Edward led John to a tavern, where Blackbeard followed them, occasionally picking up the bottle in his hand and taking a sip.

In the tavern, Edward said to John, "John, I went out with one of my allies while you were resting. "I said I hadn't seen you in that time, and I thought you were running your house. What, is there something new to gain from it?"

Edward looked at the sides: "I found that in addition to us, there are at least two groups of people looking for the Observatory, one of them is very powerful, the last time I said I was going to see the Governor, that is, the people who went to meet them, they called themselves Templars, and the other group called themselves members of the Assassin Order, fighting against the Templars, although their power was not directly manifested, but it was clear from the fact that they were able to confront the Templars who had a lot of power in the court. Edward took a sip of his wine, "But before that, I found out that they were looking for a person, supposedly the key to finding the Observatory, and that person was called by them, the 'Sage'. So, if we are to find the Observatory, we must find the Holy One before them. ”

John became interested: "Templars and Assassins, what kind of organization is this? It doesn't sound like something we can fight against. Edward stood up with his glass, "I don't know much about the Templars, but there is a phrase in the Assassin Order that I remember very well, and that is their creed. As he spoke, he turned to look at John, "All things are false, and all things are allowed." ”

"All things are false, all things are allowed. John silently read these two sentences in his mouth, always feeling that this is a very crucial sentence, but now he doesn't know how to understand it. It seems that this will have to be interpreted later. Thinking of this, John said, "Then how do they express this statement? if this is their creed." Edward began to think, "I don't know, I just think they can do a lot of things that are different from ordinary people, such as when they think they are hiding in the grass, even if they leak through the corners of their clothes, they will not be detected, or when they start to assassinate, even if there are people next to the target, as long as they are not directly seen, the sound they make is not enough to attract the attention of others." ”

"Oh, that's funny. John always thought that scene must be funny, and a smile was drawn into the corner of his mouth. "You're right, it's funny, even though I was standing on the roof and opening the guard's head with a gun, the colleague next to him was still facing away as if he hadn't heard anything. ”

"You mean that you did it too?" John asked, listening to Edward's words, noticing something unusual. "Yes...... Kindness...... I mean, actually I was able to do it since I was a kid, it's just that I always thought I was special. Edward saw that he had slipped his mouth, and said in a hesitant manner. John picked up his glass: "Okay, okay, who knows about this kind of thing." Let's talk about the Observatory. Don't bother with the knightly assassins, find them before they do, that's our purpose. ”

In the evening, John and Edward were still sitting in the tavern, with John's roasted meat and fish in front of them. Luckily, spices are also abundant in the Caribbean, and pirates can grab any cargo, so it's easy to find a lot of spices in this Pirate Paradise in the Caribbean. In this era, people's understanding of spices was only an aristocratic item used to make incense and perfumes, and had not yet developed a edible function, so when John ground the appropriate spices into powder and spread them on the barbecue, the fragrance caused everyone around him to run over. Eventually, Edward's drive led them out, and the two escaped with only a roasted pork leg, leaving many of them to be divided up by the pirates who had heard the news. "Don't worry about that, they just haven't eaten such a delicious barbecue - it turns out that the spice is so magical, and when you apply her to the barbecue, you can make the otherwise tasteless barbecue so delicious. With this alone, I believe that even the chefs of the court cannot compare. ”

As the two were talking, there were footsteps coming from the side, accompanied by the words of its owner, coming this way: "Is this the newborn Liportaria? Except, of course, for this magical barbecue. With that, he walked over and picked up the barbecue in front of Edward and put it in his mouth. It seemed that they knew each other, John took a sip of wine quietly and looked at the two people who came over.

Edward smiled and stood up, "Welcome to Nassau, sir, everyone can share the wealth equally. ”

"Deuce?" It seems that one of them did not have a good opinion of the word: "Is this the monastery of Tama?" The other saw that Edward seemed to be arguing with him, and hurriedly said, "Nassau is a place where everyone wants to be free...... Before he could finish speaking, a voice came from behind them: "It's better not to make the same mistake, okay?"

The voice was so powerful that it drew everyone's attention as soon as it came. John looked at the comer, and sure enough, it was Blackbeard.

The man who was still confronting Edward just now also turned around: "Captain Thatch. I breathe the same air as you, but why do you speak so vigorously?"

"Why do you use the same black flag as my beard?" asked Blackbeard, not wanting to dwell on these things, "what is the wind that blows you to the far north?"

Seeing that Blackbeard had changed the subject, the man didn't want to discuss the previous topic, after all, he was not idle: "The truth is that the governor of Cuba is arranging to receive a large sum of gold in a nearby fortress, and the gold will stay there obediently until someone else comes to take it before he receives it." He looked at John, "Edward, don't you want to introduce this friend?"

Edward pointed at John, "John Vulcan, my friend, is absolutely trustworthy. Then he said to John, "John, this is Charles Vane, and John." Jack, "Lakeham, just call him Cotton Jack, they're my allies too," and then turned the subject back to the gold: "Governor Torres' order?" sounds interesting. ”

John greeted the two: two pirates again, including the advocate of the black flag of the pirate ship, and if memory serves, Cotton Jack was now Vane's quartermaster.

Since Edward said that John was trustworthy and lazy, Charles Vane naturally did not keep his mouth shut: "Yes, we have to act before someone takes that gold away." Prepare, gentlemen. ”

When Blackbeard heard about gold, he naturally did not take a hostile attitude. He stepped forward and handed over a bottle of wine as a gesture of goodwill: "Welcome to Nassau, Captain Vane, Mr. Lakeham. ”

Edward would not be indifferent when he heard the word Governor, remembering his previous experience of being captured by the Governor, even now that he had escaped, he still felt a slight burning on his face: "Very good, I decided to join." He looked at John, "What about you?" "It doesn't seem like they're very welcoming to many people sharing. John shrugged and said, "But I can cover you on the perimeter, and you only need to give me a share when the time comes." ”

Edward looked at Vane, after all, the information this time was provided by Vane, if he didn't agree, there was no way.

Vane originally didn't want too many people to share, but he couldn't attack the next naval fortress alone, and when he heard John himself say that he wanted to intercept the naval warships coming to reinforce on the periphery, he naturally wouldn't object, after all, this was the most dangerous division of labor. So he nodded and agreed to John's proposal.