People are in the heavens, wealth can rival a country

Chapter 22 Consensus, as a prisoner

"I like your name." Jack showed a satisfied smile: "I don't mind working with an Easterner, especially an Easterner with money like you. But, you have to let me go first."

"Mr. Tang, you don't want to get the compass so hard that you can't do anything, do you?"

"Captain Sparrow seems to be living a good life." Tang Sen ignored his threat and said flatly, "So much so that you misjudged the situation."

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

"Prisoner?" Jack froze for a moment: "No, no!"

"Lack of freedom is tantamount to death to me, and a compass is useless to a dead man."

"Or you can choose to die," Tang Sen said.

"You won't kill me, I can see that." Jack habitually wanted to spread his hands, but unfortunately he just moved his shoulders, "The thing you want is very important, and I am very useful to you."

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

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

"It must be a lost treasure, or some random legend." Jack said, "Let me guess, you don't want to look for the fountain of youth, do you?"

"Do you think you can point to the Fountain of Youth after you get the compass?"

"Of course!" Jack said confidently, "Who doesn't want to live forever? As long as you let me go, my compass will definitely point to where the fountain of youth is."

"Captain Jack Sparrow." Townsend sneered, "The compass will only point to what a person wants most."

"Where I am going is the place you most want to go."

Jack tilted his head and said, "Congratulations, Mr. Tang, you have arrived. I came to Port Royal following the guidance of the compass."

"You want to occupy a boat here, go to Tortuga to recruit some sailors to burn, kill and loot, and then kill those informers?" Tang Sen said slowly.

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

Tang Sen ignored him, and said to himself: "Jack Sparrow, the captain of the Black Pearl, to be precise, the former captain."

"No, still is," Jack interjected.

"You have only been the captain for two years, Mr. Sparrow." Townsend said, "Ten years ago, because of the wealth of the island of death, you suffered a rebellion."

"The 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."

"It seems that you know me very well, have you been to Tortuga?" Jack didn't care about the other party mentioning his past.

"After Barbossa became the captain of the Black Pearl, they successfully found the wealth of the Island of the Dead, the stone box full of Aztec gold coins. They took out the gold coins and spent them all, but soon, they discovered , they were cursed, they became the living dead, and lost all sense of the world."

"It's just a horror legend that can be seen everywhere in the sea. I have heard several versions." Jack's expression became a little serious, but he still said firmly: "And, I have to emphasize, Barbossa is not the captain of the Black Pearl, I am , he is just a shameful betrayer."

"If you want to lift the curse, you must retrieve all the Aztec gold coins and put them back into the stone box in a blood sacrifice. Therefore, in the past ten years, the Black Pearl burned, killed and looted at sea, and they have accumulated countless money. wealth, and most importantly, they recovered most of the Aztec gold coins."

"This" Jack sat up straight: "This is not a version that laymen can know."

"Obviously I'm not an outsider." Tang Sen said, "The place I want to go is the island of death."

"You want the wealth of the Black Pearl? I have to say, it will be a lot of money." Jack said, "As long as you give me half... no, one third, I am willing to take you there."

"Hehe, Mr. Sparrow, lies are meaningless in front of me." Tang Sen looked straight into his eyes: "Money can't impress people like you, at least not about the Black Pearl, isn't it? ?"

"Why do you think so, I'm a pirate!" Jack said as if he had been insulted, "No money, what do I want?"

"You want the Black Pearl, Captain."

Tang Sen directly pierced Jack's disguise, and said: "For ten years, your only pursuit is to take back your boat, and that is what you want most in your heart."

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

"."

Jack finally fell silent, the exaggerated and superficial funny expression completely disappeared from his face.

"I can give you the Black Pearl, provided that you take me to the island of death."

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

"You seem to know everything? Since that's the 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. As you said, they are all living dead."

"Unless I can lift their curse." Tang Sen stretched out his hand, and a gold coin with a skull on it appeared in his hand.

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

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

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

"The king of the belt, William Turner, this poor man thought that Barbossa's behavior violated the Pirate Code, and was tied to a cannon by Barbossa and sank to the bottom of the sea until no one could find him again, and then Barbossa Sa got retribution, he discovered that in addition to collecting all the Aztec gold coins, he also needed the blood of the King of the Belt to lift the curse."

"Before tying Wang Chenhai, I sent the gold coins to his blood relatives. There has been no news for ten years."

"Then guess where I got this gold coin?"

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

It wasn't until Tang Sen became impatient that he said, "Island of Death?"

"Island of Death!"

"Mr. Tang, I think our cooperation will be very pleasant." Jack smiled, "You get the wealth of the Island of Death, I get the Black Pearl, and give that damned traitor a shot."

"Very good." Townsend smiled slightly, and then waved to Warrant Officer Tom: "Put him on board, I don't want anyone to disturb Captain Jack Sparrow."

"Wait, wait! Haven't we reached a consensus?" Jack yelled.

"Yes, but I also said—"

"As a prisoner."

(End of this chapter)