This time the situation was quite special, Zhang Heng completed the main task ahead of schedule even before the normal deadline.
The part of finding the lucky horseshoe was automatically achieved after meeting Cook and Matthew, and the task of settling in Lincoln County was also successfully achieved two weeks after he owned the ranch.
So there is actually no task pressure on him now.
And his life in the west has just begun. After redeeming the extra 24 hours, his dungeon time was extended to 520 days. Shortly after taming the bad boy, he also received his own bounty.
Among them, Cook provided him with 10,000 U.S. dollars. In addition, he killed a total of 20 Cook gang robbers and contributed another 8,000 U.S. dollars to him, so he finally got a total of 18,000 U.S. dollars. thousands of dollars.
This amount of money was undoubtedly a huge sum in the United States in the 19th century.
Repaying the material cost of building the house only cost less than 500 yuan, and the remaining money is enough for Zhang Heng to live the rest of his life carefree.
In addition, the old cowboy and the alcoholic sheriff came together that day, and brought back news of the remaining robbers in the Cook Gang. Although the farmers and miners were not very good at marksmanship, there were also old cowboys and young deputy Chang Zai, after a night of chasing and killing, they killed a few more people, and only four people escaped in the end, and they basically had no ability to do evil anymore.
However, in order to be safe, especially considering the safety of Matthew's family, Zhang Heng made another trip later and spent two months finding all four of them, two of whom were handed over by Zhang Heng to the local sheriff , and two others were shot dead by him when they resisted.
So far, the matter of the Cook Gang has come to an end.
However, Zhang Heng was not idle next time. In fact, there are quite a lot of things to learn in this western dungeon. In addition to equestrianism, there are also skills that Zhang Heng is more interested in, such as driving cattle and rapid fire. Rapid fire is not necessary. Having said that, Zhang Heng hopes to further improve his shooting skills through rapid-fire practice, and driving cattle... is actually a technical job.
Especially the use of the noose, a powerful cowboy can hit any prey. When the herd explodes, the cowboy’s technical and psychological qualities are especially tested. He must catch up with the cow in the shortest time, throw out the noose, its uniform.
This trick can also be used on people, and can quickly incapacitate a target with a rope without the use of lethal weapons.
In addition, Zhang Heng is also paying attention to the whereabouts of the game props in this round of dungeons, but unfortunately there is no news about this.
Zhang Heng now knows the source of the game props. Basically, every prop is related to a god, just like there is a certain god behind each dungeon. The dungeon is unique, but the god may not only stay in one dungeon. So according to Miss Bartender, there will be cases where there are no props in the dungeon.
Zhang Heng didn't know which god he was corresponding to in this dungeon, the God of the West? Cowboy God? The God of the Wild and the Statue of Liberty seem to make sense in this context, but since the other party didn't show up like the gods in the previous dungeons, it's clear that they don't want to have any further communication with Zhang Heng.
Naturally, Zhang Heng would not be idle to provoke the other party.
However, his peaceful life of grazing did not last long. Half a year later, he was still involved in the county war in Lincoln County. This was a war between the most powerful man in Lincoln County, Major Murphy, and the ranchers around the town. , which lasted for five full months. Of course, the early stage was full of harassment and assassination.
It was not until the fifth month that the war broke out completely. After Zhang Hengti joined the guns, the ranchers began to occupy an overwhelming advantage. In the end, the two sides reached a new contract. Major Murphy made a promise after all the gunmen hired were dead or injured. Cut the price of materials purchased from the east coast of the monopoly operation by half, and never raise the price again, and sell the two pastures in his hand at the same time, and never get involved in the livestock industry in Lincoln County.
At this point, the five-month battle for Lincoln County finally came to an end.
And Zhang Heng's biggest achievement in this county battle is not buying a ranch owned by Major Murphy at a low price. After all, he can't live here forever, and the amount of money is not meaningful to him. Not as big as others.
What really interested him was a gunslinger named Billy the Kid.
If Zhang Heng remembers correctly, this guy is the character with the most frequent appearances in later Western films, and there are many stories about him.
But the real person is not as wild and unruly as in the movie. On the contrary, he is quite young and very shy. He just came to Lincoln County recently, was employed by a rancher, and also joined the county battle in Lincoln County.
Zhang Heng has fought side by side with him a few times. Of course Billy the Kid is not as amazing as in the film and television works, but his shooting speed is indeed very fast, and Zhang Heng only paid for a glass of beer to let Billy the Kid shoot his own rapid fire. The training method was generously told to him.
In the last two months, Zhang Heng basically did nothing, just kept practicing drawing and shooting, and finally raised his shooting skills to lv3. He is no longer a problem with rapid-fire.
In addition, the two skills of riding and driving cattle were finally combined into one lv2 skill called cowboy.
Before leaving, Zhang Heng divided the remaining 15,000 yuan into two bags.
One bag was buried under the horse pen at Matthew's house, and the other bag was buried under the horse pen at his own house.
After that, he picked a day with good weather and took Wendy to hunt again.
The two returned to the woods where Zhang Heng and the Cook Gang fought. Time has passed, and the place has regained its calm. The hunter who stayed there chopped firewood and put it there.
The only thing left is probably the bullet marks on the door.
Zhang Heng and Wendy returned here before sunset with the rabbits and deer they had hunted. Zhang Heng lit a fire and began to skin and cut the meat.
Wendy sat in front of the campfire and watched him get busy.
"You haven't told me where you came from."
"Is that important?" Zhang Heng asked instead without looking back.
"Well... If I tell my child your story in the future, how should I tell him where you came from, how did you come here, and met me and set off on the journey together?"
"It wasn't my background that made us embark on the journey together, but your persistence at that time. You were the most stubborn kid I have ever seen. You knocked on my door before dawn. I was still I didn't wake up, but looking into your eyes, I knew that if I don't agree to this bear boy's request, this guy will use all kinds of methods to pester me in the next week, making me very annoying , can't do anything."
"Well, was I that annoying back then?" Wendy blushed.
"It's 10,000 times more annoying than you can imagine." Zhang Heng reached out and stroked her hair, "But, you saved your mother and father that night, that was really... a very brave move, Very brave, although you are a girl, you are stronger than most men I have met."
Wendy seemed a little embarrassed by the praise, "You saved our family that night."
"Yes, but if it wasn't for the time you bought with the shotgun, I wouldn't be able to arrive before Cook killed your mother." Zhang Heng said, "So, it can also be said that you changed your destiny. child."