Zhang Heng's luck was good, he saw the dark shadow in front of him as soon as he landed.

It seemed that the other party should have been sitting at the table before, but the movement at the door attracted his attention, making him stand up and subconsciously look in that direction, and Zhang Heng jumped in from the window at this time, and the black shadow was smashed on the back of the head by the butt of the gun before he could turn his head, and then slipped to the ground without saying a word.

Zhang Heng solved the trouble in front of him, checked the surrounding environment with the moonlight shining in, and then carefully went up to the second floor, searched room by room, and only lit the oil lamp after confirming that there was no one else in the house.

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Anne came back from the tavern, pushed open the door, and saw a young woman about twenty-one or twelve years old lying on the table, Zhang Heng was groping for something on her.

"Wow, did I come back too early, sorry to bother." After the red-haired girl finished speaking, she took the initiative to turn around and prepare to disappear on the spot, but was stopped by Zhang Heng, who said, "Don't make trouble, do you know her?" ”

Zhang Heng just searched his body, and did not find any weapons and dangerous goods, he was also a little surprised at the moment when he lit the oil lamp, he didn't expect that the uninvited guest in the house would be a woman, although the latter entered the house without the permission of the owner, but except for a teacup in front of him, he didn't seem to touch anything, judging from her skin and dress, she should have been born in a rather wealthy family, generally speaking, such a woman should not appear in a place like Nassau.

Not to mention that she also broke into other people's homes without permission, so Zhang Heng could only guess that she was Anne's friend.

However, the red-haired girl burped and shook her head, "I don't know her." ”

"I don't think you have seen her since you entered the house."

"That's because I didn't have a female friend growing up." Anne spread her hands, her face flushed from the influence of alcohol, but she was conscious.

"So it seems that there is only one way." Zhang Hengdao.

"What?"

"I'll ask her myself when she wakes up."

Because he didn't know the other party's intentions, Zhang Heng didn't put too much weight on it, and the woman in front of him with a somewhat mysterious origin just opened her eyes after being in a coma for less than two hours, and Zhang Heng finished dinner in the middle of the time.

Anne, on the other hand, was playing with the makeup mirror that she had scoured from the other party.

"I thought you didn't like this kind of thing."

"I don't like this kind of thing." Anne said lazily, "But I remember that on my fourteenth birthday my father gave me a similar mirror, which seems to be quite expensive, and it should be worth a lot of money if I take it out." ”

"I'll give it to you if you want it." The one who spoke was a mysterious woman who had been in a coma before.

When she woke up, she immediately found that her hands and feet were tied, but even at this time she still maintained at least a semblance of composure, which did not seem to match her age and family background.

It's a pity that she chose the wrong way to release kindness, Anne laughed out loud when she heard this, put her legs on the table, and leaned back on the chair, "I never need to be given something I like, I will grab it myself." ”

However, after she made this heroic declaration, she saw someone's raised eyebrows, and obediently removed her legs from the dinner table.

"Your Excellency must be the captain of the Jackdaw, Mr. Zhang Heng, I must admit that you are younger than I imagined."

The mysterious woman's gaze also moved to Zhang Heng on the side.

"Who are you, and why did you sneak into my quarters?"

"I'm sorry, please forgive me for being uninvited, I don't have any malicious intent, I just want to meet with Your Excellency to discuss business, because this is a special period that can only make this decision." The mysterious woman said sincerely.

"Special times?"

"My name is Karina Portman." The mysterious woman introduced herself, "We're a trade merchant, but you seem to be more accustomed to calling us black marketeers in Nassau, anyway, I've been doing business on the island before, and I've worked with a lot of ships, Captain Fuller on the Shooter, Captain Randall on the Duke, oh, and Erwin on the Exocet, all of whom have had a good relationship with me. ”

Karina was also observing the expression on Zhang Heng's face as she spoke, but unfortunately she couldn't see anything, so she could only continue, "I heard that you have been at sea for a long time, and you just came back today, you may not know much about the situation on the island, the black market merchants have been discussing the establishment of a business alliance as early as four months ago, aiming to solve the chaotic situation on the island, and now the preparations for this alliance are basically coming to an end, and they have reached several consensuses, including reducing the share of the ships led by the new captain, You've probably met a few black marketeers in the afternoon, and I'm sure the results won't be satisfying. ”

Zhang Heng was noncommittal, "Didn't something similar happen three years ago?" I've heard that the league didn't end very well. ”

"I know what you're thinking, but I'm afraid this alliance won't be disbanded so soon." Karina said, "The alliance of the year

It was organized by a few of the larger black marketeers on the island, and the rules were only between merchants, but this time the situation was different, as the pirates also joined in. ”

"Huh?"

"I don't know if you've heard of Fraser, who is said to be of great prestige on the pirate side, and this time he has stepped in to convince a group of powerful pirates to join the alliance, and the merchants have raised the purchase price of their loot in exchange for long-term and stable cooperation between them. And the value they could create accounted for seventy percent of all the pirates in Nassau, so that basically the merchants outside the alliance could no longer get any valuable booty, so those who opposed it before had to give in. Karina's expression was also a little helpless, "Now there are very few black marketeers on the island who have not joined the alliance. ”

Zhang Heng finally knew the reason why the attitude of those black market merchants was so cold this afternoon, if Karina didn't lie, then once this alliance was established, it would occupy the absolute initiative, although their costs would increase in the early stage, and they needed to pay a higher price to the pirates who signed the contract, but you must know that pirates are a high-risk profession, as time goes by, these high-priced pirate groups will definitely become fewer and fewer, and there are more and more new pirates like Zhang Heng, and their profits will be higher and higher, At this time, the market has been monopolized by the alliance, and there are no other black market merchants to make an offer, so they can only accept the purchase price set by the alliance.