"God has forsaken us! This is a place cursed by the devil! How could it be otherwise...... Yes...... Let these tragic things happen to us again and again......"

There was a sudden silence on the platform, and even those children who were originally crying and crying immediately covered their mouths, holding back tears in their eyes, and choked silently with grievances. The atmosphere at the scene became extremely heavy, and it seemed that the blazing sun could not dissolve the sadness that was so dense in people's hearts that it was stagnant.

And Sophie also seemed to be hit by a bullet in an instant, the whole person was stunned, her eyes lost focus, and then she stumbled, and she was about to fall in a trance. When Jacob saw Sophie suddenly like this, he hurriedly reached out and grabbed Sophie and hugged her into his arms. Sophie looked at these women and children weakly, her eyes were red, and her voice was weak and hoarse, and she asked, "What...... What's wrong?"

Tragic memories of what had happened in the town came flooding back to Sophie's mind.

Just two years ago, the gold mine where they were located had devoured nearly a hundred lives, devouring almost all the young men in the town, and the whole of Bronk was shrouded in a cloud of sorrow and sorrow, and Bronk became a well-known widow's town. And two years later, she also became a widow at the wedding, and lost all her relatives.

Now, Anthony Wade is here again......

Could it be that something terrible is happening here?

Sophie couldn't have imagined.

“...... What's going on?"

Voiceless!

Dead!

Silent!

Repression!

More and more people are gathering on the platform!

Jamie, a black man, led the war horse to Jacob's side and whispered respectfully, "Mr. Fry, all the people inside are out!"

"All out?!No one else?"

Jacob frowned as he looked at the crowd on the platform. Almost all of them were women and children. Men, especially young men, don't have one. Finally, a few pale old men who were about to wither came out. Other than that, no one ever came out of the cave again.

"What's going on? How can there be no men?"

Jacob was puzzled.

"What the hell is going on!"

Silent!

Dead silence!

The whole world seemed to be depressed, and a mood called despair was brewing in the crowd.

"We ...... By...... They raped ......," said Mu Ran, a young woman with a disheveled hair, "just a few days after you left...... They threatened us with the lives of our children......"

The strength in the numb voice, and the despair that made Sophie tingle when she heard it. Anthony Wade threatened to get Sophie. If she doesn't leave the town, an even more miserable fate awaits her.

Thinking of this, Sophie looked at Jacob gratefully, it was Jacob who saved her from being humiliated by Anthony Wade, and helped her get revenge. In the west, in this wild land, where God will not come, without a strong support, what awaits a woman is definitely worse than going to hell.

"It's nothing...... We thought we had been bitten by a dog! But ......."

Suddenly, the young woman burst out, her clenched hands exposed, and she screamed with all her might, "But they robbed us of all our money! All the money! And the hired miners took advantage of the fire and ran away with the gold they had found! Now...... We have nothing! We have no men to rely on! We don't have money to hire miners to open mines! Anyone can come and bully us! Anyone! As long as a man comes here with a gun, he can do whatever he wants! Do whatever he wants!"

"Woo woo woo ......"

As if sensing the desperation in the young woman's words, everyone whimpered in a low voice, "Sophie...... We've consulted in the mines......"

The young woman did not shed tears, but her eyes were red, she looked back at the crowd, as if she had strengthened her confidence, and then said resolutely: "We are going to sell the gold mines, sell the pastures, sell everything! and then take the money and leave this place, or go to the East, or go to a safer place like San Francisco or Sacramento, and leave here and start our lives again! Your Greene family owns 60 percent of the gold mines, and most of the pasture land, so we have to tell you first. If you can't buy our shares, then we're going to have to find someone else to sell our shares......"

"Yes, we're getting out of here! out of this cursed place!"

"We need men!

"Children need a safe environment to grow up!"

......

The voices are boiling, and the group of females is porridge. These excited women and children waved their arms and shouted loudly, venting the helplessness and despair in their hearts.

It was seen that Jacob's scalp was numb.

Sophie fell silently in Jacob's arms, sobbing silently, tears soaking Jacob's clothes. Jacob looked at these women and children with numb or angry expressions, and sighed in his heart, and gained a deeper understanding of the cruelty of the West.

This is a world of wilderness and civilization, without strength, without weapons in hand, without a strong and cold heart, don't want to survive here. Otherwise, they will be reduced to the lowest class, living in constant fear, not knowing when death and misfortune will befall them.

It's like these people in front of you.

Anthony Wade and dozens of his men broke into Bronk, killing and taking what they wanted, without the slightest resistance. For these villains, the lawless West is simply paradise. And for these people in Bronketown, it's hell!

"Sophie, don't blame us...... We are also forced to ...... If you can, Sophie, you also sell the gold mine and the land, and leave this sad place with us and start a new life......"

Susanna...... If you want to sell your property, go to Mr. Fry!" Sophie choked up and said to the young woman, "because all I have, whether it be gold mines, land, pastures, or even myself, is now not mine!"

Sophie looked at Jacob with a relaxed expression, as if she had let go of everything in her heart. The sadness on her face dissipated, and she said to the young woman, Susanna, "I will be Mr. Fry's man from now on!"

"Mr. Fry's people?!"

Hearing Sophie's words, whether it was Susanna, the other Bronques, or even the mustachioed Richard Harding, the black Jamie, was confused, and couldn't believe what came out of Sophie's mouth.

Only Eve pursed her lips helplessly and glared at Sophie arrogantly, muttering that she didn't know what to say.

"Yes, for revenge, I trade everything I have for Mr. Fry's promise to wipe out Anthony Wade and his Wade Brotherhood. Now that Mr. Frye has done it, so it's also time for me to make good on my promise. ”

Sophie hugged Jacob's arm and had a smile on her face, the first time Jacob had seen her smile since he met her. That smile is warm and warm, sweet like an angel falling into the mortal world.

"I think it's the best promise I've ever made!"