Chapter 622 We Have to Stop Him
On the grassland, the old cowboy, Zhang Heng, two brothers Wendy and the deputy police chief were sitting on the ground around a bonfire.
On both sides of them were the miners and farmers in Bliss Town. Although the two sides decided to act together, they were completely different from each other. There was no communication at all. They were doing their own things, and they looked at each other with confusion in their eyes. Full of hatred.
A look of worry flashed across the old cowboy's face.
"What?" Zhang Heng asked.
"Our manpower is still a bit too small, and we also lack combat experience, and there are still internal conflicts. If we face the Cook Gang in this state, it will probably be a disaster."
Zhang Heng did not answer the old cowboy's question, but asked, "Do you know much about Cook?"
"No, most of them are still my impressions of him when we lived in the town. He is a very easy-going person. Like his wife and daughter, the family are devout Puritans. We were all the first to arrive in the town. A group of people were riding in a caravan. I was only six years old at that time. People today may have a hard time imagining the difficulties and dangers we encountered along the way. There were bandits, Indians, and guys with bad intentions everywhere. We have experienced many tough battles, and Cook is the best marksman among us. It is hard to imagine that a gentle man like him can fight so bravely.
"He was the best of us, a natural leader, a master of marksmanship, and caring for everyone. Without him, we wouldn't have made it to the settlement. When the town was first established, we unanimously elected him to be the Sheriff." , but he refused. He is a man who puts his family first. After he opened his own ranch, he wanted to spend the rest of his time with his wife, so we chose old Thompson as the Sheriff.
"He is also a respectable and good man, but unfortunately he did not even sit in this position for a year. He went to help the widow in the town collect debts and was ambushed by the debtor and his two brothers. They shot They beat him to death. One of them was later caught and hanged in the next town. The other two are still missing. Some said they fled to Japan. Some said they ran into bandits and were killed. Others said They changed their names and joined the army. Anyway, they couldn't be found.
"Then there was Maurice. Maurice worked for four years and was shot in one eye during a firefight with a group of bandits who came to the town. However, he miraculously survived. However, two years later he was still Retired from the position of Sheriff. Then came Thompson Jr., who was the son of Thompson Sr. During this period, Cook had two children. The first was a boy, but unfortunately he could not survive, and then a girl. Daughter, Mary, I think the Cooks gave this daughter as much love as they gave to their first child.
"Cook originally wanted a third child, but in the end her wife died in childbirth, and neither the adult nor the child could be saved. Cook was depressed for a while, but fortunately he still had his daughter, and Mary allowed him to succeed. He came out of the haze and embraced life again, and then Matthew appeared. Matthew's father was an Indian from the Apache tribe, and his mother was a British immigrant. His birth was an accident, because he had Being of Indian ancestry, everyone in the town disliked him.
"I had a fight with him when he first came here. At that time, I was just a young man and couldn't tell the difference between right and wrong. I just beat him because I didn't like him, but I didn't expect that after this fight, we would end up with each other. We became friends, and Matthew said that he came to town and wanted to find a job, but at that time I was just a poor boy, so I recommended him to Cook, because I knew that if there was anyone in town who had the heart to accept him, That must be Cook.
"As expected, although Matthew didn't know anything at that time, he was diligent, open-minded and eager to learn. It was obvious that Cook liked him very much. He not only taught him how to ride horses and shoot, but also kept him at home for meals from time to time, treating him as his His own son, most of the people in this world are blind idiots. Only a very few people can see through a person's gender, race, appearance, and see the shining point deep in his heart. Cook has this ability.
"You all know what happened next, so I won't say more. Matthew married Mary, and then that unfortunate incident happened. To this day, I don't know whether what we did that night was right or wrong. ." The old cowboy paused, "But then I thought about it again, and I think it was no accident that things got out of hand that night. At that time, most of us decided to avenge Mary because of a sudden impulse, but with Cook's cleverness He Shumi, it is impossible for him not to know the situation we will face after killing Ruben's people, so he should have made up his mind from the beginning to kill everyone in the town.
"At that time, he was probably full of disappointment with the people in the town. Considering that he had done so many things for the town, the people in the town should have supported him. However, when Mary was killed, few people were willing to stand up. Around him, it gave him a taste of betrayal.
"I heard what happened later. After the three of us broke up, he probably went to the East Coast alone and killed the director of the Union Pacific Railroad. Then he came back and founded the Cook Gang. These ten For many years, the Cook Gang has been the most powerful and feared gang in the West. They robbed trains, ransacked towns, and even fought head-on with the incoming Rangers. Of course, there were times when they suffered heavy losses, and even For a time, some people thought they had disappeared, but not long after, they would appear again and become more ferocious and powerful.
"Except for the larger towns, small towns like Glen live in fear of the Cook Gang." The old cowboy looked into Zhang Heng's eyes, "I tell you these past events because I want you to know The scary thing about Cook is that once a person with all kinds of excellent qualities like him decides to do evil, the damage he can cause will definitely be much greater than that of an ordinary robber. I don’t know what happened to him after the three of us separated. What finally prompted him to take this step, but we have to stop him.
"If he was only obsessed with revenge at the beginning, then everything he did afterward had long been out of the scope of revenge. His hands were stained with the blood of innocent people, not just those of big shots, but more ordinary people. Civilian, because he didn't know how many children lost their fathers, wives lost their husbands, and even entire families were slaughtered by him. What happened to Bliss was not accidental. If he is allowed to continue like this, I don't know how many crazy things he will do." The old cowboy said solemnly.