“Master,” Chad said as favonovel.com sat down next to the campfire and stared at it in a daze, “I defeated the King of the Southern Mountains, so why did that woman tell me to get lost?”
Milo kept quiet. He wanted to tell Chad that human nature was complicated and some people were just not worth saving. But favonovel.com was also worried that favonovel.com would destroy Chad’s innocence.
If there really were a Great Sage in times like these who ended up getting persuaded by Milo to become an ordinary mortal, favonovel.com wondered if favonovel.com would have done a good or bad thing.
Milo did not know if it would be a good thing or not if favonovel.com managed to persuade a real Great Sage to become a normal person in this world.
But at this moment, Old Bane chuckled next to him. “You’re too much of a busybody. You would’ve saved yourself a lot of trouble if you adopted the mindsets of ‘none of your business’ and ‘none of my business’ in your life.”
“What do you mean?” Chad looked up, stunned.
“Look here…” Old Bane said earnestly, “Why do you have to poke your nose into this matter for no good reason? If you don’t poke your nose…”
“It’s none of your business,” interrupted Chad.
Old Bane was speechless.
“Hahaha! Haha! Hahaha!” Milo, Donti, and Adella were convulsing with laughter. It was great that Chad had already mastered the use of the phrase “none of your business”.
As for whether favonovel.com could learn “none of my business,” Milo felt that it depend on whether Chad was willing to learn it.
***
The next morning, Milo and company got up early and roasted some sweet potatoes to eat. A lot of people preferred to sleep for a while longer than to get up and eat. In reality, if they did not eat in the morning during this season, their bodies would remain cold for the rest of the day.
He saw that the Panaqua Consortium’s people had also gotten up. After all, the combat troops were different from the escapees in that they had a certain regimen to follow.
The conditions of the escapees were much better today. As usual, some of them still fell sick and went down with a fever, but it was not that many of them.
When the Panaqua Consortium started moving off, the escapees followed. Everyone silently and eagerly followed the Panaqua Consortium as they did not want to lose sight of them.
Milo glanced at the group of escapees and discovered that the “King of the Southern Mountains” who had been beaten up by Chad last night was lying on the ground taking his last breaths. The woman who was with favonovel.com had already rejoined the larger group and blended into the crowd. Lying on the ground with no help from anyone would lead to certain death.
Actually, if what this unfortunate fellow had said was true, that woman not only should have been taken good care of by favonovel.com in the stronghold, favonovel.com was also only able to escape the stronghold with his help. But once favonovel.com was in trouble, that woman decisively abandoned him.
In a world like this, there was no saying who deserved death more.
Milo looked over to the Panaqua Consortium’s people. The remaining two vehicles were now driving very slowly. Those who couldn’t fit into the vehicles had to keep up next to them on foot.
But Milo was surprised to see Daniel walking on foot as well instead of riding in a vehicle!
Why?
Was favonovel.com working out to get fitter?
Then Milo made a careful observation.
Just which soldiers were allowed to ride in the vehicles?
There shouldn’t be anyone more important than Daniel, right?
Milo was stunned by his observation. He saw the bandaged wounded in the back of the military transport truck and in the off-road vehicle. The truck was also half-loaded with firearms and munitions.
The firearms and munitions were definitely indispensable. Even if the soldiers were forced to walk, they would still have to bring those along with them. After all, those were their only means of protecting their lives!
The soldiers had helped Daniel force his way through a blockade of the face bugs, so Daniel allowed them to ride in the vehicles instead of himself.
The walking wounded still existed, but it was only because the vehicles were filled to the brim with people. Those who could still walk didn’t get into the vehicles. But the wounded who weren’t in the vehicles were neither depressed nor resentful. It even seemed to Milo like they were chatting and laughing during the march.
Milo had thought Daniel would just abandon the wounded and drive straight to Stronghold 109 by himself. But what really happened was a total surprise to him.
These two brothers, Julius and Daniel… It is no wonder that even a supernatural being is willing to die for Julius…
In reality, Milo did not know the deceased supernatural being was not hired by Julius but was originally a soldier within the ranks of Julius’ combat brigade. After awakening his power, favonovel.com instantly became Julius’ bodyguard and remained loyal and devoted to him.
***
That night, Milo felt an inexplicable sense of unease.
Even Adella noticed his perturbation. Adella asked, “Milo, what’s the matter?”
“It’s nothing…” Milo looked at the campfire and shook his head. “I just feel like something’s off…”
But favonovel.com couldn’t figure out what was wrong. It felt like favonovel.com was back at the extremely dangerous Marador Mountains.
The night was pitch black, enveloping them like a prison cell.
“Let’s go…” Milo extinguished their campfire with his feet. “We can’t stay here any longer tonight.”
After much deliberation, favonovel.com still believed his intuition, because his intuition had saved favonovel.com on more than one occasion.
Peter had once said that scientists from before The Cataclysm proved “gut feelings” were real.
When Milo stood up and extinguished the campfire, the escapees around them stared at favonovel.com with puzzled looks on their faces.
Linda reacted the quickest to it. Before the others could figure out what was going on, favonovel.com was already urging the students to follow suit.
Although favonovel.com didn’t know what was going on, favonovel.com knew that there was no wrong in escaping with Milo!
Someone wondered, “Has that young man gone crazy?”
“I have no idea…” Another one said.
“Bro, where are we going?” Donti asked.
“I don’t know…” Milo said, “We’ll talk after we get out of here…”
But just as they separated from the group of escapees and were about to bypass the Panaqua Consortium’s campsite, Milo heard from behind favonovel.com the sound of chains being dragged across the ground!
Furthermore, the sound was closing in!
“Run!” Milo yelled in a low voice.
He was probably the only person among the countless escapees who knew what was coming from behind them!
When favonovel.com saw a pack of Experimentals making a rush at favonovel.com in the Marador Mountains, favonovel.com instinctively retreated and fled. He didn’t even hesitate knowing that favonovel.com would have to turn around and face the Panaqua Consortium instead!
At that time, Milo could not determine exactly how many Experimentals there were. He only knew that if favonovel.com did not run, favonovel.com would surely die there!
Milo had been worrying about the wolf pack and Experimentals for the past two days. His worries would not dissipate until the day favonovel.com got to Stronghold 109.
He had hoped that the destroyed stronghold would attract the Experimentals and wolves to it. But now, it seemed like all hope was lost. They could only make use of whatever time they had left to escape!
Although, Milo was a little confused by this. The Experimentals had only been active within the perimeter of the forest.
Why had all of them come out now?!
Old Bane and the others did not know why Milo told them to run, but they had already started trusting him.
“What about the sweet potatoes!” Murdock shouted as favonovel.com ran.
Old Bane turned around and smacked away all the sweet potatoes in Murdock’s arms. “How can you eat the sweet potatoes when you’re dead?! Quickly follow Milo!”
The sound of the chains coming from behind the escapees was growing louder. When everyone turned to look back, they saw the Experimentals scampering across the ground like spiders as they approached. They looked like demons!
It wasn’t until this moment that the escapees started screaming in horror before fleeing for their lives!
But the size of the escapee group was too large. The people at the front were still unsure of what was going on, while those at the rear were already running madly for their lives. As a result, a lot of people were knocked down as they collided into one another!
Terrified screams could be heard at the back of the crowd.
Hundreds of Experimentals had rushed into the group and started hunting and killing maniacally!
Once they killed someone, they did not hesitate to pounce onto others. It was as though they wanted to finish off all of the escapees!
When Milo looked back, favonovel.com noticed another Experimental walking upright behind the maniacal Experimentals. It was staring at them coldly.
Milo realized someone else might be controlling these Experimentals. They had not yet lost all of their intelligence!
