Wilderness Redemption Tour

I understand." Tilly weighed the heavy sack and nodded seriously.

John walked over and gently held Jack's hand, then kissed it. Then he put his son's hand on his cheek and said with a smile, "Jack, you are very brave. I am proud of you. Don't worry, your Uncle Arthur, Uncle Jamie, Aunt Sadie and I will rescue Mom."

Jack felt the warmth of his father's cheek and palm, and a look of determination appeared on his young face. "Go, Dad. Aunt Tilly and I will wait for you and Mom at the place Uncle Arthur said."

Listening to Jack's slightly childish voice, Arthur said goodbye to Tilly: "Goodbye, Tilly. You are a good girl, and you have worked hard these days. Take this money and live a good life. Start a new life."

"Yeah!" Tilly nodded again, her eyes moving from Arthur and the others one by one, but not looking at Dutch. "Goodbye, everyone. I will miss you."

"Goodbye."

"Goodbye, dear."

Others she passed by waved goodbye to her.

After watching Tilly leave, Arthur looked back at Dutch and the others who were watching, then jumped on his horse, and rushed towards the Van Horn Trading Post with Lin Yan and the other two without hesitation.

"Abigail has been captured for quite some time. I hope she hasn't been put on the ship yet."

"The ship will be docked on the north side of the town. It won't work if we just run over there and confront them head-on. We have to go the other way."

"Whatever. My mind is in a mess right now. Whatever you say is what matters. As long as Abigail can be rescued, I will do anything."

"Look, John, you just come with us, okay? We're going to get this done, and Abigail's going to be fine."

After making plans for the next step, Sadie looked at the three men around her. "Did something happen between you and Dutch? I feel like your attitude towards him has become worse again."

"What happened to Arthur yesterday happened again to John." Lin Yan explained.

"We have all been deceived by Dutch. This guy is a complete liar, hypocrite, villain..." John angrily added various titles to Dutch.

Arthur has accepted this fact. "As long as he can make money, he doesn't care even if his family's lives are sacrificed and their children become orphans. In his eyes, we are probably just tools. In this case, all the high-sounding words he said before were probably lies."

"He's just a lunatic!" John concluded.

Noticing the wound on John's waist that was bleeding again, Lin Yan patted his shoulder and advised: "That's enough, John. Save your energy and say less. Anyway, after this incident, you will never see him again."

"By the way, are you guys going back later?" John asked.

"Of course." Arthur replied, "Hosea and Ms. Grimshaw are still here. We can't leave them with Dutch like this."

"Then I..." Thinking of Hosea, a trace of reluctance flashed in John's eyes.

"You go on your way." Arthur rejected John outright, and abruptly blocked his next words. "Just take care of your family, and leave the matters of Hosea and Ms. Grimshaw to us."

"Well... okay." John thought about it and finally agreed to Arthur's arrangement.

Following the path that Lin Yan and Bill took a few days ago, it wasn't long before they arrived at the southern entrance of the Van Horn Trading Post.

The entire dock and half of the town have been occupied by Pinkerton detectives, but Lin Yan and his team did not see any sign of a ship at the dock. Judging from the other party's posture, the ship should not have arrived yet.

On the way here, they had already discussed a countermeasure: Lin Yan and Arthur, two good shooters, would go to the lighthouse of the trading post to cover the actions of Sadie and John below, while using their positional advantage to find the place where Abigail was imprisoned. This method was almost the same as the one Lin Yan and Bill took that day, except that the number of people was doubled this time.

With the decline of Van Horn Trading Post, the lighthouse standing not far from Van Horn Pier was also decommissioned. This lighthouse is about 25 meters high and is the most conspicuous building in the vicinity. Opening the half-closed iron door at the bottom of the tower, climbing up the dusty steps to the top of the tower, and standing at the observation point on the top floor of the lighthouse, Lin Yan found that the advantages and disadvantages here are equally obvious.

The advantage is that standing here, the entire trading station is in full view, and Lin Yan can see the movements of everyone below clearly. The disadvantage is that the observation point at the top of the tower is a circular terrace surrounding the spire, with no shelter or obstruction around it. Standing on the edge of the terrace, you can see others, and others can also see you.

But Arthur didn't care whether others would find them. As soon as he reached the top of the tower, he switched the sniper rifle on his back to his hand. "Okay, Mr. Milton, let me see where you are hiding?"

Lin Yan also raised his gun and observed the Pinkerton detective on the dock through the scope.

After a while, Arthur retracted his gaze and asked Lin Yan: "Did you find it?"

Lin Yan stared at him and said, "No, what about you?"

"I didn't see it either." Arthur shook his head and waved to Sadie and John who were waiting below, indicating that he hadn't seen anything and they could move.

Then, Arthur raised his gun again and repeated the action. Lin Yan stopped searching, found Sadie and John who had started to move through the scope, and observed their every move.

The task of covering Sadie and John's advancement was given to Lin Yan, while Arthur was responsible for searching for Milton again after the gunshot.

In the scope, Sadie and John crouched, avoiding the sight of the Pinkerton detectives in the distance, and moved quickly to an abandoned wooden house across the street. The half sign hanging on the half-collapsed wooden house indicated that it used to be a small textile workshop.

Next to the textile workshop was a two-story building without a sign. Two Pinkerton detectives stood face to face in front of the building, seemingly chatting about something. In short, the two were talking very hard, otherwise, Sadie and John would not have been able to run from one side of the street to the other.

Sadie and John were already very close to the Pinkerton detectives, but this was not an infiltration mission, otherwise they could have gone even deeper.

The two men, hiding out of the enemy's sight, exchanged a brief sentence, then leaned forward at the same time, pointed the muzzles of their two guns at their chosen enemies, and fired the first shot to rescue Abigail.