Survival begins with Red Dead Redemption 2

Chapter 41, "Them" and New Troubles
41,

Valentine's fire had been burning since morning.Wooden buildings are easy to burn. In the morning, the raging fire not only burned the upper buildings on Valentine Avenue to ruins, but also destroyed the first floor of the Smith Field Hotel in the center.

Dai Ping'an crawled out of the hole below.

With the death of the mayor of Lacy, the passageway where he came from was blown up. Fortunately, the explosion of the explosives also opened a hole on the roof of the underground bar. Only then did Dai Pingan climb out on the steps piled up with dozens of corpses .

No one knows how the fire started, and most of Valentine's old residents have disappeared, making the fire even more confusing.

Fortunately, Kenneth's Bar was lucky enough to escape the disaster because it was relatively close to the street, and became Dai Pingan's temporary place to stay.While he drank the bad whiskey in the bar, he searched for other secrets of Mayor Lacy.

In fact, there are many things that Dai Pingan hasn't figured out yet.

Mayor Lacy said "they", who are "they"?How can you understand your own affairs?

There is also the money that Cornwall gave to the mayor of Lacy. It seems that the amount will not be small. Now, compared to the money, it is impossible to deposit it in the Valentine Bank that has been buried in the flames.

Of course, these are not the key points. What Dai Ping'an really wants to know is how Mayor Lacy hypnotized himself.

The weird feeling of oppression, subjugating others without fighting sounds powerful, but when people are really affected by this feeling, they can't even control their own bodies in the end. The sense of powerlessness that makes people feel like a sword and I feel like a fish makes me feel so powerful. Dai Pingan no longer wants to experience it.

After searching for a long time, I found nothing.

It seems that this secret has been buried in hell with the deaths of the mayor Lacy and the bar owner. Dai Pingan can only make a decision in his heart. Wipe the glass behind.

You can wipe the table, sweep the floor, or do anything, but you can't wipe the cups!
The noise outside the bar was getting louder, and Valentine, who had been burning all morning, attracted quite a few people to watch.The unstoppable fire dispelled people's idea of ​​going in to fight the fire, but it couldn't stop people from watching.

It is human nature to watch the excitement, and it has nothing to do with nationality.

They marveled and quarreled, with the helpless cries of women and children.Although no one dared to disturb this bar because of the mayor of Lacy, Dai Pingan, who was disturbed by the noise, decided to clean up and leave quickly.

At this time, someone pushed the door and came in.

People come dressed only in big cities like Saint-Denis.Only someone would wear a black suit.The black top hat was surrounded by a circle of gold, the gold scarf, the gold belt buckle, and even the mud-stained leather shoes were inlaid with gold metal toe caps.

With a trimmed mustache, the gentleman's temperament is no worse than that of the liar Josiah Trelawney in the gang, and he is dressed in black, making him more stable and less frivolous.If there was anything inappropriate, it would be that he had a cigarette slanted in his mouth, and the smoke was so lingering that people couldn't see half of his face clearly.

"This fire is really big, isn't it, please give me a glass of brandy, thanks..."

The visitor was a little surprised, because after he got used to the light in the bar, he realized that the person standing behind the bar was not the former bar owner, but Dai Pingan who was holding a handkerchief to cover his cheek.

"Uh~ Is Mr. Harry Kenneth Valentine there?" Seeing that Dai Pingan didn't answer, he explained, "It's the owner of this bar, the one with the hooked nose."

Dai Pingan shook his head. He continued to cover the wound with his left hand, and his right hand had already grasped the shortened shotgun in the bar.

"Then Mr. Hardy Smith Valentine, Mayor Lacy, is he there?"

Dai Pingan shook his head again.

"Then will they come back?"

Dai Ping'an continued to shake his head, not saying that he didn't know, nor that he couldn't come back.

"Oh……"

The visitor seemed to understand something, but he didn't intend to leave. Instead, he threw away the small half of the cigarette in his mouth and lit a new one.Dai Pingan looked at the other party carefully. The other party took a deep breath, then spit out the cigarette, took off his hat, and began to introduce himself.

"Hello, I'm a salesman for a cigarette company. My name is Phineas T. Ramsbo. You can call me Phineas."

Phineas opened the black suitcase he carried with him, and there were various cigarettes neatly stacked inside.He chose a bag from it and handed it to Dai Ping'an.

"This is a new product from our company. It is an improved version of Millicent's high-end cigarettes. It has a rich and mellow taste. I originally wanted to introduce it to Mayor Lacy to sell it here in Valentine. Now that they are not here, how about you first How about giving it a try?"

While talking, Phineas took a puff of the cigarette in his mouth, and at the same time, opened the cigarette in his hand, and handed one over.Dai Pingan hesitated for a moment, and finally took the cigarette with his right hand. Phineas struck a match for him, and the two of them took a deep breath at the same time.

Or how to say that although cigarettes are small, they are an important medium to open up interpersonal communication.With the igniting of the smoke, the relationship between the two became much closer in an instant.

"I'm sorry, I was just patronizing to introduce myself, I haven't asked for advice yet, what's your name?"

"Dai Pingan."

"Oh, so you are Mr. Dai Ping'an, whom I have admired for a long time. Do you know where the two Mr. Valentines have gone?"

"died."

"Dead? How did they die?"

"I killed it."

"So it is."

With a cigarette in his mouth, Dai Pingan couldn't help taking a puff every time he answered a question.The cigarettes became shorter and shorter, and Phineas, a salesman of the cigarette company, finally asked the key question.

"Did they mention anything else before they died?"

"Having said that, Cornwall gave them money, a lot of money."

Phineas frowned impatiently:

"That's all, is there anything else?"

"Also, they mentioned 'they'."

"'They'! What about 'theirs'?" Phineas' face changed: "Keep talking, you can't miss a single word."

"Mayor Lacy said, 'they' are a mysterious organization. 'they' have their own mission, there are some members in it, they know a lot of things, they are very powerful, good at hypnosis, 'they' are..."

Dai Ping'an's voice became softer and weaker, until it was too low to hear clearly, and Phineas had to move his head closer to him.

"Just what?"

"at……"

"Click!" "Click!"

Dai Pingan's shotgun was on Phineas' chin, but as if he had made an appointment, Phineas also took out an M1900 pistol and put it on Dai Pingan's head.

"The gun is not bad, how did you find it?"

(End of this chapter)