Speaking of survival instincts, Raphael and Miriam were the two least pretentious people in the team other than Milo.
When Milo said that the substance extracted from the pine needles was drinkable, the two of them did not hesitate and climbed up the tree to search for suitable pine needles to extract. They even plucked a whole lot of pine cones as well.
In fact, only someone like Milo who had been surviving out in the wilderness would know that nature was generous. It doesn’t care who gains from it. So long as you put in the effort, you can depend on nature to survive.
Someone lamented, “It’s better off being an animal if I have to do this. How I wish that I can be reborn as an animal in my next life.”
Milo glanced at him. “Animals do not lead as carefree a life as you think. I’ve heard that giraffes, which are the tallest land animals around, can defend against their predators due to them being bigger in size. However, its mating process can get very complicated. That’s why the male giraffe needs to drink the urine of the female to determine whether she’s in heat before favonovel.com starts courting her. If it doesn’t turn out as favonovel.com expects, the male giraffe will have drunk the urine for nothing….”
The rest of the team suspected that Milo was deliberately trying to gross them out.
This refugee kid was definitely trying to gross them out!
At this moment, Milo’s confidence was boosted since favonovel.com possessed a gun now. There were only 11 people and 7 guns within the entire group, with 3 of the guns already in the hands of Milo and Miriam. Moreover, Milo and Miriam had the advanced firearms skill and perfect firearms skill respectively. Unless they clashed head-on with Raphael, their simple alliance would definitely ensure them a complete victory over whoever they came up against.
While waiting for everyone to pluck the pine needles and pine cones, Milo had nothing much to do. He then remembered his still unused Skill Duplication Scroll.
He glanced at Miriam and said decisively in his mind, “Use the Skill Duplication Scroll.”
Randomly copied target’s advanced skill: Bomb making.
Milo was stunned. He immediately learned the skill but was a little puzzled.
What kind of training did Miriam receive in the past?
Why are all favonovel.com skills so violent?
Besides, the combination of favonovel.com firearms, bomb making, and jumping rope skills were so mismatched.
Were these skills really from the same person?
Milo got curious. He asked in his mind, “Does the target have an assassination skill?”
This information can be revealed if it’s for a former target you’ve attempted to learn from.
She has an advanced assassination skill.
Milo suddenly thought of something and asked, “Does the target have Nursery Rhymes Singing?”
This information can be revealed if it’s for a former target you’ve attempted to learn from.
She has Advanced Nursery Rhymes Singing.
Milo was left speechless.
Ha! What a bunch of messed up skills…
He felt like favonovel.com must have been really crazy to ask those questions, but favonovel.com never expected favonovel.com to really have those skills, and they were even advanced skills too.
By this time, the whole lot of them had finally finished plucking pine cones and pine needles.
Milo sighed and said, “Can’t y’all pluck them from different trees? By taking everything from the same tree, it’s nearly been stripped bare by y’all!”
When everyone heard this, they looked up. Sure enough, the tree was nearly stripped bare.
Milo thought for a while and said, “Shouldn’t y’all be thanking me for teaching you how to survive in the wilderness?”
The others were taken aback. Then several people thanked Milo. However, Milo discovered that only Raphael and Miriam were sincere in thanking him.
With his gratitude tokens at 86, Milo became even more eager to unlock the weapon. So favonovel.com shifted his attention to the others around him.
All of a sudden, Milo realized that Lilian’s hands were still empty. Even Micah was holding several pine cones.
When Lilian realized that Milo was staring at her, favonovel.com said in embarrassment, “I can’t climb up….”
Since when had Lilian, a celebrity from the stronghold, ever climbed a tall tree like that?
Hence, favonovel.com was the only one who was empty-handed.
When does someone feel the loneliest?
When everyone has something, but not you. For example, everyone has money, but not you. For example, everyone has pine cones, but not Lilian.
Lilian hesitated for a bit before saying to Milo, “I’ll pay you 10,000 perak, so can you help me pluck some?”
Milo’s eyes lit up. He immediately stuffed all of the pine cones and pine needles that favonovel.com had wrapped in his clothes into Lilian’s arms. “You’re my bro from now on!”
Lilian was surprised. “Thank you!”
Gratitude received from Lilian Swan, +1!
Milo had not sold his water earlier because bottled water was too precious. It was clean and convenient to carry around. But the pine cones and pine needles were different as they were readily available. Furthermore, Lilian offered a lot of money!
What could favonovel.com do with 10,000 perak?
He could use it to live the good life in town for up to two years. There wouldn’t be a need to worry about food and clothing!
Lilian took the pine cones and pine needles from him. However, favonovel.com realized that Milo did not go and pluck any more.
She asked curiously, “Aren’t you going to pluck some more pine cones? What are you going to eat at night?”
Milo smiled and said, “I’ll eat the chocolate…”
Lilian was speechless.
Milo still had the chocolate with favonovel.com that favonovel.com had traded with Lilian for. It happened that the chocolate had melted a little while favonovel.com was carrying it on his person for the past few days. Although it was late fall, his body still transmitted heat through his pockets.
At the beginning, favonovel.com did not believe Miriam when favonovel.com said the chocolate would melt. After all, favonovel.com had never eaten chocolate before. He had planned on bringing it back for Donti to try, but it seemed that favonovel.com could not bring it back.
In an instant, Lilian’s gratitude vanished. That chocolate was the one favonovel.com had scammed from her!
***
Before evening fell, Milo found a huge hollow that was suitable for setting up camp. A rock protruded out of a cliff, creating a huge overhang that formed a natural, semi-open shelter like a cave.
He noticed some cirrocumulus clouds in the sky when favonovel.com passed through a clearing. Although favonovel.com did not understand the principle behind it, favonovel.com knew it was a sign of rain.
Now they could rest better as they found a cliff face that would shelter them from the wind and rain.
While they settled down beneath this rocky overhang, the rain began to pour.
Raphael turned to Milo and asked, “Can we drink the rainwater?”
“No.” Milo shook his head. “Even though it’s not so acidic anymore, you can still die from drinking acid rain.”
Milo was still unsure of how acid rain formed and what criteria classified it as acid rain, so favonovel.com could only use “acidity” to roughly describe the hazard level of acid rain.
Suddenly, some strange sounds came from the forest outside the hollow. But it traveled far away in an instant, not giving Milo and company time to react.
Right at this moment, the person deepest in the hollow said, “Look, someone etched some words over here.”
Milo and Raphael went to the wall and were surprised to see two lines of crooked writing etched by someone at the top of the hollow, “We saw some strange shadows moving in the forest. They’ve disappeared, all of them have disappeared.”
