When Brandi returned to Strawberry Town, it had already been dark for an hour or two.
Lenny, who stayed at the hotel, was also very surprised by the rapid progress today. After all, the police generally don't want to investigate cases like this, which are similar to gangsters. Even if they start to investigate, there will probably be no results, because the evidence is extremely lacking and the scene is generally ordinary.
It was also destroyed in a mess. In this era of backward criminal investigation methods, even if Detective Pinkerton took over the case, he would have to spend a lot of effort to gain anything. And when they found out the whole story, the victim and the suspect
It's probably gone to the point of being moisturized long ago.
Now, the fundamental reason why we can achieve this kind of progress is still one sentence: peers always know peers best.
As for Lenny and Maddie, they enjoyed a day of peace and quiet. It has to be said that under normal circumstances, Maddie is indeed a worry-free child, and she did not add any trouble to Lenny, who was a nanny for the first time.
What trouble.
On this day, the two of them took a good stroll around Strawberry Town. This town, with its folk customs and scenery that was completely different from ordinary western towns and livestock towns like Valentine, gave them a unique experience.
Micah had already parted ways with Brandi in his car two or three miles outside of Strawberry Town. Rather than hiding the carriage filled with various prohibited weapons in the town, Micah, who knew better about hiding in the wild, moved it to
It would be better to hide it somewhere else.
This is not to say that Brandy trusts Micah very much, but there is no more suitable person to do this now. After all, he and Lenny are seriously lacking in experience in this area.
But Brandi is not afraid that Micah will act like a bastard. Now Micah is just a vicious dog under Dutch. He can bite and even eat people, but now he doesn't
He will attack his companions who live in the same big family as him.
Of course, Brandi did not forget to bring a new gun to his good brother Lenny. Now in the Van der Linde gang, Lenny should have the best relationship with him. As his first mixed bag in the Van der Linde gang,
As a friend, Lenny's relationship with him is even closer than Arthur's with him, so with this advantage, he will naturally not forget his brother.
Marty saw that Lenny had obtained these new guns that she had never seen before, and she was naturally very greedy. For some reason, this little girl was becoming more and more interested in firearms. However, Brandy said that she had no part in it.
, although she protested, she had to give up in the end.
Brandi actually has her own plans for this.
Speaking from a small perspective, for a little girl like Mattie, a revolver is more than enough for self-defense, and a few more guns are meaningless.
Broadly speaking, if this kind of automatic pistol that has not yet appeared on the serious market appears in the hands of a child, it will inevitably arouse suspicion. An organization like Pinkerton Detectives can follow this and lead to Van der Linde, who is currently hiding in the dark.
De Bang was dragged directly into the sun.
Therefore, no matter from which perspective, it is impossible for Mattie to have anything to do with this harvest. Speaking of which, if she had not insisted on following all the way, this matter would not have anything to do with her.
In a large bed room on the second floor of the hotel, Lenny had fallen into a deep sleep, while Brandy still had her eyes open, thinking about what was going to happen next.
Now, the things about this batch of black goods are basically clear. The only thing left is to go to the Drooping Dog Ranch to meet the O'Drisco gang. With Micah and Lenny as assistants, I believe it is nothing.
The big thing is just a bunch of O'Driscos. Even if they have new weapons and can't hit anyone, the things they have in their hands are no different from fire sticks.
After everything is settled, Micah and Lenny will naturally have to stay in Strawberry Town, which means Micah's jail sentence is still unavoidable. However, this is exactly what Brandi wants, and he has already
Think carefully, by that time, he will play the most active role in the rescue, and Micah will also die in the hands of his rescuer.
After all, it sounds so pleasant to have a future traitor die in a gunfight.
As for himself, after solving this matter, it was time to return to the gang. Valentine was indeed a good place, but it was no longer a place to stay for a long time.
Although the attention of Pinkerton detectives and various police officers has now been successfully directed to the O'Drisco Gang and the "Seventh Generation" sect, as the place where conflicts broke out, Valentine's calm period during this period has left Brandy
It seems that it is actually abnormal.
Even if the American police are unable to reach out to the town for various reasons, there is no reason why Detective Pinkerton cannot infiltrate. However, as far as Brandy's current understanding is concerned, except for the period just after the Battle of Valentine,
, two Pinkerton detectives whose physical characteristics match Milton and Ross came here - these two are the Pinkerton detectives who were directly responsible for arresting the Van der Linde gang. In the game plot, they were the ones who destroyed the Van der Linde gang.
One of the direct reasons - but they only had a conversation with Sheriff Malloy for less than ten minutes before leaving Valentine.
No matter how normal all this seems, Brandi will not believe that there is nothing fishy in it.
As the predecessor of the future U.S. FBI, even from the perspective of Brandi, who is more than 100 years later, Detective Pinkerton is an opponent that cannot be underestimated. No matter what this private organization that has mastered criminal investigation methods ahead of its time does,
Moth, as long as it's not too outrageous, Brandi thinks it's logical.
For example, they actually already knew that the Van der Linde Gang had been active in Valentine and participated in the defense of Valentine, and that someone close to them, namely Brandy himself, temporarily resided in Valentine due to injuries.
Ding, according to their usual methods, they could just break into Mattie's house and interrogate him directly. As for why they haven't done anything yet, Brandi guessed that there are two reasons, or they gave him the title of a government-certified bounty hunter.
A little face, or they want to follow the clues and find the hiding place of the Van der Linde gang.
The above is just Brandy's personal speculation. He actually doesn't know what the facts will be, but he feels that the situation he thinks is possible. Since this possibility exists, he cannot take it lightly.
, this action of helping the owner of the gun shop can be regarded as a conspiracy to make them mistakenly believe that the large force of the Van der Linde Gang is hiding in Strawberry Town, thereby once again confusing the public, diverting their attention, and creating a trap for the Van der Linde Gang.
Seek more time to recuperate and make a comeback.
"Although this series of speculations and arrangements are basically based on my personal subjective conjectures, in the current situation of unequal intelligence information, for the sake of safety, these speculations must be regarded as facts and based on this
To take precautions," Brandi thought, "but I hope those Pinkerton detectives are not as powerful as I thought."
Thinking of this, Brandi suddenly thought of Mattie, this little girl who could always come up with some new tricks for him. If this happened again when they were parting, all his arrangements would be ruined, and he would be
If Detective Pinkerton is targeted by a private organization that does everything possible to solve the case, the little girl will inevitably suffer a lot. Even if she loses her life because of it, Brandi will not be too surprised when she hears it.
This was the case with the Pinkerton detectives during this period. On the surface, they wore the guise of fighting crime, but in fact they committed worse acts than real criminals. Such an organization must be on guard at all times.
"After things here are over, we have to send this child back as soon as possible, and we have to explain the truth to her so that she won't follow me again." Brandy thought of the childishness shown by Mattie in certain things, especially
As it is now, this childishness collides with her assertive and almost willful character, and Brandi feels that one is bigger than the other.
"Although it is indeed cruel to let a little girl eat a lot of food, it is much better than hanging around in a criminal gang..." Thinking like this, Brandy slowly closed her eyes and fell asleep.
When Brandi was woken up by Lenny, it was just dawn and he was even in a hazy state. He obviously didn't sleep enough. But the next second, he heard clearly Lenny's words, which originally occupied most of the space in his mind.
The sleepiness disappeared instantly.
"Mattie is missing?!" Brandy asked while hurriedly getting dressed, "What happened? When did it happen? Why did you tell me now?"
"I just found out," Lenny said with an anxious look on his face, "I just got up to go to the bathroom. When I came back, I found that Mattie's door was open. When I went in, she was gone...
"
Before Lenny could finish speaking, Brandi rushed out of the door and walked to the little girl's room next door.
The room was a bit messy, the sheets and quilts were crumpled and thrown in the corner, the floor was covered with dirty mud footprints, and the windows of the room were wide open, which obviously meant that someone had violently broken into the place and kidnapped Ma.
Di.
"Damn it, I've been living a comfortable life for too long, and I didn't even hear any movement," Brandi muttered to herself in annoyance, and then asked Lenny, "Lanny, you didn't hear anything unusual yesterday.
?"
"I fell asleep yesterday after touching the pillow, and I woke up just now," Lenny said with an annoyed expression at this time. "The bed in the hotel was so comfortable that I fell asleep without paying attention.
Damn it, if I had known I should have laid the floor last night."
Brandy ignored Lenny's angry words and began to carefully survey the scene, and Lenny also surveyed the scene with Brandy.
In fact, there is nothing to investigate. The traces left at the scene are too obvious. Anyone with a little bit of observation ability can restore the situation to its fullest.
Brandi happens to be such a person with some powers of observation, and the detective novels he read to kill time in his previous life inadvertently exercised his reasoning ability. He walked around the room and roughly knew what happened.
What.
"Judging from the two different mud footprints left on the ground, there were two people who broke in. They were both men, and they were slovenly." Brandi subconsciously stroked his chin with his right hand, while his left hand was flat to support his right hand.
, analyzed, "It's impossible for them to kidnap Mattie without making any noise, but in the end they didn't make much noise, which shows that they are familiar with this kind of work, but after all, they panicked a little and escaped from the window.
, broke the glass, and was scratched by the glass.”
Lenny also noticed the blood stains on the broken glass of the window and asked, "Is there a possibility that it was Mattie who was scratched?"
"If it was Mattie who was scratched, there would be more blood stains and the color would be brighter. You should know that girls, especially little girls around ten years old, have very delicate skin, and those rough guys have very delicate skin.
Otherwise, their skin is rough and their blood contains more dirt, so the blood stains left behind are like what we see, small in amount and black." Brandy answered.
"That's it," Lenny nodded, and continued, "I just noticed that the two people came in from outside the door, and the door showed signs of being pried open with a knife."
"Moreover, these footprints extend from the stairs all the way here," Brandy added. "In other words, they came in through the front door in a swaggering way."
"Such a big thing happened in the hotel, and the owner still hasn't reacted at all?" Lanny was puzzled.
"Two possibilities," Brandy held out two fingers and said, "The first is that he can't react, and the second is that he doesn't need to react at all."
Lenny thought for a moment and then heard the implication of Brandi: "You mean, the hotel owner and the person who kidnapped Mattie are the same group?"
"It's possible, it's just possible," Brandi corrected as he walked towards the stairs, "But since there is this possibility that looks more dangerous, then for the sake of safety, we must consider that we have fallen into a dangerous situation where the other party is fully monitoring us.
It’s a possibility, but I think we’d better confirm it.”
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! When the two went down to the first floor and found the hotel owner who was tied up and gagged in an unobtrusive corner, Brandy and Blue
Ni Cai was convinced that the boss was not colluding with the robbers, but that he was really unable to make any effective response.
The two untied the boss and helped him sit on the sofa. Brandi said: "The little girl who was traveling with us was kidnapped last night. I think you should know something?"
The boss nodded and said with a sad face: "Last night, a rough knock on the door woke me up. I lit the lamp, shouted that it was closed, and opened the door. As soon as I opened the door, two guns were pointed at me.
With my head on my head, force me to tell you about your situation."
"So you just said that?" Lanillo looked at the boss with some disgust. In his opinion, if the boss could do something, this incident might be avoided.
"Here, two guns were pointed at my head. I was scared." The boss shrank his head slightly and said, "After I told them which room you all lived in, they went upstairs.
Then I heard the little girl's fleeting struggle, the two men's curses with heavy accents, and the subsequent sound of breaking glass. After that, I was tied up like this until you two
I let go."
"I have a question," Brandy said. "You just said that those two men have strong accents. Can you tell where they are?"
"I'm not sure about that," the hotel owner said, shaking his head. "I've received many people from all over the world, and most of them speak English with accents. Unfortunately, there are too many and too many accents.
After so many years, except for the Mexican accent, I can't really distinguish anything else."
"Then what characteristics do they have in common?" Brandy then asked.
"Common characteristics? Let me think about it..." The hotel owner pondered for a moment, suddenly remembered something, and said, "Oh, by the way, they all seemed to be wearing green bow ties or scarves around their necks. It was too dark at the time, so I could only
I saw a little green on their necks, but I couldn’t identify what it was.”
"That's it," Brandi nodded and said, "Thank you for the information. You can go and rest first. You don't need to worry about the rest."
Watching the hotel owner return to his room, Brandy's face turned grim, and Lenny also changed from the previous anxiety to calmness and calmness.
"It's clear now," Lenny said, "that it was O'Drisco who kidnapped Mattie."
"They were faster than I thought," Brandi said, thinking of the old lady he let go. "If I had known, I should have burned that old bitch along with her son's body."
"There's no point talking about it now," Lenny stood up, pulled out a Schofield revolver from his waist, handed it to Brandi, and said, "I found this under her bed."
Brandy took the gun, gently stroked its shiny body, pondered for a while, stood up, and said, "Pack up your weapons and equipment, and let's go."
"Where to go?" Lenny asked confused.
"Drop Dog Ranch," Brandi said as she climbed the stairs, "forgot what I said yesterday? Those O'Driscos are gathering there now, and they just happened to rob our goods and take away our
Man, this time it’s just time to settle the old and new accounts together.”
"Aren't you waiting for Micah?" Lenny asked.
"No wait, speed is the key to success, but changes will happen later," Brandi shook his head and said, "Leave a note before leaving, telling him that we will go first. I think if he still regards us as companions, he should
I won’t not come.”
Not long after, Brandy and Lenny, who were fully armed, rode out of Strawberry Town on horseback. They didn't run far when they bumped into Micah who happened to be passing by.
Micah glanced at Lenny and said, "I thought you were going to be a nanny again today, but I think it's better for you to be a nanny. Children always need someone to take care of them, right?"
Lenny ignored Micah's provocative words and just gave Micah a sideways glance to express his disdain.
"Mattie was kidnapped by O'Drisco," Brandy said. "We just planned to get all the goods back today. How about it? Are you interested in settling the total account with them?"
When Micah heard this, he smiled coldly and said, "Although I don't like that little girl very much, but since I have the opportunity to settle the score with those damn Irish guys, what reason do I have not to join?"
Brandy smiled slightly, but there was not much smile in her smile: "This is best."
The three horses galloped quickly along the forest path, heading north towards the emerald-like grassland.