1880 King of the Western

Chapter 1 western cowboy

As if awakening from the deepest and darkest dream, Henry Bruce found himself lying on his back on the dry earth.

A blazing fireball in the blue sky is releasing light and heat wantonly.

He reluctantly turned his head with a splitting headache and found that next to him was an American black poplar about half a meter in diameter and seven or eight stories high. Further away were sparse poplar trees, clusters of low shrubs and yellow trees. Brown hills .

The strong earthy smell in his nose and the dead branches and leaves in his hands both indicated that he was in the wilderness now!

'What happened? Am I not on vacation at the five-star Wynn Hotel in Las Vegas? ’

‘Where’s that white-skinned ocean horse? ’

A series of thoughts flashed through Henry Bruce's mind.

As a mercenary, he had just completed a big deal in Africa, and went to Las Vegas for vacation with two teammates.

I just stayed in this five-star hotel for one night, and something went terribly wrong!

The problem was that Henry Bruce had no idea what was going on.

At this moment, countless memories came out of thin air in my mind...

After a long time, the memory infusion stopped, and Henry Bruce finally figured out what was going on.

He actually traveled to Frisco, a mining town near Denver, a city in the Midwestern United States, on July 12, 1880!

His current identity is Henry Bruce, an ordinary 20-year-old police officer in a small town police station.

That afternoon, he followed Sheriff Brian and a group of 25 people to hunt down 8 gangsters who robbed a grocery store in the town. As a result, they encountered numerous gangsters ambushing them when they ran to the hilly area about 5 miles away from the town.

Not long after the battle began, Henry was unlucky to be shot in the chest. The powerful impact caused him to fall over, fall from his galloping horse to the ground, and die!

Then Henry Bruce traveled through and took over this body in 2024.

Henry Bruce unbuttoned the top two buttons of his blue police uniform jacket with his right hand. There was an obvious dent in the 18K gold Patek Philippe pocket watch case, where the bullet bounced off.

Henry Bruce was extremely depressed - even if the bullet was blocked, Henry could not avoid the fate of death!

Otherwise, I wouldn’t be able to travel through time.

This Patek Philippe gold pocket watch is a relic left to Henry by his grandfather.

Annoyed, Henry Bruce put his hands on the ground and sat up with his upper body.

A Winchester 1873 lever rifle is three meters away on the right.

He pushed his legs hard, resisting the severe pain in his chest, stood up unsteadily, walked over and picked up the rifle, feeling certain in his heart.

The situation is unclear at this time, and having a reliable weapon in hand greatly increases people's sense of security.

Henry Bruce lowered his head and looked at himself. He was wearing a standard blue long-sleeved police uniform, a black vest, a pair of high-heeled riding boots with spurs, and a Colt M1873 single-action revolver on the gun belt around his waist.

This pistol is the famous "peacemaker" in the history of the United States - everyone feels calm when it is revealed. It shares the .44-40 centerfire rifle bullet with the Winchester 1873 lever rifle.

Although it is not as sharp as the pointed smokeless gunpowder bullets of later generations, it is already the favorite of Western cowboys in this era.

Henry Bruce cautiously took a few steps forward - Henry's impression before he fell unconscious was that Sheriff Brian was shooting under the hills in that direction.

As far as the eye could see, Sheriff Brian was lying on the slope of a hill two hundred meters away. Diagonally opposite him were three gangsters more than a hundred meters away - two of them looked like they had come from the hill. The one above rolled and fell, and the other one had his back against the hill, and none of them moved at all.

Henry Bruce walked quickly along the mountain road for more than ten meters, turned a small corner, and found Henry's brown quarter police horse on the roadside, so he stepped on the stirrups, turned over, mounted the police horse, and galloped towards Brian. Go.

Along the way, eleven police officers fell to the ground in pieces, lifeless, and their horses were also scattered around.

Rounding another bend, there was a gangster wearing jeans and a wide-brimmed high-topped felt hat lying on the side of the road.

A large piece of flesh disappeared from the connection between his left shoulder and neck, but he was not dead yet and was still moaning intermittently!

Henry Bruce simply held the Winchester 1873 with both hands, aimed at his head at close range, and shot him in the head.

"boom!"

Shooting at close range, one shot caused the gangster's head to explode like a watermelon, with red and white splattering out, but it could not get any contact with Henry Bruce, who had already ridden a few meters away.

Huh?

Henry Bruce suddenly noticed a progress bar lighting up in the corner of his retina!

This progress bar should have always been there, but the front was not lit and was in a translucent state, so he did not notice it immediately.

The progress bar looks about 5 centimeters long, about 10% brighter, and there is a bright gray bead below it.

When Henry Bruce's mind came into contact with the progress bar and the gray bead, some inexplicable thoughts flashed through his mind, letting him know the functions of these two things.

The progress bar is called the release progress bar, and the gray beads are called first-level release beads.

Henry Bruce would harvest a release bead for every person he releases with his own hands. The primary progress bar will rise to the first level progress bar after harvesting ten first-level release beads.

At present, the first-level release beads have only one function - to expel the slight negative state of the body.

Henry Bruce focused his thoughts on the release beads and silently said in his heart: Use.

The release beads instantly cast a gray light on him, making his whole body feel warm, as if his whole body was soaked in a hot spring at around 40 degrees Celsius.

This feeling came and went quickly. The police horse disappeared without a trace before it ran 10 meters.

But Henry Bruce felt that his body had returned to its peak condition, and the split sternum and general depression caused by falling off the horse had completely dissipated.

Huh? !

That little bead is still there!

It’s just that the surface is completely darkened, like an empty shell.

When Henry Bruce touched the bead with his mind, he immediately got feedback - the empty shell of the release bead would break when he was inevitably hit by a bullet, and the bullet would bounce away silently.

Bullet weapons include: rocks, throwing knives, blow darts, bows and arrows, javelins and other throwing cold weapons, as well as various firearms, bullets, bombs, rocket launchers, artillery shells, etc.

The empty shell of the first-level release bead can only bounce off by throwing cold weapons and pistol bullets.

This is equivalent to having an extra life!

Henry Bruce's troubled and irritable heart calmed down a little, and he felt that God was relatively reliable and did not let him suddenly travel through time without help.

Unfortunately, the two gangsters encountered below were both shot in the head, and Henry Bruce failed to obtain a new release bid.

Soon, Henry Bruce arrived at Brian's side and found that there was a gaping hole in his chest and abdomen, his waist was in a mess, and blood flowed into a pool on the ground.

He turned over and dismounted, and gently supported Brian's head and upper body from his neck and back and shoulders with his hands.

Huh?

The progress bar actually lit up completely in an instant, and a vibrant green release bead appeared below it. There seemed to be an inexplicable charm flowing into it, which was mysterious and unpredictable.

In the blink of an eye, the progress bar returned to its translucent state, showing that only 1% was lit.

Half of the transparent panel unfolded in front of Henry Bruce.

[Name: Henry Bruce (Henry Bruce)

Grade 1

Health: 100%

Physique: LV1