Matthew's face suddenly changed when he heard the words, "I swear, if you dare to do anything to Jane and Wendy, I will kill you, Cook, no matter how far you go, no matter how many people are around you, no matter what happens between us. No matter how many times there's been contact, I'll run after you and put a bullet in your head."
"Very well, this anger is what I need." The hunchbacked old man suddenly closed his mouth when he said this, and then saw Jane walking over with tea and cookies, and said at the same time, "What interesting things are you talking about?" thing?"
"Yeah, I told Matthew that we went fishing together before." The hunchbacked old man took the teacup and thanked him with a smile. "I don't know if he told you about it. We lost our way while hunting. , I came to a small stream, I don’t know if we were the first to discover it, but there are too many salmon there, almost crowded together, one next to the other, Each one is very fat, Matthew and I don’t even need to use any fishing gear, we just need to reach out to catch them, and they don’t have any defenses, just waiting for you to catch them, which makes me very curious , what made them like this?"
"What is it?" Jane asked with interest.
"It's Mrs. Life. It's life that made them like this. For a long time, they had no natural enemies. This stream provided them with a lot of food, so they gradually lost their vigilance against the outside world. In the brief happiness, until one day danger comes, they forget even to escape."
The hunchbacked old man took a sip of tea and continued, "Seeing them reminds me of the society we live in now, isn't it just like this creek, it does its best to maintain order and let the fish living in it Can reproduce as much as possible, all these laws, economic order, God... all of this is creating an illusion of prosperity, making people feel at ease, willing to be domesticated, and lose their self-instinct, but you know what Ma'am, When the danger does come, none of these things will save you, neither your laws, nor money, nor God, will save you."
After Cook finished speaking, the living room fell into silence.
Jane tried hard to squeeze a smile on her face, "... To be honest, your words scare me a little, sir."
"Really, then I apologize for that, ma'am. By the way, the tea you make is delicious." Dee, "You are lucky to have a mother who is an ingenious cook and an excellent cook, little girl."
Wendy was noncommittal when she heard the words, but instead asked, "How is your harvest?"
"What?"
"You said that stream was full of salmon. How was your catch that day?"
"Oh, great, we didn't catch deer, but we did catch a lot of fish, and I had to take off my coat and wrap up what I couldn't fit, but even so, the fish we caught Compared with what is left in the creek, it is still insignificant, your father and I have to eat grilled fish for several days, and I don’t want to smell the fishy smell for a long time after that.” The hunchbacked old man seemed to be caught in the memory , said with a smile.
Matthew, who had been silent all this time, said, "Okay, Mr. Cook and I have something to talk about, Wendy, why don't you and mom go upstairs first."
"Okay, then we'll leave the living room to you men." Jane smiled politely at the hunchbacked old man again.
However, the next moment her smile suddenly froze on her face.
Because the hunchback old man pulled out a revolver from his waist and pointed at her, "I like you, dear, really, you remind me of my own daughter, I really hope this scene has never happened, But... I need you to help my husband come to his senses, because he just wouldn't listen to anything I said, and I think it's time for life to reveal itself to him."
After speaking, he pulled down the hammer behind the barrel.
Jane's breathing suddenly became rapid, her eyes widened, and she looked at a loss. At the same time, Matthew on the other side also straightened up from the seat, like an angry cheetah, trying to pounce on him, but ended up hunchbacked The old man drew another pistol in his left hand and pointed it at him.
"It's not your part yet, my boy, be patient."
"You don't know what you're doing."
"On the contrary, I know exactly what I'm doing." The hunchbacked old man smiled.
"What the hell do you want, Cook? If you kill my wife, I'm even less likely to join your Cook gang."
"About that, let's wait and see... I'll kill your lovely wife first, and then I'll take your daughter when things in Lincoln County are over, but in return, I'll give you the Cook Gang, and you can Borrow their power to find my whereabouts. Many of them have lived with me for quite a long time. They know my hobbies, places I like to go, and even where my old friends live, and you All you have to do is to get words out of their mouths and let them bring you to me willingly.
"Don't worry, they are easy people to get along with, as long as you understand their temper and give them what they want, they will treat you as their own, so you may lose two family members, but you can Harvest more than forty brothers, although sometimes you will find them a bit noisy... But you will get used to it, I can give you a whole year, don't let me down, my child."
"Don't do this, Cook, I will kill you when I find you!" Matthew stared angrily.
"If you have the ability, I don't mind much."
"If you don't let my mother go, I will kill you too." Wendy on the other side also said.
"Hahaha," Cook burst into a burst of laughter when he heard the words, as if amused by the childish nonsense, but the next moment his laughter stopped abruptly because he saw the hand in Wendy's hand. shotgun.
Unlike her mother, Wendy had heard the old cowboy's stories and knew her father's whereabouts, so when the hunchbacked old man appeared, she knew who he was, but Wendy didn't act like an ordinary girl. Any look of fear and fear.
Instead, she buried everything in her heart, and there was no emotional fluctuation on her face from the beginning to the end, so even an old Jianghu like Cook was deceived by her. And Wendy was silently waiting...waiting.
When Matthew and Cook confronted each other, she finally found the opportunity to secretly take out the shotgun she had hidden behind the cabinet. She forced herself to calm down and recalled the shooting method Zhang Heng gave her in her head. Then he picked up the shotgun as fast as he could and aimed at Cook's heart.