Wilderness Redemption Tour

There was no dedicated ticket office, no waiting room, and not even a bench to wait on. Outside the station, there was only one man in workman's clothes busy at work. On the small platform, there were some goods piled up in a mess. It was unclear whether they were unloaded from the previous train or about to be loaded.

After yesterday's train robbery, Lin Yan knew that at that time, trains were not divided into passenger and freight. Come to think of it, if it was only for people, in the sparsely populated western United States, the passengers' ticket money might not even be enough to buy coal for burning.

After tying up his horse and stepping onto the wooden platform, Lin Yan walked towards the worker who was busy on the platform and asked, "Sir, is there a place to play cards here?"

The worker straightened up, wiped the sweat from his forehead, pointed behind him with his thumb, and said concisely: "The warehouse at the back."

After politely thanking the other party, Lin Yan walked around him, turned a corner, and saw the door of the warehouse.

One of the doors was open, and at that moment a man's voice was heard from inside.

"Hurry up! What are you dawdling for?"

Another male voice also urged: "Don't pray. The Lord will not answer you in this regard."

When Lin Yan walked to the door, he saw Reverend Swanson in a black priest robe. He sat facing the door, holding a few cards and two piles of colorful chips beside him. On either side of him sat a man, who looked like a station staff member.

There were many empty wine bottles piled at Pastor Swanson's feet, obviously he drank a lot while playing cards.

Lin Yan knocked on the closed half of the door with his fingers, successfully attracting the attention of the three people. He then said, "Pastor, you didn't come back all night. Ms. Grimshaw was a little worried and asked me to ask you to go back."

Pastor Swanson stood up shakily, pointed at Lin Yan with a dazed look and said: "...Ah...I know you...You are the newcomer...What's your name..."

"Hey! Don't worry about who he is! Do you want to play or not? We have been waiting for you for a long time..."

"Okay, forget about it, let's continue... let's continue..."

With that, Reverend Swanson sat down again.

Looking at the cards in his hand, he said slowly: "I'll..."

After throwing a chip, he looked at Lin Yan again. "...Hey...you go back and tell Ms. Grimshaw that I don't want to...I don't want to go back yet."

You don't want to go back? Before nine o'clock tonight, you are worth three free attribute points and a lucky draw. How can I let you stay here?

Lin Yan took a step forward and said in a tough tone: "Pastor, you are already drunk, so come back with me! If you still want to fight, you can come back tomorrow when you sober up."

Hearing that Lin Yan was going to take the pastor away, the other two couldn't sit still. One of the men in the red shirt complained dissatisfiedly: "Hey! Boy! What do you mean? We haven't finished playing yet, you can't take him away!"

Lin Yan retorted speechlessly: "Can't you see? He's already drunk, how can he play with you?"

The man spread his hands and said innocently: "We didn't force him to drink. We didn't do anything except playing cards."

Sadie said impatiently, "Don't waste your time talking to them. They're playing cards with drunks. I don't think they have any good intentions."

"Ma'am, please watch your words," the man in a cowhide jacket sitting to the pastor's right reminded.

"Isn't it?" Sadie walked to the pastor and pulled him up. "Look at his eyes. With his distracted eyes, do you think he can see the cards clearly? Can he think normally?"

Lin Yan also walked over and held the pastor's arm to prevent him from falling.

The man in the red shirt tried to stop him again, "Since he can't play, one of you should stay and take his place. How about that? This is a fair proposal, isn't it?"

Lin Yan and Sadie looked at each other. Lin Yan, who understood Sadie's eyes, said in a low voice with difficulty: "I can't..."

Sadie rolled her eyes at him speechlessly, then took the priest's place. "Then you take him away first. I'll play a few rounds with these two card-addicted guys."

Seeing that someone was willing to play with them, the two men stopped trying to stop them. Before Lin Yan helped the pastor out of the warehouse, they heard the sound of shuffling and dealing cards coming from behind.

These two are really addicted to playing cards...

After walking out of the warehouse and turning the corner, Lin Yan felt his shoulders sink. The pastor who had been standing just now suddenly seemed to have lost his skeleton and kept sliding down.

Well... I knew that this hidden task system wouldn't be easy for me to complete.

Fortunately, Lin Yan’s strength is now considerable, so it is not difficult for him to carry a person weighing over 100 pounds.

Lin Yan turned around and half-knelt on the ground. He stretched out his left arm to hug his waist, pulled his body to his left shoulder, and lifted him up.

After carrying the pastor all the way to where the horses were tied, Lin Yan was at a loss as to how to take him away.

Holding him in his arms was obviously the easiest and most feasible way, but as soon as this idea came to his mind, he rejected it without hesitation. When he thought about hugging a drunken middle-aged man, he felt indescribably uncomfortable.

It’s okay to pick up girls on horseback, but as for men, it’s absolutely not allowed!

If the front doesn't work, then we can only think about the back. Seeing that the pastor is so drunk, it's not realistic to ask him to lie on his back all the way.

Since the comfortable method doesn't work, we can only ask the other party to put up with it.

Throwing the pastor on the blanket behind the horse's butt, Lin Yan was not in a hurry. He led the horse all the way to the camp.

On the way, he put his fingers in his mouth again and practiced whistling.

He had this idea when he was on the road with Sadie just now, but he was afraid of being laughed at by Sadie, so he didn't dare to practice. Now Sadie is not here, and there is only a drunkard who is unaware of the world behind him. Even if he makes a fool of himself, no one will laugh at him.

"call..."

"call..."

Just when Lin Yan felt that he was about to succeed, a figure on horseback approached him from the left rear.

"what are you doing?"

Lin Yan stared blankly at Sadie who had caught up with him, and even forgot that his fingers were still in his mouth.

"...Um...cough cough cough..."

Lin Yan was about to argue, but he was choked by his saliva, followed by a violent coughing fit.

Taking advantage of this coughing moment, Lin Yan's brain raced and he came up with many reasons. Then, after screening them layer by layer and choosing the best, a perfect explanation emerged.

After stopping his cough, he wiped his mouth with his sleeve and said nonchalantly, "Well, didn't we have beef for lunch? Something got stuck in my teeth, and I was just picking my teeth."

Afraid that Sadie would ask more about this issue, he quickly changed the subject and said, "Weren't you playing cards with them? How did you catch up so quickly?"

Suddenly, his expression changed and he thought of a possibility.

"You won't give them to..."