"Speak properly. You know I'm Henry, right? I'm the Sheriff, and I don't just kill people, but if you don't cooperate…" Henry said, alternating between tough and gentle, as he pulled out the towel from Bick's mouth.
"I'll talk, I'll talk, Sheriff Henry, please arrest me," Bick said repeatedly.
"Speak. Your life is in your own mouth now. Your other companion can also speak; I'll ask him later too. If you lie…"
"No, no, Sheriff Henry, I will never lie," Bick quickly stated his attitude, then confessed voluminously.
"We are the Dodge Gang from Kansas City. The entire gang has over 500 people, divided into four teams. Our team of 136 people is led by 'Cross-Eyed' Frank. One of our gang members, Bond, along with seven others, went to Fresco Town to assassinate you under the name of the Skull Gang, and you killed them."
"Frank found out about this a few days ago, and then learned about your 10,000 us dollar bounty, so he decided to ambush you."
"All 128 remaining people came this time. They are ambushed on the mountains on both sides of Death Valley. Twenty-five of us are responsible for watching the horses."
Henry calculated in his mind and knew that all twenty-five people were there.
"Where are they ambushed? How do the ambushing people communicate with each other? Including you?"
"I don't know where they are ambushed. Communication is by flag signals. If we have something, we will walk out of the cave to the protruding rock more than ten meters away and signal with flags. There are seven types of flag signals, and I'll tell you…"
After listening, Henry reinserted the towel into his mouth, then kicked the other bandit awake and did the same.
This young bandit confessed even faster because Bick had already confessed.
After comparing their statements, Henry found that neither of them had lied. After asking for some more information about the Dodge Gang, he also re-gagged this bandit's mouth.
Henry walked up to Richard and asked, "Mr. Mellon, can you shoot a gun?"
"Yes."
"And you two ladies?"
Madeline and Edith shook their heads, but Edith immediately added, "My name is Edith, and I'm good at archery."
Henry looked at the girl, who closely resembled Catherine Jones, the female lead in the movie "The Mask of Zorro," and said with a smile, "Very good, Edith, you were very brave just now."
Then he turned to the standing Richard and said, "Mr. Mellon, I have already eliminated the other 18 bandits guarding the horses down there, so you don't need to worry. Now, go to those dead bandits, pick up their firearms and ammunition, and protect the two ladies in this cave. The remaining 103 bandits are for me."
Richard immediately replied, "No problem, it's an honor to fight alongside you."
Henry patted his shoulder, encouraged him, and then turned around, holding two red-and-yellow flags, and walked out of the cave.
Richard quickly went to the four dead card players lying on the ground and selected rifles, pistols, and ammunition.
Henry pulled his hat down, trying to cover his face as much as possible, then hid behind the rock, only exposing his hands to signal: There are some problems here, send some people over.
Jim, who had been watching this spot, immediately noticed. He immediately told Frank, "Russell's side just signaled that there are some problems and they want us to send people over. It's probably those nobles causing trouble. Should I go check?"
Frank said, "Henry and his people should be arriving soon. Take five people with you, go quickly and come back quickly. Resolve it fast, and don't make a big fuss."
Jim immediately called five of his close bandit friends and went to Russell's location together.
Along the way, Jim thought about seeing the charming young beauty soon, and his heart burned with anticipation, his steps flying.
After signaling a few rounds, Henry returned to the cave, motioned for Richard and the others to remain quiet, then pulled out three skill Flying Daggers from three corpses. After wiping them with their clothes, he inserted them one by one into his dagger sheath.
Next, he threw the five corpses, including Russell, down the mountain about twenty meters away in the direction of the horses, to prevent the strong smell of blood from alerting the incoming bandits to any clues.
Of course, before that, the wallets and remaining weapons on these corpses had already been collected into his space.
Henry stood behind two fir trees at the cave entrance, used a gray bead to restore his health to 100%, and waited quietly.
More than ten minutes later, he faintly heard sounds coming from the direction he had first arrived. He adjusted his hiding position accordingly.
A few more minutes passed, and a voice came, "Russell, are you getting old? You can't even watch a few people properly?"
As soon as the words fell, a group of six people turned around from the rock where the flag signals were made.
When they reached three or four meters to the side of the cave entrance,
Henry flashed out, activated his Super Reaction Talent, and waved his hands repeatedly.
"Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh." Four skill Flying Daggers, like cold lightning, plunged into the necks of the four bandits behind. Immediately after, Henry lunged forward.
In a distance of less than five meters, Henry pounced in the blink of an eye!
Right hook! Left hook!
At this point, perhaps only half a second had passed. The two bandits in front had just reacted when Henry was already in front of them.
Jim, who was leading, tried to block Henry's punches but found that his hands hadn't even come up before his jaw was violently struck. He immediately felt as if he had been hit by a wild ox, his eyes saw stars, his head felt heavy and his feet light, and he collapsed to the ground, unconscious.
The bandit behind him received the same treatment, struck on the lower left jaw by a left hook, and also fell to the ground with a thud.
Inside the cave, Richard and the three women only saw a dark shadow flash by like a ghost, and two figures fell at the cave entrance, leaving them stunned.
Henry walked into the cave, chopped the necks of Bick and the other bandit hard to knock them out again, removed their handcuffs, then walked out of the cave to handcuff Jim and the other man. Then he carried them one in each hand back into the cave and threw them onto the rocky ground with a thud, like trash.
Edith and Madeline saw that one of them was the extremely lewd bandit from before, and they felt a great sense of relief.
So many formidable bandits were like toys in Henry's hands, which shocked and impressed the two women even more.
Especially Edith, her eyes were sparkling, shining like sapphires.
Henry took out gloves from his Pregnant and put them on, walked to the two young bandits, pulled the towels out of their mouths, and then stuffed the two wads of towels into the mouths of the two bandits behind them.
Then he repeated his trick, first waking Jim up and then torturing him until he was covered in sweat from the pain.
Once Henry finally took the towel out of his mouth, Jim immediately answered every question—a lecherous sycophant's willpower truly wasn't that strong.
Moreover, he also saw Bick slowly waking up, indicating that he wouldn't necessarily die, so he definitely wanted to fight to survive.
In the eyes of these bandits in the West, staying alive was the top priority; as long as they could live, there was still a chance for everything.
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