When Henry returned to the police station, Pete and three other officers had already arrived.
After exchanging a few pleasantries, Mayor William and the other 6 committee members also arrived.
William praised, "Henry, you look very handsome today. This is what you should look like."
Henry smiled and replied, "Thank you."
"Where's Ronald? It's 9 o'clock and he still hasn't come to the police station?" William continued asking.
Henry immediately answered, "I don't know. I haven't seen him this morning. Pete, what about you all?"
Pete and the others also said they hadn't seen him.
William said, "Pete, go to Ronald's house and check, urge him to hurry up."
Pete nodded and left to carry out the order.
More than ten minutes later, Pete returned to report that he hadn't found Ronald. He had also checked James and the other two's houses, but found no one, and those three men were also nowhere to be found.
William quietly discussed with the 6 committee members and decided to immediately hold Henry's inauguration ceremony. After he took office, he could investigate Ronald's whereabouts himself.
So, under Mayor William's presidency and witnessed by all committee members, Henry began taking the oath.
"As a police officer, my fundamental duty is to serve the citizens. I will ensure my private life remains clean and pure. I will never let personal feelings, prejudices, hatred, or friendship affect my law enforcement. I will never compromise with violence and crime. I will enforce the law civilly, never with any evil thoughts, fear, or favor. I will never abuse force or accept bribes. Before God, I will dedicate everything to the cause I revere."
Finally, Mayor William, representing the town government, announced Henry as the sheriff of the town police station, and pinned the six-pointed star badge on the left chest of Henry's black vest.
Everyone applauded enthusiastically.
William said to Henry, "At 3:30 this afternoon, we'll hold a burial farewell ceremony for the fallen officers at the cemetery. Pastor Philip has already arranged everything."
Henry replied, "Alright, we'll attend on time."
After William quietly instructed him a few more things, he left the police station with the committee members.
Now only Henry and Pete's group of four remained in the police station, plus a female clerk managing files and an officer managing the warehouse - a total of only 7 officers.
There were also some carriage drivers and stable managers.
Henry arranged for Pete to go to Devonshire Manor to understand and report Ronald's situation, then arranged for the female clerk to post a notice recruiting 20 officers.
Then Henry walked into the police chief's office, closed the door, sat in the chair behind the desk, and silently thought: Keep four gray pearls, use all other release pearls to upgrade constitution.
Instantly, Henry was again surrounded by warm breath. A large amount of super vision experience appeared out of nowhere in his mind - he was naturally born to see farther than others, able to clearly see targets 2 miles away horizontally, and his dynamic vision exceeded ordinary people by more than double.
Then came a large amount of reproduction techniques and experience - he naturally exceeded ordinary people by more than double in all aspects.
Then came a large amount of theft, machine gun shooting, detective, court dance polka and waltz, dagger, and swift sword techniques and experience.
After a long while, Henry regained consciousness and found that ten minutes had passed - the physical constitution upgrade had probably added an extra two minutes.
He felt no change in his body shape, but when he clenched his fists hard, the muscles all over his body quickly tensed, containing powerful strength within.
Although there were no professional testing instruments now, he could feel he was at least 50% stronger than when he had just crossed over.
Six new skills appeared on his panel.
[Skills: Theft LV3, Machine Gun Shooting LV3, Detective LV3, Court Dance LV4, Dagger LV3, Swift Sword LV4]
Court Dance was actually LV4!
This meant some handsome youth who dominated noble gatherings had fallen on the desolate western frontier.
The detective experience might well have come from Deputy Police Chief Ronald.
Additionally, Henry had gained two more talents - a full harvest.
Below the progress bar were only four gray pearls.
There were also 175 gray pearl shells, 58 white pearl shells, and 5 green pearl shells.
Since crossing over, Henry finally had a moment to breathe and carefully reviewed all the events of these two days.
Obviously, the bandit gang was specifically targeting Police Chief Bryan Mills and officers loyal to him, with the source being Sean at Devonshire Manor, or even higher levels of the McKinley family.
After all, Sean had also come here for nearly ten years, always living peacefully with the town.
Moreover, Sean and their attacks on Bryan Mills, Henry, and the ranch should all be aimed at weakening Mayor William and the Sinclair family power behind him.
So there must be some new struggle over wealth or power.
It's just that William wasn't clear about it yet, or he wasn't willing to tell Henry.
Among William's three sons, the eldest was developing banking and financial business in New York, the second was in politics in Washington, the youngest was in charge of mining operations in Denver, the eldest daughter and son-in-law were in politics in California, and the youngest daughter and son-in-law were in manufacturing in Chicago.
So conflicts could emerge in any area, leading to this attack.
If expanded to the entire Sinclair family, there would be even more possible events that could trigger this level of conflict.
Henry was now deeply involved and couldn't escape, but how far to go still depended on the situation.
No matter how good his relationship with Mayor William's family, Henry couldn't work for nothing.
But actively eliminating all deadly dangers was necessary.
If Henry hadn't taken the initiative this time and had truly been surrounded by more than 200 cavalry, it would indeed have been very dangerous.
For anyone else, it would have meant certain death.
Henry began thinking about his subsequent actions. After feeling about right, he went to inventory the warehouse.
Everything in this police station had to be under his own control.
Old White, who managed the warehouse, was Mayor William's man. He'd use him temporarily for now, and after he had reliable personnel, he'd find a suitable opportunity to replace him.
After spending nearly half an hour, Henry finished inventorying the warehouse. He didn't find any surprises - only more than a ton of black powder and more than twenty detonators were somewhat interesting.
Henry briefed the duty officer Luke and then walked back to his own house.
As soon as he stepped out of the police station gate, Henry immediately noticed his difference.
His visual range had greatly enhanced, and the appearance and behavior of sixteen people within a hundred meters were clearly reflected in his mind.
It felt like the "mind like a clear mirror," "moon in water," and "blade in well" from martial arts novels he had once read.
Standing on the main road and looking far along the town's main street, Henry could almost see clearly to the end nearly 2 miles away.
This should be due to his new talent.
Another reason might be that his premonition talent had also strengthened after his constitution increased.
Henry felt that his speed of drawing and shooting his Colt revolver had definitely greatly improved - it was absolutely no longer half a blink of an eye.