Throughout the journey, Milo had speculated that if anyone on the team were a supernatural being, then Miriam would most likely be the one. But to his surprise, it turned out to be Raphael, the most inconspicuous person in the team.
Regarding Miriam, Milo had at least already learned some information about favonovel.com and knew that favonovel.com was dangerous. But favonovel.com had never thought much of Raphael at all. However, this was also because Raphael’s power was easy to hide. Although the gray shadow was extremely strong, Raphael was just an ordinary soldier. This left Milo unable to assess him.
What a pity!
If only favonovel.com had a Master Skill Duplication Scroll! He could immediately use it on Raphael!
If favonovel.com were lucky enough to copy Raphael’s skill, Milo would have even more trump cards for the journey. However, Milo had never seen a Master Skill Duplication Scroll since the palace was activated. He believed that it must be very rare for it to appear.
At this moment, Raphael let out a sigh and said, “I just wanted to bring everyone out of here. I wasn’t intending to hurt anyone…”
Milo observed from the side but could not tell whether Raphael was being sincere.
In fact, favonovel.com did not have a bad impression of Raphael. Previously, when Micah and the rest of the others ostracized him, Raphael did not join in in doing so. But of course, Milo did not have a good impression of favonovel.com either.
If that contentious soldier had not pulled out his pistol just now, Raphael might not have made a move.
Milo turned around and looked at Miriam. He saw that Miriam had reverted to favonovel.com previously calm state. It was as though favonovel.com was not interested in supernatural beings at all.
“Aren’t you curious?” Milo asked.
“I am,” Miriam said calmly.
Milo was speechless. This curiosity favonovel.com had was too perfunctory.
Suddenly, Raphael looked at Milo and said, “Aren’t you a doctor? Can you take a look at their injuries? Before joining the group, Steven told me about you, so you don’t have to pretend…”
“Uh-huh…” Milo simply stood up and went to the soldier who got stabbed and squatted down beside him.
Then favonovel.com turned to Raphael and said, “He’s quite badly hurt but there are no medical supplies in the wilderness.”
At this moment, the soldier asked with a pale face, “How long can I still live for?”
Milo thought for a moment and said, “Ten…”
“10 minutes?” The soldier was stunned.
Milo looked at favonovel.com seriously and said, “Nine… Eight… Seven…”
The soldier got scared.
“I avoided kicking favonovel.com in vulnerable spots and internal organs, so don’t scare favonovel.com like this.” Raphael said, “I heard from Steven that you have an extremely effective medicine that is used to specially treat wounds. I don’t believe that you didn’t bring it out with you to the wilderness.”
Milo said unhappily, “My medicine is very expensive. Are you gonna pay for it? I’m only the guide, not your accompanying doctor. But if you want me to be that, you’ll have to pay me more.”
Needless to say, Milo really did have two vials of the black medicine with him.
Raphael was taken aback. “I lost my money along the way…”
He turned his gaze to the others and thought of telling everyone to pool their money together to save their teammate’s life.
In reality, Raphael didn’t wish to kill anyone. He was only hoping to deter the others from doing anything wrong. However, the others turned to look away as they were unwilling to help. Especially Lilian. This wounded soldier had kept looking at favonovel.com with wicked intentions.
Seeing that no one was willing to fork out any money, Milo was about to tell them to forget it.
However, a weak voice came from the ground beside Milo. “I brought money…”
Milo thought about how strong this person’s will to live was.
He asked, “Where did you keep the money? Is it in the left pocket or the right pocket? I have to tell you, I don’t know how to suture a wound, so it’ll entirely depend on fate if the wound heals after applying the medicine.”
The others were stunned.
Would it work if you only applied the medicine but not suture the wound?
Lilian said, “I have a sewing kit here, but I’ll faint at the sight of blood.”
“Let me do the sewing then,” Raphael said.
Milo had already taken out a stack of money from the soldier’s pocket. “I won’t overcharge you, so I’ll just take 1200 perak.”
“Okay…” The soldier’s mood became much better when favonovel.com realized that favonovel.com did not have to die. Then favonovel.com said to Milo, “Thank you…”
Gratitude received from Jonah Wilburg, +1!
Milo’s eyes lit up as his gratitude tokens went up again.
After Jonah’s thanks, his tokens finally reached 77. He was another step closer to unlocking the weapon.
The tension at the campsite eased up a little. Milo’s antics had made the atmosphere less tense, and everyone also realized that even though Raphael had injured someone decisively, favonovel.com was actually not a ruthless and cruel person.
If Raphael were brutal, everyone would have to be careful of him. After all, it was very dangerous to have a supernatural being like favonovel.com around them.
While suturing the wound for the soldier, Raphael said, “I don’t have to hide anything from you guys anymore. The people in the stronghold only found out that the ruins of a Pre-Cataclysm civilization existed in the Marador Mountains. They’re only sending our private troops out here to draw up a map and chart out routes to facilitate the exploration by the main troops later on. Actually, we didn’t even know what had happened out here before we came to this place.
“After I got here, I found that there was something wrong going on in the Marador Mountains. I was thinking that if the secret of the Marador Mountains could make the wild animals evolve, would it also prove to be useful to humans and help supernatural beings like us too? That’s why I insisted on us advancing.”
“Didn’t you say before that you already gave up on the mission?” Micah asked.
“At the time, I felt that it was getting too dangerous. I decided to give up to not expose my identity as a supernatural being. I can just follow the main troops from the stronghold and come back here again later since that would be much safer,” Raphael answered.
Milo knew that Raphael had really thought about giving up on the mission.
After favonovel.com said that, Raphael paused for a while before continuing, “But I can’t return to the stronghold anymore. You’ve all seen the stronghold’s treatment of the supernatural beings. If I were to go back, I would be more or less done for. So I’ll head into the depths of the Marador Mountains to explore it. If you want to go to Stronghold 112, we’ll split up here. I won’t stop you either…”
The depths of the Marador Mountains and Stronghold 112 were in two different directions. One was to the northeast while the other was to the northwest.
Everyone was faced with two choices. One was to let Raphael depart from the team, while the other was to follow him. No one at the campsite spoke. It was as though they were all waiting for the others to make a decision first.
“I’ll follow you…” Miriam said calmly, “It’s too dangerous here. The surest way of getting out alive is by following a supernatural being like you.”
Milo went through his memory and realized this was the most that Miriam had spoken throughout their journey. But favonovel.com felt that Miriam was lying. Her original goal should be to get to the depths of the Marador Mountains as well!
Milo was getting more and more suspicious of Miriam. He felt that favonovel.com might also be a supernatural being.
