Hannah ran over and lay on Jack's back, watching him continue to finish the final details bit by bit, with a click every now and then, leaving a lip print on his face.

Old Man Bonham shook his head and turned to Aunt Molly.

In the afternoon, everyone was ready to go, Walker drove his F150 with grill tents and other camping equipment, Emily drove a Subaru Forester 4x4 SUV with two children, and finally followed by Jack's Firebird.

Waving goodbye to the two old men, the three cars sped away towards the desert on the southwestern border.

Perhaps because Emily's car was following behind, Walker slowed down slightly, but it was also almost 90 miles per hour, nearly a four-hour drive.

In the middle of the field, three cars stopped one after the other.

"Let's be here, we'll camp here at night, right in front of Emily's supply point, there's no drone patrol here at night, it's a common passage for immigrants."

Walker got out of the car and pointed a short distance ahead.

The position where the group was now located was slightly higher, if not a hill, and the position that Walker was referring to was less than a kilometer from the summit, from where the terrain began to descend, forming a small slope that was not too steep.

A path can be seen below the slope, the kind that has obviously been stepped on.

"We have set up three supply points on the surrounding hillsides, each with 20 buckets of drinking water and a small amount of food."

Emily pointed to three locations and introduced them to everyone.

"Every week we come and pick up empty buckets to replenish new drinking water and food, and the money we spend comes from donations."

Illegal immigrants from Mexico are one of the pillars of the Lone Star State's economic boom, and ranchers are very welcoming to these cheap laborers.

As long as illegal immigrants honestly work the ranch and stay for enough years, they can apply for legal status, which can be regarded as a willingness to fight and a willingness to suffer, of course, this is just a beautiful statement.

"They have to walk almost 30 kilometers from Mexico to stay undetected, and that's all we can do every year when frail children and women fall in the desert."

Emily's expression was a little helpless.

"It's too dangerous here, do you come alone every time?" Hannah was a little worried.

Emily smiled and comforted, "Jerry will accompany me every time, she should be there soon, and I have an AR-15 in the back of the car, you don't have to worry." ”

Hannah's expression was a little strange, "Is that the Jerry who opened the bar?" That rival of yours? She wouldn't be single now. ”

Emily smiled and patted her, "Jerry is our mutual friend, and Walker has always been loyal to me and doesn't talk nonsense. ”

Walker, with a smug look that you can't provoke our feelings, kissed Emily on the cheek, and was pushed away by her, urging her to hurry up and get to work.

Jack and Walker moved the grill out of the car, and Walker's two children were also quite diligent and competent, and quickly set up the three tents.

He took a shovel and dug a shallow ditch around the campsite, which Jack sprinkled with sulfur powder to repel snakes and insects, rattlesnakes and scorpions were the most common guests in this desert.

"Jack, come and see."

The two Walker children were already familiar with Jack, and after setting up the tent, they started to wander around, when suddenly Stella ran up and grabbed Jack's arm and ran.

Somewhat unexplained, Jack followed the little girl to a rock, and saw a stout rattlesnake mingling with a strange creature.

The strange creature is not small, about half a meter long, ugly and ugly, like a pangolin, covered with a hard carapace, but with sparse long hair, not afraid of the rattlesnake's fangs, biting the other party's seven-inch position.

The rattlesnake looks stout, but it is helpless against the heavily armored enemy, and its body is twisted into a ball but it is completely unable to break free.

"Is this an armadillo?"

Jack is also the first time to see this kind of American specialty, in his previous life only in the animal world to see, the impression of this thing will be in danger will shrink into a ball, but I didn't expect to be able to pinch the rattlesnake.

In a few moments, the rattlesnake was bitten into a blur of flesh, and the armadillo began to gnaw on its head.

"Can we catch it and have fun?" Stella was a little curious and wanted to come forward, but was pulled by Jack.

"If I'm not mistaken, armadillos can carry the leprosy virus."

Jack took out his mobile phone and took a picture of the scene in front of him, the sky has not completely darkened at the moment, and it is rare to see this kind of ancient beast that only haunts at night and is recorded in the Book of Mountains and Seas, and I don't know how the ancients recorded this animal that belongs to the New World.

Bats, armadillos and longhorns are all iconic animals of Texas, he didn't expect to see one of them so soon, bats are nothing to look at, but longhorn cattle he also wants to see, I heard that the horns of this kind of cow can grow to more than 3 meters, and the taste is also good.

Pulling the two curious children back to the campsite, there is already an extra pickup truck, and a beautiful woman with a very different style from Emily is chatting with everyone.

This is the Jerry they mentioned earlier, and Emily also has long blonde hair that is coiled high behind her head, but compared to Emily's gentle temperament, this girl has a touch of wildness.

After a brief introduction, the men and boys were driven to make a fire and barbecue, and the girls giggled and carried supplies to several supply points around them.

Augie put on his headphones bored, went into the tent to listen to the song, and Jack and Walker lit the fire on the barbecue grill and chatted as they picked up.

"Can you tell us about what happened to you in New Mexico?" Walker asked with a smile.

Jack raised an eyebrow, "What do you know?" ”

"There aren't a lot of secrets within law enforcement, and there are rumors that the FBI has encountered ogres in the woods and discovered a gold mine."

Jack laughed, "It's that natural nugget that reminds you of it, but I'm not technically an FBI yet." ”

He tried to choose something that was insensitive, and roughly described the encounter.

Walker was a little regretful: "It's a pity that the whole case is kept strictly secret, otherwise this legend alone would have made Jerry invite you to drink free whiskey in her bar for a month." ”

Jack was about to answer when suddenly a gunshot rang out in the distance, followed by a scream, "Walker! ”

The two men were startled, looked at each other, turned in unison, drew their pistols almost simultaneously, and ran in the direction from which the gunshots came.

As he ran, Walker shouted to his son, who had also heard the gunshots and was getting out of the tent in confusion, "Bring your gun, in your mother's car." ”

Augie nodded hurriedly, opened the trunk of the Subaru, and followed with the AR-15 on his back.

(End of chapter)