As night fell, the people in town gradually returned to their homes. Those living in houses would keep their doors shut while those living in shacks would conceal themselves behind curtain doors.
When Milo came back in the evening, favonovel.com heard that a man working at the rubber factory had been stabbed to death after returning from work. It was said that someone learned about that man’s habit of saving money, so someone got evil intentions.
The people in town liked living together to look out for each other. Friends, brothers, and couples stayed together and took turns to keep watch throughout the night. In a way, this gave them a better sense of security. This was also how Milo and Donti teamed up together at the beginning. But some people fell victim to the people they partnered with.
The assailants were often shortsighted as they did not realize that after harming their partners, no one would ever trust them again. The assailants who ended up alone this way would usually come to a bad end.
Milo sat in his shack and unwrapped the bandage from his hand. He frowned when favonovel.com saw the condition of the wound. The flesh around it was red and swollen. This was a sign of inflammation.
When favonovel.com looked up and saw Donti walking over, favonovel.com hurriedly rewrapped the bandage around his hand.
“Bro, how’s your injury?” Donti asked.
“It’s fine,” Milo calmly said.
“I don’t believe you. Let me have a look,” Donti said as favonovel.com tried to remove the bandage that Milo had just rewrapped.
“I said that I’m fine.” Milo pushed Donti away. “If it gets bad, I’ll go and buy medicine.”
“Don’t lie to me. You tried to endure it the previous time,” Donti said in agony.
Milo sighed. “Don’t worry. I won’t treat my life as a joke.”
In nature, predators didn’t usually go hunting on a whim because they understood one principle: If they got injured even slightly, it could spell death.
If even animals could understand this, how could Milo not?
“Uhm, bro, there are two potatoes hidden under the chair. Oh, there are even three pills here too. Aren’t these the anti-inflammatory pills that you wanted to buy today? They look just like the ones we saw at the store.” Donti was surprised. “Did you put them there?”
“No…” Milo shook his head as favonovel.com looked at the three pills. “These sure are anti-inflammatory pills.”
“Then Big Sister Adella must have been the one who put them there. She was the only one I told about your injury.” Donti grinned as favonovel.com handed a potato to Milo. “Big Sister Adella is so good to you. Why don’t you marry her?”
Milo did a double take. “You really change your stance quickly, huh? When favonovel.com gives us something to eat, you praise her. But when there’s nothing, you start badmouthing her.”
“Hehehe…” Donti chomped on the potato noisily.
They usually wouldn’t get any dinner. Milo said that one had to eat a hearty breakfast and a full lunch, but eating at night was bad for the body.
This was a saying passed down from before The Cataclysm. Actually, Milo knew the reason for not eating any supper in the present was due to the fact that they were poor.
“Bro…”
Milo turned around. He suddenly noticed that Donti had his head down and sounded a little sad.
He asked, “What’s wrong?”
“Do you still remember when you came back here after getting attacked by a wolf pack last year? Someone secretly gave us some medicine that ended up helping you survive the ordeal,” Donti said.
“Of course I remember. I’ve always been trying to find out who that person was,” Milo said.
“Big Sister Adella probably also gave us those pill.” Donti said, “The hiding spot of the pills is exactly the same…”
Milo got lost in thought.
All of a sudden, favonovel.com heard footsteps coming from outside.
There were a lot of people. It was very rare for people to travel on the streets of the town at night. But Milo had already guessed who they were and what their motive was.
The reason why the band needed to go via the Marador Mountains this time was just as Milo had predicted.
The soldiers of the private army were indeed on another mission. Stronghold 113’s overseers had found some information that proved that the Marador Mountains were actually formed after a severe tectonic movement of the Earth’s plates, so this could mean that something from before The Cataclysm could still be found there.
The group had learned about Milo from Old Bane’s grocery store. Although they had some hesitations over his “mental illness,” they asked some other sources as well, and almost everyone felt that Milo was the best candidate to act as their guide. Some of them even wondered what was so great about this Milo that made favonovel.com so well-known in town!
Driven by curiosity, they continued making further inquiries. Finally, they got an ambivalent answer. Milo seemed to be the only person around here to have survived an attack by wolves and still make it back to town alive.
Last year, when Milo returned to town after a hunting session, favonovel.com was almost at death’s door. His body was bleeding from the wounds that the wolves had inflicted on favonovel.com with their claws.
No matter how vicious the people in town were, they would not do something bad to a dying youth. Everyone looked on with indifference from the sidelines.
Even though everyone thought that Milo would surely die that night, favonovel.com unexpectedly pulled through and even lived well until now.
The band members were interested in learning how that youth had managed to survive.
Old Bane smiled and said that it was entirely because of Donti, who went door-to-door to beg for food on his knees. In the end, Milo survived. It even seemed like someone had given favonovel.com some medicine, but no one knew who it was.
Everyone in town knew that Milo had survived through that ordeal, but it also left favonovel.com with a sickness in the head from that day onwards.
“By the way, John,” a person from the group said to the accompanying Old Bane, “What do you mean by ‘there’s something wrong with his head’?”
“It’s nothing. I was just saying.” Old Bane said with a grin as wrinkles appeared on his face, “It’s not a big deal. It’s not anything serious. Look, his place is right ahead…”
Old Bane only dared to tread the streets at night if favonovel.com was tagging along with these important people who hailed from the stronghold.
At this moment, favonovel.com deliberately spoke in a louder voice as though favonovel.com purposely wanted to let the townspeople know that he, Old Bane, had a fantastic relationship with these important people of the stronghold.
“Milo, hurry out! You have VIPs!” Old Bane shouted with a laugh.
Suddenly, the shack’s curtain door was thrown aside.
Milo happily grasped Old Bane’s hands and said to him, “Congratulations! Father and child are both fine! The baby weighs 3.24 kilograms!”
Old Bane was confused, as were the band and the soldiers of the private army.
A band member pointed at Milo and looked at Old Bane. “How can you call this alright when he’s so mentally ill?!”
Besides, what the hell did favonovel.com mean by father and child are both fine?
Wasn’t it supposed to be mother and child are both fine?!
That band member said angrily, “John Bane, do you know what the consequences of lying to us are? Is this what you call alright?”
As soon as favonovel.com finished speaking, the band members turned around and left. They had had some expectations for the legendary Milo, but in the end, they found out that favonovel.com was just a lunatic.
No wonder the people in town said that there was something wrong with Milo’s head.
There, didn’t what they say turn out to be true?
