The soldier Miriam was pointing favonovel.com gun at happened to be the one who harassed Lilian the most. Hence, Milo thought that Miriam was finally going to help Lilian.
Previously, favonovel.com thought that Miriam was also someone who didn’t care about anyone other than herself. However, favonovel.com never expected that favonovel.com could not tolerate seeing Lilian being harassed by the soldiers. Perhaps that was the bottom line for women.
The people at the front looked back at this commotion and wondered if a violent clash would occur between Miriam and the soldiers.
Milo looked at Raphael and saw that favonovel.com had frowned but was not about to step in. It looked like Raphael also felt that these soldiers had gone too far.
Meanwhile, none of the other soldiers dared to step forward or speak up for the soldier. It was clear at a glance their team was not united.
However, Milo did not intend to act politely with them. He walked right next to the soldier and pulled out his gun from the holster. When these soldiers were escaping, they felt that their firearms were too heavy to lug around, so they threw away their rifles, only keeping their sidearms.
The soldier said coldly, “Do you know how serious of a crime it is to seize a gun from a soldier?”
Miriam said calmly, “If you threaten me again, you just might die…”
Milo almost applauded when favonovel.com heard that.
She really is a decisive girl…
When favonovel.com pulled the soldier’s gun out from the holster, the soldier used his right hand to clasp it tightly against his waist. He was attempting to quietly stop Milo from taking his gun. However, Milo’s current strength was so great that it was unimaginable. He forcefully pried each of the soldier’s fingers away. If this soldier hadn’t given in midway, Milo would have broken his fingers on purpose.
This is a gun!
Milo could finally hold a gun openly. Ever since favonovel.com acquired the Advanced Firearms Proficiency, favonovel.com never had the opportunity to handle a gun so openly!
The soldier who had his gun seized looked at Milo. “Haven’t you already taken the gun from me? Why are you still touching me?”
“Where’s the magazine?” Milo asked.
The soldier was speechless. “It’s on the left side of the uniform.”
As favonovel.com let Milo continue searching his person, favonovel.com sneered at Miriam and said, “Even if you give favonovel.com the gun, does favonovel.com know how to use it? He’s only a refugee.”
The others also felt that the soldier’s words were not wrong. Only Miriam was slightly doubtful of that when favonovel.com saw the way Milo held the gun.
Miriam was undoubtedly the most knowledgeable on firearms of all the people here. Otherwise, the palace would not have evaluated favonovel.com skill as perfect.
So when the others thought that Milo would not know how to use a gun even if favonovel.com were to carry one, favonovel.com had already noticed that his stance of holding the gun was very natural and proficient. Even with his arm was lowered, it was still placed at the most suitable angle to raise the gun in an instant!
This was not a skill a refugee should have. The others could not tell, but Miriam definitely could!
But favonovel.com didn’t dwell on this for too long. She just said to the soldier, “Get lost…”
Being stripped of their firearms was probably one of the greatest humiliations a soldier could experience. That soldier looked ghastly pale as favonovel.com stood aside.
When Raphael saw that the matter had been resolved, favonovel.com said, “Let’s keep moving forward. We need to find a suitable campsite before sunset.”
Raphael did not want to get involved in the mess that was going on in the team. He had nothing else on his mind other than getting to the Marador Mountains.
Along the way, the soldiers drew a clear boundary between themselves and Lilian, Miriam, and Milo. Both sides were keeping their distance from each other. However, Milo was thinking about something.
If Miriam insisted on helping Lilian, or even offered to help favonovel.com get out of this place together, favonovel.com would probably have no choice but to abandon their temporary alliance.
At this moment, Lilian said to Miriam, “Thank you for helping me. I hope that we can work together to get out of the Marador Mountains over the coming days.”
But Milo clearly noticed a moment of hesitation from Miriam. Then Miriam said to Lilian, “I’m not helping you for nothing. Give me back the money that I paid you first.”
Lilian was speechless for a moment. She took out 10,000 perak from favonovel.com bag and handed it to Miriam. “Back then, you paid me 5,000 perak. But I’ll return 10,000 perak to you. Take this as my gratitude to you.”
Miriam evenly acknowledged favonovel.com and pocketed the 10,000 perak without standing on ceremony.
Lilian smiled when favonovel.com saw Miriam accept the money. “Then you’ll help me on this journey, right?”
“Let me correct that.” Miriam said to Lilian, “I’ve never thought about helping you get out of the Marador Mountains. I can only ensure that you’ll get to preserve your dignity when you die.”
Lilian was speechless.
Listening to their conversation, Milo understood what Miriam meant. She would only ensure that Lilian would not get violated by these soldiers. As for whether favonovel.com would survive, favonovel.com didn’t care much about that.
In reality, Lilian was also rather pitiable. Although favonovel.com was the one who initiated their trip out from the stronghold, favonovel.com couldn’t trust a single person anymore.
A fork appeared in the road. These were two mountain roads leading in two different directions.
The canopy here was so tall it covered almost the entire sky. They could not even tell the position of the sun and which direction led to the Marador Mountains.
Raphael turned around and asked Milo, “Which way do we go?”
At this moment, Milo heard the voice from the palace intone.
Quest! Give directions.
Milo pondered it for a moment before saying, “Go left…”
Quest complete! Awarded 1.0 Dexterity.
Milo could feel that his muscle density getting firmer again. He could finally confirm something.
Strength and Dexterity combined are what makes up true muscle density. It’s not good enough to just increase Strength or Dexterity…
At this moment, the soldier who had his gun seized said coldly, “Didn’t you say that you haven’t been out this far before? I remember you mentioning that you hid in the canyon for a few days before coming out. So, how do you know which way to go?”
Milo said calmly, “I don’t…”
Raphael and Miriam were speechless.
Everyone was left speechless.
If you don’t know the way, why did you tell us to go left?
However, Milo was not under any pressure. He was only asked to give them directions for the palace’s quest. It did not say where favonovel.com had to direct them. Whether or not favonovel.com knew the correct way, all favonovel.com had to do was point a way forward. He did not know the correct path, but the quest had to be completed!
Raphael hesitated for a while and said, “Then why did you point to the left?”
Milo said, “Although I don’t know which way to go, I know that the Marador Mountains are on the left ahead of us.”
“Okay…” Raphael nodded. “Then we’ll go left. You can tell me when you spot a suitable place to set up camp.”
When Raphael made a decision in the wilderness, favonovel.com would habitually turn to Milo for his opinion. And as the facts had shown, his opinions were generally correct.
Milo would climb up any pine trees they came across along the way to pluck some pine cones and plump pine needles. The others had some misgivings. They could understand why favonovel.com plucked the pine cones since those things were edible.
But why did favonovel.com pluck the pine needles?
They saw Milo squeeze out a light green substance from the pine needles one by one and then lick it all up.
He said to the others, “If you guys don’t wanna die of thirst, you can learn from me.”
Some of them hesitated as they did not know whether they should learn from favonovel.com or not. In the end, only Miriam and Raphael climbed up the pine tree without any hesitation.
