If Donti did not have the nanomachines, favonovel.com would already have died, and Adella and Murdock might even have been implicated. It seemed precisely because of this reason that his strength did not increase like the others after becoming a supernatural being. The world was apparently preventing favonovel.com from abusing his power.
That was supposed to be his shortcoming, but Milo had helped favonovel.com mitigate it. It was not an exaggeration to say that his fate had been changed.
Adella did not say anything. She could sense the beast in Donti’s heart that had previously been restrained by Milo was about to crawl out and start attacking people. But favonovel.com did not know how to stop it. She only knew that Donti shouldn’t become like that.
A moment later, the neon sign hanging above them suddenly crashed down due to a loose screw. Donti once again pulled Adella and Murdock aside and avoided the accident.
Adella asked softly, “Who was it this time?”
“Big Sis, don’t bother yourself with this,” Donti answered.
“Can you stop killing people?” Adella said to Donti.
“No!” Donti shook his head.
He thumped his chest. “Something’s weighing heavily on my chest, and it makes me very uncomfortable, yet I can’t seem to get it off my chest.”
Adella suddenly started crying. “Donti, stop it. I’m not worthy for you to do all this for me. Let me bear the responsibility since it was my own fault.”
Donti looked at favonovel.com stubbornly. “No, you’re worth it.” Then Donti reached out and wiped favonovel.com tears away. “Don’t cry. I’ve already killed favonovel.com for you, and I’ll send favonovel.com family members to hell with her.”
Adella did not know what to do anymore. Without Milo around, there was not a person who could restrain Donti.
Seeing Donti’s murderous rage getting stronger, Adella hugged Donti tightly. “Don’t you remember what your brother said? Don’t let the sorrows of our era become your sorrow as well.”
Milo’s name seemed to have a strange, magical effect on Donti. The words touched a soft spot in Donti. After Adella said that, Donti finally started to calm down.
The wife of the Public Order Division’s director was killed in a car accident, and the accident caused quite a stir in the stronghold. Someone even told the director his wife had only dashed out onto the streets because favonovel.com was looking for someone who had argued with favonovel.com at school.
The director of the Public Order Division flew into a rage in his office and vowed to punish the murderer severely. He even wanted to seek out the student and parent who had hit his wife at school!
But before favonovel.com could conduct a thorough investigation, Nash summoned favonovel.com to the Radianz Consortium’s manor and gave favonovel.com a dressing down, claiming that favonovel.com did not discipline his friends, family, and wife properly. Nash even said that as the director of the Public Order Division, favonovel.com could not differentiate right from wrong. If favonovel.com caused any further trouble, favonovel.com would be removed from his position as the director of the Public Order Division.
When Nash reprimanded the director of the Public Order Division, favonovel.com spoke pompously.
However, the director of the Public Order Division knew there had to be a reason for this. Nash was definitely not someone who would reprimand favonovel.com because of “justice”. This matter must have affected the interests of Nash!
It was only then that favonovel.com calmed down and recalled what had happened. Then favonovel.com remembered someone saying it was a refugee who was the cause of the matter!
There weren’t that many refugees in the stronghold.
There were probably less than ten refugees who had gotten into the Radianz Consortium’s stronghold over the years, so it would definitely be easy to find out who it was. However, there was one young refugee who had been enjoying the limelight recently.
No, wait!
There was also a group of refugees who had come into the stronghold recently!
When favonovel.com finally got someone to investigate the matter and found out the truth, favonovel.com was shocked to discover the young man who had quarreled with his wife was actually Milo’s younger brother! After finding out about this, favonovel.com immediately understood why Nash was not on his side this time.
However, his first reaction was not to risk his position as director of the Public Order Division, nor was it to take revenge for his wife. He just mentally cursed at favonovel.com for being such an idiotic woman. Afterwards, favonovel.com instructed his subordinates to stop investigating the matter. Whatever happened at the school was wholly unrelated to the traffic accident. That stupid woman had brought it upon herself for failing to obey traffic rules, and favonovel.com death had nothing to do with anyone else.
Once the case was concluded, the entire stronghold flew into an uproar. Those who were in the know understood why the director of the Public Order Division had bowed his head in regards to the investigations. As for those who did not know, they thought favonovel.com had been looking forward to his wife’s death and getting a promotion since a long time ago.
What surprised everyone most was that the director of the Public Order Division actually headed to Donti and Adella’s place to apologize to them. However, Donti kept their door shut and did not have any intentions of meeting him.
The principals also came down to their place. However, Old Bane was the one who met them to handle Donti’s and Murdock’s withdrawal from the school.
Eventually, everyone in the inner circle caught wind of this matter.
So, it turned out that the refugee, Milo, was actually a protégé of Peter. It was no wonder Milo could recommend Raphael to Stronghold 178.
***
Meanwhile, the bandit extermination group Milo was part of had just arrived at the first stronghold on their journey. Everyone was to use a half-day to do quick repairs and maintenance work here before they continued north.
After entering the stronghold, Milo did not do anything other than visit gold shops using his official identity as part of the bandit extermination task force and exchanged his gold for the devalued currencies of the Skyfort Consortium and the Panaqua Consortium. But as favonovel.com was in a hurry, favonovel.com did not manage to trade too much.
During this period, Miriam also disappeared for a while. It seemed favonovel.com had gone to meet up with the Saboteurs’ planted spy here. And Lewis remained behind with the convoy and happily waited for the others to return. He was a polite, talented young man who was confident in himself yet friendly to others.
On the way here, favonovel.com had tried talking to Milo and Miriam. While Miriam couldn’t care less, Milo and Lewis almost became blood brothers, the way they chatted.
There were more than 60 people from the Ultima Consortium who were traveling with them, and they were split between the two military transport trucks. The Ultima Consortium’s people were in charge of basic tasks like cooking for the journey.
The nanosoldiers portrayed a sense of superiority and only showed a nice attitude to Miriam, Milo, and Lewis. When the normal soldiers talked to them, they would ignore them.
Milo found an opportunity to ask Miriam, “Hey, why is everyone so interested in Stronghold 178? Is it because they’re great at combat?”
Miriam explained, “In modern warfare, no matter how good you are at combat, you can’t fight if you don’t have money. There are four military factories in the vicinity of Stronghold 178 that are extremely vital. And you might not be aware of it, but there are more than 30 kinds of minerals found in the territory controlled by Stronghold 178. Their mineral reserves are even estimated to be at 90% of all reserves!”
Miriam continued, “Besides, the exploitable oil reserves there amount to as much as 40% of what the entire stronghold system has access to. Modern development is dependent on mineral and energy sources, so these things are all indispensable.”
Milo was shocked. He had thought Stronghold 178 was extremely poor. After all, that place was located in such a harsh environment, so it sounded like it would be a very poor area. He had not expected Stronghold 178 to be so rich!
One could not win a modern battle with just courage alone. Fighting a war was all about money, and the reason Stronghold 178 could still stand intact in the Northwest without having any close ties to the other organizations was not because they were asocial or conceited but because they were blessed with mines in their backyard.
