This time the situation was quite special, and even before the normal deadline, Zhang Heng completed the main quest ahead of schedule.

The search for the lucky horseshoe was automatically completed after encountering Cook and Matthew, and the quest to settle in Lincoln County was successfully completed two weeks after he owned the ranch.

So now he doesn't actually have any task pressure.

And his life in the west was just beginning, and after redeeming an additional 24 hours, his quest was extended to 520 days, and he received his share of the bounty shortly after taming the bad boy.

Among them, Cook provided him with $10,000, and he also killed a total of twenty Cook gang robbers, contributing another $8,000 to him, so he finally got a total of 18,000 dollars.

This amount of money was already undoubtedly a huge amount of money in 19th-century America.

After paying off the cost of building the house, he only spent less than 500 yuan, and the remaining money was enough for Zhang Heng to live the rest of his life carefree.

In addition, the old cowboy and the drunkard sheriff came together that day, and also brought back the news of the remaining robbers of the Cook Gang, although the farmers and miners were not very good at marksmanship, but there were still old cowboys and young deputy sheriffs, after a night of pursuit, they killed a few more people, and in the end only four people ran away, basically there is no ability to do evil anymore.

However, for the sake of safety, especially considering the safety of Matthew's family, Zhang Heng later went on another trip and spent two months finding all four people, two of whom were handed over by Zhang Heng to the local sheriff, and two were killed by him when they resisted.

At this point, the matter of the Cook Gang is completely over.

But then Zhang Heng is not idle, this time the western copy is actually a lot of things that can be learned, in addition to equestrianism, there are also cattle driving and rapid fire are also skills that Zhang Heng is more interested in, rapid fire needless to say, Zhang Heng hopes to further improve his shooting skills through rapid fire practice, and drive cattle...... In fact, it is also a technical job.

Especially the use of the noose, the powerful cowboy can be set of any prey, when the herd explodes, especially the test of the cowboy's technical and psychological quality, must catch up with the cow in the shortest possible time, throw out the lasso, and subdue it.

This can also be used on people, and can be used to quickly incapacitate a target with a rope without the use of a lethal weapon.

In addition, Zhang Heng is also paying attention to the whereabouts of the game items in this round of dungeons, but unfortunately there is no news about this.

Zhang Heng now knows the source of the game props, basically every prop is related to a god, just like behind each copy will correspond to a certain god, the copy is unique, but the god may not only stay in one copy, so according to Miss Bartender, there will also be a situation where there are no props in the copy.

Zhang Heng didn't know which god he corresponded to this copy, the god of the west? The cowboy god? The god of the wilderness and the goddess of liberty seem to make sense in this context, but since the other party did not show up like the gods of the previous copies, it is clear that he does not want to have any further communication with Zhang Heng.

Zhang Heng naturally will not be idle and have nothing to provoke the other party.

Half a year later, however, he was still involved in the county war in Lincoln County, a war between Major Murphy, the most powerful man in Lincoln County, and the ranchers around the town, which lasted for five months, of course, and was all about harassment and assassination.

It wasn't until the fifth month that the war broke out completely, and after Zhang Heng joined with his gun, the ranchers began to have an overwhelming advantage, and finally the two sides re-agreed to a new contract, Major Murphy made a promise after the hired gunmen were all dead and wounded, to cut the monopoly of the East Coast purchase of materials by half, and never raise the price again, and at the same time sold the two ranches in his hands, and never touched the livestock industry in Lincoln County again.

At this point, the five-month battle for Lincoln County finally came to an end.

And Zhang Heng's biggest gain in this county battle was not to buy a ranch of Major Murphy at a low price, after all, he couldn't settle here all the time, and the amount of money didn't mean as much to him as others.

What really intrigued him was a gunslinger named Billy the Kid.

Zhang Heng is not mistaken, this guy is the character who appears most frequently in later Westerns, and there are many stories about him.

However, the real man is not as wild and uninhibited as in the movies, on the contrary, he is quite young and very shy, and he has only recently come to Lincoln County, where he is employed by a rancher and also joins the county war in Lincoln County.

Zhang Heng has fought side by side with him a few times, of course Billy Kid is not as good as in film and television works, but he shoots very fast, and Zhang Heng only spent a glass of beer to let Billy Kid generously tell him about his rapid-fire training methods.

In the last two months, Zhang Heng basically didn't do anything, just kept practicing drawing and shooting, and finally improved his shooting skills to lv3, so that whether it was long-distance sniping, or short-range quick shooting, he was no problem.

In addition, the two skills of riding and driving cattle were finally combined into one and became a lv2 skill called Cowboy.

When Zhang Heng was leaving, he divided the remaining 15,000 yuan into two bags.

One bag was buried under the horse pen of Matthew's house, and another bag was buried under the horse pen of his own house.

After that, he picked a day with good weather and took Wendy on another hunting trip.

The two returned to the woods where Zhang Heng and the Cook Gang fought, time has passed, and peace has been restored here, those corpses have long been taken away by the bailiffs that night, the hunter's hut has also been renovated and cleaned, and the hunters who stayed at night have chopped wood and put it there.

The only thing left was probably bullet marks on the door.

Zhang Heng and Wendy returned here before sunset with the rabbits and deer they had hit, and Zhang Heng lit a fire and began to peel and cut the meat with his hands.

Wendy sat in front of the campfire and watched him get busy.

"You haven't told me where you came from."

"Does that matter?" Zhang Heng didn't look back, and asked rhetorically.

"Hmm...... If I tell my child your story in the future, how will I tell him where you came from, how did you come here, how did you meet me and embark on this journey together? ”

"It's not my origin that let us embark on a journey together, but your insistence at the time, you are the most stubborn little ghost I have ever seen, you knocked on my door before dawn, I didn't wake up at that time, but looking into your eyes, I knew that if I didn't agree to this bear child's request, this guy would pester me in all kinds of ways for the next week, annoying me to death, and I couldn't do anything."

"Hmm, was I that annoying then?" Wendy's face flushed.

"It's 10,000 times more annoying than you can imagine." Zhang Heng reached out and touched her hair, "But, the night after that, you saved your mother and father, that was really ...... Very brave move, very brave, you are a girl, but you are stronger than most of the men I have met. ”

Wendy seemed a little embarrassed to be complimented, "You were the one who saved our family that night." ”

"Yes, but if it weren't for the time you bought with your shotgun, I wouldn't have been able to get there before Cook killed your mother." Zhang Heng said, "So, it can also be said that you have changed your fate, child." ”