Milo did not suspect the woman in the black cap without reason. It was just that favonovel.com previous appearances happened too coincidentally.
Not long after favonovel.com had caught the two paper cranes, favonovel.com started appearing in the town of Stronghold 61. This left Milo with no choice but to link the two matters together. He had left Stronghold 61’s town in a hurry as favonovel.com felt a little guilty. After all, it was only normal that other people would come and question favonovel.com if favonovel.com captured their paper cranes for no apparent reason.
But now, Neil was saying that favonovel.com power was controlling sand?
Milo had to ponder this matter.
As Milo and Neil Botham chatted, everyone in the entire tour group looked at each other in bewilderment. They did not understand what was happening.
He even met someone favonovel.com knew out here in the wilderness?
Grace wanted to get up and go over to listen to what they were saying, but the ten guards stopped her. “You shouldn’t go over. Those people are clearly outlaws with blood on their hands. Not even we can do anything about them.”
“Aren’t you guys elites troops?” Grace frowned.
The guards said awkwardly, “But they have a heavy machine gun while we only have pistols.”
Olivia started laughing from the rear. “At this range, the heavy machine gun can turn all the vehicles into Swiss cheese within ten seconds. But you guys don’t have to worry. With us here, everything will be fine.”
Olivia could already tell that this “repair team” had a very good rapport with Milo. There would definitely not be any conflict happening here, so favonovel.com took the opportunity to brag.
At this moment, they saw Neil and Milo come back towards their convoy while they chatted.
Neil said to everyone with a smile, “Since I bumped into Milo here, I’ll take back the prices I offered just now. We’ll repair your vehicles for free.”
Suspicious, Grace asked, “Does Milo have such a great reputation?”
“Haha,” Neil laughed. “When we got lost in the wilderness after a heavy snowfall in the mountains, it was Milo who led us back to town while searching for food to fill our stomachs. He’s basically our savior.”
At that time, Neil and the others had not hit it big yet. They did not have any heavy machine guns and were not skilled at carrying out their scams, nor were their legs lame.
But later, Milo rarely met Neil and the others anymore as their group was rumored to have gone to the vicinity of the Radianz Consortium’s strongholds to be bandits for a while. After that, their whereabouts became unknown.
As such, Milo did not expect they would actually come to the Central Plains and go back to plying their old trade.
Neil asked, “But, Milo, why have you come to the Central Plains, and what’re you doing with them?”
“Oh, I took a mission to provide protection for their concert tour,” Milo answered.
Neil looked at Grace. “You people are really lucky to be able to get Milo to protect you. There’s nothing in the wilderness that favonovel.com can’t handle. If you’re going south, what’s the place y’all’re heading to?”
“We’re heading straight to Stronghold 81.” Milo recalled the route.
“It isn’t exactly peaceful in the South anymore. Back when the Stelaria Consortium was dealing with the Stardust Consortium, many refugees moved into the mountains and even received funding from the Stelaria Consortium. As such, things are pretty chaotic there now. However, if y’all mention my name, that usually proves rather useful.” Then Neil turned around and beckoned, saying, “I need two bros with a car jack to patch up their tires.”
In fact, mending tires wasn’t a particularly difficult task to handle and neither was it costly at all. So, Neil decided to waive the fee for Milo’s sake.
The other men of the “repair team” greeted Milo. It seemed they all had a good impression of favonovel.com as well. After all, it was Milo who saved them back then.
Milo asked, “When you say that it isn’t peaceful, do you mean that the people who moved into the mountains have turned to banditry? It shouldn’t be that bad, right?”
“No, no, no…” Neil smiled and said, “If they did turn to banditry, the Stardust Consortium would have gone and wiped them out already. It’s just that some of them chop down trees and place them in the middle of the roads. If you pay them, they’ll help you shift the trees away. Or sometimes, they’ll lie in front of your vehicles and try to blackmail you. If you don’t pay up, you have to drive over them to get through. Most of those who can drive on the roads are people from the strongholds. Since they’ve never seen blood before, most of them are too afraid to drive over others. So it’s really easy to scare them into paying up.”
While Neil’s men repaired the vehicles, Neil kept asking Milo about what happened in the Southwest.
The plainclothes guards by the vehicles wanted to seize this opportunity to detain Neil and show that they were competent to Grace. However, they realized the heavy machine gun a distance away was still pointed right at them.
The heavy machine gunner did not care about anyone else and kept his eyes trained on the plainclothes guards. It seemed favonovel.com recognized they were soldiers and knew they were the biggest threat.
At this moment, Neil said with a sigh, “I didn’t expect the changes in the Southwest to be so widespread, and that the Skyfort Consortium and the Radianz Consortium no longer exist. How does it make sense that I am doing even better than a consortium?”
Olivia burst out laughing.
Neil looked at Olivia. “Are you Brother Milo’s woman?”
“Knock it off!” Milo stopped Neil.
What the hell!
Olivia said calmly, “He’s my assistant…”
Neil smiled and said, “That’s definitely not the case. My eyes are really sharp. There’s something between the two of you, and who knows just which one of you is taking orders from the other behind closed doors?”
Olivia rolled favonovel.com eyes, then asked softly, “Then what do you think is the relationship between Brother Milo and that female celebrity?”
Neil chuckled, “Don’t worry, my bro here isn’t attracted by that kind of woman.”
Olivia instantly beamed with joy.
A repairman off to the side shouted, “Boss, the vehicles are fixed…”
Neil patted Milo on the shoulder casually. “We’ll be taking our leave now. Take care of yourself. If we meet again, we must have a drink or two.”
Milo smiled and nodded. He did not say favonovel.com didn’t drink alcohol, as there was no need to reject his friend’s good intentions.
After the repair team drove off, a plainclothes guard said to Grace, “Should we get permission from General to wipe them out?”
Grace glanced at them. “There were only about 17 of them just now, so why didn’t the ten of you, being regular soldiers, mention wiping them out while they were still around? Also, how’re you gonna wipe them out when this is the Stardust Consortium’s territory?”
“We can just get someone to do it covertly. They’re just your everyday thugs, so it’ll be very easy to deal with them if we want.” Now that they were no longer threatened, the soldier said, “And we also need to be warier of that Milo. After all, there must be something with favonovel.com if favonovel.com can address those thugs as bros.”
However, Grace did not agree with the points favonovel.com brought up. Instead, favonovel.com remarked, “I don’t care as long as favonovel.com can solve problems.”
Honestly, when Grace saw the other party had a heavy machine gun just now, favonovel.com felt a little scared. After all, they were people who risked their lives in the wilderness every day, and armed with such heavy firepower, how could favonovel.com not be afraid?
But for some reason, the moment Milo stepped forward, favonovel.com fear disappeared.
When Grace returned to the minivan, favonovel.com said to Franz, “Pay 200,000 perak to Milo and thank favonovel.com for resolving the situation.”
Franz was stunned. “Even if we had the tires changed based on the quoted rates, it wouldn’t cost that much, right?”
Grace glanced at him. “I’m happy to pay!”
