The group of farmers Zhang Heng rescued from the church had just walked to the center of the town when they ran into another group of people.
The atmosphere suddenly became tense. As soon as the two sides met, they raised their weapons and pointed at each other.
The strong black man at the head said angrily, "Davidson, you bastards, you actually colluded with the Cook Gang and wanted to use the hands of those gangsters to kill us all!"
The guy named Davidson on the other side should also be the leader of the residents in the town, and he opened his mouth to argue, "Listen to me, Nicole, we just wanted to teach you a lesson, but we didn't expect things to develop to this extent. We did make a mistake." Wrong, we shouldn't trust the Cook gang."
"Tell these nonsense to those who died." Nichol said coldly, "Now those bastards have been killed by a good man named Zhang Heng, what are you trying to do in front of us? Do what they didn't do and drive us all to death?"
"Of course not. We just want to chat with you. We discussed just now. Considering your loss this time, we can raise $5,000 for you. Of course, we know that this money is far from enough to heal your loss of relatives and friends. pain... but at least it will make your life a little easier for the rest of your life."
"With you here, our life will never be easier." Nicole said angrily, "Also, you don't just want to compensate us for being so kind, do you have any nonsense, let's say it together."
Davidson nodded, "What happened to Sheriff Harper was a tragedy, but given the circumstances at the time, we had no other choice..."
Davidson was only halfway through when he saw Nicole spit on the ground. After that, Nicole's eyes swept over the people in front of him. No one dared to make eye contact with him, and they all lowered their heads, "You bastards, Shot him, thirty-two shots, each one of them, and they shot the sheriff of their own town, and they didn't kill him right away, they kept out of the way, and left him alone to die, must have Admitting that you white gentlemen are fucking good at it is eye-opening for a nigga like me."
"What can we do?" The owner of the grocery store couldn't help interjecting at this time, "The Cook gang is standing next to us and watching us with guns. If we don't do what they say, they will kill us." To kill us together."
"Nickel," Davison added, "everyone in the room feels guilty about what happened that day, our consciences are tormented, we've been punished, but that's the end of it, all we can do is move on There is no other way, as long as we can agree that Sheriff Harper died at the hands of the Cook Gang like everyone else, we will let you go."
"Why, are you worried that other people will know about the good deeds you have done? What kind of punishment is this? Do you know what punishment is? tm's punishment."
"Is it necessary to do this, Nichol, if I remember correctly, you have a bad relationship with Sheriff Harper, don't forget that he also hates blacks, and your people are often imprisoned by him Go to jail."
"Yeah, Harper's a nasty, uneducated old bastard, and I've thought a million times about taking a shot in that bald head, but when the Cook gang is going to kill us, no one but that Mr. Matthew, only this old bastard stood up... the whole town, he was the only one who stood up, you have to admit, that old bastard is quite kind, and then you killed the only kind person in the whole town."
"We didn't have a choice..." the grocer grumbled.
"You always have a choice. You have guns in your hands, and the number of them is no less than them, and you don't even dare to resist," Nichol sneered, "You are a bunch of cowards from tm, now, you can either start from us Get the hell out of here, or start a war, where is all this nonsense coming from?"
"Nicole, it's not that simple." Davidson was still explaining patiently, "You don't know the situation we are facing now. That guy named Zhang Heng killed the people who stayed behind in the town with the Cook gang, but Ku There are more than 30 people in the Ke Gang. They are all desperadoes with blood on their hands, not farmers and miners like you and me. When those people come back, we will face their wrath, so now we We must unite together to face the coming catastrophe, only in this way can we keep the town."
"Is your head broken, Davidson? Working with you after this kind of thing happened, we might as well just shoot ourselves in the head, who knows when the situation is not good, will you immediately Turn your guns, you can do anything to survive."
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While the two gangs were still confronting each other, Zhang Heng had quietly made a detour and returned to the outside of the hotel.
Wendy hurriedly moved the table against the door.
"Has anyone been here while I was away?" Zhang Heng asked.
"Yes, the owner of the grocery store, he ran over not long after you left, but he went looking for someone else before knocking on the door. What happened outside, I saw a lot of people." Wendy asked curiously.
"The people living in Bliss Town are mainly a group of miners and their families. Because mining caused the nearby water sources to be polluted, the crops died on a large scale, and the rest were sluggish, which aroused the anger of local farmers. The relationship between the two parties started to become more and more tense, and there was some uh... friction from time to time, until six months ago,
"A miner's boy and a farmer's girl went out to play, but only the boy came back, but the girl disappeared. The girl's father thought that the boy murdered the girl, so he asked some friends to rush to the boy's house. , killed the boy and his brother who was about to resist, but the girl returned home safely two days later, only to find out that she had quarreled with the boy, and in a fit of anger, she walked around alone and lost her way.
"So this time it was the turn of the miners to come to ask for an explanation... With guns, the peasants got the news in advance and organized manpower. A conflict broke out between the two sides, and three or four people were injured each. In addition, these peasants would come to the mine from time to time. Making trouble online, the contradictions are getting deeper and deeper.
"About a month and a half ago, an old man with a hunchback appeared in the town. While drinking in a bar, he heard the miners complain about this matter, so he told the miners that he could help the miners solve their troubles, as long as the miners were willing to pay six thousand For a few dollars, he said he could find someone to teach those farmers a lesson so that they would not dare to make trouble again.
"The miners discussed it and thought it was feasible, so they pooled the money, and then the hunchbacked old man came here with the Cook gang. They arrested the farmers and planned to kill them and their families. At the same time, in order not to let the miners in the town go back on their word, they also forced them to kill their own sheriff. The process... was quite cruel, so I won't describe it in detail, but I think their real purpose is not really just to make money. That six thousand dollars is your father."
"Is my father also related to this matter?" Wendy asked in surprise.
"Your father is not related to this matter, but to Cook, the leader of the Cook Gang, so everything makes sense. Remember the one-armed man of the Cook Gang who was hanged before? There is a reason for appearing in Lincoln County. I guess it is most likely to find your father. The guy pretending to be the sheriff doesn't know what the relationship between Cook and your father is, but there is no doubt that the two know each other. , oh, and maybe Sheriff Dolan of Glentown, all three of them are old acquaintances, and Cook threatened your father with the lives of these farmers to do something for him."