America 1881: They Call Me Legend

Chapter 170 Five years!Do you know how we lived these five years?
The American West in 1881 was a place full of loneliness and danger.

Although the wave of industrialization has swept across this continent, there are still only some big cities and towns that are connected by railways, and when you leave the towns, you will be boundless wilderness.

No WiFi, no Internet, and no digital TV.

The ranchers stayed in their pastures, carrying feed and horse manure, and looked at each other with their own cattle and sheep.

The nearest police station may be in a town more than ten kilometers away.Moreover, in the dilapidated police station, there is often only one old sheriff with one or two sleepy helpers.

Gangs, beasts, Indians.
The only thing that can protect yourself is often the gun in your hand.

People are lonely and wary.

Therefore, when two teams of strangers meet in the boundless desert, they will definitely greet each other with "hospitality".

For example, pointing guns at each other.

Chen Jianqiu is now facing such a problem.

The oncoming team stopped about ten meters in front of them, raised their guns, and pointed at them.

These people are all wearing the uniform of the uniform.

However, the military uniforms looked shabby, and each of their faces was wrinkled and scorched by the desert wind and sand and scorching sun.

Chen Jianqiu guessed that this group of people must be from the mysterious army stationed in Roseville. They existed in Geronimo's mouth and described in the letter before.

That's good news, and it shows they're not far from Roseville.

This is also bad news, the people of this army discovered them early.

But what are these people doing in this wilderness instead of staying in their own station, not protecting their own experts and looking for oil around them?
The leading officer seemed to be discussing something in a low voice with the adjutant behind him. Chen Jianqiu couldn't hear it clearly, but he noticed that the officer's gaze was fixed on Holmes.

Then, he waved to the side again.

It was only then that Chen Jianqiu discovered that there was actually an Indian-looking person in this team.

The man moved closer to the officer.

While pointing at Chen Jianqiu and the others, the officer asked the Indian about something.

The Indian kept shaking his head.

Half a minute later, the officer turned his head and cleared his throat.

"The Indians on the opposite side! Listen up! I don't care which faction or purpose you belong to! Please release Mr. Holmes immediately! Otherwise, there is only a dead end!"

There was silence in the wilderness.

Holmes was "kidnapped" again.

This time, it was in the mouth of the officer opposite.

Seeing this embarrassing scene, the officer slapped his thigh, and suddenly seemed to understand something: "Damn it, what about the translation? Quick, translate for me!"

The Indian next to him quickly opened his mouth, chattering to Chen Jianqiu and the others.

However, including Geronimo, everyone is still at a loss.

They understood English, but no one except the High Priest who was stroking his chin knew what the Nahua traitor was talking about.

"Damn it, I remembered, they are from different tribes, and they don't understand each other's language." The officer looked at the other side who was still silent, and slapped his thigh again.

He seems to understand again.

The officer continued to speak to Holmes in English: "Mr. Holmes, please don't panic! We will try to save you!"

Holmes was speechless.

He looked at Chen Jianqiu suspiciously: "Do I look like a meat ticket?"

Chen Jianqiu looked him up and down, nodded meaningfully: "Like!"

Holmes was a little helpless. He turned to the officer on the opposite side and shouted at him, "You know me?"

This time it was the officer's turn to look stunned.

Chen Jianqiu waved to the people behind him, signaling them to put down their guns.

He winks at Holmes.

The geologist came out, followed by Chen Jianqiu, and the two walked towards the officer one after the other.

The officer also signaled the people around him to put down the guns in their hands, and he got off his horse to meet the two of them.

"Yes, Mr. Holmes, we met when you were here last time, when I was an adjutant here." The officer came in front of the two, "My name is Vaughn, have you forgotten? "

"No, you were the one who kicked me out last time." Holmes rolled his eyes at him, "Where's your officer? That stinky moustache?"

"Bite to death by a rattlesnake."

Vaughan walked up in three steps and two steps, and held Holmes' hand tightly, scaring the geologist back a step.

"We were blind last time, please forgive me." Vaughan was very polite.

"Huh?" Holmes didn't quite understand what he meant.

"Our goddamn bosses thought it would be as easy to find crude oil here as it was in Pennsylvania, and that stuff would come out like a spring, but they didn't find anything."

Holmes and Chen Jianqiu looked puzzled, can these be said casually?
"I received news not long ago that the relevant expert team will arrive in these two days, I counted the days and brought my brothers out to meet them.

"It's not peaceful here, and there may be some remaining Nahua rebels," he added.

"Um, these people are not Nahua rebels, but my team and hired bodyguards." Holmes pointed at Chen Jianqiu behind him, "This man is a senior miner and also my assistant."

Vaughan didn't seem to hear Holmes' words, he was still expressing his feelings on his own:
"I thought the officer had forgotten us in this deserted place, and they finally agreed to send us experts."

"I didn't expect you to be the expert. We were really abrupt last time." Vaughn apologized again.

"Five years! Do you know how we got here in the past five years?" His eyes were full of tears, and the soldiers behind looked at his worn-out uniforms and lowered their heads.

The hearer is sad, the hearer weeps.

"Cough." Chen Jianqiu coughed lightly.

Vaughn realized his gaffe, and quickly took Holmes' hand: "Let's go, let's go back to the camp."

"Uh, my horse is behind." Holmes pointed to the direction behind him, but Vaughn couldn't control that much. He pulled the Indiana mole off the horse and helped the geologist on horseback.

The Nahua Indian rolled on the ground, stumbled to his feet, and ran in the direction of Chen Jianqiu's team in a desperate manner.

But when he had just climbed onto Holmes' horse, he got kicked unexpectedly.

Geronimo kicked him off his horse.

A group of people looked at him coldly.

Although they are not of the same family line, no one likes traitors and traitors.

If it wasn't for the purpose of concealing their identity, these people might have killed him on the spot.

The Nahua traitor had no choice but to rely on his two legs silently and followed behind the horse team.

However, Vaughn of the front team is obviously not interested in paying attention to the situation behind.

He was in a good mood at the moment, and he and Holmes walked side by side, at the forefront of the team, chatting about some local affairs and his grievances over the years.

At first, their troops were drawn from various troops, but because they were said to be carrying out secret missions, they didn't have numbers.

Their initial order was to expel the local Nahua people.

Every soldier thinks it is just to fight these savages, who are the messengers of the civilized world, to drive out the savages from every corner of the country.

After expelling the local Nahua people, they ushered in the first residents of Roseville and established the town.

However, the resistance of the remaining local Nahua people has never stopped. Although they are small in number, they continue to harass the local pastures.

Still the one-shot-and-run style.

So they had to build a military camp next to the town.

However, the final order to them was to search for crude oil in an area north of Roseville.

They just searched for five years, in this almost isolated place.They went through all kinds of ways to die in the West, and in the end they didn't even find a hair.

No help, no orders to go home, just an endless search.

"Is your salary still paid as usual?" Holmes asked suddenly.

"Send it, if you don't send it, even if it's one or two hundred kilometers away from the nearest town, all of them would have slipped away." There was no trace of joy on Vaughn's face.

"That's okay, as far as I know, many troops are underpaid."

"Well, sir, you won't say that when you get to Roseville." Vaughan looked ahead melancholy.

The topic between the two paused for a while, Vaughn looked back at Geronimo and the others, and thought of a question:
"By the way, Mr. Holmes, why did you hire a group of Indians to be your bodyguard? As far as I know, they can't be trusted."

"Before I came, they told me that this is still the territory of the Indians. In the territory of the Indians, of course it is best to hire Indians." Holmes' answer sounds reasonable, but it seems unreasonable.

But Vaughan didn't go on to preach to him about the differences between the Nahua and other Indians.

Because, a huge stone building appeared in front.

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