48 Hours a Day

After distributing food and fresh water to the island's survivors, Zhang Heng also focused his attention on gold.

There was not much time left for them, the Navy had agreed to rendezvous on Nautilus Island after two weeks, and now much of the time had passed, with about five days remaining, but the Navy could not have been so precise that it would normally come back a day or two earlier.

So there's only about three or four days left for the Cold Raven to move the gold, and considering the issue of leaving after moving the gold, and as staggered as possible with the navy returning home, it will also take time, so if we don't add up tonight, Zhang Heng will actually only have about two days of safe fishing time.

But the good news is that the Kent, which previously had nothing to do outside the port, is also thinking about gold, and the carpenter on board specializes in a set of fishing tools.

The structure is also very simple, which is to improve the claw hook, add two more hooks, tie them to the front end with a short rope, and triangulate the previous hook to increase stability, so that you can hook the box from the bottom of the sea, and of course, even with this tool, you still need people to go down to sea to hook the hook on the box containing gold.

Walden was going to force the rest of the pirates off the island to do the job, but Zhang definitely couldn't do it, and asked Carpenter Guy on the boat, "Well, is it difficult? ”

“In terms of imitation alone, it's actually not very difficult. They've already measured the size. Just do it. There are a lot of claw hooks on the boat. I can deliver ten more sets before sunset. ”

“I picked out the salvagers, too.” On the other side, "Divrena said," are the most watery on the Cold Raven, but even the most powerful of them can't stay underwater for long, and the rest can't even swim to the box. ”

“That's because they wasted too much energy and oxygen on the way.” Zhang Hengdao, "when diving, each person should hold a stone, so that you can sink directly to the bottom of the sea without any effort, and also tie the cable on the waist, set the time, and catch people at the point, so that the saved time can be used to install claw hooks. ”

As for the problem of stress, Zhang Heng also has not a very good solution, only let the divers overcome themselves. Good thing at the depth of 20 meters is not too heavy a load for the body. There will certainly be adverse reactions, but it should not be fatal. Of course, the people responsible for the salvage must also have the corresponding rewards to motivate them.

However, the details were handed over to Billy and Divrena, who nodded when the munitions officer heard the remarks and sent someone to test it, confirming the viability of the method as the first box of gold was successfully released, followed by the refinement and duplication of work. By the next night, the Cold Raven had successfully harvested half of the gold.

But then the salvage was also in trouble. The Spanish treasure ship was quite strong and sunk after many rounds of shelling, but inevitably, the warehouse was heavily shelled, boxes of gold had been moved, and the rest were scattered with gold bars.

This part of the gold is very troublesome to collect, the tools previously made are not useful, you can only pick it up by hand, which naturally discounts the efficiency, the other day you can stay underwater for a limited amount of time, and the number of times more people can eat it.

But luckily, on the second day, the surviving part of the pirate body recovered, and in return for the rescue of the Cold Crow, they not only gave up ownership of the gold, but were willing to help the Cold Crow salvage it for free, but even so, by the third night, everyone was working together to salvage only about 3,000 pounds and 200 pounds of gold.

There are 1,800 pounds of gold left, either scattered too far, or crushed under wreckage, which is not entirely impossible to salvage, although it will only take a lot of time.

Zhang Heng did not intend to wait any longer. The battle experience of the Chilly Raven was a little too intense. After escaping from Nautilus Island, everyone held their breath, but after sinking the Kent, the breath was almost gone. The people on board began to feel tired. At the same time, they received some powder supplementation from the Kent, but they were no longer enough to support the next battle.

Therefore, Zhang Heng was not prepared to continue, and took Brooke and others on their way back to Nassau.

Compared to when they arrived, they spent almost twice as much time on their way back, avoiding five other boats and also because of the many people and cargo on the Cold Raven, but it was good that there was no danger along the way until they regained sight of the stone walls and fortifications in Nassau and let go of their hung hearts completely.

But the moment we saw the land, everyone was in a different mood. For the crew of the Cold Crow, the sailing was a fluctuation, but the end result was another great victory for the Cold Crow. Zhang Heng, the captain, also continued his legend. In a situation of near extinction at the time, the Cold Crow was the only pirate ship to succeed in escaping from the naval siege. Not only that, but then, incredibly, he completed a headwind flip, successively taking out the Miranda and Kent, recovering most of the gold, and also saving the pirates who survived on Parrot Island.

On the other side, however, the survivors of the other five pirate ships, who had lost nothing this time out, were sunk by the navy, but were lucky, at least alive, to return to Nassau compared to their dead counterparts.

Upon landing, Brooke and another captain disembarked in a hurry. They had a bunch of aftermath to take care of, and had to re-recruit the crew to find a new boat, after which Eric also said goodbye to Zhang Heng.

Zhang Hengxian sent a ferry boat to disembark all of them before directing the Cold Raven to unload the gold on the boat. Although more than 1,800 pounds of gold were still sleeping on the bottom of the sea (and should later fall into the hands of the Navy and pirate hunters), their harvest this time remained alarming, especially considering that the other five pirate ships had relinquished ownership.

This harvest alone is enough to keep the pirates off the boat and the vast majority of people will never see so much gold again, especially when the Cold Raven unloads.