48 Hours a Day

On the edge of the Gobi, a group of people were on horseback, and they had been wandering the wild for a week, and everyone looked like a servant, but closer and closer to the final destination, Yining.

However, when they arrived at their destination, they found that it had already been swallowed up by the fire, leaving only the scorched black remains of the land.

Matthew turned his back, stood in the middle of town, looked up, broken walls everywhere, and couldn't find any creatures.

“I told you, they're all dead in the fire. ”

If Zhang Heng is also here, he must be able to recognize the person who spoke, the bailiff named Morton who happened to meet him on the first night of this copy, but the latter now looks in poor condition. His eyes are bruised, his nose beam bones are broken, his teeth are also dropped four or five, he is tied up on horseback, and there is a slight leak in speech.

“I don't believe your mysterious Oriental shooter story… I've lived in Lincoln County for so long I've never seen such a person.” Matthew frowned.

“Like I said, if I hadn't met him that night, I wouldn't believe that there would be such a strange man in the world, like a mysterious ghost, nobody knew where he was coming from, and then I went to the nearby town in the direction where he was coming from, and nobody had ever seen such a man, like, suddenly appearing on this Gobi, killing seven good guys in a bar with 40 kilos of gold and what you were looking for, and I did hear him go to Lincoln County when I met him. ”

“Then we'll go to Lincoln County too.” The old man with the hunchback said.

“No, I'm not going to Lincoln County with you.” Matthew shook his head, "don't think I don't know what you're hitting, Cook. In Bliss, you deliberately revealed my name to people in town, and when you robbed this guy, you said," Matthew pointed to Morton on the horse's back, "and you had to take me with you. Do you want me to connect with the Cooks this way? ”

“You were part of the Cook Gang or one of its founders.” The old man with the hunchback laid idly.

“No, I had nothing to do with your gang, and Lucky Horseshoe had nothing to do with the Cook gang.” Matthew, “are you acting for me, Cook? You and this Morton guy, you actually made a deal, right, to go around in such a big circle to trick me into going with you to Lincoln County. ”

“You're looking at me a little too high, kid.” Old Humbleback, he touched a box of chewing cigarettes, "I'm not one of those people at Pacific Union Railroad who can get bailiffs to serve me. I've been thinking about how to get you to Lincoln County with me all along the way, but it looks like this problem has been solved by itself, which is probably fate's choice. ”

“I don't believe in fate.” Matthew.

“I didn't believe it once, but if it wasn't fate, we should be sitting in your house together now, you holding your son, I holding my granddaughter, we were drinking beer, talking about life trivialities that weren't worth mentioning, and Mary... Mary was in the kitchen preparing dinner. ”

Cookton went, “But you're right, there's really no fate in the world. Some of it's just a weak predation. I don't regret the establishment of the Cook Gang. I just regret being too late to realize this. I blinded my eyes to the happy life I once had, just like you are now, but the cruel life will wake us up one day. I heard you married another woman in Lincoln County and gave birth to a daughter. ”

“Things between us, don't involve them.” Matthew warned.

The old man with the hunchback laughed, “It's not me you should worry about, it's your fate. Aren't you worried about what happened to Mary again? ”

Matthew was silenced.

“Look how fragile your so-called happiness is, there are so many big people in the world like the directors of Pacific Union Railroad, Matthew, you're just an ant under their feet, you don't know when that boot will fall on your head, you know where I went after the three of us split up? ”

“Where?”

“I took the train to the East Coast. ”

“Then why did you come back? ”

“What, you think I'm going to New York to retire?” The old man on the hunchback laughed, "No, I went to the end of the revenge, I was going to kill the director of Pacific Union Railway, I was ready to get caught and lost Mary, anyway, I didn't want to live any longer... things went better than I thought, I didn't have much effort to sneak into the target's home, the guy on the east coast was unlike us, they were barely alert, I even had a chance to enjoy his wife in front of him before I did it, and then I noticed the way he looked at me, so frightened and helpless, like a rainy puppy, that was when I suddenly realized that I had become his destiny. ”

“What are you trying to say?” Matthew frowned.

“My point is that if you want to escape the tragic fate of this infinite cycle, you have to become destiny itself.” Cook said, "Join us, Matthew, no more appointing lucky chess pieces, we have more than forty brave and fearless men, come and go like wind, good shooting skills, the whole west is our hunting ground. ”

“If you have more than forty men, why should I join you? ”

“Because you're my family, Matthew, and I've always treated you like a son, because your descent is not popular in town, because I accepted you, taught you how to use a gun, how to ride a horse, and married your daughter to you, and you're like me when I was younger, join us, and I'll continue to guide you. ”

“Guiding me where, to hell with you? ”

“It's not a bad ending, you and I, we can kill Satan even if we go to hell.” The old man with the hunchback looked forward to Matthew.

And the latter shook her head, “No, Cook, I still have a wife and daughter, I can't be a bandit with you, revenge is over, we killed a whole town, it's over, I love Mary, not less than you, that's why I'm sure she doesn't want to see you like this, you just inflict the pain you once suffered on others, so what's the difference between you and Ruben? ”

“I'm stronger than him, that's why I survived.” Humbleback old man, “in this land, only a strong man can win the right to live for himself, unfortunately you are not strong enough, Matthew, but it doesn't matter, soon you will be strong, come on, son, let's welcome a new future together. ”