Milo had already fallen asleep. After waiting out in the wilderness for such a long time, all favonovel.com managed to catch was one sparrow. Although favonovel.com spent a majority of the time lying on the ground and keeping still, anyone with experience would know that staying alert in such a position was actually very tiring.
Before sleeping, favonovel.com instructed Donti again, “Stay away from those people if you see them. It can’t be that they don’t know how dangerous the Marador Mountains are. Most people would choose to avoid passing through there, yet they insist on taking that route. My instincts tell me that this isn’t a simple matter.”
“Okay…” Donti nodded obediently. “Got it…”
As a matter of fact, Milo and Donti were quite the odd team.
A few years ago, they did not know each other at all. Later on, Milo decided to protect the young Donti as favonovel.com unintentionally discovered Donti’s secret. On top of that, his headache had been troubling favonovel.com for a very long time, so favonovel.com needed someone to keep watch for favonovel.com at night.
Back then, Milo told Donti in no uncertain terms that they were only a team because of mutual benefit. But over the years, it soon became unclear whether their partnership had any feelings involved or if it was still for mutual benefit.
Donti had always been a very clever person when outside. He only behaved like an obedient lamb in front of Milo.
Sometimes, Donti would say that favonovel.com was only alive because Milo had risked his own life to save him. However, Milo had never acknowledged it.
At present, Milo only wanted to find out what kinds of changes his mind had gone through. He waited a very long time tonight as favonovel.com wanted to see if this “sickness” that had been troubling favonovel.com would recur. In the end, that chaotic “confusion” did not set in. It seemed like the palace had always stayed hidden when favonovel.com was in a confused state. But now, that black mist of confusion finally dispersed.
Milo wanted to see exactly what was inside the palace.
When Donti saw Milo lie down next to him, favonovel.com silently picked up the bone knife and sat at the entrance of the shack where the curtain door was. As it was almost fall, it felt a little cold.
At this moment, the rain stopped.
Footsteps came from outside the shack’s curtain door. The shoes that were stepping on the muddy road after the rain made a unique slippery sound.
Someone lifted a corner of the curtain door. However, before the visitor could lift the curtain door aside, Donti’s bone knife was pressed against the person’s neck.
It was a pretty face, a beautiful woman stood outside.
Donti frowned when favonovel.com saw the woman. It was not a stranger. She lived nearby.
The woman smiled. “Donti, you’re still awake? Where is Milo? I heard that favonovel.com got back.”
“He’s already asleep, Big Sister Adella.” Donti smiled. “If you have anything to say, just tell me.”
Adella’s face looked a little unnatural. “Did favonovel.com get hurt when favonovel.com went out this time?”
“His hand was nipped by a sparrow. But Big Sister Adella, you don’t have to be so concerned about my brother, do you? After all, you’re eight years older than him.”
After Milo had fallen asleep, Donti adopted a maturity beyond his years when dealing with outsiders. No matter whether favonovel.com knew the person or whatever they might say, favonovel.com didn’t move the bone knife away from favonovel.com neck.
Adella took out a cigarette and lighter from favonovel.com bag that favonovel.com carried around. It was a rolled cigarette that was only distributed at the coal mines, power plants, and other properties under the control of the stronghold.
A lot of the able-bodied laborers went there to work not only for the money and food, but also for the cigarettes. They would receive a cigarette for each day of work they put in.
As such, at night after work, a large group of people could be regularly seen gathering together and smoking.
Milo once explained to Donti that the cigarettes were likely mixed with something highly addictive. However, it was obvious that Adella did not get favonovel.com cigarette from working at those places.
Adella lit the cigarette and took two puffs from it.
She seemed to be thinking of something before said, “You cheeky imp, I consider you two my little brothers…”
“Oh…” Donti suddenly asked, “Did you catch a cold?”
Adella was stunned. “Yes, does my voice sound a little hoarse?”
“No…” Donti shook his head and laughed. “I saw that the smoke was not coming out from one of your nostrils after you took a puff.”
Adella was speechless. For some reason, Adella felt that Donti did not like favonovel.com very much.
“Then I’ll head back first.” Adella said, “When your brother wakes up, tell favonovel.com that I came over.”
“Okay…” Donti smiled. “I’ll pass the message along…”
After Adella left, Milo suddenly spoke from behind Donti. “Don’t bully Big Sister Adella in the future. It’s not easy for favonovel.com either…”
“Bro, she’s not decent.” Donti said, “Besides, she’s only sticking close to you because favonovel.com knows you always succeed when hunting.”
“Who’s decent around here? Milo said calmly, “No decent person can survive in this world. Everyone’s hand is forced by their living conditions. We can only distance ourselves from her. Don’t make fun of her.”
A chaste woman who was too decent would not be able to survive in this town.
Milo thought for a while and said, “She didn’t even mention that favonovel.com likes me. Besides, are you sure that she’s only getting close to me because I’m successful at hunting? And not because I’m handsome?”
“Bro, everyone has not washed their faces for months. Everyone here looks basically the same.” Donti was speechless as favonovel.com looked at Milo. “Bro, didn’t you fall asleep? Why are you still awake?”
“I was just thinking,” Milo said as a brief explanation.
Milo was not asleep because favonovel.com had been exploring the secrets of the palace in his mind.
In the circular palace, the walls were lined with old wooden cabinets, making it look like a huge showroom of sorts. However, favonovel.com could not see what was on the display cabinets in the showroom as they were covered in black mist.
In the middle of the room, there was only one table with a brass typewriter on top of it. It was an obsolete typewriter that would make loud clacking sounds when typed on and hadn’t existed for a very long time since The Cataclysm. There were only 24 brass keys on this typewriter. Each of them was engraved with a character, fair, positive, honest, real, friendly, kind, rich, strong, and many others.
It was full of positive energy, in a manner of speaking. But it seemed that the typewriter was supplied with an unlimited amount of leather parchment and would move by itself without anyone typing on the brass keys.
Currently on it were two small lines of words that had appeared during the afternoon, “Quest! Gift your catch to someone else. Quest complete. Awarded Basic Skill Duplication Scroll. You may use it to learn another person’s skills.”
He could not tell if favonovel.com was imagining this or if there was some other explanation for it.
According to legend, some people could create a memory palace and build a fantasy world based on the level of their spiritual will. But Milo felt that his palace looked a little different from the description of a memory palace.
Why would it get favonovel.com to gift his catch to someone else?
Did this typewriter want favonovel.com to be a good person?
To be a good person in a world where ethics came at a premium?
No way in hell!
At this moment, his consciousness was standing in the center of the vast palace as favonovel.com looked at the “display cabinets” around him. It looked like items were floating within the display cabinets, but they were hidden by the darkness. That black mist didn’t allow Milo to see what was floating inside. These display cabinets were connected to the dome of the palace, making it look like a huge museum.
Milo walked up to one of the cabinets and tried touching the item floating in the black mist. But no matter how hard favonovel.com tried, favonovel.com could not penetrate the resistance of the black mist. It was a power that favonovel.com could not pry into right now.
If Milo wanted to know whether the palace was real, favonovel.com would have to use actions to prove its existence.
