America 1881: They Call Me Legend

Chapter 200 "Here Forward"

What Hanif said was true.

Lynch's Pinkerton detectives swam across the bottom of the lake, landed in the dark cave, and lit their lanterns.

They stretched their necks and waited for a long time, but they didn't wait for Lynch to crawl out of the water.

"Sir, should we go back and have a look?" a detective asked the adjutant.

The adjutant was a little hesitant. Since Lincolnshire was defeated last time, he began to be a bit confused about Lynch.

In the past, he would have waited for Lynch to come over.

But now, he couldn't tell, and he couldn't figure out what his chief was thinking.

"Fuck, what is this?"

A detective's exclamation drew everyone's attention from the lake to him, and everyone surrounded him.

They saw the corpse of the monster.

"Is this a fish?"

"Fart, have you ever seen a fish with legs? I think it's a lizard."

"You are talking nonsense. Why are the lizard's front and rear limbs so uncoordinated? Hey, look at the fangs. Tell me, what would it feel like to be bitten by those fangs?"

"What are you afraid of? If I have the ability to meet another one, I will catch one alive and sell it to my uncle. He is from the circus. The people in Kansas are so cute."

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A group of detectives are still discussing endlessly, but the adjutant can't stand it anymore:
"Is now the time to discuss this matter?"

He kicked the monster's body, and after confirming that he was dead, he pulled out the revolver at his waist: "Go, go down this underground river."

A detective volunteered to carry a lantern and walked in front of the team.

He was the nephew of the circus owner who claimed to be catching a live monster.

The cave was very narrow, and the light from the lantern was dim, but it was enough to illuminate the road ahead.

Suddenly, a gust of wind blew over from a dark cave on the side, causing the lantern in his hand to shake.

"Sir, it seems that the exit is here." He stopped, pointed to the cave blown by the wind, turned his head and said to the adjutant behind him.

But the adjutant didn't speak. He looked over the detective's shoulder and looked behind him.

The detective noticed something was wrong and slowly turned his head back.

In the darkness at the entrance of the cave, countless pairs of blood-red eyes suddenly appeared, staring at them firmly.

The detective was ready to strike first, and he drew his gun and was ready to shoot.

But it just so happened that the two monsters closest to him thought so too.

At this time, it was dark outside, and it was time to go out to look for food. The chupacabras who were still wandering in the valley before poured into the cave.

They just ran into these Pinkerton detectives.

Before the detective drew his gun, the two monsters rushed out with a "whoosh" and rushed towards the detective.

The lantern fell to the ground, and the gun in the detective's hand did not fire until he died.He was bitten hard by one monster on the neck, while the other gnawed on his thigh.

The following ones followed closely, and quickly sucked the leading detective into a fuck.

As a warrior who aspires to be a "monster hunter", this detective is benevolent.

Gunshots rang out in the cave, and the adjutant led other Pinkerton detectives to fight these monsters to the death.

It stands to reason that no matter how terrifying a monster is, as long as it is still a carbon-based life form, as long as it can be broken, it will not be able to take advantage of kinetic energy weapons.

But it's hard to say in a dark environment and close range.

The environment in the cave was cramped, and the detectives carrying lanterns were quickly thrown to the ground.

The Pinkerton detectives who lost their light lost their last chance to fight against the monsters.

The cave turned into a one-sided massacre, and those blood-sucking monsters who starved for nine meals in three days were feasting.

Hanif was chatting with Johnny and the others outside the cave. They built a bonfire and waited for the ones below to come out.

He also heard gunshots and wailing in the cave.

Looks like Pinkerton's gang really came.

Hanif took Johnny and Li Sifu to pick up the guns and approached the hole.

He was going to shoot him as soon as someone came out of it.

But the gunshots from the cave became weaker and weaker until there was almost nothing.

Hanif was about to poke his head over to have a look, but suddenly there was the sound of hurried footsteps and curses coming from the cave.

A man cursed, fired his gun in the back, and rushed out of the cave.

Hanif was just about to shoot him, but someone was there first.

Two or three monsters chased directly out of the hole, pounced on the man, and began to suck the man's blood.

The light of life in the man's eyes disappeared, and the skin quickly shriveled, like the skin of a balloon that had been pumped out.

Seeing this scene, Hanif gasped, and subconsciously touched the lump of gland in his pocket.

After a while, there was no more movement in the cave.

Hanif was sure that the Pinkerton detectives should be dead, and even if two or three escaped by luck, they would not dare to come back for a while.

He breathed a sigh of relief, told Downey and Li Sifu, took a shovel, climbed down along the rope, and then came to the bottom cave according to the marks left by Chen Jianqiu and the others for easy return.

Hanif still couldn't bear the temptation to see those treasures first, not to mention that Chen Jianqiu had made such a promise to him.

"How about it, you can choose whichever you like." Chen Jianqiu seemed very generous.

Hanif stared at those black things, and was stunned. He picked up the pottery seal from Holmes' hand, and stared at the symbols on it in a daze.

"Don't worry, this thing is not cheaper than gold jewelry." Chen Jianqiu "kindly" comforted the bounty hunter.

"No, I seem to have seen this symbol somewhere." Hanif looked at the pottery seal repeatedly.

"When did you peek at my notes?" Holmes raised his eyebrows angrily. The human skin map was always in his and Chen Jianqiu's hands.

Hanif shook his head, and pointed to the direction he came in: "It's on the wall of the cave over there, next to the mark you left. I followed your mark all the way here."

Holmes looked surprised. He left the mark, but why didn't he notice the Aztec symbols when he left the mark just now?
He was still wondering, but Chen Jianqiu had already walked over with a torch.

He walked to the bottom of the stone ladder, on the edge of the cave wall.

Under the light of the fire, someone really carved Aztec hieroglyphs on it.

He turned his head and looked at Holmes: "What does this symbol mean?"

The expression on Holmes' face was a bit awkward: "This is a pronoun of direction, meaning,,, forward."

Chen Jianqiu was stunned. Isn't this the same as the "500 meters ahead here" written in chalk on the side of those alleys that he encountered before?

The two of them groped along the cave wall until they were about to reach the edge of the lake.

Holmes found two more rows of symbols on the wall.

"What does it mean this time?" Chen Jianqiu asked the geologist, "It won't be 'do not touch'?"

Holmes took out his notebook, turned to the page where he recorded the Aztec text, and glanced at it by the light of the torch.

Then he raised his head and looked at Chen Jianqiu suspiciously: "Chen, how do you know?"

Chen Jianqiu was taking a drink from the small water bag on his waist, when he heard Holmes' words, he almost spit out the water from his mouth.

"Um, actually, that's what the lower row of symbols means, and the upper row of symbols means, 'Water Outlet'."

As Holmes spoke, he approached the wall. He touched the cave wall, took a closer look, and then put his head on the cave wall.

Then, under the watchful eyes of everyone, he took the shovel in Hanif's hand and began to pull the stone on the cave wall.

"This cave wall is not natural. It was sealed with stones the day after tomorrow. It's been too long, so it's hard to see." Holmes said while scratching.

Chen Jianqiu took the shovel from him.

As a senior miner, he is familiar with this job.

The rocks quickly fell down sparsely, revealing a hole. The geologist stuck his upper body in and observed the wall of the hole.

When he retracted his body, his face was full of shock,
"These descendants of the Aztecs should have dug an aqueduct from a nearby underground river more than 100 years ago. There are traces of water flow on the walls of this cave."

Holmes looked at the lake under their feet:
"This lake is artificial!"

Chen Jianqiu immediately understood the geologist's clothes. He took off his clothes, took a few steps back, took a deep breath, and plunged into the water.

This time, he didn't want to go crazy in the water.

The water in the lake is still pitch black, but because of Holmes' discovery, the lake has completely lost its mysterious veil.

This time, Chen Jianqiu went straight to the bottom of the lake.

He swam directly to the depths of the water, and after a while, he touched the bottom of the lake.

His fingers touched something hard, very cold, metallic.

He grabbed the thing in his hand, turned around and swam towards the lake.

Near the surface of the lake, Chen Jianqiu jumped up, rushed out of the water, and swam back to the shore.

The crowd hurriedly surrounded them with torches.

Chen Jianqiu wiped the water from his face, stretched out his other hand, and let go of his palm.

Something lay quietly in his palm.

Under the light of the fire, this thing glowed with a golden luster.

a gold bar.

The treasure they seek lies buried in this lake beneath their feet.

　Thank you for your monthly tickets, thank you very much, due to space reasons, I will not thank you one by one.

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(End of this chapter)