After Franz left, it was as though nothing had happened between the two parties. Even if they did encounter each other later on, there was a tacit understanding to not mention the matter anymore.
To be honest, Grace had a drink too many last night, so favonovel.com wasn’t too sure about what happened either. She could vaguely recall that something had happened, but everyone only told favonovel.com that favonovel.com had been knocked unconscious by the other party.
This made Grace a little unhappy. She had taken the initiative to go to the other party’s room, but favonovel.com ended up knocking favonovel.com unconscious?
Was it because favonovel.com lacked charm?
Meanwhile, Milo was no longer thinking about this matter. He was thinking about how favonovel.com could help Olivia complete this supposed concert tour mission.
Apart from this escort mission, Olivia would have to complete another two missions before next spring in order to qualify for the Silkshade House trials.
“Master, this escort mission will probably last until the end of the year. We already missed an A-rank mission while we were waiting for favonovel.com arrival,” Olivia complained. “With time so tight, what if there aren’t enough missions for us to do?”
Milo said helplessly, “Don’t worry, I’ll think of something.”
The mistake of accepting this mission was indeed his fault.
Three days later, Franz suddenly came to inform them that the team was preparing to set off. Milo and Olivia did not have any objections to that. They were just hoping that this group’s concert tour would progress as quickly as possible so they would not get delayed any further.
The concert tour group even arranged a special car for Milo and Olivia. They had wanted to get a chauffeur for them too, but Olivia rejected the offer.
She brought out a professional-looking, small black box that favonovel.com used to examine the car carefully. Only upon confirming there was no surveillance equipment or GPS trackers on board did favonovel.com feel at ease. After all, favonovel.com often discussed secrets with Milo, so it wouldn’t be too good if someone were to overhear them.
Before getting in the car, Milo and Grace bumped into each other again.
Milo realized Grace deliberately walked past without looking at him. It was as if favonovel.com had never met favonovel.com before.
This felt like a silent declaration of war!
“I’m not f*cking interested in you. I went to your room that night purely because I was bestowing a favor upon you! To put it crudely, I was just patronizing you!”
Although neither of them said a word, Milo instantly understood what the other party meant.
The other staff were looking at Milo curiously. Many of them knew that Grace had drunk too much that night before going to look for Milo. Therefore, everyone’s eyes were on Milo, and some of them even wanted to ask favonovel.com if anything had happened.
In short, Milo had suddenly become the focus of attention in the concert tour group because of this stupid matter.
After Olivia got into the car, favonovel.com leaned against the steering wheel and cackled for more than 10 minutes. It was only when Milo’s face had turned thunderous that favonovel.com got a hold of herself.
She changed the topic and said, “Ahem, why would this concert tour group need to have over twenty vehicles in their entourage? They even have a semi-truck at the back of the group!”
“That’s carrying their speakers and musical instruments. I already looked at it,” Milo answered normally.
Olivia was stunned. She did not even know when Milo had searched the entire concert tour group.
Milo looked at Olivia and said, “You should’ve done that in advance. Don’t let your guard down just because you’re no longer working in intelligence.”
Olivia replied weakly, “Okay.”
The convoy set off.
Their first stop would be the Stardust Consortium. This would require Milo and Olivia to take extra caution as it could get very awkward if their identities were exposed.
The tour group had come from the Stelaria Consortium after their event there was completed, so the remaining tour locations were at the Stardust and the Virtuora Consortiums’ strongholds.
The tour group would kick off the next leg of the tour in the Stardust Consortium first, then move on to the Virtuora Consortium, and finally wrap it up in the Vasophati Group’s Bidara City. Afterwards, they would return to the black market.
Fortunately, the tour group had no plans to go to the eight strongholds the Pyro Company controlled. Otherwise, it would get even more dangerous.
Honestly, Milo sometimes felt that the Central Plains was a safer place. As such, it would usually not be a problem even when traveling with so many people on a concert tour. For Grace and Franz to disallow Olivia from interfering with their plans, it must also be because they were confident it would be safe.
In this tour group, there was also a ten-member combat squad protecting them. Although these people were dressed in casual clothes, their auras could not be concealed from Milo and Olivia.
It could be seen that Grace did have the backing of someone important in the Stelaria Consortium. It was definitely not that simple.
And along the way, if the tour group were to encounter any danger, it would most likely be someone who wanted to take revenge on Milo and Olivia. After all, the two of them were the most unstable elements in the group.
When the convoy passed by Bidara City, they did not stop at all.
Milo looked at Bidara City from afar and felt that it looked no different from the other strongholds in the Central Plains.
He looked at the town outside the stronghold and sighed. “A lot of people in the black market often speak about how good the Vasophati Group is. But from the looks of it, they still differentiate between refugees and stronghold residents. Overall, the essence of being a consortium still remains.”
That wall was like a huge mountain that separated the refugees and stronghold residents.
But Olivia explained, “It’s not like that at all. The reason so many people like the Vasophati Group is actually similar to why people in the Northwest like Fortress 178. It’s because the salary the Vasophati Group pays to refugees is very high and they give them pretty good benefits too. The Vasophati Group does not exploit them as the other consortiums do. After Romany took over the reins at Vasophati Group 12 years ago, favonovel.com tried to introduce changes to the system by tearing down the discrimination between the stronghold residents and refugees. He completely opened up the gates to everyone.”
“Then why did favonovel.com close them again?” Milo wondered.
“The motivation was out of goodness, but the reality is that refugees from everywhere rushed over when they heard about the Vasophati Group’s policies. As a result, there was no one left in the surrounding strongholds and towns.” Olivia explained, “This incident caused the Stelaria Consortium, Stardust Consortium, and Virtuora Consortium to send their people to the Vasophati Group to negotiate putting an end to the open-door policy. Moreover, the Vasophati Group was unable to accommodate all the refugees that had surged to their territory. So they closed their doors again and only increased the benefits of the refugees. However, they restricted the number of hires available.”
“So that’s what happened.” Milo nodded and said, “It’s really all thanks to their peers that they were seen in such good light. As long as one of the consortiums is willing to give the refugees better treatment, they instantly win the hearts of the people.”
The convoy continued heading south. But at the same time, unknown to Milo and Olivia, Martis was currently headed towards the black market after their reorganization back at the Vasophati Group.
Martis’ father told favonovel.com that if the mysterious youth and his maidservant were really important figures of the underworld, then they were most likely heading to the black market outside Bidara City based on the route they took.
Hence, Martis headed straight for the black market without even bothering to attend his classes. He stayed put in the hotel lobby for over half a month without finding out anything before helplessly returning to Bidara City.
That gorgeous figure kept reappearing in his mind as favonovel.com tried forgetting it to no avail.
