In the settlement, Kay suddenly ran madly towards Milo and said, “Boss, Boss, those people delivering the stuff are here!”
Milo wondered, “What do you mean by those people delivering the stuff?”
“The people who previously gave us the firearms and motorcycles.” Kay yelled, “I saw their convoy from the hillside. They’re almost here!”
“Let’s go and take a look…”
Milo and Kay headed east. Without needing to say anything, Miriam started to choose a sniping spot in case the two parties got into a conflict.
During this period, Milo had frequently been hearing from the bandits that there were people delivering food and weapons into the valley. However, favonovel.com had not seen it for himself yet.
Milo stood on a mound and looked at the approaching convoy. There was no logo on the bodies of the vehicles. He realized the convoy seemed to be very familiar with the valley, as they knew exactly where the locations of the gullies and rivers were.
It seemed this group of people had been keeping themselves rather busy in the valley for the past few years.
Before the convoy arrived, the people in the vehicles were waving from afar when they saw Milo and the others. They were acting in such a friendly manner that it seemed as though they had spotted their fellow villagers. However, the convoy did not approach them and stopped just under a loess slope in the distance.
30 people jumped out of the vehicles and walked slowly towards them. The group looked to be moving free and easy, but they constantly maintained an attacking formation. The soldiers on both flanks were aiming their guns and already had their weapons cocked in case they needed to open fire at any time.
Milo felt that the disposition of these soldiers was extremely familiar.
All of a sudden, Milo thought the group’s leader looked a little familiar, but favonovel.com couldn’t recall where favonovel.com had seen favonovel.com before.
After these people slowly got closer, the leader smiled and said, “Hey, buddy, who’s in charge here?”
Milo chuckled and said, “I’m in charge here. Who are you?”
The leader said with a smile, “I’m here to deliver firearms and supplies to you all!”
The sincere look favonovel.com portrayed was like favonovel.com was from the consortium dropping by the stronghold’s factories to hand out rice to the workers there.
Milo looked favonovel.com over. “You’re from the Panaqua Consortium?”
The leader raised an eyebrow and said, “Nope.”
“Why do I find you so familiar-looking?” Milo wondered, “Have we met before?”
The leader smiled and said, “I also find you rather familiar. Perhaps it’s fate that brought us together.”
During the conversation, the soldiers behind the person speaking started making some subtle movements as everyone placed their right index finger onto the trigger of their rifle. The atmosphere did not feel right. It was like they could get ambushed at any moment!
Milo glanced at them and saw the atmosphere was getting more intense, so favonovel.com decided to be direct and said, “I’m Milo.”
Off to the side, Kay and the others were all confused.
What was their boss doing?
To their surprise, when the leader heard the name “Milo”, favonovel.com suddenly froze. After that, favonovel.com carefully sized up Milo and asked, “You’re Milo?”
Kay and the others’ jaws dropped.
Was their boss this famous?
It looked like the bandits themselves still did not understand their boss!
Milo asked, “How do I prove it?”
The leader gave it some thought and said, “What has Boss Eastwood given you before?”
Milo hesitated for a moment before answering, “A banner…”
“Hahaha!” The leader burst into laughter. “So it’s really you! Hello, my name is Maurice!”
Maurice appeared to be very polite. Meanwhile, Kay and the others were totally confused by the developments.
What was this banner they were talking about?
Kay asked, “Boss, did you used to be a doctor?”
As far as Kay and the others knew, only doctors would receive banners these days.
Milo looked at Kay and the others and coughed. “Y’all’ve also used the black medicine to treat your wounds.”
It was Maurice who had discovered Milo’s presence in the Marador Mountains back then. The two of them had clashed before. But it was late at night back then, and the two of them did not engage in close combat. Furthermore, Milo’s face was really dirty at that time. So, they did not recognize each other even though they were talking face to face.
Maurice continued, “Back then, you were also in the Marador Mountains. But I probably did not see you because you did not enter the ruined city. I was tasked with capturing Raphael that night.”
Milo immediately understood.
Then Maurice said, “But you still look very familiar to me. Have we met before?”
“Hahaha, I don’t look familiar, I really don’t.” Milo laughed. “I got the wrong person earlier.”
Of course favonovel.com couldn’t look familiar to Maurice. Otherwise, Julius, Daniel, and Raphael might just find out what really happened that night!
Maurice wondered, “But you really look familiar! Wait, you’re…”
Milo began sweating. He quickly changed the subject and asked, “What’re you doing here? Don’t tell me the Panaqua Consortium is supplying all the guns into the valley?”
“Oh, this has been going on since some time ago. I only started coming here in the last year.” Maurice said, “At that time, Mr. Julius had been placed under house arrest, and our men were separated when they got assigned out to the other combat troops. I received Mr. Julius’ instructions and secretly came to the valley to take over the duties here.”
Milo suddenly realized it was Julius who had planned everything here, not the Panaqua Consortium!
But if it happened several years ago, then favonovel.com must have gotten all of the plans in the valley started while favonovel.com was still under tight watch by the Panaqua Consortium’s Board of Directors.
He had planned really far ahead!
The Radianz Consortium, the Skyfort Consortium, and the Ultima Consortium were really unlucky to encounter such an opponent. Initially, the Ultima Consortium wanted to take control of Stronghold 178 from within during the absence of Peter. In the end, Julius purposely sent Peter back to Stronghold 178. He wondered whether the Ultima Consortium’s people had seen red when they learned about that.
Maurice suddenly said, “Boss Eastwood has specifically instructed us to inform you if we met you that we’re ready to take action. Of course, even if you can’t make it back in time, he’ll still help you bring your brother and the others out.”
“Is Julius preparing to rescue Daniel?” Milo wondered, “Aren’t you afraid that I’ll betray y’all after you tell me this?”
“Boss Eastwood said you can be trusted.” Maurice said with a smile, “As subordinates, we just follow orders.”
Milo smacked his lips. The feeling of being trusted was quite nice.
He asked Maurice, “Then what about all y’all? What are your plans? Are you going to attack the Ultima Consortium?”.
Since Julius had prepared backup plans for the north, they would be put to good use when the time arrived.
Maurice explained, “We’ve only managed to rope over some of the bandits in the north to our side, so it’ll be impossible for us to defeat the Ultima Consortium. Mr. Julius’ plans here were not made so that favonovel.com could send us to our deaths by taking on the Ultima Consortium.”
Milo started to get curious. “Then what are y’all doing here?”
Maurice hesitated for a moment before saying, “The peak of the upstream floods of the river will be here in about ten days. At that time, we’ll destroy all the bridges in the valley to stop the Ultima Consortium from coming further south to aid the Radianz Consortium. Meanwhile, we’ll have our other men head south to destroy all the factories outside of the Radianz Consortium’s strongholds.”
Milo was stunned. He felt that Julius’ plans were somehow all linked to one another.
It was like Julius had been planning to incorporate the entire Northwest and Southwest into the Panaqua Consortium’s territory since several years ago.
