“All the cigarettes supplied to the private army were delivered from other locations by the Panaqua Consortium. You’ve seen the fleet of trucks before, right? The supplies they delivered were none other than cigarettes.” Lilian said, “Actually, the same thing’s happening in the other strongholds. Although the various strongholds’ overseers know they’re puppets, there are always a few who try to break free of their strings.”
Milo nodded. It looked like favonovel.com could not measure the consortium’s power based on the private army’s strength. He had learned enough from Lilian for the day and had to digest all of this information.
“I’ll ask one final question…” Milo asked, “Why did you choose a person like Micah as your manager?”
Lilian was not exactly stupid either, so why did favonovel.com choose Micah?
Lilian explained, “He’s the younger brother of a unit chief in the stronghold’s Logistics Division.”
Milo could more or less understand some of the reasons behind this, but favonovel.com didn’t exactly know what kind of authority a unit chief in the Logistics Division had.
Lilian felt favonovel.com relationship with Miriam and Milo had become a little closer. She hesitated for a moment before saying, “Can you help me make it out of this place alive? I have nothing left out here in the wilderness and can only depend on the two of you.”
Milo shook his head and said, “It’s not like you have nothing left.”
Lilian was taken aback. “What do you mean?”
“You still have the cheek to ask me to get you out of here alive.” Having said that, Milo ignored Lilian.
Lilian was left confused by Milo on this dark and rainy night.
She still had something left?
She still had the cheek to ask favonovel.com for something?
What fucking language proficiency is this? Are we even speaking the same language?
It was at this time that Lilian realized that favonovel.com “close relationship” was only an illusion. In reality, Milo found Lilian to be quite pitiable. She was all alone in the wilderness with no one to trust and had no one who was willing to help her. She was even surrounded by these ruffian soldiers who kept trying to take advantage of her.
But who wasn’t pitiable?
Donti, who was suffering in town from the pain brought on by the side effects of his wish, wasn’t favonovel.com pitiable?
If Milo promised to help get someone out of this place, that would be irresponsible towards Donti. As long as Milo relied on his luck, Donti was bound to suffer even more from the side effects.
Although Donti would usually only get a headache or fever after making a wish, the problem was that if Milo used his luck to avoid death, Donti would not only be suffering simple side effects like a headache or fever! This was a power governed by the law of conservation. If one party got luckier, the other would become unluckier.
The moment Donti made a wish for Milo, favonovel.com had placed his life in Milo’s hands. Therefore, for Donti’s sake, Milo could not promise anyone that favonovel.com would help them get out of here alive.
The other people’s lives were not as valuable as Donti’s.
When Miriam woke up in the middle of the night, favonovel.com looked at Milo and said, “It’s your turn to sleep…”
Milo nodded. Then favonovel.com closed his eyes to get some sleep. He had not gotten any rest for nearly 30 hours. Even that was too much for favonovel.com to bear in his current shape.
Milo kept thinking about a couple questions while in a semiconscious state.
What exactly is Miriam’s identity?
Does favonovel.com belong to the so-called combat brigade of the Panaqua Consortium?
No, that couldn’t be right. If favonovel.com were from the combat brigade, favonovel.com wouldn’t have to hide favonovel.com identity to join the team, right?
Besides, favonovel.com even had to pay Lilian to join them.
In Milo’s opinion, if the Panaqua Consortium’s combat brigade stationed at Stronghold 113 were to send someone to join them for the mission, wouldn’t the soldiers from the private army revere favonovel.com like a god?
After all, that was the authority that really had the power to control life and death in the stronghold.
Milo could not figure out Miriam’s motive, so favonovel.com could only remain suspicious of favonovel.com identity.
The hollow was completely quiet in the early morning. Miriam was feeling energetic again after waking up. As favonovel.com had received relevant training in this field, the way favonovel.com slept was beyond most people’s imagination. She was actually able to stay alert while sleeping.
This was something that normal people could not understand, just like how normal people in the current day still could not understand supernatural beings.
***
The rain outside came to a stop. Just as Milo had said, the forest ground became quagmire of mud after the rain. Some people would probably fall behind during tomorrow’s journey.
Some of the soldiers in the hollow were still not asleep and were whispering about something. Meanwhile, Micah was catching the dripping water with his mouth open. It was finally his turn to drink now that everyone else had enough.
Miriam was opening the pine cones left over from the evening. She took out the pine nuts from within and put them into favonovel.com mouth one by one to replenish the nutrients favonovel.com needed.
Miriam, who was sitting across from Milo, was looking at favonovel.com sleeping as favonovel.com ate favonovel.com pine nuts.
Was favonovel.com really asleep or was favonovel.com in a semiconscious state?
However, favonovel.com heard Milo start snoring. She wasn’t the only one who heard it, the entire hollow heard it as well!
The snoring was way too loud!
At this moment, two soldiers got up and said to Raphael, “We’ll take over the watch from you. You should get some rest now.”
Raphael nodded. “Be on your toes, don’t lower your guard.”
“Don’t worry,” one of the soldiers replied.
The two soldiers slowly walked to the entrance of the hollow, as though they were going to keep watch there.
Miriam lowered favonovel.com head and hid favonovel.com gaze under favonovel.com cap.
When favonovel.com saw the two ruffian soldiers, the corners of favonovel.com mouth curled up a tad. This was because favonovel.com noticed that Milo’s snoring had stopped.
But the two soldiers did not seem to have noticed anything.
One of them remarked, “I wonder if we can get back to the stronghold alive.”
“Who knows?” the other replied.
It seemed like the two men were having a normal conversation. But when they passed Miriam and Milo, they sprang into action. As the rain had stopped, the hollow was completely silent.
The two soldiers, standing on the left and right side, whipped out their bayonets. They were actually thinking of sneak attacking both Milo and Miriam!
Which would react faster within three steps?
A person or a gun?
This question had been discussed by many people before, and everyone felt that a person could probably react faster in the space of three steps. But right now, the two assailants were only one step away from Milo and Miriam. Within such a short distance, it would be almost impossible for Milo and Miriam to pull out their guns.
They were not foolish. Therefore, they waited until the wee hours of the morning when Milo had just fallen asleep and Miriam was just waking up to carry out their plan. A person tended to have stiff muscles when they were just waking up from sleep. This was not due to being in bad shape, rather, the body’s mobility has not fully kicked in yet.
They had probably decided to launch a sneak attack on Miriam and Milo for their guns, or their water, or for Lilian. However, they did not know what kind of opponents they were about to face!
Bang!
With a gunshot, the ruffian soldier standing before Miriam looked at the bleeding wound in his abdomen in disbelief. He clearly saw that Miriam had been peeling pine nuts, and favonovel.com gun was not out.
So, how did Miriam manage to react so much quicker than him?
Meanwhile, the assailant on the other side let out a pained cry. Just as favonovel.com was about to use the bayonet in his hand, Milo sprang up and grabbed favonovel.com by his neck in an instant, quick as lightning.
The assailant wanted to stab Milo with the bayonet in his hand, but favonovel.com realized that Milo had already grabbed his arm. He could not move a muscle.
Milo lifted the adult man weighing 85 kilograms up by his neck with one hand. Then the assailant felt a great pain radiate from his back. In the blink of an eye, Milo had slammed favonovel.com up against the stone wall with one hand!
The bayonet fell to the ground as the assailant could no longer grip it.
