"How are Fish Skin and the others? You should be able to restrain them, right?" Vanya took out half a bottle of whiskey and two glasses from the cupboard, and asked while pouring the wine.
"Fortunately, he's not a person with bad intentions." Austin sat on the bed, crossed his hands on his knees, and looked at the room with interest.
Vanya has not yet moved out of the lieutenant's quarters, so the room conditions are not as good as Austin's - at least there are two good chairs in Austin's room, so guests don't have to sit on the bed. This may be a bit embarrassing for other ladies, but Vanya doesn't care about it. She has long been used to it, and she even regarded herself as a man for a long time.
"Of course they are all good people, and I recognize the character of Yupi and the others." Vanya handed Austin a glass, pulled up the only chair and sat down, "Well, I didn't tell them at the time. I understand your resume, but I don’t have anything nice to say for you. After all, they are your own subordinates, and you have to do some things yourself after all, do you understand?"
Austin and Vanya clinked a glass and said with a smile: "Of course I understand, I still understand these things."
"That's good." Vanya laughed and lit a cigarette for herself, "What's the point of coming to me so late? Are you enlightened?"
Austin originally wanted to be more serious, but after hearing the second half of the sentence, he shook his head in confusion: "Oliver said that my ship is still short of a doctor and a technician. I think you are so open in Fleming Harbor, maybe there will be some." Good choice.”
Vanya narrowed her eyes and took a deep breath, then spit out a long white snake to one side and extinguished the smoke with a smile: "You really found the right person!"
After saying that, she crossed her legs and leaned on the back of the chair to think.
Austin didn't urge him, he shook the wine glass in his hand and continued to look at the room.
To be honest, this room is nothing special. It has a bed, a table, a chair, a cupboard, and a bathroom, which describes "living alone" very well.
"It's pretty neat." Austin laughed as he recalled Vanya's reckless behavior when he was a child.
"Yes!" Vanya slapped her thigh suddenly, "Considering your experience, Dr. Henry from Dock Street can perfectly serve as your ship's doctor and technician."
Without giving Austin a chance to ask, Vanya took out a piece of wrapping paper from the cupboard behind her and started writing on it.
"Dr. Henry lives at No. 26 Quay Street. I'm going to write you a letter of recommendation. He has a bit of a weird temper, but he's an easy guy to deal with. If you go to him with my letter of recommendation tomorrow, he will definitely succeed."
Just like that, at 2:20 in the morning, Austin returned to his dormitory with a letter of recommendation written on a compressed cookie wrapper and two bottles of whiskey in his stomach. He paid the price of being drunk in search of talents.
Thanks to the special ability given by the evil god that "drinking water after drinking can quickly sober up", Austin caught the first bus in Fleming Harbor the next morning and went to No. 26 Dock Street to find Dr. Henry.
As we all know, the food in Fleming Harbor is not "beautiful", so Dock Street is naturally not close to the dock. In fact, the so-called "Dock Street" was named after the many people who lived on the docks such as prostitutes, porters, etc. To put it bluntly, it was a "semi-slum street" in Fleming Harbor. Austin knew the details of Quay Street, but he believed in Vanya's connections and that Dr. Henry must be a talent.
There aren't many people visible on Pier Street during the day. The people on the "night shift" are resting now, and the people on the day shift have gone out long ago. There are only some scattered dark sights peeking out from various hidden corners, like The sea monster's tentacles licked the bodies of passers-by. These eyes contain burning greed and weak reason. If the time is right, they will rush out like man-eating sharks in the sea and give their prey a fatal blow - no one can live with money and food.
Austin had no choice but to reveal the revolver hidden in the pocket of his civilian clothes - it only had six rounds of ammunition, but it never jammed. No one wanted to be one of the first six people up.
After searching for half an hour on the streets filled with sewage and garbage, he finally found his destination, an alchemy products store with gray-white wooden boards in the window. Next to the crumbling iron signboard of No. 26 Pier Street , a large iron sign engraved with "Dr. Henry's Studio", several footprints on it told Austin that it had really fallen before.
Austin rang the doorbell and took a step back - he didn't want to be killed by the sign.
"Please come in!" The voice coming from the door was young and powerful, with a high tone and a lively tone, as if full of infinite love for life.
Austin was immediately in awe. The war with the Orista Empire had lasted for one year and three months. The people of Meletni Kingdom had long passed the period of excitement, and most of them were sinking into the declining economy and soaring growth. Given the prices, a person who can be so optimistic in such an environment is certainly not an ordinary person, not to mention that this person still lives in the "semi-slum streets" of Fleming Harbor.
Austin arranged his clothes, opened the door and entered the house.
There seemed to be only one room on the entire first floor, which was about the same size as Vanya's lieutenant's dormitory. The room was not dark, and colorful lights flashing everywhere illuminated the not-so-large space. Austin looked around and found that there seemed to be only a gap-like gap in the room from the door to the stairs. The rest of the room was filled with densely packed independent booths, each of which displayed delicate human organs or limbs - ordinary People might faint immediately after seeing this.
But Austin was not the same. He had an eye-opening feeling. The technology related to human body refining has been rejected by major churches. This was the first time for Austin to see this type of alchemy product, and he also understood why Henry could be both a doctor and a technician.
Brisk footsteps could be heard on the battered wooden stairs, and accompanied by the clanging sound of metal, a burly figure in a white coat ran down from the second floor.
"Gentleman, what do you want to change?" Dr. Henry asked impatiently while still on the stairs.
"Change?" Austin raised his eyebrows and took the opportunity to look at the doctor and technician.
It's hard to tell how old Dr. Henry is from his appearance, because his entire head is wrapped in steel, and the parts where his eyes and mouth should be are three flashing red horizontal lines. In addition, Henry's exposed left hand is also It shone with metallic luster and had only three hook-shaped fingers.
"Yes, our store operates various alchemical machines that can be used to replace corresponding parts of the human body. This is the only one in the entire Fleming Port, no, in the entire Meletni Kingdom!" Henry became more and more excited as he spoke, and the two horizontal lines shone brightly. .
"Actually, I'm not here..."
"What do you think of this Water Crab Type 3 robotic arm?" Henry stretched out his left arm. "He can easily grab everything and launch it. More importantly, his claw blades are extremely sharp! Regardless of daily life It’s very convenient to use or go out to sea.”
"I wanted to ask..."
"Or look at this water strider mechanical leg. Equipped with Poseidon magic crystal, it can let you stay on the water for a short time!" Henry took out a slender anti-joint mechanical leg from nowhere and stretched it directly to Austin before.
"Can you go to sea with me..."
"Going to sea? Then you must need this! Captain! Mechanical arm!" Henry stretched out his right arm, turned his wrist down to reveal a black hole in the muzzle, and fired a bullet with a "bang", piercing the gun next to Austin. Show window, "How about it? It feels like a pirate, doesn't it? Give it a try when fighting your opponent in close combat and let him experience the changes of the times!"
Austin shook his head, and his right hand suddenly took out a pistol from his pocket and put it on Henry's steel head.
"Oh, relax buddy, you definitely don't like my head. It is tailor-made and cannot be replaced." Henry spread his hands, lowered his body slightly, and the red light in the horizontal lines flashed rapidly.
"Has anyone ever told you that you are noisy?" Austin exhaled slowly and rubbed the bridge of his nose with his left hand.
"Of course, this is due to..."
"Shut up! Let me speak first!" Austin shouted, his index finger on the trigger.
"Okay, of course no problem, man, I just..."
"Bang!" Austin raised his hand and fired a shot towards the roof, and then said coldly: "Be quiet and listen to me."
"Okay." Henry put his left hand behind his back, and soon the horizontal line representing his mouth went out.
"Very good." Austin didn't put down the gun in his hand. "I'm sorry. Actually, I don't want to point a gun at your head like this, but you are really, really good at speaking. I can only do this."
Dr. Henry nodded.
"So, I am here this time to recruit you as a ship's doctor and go to sea with me. Um, I forgot to introduce you. My name is Austin, and I am the captain of the Royal Navy's August Lion." As he said that, Austin took something from his pocket. He took out the recommendation letter written on the wrapping paper and unfolded it, "This is written by Vanya. Take a look at it. All I can say is that I need you here. Let's see if you want to get on the ship."
This kind of situation of putting a gun to someone's head to get him to join the gang is usually normal only in criminal gangs, but today it seemed so natural in Dr. Henry's shop.
Henry finished reading the recommendation letter in Austin's hand with a strange gesture, and then he pointed at the stairs.
"You want to go up? Go up and talk in detail?"
Henry nodded.
Austin let out a long sigh, put away the gun and said, "Then go up. If you say one more nonsense later, I will shoot you and treat it as a cleansing of heretics for the church."
The situation on the second floor is not much better than on the first floor. The huge workbench takes up nearly one-half of the space, and the remaining one-half is evenly divided by lockers and debris piles. In Vanya's dormitory you could at least sit on the bed and talk, but here there wasn't even a bed.
Henry naturally occupied the chair that came with the workbench, and Austin could only stand on the small piece of pure land at the top of the stairs where he could stand.
"Hey, you know, your pistol may not be able to shoot through my head, and I..." Henry let his mouth light up again as he went up the stairs.
"I forgot to tell you, the next one is made of magical crystal, it is definitely powerful enough." Austin directly put the gun against Henry's "mouth".
"I can get on the boat, but..."
"Say your conditions directly." Austin said with a straight face.
"There are some studies that are not allowed by the church, and I hope to be able to conduct them on your ship."
"I'm okay with using pirates as test subjects."
"That's good. In fact, I have a great idea..."
"Let's get down to business!"
"I still need a little bit of research funding every month, just a little bit. In fact, it won't be higher than the salary of an ordinary crew member. I just need..."
"Okay, I agree."
"Then it's no problem for me, I can get on the boat."
"I have a problem." Austin's temples have been beating since the beginning of the conversation. "Normally I can leave it alone, but if I give you an order, you must shut up. Is that acceptable?"
"Um...do you have much time to give orders? I think..."
"Sign this if you accept it, and then pack your things and go to the military dock tomorrow morning." Austin was speechless, took out a piece of paper, put it on the workbench and left without looking back.
"Hey! Actually, I think there are still many details that need to be discussed!" Dr. Henry's voice came from behind, but Austin had already covered his ears with his hands.
