The "Skinny... Daco" who had been standing nearby was all smiles as he trotted over. "Boss, it's all ready!" He kicked open a wooden plank next to him, revealing a small fish pond in the hold with at least several dozen fish swimming around.

Fang Senyan nodded, his expression stiff. He put on gloves and mechanically inserted a gold coin into the belly of a fish. The fish was clearly in great pain, but Fang Senyan then grabbed a wooden stopper, plugged the fish's mouth, and casually tossed it into the sea.

Clearly, this unfortunate half-meter-long fish was doomed. But the pain before its death would drive it to swim frantically for a hundred, two hundred nautical miles? That wasn't important. What mattered was that the Black Pearl would have to divert its attention to hunting down these "gold coins that could grow legs and run away."

That was Fang Senyan's goal.

After giving the order to set sail, Fang Senyan continued to do this work at the bow of the ship. For some reason, his movements felt stiff, but he didn't say anything, and no one else felt comfortable asking.

Fang Senyan had used his rank privilege to obtain a crucial piece of information after paying 10,000 Universal Points: the Caribbean pirates' sensitivity to Aztec gold coins was only general. They couldn't pinpoint the exact number, and could only determine the approximate location of the coins within a hundred square meters, not down to a specific point.

For example, if Fang Senyan had 821 gold coins, and there was one gold coin in the belly of a fish 300 nautical miles away, then they would only know that there were gold coins at Fang Senyan's current coordinates, and also at the coordinates of the fish 300 nautical miles away. They wouldn't know that catching Fang Senyan was the most efficient course of action.

As one fish after another, each carrying a gold coin in its belly, was released, the crew of the Black Pearl clearly began to agonize.

For them, every Aztec gold coin had to be recovered, which meant that from now on, for a long time, they would probably have to moonlight as fishermen.

Fang Senyan stopped after releasing seven fish. Adding in his own "Dingyuan" ship, there was enough confusion. Now they had to sail a hundred or two nautical miles, release another seven or eight fish, and then continue sailing towards the mainland closest to Treasure Island.

Before this, some pirates had planned to take advantage of the chaos to plunder the Black Pearl's treasure, but they were ambushed by the black dugongs shortly after entering the water, suffering heavy casualties. They could only sigh and follow Fang Senyan as he sailed away. Fortunately, Fang Senyan managed to scoop up a few valuable items, such as the Heart of the Ocean, which was small but valuable...

Twelve hours later, the Dingyuan had left the Lost Sea area. Blue skies, white clouds, and the endless sea stretched out before everyone's eyes. The heavy bow of the ship cut deeply into the azure ocean, splashing up a large amount of white spray. The rowers, divided into three shifts, vigorously worked the long oars, propelling this heavy behemoth rapidly into the distance.

At this time, after being enhanced, the speed of the Dingyuan was basically comparable to that of a normal merchant ship. In other words, without external interference, it would only take about two days to travel 1,300 nautical miles.

"It's almost time." Fang Senyan stood on the bow of the ship, expressionless, and said, "If the Black Pearl is as magical as Mr. Shaheen said, then it must be about fifty nautical miles behind us."

At this time, Fang Senyan had another cage beside him, filled with seabirds. He put one gold coin after another into small leather pouches, and then tied the pouches to the birds' claws.

"Fly, my friends." In a short period of time, ten seabirds carrying gold coins and ten sea fish forced to swallow gold coins were released again. They flew in different directions, hoping to bring great trouble to the great Captain Barbossa and the pirates of the Black Pearl.

"If we do this, there's almost no way Barbossa can catch up with us," the black man said excitedly.

Fang Senyan shook his head. "That's not entirely true. At first, we can certainly confuse Barbossa, but when we're halfway there, Barbossa will definitely be able to judge our destination based on our course: the New World. To suppress the Black Pearl's greatest advantage, they can then only track the gold coins moving towards the New World. In that case, with the Black Pearl's powerful speed advantage, the distance between the two sides will definitely get closer and closer. If I'm right, the real difficult part of the journey will be the last hundred nautical miles to the New World."

The black man suddenly said, "We can threaten them by throwing the gold coins into the deep sea. That's what the female lead did in the movie."

"She can do that, but we can't," Fang Senyan said flatly. "Don't forget that this is a world of magic. Gold coins dropped into the deep sea can drive marine life to retrieve them. But I estimate that this may cost Barbossa a lot of effort. More importantly, the reason Barbossa compromised with Swann Elizabeth was that he suspected that Miss Swann's blood was the final step in breaking the curse. So what Barbossa was really afraid of at the time was Swann Elizabeth's suicide, not the gold coins!"

After hearing Fang Senyan's answer, Reef looked at him and, after a while, asked a seemingly unrelated question: "Why do I always feel like you've become strange?"

Fang Senyan lowered his eyes and didn't look at him. "Do I?"

Reef sighed and frowned as he looked at Fang Senyan. "I can't say what's strange, but it's probably because I've been too nervous lately."

The corner of Fang Senyan's mouth twitched, but for some reason, the action made people think of the falling of withered leaves.

"Yes, you are too nervous."

...

Less than sixty nautical miles from the New World, less than half an hour after Fang Senyan and the others released another ten birds and ten fish,

The sails of the Black Pearl appeared on the distant sea.

Under the monitoring and judgment of the Meat Eye Radar, Barbossa, that old sea wolf, would no longer be confused. He was stubbornly clinging to the Dingyuan.

Black, abrupt, sails that seemed to pierce the sky.

Like dark clouds that were about to obscure the sea.

The Black Pearl was coming!

Fang Senyan and the others had done their best to sail here. However, it was still too early to say that all their efforts had been in vain.

The atmosphere on the ship suddenly became serious. Fang Senyan stood at the bow and calmly issued a series of instructions: "Bring Shaheen up."

"Redbeard, get in position. Gunners, get in position."

"Sail handlers, get in position."

"Nannuke, get in position."

"All rowers, get in, full speed rowing."

"..."

"Boom boom boom!!" A minute later, the sixteen curved cannons that had been pushed to the stern of the ship via the slide rails simultaneously spat out tongues of fire. This was Redbeard's first organized test firing!

Most of the cannonballs landed around the Black Pearl, which was following closely behind, causing towering water spouts to rise. This showed that the gun team that Fang Senyan had painstakingly assembled was definitely not useless.

Redbeard's hoarse voice rang out again: "Chains... everyone, reload with chain shot!"

Chain shot was specially used to damage the masts and sails of enemy ships. The cannonballs were very similar to meteor hammers, consisting of two iron balls connected by a chain three to five meters long. Once fired, they would tighten in the air and spin at high speed, extremely sharp.

After a series of dull "dong dong dong" sounds, black smoke filled the air, but it was quickly blown away by the sea breeze. The combined power of sixteen cannons firing at the same time was indeed quite terrifying. One of the Black Pearl's masts could be seen collapsing, and the sails next to it were also torn. Its speed immediately decreased.

However, at this time, piercing whistling sounds also rang out in the air. The Black Pearl was unwilling to be passively beaten and began to fight back. Two or three puffs of black smoke rose from its bow, but it was soon seen that several columns of water rose up more than 200 meters behind the stern of the Dingyuan. Clearly, in terms of the range of the cannons, the Black Pearl was behind the Dingyuan.

But soon the lookout reported that the Black Pearl was repairing the mast at an astonishing speed, and its speed was also rapidly recovering.

Shaheen said with a serious face: "I suggest that half of the cannons be used to target the Black Pearl's figurehead for attack. Once it is hit, it cannot be repaired with woodworking skills. It can only be slowly and automatically repaired. This process takes as long as twelve hours, and can also immediately reduce the Black Pearl's movement speed by 15%."

Fang Senyan immediately "followed the good advice" and left only four cannons firing chain shot to continue destroying the Black Pearl's sails. The remaining twelve cannons were loaded with solid shot to concentrate fire on the figurehead!

After ten minutes of stubborn and continuous fire suppression, a puff of black smoke finally rose. The crew members of the Black Pearl ran around like ants, and shrill screams could be heard on the sea. The Black Pearl's figurehead was hit by a five-pound solid shot, from which faint white smoke emerged, condensing into the bust of a mermaid, twisting and dissipating. It had obviously suffered considerable damage!