The so-called Eugene family does have a long history in the local area, as early as 1846, during the Mexican-American War, Sam Eugene's ancestors followed the steps of the invaders to this land.

They carved out land and vineyards in the valley, but because of the climate of New Mexico, the quality of the grapes here is mediocre, and the wines here have not been particularly famous from modern times to the present.

Like the wines here, the Eugene family is unknown, and the family size is not large, relying on the local half-dead wine industry, so it thrives silently.

This remained the case until the end of World War II, when Eugene Sr., Sam's great-grandfather, who was a forest ranger at the time, found hundreds of miserable-looking red-necked immigrants in the forest.

Some of them had severe burns in their eyes, were nearly blind, and some were covered with abscesses, and the people at that time did not know what radiation sickness was, and old Eugene was very afraid of the plague, and even thought that these people had suffered a curse from the devil.

But a few years later, old Eugene was surprised to find that the group had managed to settle in the mountains, and although the people who were still alive were also half-dead, they still had newborns, although these newborns were ugly and deformed, and the mortality rate was alarmingly high.

Old Eugene always thought that the group was cursed, and did not dare to have much contact with them, until one day, one of the group came to him with a small bag of gold

If old Eugene did objectively provide shelter for these unfortunate rednecks, and after receiving a lot of money, he procured daily necessities and food for them, then old Eugene's son, that is, Sam's grandfather, Badham Eugene is a complete villain.

In the late '50s, after a few years of living as a hippie, Badham Eugene returned to his hometown and set his sights on this group of deformed people hidden in the mountains.

According to Sam Eugene, his grandfather, Badham, was a very clever villain who spent a lot of time dealing with the mountain people.

Soon, he discovers the secret of the gold mine, but he has no intention of divulging it, because the place is not privately owned, and even if he sells the secret, he will only get a small quick buck at most, which is far from Badham's expectations.

So he had a better idea, and as we all know, gold mining is actually very hard work, and in the history of the gold rush in the American West, it was never the gold diggers who made the fortunes, but the people who sold shovels and other tools to these gold diggers.

Badham wanted to be the shovel seller and become the only collaborator of these 'gold diggers' in the mountains.

After a series of bizarre deaths, the strange man in the mountains gradually became a legend that no one talked about, and the secret gold mine became a stable source of wealth for the Eugene family.

At the end of the 70s, a headache for the Eugene family appeared, perhaps due to long-term inbreeding, or for other reasons, the number of deformed people decreased dramatically, a large number of newborns died, the number was reduced year by year, and the labor force began to be seriously insufficient.

If this trend continues, it will not be a few years, and perhaps before the gold mines are hollowed out, these deformed people hiding in the mountains will be extinct.

Anxious, Badham quickly conceived a sinister plan to guide the monsters to a planned raid on the mountain's tourists.

In fact, the Eugene family discovered early on that these creatures, who had degenerated into monsters, had sporadically hunted hunters and tourists in the mountains, and some uneducated newborns had hunted and eaten these people as prey like wild beasts, and for a time sparked the legend of Wendigo in the surrounding area.

Badham took advantage of his good relationship with the Freaks to propose a new partnership with them, with the Eugene family, who already had some control over the area, picking targets, regularly hunting tourists in the mountains, and cleaning up traces afterwards.

The ogres, on the other hand, are responsible for killing all male prey for food, and use the captured females as a tool for breeding offspring to increase the survival rate of newborns.

For half a century, the Eugene family has been firmly controlling the number of this ogre population through this means, and all captured women must be 'screened' by Badham and his sons, and they will be given priority to eat.

As Badham grew older, his sons and grandchildren inherited his business.

They built a mountain house not far from the mine, and at this time of year, it was the beginning of the 'hunting season', and when all the men of the Eugene family waited for the ogre to send their prey and start the carnival.

With a snort, Jessie stabbed Sam's lower body into the vital point, and the corner of Jack's eyes jumped, this knife can't be wanted, 200 yuan a piece of high-quality goods, it's ruined.

Sam, who had been firmly stepped on by Jack, was already howling in pain, and jumped helplessly on the ground like a disemboweled, live fish.

Jessie stabbed and stabbed, and Sam was killed alive in the process.

"Let's go to the river and wash our hands."

Jack thought to himself, even if this girl is not the heroine of a horror movie, she has the potential to become the heroine, which is too scary.

"What do we do next?"

Jessie returns from the river, wipes her hands off her pants, puts her saber back in its scabbard, and finds Jack fiddling with something on the Wrangler buggy.

"There's a car radio, and I'm trying to see if I can get in touch with the outside world."

This is a CB-Radio, the most commonly used license-free civilian radio station in North America, usually able to cover about 20 miles, which is of course not enough, but a simple modification, a little increase in antenna, a little more power, Jack can still easily do it.

Of course, he didn't dare to contact the local police casually, God knows how deeply the Eugene family penetrated the local area, but Lao Mei has many amateur radio enthusiasts and often uses civilian frequency bands to chat.

He searched between the 27MHz band for a long time, and finally found a nearby frequency point that truck drivers used to chat, and sent out a request for help.

Jack didn't reveal any specific information, not even that he was in the Lincoln National Forest, but pretended to be a tourist named John Nolan who had broken down in the desert due to a vehicle breakdown, and asked someone to call a phone number for help.

In less than half an hour, an unfamiliar voice sounded in the public channel and called Jack, who claimed to be Rod Dyer, who was obviously David Rossi's man, using the name of their mutual 'friend', a certain serial killer Rosalind Dale.

It's the end of the month, what, how many tickets do you want to lose to me?

(End of chapter)