If they could not retreat, they had to go forward.
It seemed like Milo, Raphael, and Miriam were the most interested in the secret of the Marador Mountains.
Lilian, Micah, and Jonah were different. They only hoped to quickly join up with those from the Panaqua Consortium! Regardless of the secret, they would only have a chance of survival if they headed somewhere with a lot of people!
They had seen the Panaqua Consortium’s combat brigade in Stronghold 113 before, and the private troops definitely paled in comparison. So, they believed they would be safe once they joined up with them. And besides, both Lilian and Micah could say that they were on good terms with the Panaqua Consortium. Although they were not particularly close, they had met Boss Eastwood on several occasions.
Therefore, if they brought up Boss Eastwood’s name and made known their identities when the time came, they would immediately get returned to “human civilization”. To them, the wilderness was a world that belonged to the beasts.
There was also another point. As they almost had an encounter with the mysterious monster of the forest last night, they wanted to quickly get out of this place before it got dark again.
Worried about the monster, Milo tried his best to travel in the open areas of the mountains instead of going through the forest.
Who knew if that monster would be active during the day?
It was not as though it had personally informed them that it wouldn’t venture out in the day!
What if it just liked being a night owl and was actually not afraid of daylight?
What if its daily routine had been messed up today?
No one knew for sure!
Their cave was about several dozen kilometers away from the sound of the explosion in the Marador Mountains. If they hurried up, they could reach the range by evening.
Of course, Milo was also afraid of any potential accidents.
He held a discussion with Raphael and Miriam. “We can’t only consider the straight line distance of the route in the mountains. We have to account for the winding paths that we might need to take. We may need to walk for several more days based on the distance that we worked out before we can get there.”
“What do you mean?” Raphael asked.
“If we can’t get there by today, we must not take the risk of traveling through the night.” Milo said firmly, “If y’all insist on it, I’ll find a place by myself and wait until dawn.”
Raphael thought for a moment and said, “I agree. We won’t travel through the night.”
Raphael and Milo looked over to Miriam, and favonovel.com said, “I agree…”
“Let’s hope the journey won’t be too difficult,” Milo said.
Nobody knew where Lilian and Micah found their strength from for today’s march. They had just burst the blisters on their feet last night by picking at them. But with the intensity of walking to be done today, the skin on their soles would probably be torn off by the time they were finished.
Seeing this, Milo teased them by suggesting that they could rest for the day. However, Micah stated matter-of-factly that favonovel.com was fine with carrying on.
As Micah, Lilian, and Jonah were just normal people, it was obvious they had unleashed their greatest potential due to their desire to survive.
Suddenly, Raphael said, “There’s a human body up front…”
Milo looked up and spotted a human body lying quietly in the middle of the valley of the mountain pass. But what surprised favonovel.com was that there were scattered pieces of clothing lying next to the nearly skeletal remains of the body. The blood had dried into a dark purple patch on the rocky ground.
Milo said in bewilderment, “Since there’s still flesh and blood and no decomposition, it means that this person died not too long ago!”
Wait a minute, why would a relatively fresh human corpse appear here?
“Could it be someone from the Panaqua Consortium?”
“No!” Raphael shook his head and said, “Look at what favonovel.com was wearing. That’s the uniform of the private army. The uniform of the private army is dark blue while the Panaqua Consortium’s uniform is black.”
“The private army? Which private army? Does Stronghold 112’s private army also wear the same uniform?” Milo wondered.
They warily approached it and had an ominous feeling. Raphael saw a small dog tag that was supposed to be hanging around the neck of the corpse. In this way, everyone would know the identity of the deceased.
But favonovel.com was stunned when favonovel.com picked up the dog tag. “Mark? How could this be Mark?”
Milo felt a chill in his heart. “Are you sure this is Mark Salt?”
“Look at this. The name on the dog tag wouldn’t be wrong,” Raphael said. As favonovel.com spoke, favonovel.com had his automatic rifle up in the fear that something terrible would charge from next to him.
Milo looked at the dog tag. “It’s really Mark… Why would his corpse be here?”
Mark’s corpse had gone missing before they entered the canyon.
As they had walked almost a 100 kilometers over the past two days, how could Mark’s corpse suddenly appear here by itself?
What could have brought Mark’s corpse here?
While Miriam and Raphael raised their guns in response to this discovery, Milo squatted down and inspected the corpse.
Lilian and Micah were sickened by this sight from the start and after vomiting for a while, Lilian asked, “Aren’t you afraid?”
Milo’s expression did not change at all. “I’ve seen worse…. Wait, there’s something off about the wounds on this corpse. Although that monster ate his organs, look at the wounds on the edge of the abdomen. What could create such neat bite marks? I’ve never come across any animal with a set of teeth like this.”
Even Miriam and Raphael couldn’t help but look over when Milo said that. They understood just how much Milo knew about the wilderness. If Milo said that favonovel.com hadn’t seen it before, it would have to be an unusual animal.
But when Raphael saw it, favonovel.com frowned. “F*ck, these are the bite marks of a human!”
It seemed that Raphael had even started spouting obscenities due to a deep kind of fear. But not just Raphael. Milo and Miriam were also getting the chills.
Milo looked up and asked, “Are you sure?”
“I’m very sure!” Raphael said, “I was bitten on the arm by my first love when I broke up with favonovel.com in school.”
Milo snapped, “Why the hell are you telling us that when we were scared to death?”
Milo was truly afraid now!
Raphael also felt a little scared. “Why are there human bite marks on the corpse?”
“I wonder.” Milo asked, “Could it be possible that the one dragging the chains last night… Was a human?”
“Let’s get out of here.” Miriam said, “Set up a three-man tactical formation in case something attacks us! If that thing can silently take the corpse away, it can silently sneak up on us as well!”
Milo asked nervously, “What’s a tactical formation?”
He was not fooling around as favonovel.com really did not know!
“You stand on my left!” Miriam did not explain too much. “Each of us will take care of whatever comes into our field of view. If any strange creatures approach us, shoot them down.”
All of a sudden, Miriam had taken command of the team. However, neither Milo nor Raphael said anything.
At this moment, everyone understood that they were walking a tightrope. If they were not careful, they would be doomed.
Everyone wanted to survive, especially Milo!
