Survival begins with Red Dead Redemption 2

Chapter 121 Chapter 120

120,

"thumping!"

A gunshot in the early morning wakes up Armadillo Town, which has just fallen silent from grief.

When people put on their clothes and took up weapons and rushed to the entrance of the town, they found a young policeman gesturing with a repeating rifle in his hand and shouting towards the outside of the town.Looking in the direction he was aiming at, he found dozens of Huaguo workers holding their heads and crawling on the road tens of meters away from the town.

When the young policeman was standing guard on the edge of the town, he was lazy and fell asleep. When he was awakened by the sound, the first thing he saw when he opened his eyes was a dozen yelling Chinese workers coming towards him from a distance. come running.

In line with the tradition of shooting first and asking questions later, the awakened young policeman immediately pulled the trigger. Fortunately, he hadn't completely lost his mind, and the muzzle of the gun was raised a little bit, so no casualties were caused.

Armed with weapons, people surrounded them. Although the language communication was not smooth, everyone still expected bad things to happen from the panicked expressions of the Huaguo workers.Sure enough, someone rode along the road where the Chinese laborers came, and soon found the rest of the Chinese laborers and their guards on the side of the road.

When the two seriously injured policemen and the rest of the Chinese workers were brought back, several young policemen couldn't suppress their anger and blamed the Chinese workers present.After shouting a few times and still not knowing what to send, they rushed up and punched and kicked these foreigners who did not understand the language.

The unilateral beating did not stop until the deputy sheriff who heard the news arrived in a hurry.

The deputy sheriff is a little thinner than Sheriff Baker, and he is out of breath after running a few steps, but fortunately he knows a little Chinese, and after talking and gesticulating with a few Chinese workers with bruised noses and faces who can speak English, he finally figured out what happened. what.

When the grave was dug and left the cemetery, there were 25 people, and halfway through it became 24 people. The two policemen who escorted them didn't know what was going on.

But those two "those people" couldn't accept this explanation. They also knew that there was nothing useful to be asked from the trembling Chinese workers kneeling on the ground, holding their heads in their hands. Under the pretext of "connecting with each other", the two police officers were interrogated on the spot.

The interrogation must not be able to find anything useful, so the interrogation method was upgraded. The two policemen who were pointed at the guns and had already disarmed had no chance or ability to fight back. They were knocked unconscious by the soldier who dismounted. .

After the beating, the two soldiers rode their horses towards the cemetery of the Black Crow Church, leaving two unconscious policemen and 24 trembling Huaguo workers by the side of the road.Worried about being accused of absconding in fear of crime, the Chinese laborers did not dare to run around, and stayed on guard until it was dark before returning to Armadillo Town to call for help.

After asking his subordinates to bring these Chinese laborers back to Armadillo Town, the deputy sheriff left a few young police detectives who were impulsively beating others at the end.A Chinese man surnamed Huang had just rescued several wounded people in the town from the wilderness, and within a few days of this incident, they beat these Chinese workers violently in full view. The scene was a bit unreasonable.

Regardless of whether these young policemen listened to his words, after a few casual criticisms, he hurried back to the town and knocked on the door of Sheriff Baker's house.

Sergeant Baker was also awakened by the gunshots. After the discussion between the two, Sergeant Baker, who stayed up all night with red eyes, decided to find the man out of the town first.When the two unconscious and wounded woke up slowly, they did not find the missing Chinese laborer, but during the search process, they still found some clues from the mouths of the people.

A fine horse was stolen from the stables last night, and someone heard the sound of the horse's hooves in the early morning. Among them, Mr. Peel, the leader of the passenger caravan, not only heard the sound of the horse's hooves, but also saw someone riding a horse towards the armadillo. Northeast of town fled.

"Northeast? Pike Basin?"

The faces of the two sheriffs became serious.

Pike Basin,

It is the third and northernmost road from the Hennigan Heights in the north to the Cactus Spring to Armadillo Town.If the road in the middle meant climbing and the road to the south meant detours, the Pikes Basin road meant danger.

The name is Basin, but it’s actually more like a swirling mass of open space surrounded by steep and towering valleys. In the true sense, there are high mountains, dense cliffs, and ravines.In the past, travelers who didn't know the way often rushed in and lost their way, and were trapped for three to five or seven days. After that, since a group of robbers who didn't know where they came from hid in Pike Basin, no one was able to escape from the valley alive. walk out.

The reason why the two sheriffs felt troubled was not only the robber hiding in the basin, but also the identity of the escaped Chinese laborer. Is he the spy of the Chinese country at the mouth of the cloth shop barracks?
If it was true, would the Clothesburg barracks use this as an excuse to attack? After all, both of them knew in their hearts that Colonel Beckett in the Clothesburg barracks had been thinking about Armadillo Town for a long time.

They didn't know that Colonel Beckett really didn't have the skill at this moment.In the office of the Closchenburg barracks, he was listening to the report of the captain of the search company cavalry.

"disappeared?"

The exquisite silver spoon was gently stirred in the fragrant coffee, and no emotion could be heard from the Colonel's tone:
"Didn't I order that no one should leave the camp?"

"Reporting to the colonel, I ordered them to go back to clear the ambush on the battlefield. At that time, the Howling Wolf Gang had just withdrawn, and you hadn't had time to give the order."

"No one came back?"

"Yes. According to the schedule, the ten of them should have returned yesterday evening, but there has been no movement until now. I am worried that Mayor Barry may have made a mess again."

The cavalry captain's face was very ugly:

"Currently, our search company's soldiers are attrition rate a bit fast, I'm worried..."

The silver spoon touched the coffee cup, and the stirring stopped.

"Tell me."

"Yes! The search company originally had 120 people. In yesterday's battle, a total of 46 people were killed or missing, including 32 ordinary soldiers and 14 from the search company. The 50 people who disappeared with the second lieutenant, and the ten people who are suspected to be missing today, are still left in the search company..."

The cavalry captain looked up at Colonel Beckett with a natural expression, then shook his teeth:

"There are 45 people left."

The search company is an elite, the elite of the army, carefully selected and selected from many soldiers, and it was also spent with real money. As a result, two-thirds of the effort was lost in less than five or six days. No one can accept it.

But Colonel Beckett couldn't get angry because more than half of them disappeared with his own brother.

"How is the morale of the army?"

"Please rest assured, Colonel, they can still fight for you."

"Very well, their military pay is doubled this month."

The little spoon in the coffee stirred again:
"If those ten people have not returned by tomorrow, the death benefits will be paid to their families."

"The attack of the Howling Wolf Gang and the disappearance of the soldiers of the search company must have something to do with our Mayor Barry, otherwise the timing would not be such a coincidence. He does so many things just to distract our troops and attention, so that Get the secrets of the Chinese labor camp."

The colonel was talking to himself, as if explaining:

"He's cut all his ties to Armadillo now, and he's hiding just so we can find him. As long as we spread our efforts to find him, he and his gang of wild dogs will come back. , bite us again."

Speaking of which, Colonel Beckett looked at the cavalry captain:
"Say, what should we do now?"

"Steady! As long as we hold back, he will jump out by himself."

"Don't wait for him to jump out, as soon as the matter of the Chinese labor camp is over, I will dig him out of the ground with my own hands, and treat him well in a way called 'cutting' in Huaguo. Those gangsters in Zhuo Town must not be let go."

The cavalry captain didn't know what "cut" meant, but he still felt the cruelty and pain in Colonel Beckett's flat tone.

"Let my soldiers know that not only their comrades-in-arms are missing, but even my own brother has not been heard from. I will definitely give them a satisfactory explanation for this. You should also be steady here, maybe Tomorrow, the day after tomorrow at the latest, something will happen to lure us out, and then you must..."

"report!"

The new orderly walks in:
"Our spies in Armadillo Town reported that a suspicious Chinese spy was found in Armadillo Town. In addition, there are traces of two soldiers from our search company. These are detailed information." The orderly handed a document to Colonel Beckett with both hands. , then turned and left.

Looking at the detailed content on the document, Colonel Beckett smiled.

"I thought that the mayor of Barry would wait for a day or two, but he couldn't help it now. He was too impatient."

"I'm going to appease the soldiers now."

"No, since the mayor of Barry made such a deliberate invitation here, it's a bit unreasonable for us not to cooperate."

Under the surprised eyes of the cavalry captain, Colonel Beckett threw the undrinked cup of coffee together with the cup into the trash can.

"Pass my order and assemble the team."

"Yes!"

At the same time, on a boulder high ground to the north of Armadillo Town, Dai Pingan was watching the movement of Armadillo Town with a telescope.

All of this was designed by Dai Pingan. From the very beginning, he never thought that the civilians in Armadillo Town could fight against the military camp in Buchanbao, even though all the mobs had guns and were proficient in smashing and looting.

He just wanted to muddy it first, who knew that there was still Mayor Barry hiding in the muddy water, a vicious dog that could only bite but not bark.

An enemy of an enemy is not necessarily a friend, but that doesn't mean he can't help the other.Since Colonel Beckett is catching people everywhere in order to seal the secret, let him make a fish that slipped through the net to catch him.

Hei Sande, who pretended to be a Chinese laborer, did not really enter the Pike Basin, but returned after going around the intersection of the valley.After digging the tomb all night and riding a horse around for a long time, he was a little tired. He was resting with his head down on the stone, and he didn't even have an appetite for the breakfast that Hei Erqing brought him.

"Master Dai, do you think that fat pig sheriff will listen to us and cooperate with us?"

Beside Dai Ping'an, Hei Erqing also held up a telescope and looked in the direction of Armadillo Town, but after looking for a long time, he couldn't see any results.

"It's hard to say. People are unpredictable. Who knows what Sergeant Baker is thinking."

"Does he dare to betray us again?"

Hearing Dai Ping'an's words, Hei Erqing was a little anxious:
"He has handed in the nomination certificate!"

Hei Erqing was right. For himself, for his family, and for Armadillo Town, Sergeant Baker agreed to cooperate with Dai Pingan.Like Mr. Drew and Peel, Sergeant Baker also made his own promise, personally strangled to death the two search company soldiers captured by Dai Pingan, and their bodies were still hidden in Sergeant Baker's study.

In Dai Ping'an's words, if he cooperates, Sergeant Baker will be the hero who leads the people of Armadillo Town against the soldiers of Buchanbao;

With such a vicious idea, Hei Erqing didn't believe that Sergeant Baker dared to have other ideas. In the end, his suspicion was met with a sneer from Dai Pingan.

"People's hearts, who can say for sure. These days, if you don't peel off the layers of human skin, who knows whether it's a human or a ghost hidden inside."

Dai Pingan also put down the binoculars and stopped watching:

"Have you ever heard a saying: 'Humans know that ghosts are terrifying, ghosts know that people are poisonous!' I would rather sleep in a grave with horrible ghosts than stand with living people who can't guess their hearts."

"Master Dai, your words are a bit scary."

"Scary? If you can, you can ask us to bring back the car body and see if they find this sentence scary."

Dai Pingan pulled out a cigarette and put it in his mouth, Hei Erqing immediately lit a match:

"The front feet were still desperately working for others, but the back feet were sold by others. More than 40 people died without knowing the reason, so they lost their lives on the road in a daze. You said it was wronged or not."

"Injustice, of course it's wrong, Master Dai, you are kind enough to help them bring the corpse back, otherwise their family members would still be waiting in Armadillo Town."

"Kindness? Bullshit kindness, I'm just afraid."

Taking a deep breath, Dai Pingan threw the half-smoked cigarette on the ground and crushed it with his feet:

"I'm really afraid that one day, I will become like the mayor of Barry, who will sell you and let you die outside for no reason. I only do this in the hope that someone will collect your corpses for you at that time." .”

A gust of wind blew, and the others stood or sat, all raised their heads and looked over, only Dai Pingan didn't notice this at all, and continued talking.

"What do you think of Huang Feihong? I think he is quite reliable. Let him be the corpse collector, collecting corpses for you and mine."

The black robe wrapped around his body whistled in the cold wind, and Dai Pingan spoke in a calm tone, as if making a wish, more like explaining the funeral.Hei Erqing, who was standing next to him, felt his hairs stand on end, and managed to force a smile on his face.

"Master Dai, you~ you're joking."

Hei Erqing worked hard to organize the language:

"Although you are a little weird and a little crazy, but you have nothing to say about loyalty. You are the first to go up and the last to go when it comes to anything. You will never trouble your brother if you can handle it yourself. Master Dai, I don't care. I believe that you will betray us, and I don't believe that you will do things that are sorry for us."

"Really?"

Dai Pingan asked lightly.

"real."

Hei Erqing's tone was very certain.

Dai Pingan breathed a sigh of relief and smiled gratifiedly:

"Thank you."

Then he glanced at the others:

"You think so too? You believe me too?"

Bill, who was fiddling with an old rifle, didn't speak, but nodded heavily. Duan Tianlei and Wang Dali, like Hei Erqing, stood beside Dai Pingan.

"I believe in Master Dai!"

"I believe in Master Dai!"

They both answered in unison,

Duan Tianlei was standing on the right, with his black hair fluttering in the wind, revealing his sinister eyes;

Wang Dali stood on the left, with a dull face, he directly squeezed his fist under the sandbag and made a bang.

Dai Pingan set his sights on the last person, the most capable and down-to-earth Hei Sande.He didn't know why, he lowered his raised head again, hesitated for a long time, and the taciturn man finally uttered four words:

"I believe too!"

"it is good!"

The military spirit is available, Dai Pingan couldn't help applauding and laughing, and at this moment, Duan Tianlei was moved.

Two eagle claws moved up and down, locking the throat and right hand respectively. On the other side, Wang Dali grabbed his left arm with one hand and pressed his shoulder with the other, pressing hard on the body that was still about to twist.

Dai Pingan was still laughing, but his laughter became lower and lower. He took the rifle handed over by Bill and held it upside down in his hand.

"wore……"

Hei Erqing was not Huang Feihong, not to mention that Wang Duan and Wang Duan suddenly made an attack. He was pinned to the ground without even a chance to struggle, his arms were twisted behind his back, and Tianlei's eagle claws on his throat made him even more angry. Couldn't even utter a complete sentence.

"Since you believe me, don't hide, just take a moment, soon."

Under Hei Erqing's frightened eyes, Dai Ping'an raised his rifle

"Snapped!"

(End of this chapter)