Wilderness Redemption Tour

It must be said that Dutch is quite good at persuading others. After he finished speaking with such passion, not only Arthur, the person involved, but even Lin Yan, who was listening, felt so ashamed that he wanted to find a hole to crawl into.

It turns out that Dutch is not only thinking about himself, he always has everyone in his heart.

Arthur looked ashamed and sincerely apologized to Dutch: "I'm sorry, Dutch, I..."

"Forget it." Dutch waved his hand. "Now is not the time to talk about this. The ship from Cornwall is about to arrive. Let's hurry to the dock to prepare."

After understanding Dutch's "good intentions", Arthur's performance was obviously more positive than before. Although he still disapproved of Dutch's approach in his heart, when he thought that this action might be related to the future happy life of the gang members, he felt full of energy again.

Because it is close to the Lanahatchee River, the mining town of Annesburg uses water transportation as an important link in addition to conventional rail transportation to transport the ore resources here. On the dock, there are piles of ore like hills, which are classified into various categories, most of which are iron ore and coal. These ores are piled up unobstructed next to the dock where anyone can come and go freely, and there is not even a dedicated person to watch over them. In fact, it makes sense to think about it. Coal and iron are not gold and silver. No one would care about these heavy and low-value things. Moreover, in the era when the transportation industry was not well developed, it was almost impossible to steal these things without anyone noticing.

Lin Yan had a feeling when he passed by here just now. This scene at the dock seemed to be specially designed for the gunfight that would follow. He thought that Dutch would take them to hide behind a pile of ore, but he didn't expect that Dutch didn't even look at the piles of ore, and took the other three people directly to a shack at the innermost part of the dock.

This is a wooden shack with fences on only two sides, with wooden boxes, barrels and sacks piled up in a mess. Because it has a roof, Lin Yan guessed that this is a "temporary warehouse" for storing special goods.

There was no one guarding this place either. Since Lin Yan entered the town today, no one had been seen on the street. Daqi led the others here in a swagger and pointed to this shack, "Come on, we'll hide behind these boxes and barrels."

After saying that, Dutch walked to a pile of barrels near the middle of the shack and squatted down. Micah saw that the place Dutch chose was quite spacious and could accommodate two people, so he shamelessly moved over.

Seeing this, Lin Yan and Arthur each chose a suitable place - in the middle of the back of the shack and behind two half-person-high crates on the side.

Not long after hiding, Lin Yan heard a long and deep whistle. Along with the whistle, several fully armed guards suddenly emerged from the dock that was empty just now. These people came from the direction of the mining company just now. Lin Yan guessed that they might be the security personnel of this company.

Through the gaps in the fence around the edge of the shack, Lin Yan saw that these guards were scattered throughout the entire dock, and the closest one was less than ten meters away from them. However, after these people arrived at the designated location, they stopped moving and just stood there stiffly, as if the task assigned to them by their superiors was not to serve as security, but as protocol.

When this group of people appeared just now, Lin Yan thought that the battle would start early, and this mission would fail because of Dutch's radical choice, but when he saw that these people did not move after reaching their respective designated positions, he put his heart at ease. If these people had a little bit of awareness of prevention, their prospective new boss would not have been shot and killed right before their eyes before taking office.

As the long whistle sound faded away, a white and green steamship named "Malvina" slowly sailed into the Annesburg dock.

After the ship docked, one of the sailors jumped onto the shore, pulling the rope from the ship and swiftly tied the rope to the shore's gantry. At the same time, two other sailors lifted the gangplank from the ship and placed it between the ship and the dock.

After the ship stopped, the cabin door opened and four men in black walked out one after another.

The first person was a young man with a briefcase and a newsboy cap, who looked like Cornish's assistant. The two behind him were wearing the same Pinkerton uniform and a bowler hat, and they were old acquaintances of the Van der Linde gang - detectives Milton and Ross.

When the two appeared, Lin Yan heard Arthur mutter in confusion: "Why are these two guys here..."

The last person to come out was Lin Yan and his team's target today - Leviticus Cornwall. The old man, who was already over fifty years old but still energetic, stood at the cabin door and complained to Detective Milton who was getting off the ship: "Mr. Milton, I spent so much money in your firm and bought the best services, but the things I entrusted to you have not made any progress. That Van der Linde not only robbed me, but also laughed at me. Since he caused trouble for me that time, my business has been going badly. Not only was the oil rig of the coal tar plant blown up, but even my biggest business partner, General Fusal of Guarma Island, has not been heard from recently. I heard that he was killed by the local rebels."

"We're almost there, Mr. Cornwall." Milton replied calmly, "I know you've heard this before, but this time..."

Before Milton could finish, Cornwall interrupted him. "Since you know I've heard this before, stop making up bullshit excuses."

After that, he said to the young man who looked like an assistant who was also standing on the shore: "Jason, go over and show them the contract first. I'm in a hurry."

"Yes, sir." The young man named Johnson replied, and then ran away from the dock with his briefcase. The guards at the dock, under the instruction of their leader, a young man in a white shirt and gray vest, dispatched most of the guards and followed Johnson out of the dock.

As Johnson left, Milton explained, "Sir, we have used all the means permitted by law, and many people in our office have died because of this incident..."