
They successfully took control of the entire crab fishing vessel in the shortest possible time.
Although the crewmen had weapons as well.
At the end of the day, they were merely crab fishermen.
Against vicious pirates, once the enemy boarded the ship, they had no means of resistance.
And the crewmen who had fallen into the sea were all crab fishermen originally from the Sumandi Hao.
They were not the pirates who had hijacked the crab fishing vessel.
The reason they had been on deck was because of Ye Yuan's crab pots.
In order to haul up the crab pots from the sea as quickly as possible.
The pirates had used the uninjured crewmen originally from the Sumandi Hao to retrieve the pots.
"You mean the people we captured were all ordinary crab fishermen?
And the ones who actually exchanged fire with us were pirates from a group called the Scorpion Gang?"
Ye Yuan felt as if he were listening to a story as he asked with an incredulous expression.
"Yes! Though I