Chapter 11: Blood Creek
"Do you want to see if your arrows are fast, or my knives are fast?" Chen Jianqiu's voice came from behind Scar Feather.
"Playing yin?" Scarface felt a tingling sensation coming from his neck, and the tip of the knife had cut through the skin on his neck.
"Each other, each other." Chen Jianqiu's hand holding the knife did not relax in the slightest, and the other hand had already removed the arrow that Scar Feather was attached to the bow.
"How are you going to explain to Asuka if you kill me?"
"Huh? I don't really care what he thinks, but I really want to know how you can deal with your master if you can't get his head. ”
Scarface's whistle resounded throughout the valley. The white-tailed deer, who were still eating with their heads down just now, were frightened and fled in all directions, and at the same time brought a bunch of unknown animals to run around.
Asuka quickly turned in this direction, stunned by what was in front of him.
"Chen, what are you doing?" He was incredulous that his savior had put a dagger on his friend's neck.
"Why don't you ask him what he's doing with his bow and arrow in this position?" Chen Jianqiu not only did not put down the dagger in his hand, but pressed it deeper.
"Asuka! Are you willing to believe him? Or me? Scarfher said loudly in Native Chinese.
"Chen, put the knife down first, Scarfeather is my good brother, he won't do that kind of thing." Asuka slowly approached the two, he didn't know what was happening, and the Chinese in front of him didn't know why he suddenly had so much hostility towards Scar Feather, first with a gun, then with a knife.
"The accident in Shiquan Town was five days ago, we traveled all the way, and we just arrived here, you have been in the mountains, how did you know about Robert's death? And who told you that we met in Shiquan Town and saved the birds? Chen Jianqiu asked unhurriedly, but a cold light flashed in his eyes.
"If those just suspicions just now, the strangulation marks on your wrists can't be done by your own people, right?"
The words are heart-wrenching, Scarf's face is ugly, and the flying bird's face is like ashes.
"Your people, you can do it yourself." Chen Jianqiu let go of the dagger in his hand and kicked the Indian in front of him towards the bird.
Asuka has not yet woken up from shock and dismay.
"I'm sorry, they caught my wife." Scarfa didn't dare to look Asuka in the eye and walked slowly towards him.
Asuka subconsciously wanted to shake his hand, but in the next second, Scarfeather had already dodged and jumped into the bushes.
Chen Jianqiu quickly pulled out the revolver from his waist, and he tried to take aim, but did not pull the trigger.
Alas, the marksmanship is too poor, at this time he is a little envious of the western sharpshooters, if they have the ability to "American-style home", in that situation just now, the fleeing Indians should be rolling on the ground with their legs held at this time.
There is a good chance that this traitor will be followed by a Federation soldier, and if he misses a single blow, he will alarm the people around him.
"Now go back to camp, this place can't stay long." Chen Jianqiu called the bird that was still lost and returned to the camp.
"You finally came back, I thought you left me again, anyway, in this deep mountain and old forest, if you really left me, I'm afraid I won't survive one night." Sean saw them come back and turned on chatterboxing mode.
"When have we ever left you?" Chen Jianqiu ran over to untie the reins of the horse, and he pointed to Scarf's horse, "You ride this." ”
"Hey, the sun is about to set, where are we going now? What about the Indian with a scar on his face? Sean climbed onto Scarf's brown horse, which didn't seem to look down on the man on his back, but didn't resist.
"We're being targeted by the Federation's troops, their people should be nearby, the smoke in this camp is exposed, and with Scarface's whistle just now, it's very likely that it was a ventilator. Gotta change places. ”
Asuka extinguished the bonfire, and the three of them continued along the mountain path deeper into the mountain.
After judging that there was no one to follow for the time being, the three of them found a small cave and re-lit the bonfire.
"What do we do next?" Sean asked.
Before Chen Jianqiu could answer, Asuka spoke, and he pulled down the fire with a branch, and the light of the fire reflected on his face.
"I'm going to check out the tribe."
Chen Jianqiu was silent for a while, took out the pack of cigarettes, took out one and put it in his mouth, then picked up a burning branch in the fire, and leaned his head closer to the cigarette.
"Are you sure you want to go?" He asked, smoking a cigarette, the cigarette butt flickering in the darkness of the cave, "There's a good chance your tribe has been attacked, there's a good chance that something will happen to your loved ones, and there's a good chance that there's a federal soldier ambush right now." ”
Asuka thought about it, but nodded.
Chen Jianqiu extinguished the cigarette: "Then I'll accompany you tomorrow morning, Sean, you stay here, and run away when you see that the situation is wrong." ”
Sean smiled wryly: "Without you, where can I go, let's go with you, maybe it can come in handy." ”
Chen Jianqiu took out the revolver from his waist and threw it to Sean: "Take it, I really don't believe you don't know how to use a gun." ”
Sean didn't dare to take it.
"Take it, and watch behind us when the time comes." Chen Jianqiu lay down directly next to the bonfire.
Sean picked up the gun and slipped it into his belt.
"Be careful, there's a bullet in the gun, don't go off and hit your eggs." A word floated from the lying man.
Sean was so frightened that he quickly pulled out the gun and touched his crotch with trepidation.
"By the way, Boss, how did Scarfin know about Robert's death and our message?"
"It's likely that after he was caught, the Union soldiers told him."
"But how did the Federation soldiers find out so quickly?"
"Telegram."
Sean's eyes widened, could Morris, just a sheriff, still command an active army?
"This team may have been hanging around here for a long time, and something happened to the town of Stone Springs, and Morris judged our direction, so he directly took a telegram." Chen Jianqiu paused and continued, "Their original target should have been the Asuka tribe. ”
Asuka buried his head deep in his knees.
"Alright, don't blame yourself, let's go see tomorrow, maybe some of the rest of the people have run away." Chen Jianqiu comforted the bird, and then found a corner to sleep.
……
The weather in the mountains changed as they spoke, and when the three of them walked out of the cave the next day, it was a little gloomy outside, and they ate the last dry food and continued on their way.
The closer they were to the tribe's station, the less the three of them interacted, and after crossing a hill, they heard the sound of water.
After the three of them approached with their horses, they found that it was a stream, not very wide or narrow, and the water was quite clear.
"This stream flows down from the mountains, and when we chose our camp, it wasn't far from it." Asuka pointed in the direction of the upper reaches of the stream and said, "We will follow this stream upstream, and we will find the camp." ”
Sean had dismounted, and he was holding a water bag to fill it with some drinking water.
Chen Jianqiu held his breath and stared, as if he heard a louder voice coming from the valley upstream of the stream.
"Asuka, listen, what is this sound?"
Asuka also began to listen carefully, and he looked up at the dim sky on the other side of the valley upstream, and said, "It must be raining upstream, and there will be a lot of water to come." ”
Before he could finish speaking, a raging stream appeared at the corner of the stream, striking the stones in the riverbed.
The mud-mixed water was muddy, but the color was strange, a dull red.
Suddenly, they saw Sean, who was fetching water in front of them, standing blankly on the rocks on the shore, looking at the rushing water, like a clay sculpture.
"God, I've seen something." He muttered.
The color of the stream had turned red, and the body of an Indian was wrapped in the stream!