Chapter 41: Interrogation
"What a childishness!" The finch pulled the arrow from the man's shoulder and put it back away. "Fifteen dollars? You're called 'fifteen dollars,' right? ”
"You know everything, what else are you asking?"
"Make sure we don't catch the wrong person. However, it's hard for me to make a mistake with a dwarf like you! Ha ha! The Grey Sparrow smiled.
"Phew!" Fifteen spat bloodshot at him.
The Grey Sparrow stomped on the fifteen-dollar face, flattening his face before he let go. He lowered his head and asked, "The turtledove has a personal guard hidden in the back mountain, do you know?" ”
"I haven't been to the back mountains," Fifteen said. "Besides, I'm a newcomer who hasn't been in the gang for a long time, how can I know this!"
"Hehe, if someone else had said that, I might have believed it. But you are different, and the turtledove's love for you is obvious to everyone. If you say it happily, I'll send you on your way later. If you still want to swallow and spit, I'll let you spit! ”
The Grey Sparrow grabbed a handful of mud from the bank of the river and put it on the face of Fifteen Dollars without saying a word.
Fifteen struggled hard, but his legs and hands were tied, and he had a big foot on his chest, and it was useless to struggle.
In the end, he could only open his mouth wide, like a fish thrown onto the riverbank.
"Ahh I say, I say, I say everything! Fifteen struggled for a moment, pushed his tongue open the mud from his mouth, and said hurriedly.
Only then did Gray Sparrow help him buckle the mud off his nose and pat him on the cheek: "It's good to be sensible!" ”
Fifteen Dollar gasped hard.
"The Big Tree Tribe wants to annex us, just send troops over! With Anderson as the internal response, are you still afraid that you won't be able to take it? Why do you want to do this? Fifteen dollars asked.
"What nonsense are you talking about?" Grey Sparrow was furious and gave fifteen dollars a slap in the face. "We're not from the Big Tree Tribe!"
"Anyway, the rebels can't protect themselves now, even if Victorio knows that we have infighting, he can't do anything to you!" Fifteen dollars continued.
"Nonsense!" At that moment, another man rushed over and kicked at the fifteen dollars. "If you are told to answer well, answer well, don't say what you have or don't!"
"Let me sit up, and I'll say it!" Fifteen dollars said.
The man and the Grey Sparrow exchanged glances, and the Grey Sparrow lifted the fifteen dollars up, and gently reassured, "Why do you bother? That turtledove won't live long, no matter how much he loves you, what can he give you? Why do you want to die for such a person? ”
"The problem is, I've only ever met one turtledove!" "I went to Anderson, and he said that I was a short, ugly retarded man, and that I should learn to be polite before I talked to him about the fate of the Indians." ”
"Haha!" The man next to him laughed. "Anderson has always been like that, he read a few white people's books and ended up reading himself stupidly!"
"When is Captain Big Tree sending troops? With me as the internal response, isn't it much better than that Anderson? "Fifteen dollars said.
"Phew!" Grey Sparrow kicked fifteen dollars. "Why do you want to do it too?"
"Am I not qualified enough?" Fifteen asked, "Didn't you take such a big risk to catch the people of the turtledove tribe just to get information?" I can tell you everything I know! ”
"Then tell us first, how many people are there in the turtledove's personal guard team in the back mountain?" Grey Finch asked.
"50 people!" Fifteen dollars said.
"Didn't you say you didn't go to the back mountains?" Another asked.
"The turtledove knows everything about me, and it says everything!" Fifteen dollars replied.
"All musketeers?"
"Yes." Fifteen dollars replied. "But, though you are musketeers, you need not be afraid. Because- I guess Captain Big Tree will bring someone himself this time, right? ”
"What's the matter with you? Speak well! "The gray finch is a little dissatisfied, this fifteen dollars, how can you like to guess?
"That's right! With Captain Big Tree's prestige and status, as soon as he came to the Turtledove tribe, at least half of the people would defect. I don't dare to say anything else, that salt will definitely listen to you! Greyhound is your man, right? Plus I-"
"Don't talk about this uselessness! How are turtledoves arranged? The other said impatiently.
"There are two kinds of posts: clear posts and dark whistles. For example, this time, Gray Sparrow, you are Minggang, and I am the Dark Sentinel. It's just that we have calculated everything, and no one thought that you were the Minggang of the captain of the big tree! ”
"Where is the arming point, tell me honestly!" Fifteen dollars ate a slap in the face of the sparrow.
"Around the tribal camp, there are a total of eleven defense points, but the tribe is understaffed, and can only be randomly selected in it every day. It is impossible and unnecessary to remove these warnings completely. I suggest you come from the west, where there is a path through the swamp, and I can draw it for you—well, it seems that you are not interested in this, can you untie my hand? I can draw you a map of the armament! ”
The Grey Sparrow hesitated.
"Please, there are four of you, are you still afraid that I won't be able to escape? I'm still tied to my legs by you! ”
The other nodded at the Sparrow, and the Finch untied the rope from Fifteen's hand.
Fifteen said, "Anderson shouldn't know what you're doing, right?" ”
"Don't ask what you shouldn't!" Grey Sparrow said impatiently.
"Okay!" Fifteen said, "I suppose Captain Big Tree must have suffered a defeat at the bottom of the mountain, or he could have come with his men generously—"
"What nonsense are you talking about!" The man kicked at fifteen dollars.
But he kicked it into the air.
Fifteen dollar rolled off the stone and fell into the river.
The rushing river swept him out of the way at once.
"Catch him! Get him! ”
The remaining two men on the river bank hurried downstream, trying to intercept Fifteen.
At that moment, three men came out from behind the waterfall and pulled the trigger on the two Grey Sparrows, who were still standing on the rocks in the middle of the river.
The distance was only about ten paces, and even the most outrageous musketeer was enough to shoot.
The two Grey Sparrows fell in response.
The two men on the riverbank were stunned for a moment when they heard the gunshots, and then pulled out their legs and burrowed into the woods.
However, after running more than ten meters, they saw three muskets in front of them turn out of the woods and face them.
The two men glanced at each other, dropped their crossbow arrows, and raised their hands.
"Bastard! Come and save me! Come and save me! ”
Fifteen dollars shouted in the river.
……
Early in the morning of the second day.
The four-legged snake panted and broke into the turtledove's house.
"Oh no, turtledove!"
"What's wrong?" A turtledove is nibbling on potatoes in plain water.
"Last night, the Grey Sparrow disappeared with Fifteen Dollars!" The four-legged snake said.
The turtledove was shocked. "What the hell is going on?"
"As I said, fifteen dollars is not reliable at all!" The four-legged serpent said, "Yesterday afternoon, he led the five men out of the camp, and he didn't know where he went!" In the evening, he ran back and took the place of the mouse, teaming up with the Grey Sparrow to guard the Black Wind Ridge. As a result, something happened to him! ”
"Find it right away!" Turtledove said. "You have to see people in life, and you have to see corpses in death!"
"I've sent someone to find it! Alas! The four-legged snake sighed, "There has been an accident for a few days in a row, and now the people in the tribe are panicking, and they all say that it is possible that we have offended the god Quetzalcoatl, and we should sacrifice it——! ”
"!" Turtledove said, "Quetzalcoatl—there is no Quetzalcoatl!" ”
"You can't say that, turtledove!" The four-legged snake said. "Just as white people believe in God, we Indians—"
"Shut up! Don't mention to me any more gods of Quetzalcoatl, in our tribe, we don't believe in God, and we don't believe in any gods! ”
Without any room for manoeuvre, the turtledove vetoed the existence of all gods.
Perhaps, he should change the way to a compromise and guide the people of the tribe to believe in something in an orderly manner. Faith is not necessarily all bad, it is an effective tool for dictatorships.
However, he did not have time to compromise.
It was 1842, and 'science' had become the most powerful engine in the white world, and 'materialism' had begun to show its prominence, and a German named Karl Marx was 34 years old!
On the eastern shore of the American continent, a guy named Richard Gatling has grown tired of being a doctor and has begun to work on a gunpowder weapon that can fire continuously!
At this time, do the Indians still have to go to great lengths to fight the 'gods'?
Running out of time, right?
Instead of wasting energy on this, it is better to smash the chains directly, and all Indians, as long as they still want to eat under the eight-color flag, must all stand for me, and they are not allowed to kneel!
The knee is nailed to the steel plate, whoever kneels dies!
There has never been a savior, and it doesn't depend on the Immortal Emperor!
The Indians can only rely on themselves!
……
"Alright, turtledove!" The four-legged snake said helplessly. "I'm going to catch those who spread rumors!"
"Go find fifteen dollars first, bastard!" The turtledove roared at him.