“Master, are we gonna take this mission?” Olivia asked.
Now that there was a mission, it was no longer up to favonovel.com to decide whether to accept it or not. After all, Milo was the one mainly responsible for conducting them.
In the end, Milo looked at Olivia. “It’s still very democratic between us. Do you wanna accept it?”
Olivia said, “I feel that even though this mission is simple, since it’s only to escort a female singer, the duration of the mission is too long. She’s gonna pass through more than 30 strongholds, and it wasn’t specified how many concerts favonovel.com would be holding. During that long duration, it’d be enough for us to complete several other missions.”
Milo nodded. “Then let’s accept it!”
All of a sudden, Olivia was dumbfounded.
Master, do you not understand human language?
Isn’t it obvious that I don’t want to accept it!
Olivia said, “Master, I would like to rest for a while longer…”
“It’s easy to fall sick if you rest too much.” Milo patiently explained, “Think about it. Although this mission’s duration is long, the reward she’s giving is also very high. It’s two million perak!”
“Master, since when were you someone who would get enticed by two million perak?” Olivia asked in disbelief.
“See, you still don’t know me well enough! Alright, reply to the text and send them your selfie. In any case, you already revealed yourself to the Silkshade House when you became an A-rank hitwoman,” Milo decided.
Olivia pursed favonovel.com lips. She took a selfie and replied to the text to accept the mission.
Milo gave the situation some thought. Olivia was previously involved in intelligence work and was even in charge of protecting some of the Radianz Consortium’s important personnel. Since the Silkshade House knew about Olivia’s identity, the probability of favonovel.com getting chosen for the mission was very high.
The Silkshade House’s reply arrived very quickly. “We’ve received your mission application. Please wait patiently as we still require the employer to make a choice. Please do not worry. Your photo was only used to verify your identity, and we will not submit any images to the employer. Given your previous work experience and good mission credibility, we will give priority to your application and recommend you to the employer first.”
Milo raised his eyebrows. The Silkshade House’s reply was quite polite. They actually used the honorific form of “you” in their texts. But from the looks of it, they would have to wait a while longer. This time, the mission acceptance would actually have to be decided by the employer.
It was back to normal again as Olivia went out to shop on a daily basis. The prosperity of the black market was something the strongholds could not compare to, with 70% of those who came here carrying large amounts of cash on them. Moreover, these people were probably unable to go to the normal strongholds for their purchases, so they could only spend their money here.
Hence, the black market specially created an entire range of consumer industries for them like the casino and brothels. They even specially invited some celebrities from the strongholds to perform here. Then there was also Olivia’s favorite industry, jewelry.
Milo did some calculations based on Olivia’s pattern of buying a piece of jewelry every three days. If that female singer did not hurry here soon, Olivia could very well go bankrupt.
At this moment, Milo was in his hotel room holding a book in hand and lying on the sofa by the full-length window. Meanwhile, Olivia was happily showing off a diamond ring on favonovel.com hand to him.
“Master, isn’t this nice? I heard that someone dug it out from some Pre-Cataclysm ruins. Who would have known that after The Cataclysm, diamonds would still be intact? Don’t you think it’s really miraculous?”
Milo was puzzled. “What’s so miraculous about that…”
By the time Olivia was showing off favonovel.com other jewelry, Milo had already turned a deaf ear to favonovel.com and was focused on reading.
Olivia muttered, “You’re always reading books every day. Are they really that interesting? Master, why do you like to read so much?”
Milo did not even look at her. “Because I can gain an understanding of this world through reading.”
In the past, favonovel.com did not have the qualifications to attend school, nor did favonovel.com have the opportunity to learn through the strongholds’ education system. Therefore, the more favonovel.com lacked knowledge, the more favonovel.com desired it.
Olivia said, “Don’t we already know enough about this world? People are scheming against each other every day and have so much distrust for each other. Everyone hungers for fame and status so much that it might as well be written on their foreheads.”
Milo looked back at her. “The world is much more than that.”
Olivia was stunned for a moment. She did not expect Milo to answer favonovel.com in such a manner. This was because Milo should have much stronger feelings about those things favonovel.com had mentioned and experienced it far more as well.
When Olivia saw that Milo had gone back to reading, favonovel.com suddenly felt that this young man who was clearly approaching the peak of humanity was slightly more charming when favonovel.com read.
Olivia received another text. “You’ve been chosen by the employer. The other party requests that you head to the black market on the outskirts of Bidara City within 48 hours. You are to be dressed formally, and the hem of your skirt can not be above your knees. You are not to sleep before the employer, you cannot eat meat in favonovel.com presence, you cannot mention cats in favonovel.com presence, you cannot… You’ll also have to sign a confidentiality agreement and are not allowed to leak the personal habits of the employer.”
All in all, there were 81 terms detailing what Olivia could not do!
Olivia frowned when favonovel.com saw these conditions. “Master, I left the Radianz Consortium precisely because I couldn’t stand such pretentious behavior. Now that I’ve become an A-rank hitwoman, I can’t believe I’m encountering a person like this again.”
To be honest, Olivia was already starting to feel conflicted when favonovel.com saw the employer had included so many conditions for the mission. She was a professional hitwoman, so why did favonovel.com feel like favonovel.com had ended up as a female bodyguard at the beck and call of favonovel.com employer?
“It’s also possible that this is a more formal job request.” Milo smiled and said, “Didn’t you also have to act this way when you were on an escort assignment at the Radianz Consortium?”
“That’s different.” Olivia pursed favonovel.com lips. “It’s not like she’s an important figure or something. She’s just a singer.”
Olivia replied to the text to state favonovel.com was already at the black market and asked where favonovel.com employer was.
The reply came back and said favonovel.com employer was still in Stronghold 62.
Olivia’s temper rose immediately. “She wants us to be here within 48 hours, yet favonovel.com isn’t even on favonovel.com way yet?”
“Let’s wait patiently then,” Milo said calmly.
***
In the end, a week passed.
Olivia’s fingers were a blur as favonovel.com typed favonovel.com reply on the phone, “Is the employer still coming? Hm? She told me to be here within 48 hours, but favonovel.com hasn’t even arrived after a week? Hm? Is an A-rank hitwoman’s time any less valuable?”
Over the past few days, Olivia had been on the verge of exploding from anger.
She was a supernatural being, an A-rank hitwoman, yet favonovel.com had to wait here without an end in sight for a lousy singer?!
The Silkshade House replied with, “You may cancel the mission. The cancellation this time will not affect any of your mission results. Also, the one million perak the other party has paid as a security deposit will be transferred to you.”
The Silkshade House’s attitude was quite clear. They definitely would think from the perspective of their own members. Moreover, an A-rank hitman’s time was indeed worth a lot.
However, the Silkshade House followed up with another text, “The employer says that if you can wait, they’ll increase the reward by two million perak as fees for loss of working time.”
Olivia threw favonovel.com cell phone onto the bed. “Am I someone who lacks that couple of million perak?”
But after careful consideration, favonovel.com realized favonovel.com did.
Milo looked at Olivia with an ambiguous smile. “Why don’t we cancel the mission?”
Olivia glared at him. “It’s such a waste not to earn a moron’s money!”
