Chapter 26 Bounty hunters and gold diggers come out in droves
When it was dawn, Song Hao, who was still asleep, suddenly heard the clear sound of horse hooves coming from a distance.
Wait, the sound of horse hooves?
When he opened his eyes, he almost didn't hesitate and used his iron elbow to wake up Aaron next to him.
The latter groaned and trembled with fright.
"Holy crap, what's going on?"
"Stop being so nagging, hurry up and put Reina on your back and hide in the woods behind. Don't show your face until you get my signal."
Aaron, who was still a little confused at this time, didn't know what happened, but he was able to make the boss so nervous.
But since he saw Song Hao's abilities with his own eyes, he didn't say much, just put Reina on his back and ran towards the woods.
Reina, who felt like she was rolling up and down in a dream, couldn't help rubbing her eyes: "Is this an earthquake?"
"Don't make any noise. It seems that someone is coming. Song Hao asked me to take you to hide first."
"Police?" Reina was a little scared.
While they were talking, they saw three bounty hunters riding Tennessee Troopers walking towards them, holding guns in their hands.
If this were an ordinary person, he would be lucky not to be scared to death.
However, Song Hao sat lazily next to the extinguished embers: "Sirs, there is no need to wake up other people's dreams so early in the morning, right?"
"I dreamed that I was lying on a big bed full of banknotes."
The leading man didn't want to listen to nonsense, so he simply threw away the cigarette that had not been put out: "Stop talking nonsense to us, are you the only one here?"
Song Hao looked around and joked: "Are there any invisible ghosts around me?"
Unexpectedly, the man was still in the mood to joke with him. He fired a bullet directly into the embers, causing a burst of dust.
Song Hao, who was the closest, couldn't help coughing. On the surface, it seemed like there were flaws, but in fact, he had quietly put his palms on his waist.
As long as his dead eye is open, he has 100% confidence that he can shoot the three people in front of him into sieves.
"I'm warning you, we work for the police station. If you waste any more time on me, I promise to turn you into an invisible ghost."
His arrogance was so arrogant that Song Hao, who was working alone, could only shrug his shoulders and express his willingness to cooperate.
So the leading man whistled, which must have been a code for some kind of industry.
Then a bounty hunter got off his horse and walked straight towards Song Hao: "Answer me honestly, when did you come here to camp?"
"I remember it was three days ago. After all, people like me who don't have any money to live in a hotel can only make do outside."
Song Hao leisurely took out the empty wine bottle from his pocket: "Sir, do you want to try it?"
The other party showed a look of disgust, obviously not intending to believe what he meant, but instead carefully inspected the surroundings of the camp.
His eyes soon became cold and stern: "Since I came here three days ago, why can't I see any dead animal hair?"
"I bet you came here to drink the northwest wind?"
Faced with such questioning, especially when the other two hunters loaded their bullets, Song Hao, as an old fox, remained calm.
This kind of psychological quality is not something ordinary people can achieve.
He simply sat back on the ground and murmured: "Who makes me unlucky? I can't catch prey all the time. I'm almost starving to death."
"So if some of the officers are very merciful, why not give me some money to buy bread?"
"I want to give you a fucking bullet." The other party felt a little humiliated.
As soon as he finished speaking, the man leading the horse pretended to cough a few times, signaling his companion to get back on the horse.
He also took out a one-cent coin from his pocket: "Of course it's okay to give it to you."
"But you must tell us, did you see any suspicious characters passing by here last night?"
Song Hao, who still pretended to be confused after receiving the coin, asked: "Suspicious person... do you three count?"
"You are so fucking pure that you deserve a beating!"
After hearing this, one of the bounty hunters wanted to come down and teach this ungrateful homeless man a lesson.
After all, in a ghost place like this, there are no witnesses anyway, so even if he is beaten to death, there will be no problem.
Fortunately, at the critical moment, the captain was more stable and calmly took out a cigarette from the cigarette case and threw it to Song Hao, without forgetting to say:
"You may not have heard the news, but the female prisoner from Strawberry Town upstream was robbed and escaped last night."
"So if you have any clues about her, you can go to Riggs Station and report it. We will give you a large reward then."
Song Hao had no choice but to accept the cigarette, then watched the three bounty hunters go away, and then he breathed a sigh of relief.
"You can come out now."
Aaron, who was hiding in the bushes nearby and didn't even dare to take a breath, hurriedly led Reina out, looking around nervously.
"Boss, why are bounty hunters joining in now?"
Song Hao took advantage of the warmth of the embers and bent down to light the cigarette: "If you had the chance to get hundreds of dollars, I'm afraid you would do the same."
Reina, with a solemn expression, couldn't help but remind: "But you almost died in their hands just now."
Song Hao's eyes flashed red: "I don't think so..."
As he slowly exhaled a cloud of smoke, he understood that it was not suitable to stay here for a long time, so he simply destroyed the traces of the camping and left with the two of them.
Now that news of the prison robbery has spread, bounty hunters and police detectives from all regions must have come out in full force.
Obviously, you can't take the upright main road. You have to take some remote roads to reach Rhodes Town and take the iron box you hid under the oak tree.
After some decision-making, Song Hao opened the way in front, while Aaron followed behind with Reina, trying to keep a certain distance.
This way, even if you encounter a bounty hunter, you still have a chance to escape.
During this period, they deliberately bypassed Riggs Station and found that they had come to a river basin called Duckta, where they could see many people immersed in groping.
There are several wooden equipment displayed on the river bank, which look very strange.
Aaron, who had grown up in Blackwater Town, was somewhat curious about this and couldn't help but ask: "Are they fishing with their bare hands?"
Song Hao urged Silver Fang to stop, and then explained: "These guys were taken on gold diggers."
"It's a pity that some people have been buried in these rivers their whole lives, and in the end they didn't find much gold."
"It is rumored that floods and wild beasts kill as many gold diggers as cholera every year."
Although it sounds cruel, it is true.
Because since the end of the last century, various cities in the United States have begun to set off a crazy gold rush wave, and soon this trend swept into the countryside.
As a result, tens of thousands of unemployed young people, with the dream of getting rich, swim in the cold and biting river water all day long, hoping to find shiny golden sand.
As a result, after being in such an environment for a long time, my body suffered from irreversible diseases. When I lowered my head, I found that there was very little gold in my pocket.
What is the picture?
After hearing these words, seeing that Song Hao still had no intention of moving forward, Aaron followed his gaze and looked towards a cliff.
"Good guy, is it possible that there is gold in the mountains?"
Chapter completed!