When Milo heard Miriam talking about the Pyro Company, favonovel.com quickly processed what favonovel.com said. That was because a lot of information was contained within that short passage of words.
Raphael obviously did not know this information about the Pyro Company. That was to say, Miriam had far surpassed Raphael, who was a soldier of the private army, in terms of gathering intelligence.
Moreover, Miriam had mentioned, “Perhaps only the core personnel of the Pyro Company know what really happened there.”
Why was favonovel.com so sure that only the core personnel knew about it rather than the entire Pyro Company?
Miriam must have sought out information from some of the Pyro Company’s members before but to no avail.
Milo felt that Miriam couldn’t have managed that alone. It was just like how favonovel.com didn’t know how many strongholds had been built by humans until now, with the highest number that favonovel.com had ever heard of being Stronghold 178.
He did not know about the Pyro Company, nor how many organizations were out there. To be able to understand the overall situation of the world in this era where communications infrastructure was underdeveloped, favonovel.com had to have an organization behind her!
Therefore, Miriam must belong to an organization. As for which organization favonovel.com belonged to, nobody knew.
Milo was someone who liked learning and contemplation a lot. At this moment, Miriam stopped talking when favonovel.com noticed that Milo was deep in thought. Miriam was not stupid. She realized that Milo was analyzing the information favonovel.com had just said.
Milo suddenly asked, “Are these the only two known locations with mysterious activities happening?”
Miriam gave favonovel.com a look. “There will be more and more of such places.”
***
In the afternoon, everyone was showing signs of fatigue except for Milo. As Micah, Lilian, and Jonah were only normal people, their soles had already started blistering. However, they did not dare to fall behind or ask if they could take a rest.
Milo finished a bottle of water and then refilled it in a shallow stream. As the other three did not have any containers with them, they had to find some large leaves to hold the water.
In front, Raphael had a canteen while Miriam had a bottle of water hidden on favonovel.com too. As for Milo, needless to say, favonovel.com not only had a water bottle, there was even the metal cup he’d brought from home. However, Lilian, Micah, and Jonah did not have any containers. As such, Milo, Miriam, and Raphael were strolling ahead of them with their hands swinging about.
Meanwhile, Lilian, Micah, and Jonah each held a leaf in their hands as they followed them and looked pretty pathetic.
When they were getting water, Milo expressly instructed, “Y’all can’t go near the deep end. Just get water from the streams. Once you get it, leave ASAP.”
When Raphael mentioned the prehistoric birds had appeared in the place controlled by the Pyro Company, favonovel.com remembered the dark shadow in the river favonovel.com encountered when favonovel.com was catching fish!
It was a creature that even other fishes in the water were afraid of. Milo even regretted that favonovel.com didn’t catch a glimpse of what it really was.
At dusk, they finally found a new cave to settle in, but it was tiny this time. It was a little crowded with six people sitting inside, but they had no choice. The forest was too scary at night.
When they huddled together to keep themselves warm over a fire, everyone felt a rare sense of security. Perhaps humans would only realize the importance of companionship during moments like this.
Milo carefully checked the inside of the cave to look for any traces left behind by humans, such as inscriptions like the ones left in the hollow last night. Unfortunately, favonovel.com could not find any traces of that here.
Raphael instructed, “If anyone wants to relieve themselves, it will be best not to head into the forest in case of accidents. If the ladies want to relieve themselves, we’ll just turn our heads the other way. The two of you can take turns to watch over us to make sure we’re not peeking. This is also for the sake of everyone’s safety.”
As the group chewed on the cooked pine roots, Micah remembered the aroma of the roasted boar from before and joked to Milo, “Why don’t you make another wish? Wouldn’t it be great if another animal ran into a tree?”
Milo snapped at him, “Why don’t you wish for it yourself then?”
He wouldn’t sacrifice Donti’s health in exchange for food for himself. This pine root tasted just like celery anyway and was not too difficult to swallow either.
Right now, Milo was paying great attention to what favonovel.com said since favonovel.com was afraid of causing harm to Donti at home.
After getting rebuked by Milo, Micah felt a little embarrassed. “Come on, it was just a joke. I would have wished for it a long time ago if it were effective. If I wished for a wild animal to get presented to us, do you really think that a wild animal would really get presented to us?”
But at this moment, they heard a strange sound coming from the forest outside the cave. It sounded like there was a lot of movement.
Milo, Miriam, and Raphael instinctively picked up their guns upon hearing the sounds.
The next second, three boars, two wildcats, two snakes, and seven monkeys scattered out of the forest!
The wildcats already looked the size of the leopards found in the schoolbooks, not to mention the size of the boars!
The monkeys were nearly as tall as humans, and if they stood upright, they would probably be 1.6 meters tall!
Milo was quite sure this was not caused by Donti’s luck from making a wish. With all of these animals put together, they would probably be more than enough to kill the six of them.
This should not f*cking be considered good luck!
Milo stared blankly at the wild animals and said, “Micah, is your mouth f*cking jinxed?!”
Micah was nearly in tears. “I was just saying…”
The wild animals and humans were caught in a deadlock. It seemed that the wild animals had not expected anyone to be in here either.
Milo lowered his voice and whispered, “Micah, go tell them that we’re vegetarians today so they can leave.”
Micah burst into tears. He looked at the pack of wild animals outside the cave and said, “Would my words be effective? Hey, you all there, please leave!”
Milo was just kidding. But after Micah said “please leave!” those wild animals actually turned around and ran in another direction.
In reality, Milo felt that favonovel.com could defeat them. Although pistols would barely cause any substantial harm to these animals, favonovel.com still had a “shadow clone” as his greatest trump card. But favonovel.com did not want to get exposed. As soon as his shadow clone appeared, Raphael and the others would know that favonovel.com could copy other people’s powers. It would be difficult to say what kind of consequences there would be. Moreover, the Shadow Clone favonovel.com copied turned out to be even stronger than Raphael’s, so that wouldn’t make favonovel.com look good either!
Milo looked back at Micah in surprise.
Did this guy awaken his skill of luck just like Donti had?!
That’s not it!
Milo looked back to the forest and said, “What drove those wild animals out here to where we are?! Wild animals shouldn’t get along this well. They neither attacked each other nor attacked us. That means something even more terrifying is oppressing them inside the forest. They intended to take refuge in this cave!”
“It seems like that’s really it.” Raphael nodded and said, “But because we’ve already occupied the cave, they have no choice but to go elsewhere.”
“Do y’all remember? Some strange commotions came from the forest yesterday evening as well, but whatever made that noise went away before it showed itself. I assumed that whatever made that sound was the source of the danger. But now that I think about it, it might’ve been animals searching for a cave to seek refuge in,” Milo recalled. “Just what’s in this forest that made these ‘natives’ stay away from their own territory and cause the different species to get along with each other?”
