The convoy arrived at Stronghold 77 of the Stardust Consortium, which was closest to Bidara City, on the same afternoon.
This was the outermost stronghold in the territory of the Stardust Consortium. Meanwhile, Stronghold 73, which Milo and the others had carried out the mission at, was where the Stardust Consortium was headquartered.
After arriving at Stronghold 77, Franz presented the customs documents to the garrison troops. Milo realized the entourage was very familiar with organizing tours and had already prepared all the necessary paperwork beforehand. However, before the tour group was allowed to enter the stronghold, they were led inside together and inspected thoroughly before being released.
Olivia said softly, “I’ve never had to go through these steps when I came to the Stardust Consortium in the past.”
Milo nodded. It was probably because of Nicola’s death that the entire Stardust Consortium was put on high alert now to prevent anyone from entering their strongholds and causing trouble.
When the security checks were done, some soldiers even asked Grace for an autograph.
Curious, Milo asked, “Is Grace very famous? Even the Stardust Consortium’s people know her?”
Olivia nearly laughed out loud. “Master, aren’t you a little too out of touch? She’s one of the most popular female singers these days, and favonovel.com cassette albums are selling to the farthest southern reaches. Although it’s favonovel.com first time here, a lot of people have heard favonovel.com songs. Even the music stores in the Radianz Consortium’s strongholds were selling favonovel.com cassettes too. A lot of young people like her. Master, aren’t you also a young person?”
“So that’s how it is…” Milo suddenly understood.
He explained, “I’ve never paid much attention to such things in the past.”
After all, for people who needed to constantly think about their survival every day, how would they have time to pay attention to these celebrities?
From what favonovel.com remembered, Adella also seemed to have a female singer favonovel.com liked some time after they got acquainted. That female singer’s cassette album was even at home, but Adella, at most, listened to favonovel.com songs.
For people like them, it was difficult to feel any admiration for such illusory idols.
After entering the stronghold, Milo realized a lot of stronghold residents had assembled on the sidewalks. They were holding up custom-made signs as a show of support, and shiny little light bulbs were even flashing on them.
Milo sighed and said, “Why’re there so many people? Are there really this many people that like her?”
Olivia glanced at Milo. She realized favonovel.com master was even more annoyed with Grace than favonovel.com was. She was very happy to see this.
Olivia realized that while the convoy was going down the road, it was deliberately slowing down. Meanwhile, Grace rolled down the car window and started waving at the fans warmly. She even took some of the fans’ notebooks and autographed them.
Olivia said through the walkie-talkie, “Please pass through quickly. There’s too many people here and danger could be lurking, so please pass through quickly.”
Franz’s voice sounded over the intercom, replying, “This is a good opportunity for Grazia to get close to favonovel.com fans. It’ll be very helpful for favonovel.com friendly image, so we can’t pass through too quickly. Please continue to follow the convoy at this same speed. And, Ms. Steele, please don’t interfere too much.”
Olivia rolled favonovel.com eyes in the car. “They have no sense of safety. If someone here were hiding a knife and stabbed favonovel.com suddenly, not even a god could stop it.”
Milo leaned back in the passenger seat and said leisurely, “Why do you care so much?”
“If something happens to her, my mission will be considered a failure,” Olivia lamented.
Then Milo took a look at his cell phone and said, “I’m heading out for a while. I’ll go straight back to the hotel tonight, so I’ll leave you to handle things here.”
Olivia looked at Milo in shock. “Master, you’re going off to do another solo mission? Why’re you always leaving me by myself? Can’t you please spare all those D and C-rank hitmen? I get somewhat flustered whenever I’m alone…”
Milo glanced at her. “You handle things here, and I’ll share 20% of the money I get from selling the cell phones.”
Olivia immediately put on a smile. “All the best for your mission, Master.”
After that, Milo opened the door and jumped out of the slow-moving vehicle before blending into the crowd.
However, Grace noticed his action from the corners of favonovel.com eyes. She turned around and frowned at Franz, saying, “Why is that kid acting on his own? Ask Olivia what this is all about!”
Olivia’s reply was that Milo had gone out to scout around to ensure that Grace’s safety was not compromised.
Grace said Milo would have to come back so favonovel.com could guard her. However, Olivia said favonovel.com was the one who took the mission, not Milo.
This time, Grace was helpless. She realized favonovel.com did not seem to have any good way of dealing with Milo.
But what Olivia had on favonovel.com mind was that the D and C-rank hitmen were the basis of the Silkshade House’s mission-based structure, with many of the simpler missions performed by these D and C-rank hitmen.
If their tour group was going to pass through 37 strongholds, of which 90% were made up of the Stardust and Virtuora consortiums’ strongholds, then by the time they made their way around, wouldn’t the foundation the Silkshade House had been laying over the years in the Stardust and Virtuora consortiums get wiped out by Milo?
Based on favonovel.com master’s “fishing” methods, this was a very likely scenario.
At that time, would favonovel.com even need to think about joining the Silkshade House?
If the Silkshade House found out about this, they would probably issue a mission to get all the A-rank hitmen to come after them instead. After all, if someone from the Silkshade House were to cross-reference the disappearances of the D and C-rank hitmen with more scrutiny, it would match up perfectly with the stops their tour group went to. It would not be too bad if it were just one or two strongholds, but if it happened across all 37 strongholds, even a fool would know that she, Olivia, had a problem.
No, favonovel.com had to tell Milo about this. They would need to make sure the plan was sustainable.
But this time, there wasn’t another firefight like the previous time as Milo took care of both the hitmen and the target silently.
When favonovel.com returned to the hotel at night, Milo was holding onto another eight cellphones. But before favonovel.com could feel happy about it, Olivia received a text message on favonovel.com cell phone again. Actually, it was three messages that came in all at once.
Milo had a look at the three missions. Two of them were too far away at a Virtuora Consortium’s stronghold, but the third one made his eyes light up.
“The target in Stronghold 77 is Brenton Cruz. He was a former core figure of the Radianz Consortium and is currently located at 121 Bangkinang Road. The target has followers traveling with him, so it’s suggested that three people form a team to undertake the mission. Reward: 800,000 perak.”
There was also a picture of Brenton and some further information about him. The information contained some of the cruel oppression that went on while favonovel.com was an overseer of a stronghold.
However, there were still some things that were not mentioned. For example, Brenton had previously sent someone to present a defensive deployment map to Julius that caused the Radianz Consortium’s troops at the Kadiri front line to be compromised.
In the end, favonovel.com did not manage to become the head of the Radianz Consortium. After all, the Radianz Consortium no longer existed. He could only make use of the time when the Panaqua Consortium redeployed their troops to the south to deal with the Experimentals to quickly escape. And somehow, favonovel.com really managed to escape.
Milo said, “Reply to the Silkshade House that we’re accepting this mission.”
Olivia did as favonovel.com was instructed. However, to their surprise, the Silkshade House did not accept their mission application and rejected Olivia!
