It was a really strange sight at the campfire next to the outpost’s entrance. On one side, there were people barbecuing meat and enjoying themselves. On the other side, five people were kneeling in a row and too afraid to move a muscle.
How pathetic!
These five people were way too pathetic.
When Milo got out of the truck and went over to have a look, it was just as favonovel.com had expected. Those five people all had a small logo of the Pyro Company embroidered on their clothes.
In reality, there wasn’t any problem with the direction of the Pyro Company’s investigations. They speculated that the disappearance of those two nanosoldiers might have something to do with supernatural beings, so they came here to try their luck to see if they could find that person. This speculation was extremely accurate.
Milo was not wrong either. After Kenneth informed favonovel.com about the situation with the Pyro Company, favonovel.com rushed back during the night as favonovel.com was worried they would harm the students at the outpost. There wasn’t anything wrong with that either.
The only surprise that neither the Pyro Company nor Milo had expected was that Gerard was powerful beyond measure.
The reason Gerard was surprised when favonovel.com saw Milo was because favonovel.com would have to teach Milo again now that favonovel.com was back. It was just like how office workers finally had the weekend off only for their bosses to suddenly demand they work overtime. This immediately spoiled the mood.
Milo explained, “Can’t you see that I really missed all of you? That’s why we rushed back to the outpost. So, what’s going on here?”
In truth, Milo already knew Gerard was definitely not a simple person from the beginning.
How could a normal old man head up to the mountains alone in the middle of the night to investigate a case?
Wasn’t favonovel.com afraid of getting killed by the criminal as well?
So, favonovel.com must have had something that gave favonovel.com the confidence. Moreover, Chad mentioned favonovel.com was the Earth Deity. Based on Milo’s deductions, what Chad probably meant was this man had a superpower.
Perhaps mental patients possessed some sort of unique perception that enabled Chad to identify the true nature of someone simply by their appearance, as favonovel.com was spot on in his observations.
Gerard looked at Milo and said with a smile, “Quickly come and have some meat.”
All five of the Pyro Company members looked back at Milo, but none of them dared to speak.
Gerard said, “They’re from the Pyro Company. I was searching for them some time ago, but they managed to hide themselves really well. As some other disturbances were going on at that time, I haven’t been able to locate them at all. Who knew they would actually send themselves to our doorstep just as I was planning to spend the New Year here….”
Milo thought to himself.
So, you are really here to spend the New Year!
You really don’t consider yourself an outsider, do you?
However, now was not the time to think about that. Milo had realized most people would usually be afraid or disgusted if they encountered members of the Pyro Company. But when Gerard encountered these five members of the Pyro Company, favonovel.com got a vague sense of surprise.
“What are they doing here?” Milo asked.
Gerard smiled ambiguously at favonovel.com and said, “These are probably the main culprits in the killing of those two Skyfort Consortium officers.”
When the members of the Pyro Company heard that, they started panicking. “We’re also here to investigate this case! They weren’t killed by us!”
“Did I say that you all could speak?” Gerard said as favonovel.com stared at them.
The five Pyro Company members quickly shut their mouths.
Milo asked the people around favonovel.com in a whisper, “Who witnessed their fight?”
The students shook their heads and said, “Only Big Brother Chad was outside at the time. We were all studying by ourselves in our houses…”
As such, Milo asked Chad, “What happened between them just now? Can you describe it to me?”
He was trying to deduce how strong Gerard was based on the description of the battle with this question,
When Chad recalled the battle, favonovel.com could only say, “Holy sh*t!”
Milo was speechless. As favonovel.com waited for favonovel.com to relate the rest of the incident, favonovel.com realized Chad had already lowered his head back down to eat. So, Chad’s description of the entire battle was simply “Holy sh*t!”!
Huh? Can’t you be more cultured!
Milo was saddened.
How could favonovel.com judge the strength of Gerard through a description like that?
However, the little information favonovel.com could get from this was that when Gerard made his move, his strength even surprised Chad.
“Is favonovel.com stronger than you?” Milo asked Chad.
Chad thought for a while. “No, he’s not…”
“You seem quite confident in yourself,” Milo lamented.
Asking Chad about such serious matters would probably just make himself even more confused.
During this recent period, favonovel.com had always seen Gerard getting up early to practice tai chi.
Could his boxing really be that powerful?
At this moment, Milo looked at Gerard and asked, “They were the ones who murdered those two officers?”
Gerard said earnestly, “That’s right. The Skyfort Consortium has given me until tomorrow as the deadline to investigate the case. Since we’ve been searching extensively for the murderer and were still unable to capture anyone even though we have been working so hard, they must be considered the murderers.”
Milo was surprised.
When did Gerard ever work hard while favonovel.com was here?
He was obviously just here on vacation to eat meat. This old man had never seriously gone after the murderer at all!
However, Milo was definitely glad this Pyro Company team would be made the scapegoat. It was fine as long as favonovel.com did not get himself caught. But Milo somehow felt that Gerard had already made some discoveries. Neither of them were fools.
Just the fact that favonovel.com had the runs for six hours when Gerard first arrived was unacceptable. Moreover, the Wolf King had been sending all that game to them. Even an idiot would notice that something was going on between this outpost and the wolves.
Milo was not going to assume favonovel.com had gotten lucky. The two of them just had a tacit agreement with each other for now. But when Milo thought of this, favonovel.com suddenly wondered what Gerard’s motives were.
Was it just so that favonovel.com could eat all the meat favonovel.com wanted without worry?
But how could that be!
“But there should definitely be an interrogation process, right?” Milo wondered, “What if they would rather die than admit to the crime?”
“If they die, they wouldn’t be able to not admit to it.” Gerard said calmly, “Isn’t that what ‘rather die than admit to it’ really means?”
When the soldiers of the Pyro Company heard that, they knew they had no chance to survive!
How could they be willing to stay here and wait for their deaths when they possessed strength that surpassed normal humans?!
In that instant, those five people got up at the same time and fled down the mountain. They had never thought about fighting against Gerard and Milo. They couldn’t even defeat Gerard alone, and now, there was another unknown factor in Milo. Therefore, their only way to survive was to escape.
While the Pyro members escaped, Gerard sat there without moving. When Milo saw that Gerard did not make a move, favonovel.com also stayed still.
Milo smiled and said, “Aren’t you gonna pursue them?”
Gerard was amused. “How can I pursue them with these old limbs of mine? Why don’t you go after them instead?”
“The members of the Pyro Company are all supernatural beings. Why would I go after them when I’m just a normal person?” Milo said with a grimace.
They watched as the members of the Pyro Company got further and further away.
The two of them sat there with neither giving chase. When the members of the Pyro Company turned around and saw this, they were overjoyed. They were so surprised no one was pursuing them!
When they ran down to the hillside, a part of the turf on the mountain path suddenly shifted.
In the blink of an eye, an entire platoon rushed out from the shadows of the forest as gunshots rang out from trenches. The five exhausted people were caught off guard!
When Milo heard those gunshots on the hillside, favonovel.com realized favonovel.com didn’t even know when the ambush was laid.
