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Jack sighed heavily, fell to the ground on his back, and lay there with his eyes closed.
With his eyes closed, Jack didn't see the crab moving forward slowly, and he didn't seem to feel the crustacean's eyes watching him.
After a while, Jack still didn't notice when the little crab hurried aside to study the ship carefully, and then hurried to the pile of stones.
Little by little time passed, and Jack was still baking in the sun, drowning in despair.
Suddenly, a shadow crossed his cheek.
Jack frowned slightly, opened his eyes, and blinked a few times quickly to clear his vision.
Something moved above him.
And that thing is the Black Pearl!It's like walking through sand!
Confused, Jack got up and looked his boat up and down.
He bent down and stared under the boat, and his shadowed eyes opened even wider as he did so.
The Black Pearl is not actually floating; instead, thousands of crabs are carrying the ship on their backs.
As they sprinted across the sand, they carried the Black Pearl along.
"That's interesting," Jack said.
Not very far away, another ship met a tragic end.
Scattered pieces of the ship strewn along the coast or floating in the sea are the wrecks of the Haipeng.
Pantel and Rajetti were the first to struggle out of the sea and climb ashore.
Despite the desperation of the situation, Rajetti grinned maniacally.
"What's the matter with you?" Pantel asked Rajetti as they collapsed on the beach.
"I thought it was fun," Rajetti said.
"It's not fun at all!" Pantel said angrily, staring at Rajti's beaming face, and then, softer, he added, "Maybe a little bit, when it rolled down on its side. …”
"And the huge splash at the end!" Rajetti said happily.
At this moment, others began to emerge from the waves, and Elizabeth and Will swam to the shore and climbed out of the water.
Tia Dalma followed closely, followed by Carton, Marty, Tai Huang, and his people followed closely.
The last to surface was Barbossa, with Monkey Jack clutching his hat.
Elizabeth twisted her sleeves to brush the wet hair from her face, and she also looked disturbed.
"I don't see Jack," she said. "I don't see anybody."
"Here he is," said Barbossa confidently. "Davy Jones never gave up what he got at sea."
"Does this matter?" Will yelled, furious that all his plans were going to come to naught.
"It's all because of you that we're stuck here, no different than Jack."
If he were now trapped in Davy Jones's undersea grave, there would be no way for him to get his father out of the Dutchman, and all his intentions and plans would go to zero.
Tia Dalma was oblivious to Will's inner turmoil.
She giggled, a mysterious smile playing on her lips.
"Jack the wit is closer than you think," she said.
While the others turned to look at her, Tia Dalma stared straight at the desert horizon.
A dozen or so crabs emerged from the sand and ran quickly towards her.
She reached down to touch them, and the crabs scrambled upward, balancing on her arms, and the mysterious woman spoke to them tenderly as if they were her pets.
Elizabeth's eyes moved from Tia Dalma to the horizon.
Something was rolling over the dunes, and she squinted, covering her eyes with her hands to see better.
That thing looked like a sail.
That was indeed a sail!More precisely, it was the sail of the Black Pearl!
"Slap me three times and hand me over to my mom!" someone yelled.
When he saw this scene, his eyes sparkled: "That's Jack!"
The ship sails majestically over the dunes, with Captain Jack Sparrow standing proudly at the bow, looking like a true pirate captain again.
Thousands of crabs carried the boat, getting closer and closer to them, and finally ran over to send it into the water. With a big wave, the Black Pearl slipped and finally returned to the sea.
Will, Elizabeth, and Barbossa all laughed as Jack jumped out of the boat and waded toward them.
Jack waved to their crew and waded out onto the beach.
"Will! Pantel and, uh, one-eyed you, where have you been?" he yelled. "Have you been eaten by sea monsters too? Or something else? I hope it's distressing." about..."
Jack thought they must be dead, as he was, and that would explain why they were all in Davy Jones' underwater grave.
Elizabeth completely ignored Jack's sarcasm of welcome, rushed to Jack, stretched out her arms, and hugged him tightly.
"I'm sorry," Elizabeth said to Jack in a low voice, "I'm glad you're all right..."
"Repentance!" Jack said, neither returning her hug nor accepting her apology, "that word fits you well, are you a sign of my confusion?"
He lifted her up and shook her: "No."
Then he saw Tia Dalma, and he put down the astonished Elizabeth and stepped forward.
"Tia Dalma, come out and walk around too!"
He knew that the mysterious woman rarely left her hut hidden in the swamp.
"It's good of you to come! You add a delightful spookiness to all delusions..."
"How are you, Jack Sparrow?" Barbossa's voice came from behind the crowd.
Jack froze, turned his head, and the crew cleared the way, revealing Jack's nemesis - the one who stole his ship and crew, betrayed him, and left him to die on a deserted island pirate.
The pirate who was killed by Jack and took his beloved Black Pearl back from him.
Jack quickly put a smile on his face and shouted enthusiastically, "Barbossa!"