48 Hours a Day

“We tried to solve this by law, but the Pacific Union Railway Company was very powerful, and it was their thing not to fix the railroads for your town, and the towns with railroads were growing faster and more and more new immigrants, on the contrary, it was difficult to get the town's goods out… We were in a small town with fewer than 50 people, and everyone was expecting the railroads to be repaired and made better, and Ruben obviously knew that, so he had to blackmail the town's sheriff to cover it up.

The old cowboy also seemed to be in reminiscence, pausing to continue, "The sheriff of the town was Mr. Thompson, who stood entirely with the people of Pacific Union Railroad, just like their loyal dog, and the Thompson medal bitten Mary to death by a nearby bandit. ”

“Afterwards, we wanted to give Thompson and the Pacific Union Railway through the rest of the town, but we found that no one was willing to stand with us, and everyone wanted railroads more than justice was done, which is why lucky horseshoes were born, and Cook said to go to the sheriff of TM, and if no one could do justice to us, we would create justice for ourselves.

“... in addition to us, Cook wrote to two of his friends who arrived in town, and another cowboy who worked for Cook, six of us, all members of the Lucky Horseshoe. ”

Hearing Zhang Heng interrupt the old cowboy here, “Is that horseshoe iron branding on your chest left behind by joining the lucky horseshoe iron?” Zhang Hengzheng suspected that the latter was related to the main task because he had seen this mark while searching for old cowboys at the mouth of the river.

“Yes,” the old cowboy admitted, "Matthew and Cook also had it, but Matthew later cut a scar in that spot in order to get rid of the brand, which was the later thing, anyway, when the six of us arrived, masked our faces, touched the black and came to Ruben's group's place, intending to kill them all when they were drunk and unprepared, but then things started to get out of control... There were ten people on Ruben's side, all but two of his playmates, the rest were assigned to his director's father's security staff, but those guys were embroidered pillows.

“Matthew went to the front and directly killed the only two sober people in the house, and then we started killing people, but in addition to Ruben's, there were two goblins in the house, and I had an argument with Cook over whether to kill those two goblins, and Cook said they might have been there when Mary was killed, but I said we couldn't be sure, we were here to get revenge, not kill innocent people, just when we were arguing, a goblin wanted to sneak out, so one of Cook's friends chased her out, shot her directly, and he came back and killed another.

“Immediately afterwards... Sheriff Thompson heard the gunshots and rushed in. He pulled out his gun and tried to shoot me. I couldn't help but rob him and kill him before he did. By that time, everything was messed up. Cook told us that it was too late to go back. Everyone in town knew the resentment between us and Ruben. When the new sheriff took office, we would still have a hard time escaping. Since that is the case, let's just get ahead of ourselves and kill everyone in town. ”

“So you really slaughtered the whole town?” Wendy asked.

“Yes, men and women, from the elderly to the children, we shot all the creatures we could see in front of us, and I'll always remember that night, everything in front of me was red, and we didn't leave a living thing, and I said earlier that we lived in a small town, so we all knew each other, and there were some people who even talked to me during the day, and that night I had to kill them myself.

“The battle was almost one-sided in the early days, but then more and more people heard gunshots being armed, especially the last two families, who had sons, blocked the door with tables and beds, shot at us from the window on the second floor, it was a bloody battle that lasted until dawn, and there were only three living people left in the town, Matthew and Cook, and almost everyone was wounded. I don't know what that means, but it must have gone beyond the bounds of revenge. ”

The old cowboy's eyes were filled with regrets, “After that, the three of us sat in the middle of town, looking at each other, no one talked to each other, and then Cook dragged a broken leg home and split the money he had saved from opening his ranch with us, and in the afternoon the three of us ran off with things. ”

“Matthew and I both chose to remain anonymous, live the lives of ordinary people, Matthew went to Lincoln County, opened a ranch with the money in our hands, married a wife and son, and I wandered aimlessly for a while. Finally, I came to Glenn Town and drove away two little gangsters harassing extortion in a bar, unexpectedly chosen by the locals as sheriffs, and stayed here. As for Cook... I only learned from him that he had formed the Cook Gang, claiming responsibility for what happened in the previous town, and I knew that he was protecting us, especially Matthew, who loved Matthew, who had always treated him as his own son, especially after Mary died, and Matthew was the only family in the world.

“I don't know why he wants to break Matthew's quiet life, more than a decade after what happened, which makes no sense.” The old cowboy frowned.

“But he did find Matthew.” Zhang Hengdao, "if you want to stop him, you have to stop them before they get to Lincoln County. I have 15 people on my side. They can get to Glen Town in the afternoon. How much can you get there? ”

Zhang Heng was looking for the miners and farmers of Bliss. This matter could not be helped by other law-enforcement agents. After a long night of negotiations, the people of Bliss finally reached a preliminary consensus to solve this external threat first. They picked out 15 of the best shooters. Zhang Heng and Wendy walked first to Glenn Town to look for old cowboys, and they followed.

“Four, that's the four people you met that day.” Old Cowboy Road, “only they can be trusted. ”

“I'm sorry, are you talking about the guy I tied up and threw on the side of the road?” Wendy mumbled, "Can the guy hold on, how old does he look? ”

“It's better than nothing, so that we have 20 people, and while the numbers are a little low, we can at least fight.” Zhang Heng took the conversation.