255. El Paso, The Convergence of Fate
In the far west of Texas, the gloomy sky clears again, and the warm rays of sunlight coat the surrounding land in gold.
At three o'clock in the afternoon, Dean and the two passengers finally entered the border town of El Paso, also known as Sun City, at the foot of Franklin Mountain, which has plenty of sunshine all year round, including November, when the temperature is at its most comfortable.
Dean got out of the car next to a convenience store, took a deep breath of fresh air, and looked around at the neatly arranged low-rise buildings in an earthy yellow, creating an idyllic atmosphere against the verdant mountains.
If you look down from the sky, you'll see the streets crisscrossing the town, with most of the cars heading south of the town, across the Rio Grande over the iron bridge to Mexico.
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"The scenery and climate of this place are not bad, suitable for recuperation. You can consider staying for a while," Dean hugged Salma and stroked the little girl's head, "I should leave too, the car is left for you, and there is still a little gift in the car, remember to take it." ”
"Where are you going, Uncle Andy?" Lilian's big eyes sparkled, and she reluctantly grabbed the corner of the man in front of her,
Dean said, "I'm going to start another part of my journey." ”
Salma pressed the sour sour look in her nose and grinned a stiff smile at the corner of her mouth, "Do you want to stay together for a few days and visit El Paso?" ”
Dean silently stroked her hair,
Salma's eyes dimmed, and after just two or three days of getting along, she felt that an indelible mark had been planted in her heart, "Will we meet again in the future?" ”
"There's a chance, so you have to protect yourselves before that. Gone, bye-bye. ”
Dean turned to leave.
Two figures, one large and one small, stood on the side of the street, staring at his back as he quickly disappeared into the traffic, his eyes slightly red, and when Salma opened the car door and saw the gun and five bundles of cash in the brown paper bag, he couldn't help but cover his mouth and sob.
The little girl tugged at her sleeve and stretched out her white fingers to wipe the tears on her face, "Don't cry, sister... Lily protects you, and Lily accompanies you. ”
"Mmmm," Salma looked at her sister's well-behaved and cute little face in the sun, hugged her and kissed her heavily, "We're going to live a real life!" ”
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Dean dismantled the mimicry, shed his white face, and restored his original handsome Asian face, bought a blue denim jacket in a clothing store on the street, wore cowboy leather boots, put on a cowboy hat to cover his forehead, changed his trench coat, and transformed into a chic and capable cowboy.
He walked out of the shop to the south, rubbing a dark yellow coin in his hand, a copper wheat penny from 1941, engraved with President Lincoln's large face, which looked unremarkable to the naked eye, and was mottled with the marks of his fingers after a long period of play.
However, with spiritual vision and life perspective, you can clearly see wisps of black gas floating on the surface of the coin, and through the contact of the skin of the fingers, it drilled into Dean's body, and then drilled back into the coin, and the black mist on the surface of the coin became thicker.
Holding the coin, Dean's blacksmith expertise swollen like a tide, and the omen also gave him a strong intuition, this coin from Anton Ziegy was a very precious treasure, a high-level transcendent item.
"But what exactly are you extracting from me?" Dean felt it carefully with a strange light, his life energy and spiritual power did not decrease in the slightest, and he did not feel any discomfort, but thinking that Anton Zig was a special elder,
"Is it extracting my willpower, and the real effect will surface at a certain stage?"
"Well, maybe Anton Zigger's unique ability to summon the Joker comes from this coin!"
Di An's head swelled with a burst of heat, that strange summon could directly devour mental power and energy, and its combat power was amazing, if he could control it, his strength would inevitably improve.
After some careful consideration, he put the coins into the fantasy space, weakened the contact with the outside world to avoid being traced, and then took some time to study, polish, and maintain the coins every day, and completely branded the coins with his own.
But this time, he made the mushroom head Anton Ziggy scatter, and he completely tore his face with the official superpower organization.
The other party will never stop here, and will definitely send more superpowers to track him, if one or two superpowers are not higher than level 4, he is still sure to solve it quickly with his comprehensive ability, but if it is a fifth-level domain level...
"Forget it, it's useless to worry. Try to improve your strength before meeting them next time! ”
"Let's find Lena first."
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Dean walked all the way south along the street, intending to find a suitable no-man's land on the border line, and directly flew across the Rio Grande into Mexico on the other side of the river, looking for the whereabouts of the Blood Sacrifice Gang and the Guardian Goddess.
But halfway through, when passing by a building called "Dew Drop Hotel" on the side of the street, the shadow that had been flying in the sky suddenly sent back a picture to Dean-
In a relaxing pool in the hotel, a beautiful girl is lying on a beach chair, she has a delicate and soft heart-shaped face, a light chin, cute baby fat on both cheeks, a cool swimsuit revealing a large area of milky white skin, and a hot body that does not match the sweet appearance.
"Isn't this Katie, how can she be in El Paso?"
Dean paused, and his mind flashed back to Jacob, the priest of New Orleans who was holding a cross and chanting about God's blessing, and his children.
"So the final destination of the pastor's family's RV trip was Mexico."
"What a coincidence, would you like to go and say hello?"
Dean stood outside the hotel wall and rubbed his chin, and then his eyes froze, and another tall man in a black suit with black-rimmed glasses quietly walked to the pool.
With a camel cigarette in his mouth, he casually looked at Katie's handsome figure on the beach chair, and his appearance was very familiar to Dean.
The man was reported on TV news — robbing banks, convenience stores, and killing Ricky Goko among the Goko brothers of a Texas Patrol officer.
"This guy actually came to El Paso."
Dean figured out after a little thought, the current Texas patrol police and the FBI are all wanted by the Goko brothers, and they must be trying to enter Mexico through the port south of the town to avoid arrest.
But the first time he saw this guy with his own eyes, Dean had a feeling of whim, this Ricky was useful to himself!
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Katie noticed the man's gaze and sat up from her chair, "Sir, can you give me one?" ”
Ricky handed the girl a cigarette and kindly lit it for her, but quipped, "Didn't your dad tell you not to talk to strangers?" ”
"My dad said a lot," said Katie, taking a clumsy sip and coughing twice, in a rebellious tone that was very different from her previous well-behavedness, "but most of it is meaningless nonsense like God forbid, and unfortunately God never blesses anyone." ”
"I agree. So are you on vacation or what? ”
"Pretty much."
"It's not a fun holiday, do you, you seem to have a lot on your mind."
Katie grabbed a towel and wiped her wet hair, looking at the man's sincere expression, she inexplicably had a desire to talk, and couldn't help but blurt out, "Have you ever had a feeling that your life, and everything in your life, was suddenly turned upside down one day, like a boat capsizing in the sea." ”
"Isn't it?" Ricky smiled, a strange light flashed in his eyes, and said in an ethereal tone, "Although this is the first time we have met, the way you looked at the sky in a daze just now seemed to be hurt inside. I really think you should be honest with your dad and you'll feel a lot better. ”
Katie's expression froze, the cigarette slipped through her fingers and fell into the pool,
"What do you say? I don't understand! ”
Ricky's eyes lit up like torches, as if he could see through the girl's heart, "No need to hide it, you know, you think your father, the Reverend Jacob, killed your mother, why don't you confirm it with him?" ”
"Oh my God!" Katie's delicate face stiffened, and her eyes revealed a great sense of panic and shame that her privacy had been punctured, "What kind of trick are you playing, you think you are a god, can you see through the future?!" ”
She put on her towel and turned to walk away.
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"You're partly right." Ricky muttered something to himself, got up and grabbed the pistol in his belt, and slowly followed the unguarded little Katie.
He didn't notice that another ghostly figure jumped over the outer wall of the hotel and followed him silently.
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Room 207 of the Dewdrop Hotel.
Jacob Fuller, whose wrists were tied, sat on the bed, looked at his son Scott, who looked unruly beside him, and then looked at Seth Goko, a bearded man in a suit who was standing by the curtain, holding a black suitcase in one hand and a gun in the other, looking out of the window vigilantly.
A glint of piety flashed across his face,
"It's a test."
"What do you say?" Seth turned his head inexplicably,
"I've heard on the radio, you are the notorious Goko brothers who robbed and killed people along the way, you are the test that God has brought to me, and only through the test can I really reach the end."
Seth covered his forehead, smiled helplessly, and walked over with a gun, "You are giving me a mission, and you want me to kneel in front of you to repent?" Don't talk in vain, I don't believe in God. ”
"But the test is only for me," Jacob pleaded to himself, "I will come with you willingly, and take you through the port and to Mexico in an RV, please don't hurt Scott and Katie, they are innocent, please let them stay in El Paso." ”
"Don't be a hero, I'm not a child anymore, I'm with you!" Scott looked at the old father dissatisfied,
"Quiet!" Seth's pistol swept over the two of them, "You can't leave one of the three in your family behind, you all have to put on a good show with us!" ”
Click-
The door to the guest room suddenly opened.
Katie entered the room in disbelief and saw her father and brother sitting on the edge of the bed at a glance, and the old priest turned back nervously when she heard the movement and shouted, "Katie, run!" ”
But Katie didn't have time to react, a tall man behind her put a gun against her back and covered her mouth, Ricky Goko pushed her into the room slowly, closed the door again, swept everyone in the room with gloomy eyes, and smiled nervously,
"Alright, everyone, now everyone is here! Katie Beauty, you go change your clothes first, get ready, and leave El Paso together and enter Mexico! ”
"We can't walk through the lobby downstairs at the same time, that would attract attention," Seth pointed a gun at the pastor's family and began to make quick arrangements, "We do this, Pastor Fuller, you go by yourself first, go to your RV, start the car, drive it to the front door of the hotel, wait there, ready to pick us up." ”
"Five minutes later, Ricky, you and this mischievous Bruce Lee go down with our suitcases."
"I'm not Bruce Lee, my name is Scott!" Scott retorted with a red face,
"Sorry, you're really like Bruce Lee, it's easy to be misunderstood." Seth quipped, turning back to Katie's nervous pale face, "In five minutes, I'll go down with this little beauty." Got it? ”
"What the hell is going on!? Who are you? Katie couldn't help but shout,
"Little beauty, you didn't listen to the radio and watch the news," Seth laughed to himself, "The Goko brothers who robbed the bank are household names in Texas, comparable to big stars." Now, kidnapping your family. ”
Katie covered her face and stopped talking, she couldn't figure out why she was so often exposed to such terrible dangers when it was just an ordinary family road trip.
Is this really a test given by God in Dad's mouth?
"I'll do as you say," said the priest in a deep voice, "but let them both stay at the inn!" They are just children and will not threaten you! ”
"What about dreaming?" Ricky sat by the window and crossed Erlang's legs, "We've seen this kind of thing a lot, and we finally sent back our kindness to let people go, but as soon as they turned around, they betrayed us to the FBI, betraying our kindness." The three of you have to be together. ”
"What about when you get to Mexico?" Scott couldn't help but ask,
Seth said seriously with a straight face, "Everyone on the road knows that the Goko brothers are the most principled and never kill indiscriminately. Going into Mexico, Ricky and I will make a deal with someone, and after that, we'll go our separate ways and you'll be free again. ”
"I promise no one will get hurt. Of course, if you behave well along the way, and if you are willing, you may be able to soak in the blue agave elixir with us and enjoy eternal bliss. ”
The pastor took a deep breath, glanced at the two children beside him, and nodded heavily,
Ricky got up, took the suitcase full of bank bonds from Seth's hand, and finally swept the three of them with cold eyes, and said cruelly, "If you don't follow the plan made by our brothers, we will do you!" ”
"Now, Pastor Fuller, you go for a drive first, be interrogated by the police, and think about your kids."
"God forbid." The priest slowly got up and walked to the door, but his hand was not yet on the handle.
With a click, the doorknob automatically twists.
The door pushes inward.
A tall man strode in, took off his cowboy hat, and smiled brightly at the bewildered crowd in the room.
"Good afternoon, Jacob, Katie, Scott, meet again, you guys seem to need help."
"Dean?"
"Shet, why are you doing magic?" The Goko brothers' faces changed drastically, and they raised their guns and pointed them at Dean at the door, pulling the trigger, but their fingers cramped and generally couldn't be pulled down.
Dean waved his finger at the two of them casually, and the two macho shields in suits suddenly flashed in front of them, as if they were caught by a crane, and rolled onto the bed in a fog.
Brush Brush Brush –
More than a dozen black pythons of hemp rope crawled quickly against their bodies, tied their hands and feet, and tied the two into zongzi.
The two brothers could only stare wide-eyed as Dean walked up to them, looking at them condescendingly, as if looking at two prey,
"Brother Goko, I've admired my name for a long time along the way, let's talk, you may be able to answer some of my doubts."
(End of chapter)