Chapter 621 Destiny

In the vast Gobi desert, a group of people are riding horses. They have been wandering in the wild for a week. Everyone looks dusty, but they are getting closer and closer to the final destination of Yining.

However, when they arrived at their destination, they found that the place had already been engulfed in fire, leaving only charred remains.

Matthew got off his horse and stood in the center of the town. Looking up, he saw ruins everywhere and no living creatures could be found.

"I told you, they all died in the fire."

If Zhang Heng was here, he would definitely be able to recognize the speaker. He was the bailiff named Morton whom he met by chance on the first night he came to this dungeon. However, the latter's current condition does not look very good. His eyes were bruised, his nose was broken, and four or five of his teeth were missing. He was tied to a horse and his speech was a little leaky.

"I don't believe your story about a mysterious oriental gunman... I have lived in Lincoln County for so long and I have never seen such a person." Matthew frowned.

"Like I said, if I hadn't met him that night, I wouldn't have believed that there would be such a strange person in the world. He was like a mysterious ghost. No one knew where he came from. After that, I I asked the nearby towns in the direction he came from, and no one had seen such a person. He seemed to suddenly appear in the Gobi, killed seven good guys in the bar, and carried 40 kilograms with him. The gold and the things you are looking for left. When I met him, I did hear him say he was going to Lincoln County."

"Then let's go to Lincoln County too." The hunchbacked old man said.

"No, I won't go to Lincoln County with you." Matthew shook his head. "Don't think I don't know what you are paying attention to, Cook. In Bliss, you deliberately revealed my name to the people in the town. "People, when you go to rob this guy," Matthew pointed at Morton on the horse, "you must also take me with you. Do you want to use this method to get me in touch with the Cook Gang?"

"You are a member of the Cook Gang and one of the founders." The hunchbacked old man said leisurely.

"No, I have nothing to do with your gang, and Lucky Horseshoe has nothing to do with the Cook Gang." Matthew said, "Are you putting on a show for me, Cook? You and this guy named Morton , you actually made an appointment, right? You went through such a big circle just to trick me into going to Lincoln County with you."

"You think too highly of me, kid." said the old man with a hunchback. He took out a box of chewing tobacco. "I am not one of those people from the Union Pacific Railroad Company. I can have the bailiffs serve me. I will be here all the time." I have indeed been thinking about how to let you go to Lincoln County with me, but it seems that this problem has been solved by itself now, this is probably the choice of fate."

"I don't believe in any bullshit fate." Matthew said.

"I didn't believe it before, but if it weren't for fate, we should be sitting together in your home now, you holding your son, I holding my granddaughter, and we are drinking beer while talking about things that are not worth it at all. While Mary...Mary was in the kitchen preparing supper."

Cook paused, "But you are right. There is no destiny in this world. There is only the law of the jungle. I don't regret establishing the Cook Gang. I just regret realizing it too late. I let myself have We were blinded by the happy life, just like you now, but sooner or later, the cruel life will make us wake up. I heard that you married another woman in Lincoln County and gave birth to a daughter."

"Don't involve them in the matters between us." Matthew warned.

The hunchbacked old man smiled and said, "What you should worry about is not me, but the fate in your mouth. Aren't you worried that what happened to Mary will happen to them again?"

Matthew fell into silence upon hearing this.

"Look, your so-called happiness is so fragile. There are too many big people in this world like the directors of Union Pacific Railroad. Matthew, you are just an ant under their feet. You don't know when that boot will fall. In my own head, do you know where I went after the three of us separated."

"where?"

“I took the train to the East Coast.”

"Then why did you come back?"

"What, do you think I'm planning to go to New York to retire?" The hunchbacked old man laughed, "No, I'm going to carry out my revenge to the end. I'm going to kill the director of the Union Pacific Railroad. I've already made plans to succeed. I was preparing to be caught, lost Mary, and I didn’t want to live anymore anyway... Things went smoother than I thought. I sneaked into the target’s house without much effort. Guys on the East Coast are different from us. They There was almost no alertness. I even had the opportunity to enjoy his wife in front of him before I started. Then I noticed the way he looked at me, so frightened and helpless, like a puppy caught in the rain. , it was at that moment that I suddenly realized that I had become his destiny.”

"What exactly do you want to say?" Matthew frowned.

"My point is, if you want to get rid of this endless cycle of tragic fate, you have to become fate itself." Cook said, "Join us, Matthew, stop being a pawn at the mercy of fate, we have four More than a dozen brave and fearless men, coming and going like the wind, with excellent marksmanship, the entire West is our hunting ground.”

"Since you already have more than forty subordinates, why do you still have to ask me to join you?"

"Because you are my relative, Matthew. I have always treated you as a son, because your bloodline is not popular in the town. It was I who accepted you, taught you how to use a gun, how to ride a horse, and gave you my daughter. By marrying you, you will be like me when I was young, join us and I will continue to guide you.”

"Guide me where to go and accompany you to hell?"

"This ending is not too bad. If you and I join forces, we can kill Satan even if we fall to hell." The hunchbacked old man looked at Matthew expectantly.

Then the latter shook his head, "No, Cook, I still have a wife and daughter. I can't be a robber with you. The revenge is over. We killed the entire town. It's over. I love Mary, no less than you. That’s why I’m sure she doesn’t want to see you become like this. You just inflicted the pain you once suffered on others. Then you and Ruben back then What’s the difference?”

"I'm stronger than him, that's why I survived." The hunchbacked old man said, "On this land, only strong people can win the right to survive for themselves. It's a pity that you are not strong enough Matthew, But it doesn’t matter, you will become strong soon, come on, kid, let’s face a new future together.”