A Red Dead Redemption Story

Chapter 396 Who is it?

Anyway, Arthur really didn't expect that such a mess could become as complicated as it is now.

"Boss, what do you mean, that Vincent said he has nothing to do with him?" Carmen said while eating an apple she picked up from nowhere.

Arthur followed Maria who left Vincent's house at a distance, and replied to Carmen:
"He said it had nothing to do with him, but I didn't believe it."

"What's the reason?" Carmen took another bite of the apple and said:

"If he did this, would it be of any benefit to him?"

"Maybe, maybe not, I don't know."

Arthur and the others followed Maria through an alley, and then watched Maria knock on a door and walk in.

"Boss, I don't know if this is my imagination or something else. Why do I feel like you look a bit like that old lady from my family in this matter? Oh, let me think about it, oh, yes, paranoid, nothing. Wrong, that’s the word, do you know you’re like a paranoid old woman now?” Carmen said with a smile.

Maybe it's because Carmen is really familiar with Arthur. They wouldn't have dared to say this to Arthur before or to another person, at least they wouldn't have said it so straightforwardly.

Indeed, Arthur himself could feel it. He did seem a little paranoid in this matter.

Just like what Brydon said, Arthur now just wants to agree that what he believes is true, even if it is a lie.

Arthur didn't believe it, and didn't want to believe that Brighton had nothing to do with this matter.

If you have to ask why.

"Do you think it's possible that the final facts prove that the paranoid old lady in your family was right in the end? For example, he knew before you set off that you would definitely be unable to control your eyes and look at all kinds of women? "

Arthur said this and Carmen could only use a few dry laughs to cover up his embarrassment.

"Okay, this should be Maria's destination. She has been in for a while. Go knock on the door." Arthur ordered Carmen.

Carmen chuckled and adjusted the hat on her head.

By the way, just to mention it, since Arthur has always been dressed in a suit and a cowboy hat, now the people around Arthur and under Arthur are all dressing like this.

"Dong dong dong."

While knocking on the door, Carmen thought about whether to punch the person who opened the door directly or what to say.

But what Carmen didn't expect was that the person who opened the door was not the maid named Maria just now, but a boy of twelve or thirteen years old. He timidly looked at Carmen outside the door and asked:

"What's matter?"

"What about your elders?"

"..."

Facing the child's silence, Carmen opened the door directly, walked around the child and came to the house. She saw that there was a back door in the house, and Maria was not there at all.

Carmen quickly returned to the door and signaled Arthur to come over. She squatted down and asked the boy:
"Do you know the woman who came in just now?"

The boy shook his head.
"what happened?"

Carmen did not embarrass the silent boy, he got up and said to Arthur:

"Run away. This shouldn't be her home. However, given her cautious attitude, she still has to make sure she's not being followed when she gets home. Boss, there's something going on here."

It doesn't need to be said by Carmen, Arthur also knows that there is indeed something strange in it.

"Go and see if you can catch up. I'll wait for you here."

"I know." After saying that, Carmen went out from the back door to chase after her, while Arthur searched for any information that could be found in the house. After all, he didn't believe that Maria just randomly chose a house, and then there happened to be someone. There was a back door, and the door was not locked, and there was only one boy.

"What's your name?" Arthur asked without looking back while checking.

"..." The boy remained silent, neither running nor making trouble.

At this time, Arthur also successfully found a conspicuous photo frame on a cabinet in the house.

In the photo in the frame, a man and a woman stood solemnly in front of the background, and the woman held an infant child in her arms. However, only half of the photo was left, and the part that happened to be the man was taken away. Dismantled.

Judging from the woman's appearance, she must be Maria.

"Do you know what this is?" Arthur picked up the picture frame with one hand, took out a one-dollar bill from his pocket with the other hand, and came to the boy.

"photo."

"Very good." After Arthur handed him the one dollar bill in his hand, he took out another one and waved it in front of him, and then asked:

"What is the relationship between the person in the photo and you?"

"Papa and Mama."

As before, Arthur continued to hand the banknotes in his hand to the boy and took out another one.

"That woman just now, is she your mother?"

"..." The silence this time was obviously different from the first, and the boy looked very shaken.

It can only be said that in the United States, no one, from young children to 80-year-old women, can avoid being shaken by money.

Especially when a one-dollar banknote is shining brightly in front of you, and getting it requires only one answer from you, and the other party doesn't seem to care whether it's true or not, as long as you are willing to answer.

However, for Arthur, whether the boy is telling the truth or lying, they are all the result of the boy weighing the pros and cons.

Regardless of whether the boy answered yes or no, the answer he finally gave was of great reference significance to Arthur.

Soon after Arthur added the banknotes to three, the boy spoke.

"……no."

"She is not your mother. Why are you silent and hesitant? My child, look at the money in your hands. They can let you eat your favorite candies until you vomit. Do you want to lose them?" Arthur said seductively.

The boy shook his head, a little anxious, as if he was afraid that Arthur would really take the money back. He hurriedly explained:
"She is not my biological mother."

Interesting answer.

Arthur did not ask the boy any other questions, but sat on the chair and waited for Carmen to come back.

The boy didn't dare to run around. He held the banknotes in his hands and stood there quietly, motionless.

After some time, Carmen came back.

"Boss, I didn't catch up. I asked passers-by all the way, and then I found the front of an orphanage. When I asked again, no one said they had seen that woman."

After reporting what she had tracked, Carmen turned her attention to the boy standing there motionless. He keenly noticed the banknotes in the boy's hand, and the boy also noticed that Carmen was staring at the money in his hand When he came, he quickly put the hand holding the money behind his back.

"Let's go, take me to that orphanage." Arthur stood up and said.

"What's so interesting about the orphanage? That woman probably didn't run inside. I asked, but the caretaker told me that she hadn't seen her before."

(End of this chapter)