A Red Dead Redemption Story

Chapter 144 Interlude of chaos

When Dutch returned to the hall, there were the Grays in front and the Lemoyne Raiders in the back.

Faced with this situation of being flanked from both sides, Dutch decisively pulled out his gun. After firing a few shots in the back, the whole bar instantly became chaotic. The Lemoyne Marauders saw Dutch shooting at them. , regardless of whether there were other people in front, he just fired back like crazy.

As for the Gray family members who were trapped in the fleeing crowd, they thought the troublemakers were shooting at them. How could they bear this?And this was still on the territory of their Gray family. Several people also fired back at the Lemoyne Marauders from behind the bunker without hesitation.

The two parties got into a fight on the spot, and the innocent guests were already in a mess. The drunken drinkers suddenly felt that they were mostly sober, and they scattered like headless flies. Run for your life.

"It's the Lemoyne Raider! Everyone, run!"

"Ah...! Lemoyne Raider..."

"Don't step on me, don't step on me, don't step on me again!"

Dutch, on the other hand, had been the first one to yell, "Run, Lemoyne Marauder," and took advantage of the chaos to blend into the scattered crowd and take the opportunity to escape to the second floor of the bar.

John was already on the second floor holding a gun and shooting. His target was of course the Lemoyne Raiders. Not that he was helping the Gray family, but simply because the Lemoyne Raiders were outnumbered. There are more, and looking at the more Lemoyne raiders that are still pouring out from the back door at this time, if they don't help some of the Gray family members, John feels that they will soon be unable to withstand them. Living.

John fired while shouting at Dutch, who was still climbing the stairs:
"Daqi, here, come here quickly!"

Dutch climbed the stairs, still shooting down.

Even though Dutch and John were added, with a total of three guns, soon the Gray family couldn't hold on any longer. After they left an injured companion, the remaining two people fell into despair. He slipped away through the main entrance.

"Damn!"

Seeing the Gray family retreating, all the firepower of the Lemon Marauders was pouring towards Dutch. He didn't dare to delay any longer, so he hurriedly ran to the second floor.

There was an open-air balcony on the second floor of Gray's Tavern, and Dutch remembered that this terrace also had a staircase that led directly to the backyard where their carriage was parked.

At this time, John continued to fire to prevent the enemy from following Dutch up the stairs to the second floor.

However, the enemy's firepower was too fierce. The bullets flying in all directions shattered the glass and splashed pieces of wood on the wall. John soon couldn't bear it any more, and he hurriedly ran to the terrace with Dutch.

Dutch rushed open the wooden door leading to the terrace, and as soon as he arrived at the terrace, he found that the same Lemoyne predator had rushed up from the side stairs.

After killing two Lemoyne marauders trying to do so one after another, Dutch turned his head to John who was still fighting and retreating, and shouted loudly:

"Let's go! Jump directly onto the carriage below!"

After saying that, Dutch climbed over the railing and jumped from the second floor. Just when John was about to jump down, the side stairs without Dutch's suppression immediately rushed up to him. Predator, they directly held John who had only had time to step out half of his body.

Although John turned around and shot one of them to death, two more enemies rushed out of the house to help. One of them grabbed John's hands and took away his gun.

"Dutch! Dutch!! Help me——!" John shouted for help while struggling.

As for Dutch, who was already sitting in the carriage, after hearing John's cry for help, he turned around and killed another Lemoyne raider who tried to stop him.

Looking at more enemies behind him, Dutch hesitated and shouted to John:

"Hold on! John! Hold on a little longer..."

Then Dutch waved the reins vigorously and drove the carriage forward quickly.

John, who was trying hard to hold on to the railing and not let go, looked at Dutch like this. He drove the carriage quickly and disappeared into the night without looking back.

"...Dutch?"

I don’t know whether it was because of the scene of being abandoned that made John completely lose his soul, or whether it was because of the huge impact that made him freeze there. In the end, John didn’t know whether he let go of the railing or was pulled off. of.

Then John was pushed to the ground by these Lemoyne Marauders and began to beat him crazily.

Just as John was distracted and being beaten, Dutch drove the carriage from the front and turned around. The carriage quickly hit the enemies still below, and he also successfully jumped off the carriage at the moment of impact. Dutch then used his twin guns to kill John up the side stairs while shouting John's name.

John, who didn't realize he had misunderstood until he heard Dutch's cry, now regained his energy and shouted loudly:

"Dutch! Help me!"

For some reason, the purpose of this group of Lemoyne raiders seemed to be just to capture Dutch and John alive. After kicking John unconscious when he tried to resist, they just put their guns to John's head in an attempt to force them to kill him. Dutch who came up put down his gun.

...In the church in Valentine Town, Arthur, Charlie, Strauss, and Frank and his daughter were all here, looking at the corpses on the ground, everyone was very silent.

After a while, Vera felt that it was okay to be so silent all the time, so she broke the silence and said:
"I heard that the weather seems to be good tomorrow?"

Frank frowned and said:
"Who did you hear? Can this be accurate? If you really want to say something, then tell me about yesterday's weather."

Frank didn't know who Vera's character was.

"I, I really admire you Frank, can't you see that I want everyone not to be so heavy? Forget it, I'll just bite the matches and play."

Vera did what she said, and walked away in a hurry, and then she almost bumped into the oncoming priest because she lowered her head to pick out a match.

After the priest greeted Vera politely, he came to the front and looked at the corpses in the church and the few people who were silent there. He hesitated to say something for a moment.

After all, the priest had just been transferred to Valentine not long ago. He was sent to take over from his predecessor's class. Although he felt that it was best not to disturb them by talking too much at this time, after thinking about it, he finally bit the bullet. Said to the leader Arthur:
"Mr. Callahan, it's like this. Look, isn't it appropriate to have all this in the church... We also need to receive other people... So, do you think we need to hold a ceremony? Or should we arrange it directly behind the church? Where is the burial in the cemetery?"

Just as Arthur was about to answer the pastor, the door of the church opened again. He noticed that Malloy was coming. After he and Malloy nodded to each other, Arthur spoke to the pastor again and said:

"Pastor, do you have faith?"

The priest frowned and asked a priest if he had faith?This was not very polite, but out of quality, he replied politely:
"Damn it, I believe in God."

Arthur smiled and said:

"I don't believe it. In my opinion, the God you believe in is just your imaginary sustenance. Don't worry about getting angry and refuting me. You know what? I also know a pastor. I believe he must be a similar person. A good person like you, who believes in God and saves lost sheep like me. Do you want to hear me continue?"

"Please, Mr. Callahan, if this is the reason why you no longer believe, then I have an obligation to help you understand all this." The pastor replied seriously.

"Okay, let me think about it, let's start from there, the pastor I know. If I remember correctly, he originally believed in God, lived a happy life, and had a successful career, but suddenly one day , he fell in love with a woman named Margaret. He loved her very much, so under the witness of God, the two got married. Does everything seem very happy here?" Arthur asked with a smile. .

"Yes, by the grace of God," the pastor replied despite some worries.

"Look, the twist in the story came. Suddenly one day, it was discovered that this woman had actually been married once. This was too bad. My pastor friend was about to be hanged for committing bigamy. , and what’s even worse is that my friend really loves this woman, and even though he knows that he has been deceived by the woman he loves most, he still decides to run away with her.”

"Mr. Callahan..." the pastor tried to interrupt.

"Please don't interrupt me, this story is getting to the wonderful part. Can you believe it? The pastor was eventually abandoned by the woman he loved. The woman took her money and fled alone on the passenger ship leaving here. I don't want to To guess her reasons for doing this.”

"And the pastor was finally caught by the sheriff. Just when he was about to be hanged, a man saved him. Stop, stop, let's not praise God for now. Although my pastor friend was He was saved, but the man who saved him was not a good person. He led the pastor to cheat, steal, and rob... In the end, the pastor began to drink heavily. He became severely alcoholic. He also learned to cheat and lie. He turned his back. All the virtues he believed in ended up being addicted to drugs and he couldn't extricate himself."

After Arthur finished his story, he looked at the silent priest and asked with a smile:

"You say, is this the God you believe in? Is this faith?"

The pastor said firmly:
"...Mr. Callahan, faith is the light in each of our hearts. It illuminates a person's path in life. Without faith, it is like walking in the dark. You will not know the direction and have no goal. Go with the flow, even if you live your whole life, you will end up with nothing to do."

The pastor was not led astray by Arthur's example. There was one sentence he did not say. The story Arthur told, the pastor believed, was nothing more than a test from God.

Arthur nodded. He did not deny the pastor's words, but asked with a smile:

"I haven't asked yet, what is the pastor's name?"

"Karen, Karen Daly."

"Okay, Pastor Daly, do those you mentioned include Indians? Does the light of your Lord also shine on these people of different skin colors?" Arthur looked at the people lying quietly on the ground. Bison asked.

Pastor Daly did not hesitate, he said firmly:
"Of course, God is equal. Mr. Callahan, you may have some misunderstandings about our church. You must know that our church has set up many Catholic boarding schools in the west in order to educate these barbaric Indians. For those We will provide free food and accommodation and free education to children of school age..."

Arthur looked at Pastor Daly's proud expression. He interrupted the pastor. He originally said these words just because he thought about it. He didn't want to go further into this issue. Did he know what those boarding schools were like? , if there is hell on earth, Arthur believes it is there.

Arthur said:
"My friends are just borrowing your place temporarily. I have already sent people to notify their families. If there is... no one comes to claim it, then we will discuss the details of the funeral. , thank you very much for your time, Pastor Daly.”

Facing Arthur's farewell words, Pastor Daly nodded and said nothing more. After he left the hall, Malloy came to Arthur and said under the gaze of everyone:

"Cable from Rhodes, Arthur, it looks like your fellow 'employee' has gotten you into trouble again."

(End of this chapter)