"I like what you call it." Jack smiled with satisfaction: "I don't mind working with an Oriental, especially a rich Oriental like you... But you've got to let me go first. ”

"Mr. Tang, you don't want to get the compass and not be able to do anything, right?"

"Captain Sparrow seems to be having a good day." Tang Sen ignored his threat and said lightly: "So much so that you misjudged the situation. ”

"I do need you to use the compass to take me to a place, but sadly, not as a collaborator, but as a prisoner."

"Prisoner?" Jack was stunned for a moment: "No, no! ”

"No freedom is tantamount to death to me, and the compass is useless to the dead."

"Or you can choose to die really." Townsend Road.

"You're not going to kill me, I can see it." Jack habitually wanted to spread his hands, but unfortunately only moved his shoulders, "The thing you want is important, and I, for you, is very useful." ”

"You're smart." Tang Sen stood up and looked at him condescendingly: "But this matter is not up to you, it's just that I don't want to waste time looking for other candidates." ”

"Aren't you curious about where I want you to take me?"

"It must be some lost treasure, or some jumbled legend." Jack said, "Let me guess, you wouldn't want to look for the Fountain of Youth." ”

"Do you think that after you get the compass, you will be able to point to the Fountain of Youth?"

"Of course!" Jack said with confidence: "Who doesn't want immortality?" As long as you let me go, my compass will surely point to the place where the Fountain of Youth. ”

"Captain Jack Sparrow." Tang Sen sneered: "The compass will only point to what a person's heart wants most. ”

"The place I'm going to is the place you want to go the most."

Jack tilted his head and said, "Then congratulations, Mr. Tang, you have arrived, and I have come to Port Royal with the guidance of the compass." ”

"You want to take over a ship here, go to Totu and recruit some sailors to burn and loot, and kill those informers?" Townsend said slowly.

"......" Jack opened his mouth wide: "That's my line!" ”

Townsend ignored him and said to himself, "Jack Sparrow, the captain of the Black Pearl, to be exact, the former captain. ”

"No, it still is." Jack interjected.

"You've only been a captain for two years, Mr. Sparrow." "Ten years ago, you suffered a rebellion because of the wealth of the Isle of Death. ”

"First mate Barbossa took advantage of the night to capture the Black Pearl and threw you on an isolated island, leaving you with a pistol and a bullet."

"Looks like you know me well, you've been to Totuga too?" Jack didn't care if the other party brought up his past.

"When Barbossa became the captain of the Black Pearl, they managed to find the riches of the Isle of the Dead, the stone chest full of Aztec coins, and they took out the gold and spent it, but soon they found that they were cursed, they became the living dead, and they lost all their sense of the world."

"It's just a horror legend that can be seen everywhere on the sea, and I've heard several versions." Jack's expression was a little more solemn, but he still said stiffly: "Moreover, I have to emphasize that Barbossa is not the captain of the Black Pearl, I am, he is just a shameful betrayer." ”

"In order to lift the curse, all the Aztec gold coins must be recovered and put back into the stone chest in the form of a blood sacrifice, so, in the past ten years, the Black Pearl has burned and looted on the sea, they have accumulated countless riches, and most importantly, they have recovered most of the Aztec gold coins."

"This—" Jack sat up straight, "this is not a layman's version. ”

"Obviously I'm not a layman." "The place I want to go to is the Isle of Death," said Townsend. ”

"You want the riches of the Black Pearl? I have to say, that's going to be a lot of money. Jack said, "As long as you give me half of it... No, a third, I'm willing to take you. ”

"Hehe, Mr. Sparrow, there is no point in lying in front of me." Tang Sen looked him straight in the eye: "Money can't impress people like you, at least not about the Black Pearl, can it?" ”

"How could you think that, I'm a pirate!" As if insulted, Jack said, "I don't want money, what do I want?" ”

"You want the Black Pearl, Captain."

Townsend directly pierced Jack's disguise and said, "For ten years, your only pursuit is to recapture your ship, which is what you want most in your heart." ”

"I'm curious, how does it feel when you look at the compass alone late at night, and you know that its pointer points in the direction of the Black Pearl, but you can't do anything about it?"

“......”

Jack was finally silent, and the exaggerated, superficial comical expression completely disappeared from his face.

"I can give you the Black Pearl, if you take me to the Isle of Death."

"I have to admit, Mr. Tang, you are the most mysterious Oriental I have ever met." Jack said, "The last person who made me feel this way was a witch named Tia Dorma. ”

"You seem to know everything? In that case, you should also know that no matter how much money you have, you probably won't be able to deal with the Black Pearl. Like you said, they're all the living dead. ”

"Unless, I can lift their curse." Townsend stretched out his hand, and a gold coin with a skull on it was presented in his hand.

"This is the last gold Aztec coin, Mr. Sparrow."

"I suppose Barbossa, without the curse, is no more difficult to kill than an ordinary sailor, is it?"

"You forgot, there is also the blood sacrifice ceremony, why do you think Barbossa hasn't lifted the curse in the past ten years?" Jack Road.

"The Tethered King, William Turner, the poor man who thought Barbossa had acted in violation of the Pirate Code, was tied to a cannon by Barbossa and sunk to the bottom of the sea until no one could find him, and then Barbossa got his retribution, and he found that lifting the curse required not only all the Aztec gold coins, but also the blood of the Tulse King."

"Before tying Wang Shenhai, he sent the gold coin to his blood relatives, and there has been no news for ten years."

"And guess where I got this gold coin?"

Jack looked at the gold Aztec coin and fell into a longer silence.

It wasn't until Townsend was a little impatient that he spoke: "Island of Death? ”

"Island of the Dead!"

"Mr. Tang, I think our cooperation will be very pleasant." Jack smiled, "You get the riches of the Isle of the Dead, I get the Black Pearl, and give that damn betrayer a shot." ”

"Good." Townsend smiled slightly, then beckoned to Warrant Officer Tom, "Put him on the ship, I don't want anyone to disturb Captain Jack Sparrow." ”

"Wait... Wait a minute! Haven't we already reached a consensus? Jack exclaimed.

"Yes, but I also said-"

"As a prisoner."