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Chapter 182 Chapter 181, two days and three nights of great changes
181,

heroes and villains,
No matter in any era, they are an indispensable and complementary pair of protagonists on the stage of drama.

In order to cater to the audience's psychology that justice must win, at the end of the story, the fearless hero often defeats the despicable villain, and finally stays in the center of the stage.However, in reality, the ending is just the opposite. It is the despicable villain who has the chance to have the last laugh.

Human nature is so, in addition to being more despicable, shameless, and without bottom line compared with heroes, another important reason is the difference in their hearts, which is also their essential difference.

The winning hero is likely to let the villain beg for mercy, because the hero can bear the existence of the villain, but in the heart of the villain, if the hero does not die, he will never be able to find peace because he has trouble sleeping and eating.

This is why the villain wants to put the hero to death. At the same time, this is also the fundamental reason why Colonel Beckett wants to push Sergeant Dunbar into the abyss.

For the peace of Blackwater Town, the sheriff will inevitably have to make some compromises. He can tolerate some aggressive operations by Colonel Beckett, and he will turn a blind eye to the slow expansion of Pinkerton's detective power.

But there are always some bottom lines that cannot be crossed. Colonel Beckett clearly knows that Sergeant Dunbar will never allow him to embezzle the money that belongs to the residents of Heishui Town. Spit out the money.

It doesn't take long to push a person into the abyss, one night is enough.

The principle of winners and losers applies everywhere. After all, only those who stand up are qualified to explain to people who do not know the truth what the so-called "truth" is.So in the early morning of the next day, the newspaper in Heishui Town, which was originally published once a week, launched a special edition, and the thick and black headline immediately attracted everyone's attention——

"Hero or Criminal?Uncover the truth about Sheriff Dunbar's crimes! "

The whole article is eloquent, with nearly 1 words, occupying four pages.With a sharp writing style and a persuasive attitude, he stripped away the hypocritical mask of Sergeant Dunbar for the ordinary people in Heishui Town, and revealed the crimes hidden by him to the public!
Colluded with the notorious wanted criminal Dai Pingan, successively murdered two mayors and one sheriff, clearing the way for his superior position;

Reached a conspiracy with the Howling Wolf Gang and the Salamanca family in the Thieves' Territory, at the cost of killing hundreds of Pinkerton detectives and police officers, paving the way for his ascension to the throne of Sheriff of Blackwater Town;

Recently, they have teamed up with Dai Pingan to create a number of horrific headless murders, and murdered the current mayor of Heishui Town in the same way, causing social panic. Taking this opportunity, they ransacked three local private banks;
It wasn't until the end that due to the uneven distribution of the spoils, internal strife broke out among the gangsters, and his plot was discovered by the wise and astute deputy mayor...

As soon as the newspaper came out, it immediately caused an uproar in the hearts of the residents of Heishui Town. Some doubted, some believed, and more were ambiguous.

Just when everyone had doubts about the veracity of this article, the Heishui Township government issued an official notice with the signature of the police chief pleading guilty. .

Sergeant Dunbar couldn't deny the charges listed in the official documents.Leaving aside whether he could clarify his relationship with Dai Pingan, even if he really planned to explain and defend himself, Colonel Beckett would not allow a single word to come out of his mouth.

Do the residents of Heishui really believe it?

Of course!
The official documents are out, why not believe it!
What is power?

This is power!
It's been said that power isn't about guns or badges, it's about lying.

tell a big lie,
Big enough to let people around you, nearby, a town, a city, a country or even the whole world play with you,

Play until they start identifying with things they don't, and you gain the greatest power in the world.

So in just one night, through a newspaper and an official document, the heroic sheriff who was praised by everyone yesterday and who sacrificed his life became a criminal that the residents of Heishui Town are scolding and despising today. .

I don't know if it's an illusion,
When people trampled on Sheriff Dunbar, the only one who cared about their interests and sacrificed his life for their safety, and were even complacent about it, their sad hearts actually felt a little more relaxed and happy!

Perhaps it was this ease that caused them to not notice at all that in the official document convicting the sheriff, there was an additional sentence that seemed unattractive but actually had a lot of meaning:
In order to ensure the safety of the stolen money in the robbery.For the safety of the people, the funds are temporarily seized by the Blackwater Town Bank, and will not be unsealed until the case is completely over.

What is a complete end?

It does not mean that the trial is over, nor does it mean that the criminal Sergeant Dunbar is sent to the gallows. It means that another suspect in this case, Dai Pingan and his remnants who are hiding somewhere drinking and eating meat, are arrested and brought to justice. And after the execution, the case will be considered completely closed.During this period, the money will remain under the sole management of Blackwater Bank.

Interestingly, those savers did not take issue with this.

There may be disputes between banks, but this has nothing to do with them, because in their eyes, the deposit is still stored in the safe, but the bank is changed, that's all.

"What should we do now? They don't seem to be in a hurry at all!"

It was already bright outside, but in the cabin where the hanging sun couldn't reach, the lanterns shaking according to the rhythm still exuded a dim yellow light, bringing faint light to the dark world.

Grant, who heard the news, was unavoidably anxious:
"Why does this seem to be different from the development we originally envisioned?"

"It's normal, they still have money in their hands, so of course they are not in a hurry." Dai Ping'an was very calm.

"Then what? Shall we go out and get their money back?"

Grant, who was in a hurry to go to the doctor, proposed a "good" solution, but in return Dai Pacific looked like a fool.In fact, as soon as he said this, he noticed something wrong with him.

Take it back?
How to grab it?
With a population of several thousand in Heishui Town, even if the robbed actively cooperates, a single robbed family can exhaust them to death.

First, he handed a cigarette to the impatient Grant, then took out his pocket watch unhurriedly, and looked at the time.After Grant finished smoking and calmed down, Dai Pingan took off the lantern on the cabin roof and led Grant to the exit:
"Money, this kind of thing has to be spent after all, food, clothing, housing and transportation, which one doesn't need money?"

While walking, Dai Pingan explained:

"Armadillo, we control the water, and if I need it one day, they have to pay for every sip of water they drink. Now, what do you think we can control in Blackwater?"

As he spoke, Dai Pingan pushed open the partition of the exit, led Grant halfway out of the cabin, and looked at the bustling Heishui Town not far away.

It also seemed to be in conjunction with Dai Ping's performance. The southwest of Heishui Town, which is also the direction of the few farmlands and barns near Heishui Town, suddenly billowed thick smoke.

Below the thick smoke, there are rising flames, and the two merged into one, arousing everyone's shouts and screams.But this is just a signal, or rather, a sign of bad luck before it comes.

When the residents who rushed to extinguish the raging fire in the barn failed to save a single grain, more unfortunate news followed.

In the afternoon, in the pasture on the west, cattle, sheep, pigs, dogs, and poultry all over the place began to convulse after drinking the poisoned water source, and one after another, they died one after another.And when the sun was about to set, the people who noticed something was wrong noticed that the carriage responsible for transporting vegetables to the town hadn't appeared for two full days.

Of the 63 masters, Yan Xiaoguo did not bring all of them to West Elizabeth, nor did he bring all of them into Heishui Town.Detective Pinkerton's blockade may be feasible to stop a few vehicles and horses, but it is impossible to stop a few masters who are moving around in the dark.

As I said before, Heishui Town is a city developed due to the developed water and land docks and convenient transportation. The rapid economic development made him ignore or disdain the attention to the primary industry.

Whether it is food or fresh meat and vegetables, Heishui Town has to rely on its strong transportation capacity as a guarantee. The operation of this mode is usually fine, but once it is destroyed by someone with a heart, the originally stable supply chain will collapse in an instant.

Whether it is by land or by sea, no one will bring an extra load of grain or a load of beef for no reason.

So even if there were no less than dozens of telegrams sent out that night, but hurry up, it would take three days to see the next truckload of grain, and it would take longer to wait for sea transportation.

That night, the town of Heishui, which had been stable for less than a day, became panicked again.For three days, the food in most people's homes is certainly enough.But at this time, no one would be so stupid as to dislike their too much food, just like no one can guarantee that the food promised by the government and the chamber of commerce will arrive smoothly after three days.

As a result, the small amount of food, meat and vegetables stored in the hands of vendors in the town became the object of looting, and the price skyrocketed.

When people began to notice this problem, the price of an egg in the morning market in Heishui Town had skyrocketed several times, and the price of a potato, which was originally the cheapest, was increased by more than ten times by greedy vendors. .

Soaring prices cause inflation, and the result of inflation is naturally the depreciation of currency.

Some people began to realize that the money in their hands was not enough, so they naturally set their goals on the deposit that had been forgotten and neglected.But when they were about to withdraw money from the Blackwater Town Bank, they were greeted by the locked door and the cold terms on the official document.

Not only the depositors of the three banks, facing the withdrawal queues outside the banks, in order to ensure the order and safety of the bank's operation, even the customers of the Blackwater Town Bank were restricted, limiting the amount of withdrawals.

As time passed, the conflict between the bank that restricted withdrawals and desperately explained the terms and conditions in official documents, and the anxious depositors who were waiting for withdrawals snowballed, and trust in the bank began to gradually collapse.

Depositors who originally wanted to withdraw [-] yuan now want to withdraw [-] yuan. Merchants who originally had sufficient funds, after feeling the tense atmosphere, also joined the queue to withdraw money with the flow.

squeeze,

That is to say, the behavior of depositors concentrating and withdrawing deposits in large quantities finally began to be staged at the gate of the Blackwater Town Bank.

At this point, let alone the deposit that has already been swallowed, whether the deputy mayor is willing to spit it out again, even if he can take into account the overall situation in front of him, and cruelly use the deposit of Heishui Town Bank itself to "cut meat and feed the eagle" , This piece of meat is not enough to feed the extremely hungry stomachs of the entire residents of Heishui Town in a state of panic.

At first, deterred by the threat of force from the Pinkerton detectives guarding the bank gate, the team that gradually expanded from the afternoon was fairly quiet, but as the whole team moved almost stationary and people's patience was quickly exhausted, the chaos finally broke out in the sun. In the west, the bank broke out when it announced that it would stop withdrawing money due to darkness.

First insults, then shoving, followed by fist waving.

It is impossible to know who fired the first shot, but when the chaos ended amidst gunshots, shouts and wailing, apart from Detective Pinkerton, who had not yet cleared the gunpowder, the closed iron house at the bank in Blackwater Town... No one can stand and talk outside the door.

The deputy mayor's reaction was also quick, and he once again pinned the crime of causing the chaos on Sheriff Dunbar's accomplice, Dai Pingan, whose whereabouts were unknown.

At the same time, in order to stabilize the situation, that night, Detective Pinkerton as the main force and the local police as the assisted armed men started martial law and enforced a curfew in the streets and alleys of Heishui Town in the name of searching for Dai Pingan:

Anyone on the streets after dark is punished and anyone suspicious is arrested.

At 44:[-] a.m. on this night, when everyone was sleepy, Dai Pingan, who was full of food and drink, recharged his batteries, and spent two days and three nights in the dark and narrow cabin, With Yan Xiaoguo and seven other masters who can make blood drops, holding the hooks in their hands, they boarded the empty pier in Heishui Town.

The moon is dark and the wind is high, the sky of murder and arson!

The moonlight is still bright tonight, but this has not had much impact on their preparations to harvest human lives.

I don't know if Sheriff Dunbar, who was in prison, confessed his discovery to Colonel Beckett, but it was useless even if he said it. If the deputy mayor dared to send someone to guard the edge of the roof, they would It is the best live target for the blood drop hook.

Dai Pingan also killed many people, but tonight, he decided not to compete with professional players.Following Yan Xiaoguo, he didn't even bring a gun, and he was absorbed in learning how the other party fell from the roof on one side to the other side.

Whether it's dodging and moving, or jumping over the eaves and walls, it is inseparable from strong jumping ability, which Dai Ping'an learned quickly.While practicing, he turned into a human-shaped radar, breaking through layers of blockades for Yan Xiaoguo in front, pointing out the way while searching for suitable targets.

And their targets tonight are those Pinkerton detectives who were alone or in pairs during the patrol.

Throw out the hook!Claw down!
The killing before dawn has officially begun!
For a time,

As if a god of death descended from the sky, overlooking the sleeping town,

The soul-wrenching whispers suddenly sounded in the lone traveler's ears!

Some just peed, some just smoked a cigarette, and some were even tired from walking and fell behind in the queue, but it was these simple reasons that prevented these people from showing up alive again.

The drowsiness in the mind aggravates the fatigue of the body, making it easy for people to overlook many details.It's not that no one has noticed the problem, but the disappearance of his companions one after another often means that he himself is also alone. As a result, before warning, the world in front of him is also darkened with a gust of cold wind.

In just one hour, countless headless corpses fell on the streets of Heishui Town.

Finally, a faint white edge appeared on the gloomy sea, and before the first wave of screams sounded, Dai Pingan appeared in front of the Heishui Town Hospital with a revolver he picked up.

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