North American Gunslinger Detective

Chapter 782

While Roland didn't say more, Jimmy quickly changed the subject. Texas is a traditional high-incidence area for supernatural events in the United States, so he just asked Roland to introduce one or two legends to buy time. It just so happened that Nia was also very interested in these things before, so at least she wouldn't think that Jimmy's change of subject was too obvious.

Roland has a lot of material for this kind of thing. You have to know that he has been active on Earth for more than ten years. Coupled with his previous experience in the Dark Tower world, he can easily come up with something to attract Nia's attention.

However, this old guy obviously had bad intentions. He actually said that the legends in Texas were boring and that the one that impressed him the most was Death Valley in California. This made Jimmy even more uneasy.

Death Valley is the place where the original owner was rescued by Roland. A demonic incident happened at that time. The original Jimmy was lucky enough to be rescued by Roland, but his father died there. After that, the original Jimmy lived with Roland and others for several years, until he went crazy and left Roland and began to wander.

However, Roland did not explain the matter too clearly in the end. He just said that there would be suspected supernatural events every few years in Death Valley. It was a magical place. Of course, there would be some accidents in Death Valley, so it could not be said that he was lying.

Nia turned her head and looked at Jimmy, blinking her eyes. Jimmy immediately shook his head, "Don't even think about it. That kind of place is too dangerous. Just stay in New York."

Nia is just an ordinary person. Any supernatural event is very serious to her. There are many things that are invisible and intangible but life-threatening. Nia had already been hospitalized once before because of the incident at Ghost Lake.

Roland laughed and said, "I'm just kidding. Death Valley is a well-known tourist destination in California. If there are really so many weird legends there, how could so many people go there to play? But the scenery there is pretty good. We've been there several times. It's a tourist attraction worth visiting."

Jimmy shrugged. "Anyway, Death Valley isn't very suitable for tourism. It has a bad name. I definitely won't go there. I'd rather go to Hawaii."

Nia: "Well, it seems that it is really difficult to see things that you can't see normally."

Jimmy: "You better be careful. You got caught last time. Do you want to run into this kind of thing again? You're not always lucky enough to run into someone from the church."

The smile on Roland's face slowly disappeared, and he hurriedly asked what happened. Nia told him her experience in vivid detail. She had just gone to investigate a missing person case, but she accidentally got hit and fell into a coma. If Jimmy hadn't rushed over, things would have been a big problem.

The incident was concluded properly, especially the exorcism ceremony performed by the priests of the church. Although she was far away, she watched the whole process, so she had a lot to talk about, but she didn't say what Jimmy did in it.

Roland turned to look at Jimmy and nodded. It was obvious that Jimmy was handling this matter. You know, Jimmy has the ability of psychic power, which already puts him ahead of many people.

Jimmy curled his lips and briefly told the story of Ghost Lake. The priests handled it very cleanly, and the place could remain safe for at least a long time. Unless something deliberately caused trouble, Roland didn't need to worry about it. The fact that he was still alive meant that the situation there had been resolved.

Roland did not say more just because Nia had been exposed to supernatural events. He just picked out some medieval legends from the Dark Tower world to change the topic. This dinner was a great success for both the host and the guests. The only regret was that Roland still couldn't ask Jimmy to accompany him back in such an occasion. He definitely couldn't tell Nia about this.

Jimmy and Nia pushed Roland's wheelchair back to the hotel, and then went home. However, their topic always revolved around Roland. Nia was surprised at Roland's age. He looked to be 6.70 or years old and was injured, but he was still in such good spirits and very talkative. It was not easy. The key was his relationship with Jimmy. It was not easy for two people with such a big age difference to be able to talk to each other.

Of course, this also leads to another question that was not asked just now, where are Roland's family? It seems that it is not normal that only Jimmy is taking care of him after he was injured. She has known Jimmy for so many years, and except for knowing the existence of Roland when watching the video, it seems that she has never seen Jimmy go to see Roland, nor talk about him.

Jimmy didn't know how to tell Nia about this, so he could only say that he didn't know either. However, his ignorance made Nia even more suspicious. How could Jimmy not know about such an important person? You have to know that Jimmy is a very experienced FBI agent, and he must have checked everyone he is familiar with.

Jimmy didn't know how many questions Nia had in her mind, but he knew his performance that night was definitely not good enough, so the next morning after Nia went to work, he immediately went to Roland's hotel room.

Some things still need to be said face to face, but Jimmy did not tell Roland all about his previous experiences. After all, things were rather complicated. He just confessed his current identity to Roland.

Roland is also from another world. He has been on Earth for a long time without revealing his identity. Of course, he is not surprised that Jimmy hid his previous identity. But he did despise the FBI. Jimmy used the fake identity of Little Rock and was not investigated by them. The background check was really bad.

The two of them couldn't stay in the room forever, so Jimmy pushed Roland out the door, and after a short walk outside, they arrived at Jimmy's apartment.

Arriving in Jimmy's study, Jimmy opened the safe, took out a revolver from it and placed it on the table, then took out two of his own revolvers from his holster and placed them together, "Roland, I want you to look at this."

Roland frowned and picked up the pistol, checking it over and over again.

This gun was found by Jimmy when he went to Texas to handle a case. At that time, an accident happened in a small village. Jimmy and the people from the church cooperated to kill a Dusk Beast and found this gun in its lair.

While Roland was checking the gun, Jimmy told him about the process of his discovery, especially the Dusk Beast. This monster appeared decades ago, then disappeared for a while, and now it has appeared again. According to the locals, it only appears once every 3 or 40 years, which is very different.

In fact, when Jimmy discovered this gun, he suspected that Duskmon was not a monster native to the earth, but obviously came from the Dark Tower world or other worlds.

Jimmy: "So, Roland, I want to ask, have you gunslingers traveled through multiple worlds before?"

Roland nodded. "We were not a small group in the past, but I am not familiar with their past experiences. I cannot tell who the gun belongs to, but it is undoubtedly one of ours."

Jimmy: "So, Duskbeast killed him?"

Roland shook his head. "Maybe he wasn't killed by it, but there's no doubt it brought the gun here. Is there only one?"

Jimmy nodded. "The church people only found this one when they were cleaning the nest, and no one informed me of other discoveries. By the way, have you seen this kind of Dusk Beast before?"

Roland: "Vampires? There are so many types of monsters, and I don't know all of them. But it's not ruled out that this kind of monster will travel through the world and come here. It only appears once every few decades, so it's obvious that this guy hasn't always been here."

Jimmy: "Well, that nest doesn't look like a monster that has lived there for decades. If it really has decades of history, there might be more Duskbeasts there, but in fact we only found one. It is very likely that it came here by accident and it does not have the ability to reproduce. In addition to killing people and sucking blood, we did not find any baby Duskbeasts or anything like that. There are no similar cases around. We can only say that we are lucky."

Roland put the gun back on the table. "Keep this gun. I can't tell who it belongs to, but it doesn't make any sense. Our world is already declining, and maybe there's no need for gunslingers to appear anymore. But with more and more geological changes and more and more monsters, there may not be anyone left to deal with them."

Jimmy was speechless. How could he bring up the disaster of the Dark Tower world again? After putting the gun back into the safe and holster, Jimmy pushed Roland to the living room, opened the refrigerator, took out a beer and gave it to Roland. Then he sat next to Roland and asked, "Roland, how are you going to get back to your world after you come here this time?"

Roland took a sip of beer and looked at Jimmy. "Go back the same way, or go back through another door. New York is a good place. There is a door here that you can go back through."

Jimmy asked in surprise, "In New York? Where?"

Roland: "In the basement of an abandoned house in Brooklyn, there is a fixed door. I don't know when it was built, but as long as there is enough energy, you can directly reach my world."

Jimmy was stunned. He originally thought that Roland traveled back and forth between the two worlds through the space rift, but he didn't expect that there was a fixed door here. Didn't anyone else notice such an obvious act of traveling through the world? "You mean a fixed door? Can it be effective all the time?"

Roland: "The door has always existed, but opening it requires energy and the world coordinates."

Seeing that Jimmy was still a little confused, Roland further explained: "This kind of gate that goes back and forth between different worlds was not built now. It was very powerful in the early days of the Dark Tower world. However, it is impossible to verify when the fixed portal was created. The method of making it has disappeared in the long river of history. Currently, only a very small number of gates still exist, and they are not easy to find."

Jimmy: "Does that mean that as long as we find the door, we can go back and forth between the two worlds at any time?"

Roland: "No, the operation of the door requires a lot of energy. It's not that easy."

Jimmy: "Since it has existed for so long, have many people traveled to the Dark Tower world? Or come to Earth from there?"

Roland stopped talking and just thought about what happened when he first arrived on Earth. At that time, the man in black led many of his subordinates to come to Earth to look for him and Jack. Many people had indeed traveled through time, and the door at that time seemed to have been made by the man in black. Maybe they had a way to make a door? Of course, there was no need to consider this anymore. The man in black was dead, and his lair had exploded.

Seeing that Roland didn't say anything, Jimmy didn't continue to ask the previous question, but changed the subject: "Roland, why don't you use the previous door to go back to New York?"

Roland sighed and said, "I was too far away. After I returned there, I wandered around for a while. When I wanted to come back to find you, I had lost the location of the door."

Jimmy was speechless. "Only certain doors can be used to go back and forth? Or are there too few doors, and you don't know the location of the other doors except the one you know?"

Roland was silent for a while, then nodded: "The number of doors is indeed very small."

Jimmy looked at Roland. It would take some time for his leg injury to recover, so he probably wouldn't return to that world for the time being. "Can I see that door?"

Roland: "Do you want to go back with me?"

Jimmy: "No, I just want to know more. Roland, this is my home, my life, everything I have..."

Roland was silent again. After a while, he said, "It's not the right time yet. I'll take you there when I leave."

Jimmy nodded, and suddenly thought of a question: "Wait, I thought of a serious problem, Roland, you said that the door is in the basement of an abandoned house, right?"

Roland nodded and looked at Jimmy in confusion. Jimmy continued, "Is it possible that the place has been occupied or demolished and rebuilt? Will it affect the door?"

Roland frowned, thought for a while and said, "It shouldn't be. It hasn't changed in more than 20 years. At least it was the same when I left."

Jimmy: "Not necessarily. New York has been developing very fast in recent years. Many places in Brooklyn have been demolished and rebuilt into commercial properties, and many places have also been renovated... If there really is a problem, will you not be able to go back?"

Roland's expression was also very solemn. If this door was gone, it would be even more impossible for Jimi to go back with him. He didn't know when he would find the next suitable rift to go back and forth. He didn't want Jimi to have a one-way trip and die of old age in the Dark Tower world. He just hoped that after he went back with him, he would let the mages confirm whether the Black Rainbow could stabilize the magical energy of the world.

Jimmy knew from Roland's expression that he hadn't thought about this problem before. Perhaps it was because he subconsciously thought that the abandoned house would never change again because it hadn't changed in the past few decades. However, in this period of rapid urban development, a place like New York where every inch of land is valuable still has development value even if it has been abandoned for a long time.

　It's scheduled for tomorrow. My fault. I just realized that I didn't update it. By the way, I have to go to the south on a business trip tomorrow. I will try to update it.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)