48 Hours a Day

The two pirates on the side of the ship cooperated, one of them threw the rope tied to the wood at the front end into the sea and the other was responsible for the timing. When the time came, the person who put the rope reached out and grabbed the rope, calculated the rope that had been put out and opened it and drank it.

“Current speed 10 knots! ”

This is also the method used by the vast majority of Western vessels in the 18th century to measure ship speed, and of course there will be some errors, because the sea water itself is flowing, but the impact is not too great, and the method of measuring absolute speed will not occur until the 20th century.

Zhang Heng, dressed in black, stood on the deck and commanded the pirates to adjust the angle of the wind sail according to the direction of the wind. The Cold Raven had just raised the top sail on the main mast and vice mast. Now he was approaching full sailing, and the mast was under a lot of pressure. Several pirates were busy pulling back and fixing it to the stern, while Zhang Heng himself took the helm and adjusted the depth of water consumption on the bow.

After a heavy turbulence, the hull finally adapted to the current speed. When it gradually stabilized, Zhang Heng returned the rudder to the previous sailor, instructing the watcher to continue to observe.

Karina stood by and watched it all.

Her heart was not as calm as it seemed. Before on the island, she had found out something about Zhang Heng. She knew that the latter was only a passenger on a merchant ship a year ago. Later, she became a member of the Sea Lion with excellent shooting techniques. At that time, he was said not to be used to life at sea. On his way back to Nassau, he was seasick, and risked his life.

In just one year, however, he became a sailor from an obscure ordinary sailor on the Sealion, then left the Sealion with a group of elderly people, and by the time he returned to Nassau, he was already captain of a pirate ship.

The speed at which he rose so quickly was astonishing, and it was hard to doubt whether he had enough wisdom and experience to lead his crew, which was why the Cold Crow was widely seen on the island.

Karina had this idea before, but when they first met, she changed her mind, and the man in front of her was obviously different from the pirates she'd met before, and he had a mature and peculiar charm far beyond his age, but it was more of a subjective feeling.

This time when she and Zhang Heng went out to sea, she was really seeing each other's command and leadership skills at close range.

Zhang Heng did not act like a new captain for the first time out of the sea. He was skilled at dealing with the various conditions and challenges on board, as if he had practiced countless times.

But after all these days, the virgin businesswoman was not as surprised as before, and in her view, whoever had such a self-disciplined lifestyle and an attitude of continuous learning was hard to fail.

Karina had seen Zhang Heng and Annie practicing knives on the deck before dawn, and had often seen Zhang Heng ask the old sailors on board to teach and discuss various sailing issues, and someone would go through some of the books left by the original owner in the captain's office when she was idle.

The Cold Raven was originally a naval battleship, containing a number of naval related tactical dictionaries, in addition to a number of public information tours, especially the latter part of Zhang Heng's favorite.

His knowledge of this era is more from the perspective of a future generation, which may keep him awake, but there are many things he does not understand that can help him better integrate into this era and indirectly understand a lot of terroir and anecdotes.

On the other hand, Zhang Heng is also reassessing Karina. This woman is more decisive than he thought. Instead of sending her subordinates as promised, she chose to deliver the letter herself. In addition to ensuring that nothing is lost, she is also demonstrating her good faith in cooperation in this way.

While black market businessmen are an important part of Nassau, they are, after all, unlike pirates, the vast majority of whom have identities and families in civilized societies, who are usually solely responsible for purchasing and transporting pirates' spoils of war and are not truly involved in the looting process.

In the event of such an incident, they can also quickly choose themselves out of it. Direct boarding a pirate ship like Karina is a dangerous act, which equates to fully tying their destiny together with Zhang Heng, but the latter also has to admit that there is no way to earn their trust more than Karina is now doing.

This woman is a natural gambler, and maybe she can really kill her own blood path in Nassau, which is almost under the control of the Black Business Coalition.

But now Karina doesn't think about things that far away, and the anxiety in her divine colour is becoming more and more apparent when she looks at the empty horizon in the distance.

It is now the thirty-second day after the departure of the Cold Raven, the water and food on board have been consumed for the most part, the supply of lemon juice has ceased, and there are still some vegetables and fruits left to dry, but because it is the first time to do this, Zhang Heng cannot take all the details into account. The wet environment of the sea quickly caused the dried vegetables to get mouldy, so people returned to the bitter days of eating cookies and smoking fish.

Even so, the rest of the food and water will only last another twenty days, in other words, the Cold Raven is not far from its return.

Zhang Heng is also helpless. The reality is not to play games. Many times, even if you are fully prepared and have many backup plans, you may still face a variety of unexpected situations.

Even the finest pirate captain in the entire Caribbean can't pack a ticket with his chest and say he can get home every time he goes out, but while everyone understands that, he does need a big win now more than ever.

Over time, Zhang Heng can feel the emotional changes in everyone around him. Not only the new arrivals on the boat, but also the old sailors, including Billy and Divrena, have become silent and even Karina has shaken.

She quietly knocked on the door of the captain's office last night and confessed to Zhang Hengfeng that she suspected that her father's affairs had spread throughout the colony, that his former friends in customs had betrayed him, that the so-called spice ship did not exist, that it was just a fabricated lie, and that it could even have been a decoy thrown by the Naval Intelligence Agency.

The businesswoman looked around nervously and lowered her voice, “I thought about it again, the ship of the Spice Islands could never have gone out of its way to the New World. There must be something wrong in it, and I think my father mentioned that he seemed to have two more enemies in Boston when I was a kid. ”

Zhang Heng had to go to the kitchen to get a bottle of rum for Karina to drink, "As you yourself said, this news is so outrageous, if it's a trap, shouldn't it be more reasonable to make it up? ”