The world is cruel.

Most things that can't be done don't work miracles because of persistence.

Hawkins understood this truth early on, so after spending half a day studying the black knife to no avail, he decisively gave up the ability to continue studying the black knife.

For the time being, let's set the ability of the black knife as 'hard'.

It's really 'hard'.

It is not heat-absorbing, non-conductive, and indestructible, and is the hardest substance Hawkins has ever come into contact with.

For the next two days, the wind and waves were calm.

Joyce still didn't come to the door.

However, it is not surprising that Joyce and Julian were originally searching the entire sea area separately.

The two were searching in opposite directions, so Joyce couldn't have found the Black Knife so quickly unless he found that Julian couldn't be contacted.

"Son of a pirate, I will repay your humiliation to me a hundredfold sooner or later!"

Julian, who had been hungry for two days, was still fierce, and the roar could be heard dozens of meters away.

Hawkins said innocently while eating grilled fish: "You can't hold your own pee, what's the matter with me?"

"I'm going to kill you!" Julian roared in shame.

Hawkins swallowed a piece of grilled fish and sighed, "You can't be a little creative, you've said that thirty times." ”

Although he likes to communicate with people, Julian only has a few words back and forth, and there is really nothing to communicate.

At this moment, his ears moved, his eyes looked to the left, and as the shape of his pupils changed, he saw a ragged man in the distance soaking in the sea, constantly waving in the direction of the Black Knife.

He immediately controlled the sailors to turn the rudder, and the Black Knife sailed in the direction of the man.

In a moment, the Black Knife came near the man, Hawkins threw down the rope ladder, and the man quickly grabbed the rope ladder and quickly climbed up the Black Knife.

"Thank you. ”

The man trembled, took the towel handed over by Hawkins, and hurriedly thanked him.

Julian took the opportunity to speak: "Civilian, get off the ship, this is a pirate ship, accept the help of pirates, you will be disgraced to your ruler!"

"Pirate ship?"

The man was stunned for a moment, and then looked up to see the black canvas on the mast of the Black Knife and the white skull pattern on the canvas.

He was stunned for a moment and then said in surprise: "Great, I have long wanted to be a pirate, this captain, do you still need combatants?"

"Civilian, you're looking for death!" Julian said angrily.

Hawkins didn't care about Julian and smiled, "My name is Hawkins, the captain of the Black Knife, and I think I should need a qualified combatant!"

"Captain Hawkins, my name is Storm-Mark, you can call me Mark, a homeless ronin. The man immediately bowed slightly.

Hawkins wondered, "How long have you been in the sea?"

"It's been almost a month, and it's a huge sea, it's the first time I've seen a sea that big. Mark said with palpitations.

Julian sneered: "Full of lies, soak in the sea for a month, and you will die a long time ago." ”

"I almost died, but I met Captain Hawkins. Mark glanced at Julian, disapproving.

Hawkins smiled and said: "It's okay to call me Hawkins, you and this sailor go to change into dry clothes, if you have anything to say while eating, you should be hungry, right?"

"Okay, thanks again. ”

Mark nodded in acknowledgment, and then, led by the sailors, turned and walked towards the cabin.

After Mark entered the cabin, Julian provoked with suspicion: "Pirate son, the origin of the civilian named Mark is unknown, if I were you, I would never let him on the ship, you are killing yourself." ”

"Aren't you hungry or thirsty? It's been two days, and you still have the strength to speak. Hawkins asked suddenly.

Julian stared at Hawkins and said no more. One provocation is enough, and he believes that even if Hawkins doesn't care on the surface, the seeds of doubt will grow in his heart.

In a moment, Mark changed into a sackcloth and returned to the deck.

"Thank you again, if it weren't for you Hawkins, I might have been planted this time. Mark walked up to Hawkins and bowed slightly, this was his third thank-you.

Hawkins smiled: "This is probably fate, we talk while eating." ”

The two of them sat down, and the sailors quickly served various grilled fish.

After Mark's thanks, he began to eat the fish in a big gulp, and Hawkins found that he could chew and swallow even the bones, and the whole fish did not spit out a single bone.

After eating five big fish in a row, Mark stopped and smiled, "I'm full, Hawkins, you don't have any questions you want to ask me?"

"It doesn't matter, if you're willing to say, I think I'd love to be a listener. Hawkins replied slowly, eating the eighth fish.

Mark was slightly surprised, because Hawkins was very different from the pirate captain he knew.

He's dealt with pirates in the past, and they're either rude or sinister, and they're mostly rotten scum to the bone.

But Hawkins was nothing like the pirates.

Hawkins was tall and handsome, neatly dressed, and without any smell on his body, he was more of a nobleman than a pirate.

"Interesting people!"

Mark made a judgment in his heart, thought for a while and said: "Captain Hawkins, what I said just now is not a lie, I am indeed willing to be a pirate, but I can only do it for ninety days." ”

"No problem, I can hire you for ninety days with a salary of 1 silver coin per day, no problem, right?" Hawkins did not refuse, but nodded seriously.

The salary of a naval soldier on the island of Willalia is 20 silver coins a month, while Hawkins here is 1 silver coin a day, which is about 30 silver coins a month, which is far beyond the treatment of a naval soldier.

Mark nodded, "Reasonable." ”

"Pirate son, I didn't expect you to be so naïve, you dare to take him in without even knowing his origins, be careful of capsizing in the gutter!" Julian said provocatively.

In fact, what he said was not 'capsizing in the gutter', but 'Madan's hammer', an allusion that belongs to this world, but the general idea is similar to capsizing in the gutter.

Mark looked at Julian and said unpleasantly, "Captain, don't you think this little bat is very noisy?"

"Well, if you think he's a talking parrot, it should feel a little better. Hawkins smiled.

Mark shrugged, then got up and said, "I'm really exhausted from soaking in the sea for a month, captain, I'll go back to the cabin and rest." ”

"Go ahead. Hawkins nodded.

After Mark left, Julian sneered: "Sure enough, there is something wrong with this guy, ordinary people would have been scared to death when they saw me talking, son of a pirate, you will definitely regret taking him in!"

"Who knows. ”

Hawkins was noncommittal and continued to eat fish.

Of course, he knew that Mark was not an ordinary person, and when Mark boarded the Black Knife, he found that Mark weighed five times as much as a normal person, and Mark glanced at Julian as soon as he got on the ship, but he didn't make a fuss.

Julian is now in his bat form, a talking bat that would surprise ordinary people when they see it, but Mark doesn't show anything unusual from beginning to end.

And being taken to the cabin by the marines, Mark didn't talk to the marines, and he seemed to see that the marines were Hawkins's puppets, so he didn't have the idea of communicating at all.

Through these Hawkins, it can be determined that Mark is not an ordinary person.

On the other side, Mark was lying on the bed, with the same smile, and when Hawkins observed him, he was naturally observing Hawkins.

Hawkins is not like a pirate.

And through further contact, he found that Hawkins' physical fitness may be even stronger than his own.

When he first came out and met such interesting people, he felt that being kicked out of the house was not necessarily a bad thing, and it should be more interesting in the future.