While Milo was still at Stronghold 109, favonovel.com had heard of Chloe and Cicada’s names on a streetcar. At the time, favonovel.com wondered if the celebrities of this stronghold were also members of the Saboteurs based on the situation with Lilian.
But later on, favonovel.com felt that favonovel.com was wrong to think that way.
When the great disaster struck Stronghold 109, Lilian and Jamie had specially waited for Miriam in the wilderness for some time. However, no one else was in the vehicle. If these two celebrities were also members of the Saboteurs, they would have been taken by them back then.
Moreover, if Chloe were a member of the Saboteurs, favonovel.com would not need to approach favonovel.com in such a manner. It would be just as how Lilian had greeted Milo openly after discovering favonovel.com was favonovel.com neighbor.
Right now, it seemed like the escapees who had started forming cliques had somehow learned of Chloe’s identity and wanted to get their hands on her. As a result, favonovel.com approached Milo’s group in a roundabout way to get his help.
No matter whether his deduction was right or wrong, Milo did not actually intend to bother with Chloe’s plight. If someone made immoral advances on the celebrity again after favonovel.com went back, Chad would naturally give them a thrashing…
By this point, Milo fully entrusted Chad with doing all the good deeds. However, Milo still reminded Chad over and over to try his best not to reveal his superpower. He also told this to Linda as well.
When Linda awakened favonovel.com power yesterday, no one noticed since the escapees were busy fleeing in panic. Therefore, they were just a group of normal people with guns in the eyes of the other escapees. This way, they would not attract any special attention from the corporations when they reached the next stronghold together. This was also the reason why Milo would rather use a gun instead of depending on his powers last night. After all, most of the organizations were not really friendly towards supernatural beings nowadays.
Suddenly, a faint rumbling of vehicles came from ahead of them.
Milo looked up at the sound and was surprised to see a convoy of vehicles approaching them. On the sides of the vehicles, the logo of the Skyfort Consortium’s white spider could be seen.
In reality, it wasn’t exactly a white spider. It was just a logo in the shape of a nanomachine that resembled a spider drawn with well-defined edges.
Milo frowned. The last thing favonovel.com wanted to see now was the Skyfort Consortium’s people.
Hundreds of military transport trucks slowly came to a stop in front of the escapees, and all of their tires were fitted with snow chains.
A dozen or so combat platoons jumped out of the vehicles and slowly approached the group. The escapees were crying and shouting for help like their saviors had arrived. It was as though they had finally met their family members again.
The officer commanding the platoons asked coldly, “Where have you all come from?”
With tears streaming down his face, an escapee said, “Sir, we’re residents of Stronghold 109. We escaped from there!”
Another escapee said in elation, “Didn’t I say? The rescue troops would definitely find us. The Skyfort Consortium hasn’t forgotten about us. Sir, do you have any food? We’re on the verge of starving to death.”
But the officer sneered, “I’m not here to save you all. We’ve been ordered to come to Stronghold 109 to annihilate the invaders. We were instructed to send everyone back to town at Stronghold 108. We aren’t responsible for providing any meals to you.”
The escapees were taken aback. “Aren’t you going to give us any aid?”
The officer looked at the escapees and told the adjutant next to him, “Do a headcount of the escapees.”
These armed troops of the consortium quickly did a headcount of everyone. But during the process, their guns remained pointed at the escapees to prevent them from rioting.
When the escapees who had been thinking of protesting against being treated like this saw the guns, they suddenly became as obedient as quails and did not dare say anything more.
When everyone saw the army arriving, they were overjoyed, like they had been reunited with their family members. But now they realized these people did not even care about them!
Someone finally could not hold back anymore.
A young man walked to the front of the crowd and said, “My brother-in-law is a supervisor at Stronghold 108’s Public Order Division. Kind sirs, please take me back with you. My brother-in-law will definitely reward all of you handsomely.”
The officer said with a smile, “All civilians are strictly forbidden to pass through the strongholds now. Even if you all came back with us, you wouldn’t be allowed to enter the stronghold. So, it’s better not to speak all those empty words. I hope you can recognize the situation you’re in. You’re all refugees from now on and no longer residents of a stronghold. Moreover, claiming that a lowly supervisor at the Public Order Division could reward those of us from the Skyfort Consortium’s army, isn’t that too much of a brag?”
When Milo heard this, favonovel.com realized the Skyfort Consortium had probably decided to implement stricter controls on people passing through the stronghold after the lesson at Stronghold 109. This was to prevent any further dangerous elements from getting into their strongholds.
However, this was exactly what Milo wanted as favonovel.com did not intend to enter a stronghold that was controlled by the Skyfort Consortium.
Who knew what kind of dangerous plans Kenneth was up to?
From the conversation, Milo could tell that soldiers who were under the direct jurisdiction of the Skyfort Consortium had never thought much of the stronghold’s management. This alone was enough to show just how important the army was to the entire consortium.
A man wondered, “Then what should we do when we go back? Are we only allowed to become refugees in town? We really are the stronghold’s residents!”
The officer smiled. “You don’t have to worry about having nowhere to go. Our Skyfort Consortium has already started a new round of conscription. All of those who are of suitable age will be required to join the military. Who knows, some of you might end up working under me in the future. As for the women, they’ll be sent to the factories to make military uniforms for the new recruits. Since it’s wartime, there’s no need for me to explain anything to you people.”
Hearing this explanation, Milo frowned.
The Skyfort Consortium was actually planning to draft soldiers?
Surely favonovel.com wasn’t going to get conscripted. After the stronghold had been destroyed, the Skyfort Consortium had lost an entire stronghold of combat troops. In order to face an increasingly dangerous world, it would only be natural for them to recruit more soldiers. Moreover, several organizations were responsible for the destruction of Stronghold 109. If the Skyfort Consortium wanted to seek revenge, they had to first expand their military strength.
However, Milo could never have expected that favonovel.com would really get conscripted!
“Bro, what should we do?” Donti muttered.
At this moment, the officer said to the adjutant, “Call the private troops and tell them we’ve located the escapees. Get them over here to escort the escapees back, and make sure to watch over them carefully.”
After a while, another dozen-odd military transport trucks arrived from behind them.
Milo said, “There’s nothing we can do now. Let’s follow them to the town at Stronghold 108 first. We’ll try to find a way to leave when there’s a chance.”
At this moment, it was definitely not practical for them to force an escape from here. If favonovel.com was by himself, favonovel.com could just leave as favonovel.com wished. But if favonovel.com were to go, what would become of Donti and the others?
The men and women boarded separate vehicles with the private army soldiers pointing their automatic rifles at them and keeping a close watch. It was as though they were afraid they would try to escape.
Before they went their separate ways, Milo looked at Linda and said, “It’s your turn now to protect Adella while I protect the male students on my side. I’ll leave the rest to y’all to watch out for your own safety.”
Linda looked at favonovel.com and said in a serious tone, “I will. You be careful as well.”
After that conversation, Milo, Donti, Chad, and all the men boarded one of the trucks, while Adella, Linda, and the women boarded another.
