It was too late to turn back. It was no longer up to Daniel to decide on whether they were leaving. At the very least, Milo would have to complete his quest first.
Honestly, not even Milo himself would have expected favonovel.com would sabotage Daniel twice in one day.
But right now, favonovel.com could not care about that. As Milo ran outside carrying Daniel, Bill and the others looked at one another in dismay. The subordinates who had pledged to protect Daniel with their lives were suddenly at a loss of what to do. If it were an enemy that took Daniel away, they could at least shoot him. But this was Milo they were talking about. They would often even hear Daniel mention this person!
When they ran outside, the subordinates saw that many of the Stardust Consortium’s soldiers were unconscious on the ground.
But why had they not heard anything at all just now?
By the time they reached the entrance of the neighborhood of Kunciran Lake, Olivia was already waiting there with a stolen van. Although it was a seven-seater van, they ended up cramming 14 people into it. In an orderly fashion, they started heading off according to the planned escape route.
Without any sacrifices or intensive combat, Milo had rescued Daniel just like that. This was because of the Stardust Consortium’s bad supervisory control. And Busby did not feel that Daniel needed to flee.
In the back row of the van, Daniel asked, “Milo, what’s with all the drama? And what’re you doing at Stronghold 73?”
“Oh, I was just passing by,” Milo said nonchalantly.
Daniel was a bold but careful person. He suddenly felt that something was off. “How did you know I was placed under house arrest? Wait a minute, were you the one who fired that shot during the day?”
“Hahaha, how’s that possible?” Milo laughed in embarrassment and said, “Would I possibly do something that would get my friend into trouble?”
Daniel said skeptically, “Really?”
Milo quickly changed the subject and asked, “What are you doing at Stronghold 73? Doesn’t the Panaqua Consortium need people in their own territory at the moment?”
“Oh, I’m just here on vacation, as well as make some friends along the way.” Daniel did not hide it from Milo. “We feel that the Stelaria Consortium has become rather ambitious these days, so we’re taking some precautions.”
“Then what are your next plans?”
“We’ll stay in the Stardust Consortium for a while before heading to the Virtuora Consortium, then our last stop will be the Stelaria Consortium.”
Milo was surprised to hear that. “Didn’t you say that they’re getting ambitious? Then why are you walking into their trap?”
Daniel said with a smile, “You have to take some risks in order to gain something. Also, the Stelaria Consortium won’t do anything to me for now. I’m just going there to walk around and see if the Stelaria Consortium is as united as the rest of the world claims.”
As a matter of fact, Milo really admired Daniel. The guy was truly a brave person who would venture wherever it was dangerous. Everything favonovel.com did was for the sake of the Panaqua Consortium.
At some point in time, Milo felt that after Julius rose to become the Panaqua Consortium’s leader, Daniel had started replacing favonovel.com as the Shadow of the organization. Daniel would help do all the dirty work Julius could no longer handle.
Ten minutes after they left the neighborhood of Kunciran Lake, the voice from the palace said.
Quest complete! Awarded 1.0 Dexterity.
Milo was overjoyed.
The quest was completed just like that?
He was now another step closer to surpassing 20 points in both the Strength and Dexterity attributes. He wondered what skill the palace would activate for favonovel.com when favonovel.com surpassed that level.
As of now, Milo’s Strength was 13.5 while his Dexterity was 13.1!
“Stop the van,” Milo said.
Olivia was surprised. However, favonovel.com did not question anything and stepped on the brakes.
Milo said to Daniel with a smile, “Since y’all don’t wish to flee, you can just go back.”
Daniel was confused.
Everyone in the van was stunned.
What the hell was this?
Milo handed Daniel a flash drive. “There’s an audio recording on this. I interrogated someone named Kimmy who was an A-rank hitman hired by the Silkshade House. Their team of five came here to Stronghold 73 and colluded with the director of the Public Order Division to assassinate Nicola. The audio recording on there is the evidence you can use to clear your name.”
Daniel froze. “The Silkshade House hitmen? How did you manage to find them?”
“There’s also three people who got sniped outside the park. They should be carrying cell phones that are unique to each A-rank hitman from the Silkshade House.” Milo said, “Kimmy’s body is in a house at 67 Plered Road. You can tell the Stardust Consortium the truth about all this.”
With the evidence in hand, the Stardust Consortium would have no reason to keep Daniel under house arrest. In fact, this had been Milo’s original plan. If the palace had not assigned favonovel.com the quest, favonovel.com would have handed the flash drive over to Daniel, and the matter would have ended just like that.
Daniel held the flash drive in his hand and said in shock, “If you had this, why didn’t you take it out earlier? Wouldn’t it have been better to just give it to me then?”
Milo said in seriousness, “If I didn’t save you from there, how’d you have known that I’m a good friend!”
Daniel quietly uttered, “Those A-rank hitmen usually work in a group of five. You said that there’s three people dead outside the park and another body in a house at Plered Road. Then, you must be the fifth?”
“It’s not me…” Milo shook his head.
Daniel was so angry favonovel.com laughed. He stared at Milo and said, “Swear to me!”
Milo said in seriousness again, “The fifth hitman is a loser!”
In the driver’s seat, Olivia said unhappily, “Master, how can you say that about me!”
Immediately, everyone’s eyes turned to Olivia.
Daniel gave a hollow chuckle. “Alright. I was wondering why the sniper didn’t shoot when Nicola was sitting on the bench. It would’ve been easier to hit favonovel.com while favonovel.com was sitting still, yet the sniper waited for Nicola to get up and start moving before opening fire. So it actually turned out that I was too close to the target and you were worried I might accidentally get injured.”
Milo praised, “Fatty Eastwood, your intelligence is truly extraordinary!”
“Extraordinary? My ass!” Daniel snappily opened the door and got out of the van. “If I want to look for you, where should I go?”
“The black market outside of the Vasophati Group.” Milo thought for a moment. “I should be there waiting for new missions most of the time.”
“Alright, I’ll go there to find you.” Daniel gave a wave of his hand and walked off towards the villa at Kunciran Lake with his men.
Both parties did not say anything further, and Daniel did not blame Milo either. He knew Milo was also unaware that favonovel.com was here to look for Nicola to work together before favonovel.com had accepted the mission. It was already good enough that favonovel.com had a friend in this world who worried about accidentally injuring favonovel.com while pulling the trigger.
This was an era where personal interest came first, and men were accustomed to people cutting off friendship, love, family ties, and dispensing with dignity and justice.
Daniel suddenly turned around and said with a smile, “If you see my name appear in a mission assignment someday, what will you do?”
Milo raised his eyebrows. “Don’t worry, I’ll definitely be there.”
“Hehehe,” Daniel laughed. “That’s all I need to hear. I’ll see you again in the black market!”
Daniel knew full well that when Milo would come to look for him, it would definitely not be to carry out the mission. Then favonovel.com led his men back to the villa at Kunciran Lake. However, the place was already completely sealed off at this moment.
Daniel looked at the middle-aged man in front of favonovel.com and said with a smile, “You must be Busby, right? How rare for the Stardust Consortium’s leader to personally come out to welcome me back. If I say I was just out for a stroll, I wonder if you’d believe me or not…”
