John was walking in the direction of the ship when Edward stopped him: "John, soon I will go to sea with Blackbeard to look for a Spanish shipwreck from two years ago, it is said that there is medicine for diseases, and maybe go to sea for a while." John said it was okay and said, "It seems that the disease is very serious this time?" Edward nodded: "Yes, if you look at the rats around here, it reminds me of the legendary Grim Reaper with a scythe and a cloak, and it is said that his forerunner is a rat." Remember, John, when you see these things on the ship, you must kill them, and you must not keep them. John naturally knew and nodded. When it comes to the dangers of rats, no one knows better than John in this day and age. Even with an extremely robust body, John was not sure that he would be immune to the diseases caused by these bacteria.

Edward told John about the situation on the docks, and said that he would not be looking for clues about the Sage or the Observatory for some time to come. Now the Observatory is not Edward's goal alone, John is an ally with him in this regard, and now he has a personal matter to suspend the search, so he naturally wants to talk to John. John could understand Edward's current situation, whether it was illness or the imminent attack of the British Navy, it was a matter of great importance to the survival of Nassau, and Edward had a deep affection for Nassau, whenever Nassau was mentioned, Edward would call it "a place of freedom, a paradise for all equal", and countless words of praise were piled on Nassau. But now that this Edward's paradise is about to collapse, how can he be in the mood to find treasure?

Thinking of this, John prepared to gather his crew and lead them out of the city, which had been plagued by the plague and was about to be destroyed in battle. As a captain, John felt that he should lead his crew on a safe path, rather than let them be strangled by the crisis and end up dying in the unknown. But first, John looked at the ship, which had not yet been named: let the little ones who had not been invited to drink and visit on this ship first. Thinking of this, John stepped onto the boat and released the coercion in his soul. In an instant, the souls of all the creatures on board, whether they were rats stealing food, rubber bugs that thrived in dry bread, or maggots growing on dried meat, were shaken. If it was an adult rat with a large size and a relatively strong soul, it was fine, but after being shaken, it just desperately escaped from the cabin, and did not even have time to find the cable connected to the pier, and rushed directly to the nearest drainage hole, regardless of whether it would be drowned in the sea, but desperately swam away from the boat, and did not even turn around and swim ashore.

John watched as the rats ran away desperately, some of them holding small mice in their mouths that had not yet opened their eyes - John knew that rats would give birth to about 10 babies at a time, but now he could only run for his life with the strongest cub among his siblings. However, how many cubs will survive just jumping into the sea? And the remaining mice, without the feeding of the mother mouse, naturally have only the life of death, and those rubber worms and maggots that have collapsed because their souls have not withstood the vibration and entered the underworld.

However, John was able to be sure that the ship was free of rats, and that it would not cause the sailors to develop a plague - provided that John's sailors did not bring the annoying little ones with them.

The next day, John found George in the city, who was still drinking. Due to the spread of the disease and the imminent attack of the navy, the tavern's business declined, and in this environment, it was natural that no one would pay to listen to George's stories, and George and several crew members gathered for a drink. John called them over and told them that they were going to have a meeting this evening, and that they were going to call back the crew who were entertaining all over Nassau, at least before evening, to get back to the ship. After all, the current corsair ships are still governed by the majority - that is, the entire crew has the same rights when it comes to decisions, and when a proposal is approved by the majority, there are legal conditions for its implementation, even if the decision seems absurd, such as removing the captain from office and banishing him, which in fact does happen.

Historically, Charles Vane (the same Captain Vane he saw earlier) was defeated by the French Navy, and after encountering a French warship, he did not lead his men to attack but chose to flee, which angered his quartermaster, Cotton Jack. So Cotton Jack took the lead in a vote to remove Vane from his position as captain, and banished Vane and his supporters to the sea in a small boat, making him captain himself.

By the way, Cotton Jack is the advocate of the familiar skull pirate flag, and in the previous pirate flags, except for the black flag, the patterns can be described as varied, and there is no uniform style.

Hearing the captain's notice that everyone would return to the ship for a meeting before evening, many sailors drank their wine and took their already drunk companions and walked in the direction of the ship. John was actually quite satisfied with watching the drunken sailors on the ship, at least he didn't show up to throw his drunken and unconscious companions in the tavern and come back alone, which was already relatively rare in a loose pirate ship. Perhaps it was due to the fact that John's crew was now relatively simple, either a fellow countryman in Havana or a defector to the Spanish Navy. Therefore, these sailors will naturally value their companions more, and it is natural for them to bring back their already drunk companions.

Seeing that everyone had returned, John told them what was going on in Nassau. The sailors who had not been drunk were awakened to hear that their paradise had been taken over by the plague, and even more sober to hear that the British warships were about to attack Nassau and to wipe out the pirates here.

Seeing that most of the sailors had recovered from the intoxication of alcohol, John said: "Now we have a few options: first, we go out to sea, go out to sea in search of the freshly sunken ships, search for the sunken ships, and if we are lucky, find medicine for the plague, or rob merchant ships and warships, I believe there will always be some medicine on them, and then we will come back with the medicine, and heal the pirates, and fight with them against the coming navy." Second, we're still looking for medicine, but we're just going to give it to them, and then we're going to leave Nassau, and as for the navy, if we go fast enough, we'll be able to get away from the navy; third, we'll just leave here and go somewhere else, far away from these crises that have come and what's coming, so that we'll be safe; and finally, we'll go straight to the navy and become the navy's lackeys. Okay, you guys talk about it, and tomorrow when the sun rises overhead, we'll have another vote. The outcome of the vote will decide our fate, you guys have to figure it out. ”