Reborn in 1878: America's Number One Bandit

Chapter 23 The Pinkerton Detectives Are Here?
After dinner, a tired Marlene wanted to rest early.

In the brand new wooden house,

A faint woody scent permeated the air.

Marlene lay on her new bed, which was soft and comfortable.

But he tossed and turned, unable to fall asleep for a long time.

Moonlight streamed in through the clean glass window.
A layer of silver frost was cast on the floor.

She turned to the side.

I couldn't help but ask myself softly.

"Losen..."

What kind of person are you, really?

This problem is like a fog.
It always lingered in her mind.

He is mysterious and powerful.

Like a collection of contradictions,
You can never truly understand what he's thinking.

"Mom, aren't you asleep?"

Lucy's voice suddenly rang out in the darkness.
With a hint of sleepiness in my eyes.

"Oh, did I wake you up, baby?"

Marlene quickly apologized.

"No."

Lucy rolled over and snuggled into Marlene's arms.

Her little head rested on her arm, and she whispered:
“I heard you mention Mr. Lawson’s name.”

Lucy said with certainty:
“Mom, Mr. Lawson is definitely an angel sent by God to take care of us.”

Marlene was amused by her daughter's whimsical analogy.

"Angels? Why do you say that?"

"Of course!"

Lucy sat up from her lap.

Under the moonlight, he carefully counted on his fingers.

Counting them one by one:

“You see, before Mr. Lawson arrived…”

We eat corn porridge every day.

It's been so long since I've seen any meat.

But after he arrived,

We eat meat every day, and I've even gained weight!

"And also, that scoundrel Coleman Parker from before..."
They're always trying to steal our farm.
You always look so gloomy.

But Mr. Lawson has arrived.
Parker's leg was broken by the bandits.

I'll never dare come back again!

"And another thing, the house we used to live in was dilapidated and old."

It leaks when it rains.

But Mr. Lawson has arrived.
We've moved into such a beautiful big house!

I now have my own room!

The little girl counted the items one by one.

Each one of them happened around us.
Real and tangible changes.

Marlene listened quietly.

The smile on his face gradually froze.
Instead, it was a profound shock.

She suddenly realized,

Although Lawson's origins and purpose are shrouded in mystery,
But one thing is undeniable:
Ever since this young Asian man entered their lives,
Those problems that once overwhelmed her
And it really happened, one by one.

It was resolved in a very casual way.

Their lives
It's getting better and better.

"Mother,"

Lucy hugged Marlene's neck.
"I think God must have seen how pitiful it was for me to not have a father."

That's why Mr. Lawson, this angel, was sent to take care of us...

"Mom, will you marry Mr. Lawson?"

"puff--"

Marlene felt a thud on her cheek.
It's so hot you could fry an egg in it.

"What kind of nonsense are you thinking about all day long in that little head of yours!"

She was both ashamed and embarrassed.
He reached out and gently patted his daughter's bottom.

"Don't talk nonsense!"
Lawson... Lawson is only seventeen years old.

He's still just a child!

This reason,

Even she herself felt somewhat unsure when she said it.

Sure enough, Lucy stubbornly shook her head.

He retorted in a serious tone:
"No, Mom! Mr. Lawson doesn't look seventeen at all!"

"Those men in their twenties in town,"

She only seemed like a child in his presence.

"I don't care, I'm willing to let him be my new dad!"

"You still said that!"

Marlene, in order to stop her,
I simply kicked her out of bed.

"Alright, go back to your room and go to sleep!"

If you keep talking nonsense, you won't get any venison tomorrow!

Lucy made a face.
He ran out of the room laughing and joking.

The room returned to silence.

But Marlene's heart could no longer find peace.

She walked to the window and lifted the thin curtain.

On the open ground outside the window,

Lawson had already taken off his shirt.
His muscular upper body was naked.

He was silently chopping firewood under the moonlight.

"Bang... bang..."

The heavy axe seemed weightless in his hands.
Sweat dripped down his increasingly defined muscles.

The moonlight reflected off his bronze skin.

It is full of wild charm.

Marlene's gaze was somewhat lost in thought.

She suddenly realized,

Lawson came to this house,
Today is the sixteenth day.

In just over half a month,

His transformation was absolutely astonishing!
Marlene remembered clearly,
The disheveled state of Lawson on the night he arrived. He was terribly thin.

A height of over 1.8 meters,

It looks like a thin bamboo pole that would fall over with a gust of wind.

The dirty work clothes he was wearing,

It smelled of sweat.

A withered, yellow hair was coiled on his head.

The braids were incredibly ugly in her eyes.

But now?

His body was like a balloon being inflated.
It expands and solidifies at a speed visible to the naked eye.

The shoulders have broadened, and the chest has thickened.
On arms and back,

The outline of bulging muscles is already visible.

Add to that his neat and tidy buzz cut,

And those eyes that were always deep and bright,
He looks completely different from how he did half a month ago.

at this time,

Lawson, who was chopping wood, paused.

He seemed to sense something.
Suddenly raised his head,
His deep gaze was precisely fixed on the second-floor window where Marlene was.

Marlene's heart skipped a beat.

Like a young widow caught red-handed spying on her sweetheart.

I instinctively shrank back.
They hid behind the curtains.

After hiding, she found herself ridiculous.

This is my house, and I look at it openly and without reservation.

Why should we feel guilty?

She carried this slight annoyance with her.
When I peeked out again,

The courtyard was already deserted.

Lawson and his black horse,
They had already disappeared into the night. The horse's hooves pounded on the silent dirt road.
Lawson faced the cool night wind.
However, his mind was rapidly assessing his current strength.

I've been in this damned world for sixteen days now.

Current number of suicide soldiers: 322

Three hundred and twenty-two absolutely loyal ones

Undeterred by death

And he has elite subordinates with various professional skills.

If this force were placed in the Qing Dynasty,
They could probably raise an army and become mountain kings.

Even in sparsely populated California,
It is definitely a force that any power would be wary of.

"Stay calm, don't be reckless."

"Lorsen said to himself."

His biggest advantage is time.

Given enough time
He can then, like a termite, silently...
Little by little, it devoured the entire state of California.

There is absolutely no need to take any risks yourself now.

at this time,

A stream of information flowed into his mind.

It came from Johnny's side.

After a week of silence,
He and several other Irish suicide squads,
Finally, we pulled off two big hits.

They are in two places hundreds of kilometers apart,

On railway construction sites belonging to different contractors,
Using the same method

Let the twenty-three who had just arrived in America,

The unfortunate Irishman, still dreaming of striking it rich.
They became the victims of the landslide accident.

Twenty-three precious lives
In return, they received 6900 cold, hard Morgan Eagle dollars.

After this huge sum of money arrived in the account,
The cash in Lawson's hand
We finally broke through the $10,000 mark.

but,

One cubic meter of nickel is needed for his next upgrade.
That target of $18,000,

It's still a long way off.

Money is still not enough.

have to say,

The vampire-like sense of smell of the Southern Pacific Railroad Company...

They are quite perceptive.

Johnny and his gang chose the location to commit the crime.
They were already carefully selected, and the locations were extremely far apart.

Moreover, they belong to different construction areas.

Even so,

This phenomenon of an unusually high "work-related death rate among new immigrants in Ireland"

It was still reported up the chain of command by those below.
This eventually aroused the suspicion of the bigwigs at headquarters.

An intelligence report from the San Francisco assassins indicated that...
The railway company headquarters did not believe this was a simple accident.

They suspect,
It was those "damned, greedy Irishmen."
Deliberately creating trouble
Organized fraud to obtain large sums of workers' compensation.

In order to find out the truth,

The railway company headquarters has already spent a lot of money.
We brought in help from Chicago.

Pinkerton National Detective Agency.

Got this news,

Lawson narrowed his eyes slightly.
The corners of his mouth curled up in a playful arc.

Pinkerton.

This group, in the history of the American West,
More infamous than any other outlaw gang.

They all need to be cold-blooded and efficient guys.

The first in America,
It is also the largest private armed security company.

Their symbol is an "eye that never closes".
Their code of conduct has only one principle.

—They'll do anything for money, no matter the means.

striking workers

Indian chiefs

Confederate remnants of the South,

The Great Bandit of the West...

As long as the price is right,
Their guns can be pointed at anyone.

In a sense,
They are simply hanging outside the law.
Swords and blades designed specifically for capitalists.

Lawson stroked his chin.
Talking to himself:
"The famous Pinkerton detectives..."

Are we going to be on stage so soon?

(End of this chapter)