Return Firepower

In the night of the Red Sea, when bullets flew past the container, Shen Tuo realized that he, a retired navy escort veteran, would never be able to avoid the smoke of gunfire in his life. Three years ago, he returned from the Gulf of Aden with an injury and opened a seaside auto repair shop. He just wanted to live a stable life with his paralyzed father and the old dock. It wasn't until a small cargo ship was hijacked in the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, the ship owner went bankrupt, and his father's life-saving money was wasted, that Shen Tuo clutched his rusty discharge certificate and boarded the flight to Djibouti. He did not choose to be a wild mercenary, but instead formed a "compliance" maritime security team - only escorting merchant ships, not black and gray orders, using the navy's tactical manual to fight pirates, and using international law to guard the bottom line. But the water is too deep. There are new pirates with AI sights, private armed forces under the banner of "contractors" robbing business, and even invisible nooses in the game between great powers. Shen Tuo led his team to paralyze pirate drones with a single electromagnetic pulse cannon. He used a passive exoskeleton to carry the wounded on his back and ran wildly across the deck. In the radar blind spot of the naval escort formation, he used an old ship and a strong body to prop up the "mobile defense line" of merchant ships. He said: "I am not a gunsmith, nor do I want to be a warmonger. I just want every ship to return safely." When artillery fire illuminated the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, and when the sound of machine guns covered the waves, Shen Tuo and his team defended the rules with firepower and guarded the return journey with blood. This is an iron-blooded story of private security, and it is also a veteran's most persistent commitment to "return".