The intersection of the street outside the town of Jinshan Port.

The sound of horses' hooves sounded, and more than a dozen horses galloped back from the shantytown where the flames rose in the distance.

On each horse, a cowboy with two guns at his waist sat high, and the leader of them was a bearded cowboy, and when he flew back, he gestured to Davis Barton at the intersection of the street, indicating that the matter was done.

Davis Patton reached for the front brim of his hat and nodded to his subordinates as they rode back.

"Yours guys are doing a good job!"

Standing next to Davis Patton, Mark Hilford, dressed in a crisp old-fashioned knight's costume, watched with satisfaction as the flames burned in the direction the cowboys returned.

"Mr. Hilford, tonight is the last time to do your work, and if you need anything after that, go find someone else." Davis Barton looked blankly at the distant fire, and a chill welled up in his heart.

"Bullshit knight, I don't know how many people will die if this fire burns!" Davis Barton cursed inwardly.

Even if he never had a good impression of Xia Gong from that distant and decaying empire, Xia Gong was not even as good as the dark-skinned Negro and the New World indigenous Madi in his eyes.

But...... Such a large-scale killing has never been seen even by Davis Patton in more than a decade of western.

Even if it is thousands of cattle and sheep, the terrible howl of being engulfed by the fire will make people feel a little compassionate, not to mention that this is a living person?

"Davis, I think you seem to have an opinion about me now because I ruined your dream of becoming a rich man?"

Mark Hilford asked with a little playfulness as he stared at the flames rising from the shantytown in the distance.

"I ...... I don't know what you're talking about? ”

Davis Barton's face changed slightly, and his right hand subconsciously touched the revolver on his waist.

"You know!"

Mark Hilford seemed to be unaware of Davis Patton's movements, and there was only a faint smile floating in his handsome face, "The East and West are going to dig a big railroad, and all the consortia in the entire Federation are moving, this kind of news is not quite human."

You and your men have teamed up with the local Xia Gong Gang, the Haisha Society, and collected some of the grass in the Xia Gong to bring them out of Jinshan Harbor so that they can follow you and eventually sell them to the railroad company as miners.

I have to be honest, you're a good idea, after all, it's cheaper than going all the way to a distant empire to recruit people. ”

"Mr. Silverford, several of my men have died for your business."

Davis Barton's eyes flickered, and he didn't expect that his original plan in secret was so well understood by the young man next to him.

He did gather some weak-minded people in the shantytown summer workers, and promised that as long as they could get more people to leave Jinshan Port and go to the central part of the country to build a big railway, he would give those summer workers who had taken refuge in him official federal status in Jinshan Port.

But all this is done in secret, and so far, the number of people he has recruited is only a few dozen, which is nothing compared to the tens of thousands of laborers in Jinshan Port.

He's a cowboy, but he also has a speculative business in his bones.

Originally, it was planned that as long as it went well and united internal and external forces, he would make a lot of money from the intermediary fee, or the cost of selling these two-legged animals.

It's just that the shadow son who had some prestige buried in Xia Gong was used to die at the hands of the monster that was lured out, and his idea seemed to have begun to fall short.

It is not enough to rely on coercion and inducement alone, Xia Gong is united internally, and what is needed is to be bewitched from within to be able to do this.

"It's greedy and innocent!"

Mark Silver, who was next to him, suddenly said, "Davis, you haven't thought that if you get people away, will those shipping companies in Jinshan Port let you go?" I think they all have their own armed guards.

Look, how good it is now! It's all burned down, and a lot of summer workers will be displaced, and this is your chance! Haha, I think you should thank me for inviting me to a glass of tequila. ”

Davis Barton's face changed, his right hand quietly dropped from the revolver, and lowered his head slightly, "My lord, I only want to know one thing now, what are you so bothering so much for?" ”

Mark Hilford looked at the distant firelight, and his face suddenly showed a resolute and holy color, as if the fire that suddenly ignited in front of him had nothing to do with him.

I only heard him say slowly: "Davis, there is always something in this world that you have never heard of. ”

"What the hell is that?" Davis Barton frowned, "It's worth sacrificing so many lives? ”

Mark Hilford didn't answer, just looked at the firelight from afar, his expression was determined, "Glory is my life!" Nothing is unsacrificeable for the sake of justice! ”

……

Inside a shanty hut with a black pennant hanging from the door.

Liu Sixi stood in the middle of the room and glanced at the dilapidated wooden house again, there were not many things in the room, he had already finished the rectification in just a short time, just looking at the wooden house that he had lived in for a short time, he inevitably felt a little sad in his heart.

Since participating in the great rebellion in the empire more than ten years ago, he has been in exile for all these years, from the provinces of the empire to fleeing overseas, but even if he is a laborer who struggles to make a living, such a peaceful life has finally been broken.

The appearance of the two sticky rods Bai Tang indicates that there will probably be more and more Imperial Eagle Dog minions coming here next, he has already exposed his whereabouts, and if he wants to stay any longer, not only will he be in danger, but I am afraid that those Xia Gong boys related to him will not be able to escape.

Suddenly, Liu Sixi's nose twitched slightly, his eyes froze, and he suddenly walked to the door of the wooden house, pushed the door and went out.

The billowing smoke rained down like a monstrous monster into the sky, engulfing the entire shantytown. The flames were raging, and the dancing dragons were constantly eroding the surroundings from afar.

"There's a fire!"

Liu Sixi's heart trembled slightly, walked to the door of the wooden house, jumped on the roof, and watched the movement ahead.

The shantytowns are miles of rudimentary wooden buildings, and if the fire is not extinguished in time, the consequences are unimaginable. Especially tonight, when the night wind is howling and the fire is taking advantage of the wind, I am afraid that the entire shanty town will not be spared. At this moment, when he caught the fire, he could see many places in the shantytown, full of panicked people running around in a panic.

Suddenly, in the muddy alley not far away, illuminated by the distant firelight, several figures flickered, and a fierce fighting sound came.

Liu Sixi looked at the figure flashing in the distance, his eyes froze, his footsteps were on the roof, and the person was like an arrow from the string, rushing towards the direction where the sound of the fight came from on the roof.