"Malcolm is the reason why my father is in prison?" Carina's mouth was wide open, and she looked a little confused. This was the first time she heard such news, and she was at a loss of what to do. The blind man in front of her, who claimed to be a gladiator, made her feel uneasy.
"So far, we don't have any concrete evidence." Zhang Heng poured Carina a glass of wine to calm her down.
"But the timing of your father's imprisonment is a little too coincidental. Redmond's suspicions are not unreasonable. Your father has obviously become an obstacle to the establishment of the black-market alliance. Malcolm is the biggest beneficiary of your father's expulsion. Billy has been asking around with the black-market merchants on the island. When your father was imprisoned, there were people who suspected that someone was behind your father's imprisonment. But in the end, Redmond stood up for Malcolm, and the matter was put to rest. You should have met your father after that. Did he say anything? "Carina recalled." After the incident, we spent a lot of money to bribe the prison guards.
"After the incident, we spent a lot of money to bribe the prison guards. However, we only had a few minutes when it was my turn. At that time, I was planning to take over his business. So, we mainly talked about business. Although my father handed over his connections and the remaining transport ship to me, he didn't approve of me coming to Nassau. In the end, he told me that the most dangerous people on the island weren't pirates, and he told me not to trust anyone easily." Karina tried to recall the past. "After the incident, we spent quite a lot of money bribing the prison guards.
Carina paused for a moment. "Actually, when I first came to Nassau, Malcolm treated me well. He insisted that black-market merchants who didn't have pirate ships with him couldn't join the black-market alliance and share their profits. He also made it clear that he wouldn't be able to convince the other merchants to return the pirate ships that belonged to my father to me. At that time, there were still a few powerful pirate ships on the island that hadn't completed their negotiations. Malcolm gave me the names of some captains and asked me to try to win them over.
However, since I was a woman and had just arrived in Nassau, I barely knew anyone. I couldn't help them in the negotiations, and I didn't have enough money to bribe the important people on the ship. In the end, I didn't succeed. However, I was really grateful to Malcolm. He was one of the few people on the island who was willing to help me. If it wasn't for the fact that I had no other choice, I wouldn't want to go against his black-market alliance. I never thought that he had something to do with my father's imprisonment. "
Karina took a sip of the wine in her hand, but she couldn't calm down. She put down the glass and stood up. "No, I'm going to confront him and ask him to release my father."
"Are you going to walk over and ask him to admit that he did it?" Zhang Heng asked.
"If he doesn't release my father, I'll tell the others in the Alliance about what he's done. If he could do something to my father before, he might do the same to others in the future," Carina said.
"This might cause him some trouble, but as I said before, we don't have enough evidence to prove that Malcolm did it to your father. Besides …" Zhang Heng glanced at the black gladiator.
"What's more, your only witness is a slave. Strictly speaking, I only heard Redmond and Malcolm's argument."
"There's another piece of bad news. Your existence has negatively affected the black-market alliance, and Malcolm is ready to make a move on you," Zhang Heng said.
Carina's expression changed when she heard what Zhang Heng said. Since she came to the Jackdaw, she was mentally prepared for something like this to happen. However, when it really happened, she still felt a great deal of pressure, especially when she learned that her father was imprisoned for opposing the black-market alliance. She didn't know what kind of ending awaited her.
However, from the first day she set foot on this island, she knew that there was no turning back. In the beginning, she simply wanted to raise the ransom money to rescue her father from prison. But after making a huge sum of money from selling spices, she found that she gradually fell in love with what she was doing now.
This may sound a little crazy, because as early as a few months ago, she was busy attending salons and balls with the noblewomen and socialites, enjoying the good living conditions created by her father, and almost knew nothing about the cruel world outside.
That was until she came to Nassau to take over her father's business. During this time, she kept running into walls on the island, experiencing hardships that she had never experienced in the past twenty years. In order to join the black-market alliance, she gave up her modesty and ran around to seek help from her father's old friends. She also bargained with the pirates whom she used to regard as barbarians. She tried her best to guess their thoughts and needs, trying to find ways to cooperate with them, seizing every opportunity in front of her.
Something like barging into a strange man's house to recommend herself in the middle of the night was something that would never happen to her in the past.
Even Karina wondered why she hadn't broken down yet.
She was like a flower growing in a greenhouse. Suddenly, she left her comfortable environment and was mercilessly abandoned in the wilderness. After surviving the raging snowstorm, she was given the chance to grow wild.
This was a life that she would never experience in salons and balls. There were dangers, betrayals, and challenges from all sides. But there was no boredom.
Karina could feel something boiling in her blood. This was something she had never experienced before in her life. In the past, she was only holding on to the thought that she could return to her previous life after her father returned. But after earning her first pot of gold and seeing her hard work paid off, she was no longer willing to return to her sheltered life.
Karina took a deep breath. "I'll be prepared. No matter who my opponent is, I won't be defeated easily."
"But I'm afraid that's not enough," Zhang Heng said. Zhang Heng said, "From now on, I hope you can be more proactive. It would be best if you can put more pressure on the black-market alliance. At the same time, I will use your father's matter to provoke the conflict between Malcolm and Redmond. But I have to make it clear that once you do that, you will be in a more dangerous situation. Although there is some friction between us and the black-market alliance, it's not too serious. If we really go against each other, Malcolm might use some unruly means to deal with you. Right now, we are in a race against time. Let's see who will give in first, you or Malcolm. "
"I don't have any other choice, do I? If that's the case, I have nothing to worry about," Karina said without hesitation.
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