While enjoying his meal alone, Henry browsed today's Denver Post, and immediately noticed reports related to his two actions last night.
'Not bad, such a long stretch of road being cut off is enough to give the McKinley Family a headache for the next few days.'
Henry was quite satisfied with last night's incomplete operation.
The McKinley Family held their ground, with powerful firepower, and Henry could only do so much for now if he didn't want to expose too much.
He only exposed his ability to fire thirty to forty shots continuously and his night vision, but these could be explained by modifications and specific items, so it wasn't a big deal.
On the contrary, through this battle, he realized that he still lacked powerful weapons for attacking strongholds—cannons or howitzers.
Henry felt a bit like an invincible knight from the Middle Ages, temporarily helpless against the enemy's thick city walls and bastions.
As for the cannons available now, at least five or six people are needed to fire them effectively, and Henry stated that this was not a problem.
In a previous timeline, during the Battle of Shangganling, our combat hero in the Korean War once achieved the feat of firing hundreds of howitzer rounds alone.
He single-handedly operated an M1A1 howitzer, which normally required 10 people, and achieved great military success.
He alone handled all aspects, including loading, breeching, aiming, correcting, firing, and extracting.
Under the strong support of faith, the combat power that true combat elites can exert far exceeds people's imagination, and far breaks through the so-called limits or impossibilities in various textbooks.
Henry's artillery skill is currently LV3, and he can instantly upgrade it to LV4, a master-level artillery skill, with 100 gray beads.
Coupled with his superhuman physical fitness, he is confident that he can also achieve the feats of his predecessors from the past timeline.
Henry now found that a huge storage space combined with cannons was the correct solution.
As for Brendan, Henry would not let him go.
But it wasn't necessary to assault the stronghold; as long as he knew his whereabouts, it was just a matter of one bullet.
In fact, Henry didn't want to slaughter the other ordinary people of an entire manor just for one or two individuals.
It was a different matter during combat, but after the battle, he genuinely couldn't bring himself to harm ordinary people.
This was also the reason he wore a mask during every operation—to reduce unnecessary killing.
At the very least, neither Brendan nor any other McKinley Family leader should have time to bother Henry these next few days.
Henry pondered in his mind how he could acquire cannons without anyone knowing.
Henry's storage space currently held a vast fortune—the intelligence files from the black market.
Henry believed that whether he wanted to acquire cannons or become the city boss of Denver, there should be answers or important clues within them.
Additionally, Henry changed his mind about only having Mr. and Mrs. Pitt send Linda and her family of three to New York.
After reviewing many police archives these past few days, he realized that the safety of America's railway system in this era was concerning.
In these times, there was no security check, no identity verification; one boarded with a ticket, and the Constitution protected every citizen's right to carry firearms, with no concept of a gun license yet.
Furthermore, inter-city deposits and withdrawals at banks were very troublesome, and depositing money at banks still required manual entry, so many wealthy businessmen traveling carried a lot of cash, and jewelry was also common.
And the security on a train was limited, which gave rise to countless train robbers.
For example, the notorious outlaw brothers Jesse James and Frank James, who were constantly pursued by the Pinkerton Detective Agency, specifically targeted wealthy individuals in the first-class compartments of trains.
They even robbed the rich to help the poor, occasionally distributing a portion of their stolen money to the impoverished, earning them the title of Modern Robin Hood.
The railway company hated them to the bone, offering a reward of 5,000 us dollars for each of the two brothers, dead or alive, which combined was comparable to Henry's bounty.
In this era, besides official bounties, detective agencies, private organizations, and even individuals could offer rewards, making it the golden age of bounty hunters.
Henry had previously estimated that Brian had embezzled at least thirty to forty thousand us dollars over the years, much of which was cash, and Fresco Town was nestled in a mountain valley without a bank.
So, he suspected that at least half of that thirty to forty thousand us dollars was given to Linda in cash.
Adding the 3,000 us dollar pension and the 1,000 us dollars Henry gave her, Linda might now have over 20,000 us dollars on her.
Except for large payments that specifically used large denominations of 100 or 50 us dollar bills, generally, currency was in denominations of 10 us dollars or less, with 5 us dollars being considered a large bill in daily transactions.
Even if calculated at 10 us dollars per bill, 20,000 us dollars would be equivalent in volume to 200,000 yuan in 100-yuan soft currency from a previous timeline.
If she really encountered train robbers, Linda wouldn't be able to keep this money, and it's even possible that she and Pitt would die for it.
Therefore, Henry decided to personally escort Linda to her parents' home in New York, while also getting acquainted with the city and observing New York in this era.
As for the mine, Fresco Town, and the situation in Denver, there was no rush to investigate them.
This era was not the rapidly changing, high-speed information age of later times; even if Henry wanted to do something, a few days wouldn't make a difference.
With William stationed in Fresco Town, there would generally be no problems, except for situations like the previous one where over a hundred cavalrymen charged into the town.
As for the mine, what could they do in just a few days?
Many sheriffs or Federal Marshals spend ten days to half a month just pursuing a single criminal, so Henry decided to take this opportunity to embark on a trip and investigate relevant cities along the way.
At least besides New York, he would likely visit Pittsburgh, where Richard's Mellon Family headquarters was located—definitely not for some grand welcome banquet.
Rather, Pittsburgh was currently America's Steel City, and if Henry wanted to get involved in the military industry in the future, steel was an unavoidable topic.
With his plans settled, Henry had also finished his breakfast and, after bidding farewell to the three women, rode his Appaloosa horse out alone.
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In the Pinkerton Detective Agency office, the head, Bowie, knew that the three detectives who had not returned by now must have met with trouble.
Early that morning, he had again dispatched three detectives to scout McKinley Manor.
Now they had all returned and reported the latest situation there, but the three people sent out in the early hours of the morning had vanished as if into thin air, leaving no trace.
Bowie held a pipe in his mouth, his right middle finger tapping rhythmically on the desk, lost in thought.
'The black market was destroyed not long ago, and then McKinley Manor was attacked by a powerful enemy. Such powerful forces couldn't suddenly appear out of nowhere. Could they be the same group of people?'
Thinking of this, Bowie ordered his subordinates to investigate any recent cooperation between the McKinley Family and the black market.
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