America 1881: Legend of the West

Chen Jianqiu led a group of people to the entrance of the town near the market.

There were not many people in the town, most of them went to the market, and the door of the police station was closed. There were a few tattered reward orders on the reward list, and the amount on them was pitifully small. Even so. , and no one seems to have finished it either.

So they swaggered into the town.

"Did Holmes say he was staying in a hotel?" Asuka asked.

"Well, that guy would rather hide in the house and study the map than sell horses with us." Sean curled his lips. He was originally left with Holmes by Chen Jianqiu, but the geologist said nothing. I am willing to stay with this chatty black man.

There is only one hotel in the town, and it's easy to find. It's the biggest one on the main road.

Chen Jianqiu and the others tied their horses to the hitching posts at the door and walked into the hotel.

The hotel is not big, but because it is during the market, people are coming and going, and the boss is the clerk, so he is very busy inside and outside.

"Excuse me, is there a Mr. Holmes living here?" Chen Jianqiu walked to the bar and tapped the table with his hand.

"I went out early in the morning and went to the market." The boss didn't even turn around. He took out a key ring from under the counter and greeted a new customer.

The boss was just talking nonsense. He had no time to pay attention to this group of people. Anyway, most of the people were in the market at this time.

He could only hold one thing in his mind, but he always felt that the name was very familiar. It seemed that someone came here earlier today, and later came back with a note or something.

Alas, forget it, the gentleman behind is still waiting for the door to open.

Chen Jianqiu and the others divided into three groups and searched the market, but could not find any trace of Holmes.

Several people met again at the market entrance.

"Have you asked about his whereabouts?" Chen Jianqiu asked.

Sean and Adam both shook their heads. Only Feiniao said that he had inquired from a second-hand painter, and the geologist followed the two men.

Chen Jianqiu asked Feiniao, "Have you asked clearly what those two people look like?"

Asuka took out a piece of paper from his arms and drew two faces on it: "I bought it for fifty cents."

The artist's skills were worthy of every painting he could not sell, and his brushwork and composition were very abstract. However, they quickly recognized the people in the painting because one of them had a raised beard.

"Could it be that these two were the bounty hunters who were chased outside yesterday?" Chen Jianqiu snorted, "These two started out earlier than us, could it be that they were chased all the way here?"

"Let's go back to the hotel and take a look."

The owner of the hotel was still busy. When he saw a few people walking in, without even looking at them, he went around to the back room to do something else.

Chen Jianqiu took out his revolver and fired a shot outside the door.

The sound of the gunshot was like a thunder. People in the hotel lobby squatted down with their heads in their hands. Some people on the street outside the door took cover, and some ran away, far away from the hotel door. of.

"Boss!" Chen Jianqiu raised his voice.

A trembling head poked out from behind the cabinet, and the boss's face turned pale.

"If you want money, I'll give it to you, don't, don't hurt me."

"Please help me open the door to Mr. Holmes's room." Chen Jianqiu tried his best to look pleasant.

The boss found the key ring and took them to the door of a room. He tried several keys but couldn't open it.

Adam was waiting impatiently behind, so he carried the boss to the back and kicked the door open.

Several people walked in.

"The treasure map and information are still there, and his luggage has not been taken away." Feiniao pointed to the human skin on the table by the window.

Chen Jianqiu walked over, collected the things, and put them into his arms.

"His horse is here too." Sean pointed through the window to the stable in the backyard, where the quarter horse previously assigned to Holmes was also parked.

"Everyone, gentlemen, two gentlemen also came to look for him in the morning. They came back later and left a note saying that if they saw a Chinese, they would give it to him."

"Where's the note?" Chen Jianqiu glanced at the boss, which almost made him wet his pants.

"Yes, at the front desk."

"Then why didn't you just give it to us when we first came here." Sean leaned forward.

"I, I was busy and forgot, hug, sorry." Surrounded by four men with fierce looks, the boss almost cried.

He walked back to the counter, took out the note from the drawer, and handed it to Chen Jianqiu.

Chen Jianqiu glanced at it, and it read crookedly: Come to Pitkin if you are brave enough, if you want to exchange for your accomplices.

He frowned, turned the note over, and handed it to Adam after confirming that there was nothing there.

Adam frowned too.

Putting aside the fact that the person who wrote this note has something wrong with his cerebellum and brain, why Pitkin? Could it be that this bounty hunter has something to do with Clark? But they obviously got along well yesterday.

The boss was about to cry but had no tears. When these four people stopped at the bar, all the people in his hotel ran away. Now except for them, there was no one in the lobby.

People from outside didn't dare to come in, and people stayed away from the hotel.

Because this town is small, there has been no sheriff for a long time. If this continues, what business will you still have?

But he was wrong, because someone really came in.

Just as Chen Jianqiu and the others were standing at the bar discussing the next countermeasures, they suddenly heard the sound of rapid horse hooves outside the door.

Several horses were parked outside the door,

The knights of the horse dismounted and walked towards the hotel with the sound of footsteps.

Judging from the footsteps, there were at least seven or eight people.

Anyone who dared to enter the hotel at this time must not be a kind person. Chen Jianqiu put down the note in his hand.

The hotel door was not closed, and several cowboy figures appeared at the door.

The cowboys raised their heads and saw Chen Jianqiu and the others standing at the edge of the bar, and were stunned for a moment.

Chen Jianqiu was also a little surprised, because the people opposite him obviously knew them. When he thought about it carefully, he realized that these people were the same people who were standing behind Clark last night.

After thinking for a moment, he figured out the purpose of these people.

Holmes, this unlucky man, Chen Jianqiu has lost count of the number of times he has been taken as a hostage. It seems that he is the most popular person for the truth.

"Next time you come, you'd better come a little earlier, maybe drive all night or something, our horses are very fast." Chen Jianqiu smiled.

The leading cowboy was also dumbfounded. He had set off yesterday after listening to Clark's instructions, but why was he still a step late.

However, since the kidnapping of their accomplices failed, let’s just kidnap them. The boss is too cautious. As long as he gave the order yesterday at the farm, so many things happened.

What "The Butcher of Chinatown", what "The Grim Reaper", bullshit!

Thinking of this, he reached for his waist, and the cowboys behind him seemed to have the same idea.

Within the next second, continuous gunshots rang out in the hotel, crisp and rapid.

The hotel owner lay on the floor holding his head. After the gunfire stopped, he dared to look at the door through the gap under the counter.

It didn't matter at this glance, he was almost frightened to death. There were corpses of cowboys lying everywhere.

"You're still three, and you haven't made any progress at all." Adam put the gun back into the holster.

"The one on the far left is mine, four to four. You didn't drink too much, did you?" Chen Jianqiu said angrily. He checked the gun in his hand and stuffed it back.

Adam adjusted his belt and smiled.

Chen Jianqiu adjusted his hat, stepped over the cowboy corpse at the door, and said to the person behind him:

"Let's go, target Pitkin!"

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