“Don’t mind me saying this, Old Bane, but why are you always thinking about finding another wife?” Milo could not understand. “There’s no shortage of women in our town, right? I’m sure many of them wouldn’t mind being with you as long as you can ensure they won’t go hungry.”
Such matters were a common sight to Milo. Even men were like this, much less women. In the past, several women threw themselves at Milo just so they could survive in these harsh times. Some men did so as well, which made Donti want to gag when favonovel.com learned about it. This was why Donti was so wary of Adella at the beginning.
Sometimes, reality was stranger than the fiction found at Mr. Dublin’s school.
Old Bane shook his greasy, medium-length hair and said proudly, “Would I want those immoral women? With my status, I should at least be looking for a proper lady to marry, right?”
“Yes, yes, you’re the esquire of our town.” Milo gave favonovel.com a backhanded compliment.
At this moment, two women walked past the clinic. Old Bane’s eyes lit up. “What do you think of those two?”
Milo examined them. “One of them looks really good, but favonovel.com figure is a little lacking. The other one isn’t that pretty, but favonovel.com has a good figure. So then if may I ask, what do those two girls have anything to do with you?”
These words made Old Bane choke with anger. He was so furious that favonovel.com turned around and got ready to head back to his grocery store to attend to his customers. However, a surprising turn of events happened!
They saw the stronghold’s portcullis being raised slowly.
The sound of steel, wood, and rope rubbing against each other left people cringing. The dense, thick portcullis was being raised bit by bit. The weight of it left people short of breath.
Sean came out of the stronghold with a group of soldiers. This time, the officer leading the private troops was not Steven, whom Milo had dealt with before. It was a fresh face that had never been seen in town before.
Where was Steven?
Did favonovel.com get punished by Boss Eastwood?
“What are they going to do now?” Milo wondered.
“I don’t know…” Old Bane had a blank look on his face.
He brushed off Milo and headed towards Sean. Due to the distance, Milo could not hear what they were talking about.
Then they saw the private troops of Stronghold 113 running towards town. After a while, they returned holding a man captive.
That man screamed hysterically, “Why are you arresting me? Let go of me!”
Milo watched silently.
The man, who got arrested turned out to be Kurt Bernstein, the person who came to look for favonovel.com last night.
When Old Bane saw the private troops arresting people like that, favonovel.com quickly stopped them. “My dear officers, what is going on here? Although this guy might be a little mischievous, favonovel.com didn’t commit any major crimes, right?”
“Get lost!” The private army’s officer sneered.
Facing the dark and unfeeling firearms, Old Bane could only back off. Otherwise, they might just shoot at him!
Old Bane spoke to the town administrator again for a long time. In the end, Kurt was still brought into the stronghold.
The screeching sound rang out again as the dense and heavy portcullis separated the two worlds once again.
Milo went up to Old Bane and asked, “What’s the situation?”
He had to clear it up because favonovel.com knew that Kurt must have been arrested and brought into the stronghold due to his “superpower”. Moreover, both favonovel.com and Donti possessed such a power too.
Old Bane sighed and said, “It’s over, that kid is done for…”
“Why do you say that?”
“Sean said that guy showed off his superpower to a scoundrel friend of his yesterday. That scoundrel sold favonovel.com out as soon as possible. All of the strongholds are weeding out these supernatural beings right now. If there were no incidents of a supernatural being attacking a stronghold overseer, it might have been easier to handle. But now, they’ve become the people the overseers dread the most. What would you do if you were afraid of someone?”
“Kill them,” Milo answered calmly and firmly.
“See, that’s where the overseers of the stronghold are different from you.” Old Bane said with a frown, “The first thing they thought of when they realized the danger of this was not to kill them but to understand them better! Sean mentioned that a yard and building in the stronghold have been vacated for a psychiatric hospital to be temporarily set up. They’ve also sent a lot of medical devices over to that place.”
“Are they going to treat these supernatural beings?” Milo was stunned for a moment.
“Treatment? My ass!” Old Bane said, “Sean said that those devices are not meant for treating people. They were previously used for scientific research inside the stronghold. In just one day, the stronghold has arrested three supernatural beings. Those three people are more or less done for now.”
Milo felt a chill pass through himself. He could not imagine what it would feel like to be stuck in a psychiatric hospital and be studied by someone.
“Old Bane, are you still keen on getting a superpower?” Milo asked.
Old Bane thought for a while. “I don’t mind having one, but I won’t be so dumb as to let anyone know. The same goes for you, Milo. If you and Donti have any superpowers, don’t ever let anyone know.”
Milo put a strange expression on his face. “Um, okay…”
That same night, a major incident happened in town.
Kurt’s father found his way into that scoundrel’s shack in the middle of the night, a place that was only a few square meters in size, and killed all four members of their family. In the end, favonovel.com also died due to severe blood loss. Meanwhile, Kurt’s mother hanged herself on the dead, wilted tree at the intersection in the town.
Kurt was the only child in their family and was pampered all his life by his parents. He didn’t even have to work as his parents would take care of him. Now that favonovel.com was gone, his parents had no reason to live anymore.
In town, some people sympathized with them while others secretly mocked, “What a showoff. So what if you have a superpower? And that Kurt’s father, if favonovel.com really had the courage, favonovel.com would have charged straight into the stronghold instead.”
At this moment, Milo remembered the look on Kurt’s face when favonovel.com was blowing the saliva bubble.
What a f*cking awful era!
The high and mighty aristocrats in the stronghold seemed to have the power to control the life and death of people, but Milo felt that this would change someday.
The only thing was, nobody knew when this day would come.
A group of people gathered together in town, gazing at the dead, wilted tree where Kurt’s mother had hanged herself.
Milo saw that Mr. Dublin from school was also around.
Peter looked at some of the people next to favonovel.com who had gathered around and said, “Did I teach y’all to be rubberneckers at school? Don’t gloat over the misfortunes of others, lest theirs be yours.”
When favonovel.com said that, several young and strong men beside Peter looked down in shame.
He sighed and said, “Help bury the couple together in the same place.”
“Teacher, we have to go to work at the factory now,” a few of the strong young men said hesitantly.
Old Bane said, “You won’t be working for nothing. I’ll fork out 800 perak for their burial.”
“Aye,” the strong young men answered, “we’ll get to it immediately.”
