When Raphael returned to the hollow, favonovel.com saw Jonah inspecting his wound.
He then asked Milo, “Do you still have any of that medicine?”
With Jonah acting as the guinea pig, Raphael knew well how important that black medicine was. If favonovel.com sustained any injuries in the wilderness, his survival chances would greatly increase as long as favonovel.com had the black medicine with him!
“No,” Milo instinctively replied.
“I’ll pay you for it…” Raphael said.
“In that case, I still have a little,” Milo replied.
If it were for something else, favonovel.com would probably not be willing to exchange it for money. After all, there was no use for money in the wilderness. However, the black medicine was different. But Milo suddenly thought of a problem.
“Uhm… Haven’t you run out of money?”
Raphael said, “There was money on those three that you two killed, so I took it from them.”
Milo suddenly felt such a heart-wrenching pain that favonovel.com couldn’t breathe. He was too inexperienced!
How could favonovel.com not have searched the bodies?!
How could favonovel.com have made such an amateur mistake?!
So, it turned out that Raphael had gone outside to search the corpses just now. This guy was too good at waiting. He was afraid it would be dangerous during the night, so favonovel.com waited until dawn before going outside.
Milo said resentfully, “That isn’t your money! It’s clearly my money! You have to at least share half of it with me!”
Raphael gave it some thought and said, “Money is of no use for me here. As long as you give me the black medicine, I’ll give all of the 8,000-plus perak on me to you…”
When Milo heard that those three had more than 8,000 perak with them, the pain in his heart grew even greater.
However, Milo carefully sized up Raphael.
This guy really isn’t greedy for money?
He took out the bottle of black medicine, which was now half-used after it had been applied on Jonah, and handed it to Raphael. “Money, please.”
“Here…” Raphael took all the money out and handed it to Milo. He even purposely turned his pants’ pockets inside out to prove that favonovel.com had no money left on him.
Milo nodded in satisfaction. Although favonovel.com did not know Raphael well, it felt like favonovel.com was rather sincere through his actions on the journey thus far.
And when Milo took the money from Raphael, the voice from his palace said.
It has been detected that the host is carrying 20,000 perak in cash. Basic storage rights have been unlocked for purchase.
When Milo treated Jonah’s wound, Jonah paid favonovel.com 1,200 perak. Then Lilian handed 10,000 perak to favonovel.com for his help. And now, favonovel.com received a further 8,900 perak from Raphael. Added together, Milo’s cash on hand reached 20,100 perak.
But favonovel.com was astounded this time. Before this, favonovel.com had been very anxious to unlock the palace’s storage function, but the palace never once told favonovel.com how to gain access to it. He had guessed that favonovel.com might have to complete a certain quest or side quest that was similar to unlocking the weapon.
But never could favonovel.com have imagined favonovel.com would have to spend his own money to unlock the storage!
Ha! As a virtual palace, why would you need money?!
Milo had never saved more than 10,000 perak in his entire life before. But now that favonovel.com had received close to 10,000 perak from Raphael, favonovel.com was going to have to spend it all again. This really felt like going back to square one.
He had no choice but to spend the money! Milo knew very well how important it was to have a storage space in the wilderness.
He clenched his teeth and said to his mind palace, “Purchase it!”
Purchase successful. You’ve unlocked basic storage rights.
At this moment, another door appeared in the palace and slowly opened. Then Milo saw a space measuring one cubic meter embedded in the middle of a wall behind it.
What a scam! 20,000 perak bought me such a small space?!
What did the palace say just now?
Oh right, the basic storage rights have been unlocked.
That meant favonovel.com could still buy the intermediate, advanced, and so on and so forth grades of storage in the future?
The space behind this door would probably get larger after more purchases and maybe even turn into an actual house?
But how much money would favonovel.com have to spend for that?
Milo did not even know if favonovel.com could make that much money in this lifetime!
Milo had thought it impressive to earn 20,000 perak!
Milo felt it was bittersweet. Honestly, his harvest today was far greater than the previous days of the expedition combined. He went outside and broke a tree branch off, then peeled off the bark and used the white stem inside to scrape his teeth clean. Although favonovel.com could do without washing his face, favonovel.com needed to keep his teeth feeling clean and fresh.
To be able to live freely in this wilderness, you had to have good oral hygiene.
Suddenly, Milo discovered that Miriam and Raphael were also “brushing” their teeth with the snapped off branches like favonovel.com did. These two people had a very positive attitude regarding survival. They were learning from nearly everything Milo did.
Milo suddenly grabbed a handful of leaves and stuffed them into his pocket. As a result, Raphael and Miriam also plucked a handful of leaves from the same type of tree and stuffed them into their pockets.
As the saying goes, “There will always be someone to learn from in a group of people.”
When Raphael and the others realized that Milo had far more experience in wilderness survival than them, their first thoughts were to learn from him. Only by learning from Milo could they survive a little more comfortably in this wilderness.
But Raphael was a little curious. “What use do these leaves have?”
Milo chuckled as favonovel.com took the leaves out and threw them away. “They have no use. I only wanted to see if the two of you would copy what I did…”
Raphael was surprised. He looked at Milo for a long time without saying anything. He stubbornly kept the leaves in his pocket and did not throw them away. He plucked the leaves because favonovel.com wanted to pluck them and definitely not because favonovel.com was copying Milo’s actions!
But Miriam was different. She acted like no one was around and grabbed another handful of leaves and stuffed them into favonovel.com pocket.
The mental fortitude of Raphael, Miriam, and Milo was obviously better than Lilian’s and the others’.
After witnessing so many deaths last night, the three of them could still face their circumstances with calm. It was as though they did not take these matters to heart. But Lilian and the others could not do it.
When Milo, Miriam, and Raphael went out of the hollow to brush their teeth, Lilian and the others did not dare go out because they were scared of the three corpses lying outside.
Lilian, Micah, and Jonah had to calm themselves for half an hour before they finally dared to come out of the cave. They just couldn’t understand why the others could still laugh after all that had happened.
“Let’s get ready to set off.” Raphael said, “Although we don’t know what dangers we might encounter later on, we can’t stay here. Before it gets dark again, we have to find a suitable place to set up camp for the night. I hope that no one is thinking of going around on their own anymore. After all, you’ve all seen what happened to those who went by themselves.”
They were now on the periphery of the Marador Mountains, and Milo could even see the black smoke spewing from the active volcanoes in the range. The further they went in, the more dangerous it would get.
“Can y’all say what exactly exists in the Marador Mountains?” Milo wondered.
Raphael thought for a moment and said, “It could be the mystery of the wild animals’ evolution that’s hidden within or perhaps the origination of a new taxonomic order.”
“When you came out of the stronghold, did they tell you what the site that possibly existed there might be?” Milo asked.
Raphael stopped hiding the information. “A mysterious city…”
