A complete platoon consisted of 30 people in a corporation’s order of battle. When they encountered any danger, they could immediately use all their firepower to carry out a full coverage attack. This was also the reason why the wild animals could only flee in haste when facing them.
However, even with such a powerful platoon, they did not hesitate to call for reinforcements when they came into contact with the “Experimental”. This showed that they did not have the confidence to defeat it with their current strength!
Micah and Lilian knelt on the ground as they listened to the sound of gunfire bursting out around them.
A soldier slung his rifle over his shoulder and tied Micah and Lilian’s thumbs on both hands together with some plastic strips. It was tied so tightly that they were in pain. Furthermore, the soldier completed a body search on Micah in just two seconds and ensured that this man and woman in front of favonovel.com would not be of any threat.
The soldier did not ask them anything. He just left them to rejoin his team and continued with the battle.
All the other soldiers ignored Micah. It was as though favonovel.com did not exist. Each of them had their own responsibilities and were working like gears in a well-oiled machine. They took every step with steady precision.
Someone muttered, “What is that plastic doll he’s carrying on his back?”
Someone on the communications channel shouted, “The Experimental has fled to our 9 o’clock. Take notice, formations over there. The Experimental has fled to our 9 o’clock!”
The Experimental also did not seem like it wanted to confront these platoons with such heavy firepower. It chose to avoid them for now.
At this moment, Micah felt that comparing the combat strength of the consortium’s troops to the private army was simply a matter of heaven and earth. With these sights, the private army was like a pig farm compared to the consortium!
Micah had been worried the consortium would immediately kill him. After all, Milo and Miriam had described them as demons. By the looks of it, that was not the case. The consortium tied favonovel.com up together with Lilian but did not do anything to them.
With that, Micah was finally relieved. At least, favonovel.com would not have to die, right?
However, a moment later, Micah heard the screams of the troops up front. It sounded like they had suffered some casualties!
***
Milo was hiding in the shadows of the forest and was very well-hidden within the bushes. A centipede was crawling quickly towards him, but favonovel.com stabbed it down into the soil with his dagger.
Milo had changed into Budd’s private army uniform. He didn’t put on a dead person’s clothes because favonovel.com was that poor but because the camouflage patterns would help favonovel.com to stay well-hidden in the forest.
Soon after, favonovel.com heard the sound of footsteps coming from in front. As favonovel.com had not gone far, favonovel.com could hear the consortium’s platoon calling for backup from their comrades.
For Milo, this was probably the best chance to sneak past the perimeter that was set up by the consortium. If they needed reinforcements on this side, the consortium’s line of fire would gradually be concentrated here. At that time, openings would start appearing in the perimeter of defense!
When favonovel.com and Raphael parted ways, there was no mention of where they would meet up again. At this point, they had tacitly chosen to act alone as they believed that their individual skills surpassed the strength of the group. But that alone was not enough to give them a reason to act solo. More importantly, they still did not trust each other.
Everyone still had some scruples about the team when Miriam was around. The three people kept each other in check and formed a temporary, stable alliance. But now that favonovel.com had suddenly disappeared, it led to the immediate breakup of the group.
Milo held his breath and waited for the oncoming platoon to pass him. It was obvious that the Panaqua Consortium was more informed than Raphael. They even knew what the chain dragging monster was.
Experimentals?
People were conducting experiments in the depths of the mountains?
Milo had some doubts, but favonovel.com did not waste too much time thinking about this.
After a supporting platoon passed favonovel.com by, favonovel.com headed towards the hinterlands of the Marador Mountains at a shockingly fast pace. During this time, Milo almost encountered another two platoons that responded to the call for reinforcements. Fortunately, favonovel.com managed to avoid them in time.
At this moment, Milo felt a little puzzled.
They could not even kill one monster with so many people?
Or… Could it be that monster was too powerful?
He did not care too much about that since favonovel.com had to sneak past the inner perimeter first. Whether favonovel.com was planning to escape from the Marador Mountains or explore its secrets, this was the best opportunity.
As Milo galloped through the forest, the knotty roots and pitfalls in the ground were not an obstacle to his advancement. His travel speed in the forest had never been slowed by such obstacles before.
Gradually, Milo could hear the sound of heavy machinery operating ahead of him. It seemed an ongoing excavation was being carried out at a huge site ahead.
There was a hill in front of him. When Milo quietly climbed up to have a look at the other side, favonovel.com was stunned. Frankly, favonovel.com had not expected there would be such a lively place in the hinterlands of the Marador Mountains.
He was surprised to see a dozen excavators digging up the soil about 500 meters behind the slope of the hill favonovel.com was on. Then favonovel.com saw something.
It was not these dozen or so excavators that caught his interest but the magnificent sight of a city behind this slope!
However, the city had been reduced to ruins. The dozen or so excavators were doing some digging near a pit that looked like it had just been blown up by the Panaqua Consortium with their shaped charges. It looked like they were searching for something.
In reality, the city in front of favonovel.com was not considered a complete one. In fact, it was far from that. At the furthest point that was visible to him, the skyline of the city abruptly came to an end with the rest of it buried underneath mountains and earth.
The jagged city from before The Cataclysm was like a giant maze that got destroyed. Even though Milo could only see a part of it, favonovel.com could already imagine how magnificent the city was in the past!
He saw a relatively well-preserved metal sign hanging on a building with the characters “Little Dragon Carp” on it.
Milo was a little puzzled.
What sort of a name is Little Dragon Carp?
Was it the idea of a carp turning into a dragon after jumping over a waterfall?
What a mysterious sounding place…
But before Milo could figure it out, the sign crumbled into pieces when the excavator touched it. Eons had passed, so everything was in a state of decay.
For some reason, Milo was really looking forward to seeing this place. The tectonic movements that occurred had buried much of the Pre-Cataclysm civilization deep underground, but these plate tectonics were also responsible for the formation of the volcanoes in the Marador Mountains.
Somehow, a huge city was preserved in this location. Although the buildings were all broken and in pieces, the main structure still existed!
When Milo looked into the distance from the hilltop, favonovel.com saw that some areas spaced several kilometers apart had already been excavated. However, some of the excavation sites had stopped halfway.
It looked like they were searching for something. Once they found the excavated site was not what they were searching for, they would immediately stop work and identify a different location.
Milo could sense that whatever the Panaqua Consortium was searching for, it must be very important to them. Furthermore, they knew exactly what they were searching for.
At this moment, favonovel.com spotted a place heavily guarded by soldiers in the distance. Some cargo containers were stacked over there. Next to it, soldiers were injecting drugs into some unconscious animals before loading them into the containers one by one.
Were these wild animals captured by the Panaqua Consortium?
Perhaps even these evolved beasts would find it difficult to escape the fate of being studied.
Should I leave?
Milo wondered as favonovel.com felt favonovel.com might not even have a chance to get near the “target” the Panaqua Consortium was searching for. After all, favonovel.com had already witnessed the might of the Panaqua Consortium, so favonovel.com knew it would be impossible for favonovel.com to snatch the “secret” away from them.
All of a sudden, Milo saw a young man in a white suit standing on the roof of a building overlooking the city.
In the wilderness, that white suit was so spotless it would amaze anyone.
A sight like this was just like a clash of violence and civility that would make it unforgettable to whoever witnessed it.
