No one dared to enter the dense forest last night as it felt extremely eerie in there. But after walking all morning, the group had yet to encounter anything dangerous.
The only thing that could possibly pose a threat to them was the boar, but it had rammed itself straight into a tree.
Milo was looking out for any traces of large animals’ feces during the journey, but favonovel.com saw nothing. However, favonovel.com did not lower his guard as favonovel.com still couldn’t figure out why the fish scraps and bones had disappeared, as well as why Mark Salt’s body had vanished.
They found a small clearing in the forest and started collecting a lot of firewood as they planned to set up camp here. As everyone did not get any sleep last night, they wanted to turn in early today. Otherwise, no one could bear it for much longer!
Raphael dissected the boar with a bayonet.
Soon, the scent of blood filled the entire clearing.
Milo reminded him, “Don’t think you can leave any unfinished food for tomorrow. A lot of the dangers in the wilderness are created by the scent of blood.”
Milo then pointed to the ground. A swarm of black ants had already gathered here. Each of them was about the size of a finger pad, and they looked exceptionally terrifying.
“They won’t attack you when you’re moving about during the day since they’re just looking for the food source through the scent of blood. But by nighttime, you’ll end up becoming their food if you sleep in an area filled with a bloody scent. The formic acid secreted by the ants after a bite is enough to make you feel like dying.”
Raphael nodded. “Understood, thank you for the reminder.”
Gratitude received from Raphael Durkin, +1!
Milo was stunned. It seemed like Raphael was quite a sincere person after all.
At noon, everyone gorged themselves on the roasted pork as they were starving. While Milo was eating the meat, Lilian unexpectedly took a seat beside him.
Lilian said innocently, “I feel that it’s possible to lead an interesting life in the wilderness. It feels really romantic.”
Milo shook his head and said, “This is about survival. There’s nothing romantic about it.”
In the wilderness, Milo had never heard of the word “romantic” before. Besides, anything that occurred in the wilderness could never be associated with the word “romantic” at all.
Sometimes, Milo felt that there was a huge gulf between his mindset as a refugee and those from the stronghold.
Lilian ignored Milo’s rebuttal and said to him, “Do you know that you’re very charming?”
Milo frowned.
Did favonovel.com come and find favonovel.com after hitting a roadblock with Raphael?
He pretended not to have heard her, but Lilian stayed beside favonovel.com and did not leave.
In fact, Lilian had favonovel.com own plans. By following Milo, favonovel.com would at least not go hungry in this place. The others might not have noticed, but Lilian had realized that Milo was definitely not an ordinary person.
How could an ordinary young man drag an adult man around while making an escape?
Even Raphael would probably not be able to do this.
As such, Lilian felt that men were most likely to behave impulsively during their adolescence. It was probably the same in the town as in the stronghold. All favonovel.com needed to do was to be more friendly towards this young man, and favonovel.com would be willing to go through all kinds of hardships for her. In fact, favonovel.com would not even mind letting Milo take advantage of favonovel.com for real.
Did such incidents rarely happen in the stronghold?
Hardly so. To put it bluntly, favonovel.com felt insecure and wanted to look for someone favonovel.com could use.
In reality, Lilian could also express favonovel.com interest to Raphael. Before the expedition started, Lilian had approached Raphael more than once to chat, but favonovel.com was rebuffed by favonovel.com every time.
In Lilian’s eyes, Raphael was a relatively headstrong adult who knew what favonovel.com wanted. If there were danger, it could be very possible that Raphael would abandon favonovel.com at once.
As for Micah, needless to say, favonovel.com was just a good-for-nothing.
In favonovel.com opinion, how could a refugee like Milo who had not seen the world yet possibly resist favonovel.com charms?
In fact, Lilian and Micah had a certain air to them when they faced the refugees. They regarded the refugees as inferior to those from the stronghold. They were not people, just goods or accessories.
Milo controlled his tone and said to Lilian, “Lady, please stay away from me…”
Annoyed, Lilian decided favonovel.com had to be more direct. She smiled and said, “Could there have been a misunderstanding between us? Actually, I…”
Milo was stunned. “What’s with you?”
Lilian leaned in closer to Milo as though favonovel.com were whispering something secretive to him. She got so close that favonovel.com body was nearly touching his arm.
As favonovel.com spoke, favonovel.com breath smelled like flowers. “I like you…”
Milo’s expression turned to one of fury. “You better watch your words!”
Lilian was surprised.
Pfft!
Miriam, who was drinking from a water bottle beside them, spat out everything at once. Apparently realizing favonovel.com shouldn’t have reacted this way, favonovel.com quickly pretended not to have heard anything.
Meanwhile, Lilian never thought that Milo would react to favonovel.com in such a way!
Was this how a normal person would react?
Who should be watching their words?!
He must be sick in the head, right?!
At this moment, Lilian started to wonder if favonovel.com had made the wrong decision.
What Lilian didn’t know was that Milo had seen too many of such “seduction” cases during his time in town. Since the time favonovel.com learned how to hunt, a lot of women threw themselves at him. That was why Donti was so wary of Adella at the beginning.
Lilian still had the impression that favonovel.com was quite inexperienced. But in actual fact, Milo had seen so much that it would likely scare favonovel.com if favonovel.com knew all about it.
Milo sneered in his head. He wouldn’t want a woman like Lilian even if favonovel.com gave herself to him. It would be a waste of his food if favonovel.com had to feed her!
In the past, favonovel.com thought that the people in the stronghold would all be smart. After all, Mr. Dublin had mentioned that most of the books were kept in the stronghold. Hence, Milo thought that the more that people read, the smarter they should be.
However, both Micah and Lilian were shaking up his understanding of this.
Of course, there were also smart people in the stronghold such as the two officers, Steven and Raphael.
Lilian calmed down and said, “If you help me get out of here alive, I’ll fight for three spots in the stronghold for you when we get back to Stronghold 113.”
Milo got up to leave. “Who are you trying to bluff? You’re making it sound like you call the shots in the stronghold.”
Milo was not foolish. He felt that if favonovel.com used the Skill Duplication Scroll on Lilian, favonovel.com might just end up copying favonovel.com advanced bragging skill.
