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A boy chases the wheel, stomping on sparks.
Elizabeth saw the shadow of a monkey running by, and she shuddered.
She went on, singing, until she came to a pier, tied the boat and climbed out.
"Yo ho, pull together." She sang while tying the rope.
Suddenly she stopped and lowered her head.
A group of East India Trading Company men were passing by, led by Becket's adjutant Mercer, and they were the last people who should have heard her singing.
She wanted to use this song to prove her pirate status, but only to fellow pirates.
A moment later, as their footsteps faded away, Elizabeth began singing again.
"Let the flag fly high! Pull hard..."
"...whether a thief or a beggar." A new voice added, "We shall never die."
Elizabeth rose to her feet as a man emerged from the shadow of the huge sewer pipe.
Standing on either side of him were two men with weapons in their hands.
The man was tall and impressive, his muscular muscles undulating slightly under his black robes.There was a murderous look in his eyes, and he carried an evil sword with him.
Despite the man's formidable bearing, Elizabeth breathed a sigh of relief.
This person is Tai Huang, who is exactly what she is looking for.
Or at least, someone who can lead her to the man she's looking for, Tai Huang, second-in-command of the feared Pirate King Sao Feng of Singapore.
Tai Huang narrowed his eyes and looked her up and down.
"For those who don't know what it means," he said ominously, "it's dangerous to sing it."
He came closer and said, "Especially to a woman, especially to a woman who comes alone."
"Why do you think she's alone?"
Tai Huang and his entourage turned their heads and looked for this new voice. Barbossa was standing behind them, with a smile on his face full of vicissitudes of time.
"Are you here to protect her?" Tai Huang asked.
"Why do you think I need protection?" Elizabeth replied, hissing.
Tai Huang froze, Elizabeth's voice was in his ears, but her dagger was pressed against his throat.
Barbossa clicked his tongue.
"Your master is still waiting for us." He said to Tai Huang.
He added to Elizabeth in particular: "Accidental death will only bring unhappiness to our meeting."
He stared at the dagger in her hand, and Elizabeth slowly lowered it, but did not sheath it.
Tai Huang rubbed his neck, and carefully observed the old pirate: "Is he Captain Barbossa?"
"Yes." Barbosa agreed. "She is Elizabeth Swan. Sao Feng promised us that we would be safe along the way."
Tai Huang nodded thoughtfully: "As long as it is beneficial to him." He replied in a hoarse voice.
He flicked his robes and turned to lead them away, then suddenly he raised a hand and everyone stopped immediately.
The sound of boots heralded the passage of more East India Trading Company men.
Tai Huang waited until they turned the corner before motioning for the others to follow him into the entrance of a huge sewage pipe.
......
As Elizabeth and Barbossa disappeared into the darkness, something strange was happening not far away.
On one of the broken bridges that connect the Singapore canal to the waterway, two men from the East India Trading Company stand guard.
If they had looked into the water from the side, they might have seen a row of coconuts floating across the water.
And underneath the coconuts was something that would be of great interest to them, and under each coconut was a crew of the villainous Captain Jack Sparrow.
As the coconuts floated into the darkness under the bridge, one of them surfaced, revealing the head of the pirate Rajti.
He wore the coconut shell as a helmet to keep himself from being seen from above, and his good eye looked around while the wooden one stared blankly ahead.Behind him are Pantel, Gibbs, Caton and Marty.
When they were all safe in the shadows under the bridge, they removed their coconut helmets and swam toward an iron grate.
From the oilcloth bag they carried with them they took several large files and used them to saw through the grating grate.
Then they wait.
Squeak, squeak.
The people of the East India Trading Company noticed it immediately. They looked into the darkness. What was that sound?
After a while, a woman came out of the darkness pushing a cart with creaking wheels.
Inside the car were cages containing chirping canaries, tinkling bottles of mysterious liquids and sacks of flour.
There is a colorful parrot on top of the birdcage, and next to the bird is a monkey shaking the handle of the organ.
That's what Jack's men are waiting for.
The music of the organ, the creak of the wheels and the clatter of the carts were loud enough to drown out any noise coming from below.
It was time for action, and the pirates immediately set to work sawing through the grate grates.
The cart was getting closer and closer, and the two guards exchanged suspicious glances with each other before stepping forward to stop the cart.
The music stopped, and so did the pirates below.
One of the guards drew his longsword.
"You can't stay here," he said roughly to the woman.
She looked up, and though they didn't recognize her, the woman was Tia Dalma.
She moved closer to the guard who was talking to her, and whispered to him in an eerie voice, "Your mother always knew you threw the linen down the well."
The guard jumped back in fright, and he looked at the old woman in horror.
"How do you know?" he demanded.