If William developed estrangement and suspicion because of this, it would mean he was a person with an extremely strong desire for control, incompatible with Henry.
Then Henry would resign early, to prevent the two families from not even being friends later on.
After all, the original Henry was still very concerned about William and his wife, and Alice.
After the initial period of transmigration, the position of town sheriff was not that important; it wasn't as if he could only release lives by being a sheriff.
Henry would be looking for partners in the future, not looking for a boss for himself.
At noon, Henry tallied his assets: he currently had 54,663.8 us dollars in cash, 1,200 ounces of gold worth 24,804 us dollars, plus a police station bonus of 24,000 us dollars and various bounties totaling around 8,000 us dollars.
His non-fixed assets already exceeded 110,000 us dollars, though the bonus and most of the bounties would take another week or so to receive.
For a capital magnate, this was a small sum, but it was enough for Henry to become a genuine rich man, enough for him to do many things.
After leaving William's home, Henry went to Phoenix Bar for dinner.
Meanwhile, intelligence about Henry escorting Linda and her family of three to Denver by train early tomorrow morning was constantly being spread throughout the bar and the black market system.
In a hotel east of Denver, Carlos said indignantly, "The black market informants are all Vampires; Henry's latest intelligence actually costs 300 us dollars!"
Pizarro said nothing, carefully reviewing the intelligence.
After a long while, he said in a deep voice, "If it weren't for the urgency of time and the limited number of buyers, this intelligence might have sold for 500 us dollars."
Carlos said awkwardly, "Those who want to buy it do still think it's somewhat worth it."
"Of course it's worth it. This Henry's marksmanship is unbelievably strong, even the famous Billy the Kid and 'Blue Reaper' Barrett fell under his gun. Especially Barrett, we all know how strong he was, it's truly incredible," Pizarro lamented.
"It's too astonishing, to kill Barrett and also kill 20 gang members at the same time. No wonder they put a 10,000 us dollar bounty on him!" Carlos also agreed.
"Even the strongest person facing an ambush will surely die under concentrated fire. Didn't the Dolin Gang kill all the other police officers except him at the beginning? Even Brian died, Henry couldn't save them. Maybe Henry was an unknown nobody then, and didn't attract the Dolin Gang's attention, which is why he luckily escaped and counter-killed," Pizarro analyzed.
"Yes, no matter what, we can't let him go. Twenty people firing at him couldn't kill him, but we definitely can," Carlos said confidently.
"Exactly, anyone still daring to target him now must be a powerful gang or assassin. We cannot let him fall into someone else's hands, not to mention he has such a high bounty on him, we absolutely cannot let him go! Go call Diego and Antonio over; they used to operate in the Rocky Mountains in Colorado," Pizarro ordered.
Carlos nodded, then turned and left the room.
Meanwhile, in a two-story wooden building in the south agricultural market of Denver.
Four white men were playing cards. A lean man, about twenty-seven or twenty-eight years old, revealed his hole cards—three Aces and a pair of eights!
"All in!" He chuckled proudly, his cock-fighting eyes fixed on the chips, and with a sweep of his hands, he gathered the banknotes and coins on the table towards himself.
The other three were annoyed and cursed one after another.
"Damn it, Frank, if you keep doing this, no one will play with you."
"Right, I propose banning Frank from playing cards among the brothers."
"Bullshit, Frank, you took all my drinking money for tonight!"
Just then, the door suddenly opened, and a young white man wearing a newsboy cap walked in, handing a document to Frank.
Frank took the document and read it carefully.
After a while, he smiled, "The opportunity to get rich has come. Henry is going to escort a woman and her two children, aged 3 and 6, through the mountain path to Denver early tomorrow morning."
"Great, if we don't get a job soon, I'll be gnawing on moldy, rotten potato peels from the agricultural market."
"It serves Bond right; he wanted to hog such a high bounty!"
"Exactly, if Boss Frank hadn't come looking for him, we wouldn't have known he was doing private work again."
The few men chattered, condemning Bond, the leader of the annihilated Skull Gang.
Frank said in a deep voice, "I know Bond occasionally brings a few of his Compatriots to earn extra money under the name of the 'Skull Gang', but this Henry is too fierce this time. We must not be careless; we need to plan carefully. Let me tell you about the people he has killed these past few days."
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Around 6:30 PM, Henry left the small town alone on horseback, galloping across the vast Western landscape.
Along the way, Henry passed red rock cliffs, hills, saline-alkali land, forests, and dry riverbeds, with the wilderness presenting a magnificent and varied appearance.
Cacti, tumbleweeds, Joshua trees, creosote bushes, firs, and conical fir trees were seen everywhere, and occasionally startled rattlesnakes, gray wolves, and Golden Eagles were spotted.
Henry felt much more at ease than driving a Porsche convertible along California's Highway 1 in his previous life.
About 70 minutes later, a few minutes earlier than yesterday, Henry approached the McKinley Family's metal refinery intersection from yesterday.
He noticed four sentries on the opposite mountain, about fifty to sixty meters high.
"Bang bang bang bang…" After six shots, three unsuspecting sentries softly fell onto the hill.
However, one sentry reacted in time, quickly ducking behind a rock and shouting loudly, "Enemy attack! Only one person!"
Henry galloped more than two hundred meters forward to reach the refinery slope intersection from yesterday, only to find that the factory gate was completely open today, and the guards on both watchtowers were hiding behind cover.
After tightening his reins, he immediately opened fire on the five people and one dog patrolling the factory entrance.
The other side also raised their guns and fired back.
"Bang bang bang"
After ten shots, five people and one dog were taken down, which took about five or six seconds. At this moment, Henry felt a faint stinging pain in his brow—danger.
He immediately turned his horse and fled.
"Bang bang" After two shots, the last sentry on the nearby mountain who dared to peek out was tragically headshotted.
Immediately behind him came the frantic "da-da-da" sound of machine gun fire, and the gradually intensifying thud of charging cavalry hooves, which even the machine gun fire could not cover!
Four empty green beads dissipated, and six empty white beads dissipated.
Damn it, the other party was clearly well-prepared and reacted too quickly; those four sentries gave their lives to raise the alarm.
Henry turned his head on horseback and saw dozens of cavalrymen rushing out of the factory!
Fortunately, Henry had already turned onto the outer road, and the cavalry were still about three hundred and fifty meters away from him.
He immediately lightly spurred his horse's belly with the spurs on his tall boot heels, urging his horse towards the first bend on the path he came from, over two hundred meters away.
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