Chapter 70: Departure, Pete King
Chen Jianqiu led the group to the entrance of the town near the market.
There were not many people in the town, most of them went to the bazaar, and the gates of the sheriff's office were closed, and there were a few tattered bounty orders pasted on the bounty list, and the amount on them was pitiful, and even then, no one seemed to have completed it.
So they swaggered into town.
"Did Holmes say he was staying in a hotel?" Asuka asked.
"Well, that guy would rather hide in the house and study the map than go with us to sell horses." Sean pouted, he was originally left by Chen Jianqiu to be with Holmes, but the geologist said that he didn't want to stay with this talker.
There is only one hotel in the town, which is easy to find, and the largest one on the main road is.
Chen Jianqiu and the others tied their horses to the tethered stakes at the door and walked into the hotel.
The hotel is not big, but because it is a market period, people come and go, and the owner is the clerk, inside and out, and he is very busy.
"Excuse me, is there a gentleman named Holmes who lives here?" Chen Jianqiu walked to the bar and knocked on the countertop with his hand.
"I went out early in the morning to the market." The boss didn't even turn his head, he took out a key ring from under the counter and beckoned a new guest to come in.
The boss is purely casual nonsense, he doesn't have time to pay attention to these people at all, anyway, at this point, most of them are in the bazaar.
He could only hold one thing in his head, but he always felt that the name was familiar, as if someone had come to look for it earlier today, and then came back with a note or something.
Alas, no matter what, the gentleman in the back is still waiting to open the door.
Chen Jianqiu and his soldiers divided into three ways and went around the market, but they did not find any trace of Holmes.
Several people reunited at the market entrance.
"Did you ask about his whereabouts?" Chen Jianqiu asked.
Sean and Adam both shook their heads, except for Asuka to inquire from a second-hand painter, and the geologist followed the two men.
Chen Jianqiu asked Asukia, "Have you asked what those two people look like?" ”
Asuka pulled out a piece of paper from his bosom with two human faces drawn: "I bought it for fifty cents." ”
The painter's skill matched every painting he could not sell, and the brushwork and composition were very abstract, but they quickly recognized the person in the painting, because one of them had a mustache.
"Could it be that these are the bounty hunters who were chased outside yesterday?" Chen Jianqiu snorted, "These two set off earlier than us, could it be that they were chased all the way?" ”
"Let's go, let's go back to the hotel and have a look."
The owner of the inn was still busy, and when he saw a few people walking in, he didn't even look at it, so he went around to the back room and didn't know what he was doing again.
Chen Jianqiu took out his revolver and fired a shot at the door.
This gunshot sounded like a thunderclap, and the people in the hotel lobby squatted down with their heads in their hands, while the people on the street outside the door, some found cover to hide, and some ran directly away, running away from the hotel gate.
"Boss!" Chen Jianqiu raised his voice.
A trembling head poked out from behind the cabinet, and the boss's face turned pale.
"If you ask for money, I'll give it to you, don't, don't hurt me."
"Please open the door to Mr. Holmes's room." Chen Jianqiu tried his best to make himself look pleasant.
The boss found the keyring and led them to the door of a room, where he tried several keys but couldn't open them.
Adam waited impatiently in the back, dragged the boss to the back, and kicked the door open.
Several people walked in.
"The treasure map and materials are still there, and his luggage has not been taken." Asuka gestured to the human skin on the table by the window.
Chen Jianqiu walked over, put away his things, and put them into his arms.
"His horse is too." Through the window, Sean pointed to the stables in the backyard, where the quarthorses he had given to Holmes had also stopped.
"Gentlemen, two gentlemen also came to look for him in the morning, and they came back later, and left a note saying that if they saw a Chinese, they would give it to him."
"Where's the note?" Chen Jianqiu glanced at the boss, and almost didn't see him peeing his pants at this glance.
"Yes, at the front desk."
"Then why didn't you just give it to us when we first came." Sean leaned in.
"I, I forgot, hug, sorry." Surrounded by four fierce men, the boss was about to cry.
He walked back to the counter, took out the note from the drawer, and handed it to Chen Jianqiu.
Chen Jianqiu glanced at it, and it was written crookedly: Come to Pitkin if you are brave enough, if you want to exchange for your accomplices.
He frowned, flipped the note over, and handed it to Adam after making sure there was nothing.
Adam frowned as well.
Putting aside the fact that the person who wrote this note has a bit of a problem with the cerebellum and brain, why Pitkin? Could it be that this bounty hunter has something to do with Clark too? But they got together yesterday.
The boss wanted to cry without tears, and the four of them stopped at the bar, and all the people in their hotel ran away, and now there was no one in the hall except a few of them.
People outside were also afraid to come in, and people stayed away from the hotel.
Because this town is small, there has been no sheriff for a long time, so what kind of business do you still have if you continue like this?
But he was wrong, because someone really came in.
Just as Chen Jianqiu and the four of them were standing on the edge of the bar to discuss the next countermeasures, a rush of horses' hooves suddenly remembered outside the door.
A couple of horses stopped outside the door,
The horsemen dismounted, followed by a sound of footsteps, and walked towards the inn.
Listening from the footsteps, there were at least seven or eight people.
At this time, those who dare to continue to enter the hotel should not be a good class, Chen Jianqiu put down the note in his hand.
The door of the hotel was not closed, and several cowboys appeared at the gate.
The cowboys raised their heads and saw Chen Jianqiu and a few of them standing on the edge of the bar, and they were stunned for a while.
Chen Jianqiu was also a little strange, because the people on the other side obviously knew them, and he thought about it carefully, these people were not the same people who stood behind Clark last night.
After a little thought, he figured out the meaning of these people.
Holmes, this unlucky man, Chen Jianqiu has lost count of how many times he has been a hostage, it seems that he is really quite sought-after.
"The next time you come, it's better to be early, like an all-night drive or something, our horses are fast." Chen Jianqiu didn't smile at his face.
The cowboy led by him was also stupid, he set off after listening to Clark's orders yesterday, why was he still a step late.
However, since it is unsuccessful to tie up their accomplices, let's tie them up directly, the boss is too cautious, as long as he gave an order on the farm yesterday, where did there be so many things.
What a "Chinatown Twin Knife Butcher", what a "Grim Reaper", bullshit!
Thinking of this, he stretched his hand to his waist, and the cowboys behind him seemed to have the same idea.
In the next second, a continuous burst of gunfire rang out in the hotel, crisp and urgent.
The innkeeper fell to the floor with his head in his hands, and only after the gunfire had stopped did he dare to look at the door through the gap under the counter.
It didn't matter, he was almost half scared to death, and there were cowboy corpses lying all over the place.
"You're still three, and you're not making any progress at all." Adam shoved the gun back into its holster.
"The one on the far left is mine, four to four, you didn't drink too much, did you?" Chen Jianqiu said angrily, he checked the gun in his hand and stuffed it back.
Adam straightened his belt and smiled.
Chen Jianqiu adjusted his hat, stepped over the cowboy corpse at the door, and said to the person behind him:
"Go, go, target Pitkin!"