Chapter 4 Dragon Egg Fossil
This raft is big enough for seven of them, but the premise is to throw away the leather armor and weapons, and even not to bring supplies.
But if they don't bring food and fresh water, they can't survive at all, and the seven people looked at each other.
In the end, someone couldn't help but attack the people around them. The seven mercenaries fought in a group, and even the slaves on the ship began to join the battle.
At this moment of life and death, all the ugliness of human nature was exposed. In order to survive, they could do anything.
But Jack in the sea set his sights on an old man. He saw this white-bearded old man on the ship before.
Not only did he move goods on the ship, but he also had a nautical chart on his waist, looking like a navigator.
Although he was a slave, Jack didn't care about his identity.
And this white-bearded old man was also one of the first people to fall off the ship.
Jack picked up a piece of driftwood and came to the old man, and then handed the driftwood to the old man. The old man immediately understood what Jack meant and grabbed the driftwood tightly.
Soon half of the Purple Grape merchant ship sank into the sea, and dozens of people on the ship were still fighting for the raft.
With the Heart of the Ocean, the gills behind his ears can continuously provide him with oxygen, and it is even easier to stand in the sea than on land.
So Jack is not in a hurry to harvest lives, but chooses to get close to the merchant ship in the sea to see if there is any cash or treasure.
When the number of algae in the sea water is about the same as the light intensity, the visibility of normal people in the sea water is very low.
The Heart of the Ocean helped Jack solve this problem, allowing Jack to still maintain a certain vision in the deep sea.
Jack searched in the cabin, and many wooden boxes were surging in the cabin with the water flow, but Jack opened several in succession, all of which were spices.
Although spices are also valuable, spices soaked in sea water are not valuable, and what Jack wants is cash.
After searching for several minutes, Jack finally found a silk bag in the arms of a slave.
The slave had fainted due to drowning, but he still held the money bag tightly in his arms.
It seems that even in death, he will help the master protect the property, which is really touching.
But Jack was moved, and he did not hesitate to pry open the slave's hand and took the bag.
When he opened it, he found a pile of gold coins inside. Jack's eyes sparkled. There were at least fifty gold coins in this bag!
His father's Sea Dog Pirates had a peak asset of only 70 silver coins, and it only lasted for one day, and he went to the city to spend it that day.
At this moment, Poseidon came to Jack with something in his mouth, his face full of praise.
Jack curiously took the stone in Poseidon's mouth. The stone was scarlet in color, with countless snake-like protrusions on it.
"Is this a dragon egg fossil?"
"No wonder, no wonder seven mercenaries were hired, it turned out that there were dragon eggs on the ship!"
Jack's face was shocked. He was not shocked by the dragon egg fossil itself. After all, he even had Godzilla, and he had seen many living dragons in American TV series.
He was shocked by the value of the dragon egg. A dragon egg fossil could be sold for tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of gold coins.
In the original play, Daenerys's second brother Viserys, after discovering that his sister was out of his control, planned to steal the dragon egg and form his own army to march into Westeros.
Although Jack believed that a fool like Viserys could not retake the Iron Throne even with the army of the horse king, this did not prevent the value of the dragon egg from being shown.
With this dragon egg fossil, Jack could buy several large ships and form a large pirate group.
But how big it is depends on how much this dragon egg can be sold for. Things like dragon eggs are more of a collection value, and how much they can be sold for depends on how much the buyer is.
In fact, the most resentful, no, it should be said that the most suitable buyer should be Daenerys after conquering the Slaver's Bay. She must be willing to pay a high price for this red dragon egg.
If she is lucky enough, she may even get another red dragon.
Putting the dragon egg in the bag, Jack came to the white-bearded old man and dragged him to the Sea Dog.
As for the rest of the people, I'm very sorry. If they can meet a passing merchant ship, they may still be able to pick up a life.
If not, then it can only become fish shit, because Jack just saw the raft turned into pieces in the fight.
Taking the old man aboard his Sea Dog, Jack asked directly: "Are you a navigator? Can you read the sea chart?"
"Of course, otherwise a slave as old as me would have been sunk to the sea to feed the fish." The old man also took out a sheepskin sea chart.
Hearing this, Jack immediately gave up the idea of sinking the old man into the sea. It can be seen that this old man is capable.
Jack originally planned to throw the old man down directly if the old man was not a navigator.
After all, the food on the boat was just enough for him to hold on to the next supply point.
And he wasted a week because he got lost, so the food was not enough.
Now he relies on fishing to make a living every day. Fortunately, Poseidon's atomic breath can also be used to light a fire, otherwise Jack might really have to eat sashimi.
In this case, Jack would never raise an extra useless old slave.
Jack used a knife to cut off the slave collar around the old man's neck. "What's your name?"
The old man looked thoughtful and said uncertainly: "Rat? Bug? Or old dog? I forgot, just call me old dog, they all call me that."
"No, no, no, I won't call you old dog, this name is too insulting, otherwise why would I cut your slave collar?"
"There are no slaves under the red flag!"
Jack said casually, there are no slaves under the red flag, only useless slaves.
The old man looked up and didn't find the red flag. He didn't understand what Jack meant, why there were no slaves under the red flag?
"I'll call you Newgate from now on, this name is okay." Jack said.
The old man was stunned for a moment, he didn't expect Jack to give him a name specifically.
Slaves are generally not worthy of having names, some are just lowly code names, such as bugs, rats and the like.
"Thank you, I didn't expect that I could not only survive, but also have a human name." Newgate said with some gratitude.
A name made him feel a little bit of being a human being, not a lowly slave like livestock.
"Master, where do you want to go?"
"Don't call me Master, call me Captain, go to Slaver's Bay." Jack corrected Newgate's address.
"Okay Captain, I understand." Newgate knew Jack's purpose in saving him was to find a navigator.
But Newgate still felt lucky, after all, being alive was better than anything else.
He was already fifty years old this year, which was equivalent to a hundred years old for free people among slaves.
For him, every extra day he lived was a blessing from the gods.
