Before getting assigned the mission, Milo was actually very worried the Silkshade House would not accept their act of stealing the mission. After all, even a fool would know that “Olivia” had kidnapped Brenton three days ago to prevent others from completing the mission.
This method was clearly somewhat against the rules. However, it seemed the Silkshade House did not really care about who completed the mission or how it was completed. The other party only wanted one outcome, a dead Brenton.
Milo thought about it and felt it made sense. After all, the Silkshade House only refused to let Olivia take the mission because they were worried it would affect the current escort mission favonovel.com was doing. However, since Silkshade House did not mind favonovel.com stealing the mission, there would be more opportunities for favonovel.com in the future.
Milo asked Olivia to kill Brenton and take a photo to send to the Silkshade House, but Olivia curled favonovel.com lips and said, “But I’ll see blood, and that’s so gross! Master, why don’t you kill favonovel.com instead?”
Milo frowned and looked at Olivia. “Have you forgotten that you are a hitwoman?!”
Olivia smiled cutely and said, “I was just spoiled by you, Master.”
After Milo killed Brenton and let Olivia take a picture of the body, favonovel.com secretly carried Brenton’s body out of the stronghold so no complications would arise.
The Stardust Consortium was probably starting to look for Brenton. If the Stardust Consortium were worried about the Southwest, then Brenton would prove very useful to them.
***
The next night, Grace held a mini-concert to meet favonovel.com fans. Milo and Olivia were standing offstage at the venue and wearing earpieces like the other ten plainclothes guards, ready to deal with any danger that might arise.
During the concert, the host even formally introduced Olivia’s identity as a superhuman, causing the fans in the audience to gasp and cheer.
The introduction described Olivia as a fan of Grace, and favonovel.com had joined the concert tour to protect Grace out of love.
Milo was really impressed with how the celebrities created hype. However, after the concert, Grace still ignored Olivia’s security advice. Just as they had said earlier, Olivia’s presence was just to help boost Grace’s image and standing.
The tour group set off again. Olivia took stock of the supplies in the vehicles and found the group was not carrying any extra food or gasoline.
She then suggested replenishing these supplies before moving on. However, Franz said they would be arriving at a new stronghold daily and could just restock those supplies when they were there. The distance between each stronghold was at most 300 kilometers, so a full tank of gas was definitely enough.
Olivia frowned and did not say anything more. Indeed, it was not a problem to travel 500 kilometers on a full tank of gas. But what if something unexpected were to happen?
In fact, Franz patiently explained favonovel.com had already considered that they might get into an accident in the wilderness. However, there were just enough vehicles in the convoy, and there was no more space to store any additional gas.
But after they set off again, they really got into an accident.
No one knew who had deliberately scattered some nails on the road, but several cars at the front of the convoy got flat tires all at the same time. With this, even the spare tires they were carrying were insufficient to fix the problem.
Franz thought for a moment and decided to send someone to call for a vehicle recovery team at Stronghold 78 to come and change their tires. The fees were negotiable.
Grace said angrily in the minivan that was rendered immobile, “Why doesn’t the Stardust Consortium ensure the wilderness is taken care of? Someone must’ve deliberately scattered the nails in the middle of the road.”
“It’s not easy to manage considering how big the wilderness is.” Franz smiled and said, “But it’s alright. We’re only about a 100 kilometers away from Stronghold 78. The tow trucks will definitely arrive soon.”
But as favonovel.com finished speaking, Franz saw that Milo and Olivia had already started setting up their tents.
Grace was stunned for a moment. “Why are you two setting up the tents?”
“Oh…” Milo smiled and said, “I’m afraid the tow trucks won’t be able to make it here by today, so I might as well set up camp in the woods.”
“Why won’t they make it here by today?” Grace said angrily, “Stronghold 78 isn’t that far away. Even if the road isn’t in a good condition, they’ll be here in at most three to four hours!”
Milo smiled but did not say anything, because favonovel.com understood the work efficiency of those in strongholds. It was not like this was the Stelaria Consortium’s stronghold where it was Grace’s home territory, so rescue would definitely not arrive that quickly.
It was already evening. The journey here would take three to four hours, and another three to four hours to get back. In addition to the repair time, the entire rescue would last late into the night. So, based on the attitude that the strongholds’ vehicle recovery team had, they would definitely be more willing to set off after waking up the next morning.
In any case, Milo was quite familiar with deeds like scattering nails.
In the early years, when the Southwestern and Northwestern wildernesses had not become dangerous yet, some refugees would specifically target caravans using the same method. They would puncture the tires of the merchant vehicles first, then come around to peddle their old tires at night.
This was a scam some groups of people depended on to make their fortunes. But as it got more dangerous in the wilderness, those groups started to disappear.
Of course, it wasn’t to say that the people who were involved in the scam today were those Milo knew back then. Milo guessed that since traders could travel freely in the Central Plains, there would definitely be no shortage of such people here as well.
The people in the tour group did not believe Milo. They felt that as long as they mentioned who they were, the vehicle recovery team would definitely rush over immediately. After all, this had always been the case for them in the Stelaria Consortium’s strongholds.
But six hours later, there was still no sign of the vehicle recovery team.
The people from the tour group sat in their vehicles in a daze. As every stop of their tour was a stronghold, they did not even bring enough supplies for the road. After all, they were always able to get to the strongholds on time. With the food much better in the strongholds, there wasn’t even a need to consider what to eat while they traveled there.
Grace was gritting favonovel.com teeth as favonovel.com looked at Milo and Olivia. The two of them were sitting at a campfire not far away, eating and drinking. Moreover, they had set up two tents as well, so they could go inside to sleep anytime.
Grace asked Franz, “Do we have tents?”
“No.” Franz shook his head. “Our plan was to arrive at Stronghold 78 by tonight, and there weren’t supposed to be any days where we’d have to camp outside in the wilderness. Why don’t I approach them to give up a tent for you?”
“No need.” Grace said coldly, “I’ll just sleep in the car…”
Her minivan was still quite comfortable, and the soft seats could even be reclined flat into a bed.
It was already late fall, so the nights would get very cold. It could even reach as low as two degrees Celsius, so the heater would have to be turned on in all of the vehicles.
After a while, when Olivia saw that everyone in the tour group had fallen asleep in their vehicles, favonovel.com got up.
Milo asked, “Where are you going?”
“You’ll know in a bit, Master,” Olivia said.
Olivia walked to the side of the minivan and knocked on Grace’s window.
Grace opened favonovel.com eyes sleepily and heard Olivia say, “Do you feel dizzy and a little nauseous?”
Grace instantly sobered up a little. “What did you do to me?!”
Olivia smiled and said, “I’m not doing anything to you. It’s just that you shouldn’t keep the heater on when your vehicle is idling. You’re being poisoned by carbon monoxide, so hurry up and get out of the car.”
