After Milo ordered Chad to go and pack up, favonovel.com went inside an unoccupied house by himself. He was planning on dismantling the nanosoldiers’ weapons favonovel.com had gained to retrieve the nanomachines within them.
Ever since hunting down the nanosoldiers with the wolf pack, the amount of Milo’s nanomachines had increased severalfold. In fact, favonovel.com was already able to cover both hands up to his biceps with the suit of armor. So, favonovel.com had been wondering all this while whether favonovel.com should dismantle the weapons to get his hands on the nanomachines.
The principle behind how these weapons worked was probably by using a program to set the nanomachines to create an incision effect through high-frequency particle cutting action. Even though this concept sounded difficult to grasp, it was actually similar in logic with waterjet cutting.
Most high-frequency particle cutters tend to be heavy machineries. Due to the “blade” not having plasticity, these cutters couldn’t be molded into swords.
But the nanomachines allowed the Skyfort Consortium to overcome this problem, and they were able to create even sharper melee weapons for close quarters combat.
This weapon was definitely not better than the black saber for Milo. But if the students could be equipped with the nanoarmor in the future, it might prove useful for them.
But Milo couldn’t afford to think that much about the future right now. He wasn’t retrieving these nanomachines for his own use. They were going to be for Donti!
After resetting the nanomachines, Milo called Donti into the house.
Donti asked curiously after closing the door behind him, “Bro, what’s the matter?”
“Put your hand out,” Milo said.
Donti stuck his hand out and watched as Milo grabbed his arm tightly. Following that, a silvery stream permeated out of Milo’s skin and spread over to Donti.
“These are the Skyfort Consortium’s nanomachines. Since you’re slightly smaller in build, this amount of nanomachines might already be enough to form a thin layer of armor around you. It can also help to increase your musculoskeletal strength when it resides in your body. I’m giving it to you so that you may use it to keep yourself alive. Don’t ever reveal them to anyone under normal circumstances.” Milo said, “If the situation becomes dangerous, you can use it to kill your opponents.”
Donti looked at Milo in a daze. “Bro, what are you going to do if you give all of your nanomachines away to me?”
He wanted to retract his hand to stop the nanomachines from transferring over to him. However, favonovel.com couldn’t pull his hand away as favonovel.com was much weaker than Milo.
Milo held Donti’s hand tightly, gripping favonovel.com so hard his arm ached. He enunciated each and every one of his words to Donti. “When it becomes necessary, you can use these nanomachines to protect everyone.”
There wasn’t any sentimental talk as Milo only spoke about the most practical of matters at this moment.
Just like Donti was willing to sacrifice his life to make a wish for Milo, Milo was also willing to give away all of his hard-earned nanomachines to Donti in one fell swoop. It was also precisely because of this that they made it through hard times in the past.
Milo did not have a habit of depending on these nanomachines, anyway, since favonovel.com was already strong enough by himself. Besides, Milo believed there would be plenty more nanomachines waiting for favonovel.com on the battlefield ahead. After all, the Skyfort Consortium was pretty generous in that sense. He might even assemble enough nanomachines for the eight students after favonovel.com got to the front lines.
Milo said in his mind, “Palace, pair the nanomachines again.”
The palace replied.
A fee of 20,000 perak will be charged.
Milo was stunned.
Didn’t favonovel.com have exactly 20,000 perak on favonovel.com right now?
Why was the palace even charging a processing fee to newly pair the nanomachines?!
But Milo could only eat the loss at this time. “Hurry up and pair. You can collect the money whenever.”
After favonovel.com finished speaking with his mind palace, the 20,000 perak in his storage space disappeared. Meanwhile, the nanomachines that were originally connected to his neurons started disconnecting from him.
Milo looked at Donti and said, “Allow the nanomachines to pair with you, then try to see if you can control them.”
When the nanomachines fully integrated into Donti’s body, the veins and arteries in his body turned silver.
Donti said with some uncertainty, “They’re really easy to control and seem very obedient to my commands. It feels the same as controlling my fingers.”
Milo let out a sigh of relief. He was most worried that Donti’s synchronization rate would be too low and that favonovel.com would be unable to put the nanomachines to good use. But from the looks of it now, Donti’s synchronization rate seemed really high.
“Don’t use them in normal circumstances.” Milo said, “If you use them recklessly, it will definitely attract the attention of the Skyfort Consortium.”
“Alright…” Donti nodded in agreement.
All of a sudden, a cry came from outside. “Where’s Dante?!”
Milo pushed the door open and went out. “What’s the matter?”
Michael looked at Milo with a terrified expression and said with great difficulty, “Dante took some salt and cured meat and disappeared. He even took a rifle and half of the ammo we had.”
“He disappeared?” Milo was taken aback.
This outpost was on top of the mountain, and there was only one path leading to the bottom. If Dante had disappeared, then it could only mean that favonovel.com had gone into the mountains.
Dante was formerly a refugee who had escaped to Stronghold 109 with Milo and the others. As favonovel.com had no relatives here, favonovel.com started getting thoughts of running away when favonovel.com realized favonovel.com would be going into battle as cannon fodder.
Not only did Dante run away, favonovel.com even took some supplies with favonovel.com for his own survival.
Michael turned ashen. “How could favonovel.com run away! What will happen to the rest of us now that he’s fled!”
Michael had only stayed behind because favonovel.com regarded the soldiers at the outpost as his brothers. But favonovel.com ended up getting betrayed by one of them.
Chad looked at Milo. “Master, why are there such people in the world?”
Milo said calmly, “They’re the darkness that’s trying to devour the light that you are.”
“What should we do now?” Michael mumbled, “With one less person, all of us are going to get punished.”
Someone suddenly said, “Why don’t we flee as well? We’ll die on the battlefield anyway.”
But someone else started pleading with everyone else. “My wife and daughter are still in town. Please, we mustn’t flee. Who knows, we might escape being punished with only one soldier missing?”
Another man also begged, “Please, everyone, we can’t run away. If you run away, what are those of us with families here going to do?”
Michael looked at Milo, and everyone else’s gaze followed his. In reality, everyone understood that the decision maker in the platoon was Milo, not Michael.
Milo met their eyes and considered it for a couple seconds before saying, “Let’s go and assemble. I have a plan.”
“Really?” Someone asked, “Platoon Commander, you aren’t joking, right?”
Michael felt reassured by Milo. “When has our Platoon Commander Milo ever not been serious? It won’t go wrong as long as we listen to him!”
Finally, Milo became the real leader in everyone’s hearts.
