While running towards the mountain, Milo roughly estimated that even though favonovel.com only had time to gather 14 of the Divine Arms officers’ nanomachines, it was more than what Yves and his group had. If favonovel.com created an armor to protect himself now, favonovel.com would have enough nanomachines to cover every part of favonovel.com except for an area the size of one of his calves.
In a battle, favonovel.com would definitely not fuss over the form of the armor and just aim to protect his vital parts as much as possible. But by estimating this way, it would facilitate his understanding of how many nanomachines favonovel.com had obtained so far.
As Milo fled from the battlefield, there was something on his mind.
While collecting the nanomachines just now, favonovel.com saw many dead Divine Arms officers lying in the snow. He had counted several dozen dead Divine Arms officers. If it were a normal sniper who killed them, surely they wouldn’t be so incredibly lethal. Furthermore, once the sniper fired a shot at these nanosoldiers, the rest of the Divine Arms officers would have quickly moved away. Judging by the speed of the Divine Arms officers, it would be impossible to kill so many of them if the sniper was not a crack shot.
Milo was certain these people had attacked the sniper’s position just by observing the way they died. They had tried to dodge the sniper’s bullets with their speed and attempted to locate and kill the sniper. They failed, however.
Meanwhile, the two Divine Arms officers who had fortunately survived were probably already wounded in the first place, so the others allowed them to retreat first. This was why they managed to survive while the others were all killed!
These were the Divine Arms soldiers, after all. Even if they were demoralized after their strategy failed, and they were defeated by the Panaqua Consortium, they were still a highly regarded unit of the Skyfort Consortium.
How could a sniper kill over a 100 of them so easily as they retreated?
Could the sniper also possess a Perfect Firearms Proficiency like Miriam?
But how could there be so many expert marksmen in the world?
To be honest, Milo somehow felt that the sniper could very well be Miriam. However, the evidence proved otherwise. Moreover, there was no reason why Miriam would appear here.
Milo went to look for the Potato Shooter and collected the allocated quantity of potatoes for the day before returning to camp.
“Milo, you’re back?” Michael happily took the potatoes from Milo’s arms. “We’ve got to be careful when we make our meals. I heard that those in other tents have already run out of food. Some of them are so hungry they went out to look for food even though they’re afraid.”
“They should have done so earlier.” Milo said as favonovel.com dusted off the snow from his body, “Now that their physical strength and energy have reached their lowest points, I’m afraid they won’t even have enough strength to look for food.”
Chad went to Milo and helped favonovel.com dust off the snow favonovel.com couldn’t reach. He even handed favonovel.com a piping hot potato and said, “Master, have some…”
Milo took a look at the sky outside. “We’ve already camped here for four days. I’m afraid that everyone has already run out of food except for us. If we continue wasting our time here, everyone will die.”
“It’s not only us.” Michael sighed and said, “We have only a 1,000 of us here, but more than 20,000 private soldiers are starving across the entire battlefield, and they were all done in by the private troops’ commander. If everyone had enough to eat, it wouldn’t be so difficult to endure this. But it’s different now since thousands of people might die of starvation once the blizzard passes.”
Then a commotion broke out in the camp.
Milo lifted the tent flap to see what was going on. But favonovel.com could not see what was happening due to the tents blocking his view.
“Y’all remain in the tent. I’ll go and have a look outside.” Milo then walked out of the tent.
He noticed many of the others in the camp had also come out of their tents. It seemed like a commotion had broken out at the southernmost side of the camp behind them.
“What is going on?” someone asked.
“I don’t know. I just came out here after hearing the commotion. Could a fight have broken out over there?”
Someone said indifferently, “They still have the energy to fight when everyone is starving?”
Milo ignored them and continued walking south. When favonovel.com almost reached the end of the camp, favonovel.com saw others not from the private army!
An unusual-looking platoon was standing there and questioning someone at the border of the camp.
As Milo approached, favonovel.com heard their conversation. “Why’re you all stationed here? Why didn’t you reach the strategic location at the indicated time? Where is the commanding officer? Get favonovel.com out here to answer our questions!”
Milo was stunned for a moment. These people were not wearing the uniforms of the combat troops but the Office of Special Investigations’ uniforms!
He quickly realized they were probably here to investigate the incident involving the Divine Arms Battalion. A series of chain reactions must have started after the Divine Arms Battalion was ambushed by the Panaqua Consortium.
Since their group of private troops had swapped vehicles and uniforms with the Divine Arms Battalion, they would definitely be the prime suspects of the Office of Special Investigations’ probe.
After Milo figured the situation out, favonovel.com blended back into the crowd as favonovel.com did not wish to interact with the Office of Special Investigations yet.
The commander of Doug’s reinforced company came over and said, “Our commander is still semiconscious after getting kicked by one of the Divine Arms officers. When favonovel.com regained consciousness, favonovel.com started running a fever. It was also the Divine Arms Battalion’s decision to encamp here.”
The commander of the reinforced company practically pushed all responsibility to the Divine Arms Battalion. After all, dead men tell no tales.
A person from the Office of Special Investigations frowned. “Where are the Divine Arms? Tell them to come out for questioning.”
When Milo heard that, favonovel.com thought that the Office of Special Investigations’ tone was way too arrogant. He was yelling for the Divine Arms Battalion as though favonovel.com were ordering his subordinates around. It was no wonder no one thought it was unfair when favonovel.com used his identity as a member of the Office Special Investigations to reprimand others.
However, the company commander explained, “The officers of the Divine Arms Battalion stubbornly chased after a rabbit in a hunt two mornings ago. In the end, they got attacked by some unknown vegetation. All five of the Divine Arms officers died as a result. If you don’t believe it, go ahead and question the others.”
The people from the Office of Special Investigations looked around, bewildered.
The private soldiers surrounding them quickly nodded and said, “We couldn’t catch up no matter how hard we chased after them. When we finally got there, we saw them already dead.”
These people had agreed to collude on this event as they felt a little guilty for not attempting to rescue those officers.
The platoon commander of the Office of Special Investigations frowned and said, “Bring me to your commander. After that, we’ll head to the place where you said the Divine Arms officers died!”
Milo was not exactly panicking at this moment.
Since all of the private soldiers here were trying so hard to cover up for him, what did favonovel.com have to worry about?
The commander of the reinforced company led the Office of Special Investigations into the camp.
They first checked on Doug’s condition and the person charged with inspecting favonovel.com nodded to the platoon commander and said, “He does still have a high fever. His body probably got inflammation after suffering internal bleeding from the kick.”
The platoon commander of the Office of Special Investigations said to the reinforced company’s commander, “Hand over the private troops’ roster to me. We’ll head over to the spot where the Divine Arms officers met their demise right now.”
