Chapter 635: Chewing Tobacco and Horseshoes (End)

The situation this time 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 accomplished after meeting Cook and Matthew, and the task of settling in Lincoln County was also successfully accomplished two weeks after he took possession of the ranch.

So now there is actually no task pressure on him.

And his life in the west has just begun. After redeeming the extra 24 hours, his copy time was extended to 520 days. Shortly after taming the bad boy, he also received his share of the 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 in total, he finally received a total of 18,000 U.S. dollars. Thousand dollars.

This amount of money was undoubtedly a huge amount of money in the United States in the 19th century.

Less than five hundred yuan was spent on paying back the materials for building the house, and the remaining money was enough for Zhang Heng to live the rest of his life without any worries.

In addition, the old cowboy and the alcoholic Sheriff came together that day and brought back news about the remaining bandits of the Cook Gang. Although the farmers and miners were not very good at shooting, there were still old cowboys and young deputy policemen. Chang Zai, after a night of hunting, they killed several more people. In the end, only four people escaped. They basically had no ability to do evil anymore.

However, for safety reasons, especially considering the safety of Matthew's family, Zhang Heng later made another trip and spent two months finding all four of them. Two of them were handed over by Zhang Heng to the local sheriff. , and two others were shot to death by him when they resisted.

At this point, the Cook Gang's affairs have come to an end.

But Zhang Heng was not idle next time. In fact, there were quite a lot of things that he could learn in this Western dungeon. In addition to equestrian skills, there were also skills such as cattle driving and rapid shooting that Zhang Heng was more interested in. Rapid shooting was not required. 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 of cattle 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, and kill the cow. its uniform.

This move can also be used on people, using a rope to quickly incapacitate the target without using lethal weapons.

In addition, Zhang Heng is also paying attention to the whereabouts of the game props in this round of copies, but unfortunately there is no news in this regard.

Zhang Heng now knows the origin of the game props. Basically, every prop is related to a god, just like there is a certain god behind each copy. The copy is unique, but the gods may not only stay in one copy. So according to the bartender lady, there may be situations where there are no props in the dungeon.

Zhang Heng didn't know which god he corresponded to in this copy, the God of the West? Cowboy god? The God of Wilderness and the Goddess of Liberty seemed to make sense in this context, but since the other party did not show up like the gods in the previous copies, it was clear that he did not want to have any further communication with Zhang Heng.

Naturally, Zhang Heng would not provoke the other party with nothing to do.

However, his peaceful life of grazing cattle 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. , lasted for a full five 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 Heng joined with his gun, the ranchers began to gain an overwhelming advantage. In the end, the two parties re-reached a contract. Major Murphy made a promise after all the hired gunmen were killed or injured. He cut the prices of monopoly purchases of materials from the East Coast in half and never raised prices again. At the same time, he sold two ranches in his hands and never got involved in the livestock industry in Lincoln County.

The five-month Lincoln County War finally came to an end.

Zhang Heng's biggest gain in this county war was not that he bought a ranch owned by Major Murphy at a low price. After all, he couldn't live here forever, and money was of no significance 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 one of the most frequently played characters in later Western films, and there are many stories about him.

However, the real person is not as wild and unruly as in the movie. On the contrary, he is quite young and very shy. He recently came to Lincoln County, was employed by a rancher, and also joined the county war in Lincoln County.

Zhang Heng has fought side by side with him several times. Of course Billy the Kid is not as awesome as in the movies and TV shows, but he does shoot very fast, and Zhang Heng only spent a glass of beer to let Billy the Kid shoot his rapid fire He generously told him the training method.

In the last two months, Zhang Heng basically did nothing. He just kept practicing drawing and shooting. He finally improved his shooting skills to level 3. In this way, he can snipe from a distance or compete with hand speed at close range. He can't even draw a gun and shoot quickly.

In addition, the two skills of riding and driving cattle were finally combined into one, becoming a lv2 skill called cowboy.

Before Zhang Heng left, he divided the remaining fifteen thousand yuan into two bags.

One bag was buried under the horse pen fence of Matthew's house, and the other bag was buried under the horse pen fence of 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 passed and the place had returned to peace. The corpses had been taken away by the bailiff that night, and the hunter's cabin had been renovated and cleaned. The lodger's hunter chopped firewood and placed it there.

The only thing left was probably the bullet mark on the door.

Zhang Heng and Wendy returned here before sunset with the rabbits and deer they had shot. Zhang Heng lit a fire and started skinning and cutting the meat.

Wendy sat in front of the campfire and watched him work.

"You haven't told me your origins yet."

"Is that important?" Zhang Heng asked without looking back.

"Well... if I tell your story to my children in the future, how should I tell them where you came from, how you came here, met me and started a journey together?"

"What made us embark on the journey together was not my background, 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 haven't woken up, but looking into your eyes, I know that if I don't agree to this naughty kid's request, this guy will use various methods to pester me in the next week, annoying me to death. , nothing can be done.”

"Well, was I that annoying back then?" Wendy's face turned red.

"It's 10,000 times more annoying than you can imagine." Zhang Heng reached out and touched 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 of the men I have met."

Wendy seemed a little embarrassed by the praise, "You saved our family that night."

"Yes, but if it weren't for the time you bought with the shotgun, I wouldn't have been able to arrive before Cook killed your mother." Zhang Heng said, "So, it can be said that you changed your destiny. child."