Sam, the Black Prince, sent a dozen of his best sailors to infiltrate the area where the Spanish treasure ship had dived, and soon figured out where the gold was.

But then they ran into another problem

- How to get this gold out of the sea.

Those boxes containing gold fell half a nautical mile from the coastline, the water depth is about more than 20 meters, which is almost the limit of ordinary people's diving, in addition to being limited by oxygen, people in the water every ten meters of diving, will bear an additional atmosphere, and then the water pressure will make people have obvious nitrogen anesthesia, oxygen poisoning and other symptoms.

Zhang Heng vaguely remembered that without the help of any equipment, the largest human diving record seemed to be more than 40 meters, and he didn't know how to do it.

Like the group sent by the Black Prince Sam, they all grew up by the sea, many of them were fishermen's children, and they were excellent in the water, but they only dived to the place where they could see the box and immediately came up, and only one person actually dived to the bottom and brought a gold bar scattered outside.

"Looks like we're going to be on this island for a while." Black Prince Sam smiled bitterly.

Regardless, the joint hunt was a success.

Five thousand pounds of gold would have been divided into six ships, and each of them would have received a large sum of money, and in addition to that, the ship had carried a shipment of tobacco, but it could not be salvaged after being flooded.

Even Brooke, who had suffered the most losses, was in a good mood at this time, and even after deducting the cost of repairing the ship and the bereavement of the wounded, the extra half of the loot would still be a lot.

Of course, Zhang Heng and his Jackdaw were even more enviable, he and Brooke acted as bait, but in the end, the three Spanish sailing ships chose the Swordfish with weaker defense as the main target.

The Jackdaw was not attacked much after the two rounds of shelling it had received, and he chose a good entry point when it was encircled, and the Jackdaw did not join the battle until the four pirate ships in the bay attacked, at which point the three Spanish galleons could no longer care about him.

And when he was making bait before, Zhang Heng's every choice and timing were also excellent, not only successfully confusing his opponent, but also winning the opportunity for the Swordfish to retreat, if it weren't for his two entanglements, Brooke and his crew would have been feeding the fish at the bottom of the sea by now.

So the captain of the Swordfish was very grateful to Zhang Heng, and came to him in person to thank him after going ashore, Zhang Heng had not had much contact with Brooke before, but he was no stranger to this name, in addition to the latter's fame in Nassau, but also because his joint letter of recommendation also had this name.

And contrary to Zhang Heng's expectations, he came into contact with Brooke and found that the latter was not as cold as he seemed on the surface, in fact, he was quite talkative, he had been sparing words like gold when discussing the battle plan a few times before, and there were no ten words in total, Zhang Heng thought that his character was like this, but now it seems that this is not the case.

"I'm sorry, I'm not targeting anyone else, I'm just a little bit at odds with Gunpowder Jarvis." Brook Road

Gunpowder Jarvis, the captain of the other pirate ship Warrior in this operation, is also one of the names on the joint recommendation letter.

Zhang Heng remembered that the black prince Sam said that he had used this incident to mediate the conflict between the two friends, so it seemed that it should be Brooke and Jarvis, but he didn't expect that he would call the two again in this operation.

"Jarvis and I have been old friends for more than ten years, I have been friends with him longer than Sam, about two months ago, I got a very valuable clue, there is a slave ship from Africa, going to Boston, the goods are in very good condition, they are all sixteen to eighteen years old young adults, healthy, with straight teeth, I led people to the ship's route in advance, but suddenly killed a group of guys of unknown origin, I sent people to negotiate with them, but they didn't talk about the rules at all, Kill the boat I sent out, and then attack me without saying a word, but their boat was not as fast as me, and I escaped in the end.

"In retrospect, I always have the feeling that those people seemed to be coming at me, so this incident is not a coincidence, but a personal vendetta." Brooke paused, "But I only told Jarvis about it before I went to sea, so when I got back I went to his lodgings and confronted him face to face, and he denied it, and was very angry, saying that I shouldn't have doubted him, and that I thought I had wronged him, but then I sent someone to investigate, and found that he had secretly left Nassau the night before I went to sea, but not on his own boat." ”

"You have a conflict over this?"

Brooke nodded, "I just don't understand why he would attack me with the previous relationship between the two of us, forget it...... I didn't bother to think about it, I promised Sam not to make a move on him, but that's all, and from now on there was nothing between the two of us. ”

Brooke and Zhang Heng chatted a few more words, and then Eric, the black helmsman on the Vida, walked over.

"Ah, you're here, we're lucky, Bauer's men found some wild goats and rabbits on the island, we had a mouth tonight, and there was quite a bit of rum on board, Sam suggested that we just have a bonfire to celebrate the success of the operation, and we became the first group of pirates in this area to successfully rob a Spanish treasure ship."

"Celebrate, now, but isn't that gold still at the bottom of the sea?" Zhang Heng asked.

"yes, but they don't run away from there anyway, don't worry, we'll find a way to get them up." Eric patted Zhang Heng on the shoulder, "Do you have anything to eat over there, and you can also contribute." ”

"I can offer 30 barrels of rum and a batch of fresh lemons."

"Great, I'll organize some more people to catch some fish, and your lemon can be used to get rid of the fish."

Brooke on the other side spread his hands, "As you can see, there is nothing left on my ship now. ”

"It's okay, Captain Sam is already working on this, maybe you can go and thank Jarvis, I heard he's willing to give you a third of the supplies."

Brooke raised an eyebrow, "Did he do it voluntarily, or did Captain Sam tell him to do it?" ”

"Is there any difference between the two?" The black helmsman blinked, "Be generous, Brooke, it's been so long since that thing, do you have to worry about it any longer?" When we get the gold from the bottom of the sea, won't you make up for all your previous losses? ”

Brooke snorted, but didn't say anything more.