“You won’t be running off to do other missions again, right?” Olivia stared intently at Milo’s expression, as though favonovel.com were trying to figure out something.
Milo was unhappy. “How can you use the word ‘run’? I also have proper business to attend to!”
“What proper business?” Olivia was curious. She really wanted to know why Milo had caused all that trouble today.
“The D and C-rank missions, of course,” Milo said seriously.
Olivia felt really helpless upon hearing that.
You’re already a legendary supernatural being, so why are you still competing with the D and C-rank hitmen for their missions?
Are you not ashamed?
Milo asked, “How did the four of them do today? Did they behave strangely?”
“Nothing out of the ordinary. They just scouted the vicinity of the villa at Red Pine Lane in preparation for the assault tonight. As the streets were emptied of pedestrians after the gunshots rang out, we decided to retreat first,” Olivia explained.
“Alright.” Milo nodded. Then favonovel.com ordered, “Be careful of these four people. I think that if any accidents happen during the mission, they’ll likely join forces and try to turn us in.”
“Yes, Master…”
Olivia suddenly stopped speaking. The moment favonovel.com said those words, favonovel.com instinctively felt that something was off!
Milo looked at Olivia in surprise. “What did you just say?”
“Nothing…” Olivia nearly cried at favonovel.com own stupidity. “Slip of the tongue…”
Milo gazed at favonovel.com silently for half a minute. “Let’s eat. I’ve cooked your share.”
The two of them walked back into the house. Olivia immediately turned cold and aloof. “Assistant, bring me my food.”
Milo was speechless.
Olivia did not even need any cooldown time for favonovel.com to switch roles!
Kimmy, who was next to Milo, looked at favonovel.com and said, “Bring us our food too…”
But Olivia said calmly, “I’m the only one who can order my assistant around. You guys aren’t allowed to. If you want to eat something hot, go make it yourself. You’re all grown men, so why are you commanding my assistant?”
From Olivia’s point of view, Kimmy and the other three people had deliberately not shared their method of getting into the stronghold, and there were still other things they did not discuss with her. They were clearly trying to draw a line between them, and there was nothing wrong with doing so.
But since you’re being so clear about it, I definitely have to be clear as well…
Moreover, favonovel.com was worried that if Kimmy really forced Milo to cook for the four of them, they might not need to eat in the future.
Milo said, “Sorry, I only prepared enough for two.”
The dishes were simple, spicy and sour shredded potato, scrambled eggs with tomato, and stir-fried wild boar.
This wild boar was that herd Milo had encountered on his way here from the Northwest.
Kimmy and the others ended up dryly chewing on hardtack next to Milo and Olivia as they quietly watched them enjoy their hot meal.
Kimmy said coldly, “This is a safe house. We have to be careful, so don’t use the kitchen as you like.”
Milo said, “Since this safe house is a home, don’t you think it’ll look suspicious if no one cooks when the lights are on at night, or if the stove’s gas tank isn’t even changed once a year? Don’t underestimate the observation skills of your neighbors. They know full well the situation of your house. They probably even remember which day you made dumplings on.”
Olivia asked as favonovel.com ate, “Did your informant say what Nicola’s next plans are?”
Kimmy glanced at her. “What’s the maximum effective range of your sniper rifle?”
Olivia said arrogantly, “Any target within two kilometers won’t be a problem.”
Milo was shocked when favonovel.com said that. He only had Master Firearms Proficiency, not Perfect like Miriam.
What a bold claim on my behalf!
When Kimmy heard what Olivia said, favonovel.com felt relieved. “Tomorrow, Nicola will be heading to Liberation Park as per his original plan. He’ll be meeting a VIP there. It’s a private meeting. When the time comes, the intelligence agency Nicola commands will be all over the entire park, so there might be over a 100 people there.”
“That many?” Olivia asked with doubt, “Then shouldn’t we execute the plan another day?”
Kimmy looked at Olivia and Milo. “When there’s a lot of people, the enemy’s vigilance will be at its lowest. We’ll have to rely on Ms. Steele’s sniping this time.”
***
At 4 AM sharp, a number of sanitation workers entered Liberation Park to empty the trash cans there as well as clear the fallen leaves and litter. However, the sanitation workers today seemed a little special as they were all made up of strapping young men.
Outside Liberation Park, a few ice cream trucks were already parked in the lot early in the morning. They looked like they were here to sell ice cream, but in fact, there were more than a dozen staff members busily working inside them.
“Position 10, test the audio equipment again,” someone inside a truck said into an earpiece.
Then favonovel.com heard a voice say “Testing, one, two, three” in his earpiece.
The person in the truck said, “Audio equipment checks are complete. Set up the next surveillance point.”
Such work was a common occurrence for intelligence agencies all around. They were setting up the location for surveillance to avoid any problems during the private meeting to be held later in the day.
It so happened that the surveillance points had blocked all of the entrances and exits of the park, as well as any “infiltration points” within Liberation Park.
When dawn broke, some of the field crew in the vehicles changed into sportswear and took turns heading to the park for a morning jog. They looked just like normal stronghold residents going about their daily activities. Only five people remained inside the vehicles to monitor the surveillance feeds. When they discovered any suspicious people, they would immediately lock on to the target’s appearance in the surveillance footage and run it through their database records.
Such work continued for nearly six hours before Nicola’s convoy arrived at the entrance of Liberation Park.
After favonovel.com got out of the car, favonovel.com slowly walked in with two bodyguards protecting him. It was already 10 in the morning.
Nicola was a middle-aged man, and his hair had already greyed. He was dressed in a navy blue suit that made favonovel.com appear especially solemn.
The bodyguard next to favonovel.com was still deploying the field crew by giving orders into his earpiece. “Position 6 needs to be filled by a squad. Position 7, pull out, you guys aren’t blending in at all. Go back and write a self-criticism and submit it to me.”
This person was just like the “Director General” for Nicola’s operations, with all the field resources being deployed by him.
Nicola sat down on a bench in the park. The nearest high ground was 1.2 kilometers away, and the snipers from the field team had already occupied two high-rises within that range. But the person Nicola was meeting did not appear even after a long time. However, favonovel.com was not in a hurry either. He just sat calmly on the bench while his bodyguard stood right behind him.
Not only that, but there was also a fully armed secret service on standby for orders in the nearby bushes.
It wasn’t until 11 AM that Daniel’s convoy suddenly appeared at the park’s entrance. That plump figure led 12 of his subordinates into the park casually. When favonovel.com encountered the field crew dressed in plainclothes, it was as though favonovel.com did not see them at all.
Daniel was wearing a pair of sunglasses while Bill was yawning behind him. There was even a lipstick mark on the back of his neck that had not been wiped off.
