The rain came faster than anyone expected, and Sam, the Black Prince, did not linger on the Jackdaw for fear of the Veddah, which had just been repaired, but as soon as he got into the boat, the rain began to fall from the sky, and at the same time the sea was stormy.

Thick lightning streaked across the gloomy sky, and thunder roared like the end of the world.

The two ships were less than thirty meters apart, but the Black Prince Sam's boat was stunned for ten minutes, undulating through the huge waves, and finally approached the Vader, and one of the pirates was still being swept away by the waves behind him while climbing.

The pirates aboard the Vader could do nothing but watch their companions disappear into the waves.

It is impossible to get off the boat and save people in this bad weather.

On the other side, Zhang Heng did not return to the captain's room, he stood at the bow of the Jackdaw, and Billy on the side was loudly directing the crew to prepare for the storm.

Zhang Heng frowned, he was different from the Black Prince Sam, who might just think that this ghost weather came too suddenly, but Zhang Heng not only learned the technique of manipulating the sails with Rothko, but the old pirate also handed over his wind judgment and weather prediction to him.

Although Zhang Heng can't be as accurate as Roscoe in weather prediction, he can also judge the weather changes in a short period of time, this storm appeared too suddenly, and without warning, just a quarter of an hour ago the sky was still clear and cloudless, according to Rothko's experience taught him, at least until tonight, the sea should be relatively calm.

However, in just over ten minutes, the weather in this sea area has undergone drastic changes, such a situation Zhang Heng has only encountered once before, that is, when the Clark boat appeared, but the wind and waves were not so big that time, and now this sea is like a complete rage, one after another huge waves crashing on the side of the ship.

Zhang Heng held the cable with one hand to stabilize his body, and with the other hand took off the copper telescope he carried with him, he first glanced at the Black Prince Sam's side, and it was a busy scene on the Whyda, but there was nothing to do for the time being, so Zhang Heng moved his gaze further away.

However, to his surprise, this time he did not see the ghost ship from more than a hundred years ago on the sea, on the contrary, after a while, the terrifying-looking storm began to slowly weaken, the waves became smaller and smaller, and the raindrops became thinner, until five minutes later, the sun shone through the clouds, the sea was calm again, and the dark clouds that had previously hung overhead disappeared.

In just over twenty minutes, even Anne, who had always had a lot of nerves, felt a little incredible, and when the rain stopped, she shook the raindrops on the tips of her hair and said, "What is this, is it a prank?" ”

Zhang Heng was also a little inexplicable, but for the sake of prudence, he still came to the warehouse as soon as possible, checked the two boxes of silverware again, and found nothing abnormal, and he picked up the ring and necklace in the drawer, and also did not get the system prompt to obtain the props.

Is it a coincidence?

In this way, Zhang Heng was also a little uncertain, about the Clark Zhang Heng always felt that he had missed something, but now he really had no other clues, so he could only wait for Vincent to finish translating the three notebooks to see if he could get more information from them.

This sudden, brief storm was for most people just a small episode in a long voyage, and soon the pirates on board turned their attention to other things, such as who always slipped into the kitchen at night to steal bread to eat, and where to go to be merry after this landing.

And the Jackdaw is getting closer and closer to Nassau, but Zhang Heng doesn't know that there is also a storm waiting for him on the shore.

The second-hand goods trading office of the businesswoman Karina is very popular on the island during this time, and there is an endless stream of pirates at the door, and Karina also has a heroic spirit that does not match her gender, and the second-hand goods trading office does not refuse to come, as long as it is not worthless, the businesswoman is willing to bid for it, and has won a good reputation among the small and medium-sized pirates.

At the same time, Captain Malone said goodbye to his happy days in the yard and became busy again, and the Breeze began to shuttle back and forth between Nassau and the colony's harbor, exchanging the booty that Karina had secretly acquired from the pirates on the island for bags of gold coins, although most of this income was subsidized to the second-hand goods exchange, and because Karina offered a high price, it was not very profitable, far less than when her father Fagan was on the island.

Anyway, they were starting to make a profit, at least not so much that everyone was idle and moldy when the Jackdaw went out to sea.

However, it didn't take long for Karina to make a secret deal with the pirate captains through the second-hand goods trading office, and it spread throughout the island almost overnight.

Immediately after that, the news of her father's seizure in the colony also broke, this incident that happened a few months ago was not a secret among black market merchants, and some well-informed people on the island had heard about it for a long time, but until today, it suddenly began to be vigorously promoted, and the malicious intent behind it was already obvious.

The captains who traded with the businesswoman before suddenly couldn't sit still, they just wanted to make extra money, and they didn't want to be tied to Karina's small boat that looked like it was about to sink, and they all insisted that it was not their own subordinates who leaked the secret, and even doubted that the news would be released by Karina herself, after all, if they fell out with the Black Merchants Alliance because of this matter, the last person to profit would be Karina.

The businesswoman had to come to the door in person and try to communicate with them, convincing them that the Black Merchant Alliance could not actually fulfill the sanctions in the statement, which was tantamount to pushing them to her with their own hands, but in the end it had little effect, and only the two captains said that if Karina could solve the leak problem before they could continue the transaction.

Malone shook his head, "This problem can't be solved, our side has done a good enough, I have arranged for people to guard the warehouse, even the sailors on the ship don't know what is transported on every trip, so it can't be that it is leaked on our side, but those pirates, they are all talkative, as the saying goes, don't expect a group of pirates to keep any secrets, especially when they are drunk." ”

Karina shook her head, "Most of their pirates don't know that they sold their goods to us, this matter is just a group of henchmen doing it, the others just take the money in the end, the Black Merchants Alliance may hear some rumors, but their investigation shouldn't be so fast." ”