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Chapter 2 Treacherous Merchant!
Having identified these three legendary pirate ships, Fang Senyan heard a clear prompt from his Nightmare Imprint:
"Time: May, 233rd year of the Ocean Calendar, 5:00 PM."
"Location: Tortuga Free Port, Adriatic Sea, Europe (17 degrees 19 minutes south latitude, 51 degrees 4 minutes east longitude)"
"Scene: Pirates of the Caribbean."
"Difficulty: Easy (D-grade)."
"Pain reduction: 50%."
"Personal ability extra enhancement: 0%."
"Current scene exploration: 0.00%."
"Additional notes: This scene is a peaceful scene. If contractors are killed, they will not drop any items. The digitized character information module is also activated. Contractors can check their personal attributes at any time through the Nightmare Imprint on their chest."
"You will automatically master the relevant language and can interact fluently with the characters in this world. Forgotten after leaving this world."
"Number of accepted tasks: 1."
"Your appearance/identity has been processed and will automatically revert when you return to the real world. You can also make relevant appearance adjustments in the Nightmare Space. If you have any questions, you can silently recite the relevant questions in your mind and inquire through the Nightmare Imprint. If you have sufficient permissions, you will receive an answer."
Fang Senyan looked around. He felt that the surroundings were full of desolate weeds, and most of the shacks around were dilapidated and uninhabited. It seemed that he was the only contractor who appeared in the vicinity.
He had also tried to collect a lot of information in the space, and he knew something about the Pirates of the Caribbean world. The Queen Anne's Revenge, the Black Pearl, and the Flying Dutchman, these three legendary giant ships parked peacefully together must be a sensation in the seven seas! This scene never appeared in the movie! Then the time he entered the movie must be either before all the stories in the movie happened, or after all the stories in the movie happened!
In the original plot of Pirates of the Caribbean 3, since Will Turner replaced Davy Jones as the captain of the Flying Dutchman, this guy only had one chance to go ashore every ten years. I believe he would spend this rare opportunity of ten years with his wife/hugging his children instead of taking a stroll in this seemingly not very prosperous harbor... Then everything is obvious. The time period Fang Senyan entered the movie world should be before all the stories in the movie happened!
As usual, Fang Senyan checked the things on his body. In addition to his fixed equipment, he also had an extra money bag - unfortunately, he could only add adjectives such as "shriveled", "light", and "dirty" to it.
Two pounds, fifteen shillings, and seven pence (1 pound = 20 shillings = 12 pence)
This was the start-up capital given to Fang Senyan by the Nightmare Space. He could also obtain price information from the milestone description: a large glass of rum sells for about 4.5 shillings. As a common drink in the Caribbean, rum is almost equivalent to beer in Fang Senyan's real world. In this way, Fang Senyan's purchasing power is clear at a glance. A large glass of draft beer = 20 RMB = 4 shillings, 1 shilling = 5 RMB, Fang Senyan's start-up capital here is roughly equal to between two hundred and fifty and three hundred RMB - well, the only good news is: it seems that this time the space is at least more generous in terms of start-up capital than the Terminator world.
It is worth mentioning that at this time, the Flying Dutchman and Queen Anne's Revenge were already pirate ships, but the Black Pearl was still an armed merchant ship under the British East India Trading Company with a letter of marque - you can understand that its main function is to sell goods, but it will never let go of any fat sheep it encounters.
Several years later, Jack Sparrow was ordered to transport a batch of goods from Africa. But Jack discovered that these so-called "goods" were actually African slaves. Out of a sense of justice, Jack released them all. Because of this, Jack was personally branded with the letter "P" (pirate) symbolizing a pirate by Beckett, the head of the East India Trading Company, and thrown into a Turkish prison, and this legendary ship was also ordered to be sunk into the sea by Beckett.
After being expelled, Jack was determined to find his ship back. He found Davy Jones, the captain of the Flying Dutchman, and asked this terrifying guy to save his ship, on the condition that after Jack became the captain again, Jones would own Jack's soul for 100 years (serving on the ghost ship for 100 years) until the 13th year. Jones agreed and helped Jack save the Black Pearl. From that time on, the Black Pearl was completely a pirate ship, but Jack had planned to renege on the debt from the beginning...
Following a narrow path on the hillside, Fang Senyan walked towards the port below. Before he completely approached, he could smell the unique smoky aroma of rum, a fragrance mixed with sweetness and strong alcohol. Rum is divided into two types according to the brewing raw materials, one is made from potatoes, and the other is a strong alcoholic beverage made from sugarcane juice after three years. For sailors who have been floating on ships all year round, it is a cheap and affordable enjoyment.
The Caribbean region alone consumes more than 5,000 tons of rum every year, which is a very considerable number. Therefore, many ports will have a special rum festival. For pirates and sailors, this festival is as grand and solemn as the Chinese Spring Festival.
Although the layout style of the port seems chaotic, the ground is paved with smooth stone slabs. In the Caribbean era, this was a huge and costly project that had to be done for seaports that were often attacked by wind and rain. Fang Senyan's facial features at this time did not change much, dark skin tanned by the sun, lean and strong hands and feet, and a face with characteristics of East Asians, made him look like a sailor from eastern Asia - this is not a rare thing in the world of Pirates of the Caribbean. Shao Feng, a Chinese, is even one of the seven pirate kings.
Fang Senyan was not in a hurry to look for a job at this time, but carefully strolled on the crowded port streets, trying to capture some clues as much as possible. His eyes suddenly stopped at a small grocery store next to him. The grocery store had an old and greasy door and a strange name of "Chicken and Dog". This was secondary. The important thing was that the owner of the grocery store also looked like an old Asian man, with a white turban wrapped around his head, lazily lying on an equally old bamboo chair and smoking a pipe.
At this time, you can see the importance of charm. After Fang Senyan approached, the old man only snorted from his nostrils and pointed to the counter with his pipe, which was regarded as a greeting and an indication that "take whatever you want and don't forget to pay". Obviously, it is an impossible task to try to get some information for free! So after Fang Senyan reluctantly took out five shillings to buy a few betel nuts, he finally got some information about the port from the old man's mouth.
This Tortuga Port was built seventy years ago by the famous pirate Bernard Fouquet. It is rumored that this guy has plundered more than a hundred sea ships in his life, fought with the fleets of eleven countries, and plundered countless wealth. He was once called the overlord among pirates.
When Bernard Fouquet was forty-five years old, he fell in love with a woman. For this woman, he offered his flagship and most of his plundered wealth to the Queen of England. The Queen of England was moved by the huge sum of money, accepted his allegiance, and awarded him the title of Lord, formally issuing a letter of marque to him.
The pirate captain Bernard Fouquet successfully retired and never returned to his old business. Instead, he built a free port on an island with a unique geographical location and named it Tortuga Port. The island where Tortuga Port is located is also quite large, about fourteen kilometers long and seven or eight kilometers wide, with an area of over one hundred square kilometers, but less than one-fifth of it has been developed.
The once-famous Pirate King settled down here, and his old subordinates also followed and settled down, maintaining the order of the port with their skilled rapier skills and matchlock guns that they had never put down. Because Bernard Fouquet had the dual identities of a pirate and a British lord, this place became a free port. Both officials and pirates could freely enter and exit, and a tacit "safe zone" was formed near the port. Even mortal enemies would not fight here.
Once this rule is violated, Bernard Fouquet's descendants and their followers will use a set of original pirate punishments in your body with a British aristocratic elegance.
Fang Senyan wanted to learn more things, but the stingy old man began to enthusiastically promote a "talisman with magical power" to him. This thing was just a tattered knot, but it was priced at twenty pounds. Fang Senyan rolled his eyes helplessly and flashed away, believing that if his charm was high, he would not only be able to get information for free, but also have great discounts in transactions.
The most indispensable thing in the port is naturally bars. These bars are all dilapidated without exception, with statues of the storm god Taiya (similar to Mazu in coastal China) carved at the top. Even those strange signboards are full of cracks from rain erosion and wind. From time to time, there are rude and bold laughter coming from inside.
Fang Senyan pushed open the door of the nearest bar, and an indescribable smoky heat hit his face. At this moment, he had a trance-like feeling of time and space reversal, as if he was still the second mate on that ocean-going ten-thousand-ton ship, walking into the Black Sunday Bar in Jamaica with his companions with their arms around each other's shoulders.
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Hehe, did anyone guess that I would set the cut-in time so far? Because in this story, I want to try to show everyone the extremely important plot that even the movie has not completed in a reasonable way!
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