"Mr. Chen, I want you to help me investigate this Ku Klux Klux Klan?"

The mayor's office was neat and tidy, with a few bright windows, in stark contrast to the dusty streets outside the windows.

"I'm afraid I can't help it, since you know who we are, and you know that we won't be here for long, we have more important things to do." Chen Jianqiu, as always, refused.

"What if the pay is right? I can't find anyone else just yet. The mayor's five fingers tapped on the table in turn, and his eyes looked at Chen Jianqiu.

"I'm sorry, Mr. Mayor, you know, our identities are sensitive." Chen Jianqiu politely declined, and he winked at the mayor, "I suggest that you hire some private detectives, such as the Pinkerton Detective Agency, they are more professional and may be nearby." ”

"That's a shame." The mayor didn't seem to hear Chen Jianqiu's last sentence, he looked melancholy, "I'm really worried, it seems that the situation is very serious at the moment, it seems that many residents of the town have been bewitched and involved in it." ”

The mayor sent Chen Jianqiu out of the house.

Autumn in Montrose at the beginning of October was crisp, and the sparse larch trees around the town were still green, but the shrubs and meadows on the ground were already yellow.

Chen Jianqiu walked into the tavern and saw Adam, Sean and Danny sitting at the window table in the hall playing cards.

They played a card game that was popular in the West at the time, somewhat similar to the predecessor of Texas Hold'em.

There are also Fullhouse and Flush, but the rules for dealing cards are much simpler than later.

A revolver rested on the table to Adam's left, and the muzzle of the gun was pointed at the black man intentionally or unintentionally.

"Hey, Adam, can you please keep the muzzle of this gun on me." Sean looked at the cards in his hand, then at the gun on the table, feeling uncomfortable.

Adam didn't even raise his head, his eyes seemed to be focused on his cards, and he said lightly: "You can choose this one to continue to play a thousand dollars, and I can also guarantee that your hand out of a thousand will bloom." ”

Sean shuddered, and honestly took his other hand from under the table.

Chen Jianqiu did not interrupt Yaxing, who was a few people, and watched with interest. He even considered whether to add a yard to the outside of the plate, and it was honorable to gather wool, because the black card skills of the old man were too stinky.

"Shit, shit." Sean dropped the cards on the table, and he lost another big one,

He looked up and saw Chen Jianqiu standing behind Adam, and a smile immediately appeared on his face, "Boss, are you back?" ”

Adam and the others also put down the cards in their hands, Asuka moved a chair over, and Chen Jianqiu sat down.

"How?" Adam asked.

"The mayor asked me to help him find out about the Ku Klux Klan." Chen Jianqiu played with the pocket watch intently, "I openly refused." ”

"So?"

"I'm going to check it out alone, this thing is a bit strange, maybe it's coming at us."

For Chen Jianqiu's decision, the birds and the others have become accustomed to it, as long as their boss dares to go, he must have his purpose and certainty.

But the new Danny didn't know, he looked at Chen Jianqiu worriedly: "Are you sure you only go alone?" ”

Chen Jianqiu nodded: "This town has a close relationship with the 3 Klux Klan, and there is a high probability that there is their eyeliner here, so I can go alone." ”

"It's all here."

Chen Jianqiu asked them not to act before dark, what should they do, and then explained the deployment of the response.

Everyone went to their own places, and Chen Jianqiu came to the police station again.

As he had seen Sigmund for the first time, the Jew was sleeping on his desk, and in the cell behind him were sitting a few young men he had caught the night before.

"Have you eaten lunch?" Chen Jianqiu didn't disturb Sigmund, who was snoring, he took out a few pieces of cake.

Several people shook their heads, and the young man who had been beaten by Danny yesterday licked the corners of his green mouth, and saliva was flowing from there.

Chen Jianqiu threw the cake to them through the fence and threw a water bag over it.

Several people scrambled to make a mess, and those who didn't grab could only pick up the debris that fell on the ground and gobble it into their mouths.

"Can you be hungry like this without eating three meals?" Chen Jianqiu shook his head, "The standard of the 3 Klux Klan is a bit low. ”

"Hey, let me ask you, are you active every day?" Chen Jianqiu looked at the kid who was picking up debris on the ground, and handed him a whole piece.

"No, no, we're just a branch, but it looks like there's a big ritual tonight." The young man took the cake from Chen Jianqiu's hand, tore it open and put it in his mouth.

"Who are they?"

"I don't know, uh, hmm, only our upline knows, they sent us the clothes, and the identity is strictly confidential, and we don't know who is who." The young man said as he ate that he didn't have the ability to grab the water bag and almost choked to death by himself.

"Where?"

"In the forest to the west of town, there's a clearing there, and there's a big cross at the entrance, and it's easy to recognize."

Chen Jianqiu didn't plan to stay here any longer, he picked up a clean white robe on the table and walked out of the security station.

As twilight fell, a cowboy rode a black horse out of town, and after a few kilometers to the west, he saw a dense coniferous forest, and a path led to the forest.

The cowboy dismounted and went into the nearby woods, and in a few moments a man covered in a white cloth came out of the woods.

Chen Jianqiu looked at his feet through the two holes in the mask, and by the moonlight, he found that the robe covered his feet, and at night, he might really look like a "ghost" from a distance.

He walked up to the black carrot and patted him on the buttocks, and the wave horse ran out at once, knowing that it was time for him to be happy again.

Chen Jianqiu walked along the path and into the woods.

If you say that outside the forest, it can still be regarded as a sparse moon star; As I entered the forest, the brightness of the surroundings dropped again, and I could only faintly see the path under my feet.

From time to time there would be a few cries of unknown animals in the forest, and occasionally owls perched on branches would flutter their wings, and they would fly from tree to tree, shaking the tips of the trees and making strange noises.

Chen Jianqiu was walking along the path, and he suddenly noticed that there was a person in the same costume as him who was holding a torch and walking in front of him.

The man walked cautiously, keeping an eye on the movements of the surrounding forest, as if he were afraid that something would come out of it.

Chen Jianqiu lowered his footsteps and followed.

"Hell, how to choose this kind of place to gather, a ghost place can really scare people to death at night." The man with the torch grumbled as he looked around.

When he looked to his right hand.

Suddenly, under the halo of torches, a face with no facial features and only two holes appeared.

"Damn,!" The man sat down on the ground in fright, and threw the torch out of his hand.

The torch was gently caught and handed back to the man.

A hand reached over and pulled him up from the ground, and the man looked at it, revealing that the person in front of him was also a "fellow practitioner" in a white robe.

"Ouch, I'm scared to death, don't you walk without a sound of footsteps?" The man patted himself on the chest.

Chen Jianqiu didn't speak, he didn't mean to scare the person in front of him, but planned to follow him into the place of the rally.

After all, in this kind of wood, two people with torches, more normal than one in the dark.

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