The release life progress bar reached 83%. The recent battle added 15 gray beads and 12 white beads.
Unfortunately, none of them contained skills.
After tidying up, Henry went to Linda's place.
Paul, the Border Collie, was already waiting at the yard gate as Henry approached, wagging his tail.
Henry knelt down, petted the dog's head, and played with him for a while.
Linda came out upon hearing the commotion and was very happy to see Henry.
"Have you had breakfast?"
"Not yet."
"Then wait a moment, I'll go make it right away." Linda said, turning and walking back into the room.
About ten minutes later, Henry was eating milk, fried eggs, toast, and a one-pound grilled steak.
Linda smiled, sitting across the dining table, watching Henry devour his food, feeling very content.
Henry devoured his breakfast like a whirlwind; he was truly a bit hungry—after all, he had gotten up at four in the morning to start working overtime.
"It's delicious!" Henry praised unreservedly.
"As long as you like it, do you want more?" Linda asked with a smile.
"That's enough. Oh, how are your preparations?"
"They're done. We can leave anytime."
"Then we'll depart tomorrow morning. I'll make the arrangements today."
"Okay, no rush, Henry. You finish your own matters first."
"That's the initial plan. I'm leaving." Henry stood up, bade farewell, and departed.
Becky and Andre still hadn't woken up by the time Henry left.
Meanwhile, after such a long time without hearing any movement outside, five male servants at Dwyer Manor finally crept out of their rooms.
The entire manor was silent. The five men quickly discovered that the main house door was open, and the master was gone. Also, the large warehouse door was wide open, and upon entering, they were immediately dazzled by the array of items.
All five men were stablehands responsible for caring for over 70 horses.
From time to time, the horses neighed in the stable—they had been hungry for a long time.
One of them was Tad, an Irish man who had come with Sean, and was considered the head stablehand.
The other four were recruited cowboys.
Tad, the head stablehand, said, "Close the warehouse. I'll go find Elliot; he'll arrange our next tasks."
The other four stablehands exchanged glances.
It was clear that all the guards had been killed—the gunshots, explosions, and screams from early morning wouldn't lie, and Sean was probably gone too.
So all these riches were ownerless!
One stablehand suddenly looked respectfully behind Tad and said, "Good morning, Butler Elliot."
Tad immediately turned around, but his back went cold as four daggers were deeply plunged into him!
Tad screamed and then lost consciousness—two of the daggers had wickedly pierced his heart, and two had entered his left and right kidneys.
The four men exchanged glances, almost simultaneously pulled out their daggers, stepped back a little, and watched each other warily.
"Hey, you're from the Ketchum gang, right? I saw you in Dodge City before. I'm Rattlesnake Sam's cousin," a stablehand with rotten teeth said to another stablehand with a full beard.
The bearded man's expression softened.
Another stablehand quickly said, "I'm one of 'Bull' Jack Pierce's men."
It turned out they all had connections.
The three simultaneously looked at the last stablehand.
"'Dirty David' Rudebaugh!" the stablehand blurted out a name.
The rotten-toothed stablehand said, "Since we're all brothers from the same place, we should unite. Butler Elliot will definitely stop us, and there are eight other Irishmen."
The bearded man said in a deep voice, "There are a lot of supplies here, enough for the four of us to make a small fortune. I propose—the four of us unite, go to Elliot's room first and kill him, then individually attack the eight Irishmen and their women in the five rooms. The other twenty-three women won't dare to contend with us."
"Let's do it!"
"I agree!"
"Agreed!"
The four men found that there were no weapons left in the small warehouse, so they each took an iron shovel or a hoe from the large warehouse and headed towards Elliot's room. A riot was inevitable.
On the other side, Commander Tom of the McKinley Smelting and Processing Plant, after discussing with Fabio, the person in charge there, dispatched a messenger, Jimmy, to Dwyer Manor to report the attack from last night.
Last night, Tom didn't sleep at all, feeling as if he was facing a formidable enemy, ready for any sudden attack.
This left him exhausted. After arranging the factory's security matters, he returned to his dormitory to catch up on sleep.
When Jimmy arrived at Dwyer Manor about an hour later on horseback, he found that the manor gate had collapsed, and the last 400 meters of the driveway were riddled with bullet holes. Faint cries could be heard from inside the manor.
Jimmy rode into the manor and found several corpses lying haphazardly on the road.
"Bang." A bullet flew past his ear, making him jump. He looked in the direction of the sound.
He saw a bearded man hiding behind a tree about thirty meters to his left, shooting at him.
He quickly picked up the Winchester Rifle hanging on his saddle and returned fire at the bearded man.
The two sides began an intense shootout.
In those days, most people who dared to act alone were experts, so Jimmy's marksmanship was quite accurate, even from horseback.
After firing four shots, he finally hit the bearded man, who had darted out, in his left shoulder near his neck.
But he was also hit in the abdomen at the same time, and in unbearable pain, he fell to the ground.
The bearded man was no easy opponent either.
He was the only one left of the four rebellious stablehands!
The Irishmen were too shameless; besides the butler having a gun, two other Irish gardeners actually had guns too!
When the four men lured the cunning old butler Elliot out to ambush him, he killed one with his pistol and shouted a warning.
The remaining three had just beaten Elliot to death with shovels when two Irish gardeners rushed out from the two adjacent rooms almost simultaneously, holding revolvers and firing at close range.
Fortunately, the bearded man reacted quickly, snatched the butler's pistol in time, and fired four shots, killing two people.
However, his two temporary brothers, who had been in front of him, were shot in the stomach and neck and quickly met their maker.
The remaining men suffered no further mishaps. After the bearded man picked up the two gardeners' pistols and ammunition, he used three pistols to kill them one by one, also killing several women who tried to interfere.
As a result, the bearded man had just loaded some supplies from the warehouse into a cart when he was disturbed by an uninvited guest.
Fortunately, I'm the one who survived!
The bearded man felt relieved.
At this moment, a piercing pain shot through his left shoulder, making the bearded man somewhat disoriented, but then a strong gust of wind swept past the back of his head!
"Thump!" The bearded man's vision went black, and he instantly fainted and fell.
A strong white young woman swung a shovel and continued to violently strike the fallen bearded man's head until it was smashed into a large pool of dark red blood, splitting open like a tomato.
"Enough, Amy, he's dead," a middle-aged woman called out to Amy.
"Wuwu, they're all dead, Connor and the others are all dead!" Amy threw down the shovel and cried loudly.
Her husband, Connor, was one of the two armed Irish youths just shot dead by the bearded man.
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