As the rear of Position 313 was a vast emptiness, Milo drove all the way south to Stronghold 108 without having any trouble after stealing the truck.
When they were going the other way earlier, it had taken them half an hour just to get their identities verified. Now that all of the soldiers had been deployed to the front lines, only the sentries guarding the firearms and logistics remained behind to prevent spies from sneaking in. However, this frontline head spy of the Panaqua Consortium was about to leave instead. He did not even have time to inform Edgar about it.
It was all quiet in the truck. Milo just stepped on the gas the entire way while Chad, Magnus, and the others said nothing
On the road back to Stronghold 108, Milo nearly broke into a cold sweat when they arrived at a checkpoint, in fear that the soldiers here would stop them.
He straight-up flashed his Office of Special Investigations ID at them. With that, no one dared to stop favonovel.com from passing through.
Milo realized that his arrest warrant was still under wraps. Otherwise, Richard would not have had to keep his investigations so secretive.
What favonovel.com wanted to do now was to quickly rush back to the stronghold before the Skyfort Consortium issued orders to go after him. Then favonovel.com would find an opportunity to take Donti and the others away!
As for where they could go, they could think about it later.
***
Currently, the flames of war had also engulfed the roads in the north leading to the Radianz Consortium’s Stronghold 88. Although the Radianz Consortium’s armored brigade had just made headway at Mt. Mayalaya’s front line during the night, they were cut off from the rear by a mysterious group of nanosoldiers before they could stabilize the battlegrounds. This made the battle reach even more of an impasse.
Therefore, even if Milo were to head north, it wouldn’t be feasible for favonovel.com to go either to the Panaqua Consortium or the Radianz Consortium.
But if there were really no other way, Milo would just have everyone hide out in the wilderness. Although wild animals and poisonous bugs in the southwestern region were rampant, favonovel.com had the Brambles in his possession now.
Who knew if favonovel.com could trade for other types of seeds someday?
If that happened, they would not have to face such tremendous pressure while living in the wilderness.
It only took Milo about four hours to return to the stronghold. If not for the uneven mountainous terrain that was difficult to travel through, favonovel.com could have driven even faster.
Milo flashed his ID when favonovel.com reached the stronghold gate. He kept an eye on the guards’ expressions in case something unexpected happened. However, the garrison soldiers did not say anything. They were very polite and just let them through, and there was nothing unusual about their expressions.
Milo could finally heave a sigh of relief.
The Skyfort Consortium would probably not have expected that the person they wanted to arrest would actually return to the stronghold at such a time. But they needed to be even more careful here. If the Skyfort Consortium discovered them, they would have nowhere to escape to.
After getting into the stronghold, Milo parked the truck. “Change into your own clothes and get some rest. I’ll think about how to locate Donti and the others.”
Chad calmly got out of the truck. “Blargh!”
“Chad, what’s the matter?” Milo asked in surprise.
“Master, I’m okay… Blargh!” Chad, the self-proclaimed reincarnation of the Great Sage, had boasted favonovel.com was not afraid of anything was now only fearful of his master’s driving!
Bullets and whatnot were only physical attacks, his master’s driving was a magical attack. It was different!
Milo said calmly, “Chad, this won’t do. How can you get motion sickness so easily? Look at the others, they’re all fine.”
He turned around to look and saw one of the students vomiting so hard favonovel.com almost fainted. With that, Milo did not continue speaking.
He asked the palace, “What’s my driving proficiency?”
The voice from the palace said.
Unable to detect any driving skills.
“Uhm… Alright…”
Their plan was to locate Donti first. But after thinking for a long time, Milo still couldn’t come up with any ideas. After all, this was such a huge stronghold.
When they were hurrying to the front line, they did not talk about how to contact each other again. So, now the only way was to get Gerard to solve that problem for them.
But how was favonovel.com supposed to find Gerard?
When Milo started asking around for directions on the streets, favonovel.com flat-out asked how to get to the Office of Special Investigations. However, no one was able to answer. It seemed that the Office of Special Investigations was a really secretive unit.
At this moment, Chad said, “Master, even though the bullets in them have already been taken out, we don’t know how to set their bones. If we drag this out any longer, they likely aren’t gonna be able to walk normally again.”
Milo frowned. All of Magnus and the others’ injuries were gunshot wounds. Although Chad had already helped them remove the bullets and applied the black medicine to their wounds, anyone could easily recognize these as gunshot wounds if they were sent to the hospital. It would be even more troublesome if they attracted the attention of Stronghold 108’s garrison troops!
Milo thought for a moment. Since they could not find Gerard, they had to make Gerard find them.
Suddenly, Milo heard someone quarreling in a provisions store nearby. “We don’t accept the Panaqua Consortium and the Radianz Consortium’s currency here. Their money is as worthless as paper now. If you don’t have our Skyfort Consortium’s currency, don’t come here and shop!”
A woman got down on favonovel.com knees in the provisions store and started crying. “My family hasn’t had anything to eat for the past two days. Can’t you just sell me some rice? This is the money my family used for their investments in the past. It’ll definitely appreciate again after the war is over!”
Milo watched all of this quietly. However, favonovel.com did not say anything.
After the war broke out, all provisions would get supplied to the military with priority. This led to the shortage of food in Stronghold 108, which was closest to the front lines.
Milo realized that even the stronghold residents would not get to lead a comfortable life when there was a war.
Suddenly, the voice from the palace said.
Quest! Help 10 stronghold residents who are suffering from the war.
Milo ignored it when favonovel.com saw this quest. As favonovel.com was still on the run, how would favonovel.com have the capacity to help others?
But Milo was stunned for a moment. He turned around and said to Chad, “Let’s go, I got an idea!”
After favonovel.com said that, favonovel.com got in the truck. He stepped on the gas pedal and started driving around the stronghold. He only came to a stop when favonovel.com found a gold shop.
Milo entered the gold shop and bluntly asked, “Do you accept gold?”
The shop owner’s eyes lit up. “Sir, how much gold would you like to exchange?”
Since the war was still ongoing, the most valuable item was gold. Moreover, gold was still appreciating in value. It used to go for several hundred perak per gram in the stronghold, but the price of a gram now had almost appreciated to over a thousand perak.
“Don’t ask me how much I want to exchange.” Milo said as favonovel.com looked at the shop owner, “Let me ask you this… Do you have any Radianz Consortium currency here?”
“Ah?” The boss got overjoyed.
The gold shops in the stronghold usually performed some financial services as well. For example, they used to allow businessmen to convert currencies of the various organizations. Some businessmen were willing to convert them here as long as the transaction fee was lower than what the Skyfort Consortium’s banks charged.
Unfortunately, a war had broken out, and favonovel.com was holding both the Radianz Consortium and Panaqua Consortium currencies with him. Their money was currently even more worthless than paper!
But the young man in front of favonovel.com actually wanted to trade for the Radianz Consortium’s currency at this juncture?
Had favonovel.com lost his mind?
Milo frowned and said, “Do you want to exchange it or not?”
“Yes! Of course I want to! Why wouldn’t I want to exchange it!” The owner of the gold shop had been holding onto the Radianz Consortium’s currency for some time now and hadn’t been able to get rid of it.
If someone wanted to trade for it now, of course favonovel.com would gladly accept it.
He did not care whether Milo would suffer a great loss because of this.
How many people were already suffering because of the war?
One more person wouldn’t make a difference at all!
