Now 8 and 12 seasoned gunmen at distances of 25 to 30 meters from Henry would concentrate fire on him. Bond and Wolf really couldn't imagine how Henry could possibly survive, let alone with the formidable enemy Barrett facing him.
Wolf and Bond had both instructed their respective gang members to wait until the pastor's gunshot before attacking simultaneously, to prevent Henry from detecting them early.
Henry now had four Colt double-action revolvers holstered at his waist.
He was also worried about assassins taking advantage to attack him, otherwise he wouldn't have brought people to control the high ground early.
As long as they were all within effective range of firearms, he had nothing to fear.
As the pastor began reciting prayers, the atmosphere in the field immediately tensed up. Some women already didn't dare to look, lowering their heads to stare at the ground.
This included two bar waitresses, Theresa and Barbara.
"God bless, Henry is so handsome, just let him live," Barbara prayed quietly.
"Go Henry, we haven't even fucked yet, you can't die," Theresa muttered to herself.
Philip finished confessing to God and making his appeals. Holding a revolver in his right hand with the barrel pointed up, he called loudly: "Ready~"
Instantly, even the hot summer wind in the square seemed to stop, giving people a suffocating feeling, as if the sky above the square was filled with invisible ghosts holding their breath, awaiting new members!
Barrett took a shallow breath and slowly exhaled, feeling his blood beginning to burn throughout his body.
He loved this feeling of fighting for life on the edge of death!
'Danger! Besides Barrett, 8 people on the left and 12 on the right will shoot at me within one second! Two of them even within half a second!'
Henry gripped and drew both hands instantly, pulling his guns and shooting to both sides!
Pastor Philip's duel signal gunshot rang out simultaneously.
At this moment, Henry felt as if he were a computer processor, with every move of these 20 bandits and Barrett opposite him reflected in his mind!
First target the two on left and right who would shoot within half a second!
"Bang bang!" Two gunshots.
Wolf and Bond fell backward, their foreheads exploding with baby-mouth-sized holes.
This nearly scared Luke into wetting himself, because the bullet aimed at Bond flew past his right ear, creating a sharp bullet-cutting sound in his ear. He even felt the hot wind from the bullet's passage scorch his ear's edge.
A gray pearl shell silently shattered.
Because Henry's half-second early movement triggered Barrett's stress response, he shot almost immediately after Henry, instantly hitting Henry.
Bullets had an initial velocity approaching 300 meters per second, taking only 0.1 seconds to cross 30 meters and hit their target!
Henry expressionlessly fired one shot at Barrett and one at the bandit with the fastest draw.
Instantly, Barrett's forehead similarly exploded with a hole. The light in his eyes immediately froze, still carrying deep regret and confusion.
After instinctively firing just now, he realized Henry hadn't shot at him but was killing the assassins on either side, which made him very regretful.
Because Henry would inevitably die under the bullet he had fired.
However, Henry was completely fine, while he himself was hit in the forehead by Henry's counterattack!
Immediately, Barrett's consciousness was completely extinguished, falling into eternal darkness.
To onlookers, it appeared that Henry first shot two bandits, then exchanged fire with Barrett simultaneously.
Because all this happened within 0.1-0.2 seconds, they couldn't see the details clearly, only feeling their eyes blur as Henry fired four shots!
Henry continued shooting expressionlessly, emptying the 12 bullets from two Colt double-action revolvers within one second, killing Barrett and 11 of the fastest-acting bandits.
Then he released both hands, letting the two pistols fall to the ground, and quickly drew two double-action guns from behind his waist.
At this time, townspeople in the audience began reacting, screaming continuously. Some began running backward, causing chaos in the square and also interfering with the remaining members of the Wild Wolf and Skull gangs.
More than a second had passed. Although Henry had prioritized killing the fastest-acting bandits, these two gangs combined had too many people, all making their living by guns, with quite a few experts.
So when Henry drew his rear guns to shoot, three gray pearl shells silently dissipated.
"Bang bang bang"
Henry remained expressionless, as if transformed into an eight-armed demon god, continuing to kill bandits according to the priority order he sensed.
Although the scene was chaotic, in Henry's eyes and mind everything was orderly. While it looked like several bandits were about to shoot simultaneously, there was actually perfect order between them.
This was like a master of micro-carving who could carve eight characters on a cross-section as thin as a hair, even with signature and seal.
Within the finest detail, all things contained; within a square inch, the vast world!
The remaining nine bandits fell one by one in response, almost all shot in vital areas like the center of the forehead, eyes, or neck, dying as they hit the ground.
At the same time, another gray pearl shell silently dissipated.
At such short distance, being concentrated upon made getting shot inevitable, as these fierce bandits all had decent marksmanship.
From when Henry began shooting until all bandits and Barrett fell took less than 3 seconds.
Henry was like a god controlling everything!
The twin guns in his hands were his divine weapons of thunder and fire for punishing sinners.
The four new officers and Luke had just reacted enough to raise their pistols and rifles, only to find all enemies had already been eliminated.
Onlookers were even less likely to notice Henry had been hit, because everything ended too quickly.
They would only be shocked by Henry's precise and rapid marksmanship.
"Everyone stay calm, all bandits and assassins have been completely eliminated," Henry said loudly.
The townspeople who had been fleeing in panic all slowed down, turning to look back. Finding that those gun-firing bandits in the square had indeed all fallen, their condition unknown.
Moreover, the thundering gunfire had indeed stopped, and Sheriff Henry looked majestic and unharmed, which gradually stopped their panic.
The instant gunfire erupted, Mayor William's guards had surrounded and protected him. Before they could take further action, they found the gunfight was over - Henry's guns were simply too efficient.
This made them look at Henry standing alone in the square as if seeing a demon god.
Henry said to Luke: "Move these assassins' corpses together, I'll examine them shortly."
After speaking, Henry walked toward Barrett's fallen body. Drawing near, he crouched down and used his left hand to close Barrett's eyelids, silently bidding him farewell in his heart: Sorry, I have a death-exemption token.
Barrett had been honorable and aboveboard. Henry hoped he could be an enlightened ghost.
Then Henry began searching Barrett's body, finding only one Colt 1873 single-action revolver and 60 bullets, plus an Elgin pocket watch. The money pouch contained over $2,200.
Henry picked up this pouch, stood up and said to the four new officers: "One of you go have the police station driver bring the wagon over to take all these corpses except Barrett back to the station for searching."
Next Henry went to search the two bandits with the fastest draws. By the time the police wagon driver arrived, Henry had already collected all their wallets or pouches, Barrett's having been quietly stored in his space long ago.
These were all his spoils of war, which he took openly and honorably.
In this town, unless William questioned or opposed it, no one could deprive him of his victory prizes.
"Thor and Hank go to the hotel where Barrett was staying to collect his belongings. Luke, take 10 men to find out where these bandits were staying, arrest any remaining people and confiscate their property. The remaining 4 men escort the corpses back to the police station and inventory their items while identifying them," Henry assigned tasks one by one.
Thanks for the recommendation tickets from Wu Fa Nature, Big Mask, Hello for the Rest of My Life Please Give Guidance, and Lietufeinghou.
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