Chapter 204 2. When I went out to buy a pack of cigarettes, nine out of ten people I met told me that disaster was imminent-【915】
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"Fuck! Mason! You should have told me that the target of this operation is a god! Instead of waiting until we are already on the boat!"
On the Black Pearl sailing from Turtle Island to the North American continent, Zha Kang, who had just climbed out of the biological cabin, had not had time to experience the "new version" of himself, and was stunned by a bad news head-on.
At this moment, he was turning around in the captain's cabin of the Black Pearl, which had been re-released from the collection of glass bottles into the sea, with an irritable face, cursing with a burning cigarette in his mouth:
"My God, that's a god! Although according to Jack, it sounds like a stupid primitive **** whose power is only to manipulate the ocean and storms, but she is still not an ordinary life.
From the fact that she can curse a ship into a ghost ship sailing between life and death, she knows that that guy may have the priesthood of death!
Do you know what that means? "
"That means we'll burp if we see her?"
Captain Jack leaned against the window, reminiscing about the ocean journey he hadn’t seen for a long time, grabbing a bottle of rum and pouring it into his mouth in the slightly fishy sea flavor, and said in a long voice:
"Come on, man, my dear John, Colypso is not as powerful as you think. She was sealed by Barbossa's gang of bastards, and was later set free by the Pirate Kings.
I also had some intimate ahem with her during the time she was hiding in the Haitian swamp as a witch, anyway, I promise, she is not as dangerous as you think.
Really counting, I think the Cleaners we dealt with on the old spider side are more troublesome than her, of course, the premise is that she can't stay in the sea.
That's her domain. "
"Shut up, Jack, you know nothing about these supernatural affairs, only by hearsay and parrot!"
Zha Kang snorted angrily, then turned to look at the others.
The kiteman is flying around outside with a small falcon jetpack. This is his "home attire". He can't always carry the heavy flying wings captured from the vulture, right?
Handsome is handsome, but the fuel consumption is too high.
That thing is a "combat suit", and it needs to be modified by the boss for firepower.
As for Er Tong, who was sitting beside him with an indifferent face, playing with the Alice sword in his hand, this guy with a calm appearance but a flirtatious heart has already changed into his own Isu Vanguard Armor.
This will be as coquettish as a stripper with sequins all over his body.
Barbara has been fine-tuning the computer on her wrist to establish a link with the drone army hidden in the cabin. From time to time, the pupil of her left eye will shine a blue light spot, which looks very strange.
This scene seems to have no sense of the danger of this operation except for Zha Kang himself.
This made the black magician very desperate.
Hello! Where does your confidence come from? Obviously I'm the one being strengthened, right?
He exhaled the smoke ring and looked at Mason, who was holding a story book circulated among pirates. He was reading about the legend of Sea Goddess. He stabilized his mind and said with a heavier voice:
"Please tell me, you have prepared some things that can restrain the divinity in advance?"
"Huh? What are you talking about?"
Mason raised his head and asked a very sincere question.
He obviously hasn't told Zha Kang about Alice's sword, and intends to make a joke of it.
The black magician slapped himself on the face, and said in despair:
"I confirmed, we are dead, you really took this death job without knowing anything, this place is not far from Turtle Island, stop the boat and drop anchor!
I have to swim back before you get bloodied when you get killed. "
"Okay, John, I was kidding you."
Mason put down the storybook that was almost full of exaggerated rumors in his hand. He stretched his neck and said:
"Mr. Hunter has said everything that needs to be said, and accurately described that our mission is not to face an unknown sea **** alone, but to prey on the cleaners with a high probability.
Do you understand when I say that? "
The captain stood up and explained the mission process in detail. He emphasized:
"Mr. Hunter said that the Cleaners or others should not be allowed to obtain Colypso's divinity anyway, and she also said that this aspect cannot be discussed in depth, so I suspect that it may be related to the curse of the Constellation Society.
The best-case scenario right now is when the Scavengers are after Sea Goddess, we'll sneak in and grab a head whenever we get a chance.
As for the restraint of divinity.
She said that using the knife she gave us to stab the Sea Goddess in the heart would solve all problems. I don’t understand the principle. But I guess, that knife should help you relieve the panic in your heart. "
"This TM is not a good thing!"
Zha Kang's mood improved a bit, but only a little bit.
As a spellcaster whose primary purpose is self-protection under any circumstances, counseling this kind of thing has been deeply rooted in Zhakang's life philosophy.
He whined about how Mason dragged him to his death again, and greeted Mason's family kindly with various sentence patterns.
But it's on the way now.
Even if he is unwilling to take risks, he can't really jump into the sea and swim back to Turtle Island, right?
That's too embarrassing.
"I just don't know how much land our pirate coalition forces have recovered in the past half a month?"
Mason walked to the window, chatted with Captain Jack and said:
“How does it feel to see my friends from the past becoming pirate kings one by one? If you hadn’t followed me before, maybe you could have your own pirate kingdom, Jack.
Don’t you have a little bit of regret and longing? "
"There's a fart."
Captain Jack leaned there coolly, drinking rum and said drunkenly:
"Have I ever told you about my childhood?"
Mason shook his head, and heard Captain Jack say with nostalgia:
“I grew up in Madagascar as a kid.
That’s right, in the pirate utopia established by my father and his brothers, they occupied a natural harbor and a large piece of land there, and gathered pirates from all over the world to establish a pirate kingdom.
One of his brothers used to be the son-in-law of the princess of the Mughal Empire. There was a real army under his command to ensure the long-term peace and stability there, and the pirates managed it with an institution similar to the Pirate King Council.
Chaotic, noisy, evil yet alive.
This is all I knew about my hometown when I was a child, but when I grew up, I saw the dirty truth inside from the seemingly cheerful life.
My father and his brothers were constantly fighting each other for power, prestige, or whatever the hell, and that so-called pirate utopia was nothing more than a giant Turtle Island.
Really boring. "
Jack snorted, shook the precious compass in his hand, and said:
"So I left there when I was twelve years old and joined the East India Company to run up and down the Indian Ocean, and I would rather stay in my own ship than go home.
Mason, pirates cannot govern the country like kings and nobles.
We lack patience and far-sighted vision and ideals. The so-called pursuit of freedom and disobedience to control is nothing more than a group of luthors who cannot survive in a normal society.
What great things can you expect a group of losers who can't even be normal people to do?
I dare to predict that even if Barbosa and the others really establish a kingdom on the mainland, it will fall apart within five years.
Why should I be envious?
Even now, when I return to this familiar sea, the panic from the bottom of my heart still hasn’t diminished, even after you have given this world the zombie vaccine. "
He glanced at Mason, opened the compass in his hand between the two, and said to it:
"Show me my one chance at life, baby."
His voice fell.
The red pointer on the exquisite compass pointed to Mason with a swish, without deviation or slant.
"This thing was given to me by Colypso."
Jack put away the compass and said to Mason:
"It is said that it is contaminated with the divinity of the sea god, and is the treasure of this sea, but it is also telling me that if I want to survive, I have to leave here. See, Mason, our greatest danger does not come from hunting Colypso.
Shock
"Um."
Mason took out the hourglass given to him by Mr. Hunter from his luggage. There was less than a tenth of the gravel on it, and it was still leaking over time.
One minute and one second in the past made people unable to help but raise their hearts to imagine what would happen after the quicksand was completely drained.
"About five to six days."
Mason looked at the small hourglass in his hand and said:
"We have to go back to Gotham before that time comes. It is said that hiding in our own base world is more likely to survive the shock."
"哗啦"
As soon as he finished speaking, the sound of huge waves beating sounded outside the cabin.
The Black Pearl, which was speeding along the ocean current and wind, seemed to be shaken by an invisible hand, making everyone feel unsteady for a while.
Following the sea breeze, a gloomy and cold breath seeped into the captain's cabin, and the hatch was quickly pushed open.
Carrying a double-barreled shotgun and toad mirror, wearing colorful beach pants and flip-flops but also matching a strange Isu helmet, the overall relaxed first mate Gibb Mr. S rushed in and shouted:
"The Dutchman! Jack! That **** ghost ship is under us! It's going to overturn us!"
"No, take it easy."
Mason and Captain Jack looked at each other and said:
"It's here to 'say hello', maybe it just wants to say hello to 'old friends'. Jack, would you like to meet Will with me?
I guess your old friend also has something to say to you, such as asking you to help take care of his wife and children.
The relationship between the three of you is so complicated, you are the only one he can trust. "
"Tch, isn't he afraid that I'll put a hat on him?"
Captain Jack smiled very meanly, drank the rum in his hand in one gulp, grinned and said:
"I get along with Elizabeth day and night now, she is still my manager assistant, wearing black silk high heels to work every day, as long as I think, there are plenty of opportunities to rule her.
Single moms are the best. "
"I specially asked someone to teach you how to use the computer and surf the Internet to familiarize you with the new world, not to let you watch those terrible and obscene things, Jack, can you be normal?"
Mason rolled his eyes, glanced at Zha Kang, and said:
"Want to go together?"
"No, I'm not interested in stepping on an unlucky ghost ship. The fate of being infected with the curse of death will definitely be very troublesome."
The black magician resolutely refused, took out another grimoire, opened it in his hand, waved his hand and said:
"Get out, get out, don't disturb this mage to experience new power and understand new magic."
Ertong and Barbara had no interest in stepping on a rusted ghost ship, so in the end Jack and Mason went down to the boat.
Behind them, under the worried gaze of a group of strangely dressed non-mainstream pirate crew members, they sailed towards the splashing and swirling sea water.
As they approached the vortex, the ghost ship on the bottom of the sea, the Flying Dutchman, also quickly rose up, raising the eerie and hideous dilapidated hull to the eyes of the two of them amidst the tumbling sea water.
On the deck where seaweed and various deep-sea creatures still remained, apart from Captain Will Turner, who was already out of shape, there was another guy who made Jack's expression slightly change.
His father!
Guardian of the pirate code, the undead ghost who is suspected to have become a supernatural conceptual entity, old Edward Teague.
After talking with Mason last time, he said that Will Turner is a force that can be won. This old guy's action efficiency is quite fast. It took only more than half a month to get on line with the ghost ship.
And judging from the way he and Will were talking in low voices, it seemed that some kind of cooperation agreement had been reached between the two.
"唰"
When the boat approached the ghost ship, a weird rope ladder woven with white bones was thrown from the side of the ship. With the coldness from the deep sea, Mason and Jack climbed up the deck covered with barnacles and rust marks one after the other.
It's like stepping into a moving graveyard.
The chaotic and cursed crew members who were about to lose their minds smelled the "fragrance" of living people.
They muttered in a low voice about the mellow aroma of flesh and blood, grabbed all kinds of weapons and gathered them together. Being watched by those piercing eyes was like standing among a group of wraiths.
Mason snorted and grabbed the handle of the flintlock gun at his waist.
Jack didn't care, this guy even spread his hands to hug Will Turner, who was already half fish and half man in front of him, this guy said maliciously:
"Elizabeth asked me to say hello to you, Will, your wife is awesome, in every situation. By the way, what do you think about the fact that your son may call me Dad in the future?"
"I have no idea, if little Henry really calls you father, maybe you can take better care of him because of it?"
An indistinct voice came from Will's mouth that had been so alienated that he couldn't open his mouth. The ghost captain turned around and roared like a beast, telling his crew to wake up and go back to the cabin.
Then he limped up to Mason, staring at him condescendingly, his eyes were cold and his tone piercing.
He said:
"I warned you, don't come back when you leave! Why? Mason, do you like to cruise around a dying world so much? Are you going to give us a funeral yourself?
Still want to choose a good cemetery for yourself? "
"It's just a group of invaders coming into your world to hunt down your sea god."
Mason did not hide, and said truthfully:
"My superiors asked me to stop this process, and to do my best to kill Colypso before them if something goes wrong. So, this time it's a business, I don't want to come but I have to."
While talking, Mason looked at Old Teague who was talking to his son, and gave the pirate code-named "Old J" a look, and the latter nodded inaudibly.
Since he is already a member of the Quint Society, Mason's mission is naturally also his mission.
"Your superior sent you to die."
Will Turner said in a bad tone:
"There are only five days left, no, less than five days, the end is approaching, every drop of sea water is telling the mournful cry before destruction, the whole sea is changing.
You picked the worst possible time to come back, Mason Cooper, on the eve of destruction.
You seem to be full of confidence, but you don't know if you will survive to go back, but for the invaders you mentioned... Well, maybe we can cooperate on this matter. "
"cooperate?"
Mason raised his eyebrows, showing an interested expression, and said:
"Details."
"follow me!"
Will Turner, whose body has been cursed to become a deep-sea creature, limped towards his captain's cabin, and Mason followed him through the grave-like gloomy ship that made people feel uncomfortable all over.
On the deck behind them, Jack bit the cork of a bottle of wine and took a sip, then handed the bottle to his father. Old Teague laughed and toasted with his son.
After a moment, he asked:
"So, Jack, how is life in the new world? Looking at your radiant face, you seem to have found a new friend."
"It's okay, so-so."
Drunk Captain Jack grinned and told Uncle what had happened some time ago, Old Teague raised his eyebrows after hearing the story of their time in another World War liquidator.
He said:
"Well, it seems that the K team is really suitable for your temperament that is afraid of chaos. But Jack, your heart is still in this sea, I can feel it.
Even if you are enjoying yourself in another world, you still can’t let go of this sea.
This may not be such a bad thing. "
The old pirate who established the first pirate kingdom walked to the side of the ship and looked at the endless sea behind him. After drinking a whole bottle of rum, he turned back and said to his son:
"Burner it with remembrance, Jack.
Witness the last day of your hometown with your own eyes, and restart your journey with a surviving mentality. I believe that from now on you will become a person of faith.
Just like your captain.
You will join your new friends in a greater and more dangerous cause.
For past, present and future, Jack.
Raise your glass. "
(end of this chapter)