The western region is not a place with many people and little land like the East Asia in the previous life. Rem Town is one of the most prosperous towns around, but its permanent population is only 3,000, which is similar to the larger villages in the previous life. During the annual trading season
Only then will a large number of immigrants come in, which can bring the town's population to tens of thousands.
There are many dangers in the vast and sparsely populated western wilderness. Except for lone thieves or bounty hunters who are confident in their own strength, most people rarely go out alone in the west.
However, the relatively closed Rem Town is one of the rare peaceful areas in the west.
Generally, the cases that occur in the town are either someone's dried ham being stolen, or a trivial case involving a fight between two drunkards. Conflicts between gangs are usually handled internally. Once the trouble comes to the police of the public security station, that is
It’s a big thing that cannot be covered up.
Usually, the most people in the town read from the newspapers that another caravan was robbed, and a lot of goods were damaged, etc.
Because there are vast mountains and deserts separating the west and the east, with the current level of technology, the cost of building a steam railway connecting the east and west is an astronomical figure, even if the federal government really wants to use a railway to connect the two countries that are already separated.
In addition to the five eastern states of the federation, the three western states were returned to the jurisdiction of the federal government.
Therefore, the most common things on this land are either endless carriages and caravans, or countless robbers.
Fortunately, most of the robbers are not the kind of brutal guys who kill without blinking an eye. They will also leave a piece of clothing and horses and vehicles that cannot be taken away for the prisoners. At least they did not take off their underwear. After all, these robbers are circulated all over the West.
The caravans are also their food and clothing parents, so they can't dry up the lake and fish, right?
Judging from some inside information that John knows, the reason why Rem Town is relatively peaceful is because it is the most important resource point and transfer station on the smuggling road. Due to the relationship between interests, all major forces will spontaneously restrain themselves and maintain
Peace.
After all, if the town of Rem is in chaos for less than a day, it means the loss of a large number of gold pounds, which is something that the forces behind the smugglers will not allow.
Of course, in addition to the threats of wild beasts and robbers, there are also some incredible legends in the wilderness in the west, such as the shamans of the indigenous tribes who cast some weird spells, and various mysterious and terrifying monster legends.
Not only did these things not scare John, but he felt very curious.
If a murder occurs, their police department will naturally be dispatched.
One after another, the police horses from the public security station left the town gate, attracting the attention of all forces in the town. Before they could take action, other police officers began to patrol key locations in the town, so they could only
Secretly guessing what kind of big event is going to happen.
When John felt the location of the incident, seventy-eight soldiers from the Public Security Bureau on horseback had already surrounded a piece of grassland on the roadside and set up a simple warning tape made of wood and stone.
These practices are the result of two months of John training these rural security guards based on the methods of big city police detectives. Although the main source of experience comes from detective novels that were popular in Brooke and spread to both the old and new worlds.
But it doesn’t matter where it comes from, as long as it’s useful.
Seeing that a group of police officers had protected the scene well, John got off his horse with satisfaction, stepped on the sandy yellow soil unique to the western wilderness with his leather boots, and came into the circle formed by the police officers.
"Is this right here?"
Faced with the Deputy Sheriff's inquiry, Tom stepped forward to greet him and nodded with an ugly expression:
"Yes sir, but you have to be mentally prepared."
John saw that the other police officers, including Uncle Tom, a veteran police officer with a lot of experience, had bad expressions on their faces, and he could already imagine that the scene of the crime must not look good.
However, he had seen a lot of corpses and bloody things in his previous life. After all, he was in this profession, so he waved his hand to indicate that he didn't need to pay attention and went straight to the center surrounded by them.
After seeing the appearance of those corpses, John had to admit that the scene was indeed very unbearable.
"This is?"
Looking at the body that looked like it had been torn apart by wild beasts, John couldn't help but frown.
Since he was a criminal police officer in the city in his previous life, most of the murders he came into contact with were man-made, so it was rare to see such beasts killing people. In other words, this was the case for many police officers. After all, there were not many ordinary wild animals around the city in his previous life.
Not to mention those ferocious beasts. In modern society, even the forest police rarely see incidents that start with wild beast attacks. I don’t know if this is progress or sadness.
John's sensitive ears could hear the police officers behind him talking.
"It should have something to do with those guys that Vanderlin helped."
"Yes, you can tell it's them just by looking at it. You have to know that we don't have wolves here in Rem Town. Those big dogs that are afraid of heat are all active in the area north of Prince Edward Port!"
"That's a real murderer who kills without blinking an eye..."
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"Vanderlyn?"
Vanderlin helped John know that before he came to Rem Town, he had heard of the gangster's name, or reputation, in newspapers and in people's discussions.
It is said that this is a gang force that is entrenched in the northern wilderness of Blackwater Town, the nearest town to Rem Town. It has no fixed abode and is similar to a nomadic tribe or a wolf pack. It likes to wander between the two towns.
They robbed smuggling teams on the trade routes, and some of the big guys behind the business organized bounty hunters to encircle and suppress this gang many times, but failed to do anything to this gang. Therefore, the Vanderlin Gang has a fierce reputation in Rem Town, even Sands Port and the capital area.
The bounties on the three gang leaders have always been on the lists of major taverns, making the bounty hunters who make a living in the West both loved and feared.
I loved the four-digit gold pound bounty, but I was afraid of the strength and ruthlessness of the gang. It is said that few of the bounty hunters killed by the Van der Linde gang could get the whole body. They were all attacked by wild beasts.
The miserable state of being torn into pieces.
"However, the Vanderlin Gang's activities are in the Blackwater Town area two hundred miles away. The closest area of activity is dozens of miles away from Rem Town, and there is also a large forest obstruction. How could it suddenly appear outside Rem Town?
Activities so close to the town?”
You must know that the most indispensable thing in the west is the loess wasteland and large areas of dense forest that extend from the central desert.
Between Rem Town and Blackwater Town, apart from the intersection of two roads in the south, other places are blocked by large forests, making it impossible for ordinary caravans to cross, especially the foothills called the Golden Leaf Forest.
In the previous life, there was a giant and narrow forest that stretched hundreds of thousands of square kilometers across the three western states. The area between the two towns was part of the Golden Leaf Forest.
Thinking of this, John couldn't help but feel moved in his heart, and quietly activated his spiritual vision ability.
Under the spiritual vision, there was some faint green spirituality left on the corpse that was torn apart by wild beasts.
John couldn't help but stepped forward, stretched out his finger, and gently touched one of the corpses under the surprised eyes of other police officers.
In the eyes of the people of Rem Town, although this is not a rich playboy from a big city, he is capable. However, in the past, John always paid attention to his manners and even acted like a germophobe. It was not like he could get up close and personal.
They came into contact with someone who looked like such a horrific and bloody corpse.