America 1881: They Call Me Legend

Chapter 220 The Beginning of the Town
Pete, the fat manager, was lying on the bed and humming, Teresa checked.

One forearm was broken and the neck was broken.

This fat man was really rough-skinned and thick-skinned. He was beaten up by a group of people, but none of his ribs were broken.

But there is no shortage of places that should be broken and swollen.

Teresa treated the wound for him, then found several wooden boards, fixed his neck and arms, and hung him with bandages.

Fatty's originally round body appeared thicker.

As for the others, they all suffered more or less soft tissue bruises. The worst one was the old man Schultz, who was beaten to death with a wrench by Engineer Jackson a few days ago, and then he was beaten again today.

"I,, I'm looking for, the person in charge of security in the jurisdiction here." Pete said weakly, opening and closing his swollen lips.

"Ah? What do you want from me?" Chen Jianqiu sat on the edge of the fat man's bed, bent down, and listened.

"You,,, why didn't you arrest those people outside! You, you obviously have a gun!" The fat man could still move his finger, pointing at Chen Jianqiu's waist.

"I only have six bullets, buddy." Chen Jianqiu said, spreading his hands.

"You,, you are dereliction of duty, I want,, to find the mayor of this town!" Pete continued to say with difficulty.

"The mayor is me for the time being. If you have anything to say, just talk about it." Chen Jianqiu patted Pete on the shoulder, "It's a duty."

Pete was so anxious that he almost lost his breath.

Chen Jianqiu patted his chest again: "How about this, it's too unsafe here, I'd better send someone to send you back."

He unhurriedly took out another piece of paper: "Please write down today's medical expenses. Don't worry, don't worry about the money you owe, I won't wait for the money to be used."

Pete closed his eyes and nodded, looking hopeless.

A few days later, a carriage slowly drove out from Roswell.

Hanif led on horseback, while Downey sat in the driver's seat of the carriage behind.

On the carriage, sat the experts of the assessment team.

As for Manager Pete, he lay motionless among the experts, looked at the blue sky, and said nothing.

After sending away the evaluation team, Chen Jianqiu took Camilla, Li Sifu and Xiao En to the cave where the gold was hidden.

The waterfall is still that waterfall, and the lake is still that lake.

"Boss, what is this bucket of live rabbits for?" Xiao En asked Chen Jianqiu with some doubts.

On the flatbed truck behind Li Sifu stood an iron drum. This iron drum was originally used by Chen Jianqiu and the others to transport crude oil samples. When they returned, it contained some daily necessities and grain.

Chen Jianqiu asked Asuka to trap some live rabbits in the forest to the south, then threw the rabbits into a bucket and brought them over.

"Stop talking nonsense, let's dig a hole." Chen Jianqiu jumped off the horse, and then pulled out a shovel from the back of the cart.

A few people spent the afternoon digging a big hole more than three meters deep, straight up and down, on the edge of the lake.

If you dig a little deeper, I'm afraid the wall of the pit will collapse first.

Chen Jianqiu asked them to put the rabbits in the bucket into the pit, and then lit a bonfire beside the pit.

They hid about 100 meters from the lake.Quietly waiting for the night to fall.

After dark, there were indeed bursts of noise on the water surface, and pairs of scarlet eyes reappeared in the night.

The rabbits in the pit also felt that the danger was approaching. They ran around in the hole, digging the soil in the pit with their feet.

The attack began when the first chupacabra spotted the rabbits, darted into the hole, and grabbed one of the rabbits by the neck.

The monsters behind also followed up one after another, jumping into the pit one after another.

Then, they found that they could no longer climb to the top of the pit.

"It's done." Chen Jianqiu clapped his hands.

After the last monster jumped in, he led several others to the edge of the pit.

The monsters crawling densely on the bottom of the pit are those half-human tall monsters, one lying on top of the other.

Those near the pit tried to climb up by pulling on the pit wall with their forelimbs, but their lower bodies were grabbed by their companions, unable to move, and they looked like they were going to die together.

These monsters walk on two legs like some people, and have the habit of sucking blood. Even in the habit of pitting their companions, they seem to have become spirits.

"Push over the kerosene." Chen Jianqiu shouted at Li Sifu.

Li Sifu returned to the car, rolled another bucket containing kerosene, and pushed it to the edge of the pit.

They dumped a whole bucket of kerosene into the pit.

Chen Jianqiu picked up a burning firewood from the nearby bonfire and threw it into the pit.

For a while, the flames shot up into the sky, and the air was filled with the strange smell of burnt protein.

Perhaps these monsters should not have existed in this world in the first place. Now, it is better to let them return to the flames.

This time they took a chest of gold.

Even so, Chen Jianqiu still didn't touch the bottom of the artificial lake.

Chen Jianqiu remelted the gold and turned it into gold nuggets.

Some of these gold nuggets were quickly sent to the steward of Astor in Santa Fe. Similarly, the contract on the change of ownership of the land around Roswell also came into effect.

Chen Jianqiu became the owner of that large piece of land.

The residential area of ​​New Roswell is under construction in an orderly manner.

The building materials are basically local materials. Although the denseness of the forests in the south mountains cannot be compared with those in the north, they can still provide a lot of wood.

Besides Niu San's people, Zhang Danian sent some bricklayers and carpenters over continuously.

Once when Chen Jianqiu wandered to the edge of the town, he saw a few master bricklayers taking clay and starting to build walls.

He looked towards the land to the south of the town, where there were intermittent pastures that could not be connected together.

After a while, we will have to find a way to solve the irrigation problem. If it doesn't work, we have to find a way to raise the cattle and sheep first.

In the days after Christmas, something else happened.

The Browning consignee sent the Montrose gun store's year-end share this year and a batch of guns and ammunition.

According to Browning, this year's turnover is quite considerable. After deducting the salaries paid to the bodyguards provided by Zhang Danian, there is still a lot of profit.

He will come to Roswell after a while, chat with Chen Jianqiu about the development of the gun shop, and drop by to see old friends.

However, in fact, what Chen Jianqiu cared most about was the oil well, even, not just the oil well.

It's definitely not enough to sit and eat.

In mid-January, Abiot finally brought news about this, along with Scott's dissatisfaction.

Standard Oil finally decided to build an oil refinery here to welcome the birth of their trust. The construction team and armed factory protection team that set off first are expected to arrive in early February.

Scott was very angry that they were able to successfully extract oil in New Mexico. He originally thought that Chen Jianqiu should have successfully driven these people out of Roswell at the end of last year.

Chen Jianqiu didn't care about Scott's anger at all. What interested him was another reason for Scott's anger.

It is said that Leonard, the upstart in Lincolnshire, has already established a relationship with Standard Oil.

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