The band was back?
Milo was a little puzzled by this. It would have taken them at least two months to go back and forth from Stronghold 112 and here.
Calculating the time, it was probably only a week since the band left.
So… They couldn’t have reached Stronghold 112 at all…
In fact, they wouldn’t even have reached the foot of the Marador Mountains.
In theory, there shouldn’t be any danger along the way other than the wolves. But the appearance of the wolves here in town was staggered with the band’s timing. If the band had actually encountered the wolf pack, they probably wouldn’t have made it back alive. After all, the wolves were no longer afraid of gunshots!
When favonovel.com remembered the wolves, Milo got a little worried.
When the subject of the wolves was brought up during a conversation with Old Bane yesterday, favonovel.com revealed that favonovel.com learned some news from one of the town administrators, Sean Mills.
He said that the wolves had suffered heavy casualties after ambushing the private troops, and the entire wolf pack had retreated in the direction of Stronghold 111 to hide in Mount Yang. They presumed that the wolves would not dare to come back here again. However, Milo did not think so.
The wolves had also gone away once before, but didn’t they still come back?
And they were even more ferocious than ever!
What had caused these wolves to evolve again?
Milo was watching the commotion through the clinic’s window. He saw the refugees in town coming out of their shacks as they watched silently. They were very curious about the band initially, but when they realized that something might have happened to them, they became even more curious.
When the band departed from here, they had with them four off-road vehicles. However, only one of those was left, and it was even moving slowly.
The stronghold’s celebrity, Lilian Swan, and three private soldiers sat in it while others followed behind on foot. Their outfits were all torn to pieces.
Donti wondered, “When they left, they were all prim and proper. Now that they’re back, why have they become like us?”
Although their current lives had improved, there was still a lack of water. The refugees were always treated equally when it came to the allocation of any water. The stronghold was very strict about this administration. So, if there was any excess water at home, Milo and Donti would automatically let Adella use it to wash up. Meanwhile, they would brush their teeth with a little bit of the water.
What it really meant to brush teeth was to dip a willow twig into some coarse salt and scrape their teeth with it. After brushing for some time, they would then gargle water in their mouths to rinse.
When the dirty-looking Milo and Donti saw that the people in the band had also become like them, they felt a little happy on the inside.
The cap-wearing girl with Perfect Firearms Proficiency was also walking behind the off-road vehicle with holes all over favonovel.com clothes. But when Milo examined her, favonovel.com realized that although favonovel.com looked pathetic just like everyone else in the band, favonovel.com steps were still light and steady.
From this observation alone, the cap-wearing girl was much stronger than the accompanying private troops. Of course, this was also what Milo had expected.
After all, how could someone with Perfect Firearms Proficiency be outshone by those private troops?
Lilian, who was in the off-road vehicle, ordered, “Run along and report to the stronghold that we’re going in. Don’t let these refugees look at us like we’re monkeys!”
When the private troops received this order, they pointed the black muzzles of their automatic rifles at the refugees.
One of them said ruthlessly, “Return to your respective pigsties.”
When the refugees saw the private troops getting ready to take action after being annoyed, the refugees hid back into their shacks.
“Another thing!” Lilian said coldly, “Go and find that Old Bane!”
The clamor of voices in town died away. Everyone only dared to talk in whispers within their own shacks. If they felt that chatting among the family was not enough, they could also chat with their next-door neighbors through the curtain doors. Those were not soundproof anyway.
Milo and Donti were leaning on the windowsill as they looked outside. They saw that the band was divided into two groups. One group went to process the clearance for entry into the stronghold while another headed straight for Old Bane’s grocery store.
“Bro, why are they looking for Old Bane?” Donti asked.
“They could be looking to settle the score with him. He was the one who recommended the guide, after all. That hunter who went as their guide didn’t come back with them, so who knows whether favonovel.com was the one who led them into trouble and made them have to come back earlier in such a pathetic state.” Milo gave a rough assessment of the situation.
Milo smacked his lips sympathetically.
When the guide was leaving town, favonovel.com had given Milo a pompous look. But who could have known it would turn out to be farewell for him.
Milo saw the group of people knocking on the door at Old Bane’s grocery store.
Old Bane leisurely opened it from the inside and seemed to be quite calm.
Milo had been a little worried about Old Bane. However, when favonovel.com saw favonovel.com looking so calm, favonovel.com thought that maybe there wasn’t a need to worry for him.
The people in the off-road vehicle got out as well.
Lilian was dressed in white casual wear, or rather, it had been white at first.
She stared at Old Bane and questioned, “What kind of guide did you recommend to us?”
Old Bane asked, “What’s the matter?”
He was truly a little curious. Since that person was supposedly an experienced hunter, it was unlikely that favonovel.com would make any rookie mistakes.
So why were these people so angry?
“You dare to ask what’s the matter?” Lilian said coldly, “Before we could even get near the Marador Mountains, favonovel.com had taken us in the wrong direction. We couldn’t figure out our exact location even after trying for three days.”
A lot of people knew that it was possible to drive to the Marador Mountains because there was a gravel road in the canyon where there likely had been a riverbed. But for some reason, that river had dried up.
Of course, ordinary cars couldn’t go on this road. But it wasn’t difficult at all for off-road vehicles. This showed that the guide was not even able to lead the band to that road.
“So, where is favonovel.com now?” Old Bane asked startled.
“He died before favonovel.com could find the way.” A private soldier said coldly, “As a hunter from around here, favonovel.com didn’t even know that there was danger in the waters. When favonovel.com went to wash up at the riverbank in the morning, his face got bitten to a bloody pulp by something. When we found him, favonovel.com was already dead! What’s more, there were so many cruel monkeys on the route that favonovel.com took us by. We almost didn’t make it back alive!”
Hearing this, Milo was taken aback.
No, there is something very wrong here…
He had never heard of any fish in the nearby rivers that bit people.
Was it really a fish?
Old Bane leaned against the doorframe of the grocery store and said, “Oh, so that’s what happened eh? But I probably won’t have time to find you a new guide. I have to get something done for Boss Eastwood.”
In reality, Boss Eastwood hadn’t arranged any tasks for him. He was just trying to let them know that favonovel.com was in the care of Boss Eastwood!
The private troops started frowning, and even Lilian was shocked to hear that. They didn’t expect the man they wanted to teach a lesson to be backed by Daniel Eastwood.
Relaxed, Old Bane said, “I told you a long time ago that if you’re looking to get there, you have to find Milo…”
“That guy who’s sick in the head?” A private soldier frowned deeply. “That kid who fantasized about being a doctor?”
Old Bane suddenly felt a little awkward.
He pointed at the window of the clinic across the way. “Perhaps, none of you expected it, but favonovel.com has really become a doctor…”
Lilian and the private troops were surprised.
Everyone looked in the direction Old Bane was pointing. They saw two dirty-looking faces leaning on the windowsill of the clinic curiously looking back at them.
Honestly, Old Bane was also feeling a little emotional at this moment as favonovel.com thought.
That’s right, just how did this kid suddenly end up becoming a doctor?
