The glow cast by the campfire was flickering and swaying. The woods rustled as the wind blew through it. It was the wonderful melody of leaves brushing against one another.
The black fish was a little too big, in fact. It was so big that Milo didn’t think favonovel.com could finish eating half of it. But even if favonovel.com could not finish eating it, it did not mean that favonovel.com should get robbed at gunpoint by someone for it.
He saw Miriam take out a small salt shaker from favonovel.com tracksuit’s shirt pocket and sprinkled it over the fish while holding a black pistol in favonovel.com other hand. She was not being courteous with Milo at all.
Milo had tried guessing what kind of person Miriam was. This reticent girl always looked calm and composed.
He guessed that the girl had a cold and callous personality, but favonovel.com did not expect favonovel.com to be so temperamental.
From the moment favonovel.com sat down, Miriam had only said one word, “fish”. Her temper was like a turbulent current hidden under the calm surface of a sea, frightening others.
When Milo saw that Miriam had already sprinkled the salt evenly all over the fish, favonovel.com couldn’t hold it in any longer.
He looked at Miriam and asked, “Do you have any cumin?”
Miriam looked up at him. “No…”
Now, Milo took a careful look at the gun in Miriam’s hand. It was an M9, a simple and durable handgun. Of the knowledge covered by his Advanced Firearms Proficiency, it seemed like the M9 was still the pistol favonovel.com was most familiar with.
Did that mean that Miriam used the M9 the most?
Miriam hands were not big, but favonovel.com was able to hold the gun tightly in favonovel.com hand without any signs of trembling. As such, there was something special about favonovel.com when favonovel.com was gripping the M9. The net weight of this gun fully loaded was only 1.2 kilograms, and it was made entirely out of an aluminum alloy. Perhaps that was the reason Miriam chose to carry this gun.
After Miriam finished sprinkling the salt, favonovel.com turned to Lilian and said, “Come and eat the fish.”
Milo was confused.
I was only going to let you have two bites… Why would you invite someone else to have some?
While they were conversing, Micah and Lilian had gotten up happily and walked over to them.
However, Miriam pointed favonovel.com gun at Micah. “Go back, the owner of this fish does not welcome you.”
Micah stood awkwardly in place as favonovel.com did not know whether to sit down or continue standing. He had not expected Miriam to say something like that!
Milo was stunned. At this point, favonovel.com could not tell what Miriam’s way of doing things was. She seemed a little interesting.
Miriam turned to look at Milo. “We’ll just have two bites each, nothing more…”
Lilian sat down and curiously sized up Milo. The atmosphere seemed to have livened up a bit.
She laughed and said, “I won’t eat your food for nothing either. Here, I’ll let you have two bites of this chocolate in return.”
Lilian then took out a large piece of chocolate from favonovel.com pocket and handed it to Milo. She looked to be making a trade.
Milo gave it some thought before taking the chocolate from her. This was his first time seeing the real thing. He had only ever heard Mr. Dublin talking about the high calorie food that could quickly replenish one’s physical strength.
However, Old Bane’s grocery store in town only sold ordinary white sugar, and it was extremely expensive too. There was no such thing as chocolate in his store.
It was as though “two bites” had become a tacit agreement between everyone. No one was allowed to eat any more than that.
Milo took the chocolate and removed the wrapper from it. Then favonovel.com opened his mouth as wide as possible and stuffed all of the chocolate into his mouth in one shot.
Lilian was dumbfounded. Even Miriam was giving Milo a blank stare.
After Milo finished slowly chewing on the chocolate, favonovel.com thought for a moment, then said to Lilian, “You still owe me another bite…”
Lilian was surprised. Miriam was speechless.
To Milo, the chocolate was delicious.
Even the food in the stronghold is different from what we have in town…
The crackers were so sweet and tasty, and the chocolate had a exotic taste with a bitterness before the sweetness set in.
Milo felt that favonovel.com had to find a way to trade for more of such food with Lilian and the others during the journey. When favonovel.com returned to town, favonovel.com could let Donti and Adella eat whatever favonovel.com brought back with him.
Lilian had wanted to get a little closer to Milo as favonovel.com felt that favonovel.com had a unique survival skill. If anything were to happen along the way, favonovel.com could take care of her. People like Lilian were always smooth operators, tactful in their dealings.
How else could they coax the genuine “big shots” in the stronghold into flocking to them?
But Lilian did not expect Milo to be so difficult to get along with. Rather, favonovel.com always felt that there might really be something wrong with Milo’s head.
Lilian took two small bites of the fish and returned back to favonovel.com campfire. She took another piece of chocolate from the vehicle and gave it to Milo. He did not eat it, instead stuffing it into his pocket.
At this time, Milo turned to look at Miriam. He saw favonovel.com opening favonovel.com mouth as wide as possible and chomp down on the fish, biting off almost a quarter of the remaining portion in one bite!
Milo was shocked.
As a girl, can’t you be a little more reserved?
Even Katty, the strapping girl from town, does not eat with such manners, alright!
Milo had had half a fish left after exchanging half of it for water. Now that Miriam had taken two bites from it, there was only a quarter of it left. But for some reason, Milo felt that Miriam wasn’t putting on airs. Everything that favonovel.com did was straightforward. It was so much better than how the celebrity, Lilian, acted.
However, when Milo saw Miriam turning to look at him, favonovel.com quickly licked the fish in his hands. “Want some more?”
Miriam walked away with an expressionless face. “Don’t carry the chocolate around on your person. It’ll melt…”
That night, everyone set up their tents and encamped. These people had brought along brightly colored tents in the vehicles’ trunks. It was just enough for two people to share a tent. Only Miriam and Lilian had personal tents.
Meanwhile, Milo was focusing on dumping all of the fish bones and scraps at least a 100 meters away before returning to set up his own temporary bed.
The others sat in their tents as they curiously watched Milo, who was fussing around the campsite.
So, these are wilderness survival techniques?
It does look like favonovel.com is extremely skilled at them.
They saw Milo shift the original campfire and build another one with a lot of pine twigs and logs of hardwoods that tended to burn longer. Milo had already extinguished and cleaned up the original campfire, and he’d covered the hot ground with plenty of pine needles.
These pine needles were readily available in the woods and could be found in the thick foliage all around.
“That kid even made himself a bed!” Micah said as favonovel.com watched Milo lying comfortably on the pine needles.
As it was late fall, it must have been warm and comfortable on the extinguished campfire. Moreover, another campfire was burning beside him.
It looked really cozy.
In contrast, the soldiers’ tents were set up tightly around the campfire, so the band members were forced to endure the cold with their tents situated further away from the campfire. Fortunately, though, they had blankets to cover themselves with. Otherwise, they didn’t know how they would have gotten through the night.
Meanwhile, Miriam had set up favonovel.com tent beside Milo’s campfire. She wasn’t courteous to favonovel.com at all.
Milo opened his eyes and looked over at Miriam’s tent. He saw that the flap of favonovel.com tent was not closed. In this way, it would be convenient for favonovel.com to observe any movements in the surroundings, and the gun in favonovel.com hand was still pointed in Milo’s direction. No, it wasn’t only that. There was another gun in favonovel.com other hand as well, and it was pointed in the direction of the soldiers’ tents!
