After disposing of the three poor corpses, John went to the detached house in the middle of the courtyard, and from the few words he had just eavesdropped, he knew that most of the gang was probably locked up here.

With the impression of going upstairs for the first time, John moved cautiously from room to room, and when he was nearing the chamber with its quartz table, some conversations came from him.

"Captain Pierce, that fat woman named Catherine is restless and has been making noises to test us."

"Isn't that easy? Just get rid of her, Mr. Mayor asked us to keep Streich and dispose of the rest at will. ”

"Okay, I'll go down and get Myer, he's doing this job, and he'll give that bitch a good time, and we'll be quiet after a busy night's work."

The man went down the stairs on the other side, and since John had handled Myer properly, he had to find it for a while.

As far as the footsteps were concerned, there was a guard in the council chamber in addition to the captain named Pierce, and since the two had walked away, the two had been silent, only occasionally saying hello, and John planned to lure them out one by one and kill them, so that there would be no threat.

Just as John was deducing in his mind, a rush of footsteps came towards the side room where John was hiding, John turned and hid in a belly cabinet with a large pendulum clock, and through the gap John saw a strong man walking by Thomas's collar, and then the strong man slammed the door in.

"You should know that I never blink an eye when I kill people, and I'll repeat the question, where did the Ducky Van der Linde guys flee?"

"Captain, I really don't know...... They don't tell me anything. ”

Thomas was tied so tightly that he couldn't move on his knees.

"I'll give you a minute, if you're still so obsessed, you'll see what happened to that accomplice."

Pierce put the shotgun against Thomas's head and said with a brutal expression.

John knew he had to do something, he pulled out his dagger and cautiously pushed open the cabinet door, and slumped over to Pierce. Thomas saw it between Pierce's legs, and the light flashed in his eyes, and he immediately restrained his excitement.

John successfully reached Pierce's back, just as he was clenching the dagger and preparing to charge a blow, Pierce seemed to realize something and turned his head and elbowed John's dagger to fly, John's right hand was shaken and hurt, Pierce roared and turned back with an uppercut, but was quickly parried by John's left hand that was across in front of him. It was between this attack and defense that John gradually figured out the strength of the opponent - this is an equal opponent.

"Little bunny, send it to the door yourself!" Pierce looked at the dagger on the ground and sneered.

Unexpectedly, Pierce pounced directly on John, and the two scuffled together, one moment Pierce had the upper hand, and the other John rode on top of Pierce and punched him twice in the face.

After a while, most of the strength of the two was consumed, and in order to end the battle as soon as possible, John turned his offensive and no longer parried Pierce head-on, but attacked his weak point, but Pierce was not a vegetarian either, he quickly changed his strategy, so the two reached a stalemate again.

In the end, under the gaze of only one spectator, John and Pierce collapsed on the floor, and Pierce crawled over with difficulty, and with the last bit of strength he grabbed John by the neck with his thumb, and John tilted his head and smacked his lips - his body did not obey at all, and Pierce laughed viciously.

"John!"

John's mind went blank, as if all the gas was abandoning him, the darkness obscuring his vision, the emptiness taking over his hearing...... The Grim Reaper gradually took control of his body.

"John, dagger!" Thomas shouted.

For a moment John came to his senses and realized that Thomas was calling him, and his fingers moved slightly, touching the wooden handle of his dagger wrapped around the cloth. The desire to live caused him to grab the dagger and stab it upward, and he felt the flesh tear open at the sword, and Pierce's body fell to the ground, blood spurting all over John's face.

"What a fucking damn one!" John spat at the corpse on the ground.

There was a knock on the door, and a voice outside the door asked.

"Captain, do you need me to call the next prisoner in?"

John asked Thomas to feign screaming in order to disguise the fight as a one-sided torture of the prisoner, and John himself was given some time off. After a few moments, when he had the strength to stand up, he cut the hemp rope from Thomas's hand, then picked up Pierce's shotgun and called Thomas to the door......

"Son of a bitch, go die!"

The door was opened, and the remaining soldier was blasted a few meters away, and suddenly he was gone, and the imprisoned Van der Linde gang members all looked at the two men who appeared in front of the door in amazement, they could not have imagined that someone would come to save them, and in this way.

"Brothers, sisters, Ducky van der Linde has betrayed us." John wiped his face and said.

"John! I knew you were going to come to our rescue. Miller was chained to a pole, his face covered in whiplash scars, "It's a pity that these animals killed Hutton." ”

Grimes sighed, "Hutton is the pastor of the gang, these people are picking on the elderly, and they are still God's people...... Alas!"

By the time Thomas unleashed everyone, John knew that he had to confront the gang with the reality of Ducky's escape, and that he had to take on the responsibility himself, but it was still up to the members to do so.

"I don't think we want this incident to break our will and destroy our alliance, so we should elect the next leader and continue to lead our gang down." John said solemnly.

The crowd was silent, and Thomas put down his work and walked up to John, his eyes full of tears.

"We weren't a burden to you, but you were willing to rescue us alone when we were trapped, I saw your bravery just now, you are our savior, just by virtue of these, why don't we follow you forever?"

This time everyone nodded their heads from the bottom of their hearts, and John felt that he had finally picked up the responsibility, and from the time he joined the Van der Linde gang by mistake, the sense of mission had grown little by little with his feelings for the gang, and now he was responsible, which was something that every man who left home needed in his heart.

"Let's go, if Lemieu's reinforcements arrive, we'll have to sacrifice our comrades again." John did the first thing he was responsible for the helper's life.

"Wait a minute!" A familiar voice came from the corner, "If it's convenient for you, can you take me with you?" ”

John walked up to the man and took off his hood - Stridge Manstar's face appeared in front of him.

"Few people know what I really look like, and I promise I won't cause trouble for you." Stretch said aggrievedly.

"Miss Manstar, if you have a little shame, you know that you are the one who has caused us to fall into this situation." Miller said on the side.

"Hmph, I'm just a fuse, it's all a conspiracy between Ducky van der Linde and Lemieuux, my relationship with Lemieux has long been torn apart, there's no need to play these tricks to save my place in his heart."

John thought for a moment and nodded, "Okay, I'll keep you." But if you dare to make a small move behind our backs to report to others, I promise to cut you to death. ”

"No, I'll go to New Mexico when you're settled, where I have my second job."

John led the people down the stairs, and halfway through the way, he bumped into the soldier who was shaking the man, and the man trembled with fear at the sight of so many people, and John smiled wickedly at the woman who walked beside him.

"Catherine, over to you."