America 1881: They Call Me Legend

Chapter 200 "Go forward here"

What Hanif said is true.

Lynch's group of Pinkerton detectives swam across the bottom of the lake, landed in the dark cave, and lit the lanterns in their hands.

They stretched their necks and waited for a long time, but they didn't wait until Lynch climbed out of the water.

"Sir, should we go back and take a look?" a detective asked the deputy.

The adjutant was a little hesitant. Ever since Lincoln County was defeated last time, he began to understand Lynch a little bit.

If it had been before, he would have waited until Lynch came over.

But now, he couldn't tell for sure, and he couldn't guess what his commander was thinking.

"Fuck, what is this?"

A detective's exclamation attracted everyone's attention from the lake to him, and everyone gathered around him.

They saw the monster's body.

"Is this a fish?"

"Fart, have you ever seen a fish with long legs? I think it's a lizard."

"You are talking nonsense. Why are the lizard's front and rear limbs so uncoordinated? Hey, look at those fangs. Tell me, what would it feel like to be bitten by those fangs?"

"What are you afraid of? If I encounter one again if I have the ability, I'll catch one alive and sell it to my uncle. He's from the circus. The people over there in Kansas will love this thing."

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A group of detectives were still discussing incessantly, but the adjutant could no longer stand it:

"Is now the time to discuss this?"

He kicked the monster's body and after making sure it was dead, he pulled out the revolver from his waist and said, "Let's go downstream along this underground river."

A detective volunteered to hold a lantern and walked at the front of the team.

He is the nephew of the circus owner, the one who claims to catch a living monster.

The cave was very narrow, and the light from the lantern was dim, but it was enough to illuminate the road ahead.

Suddenly, a gust of wind blew from a dark cave on the side, causing the lantern in his hand to shake.

"Sir, it seems the exit is here." He stopped, pointed to the cave where the wind blew, turned his head and said to the adjutant behind him.

But the adjutant didn't speak. He looked over the detective's shoulder and behind him.

The detective noticed something was wrong and slowly turned his head back.

In the darkness at the entrance of the cave, countless pairs of blood-red eyes suddenly appeared, staring at them.

The detective was ready to strike first, so he drew his gun and prepared to shoot.

But coincidentally, the two monsters closest to him also thought so.

By this time, it was already dark outside, and it was time to go out to look for food. The Chupacabras who had been wandering in the valley before poured into the cave one after another.

They happened to run into these Pinkerton detectives.

Before the detective could draw his gun, the two monsters rushed out and rushed towards the detective.

The lantern fell to the ground, and the gun in the detective's hand was not fired until he died. His neck was bitten by a monster, while another monster gnawed on his thigh.

The next few followed closely and quickly sucked the leading detective into submission.

As a warrior who aspires to be a "monster hunter", this detective is a man of mercy.

Gunshots rang out in the cave, and the adjutant led other Pinkerton detectives in a desperate struggle with these monsters.

It stands to reason that no matter how terrifying a monster is, as long as it is a carbon-based life form and can be breached, it will not have any advantage against kinetic energy weapons.

But it's hard to say in dark environments and close ranges.

The environment in the cave was narrow, and the detectives carrying lanterns were quickly knocked to the ground.

Without the light, the Pinkerton detectives lost their last chance to contend with the monsters.

The cave turned into a one-sided massacre, and the blood-sucking monsters who had been hungry for three days and nine meals were feasting.

Hanif was chatting with Johnny and the others outside the cave. They built a bonfire and waited for the people below to come out.

He also heard gunfire and wailing in the cave.

It looks like Pinkerton's gang is really here.

Hanif, Johnny and Li Sifu picked up their guns and approached the cave.

He was prepared to shoot someone as soon as he came out.

But the gunshots coming from the cave became weaker and weaker, until they were almost non-existent.

Hanif was about to poke his head over to take a look, but suddenly a burst of rapid footsteps and curses came from inside the cave.

A man cursed, fired his gun backwards, and rushed out of the cave.

Hanif was just about to shoot him, but "someone" got there first.

Two or three monsters chased him out of the hole, jumped on the man, and started sucking the man's blood.

The light of life in the man's eyes disappeared, and his skin quickly shriveled up, like the skin of a deflated balloon.

Seeing this scene, Hanif took a deep breath and subconsciously touched the gland in his pocket.

After a while, there was no movement in the cave.

Hanif was sure that these Pinkerton detectives were dead. Even if two or three of them managed to escape by chance, they would not dare to come back for a while.

He breathed a sigh of relief, told Donnie and Li Sifu, took a shovel, climbed down along the rope, and then followed the marks left by Chen Jianqiu and the others for easy return to the bottom cave.

Hanif still couldn't resist the temptation to see the treasures first, not to mention that Chen Jianqiu had made such a promise to him.

"How about it? You can choose whichever one you like." Chen Jianqiu seemed very generous.

Hanif was stunned when he looked at those dark things. He picked up the pottery seal from Holmes's hand and looked at the symbols on it in trance.

"Don't worry, this stuff is no cheaper than gold jewelry." Chen Jianqiu comforted the bounty hunter with "kindness".

"No, I seem to have seen this symbol somewhere." Hanif looked at the pottery seal repeatedly.

"When did you peek at my notes?" Holmes raised his eyebrows angrily. The human skin map was always in his and Chen Jianqiu's hands.

Hanif shook his head and pointed in the direction he came in: "It's on the cave wall over there, next to the mark you left. I felt your mark all the way here."

Holmes looked surprised. He was the one who left the mark, but when he left the mark just now, why didn't he notice the Aztec symbol?

He was still wondering, but Chen Jianqiu had already walked over with a torch.

He walked to the bottom of the stone stairs and to the edge of the cave wall.

Under the firelight, it turned out that someone had carved Aztec hieroglyphs on it.

He turned his head and looked at Holmes: "What does this symbol mean?"

The expression on Holmes's face was a little awkward: "This is a directional pronoun, which means,,, forward."

Chen Jianqiu was stunned. Doesn't this mean the same thing as the "500 meters ahead from here" written in chalk on the edge of the alley that he encountered before?

The two of them walked along the cave wall until they were almost at the edge of the lake.

Holmes discovered two more rows of symbols on the wall.

"What does it mean this time?" Chen Jianqiu asked the geologist, "It doesn't mean 'don't touch', right?"

Holmes took out his notebook, turned to the page where he recorded the Aztec text, and glanced at it by the light of the torch.

Then he raised his head and looked at Chen Jianqiu with a puzzled face: "Chen, how do you know?"

Chen Jianqiu was taking a drink from the small water bag on his waist. When he heard Holmes' words, he almost spit out the water in his mouth.

"Well, actually, that's what the lower row of symbols means, and the upper row of symbols means, 'water outlet'."

As Holmes spoke, he approached the wall. He touched the cave wall, looked at it carefully, and then put his head against the cave wall.

Then, in full view of everyone, he took the shovel from Hanif's hand and began to pull the stone on the cave wall.

"This cave wall is not natural. It was sealed with stones the day after tomorrow. It's hard to see because so much time has passed." Holmes said while scratching.

Chen Jianqiu took the shovel from his hand.

As a senior miner, he is familiar with this job.

The rocks quickly fell down, revealing a hole. The geologist stuck his upper body inside and observed the wall of the hole.

When he retracted his body, his face was full of shock,

"These descendants of the Aztecs must have dug a water diversion channel from the nearby underground river more than a hundred years ago. There are traces of water flow on the walls of the cave."

Holmes looked at the lake at their feet:

"This lake is artificial!"

Chen Jianqiu immediately understood the geologist's clothes. He took off his clothes, took a few steps back, took a deep breath, and plunged into the water.

This time, he didn't want to go crazy in the water.

The lake is still pitch black, but due to Holmes' discovery, the lake has completely lost its mysterious veil.

This time, Chen Jianqiu went straight to the bottom of the lake.

He swam directly into the depths of the water, and after a while, he touched the bottom of the lake.

His fingers touched something hard, very cold and metallic.

He grabbed the thing in his hand, turned around and swam towards the lake.

Near the lake, Chen Jianqiu jumped up, rushed out of the water, and swam back to the shore.

Everyone quickly gathered around holding torches.

Chen Jianqiu wiped some water from his face, stretched out his other hand, and released his palm.

Something lay quietly in his hand.

Under the firelight, this thing glowed with a golden luster.

A gold bar.

The treasure they were looking for lay dormant in the lake beneath their feet.

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