Buckley didn't know whether William was dead or alive, but he saw the funeral held by the Mona tribe for William the next day. As William's friend, he attended the funeral.

The funeral is not simple or complicated. It is presided over by an old man from the Mona tribe. The customs and habits of the funeral are different from those of any country. They look a little complicated, but in general, they do not take long. Barkley saw it very clearly. William lying on the raft showed the color of a dead man, with his eyes peacefully closed.

Dead? Is it dead?

Barkley was extremely helpless. He could determine that the strong man was dead by the color of William's skin. To be honest, William was the one who felt the most heartbroken when he died. This was his loss, an invisible huge loss.

At the end of the funeral, eight strong Mona people carried William's raft and walked towards the sea to perform sea burials. This is the custom of the Mona people. As long as someone dies, a sea burial will be held.

Seeing the raft floating farther and farther, Barkley could only sigh deeply and return in a depressed mood. He didn't expect William to die so simply, but what else can he do?

Back on the submarine, Barkley walked into Xiao Yuanchao's cabin and stared at the other party for a long time without saying anything. He really wanted to scold the other party, but unfortunately he couldn't scold him at all when facing Xiao Yuanchao, who still has great value. Besides, if the scolding works, then there is nothing that cannot be solved in this world.

"Come to me to ask for a crime?" Xiao Yuanchao lay lazily on the bed, smoking a cigar while saying to Barkley: "William must die, this is my business with him."

Barkley didn't say anything because he didn't know what to say at all. Deathing a right-hand man was equivalent to weakening his power and the capital of fighting.

"Prepare, you're going to have a negotiation," Barkley said.

"The script is ready, and I don't know how to continue without the script." Xiao Yuanchao spat out a sip of smoke and said, "Call me when it needs negotiations, otherwise don't disturb me, thank you."

Seeing Xiao Yuanchao's attitude at this time, Barkley said nothing and slowly withdrew. He knew that when William died, many changes would occur in the future, but the most important thing was to handle the things in front of him well.

The next day, tense negotiations began.

Xiao Yuanchao forgot everything about it. He just mechanically spoke according to the script drafted by Barkley. As for other things, he just didn't ask about it at all. The whole thing was under Barkley's control, and he was just a scapegoat who took the blame. As for the agreement with William... he knew that William was not dead, because the last punch could not kill William at all, it just created an illusion.

Xiao Yuanchao was waiting, waiting quietly.

During this period, he had been thinking about a question, but he never found the answer.

According to normal circumstances, when Barkley coerces him to kidnap a nuclear submarine, the first choice to be rejected or commit suicide. Because his appearance will make the country passive, which is not what he thought. But if he does not agree, then his father...

It would be great if I were a soldier, but unfortunately I was not.

This is the sentence Xiao Yuanchao thought the most. He admitted that he was human and selfish. He asked himself that if he did something again, he would still make such a choice.

Does this conflict with loyalty? No, it has nothing to do with loyalty! If he gives up the opportunity to save his father, let alone loyalty, he will lose even the most basic moral personality!

People are people, not machines. Xiao Yuanchao admires those who can send their relatives to the guillotine, but he just admires them.

The island was finally divided into two halves, and the Mona patriarch agreed to Barkley's request. All the Mona people lived on the east side of the island, and Barkley's people lived on the west side of the island. However, Barkley's blockade of the island did not end, and this place became his one-man show.

"Rare earths, rare earths!" Standing on the land west of the island, Barkley held up a handful of soil and said with emotion: "There is no war for no reason. Who made so many rare earths here?"

Oil wars and natural gas wars have long been commonplace, and now rare earth wars have begun to surface slowly. This kind of resource can trigger wars, because this mineral is definitely one of the most important strategic reserves.

The Mona Islands are full of rare earth resources. If they are all developed, it will be enough for countries like the United States to use them for a full five hundred years.

Five hundred years! So much rare earth reserves are enough to make the butcher's knife swing to either side.

Now the matter is how to mine secretly. When all countries do not know the rare earth reserves here, all actions must be carried out in secret. After waiting to control the island in the palm of your hand, it doesn't matter if the news spreads.

"For humanitarian reasons, we will send a negotiation team to the area where the incident occurred, negotiate with the red soldiers, and release the residents on the island." The US head stood at the peak of morality and made suggestions.

In fact, it doesn’t make much sense to mention it. It’s the US’s business. Although the United Nations has established a special group specifically responsible for this matter, the right to speak is still in the hands of the US. Other countries are just verbally condemning them and asking them to help the US deal with this matter, so there is no need to think about it at all.

They saw it very clearly that this is the revenge of the red soldiers specifically targeting the US side, which is enough to make the US side anxious. In this environment, no matter which country it is, they are more willing to watch the US jokes.

The suggestion is easy to be adopted, and no matter from any aspect, it requires negotiation. The entry point of this negotiation is very good, just to let the other party release the hostages. Based on this negotiation, the relevant U.S. departments have done a lot of work and are extremely meticulous.

A week later, the negotiation team came to the island where the Mona tribe was located. When they arrived, a series of industrial and mining equipment were also secretly transported here.

This is not a negotiation at all, because there is not even a negotiating table!

The Seventh Fleet implemented a sea blockade on the high seas outside the island, completely trapping the island in its own fishing nets. They continued to issue a series of carefully forged negotiation conditions to the United Nations and began to actively implement their own steps.

Half a month later, the vigorous mining operation began, and a steady stream of rare earth resources were continuously transported to the United States through the Seventh Fleet. At the same time, the voices of the red soldiers who were carrying out the "kidnapping" disappeared, as if they were brewing to fight.

The seventh Fleet on the periphery blocked this area from beginning to end, and no matter which country the ships were from, they would detour.

Their nuclear submarines were hijacked and they would handle it, and no country would help them deal with it.

This is an exquisite layout, using the hijacking of the submarine as a cover, hiding the world and exploiting rare earth resources in large quantities.
Chapter completed!