Chapter 151: Meeting Old Knows From Another Country?
The main reason why Xin Sheng focused his surveillance on Governor Swan and Elizabeth was that Elizabeth held an Aztec gold coin.
Barbosa, who is eager to lift the curse, will sooner or later break into Port Royal to take away the gold coin. As long as you keep a close eye on Elizabeth, you can follow the clues and find the Black Pearl.
The Aztec gold coins are one of the treasures reserved by Xin Sheng. After getting the entire box of gold coins, you can complete the main task 2 by half.
As for the curse... it just lets the system suck the curse energy, anyway, it won't affect Xin Sheng himself.
When the Jackdaw won, other privateers operating together also launched attacks one after another.
The results are good and bad.
Two of the privateers struggled to achieve their goals, while the other two were defeated by two armed merchant ships forming a formation, and sank into the sea miserably.
The two armed merchant ships that had won tragically did not dare to stay for too long, and rushed to the Port of San Domingo before other privateers surrounded them.
Xin Sheng led the sailors to move 80% of the cargo on the Basque ship. When he planned to board the Basque, which had no ability to resist for the last time, the lookout hand suddenly issued a warning.
"Captain! At 3 o'clock, the Spanish fleet is approaching!"
Xin Sheng stopped and used Hawkeye technique to synchronize with Daedalus. He saw five Spanish warships dispatched in clusters with the perspective of the Golden Eagle.
"Give up the remaining cargo and set sail."
Barnabas asked, "Captain, where is the Basque?"
Xin Sheng thought about it: "Forget it, the evil one has been eliminated, so let's save their lives."
"Notify the enemy ship sailors to evade in a boat, and sink the Basque while evacuating."
"yes!"
"Boom! Boom!"
When the Spanish official fleet arrived at the target sea area, they had only time to rescue the sailors who had escaped in a small boat, and the Basques had slowly sunk into the water.
“joder!”
"Sir, do you want to chase after me?"
"Are you sure you're chasing?"
“…it should be difficult.”
"Then you just say nothing! Save people!"
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The Spanish on Santo Domingo knew who took the action, but the British would definitely not admit it, and this was written long ago in the privateer permit.
With its powerful firepower and maneuverability, Jackdaw suffered almost no damage in this brief naval battle.
The other two privateers who survived were in a difficult situation. They dragged their broken hulls all the way and sailed on the sea for a long distance behind the Jackdaw.
When passing through Tortuga Island, several pirate ships were eager to try, as if they wanted to rob cargo from the Jackdaw.
But after the Jackdaw unleashed the cannons on both sides, the pirates who were good at judging the degree of snatching the pirates ultimately failed.
The pirates also knew that persimmons would pick the soft ones, so they let the Jackdaw pass and turned their targets to the two unlucky injured privateers.
Xin Sheng did not plan to return to save them. Anyway, most of these privateers were pirates before, so they had to be mentally prepared to be slandered on the day they went to sea.
In this extremely chaotic sea, there is no so-called axiom and justice, it is nothing more than an intrigue exchange of interests. It is not uncommon for pirates to betray each other or eat badly.
"Please be blessed, temporary colleagues."
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"lady!"
When the Jackdaw passed by near Tortuga, Mrs. Qing, who was talking about cooperation with an old white-bearded pirate, suddenly paused, and a look of displeasure appeared on her fierce face.
"Liu Xin, you know my rules."
"Yes, I'm sorry to bother you about the serious matter."
Mrs. Qing’s personal maid Liu Xin lowered her head and said, “I have something important to report.”
Mrs. Qing sighed, knowing that Liu Xin would not disturb her communication with another pirate lord because of boring trivial matters.
"Eduardo, I'll lose my companion."
The white-bearded old pirate is the pirate lord of the Adriatic Sea, Eduardo Villanueva.
Vilanueva is very enterprising. In order to compete for territory, he had many conflicts with the Mediterranean pirate lord Hawell, and he often fought whenever he met.
This time, Vilanueva and Mrs. Chiang met in Tortuga to discuss how to invade the Caribbean Sea legitimately and snatch the benefits from the unworthy Pirates of the Caribbean Lord Jack Sparrow.
Vilanueva responded politely to Mrs. Chiang's words: "Please, if you have obtained important information related to our 'business', please be sure to share it with me."
"no problem."
Mrs. Qing walked a few steps sideways and asked Liu Xin in a low voice: "Tell me, what's the matter?"
Liu Xin put his mouth close to Mrs. Qing's ear: "Our people saw the Jackdaw at the pier."
"Um?"
A hint of suspicion flashed in Mrs. Qing's turbid eyes: "Are you sure?"
"I'm sure it's indeed Jackdaw. She has a deep draught. She must have just completed a robbery."
Mrs. Qing pondered for a moment: "I thought that junior would wander around the China Sea and the Japan Sea all the time, but I didn't expect that he would actually come to the Caribbean Sea."
Liu Xin: "Madam, what should we do?"
"Watch it and figure out his purpose first. Maybe... that kid and I can work together on certain things."
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Five privateers set out one after another, and in the end, only the Jackdaw returned to Port Royal almost unscathed.
The Jackdaw, who returned home with a full load, not only detonated the dock, but also alarmed the Governor Swan who was handling official duties.
Hiring a privateer is quite risky.
Of course, the risks mentioned here are not the British official, but refer to ships that accept contracts to go out to sea to rob.
More important cargoes are usually sailed by multiple merchant ships, and sometimes they are even escorted by the official fleet.
The unimportant goods do not have much value in robbery, which leads to the risk and benefits of privateing.
As the governor of Port Royal, Wetherby Swan welcomed and sent countless privateers, and few people could survive two years.
Most rookies like Jackdaw will be sunk during the mission and will at least return seriously injured.
The still smooth Jackdaws made Governor Swan a little shocked.
"Is it possible that the Caribbean is really going to have a legend like Francis Derek?"
This thought flashed and Governor Swan smiled unconsciously.
"What am I thinking? Maybe it's just a good luck picking up a bargain. Legends are not that easy to be like."
Elizabeth Swan in the Governor's Mansion also heard the noise from the port. Accompanied by a maid, she raised her monocular lens on the balcony and watched from a distance.
As the daughter of the governor, Elizabeth has a good understanding of the situation in the Caribbean.
Through the telescope, Elizabeth couldn't help but look shocked.
"Such a young privateer, and it seems to be a yellow man?"
The magnification of monocular telescopes in this era is touching, and Elizabeth can only vaguely see that the privateer is a young man with a white face and no beard, and cannot see his appearance clearly.
"Miss, it's windy outside, let's go back."
“Wait a little longer.”
Chapter completed!