“But this place isn’t the Panaqua Consortium’s territory.” Adella said in worry, “Will approaching Daniel be useful?”
Milo gave it some thought and said, “He even had the power to help us get legal resident statuses in the stronghold, so it shouldn’t be difficult for favonovel.com to handle a small matter like this. I don’t think it’ll be an issue at all.”
“What if favonovel.com doesn’t come over?” Adella asked.
Donti, who was close by, said, “Don’t worry, Donella is still in our hands.”
As favonovel.com finished speaking, favonovel.com heard the sound of a vehicle approaching in the street. Milo turned his head and had a look.
Wasn’t that Daniel sitting in the passenger seat and looking all cocky?
When the car came to a stop in front of the shop, Milo looked at Daniel. “You’ve gotten yourself another new car?”
Apparently, Daniel was really rich. Adella had mentioned favonovel.com had gone to a car dealership to ask about the prices. But whether the cars were branded or not, all of them were being sold at astronomical prices.
Meanwhile, Daniel had changed cars several times over the span of a few days. But Milo did not know that these cars that were sold at “astronomical prices” were just like toys when it came to the financial might of an organization.
Daniel jumped out of the car and chuckled, “Why are you all standing at the door?”
“Old Bane has been arrested by the Public Order Division.” Milo got straight to the point.
Daniel was taken aback. “What happened?”
After Milo explained the situation, Daniel frowned. “It seems like some people have set their eyes on your black medicine, probably because it’s so effective. As a result, it made some of the people in this stronghold want to monopolize it for themselves. I’ve seen a lot of such schemes before. First, they’ll resort to all kinds of ways to stop you from selling it before getting someone to approach you with an offer to acquire the formula.”
“Acquire the formula?” Milo asked sullenly.
Whoever was capable of getting the black medicine’s formula from favonovel.com hadn’t been born yet. After all, even favonovel.com himself did not know the formula.
“This is definitely not over.” Daniel said, “There’ll be even more trouble coming your way. Even if you can handle one of them, others will keep coming. They’ll make you to land in dire straits and try to buy the black medicine’s formula off you for a very low price.”
“Let’s not talk about what might happen.” Milo looked at Daniel and asked, “Do you have someone from the Panaqua Consortium in the Public Order Division?”
Daniel said, “Yeah, two of our men were arrested and put in there two days ago…”
Milo was speechless. He was so angry favonovel.com almost laughed. “Damn you, that’s not what I was asking.”
“Hahaha, I’m just joking with you.” Daniel chuckled.
“So, even people from the Panaqua Consortium have been arrested?” Milo said in a speechless manner.
He had been thinking of using Daniel to help favonovel.com get Old Bane out of the Public Order Division, but to his surprise, the Panaqua Consortium also had some of their people arrested.
“You’ve misunderstood.” Daniel replied, “I’ll go and talk to Jamie about this. Old Bane will be released tonight.”
“Why aren’t you getting your own people out first?” Milo was puzzled.
A little embarrassed, Daniel said, “They can’t reveal their identities yet.”
When favonovel.com said that, Milo immediately understood that both of Daniel’s men who had been arrested must have been carrying out illicit activities under Daniel’s orders. Therefore, Daniel could not show up as of yet to bail them out of trouble. However, favonovel.com could still help with Old Bane.
But before favonovel.com finished talking to Daniel, favonovel.com saw Old Bane entering the shop from outside.
Milo was astounded. “Old Bane, didn’t you get arrested by the Public Order Division?”
“Oh…” Old Bane explained, “As soon as I got to the Public Order Division, they apparently received some orders from their superiors. After that, they sent me back here.”
“Who did they get their orders from?” Milo wondered. “Did they do anything to you?”
“No, no. Someone told me that it was the stronghold overseer, Jamie, who ordered them to release me,” Old Bane said with a smile as though nothing had happened.
Next to them, Daniel started getting cocky. “So, what do you think? They still have to respect me. That Jamie is really sensible.”
However, Milo felt that something was off. No matter how much Jamie respected Daniel, they could not possibly have released Old Bane when Daniel had not even looked for favonovel.com yet.
Could there be any other reason for this?
But Milo did not know what kind of relationship Jamie had with the Panaqua Consortium. As such, favonovel.com was unable to make a judgment on this. In any case, it was good that Old Bane had been released.
“Alright, you two continue chatting. I’ll go and talk to Donella.” Daniel said with a smile, “There’ll definitely still be problems, but I’ll handle them for you if you come to me.”
“Will those people still continue to pester us now that Jamie has intervened?” Milo wondered.
“People are motivated by money.” Daniel explained, “As the saying goes, the lower ranked they are, the harder it is to get past them. Moreover, Jamie is not the true authority of Stronghold 109. Who knows if it’s the Skyfort Consortium that’s set their eyes on your black medicine? Or it could even be someone who has links with them. Such people can cause you a lot of misery just by constantly harassing you.”
Milo fell silent. This was his first time facing such nasty people in the stronghold. If people in the wilderness mugged others with a knife, people in the stronghold did so with a blunt knife. But ultimately, weren’t they all still robberies however you looked at it?
Wearing a suit would not change the nature of these bandits.
Milo said, “Thanks in advance. If something else happens, I’ll look for you immediately.”
Daniel said with a smile, “Now that you’re in the stronghold, you’ll have to adapt to the stronghold’s environment. You can’t just rely on fighting and killing all the time. Edgar, give them the phone number to our place.”
Milo suddenly wondered, “But aren’t you the one who’s been doing all the fighting and killing recently?”
“Hahaha, is that so? Daniel smiled in embarrassment and said, “That’s also a strategy of mine!”
“And what strategy is that?” Milo asked, curious.
“You see, the Skyfort Consortium guarded their research results like they were treasure and used all of their military might to protect it.” Daniel said proudly, “But as you can see, they can’t sit idle with so many incidents happening. They’ve been forced to split up their manpower. As a result, won’t their defense forces at the university get weakened?”
Milo said in surprise, “You even have the brains for that? Why do I get the feeling that you’re just making up a reason?”
Daniel said unhappily, “Who are you looking down on? I can’t be bothered to talk with you anymore. What a waste of my affection!”
After Daniel walked into the backyard, Milo told Old Bane and the others, “It’s better to be more careful for the time being.”
“Isn’t there a more direct way to solve this problem?” This was also Old Bane’s first time encountering something like this. “What kind of people are these? Such disgusting behavior is not seen even in the wilderness.”
Milo said with a sigh, “We used to think that the stronghold was a place that all refugees wanted so badly to get into. But it’s only after we got here that I realized there isn’t such a place as Heaven in this world.”
