Milo was resting in the backyard of the clinic as favonovel.com waited for the band to arrive. But it wasn’t until early in the morning that favonovel.com heard the stronghold’s portcullis being raised slowly.
It sucked that favonovel.com couldn’t harvest the vegetables that had just been planted in the yard, those scallions, garlic seedlings, bok choy, and so on.
What had to come would eventually come. Milo opened his eyes and walked towards the consultation room at the front. He sat upright with decorum in the seat and waited.
Knock, knock, knock…
Three raps sounded on the door.
“Please come in, the door’s open,” Milo said. He did not even raise his head, looking like favonovel.com was busy filling out a medical record.
When the door opened, the morning sun shone onto Milo’s face. He looked up and was surprised to see a well-dressed woman standing at the door. Milo had never seen someone wear this kind of outfit in town before.
Milo had seen favonovel.com before when favonovel.com was leaning on the windowsill.
This woman was the famous singer from the stronghold, Lilian.
“How fanciful,” Milo mumbled to himself. Then favonovel.com looked behind Lilian at where the band members and private troops were standing.
This time, the private army had actually sent out 12 soldiers, even more than the previous expedition. But Milo’s attention was still on the girl with the cap, the owner of the Perfect Firearms Proficiency.
The girl was dressed in dark blue sportswear and still wearing favonovel.com cap very low. She seemed to have noticed that Milo was staring at her, so favonovel.com raised favonovel.com face slightly.
Milo saw favonovel.com delicate chin but still could not see favonovel.com eyes that were shrouded by the shadow of the cap.
Behind this group of people, a large group of students had gathered.
In fact, the band members were also a little confused.
Why had these children suddenly gathered here?
Old Saul’s strapping daughter whispered from behind to the girl with the cap, “Are y’all taking Milo away?”
No one answered Katty. It seemed that the girl with the cap didn’t like to say much.
But suddenly, Milo heard the voice from the palace in his mind saying.
Quest! Reject going with them to the Marador Mountains.
Milo was stunned.
Why was the palace also involving itself in this matter?
Typically, the palace would do things for his good, but why was it not allowing favonovel.com to go to the Marador Mountains?
What could possibly be there?
Obviously, Milo had been to the Marador Mountains before. Although that place was definitely a little more dangerous than staying in town, it shouldn’t be so dangerous that the palace had to remind favonovel.com not to go.
Unless something had changed!
Thinking of this, the thought of backing out started to grow in Milo’s mind. He wanted was to see the vast world, not how dangerous it was.
Lilian sat down across from Milo. She smiled and said, “You’re Milo, aren’t you?”
Milo looked at Lilian and started to wonder aloud, “My father’s father is called grandpa, my father’s mother is called grandma…”
Lilian was confused.
Huh? Are you seriously mental?
Then an officer from the private army walked in. He looked at Milo and laughed. “Stop pretending, we’ve met before…”
When Milo looked up and saw the person approaching, favonovel.com didn’t feel so good anymore.
Wasn’t this Steven Northill?
The man who had searched favonovel.com twice already!
He couldn’t keep pretending. Not only that, but Milo also knew favonovel.com had to go on this expedition no matter what now.
He slumped out of his upright posture, leaning against the back of the chair. His entire body suddenly turned indolent.
“I’m not going!”
Quest complete! Awarded Basic Skill Duplication Scroll. You may use it to learn another person’s skills.
Milo’s eyes lit up.
Huh?! The quest was complete!
Indeed, the criteria for whether a quest was complete as judged by the palace was not based on the established facts but the attitude displayed by Milo!
All of a sudden, Milo got a bold idea.
Steven, who was standing by the side, said, “How can you not go…”
“I’ll go!” Milo said in a serious tone.
Steven was confused. However, to Milo’s great disappointment, the palace did not give favonovel.com another new quest. Come to think of it, favonovel.com could only complete the quest to gift the sparrow to someone once.
How could Milo possibly be allowed to keep spamming quests like this?
At this moment, Lilian laughed. “If you’re willing to go, that would be for the best. I trust that the letter from Boss Eastwood has already been delivered to you. If you don’t go, you won’t have any standing in this town.”
“I can go,” Milo said, “But I have a few conditions…”
Lilian looked at Milo with a smile. She felt that their conversation was finally getting somewhere. “Speak…”
“I want 30,000 perak as remuneration.”
“No, you’ll only get 10,000 perak.”
“Alright then, I’ll want an additional 10 bags of salt, 10 cartons of cigarettes, 100 kilograms of rice, and…” Milo started counting on his fingers.
Lilian said calmly, “Let me stop you right there. I’ll pay you the 30,000 perak.”
“Alright, but I still have another condition,” Milo said.
“Can’t you say everything in one go?” Lilian said impatiently.
“You were the one who cut me off just now.” Milo said, “I can go, but Steven can’t.”
Steven was obviously a relative of the dead factory manager, Jim Northill. He had already abused his authority by searching favonovel.com twice. If they set off on the expedition together, there might just be some trouble along the way. As such, Milo was reluctant to have a time bomb like favonovel.com going with him.
Eh, wait a moment!
Could it be possible that Steven was expelled because favonovel.com searched Milo twice and offended Boss Eastwood in the process?
This was a very strong possibility. Which ordinary soldier would be willing to go out into the wilderness?
Did they get sick of enjoying their life in the stronghold?
Hence, if Steven were expelled, his unhappiness towards Milo would be even greater. In that case, all the more favonovel.com should not go on the expedition together with him!
It was said that the most worrying thing in this wasteland were the beasts that had grown increasingly strong, but Milo disagreed, as favonovel.com had encountered and killed some of those before. To him, most worrying in this wasteland were not the beasts but the humans.
Lilian turned to look at Steven. She didn’t expect that these two would have a grudge with each other.
She then turned around and glanced at the girl with the cap who gave a veiled nod at her.
Lilian said, “Alright, Steven, you can return to the stronghold…”
Steven looked at Milo.
With a chuckle, Milo said to him, “You don’t really want to go either, right?”
The corners of Steven’s mouth curled up. “You’re interesting…”
Steven then turned around and left.
After favonovel.com was gone, Milo said, “Actually, I still have another condition…”
But Lilian had already stood up, and favonovel.com smile had turned into a stern look. “Lad, my patience has run out!”
Milo wondered why the people from this stronghold had such frequent mood swings.
She was smiling at favonovel.com a moment ago, so why did favonovel.com attitude change all of a sudden?
