After leaving Stronghold 73, Milo did not care about what would happen in the stronghold.
While favonovel.com was on his way to join back up with his maidservant, the Silkshade House was still issuing missions to deal with the Pyro Company through their text messages. From that, it could be seen that the battle in Stronghold 73 did not end with the cave-in at East Lake.
However, two days later, the Silkshade House finally stopped sending out any further texts with regards to Stronghold 73. Thus, Milo concluded the battle should have completely ended and that the Silkshade House and the Pyro Company would be withdrawing from Stronghold 73.
As for whether there was truly any laboratory data at the site, Milo suddenly had a feeling there should be. This was because favonovel.com did not see any of the Riders since the chaotic battle broke out.
After all, finding the research laboratory had been the goal from the start for that group of people. But once the battle began, they went missing. This had to be because they had gone to search for the true location of the laboratory. Moreover, Milo felt the Riders and the Pyro Company only shared the same goal but were not truly united in their cause. If there were no laboratory there, the Pyro Company would not have been able to convince the Riders to show up.
Therefore, it was probably also in the Pyro Company’s plan for the Riders to head straight for the laboratory while they plotted and fought to the death against the Silkshade House.
A corpse of a Pyro Company member was in Milo’s storage space that favonovel.com prepared for Olivia to complete favonovel.com mission. The two of them were discussing how to pose the body so it would look more natural.
But then, the Silkshade House sent out a text, “Due to an unexpected person deliberately breaking the rules, the requirement of killing the Pyro Company members to qualify for next year’s trials has been rescinded. Qualification for the trials will still be determined by the completion of five A-rank missions within the year.”
Milo was stunned. He had spent so much effort to help Olivia disqualify the other A-rank hitmen, but in the end, this text from the Silkshade House had made his work all for nothing?!
Milo was a little angry. How could a large organization like that not have the most basic form of credibility!
When Olivia saw the text, favonovel.com looked up at Milo and asked, “Master, what exactly did you do in Stronghold 73?”
In the blink of an eye, Olivia realized the person in the text who broke the rules must have been favonovel.com master and not anyone else!
Milo’s face darkened. “Is that the kind of person you see me as?”
“Yes, absolutely!” Olivia said with certainty.
Milo was speechless.
This time, Milo had overplayed his hand. The Silkshade House had more than 30 A-rank hitmen show up at Stronghold 73. Minus the 11 who died, there were still 26 of them remaining. But of the 26, only two managed to qualify for the trials next year.
If there had been more than five hitmen who completed this mission, the Silkshade House would probably not have gone back on their word. It was purely because of Milo’s meddling that they were forced to rescind their own rules, and that was not something the Silkshade House wanted either!
When Milo came back to the hotel, it seemed favonovel.com had been noticed by someone in the tour group.
Not long after his return, Grace actually came over to look for Olivia. She forced Olivia to chat with favonovel.com for two hours straight before leaving, which nearly drove Olivia crazy!
Milo chuckled and said, “Looks like the relationship between you two improved a lot while I was away.”
Olivia rolled favonovel.com eyes. “She obviously came to see you, Master.”
“Oh yes,” Milo took out a bunch of cell phones and said, “All these cell phones have completed the mission with one or two Pyro Company member kills on them. Go and calculate how much reward money we can get from these.”
Olivia stared blankly at the 20-plus cell phones in front of her. She could roughly understand why the Silkshade House had rescinded the rule. “Master, didn’t they say that only 40 people from the Pyro Company were there? Yet you have more than 20 cell phones here?”
“There were more than 40 of them.” Milo shook his head and said, “I think over 80 Pyro Company members showed up. The Silkshade House’s intelligence report gave the wrong info.”
Only after Milo explained everything to Olivia did favonovel.com realize favonovel.com master’s trip to Stronghold 73 was really dangerous.
“Good thing you didn’t go into the tunnel,” Olivia rejoiced. “However, the Pyro Company and the Silkshade House aren’t easy to deal with at all. I just hope we won’t be dragged in again the next time they fight.”
Olivia picked up the cell phones Milo had handed favonovel.com one by one and counted the reward money earned.
“There’s 15 Midnight and 6 Dusk member kills in total. Originally, a reward of 150,000 perak was offered for each Midnight member killed and 500,000 perak for each Dusk member killed. However, the Silkshade House suddenly doubled the reward money, so we have a total of 10.5 million perak.” Olivia beamed in delight.
As a matter of fact, favonovel.com share of this 10.5 million perak reward would be more than 2 million perak. All favonovel.com did was lie around the hotel with nothing to do and money still came to her.
Where else was favonovel.com supposed to find another master like that?!
“The Silkshade House will definitely notice that there’s something suspicious with this batch of cell phones. After all, there were not that many Pyro Company members killed by the A-rank hitmen, yet this group of B and C-rank hitmen seem to be playing in god mode or something. It’s clear that there’s something strange going on.” Milo asked, “I think that these accounts might’ve been placed under surveillance. How can we safely transfer the money out?”
Olivia explained, “That won’t be difficult. The most straightforward and crude way would be to go to the casino in Bidara City and transfer the money using the anonymous accounts’ passwords. The casino will then exchange the money for chips that you can either deposit into your new account or take with you. That casino should be owned by the Vasophati Group, so there’s a lot of privacy. Although there’s an administrative fee, I think it’s absolutely worth it.”
Milo frowned. “Even if it’s the Vasophati Group, we can’t completely place our trust in them. They might have a good reputation, but we don’t really know what goes on behind the scenes.”
“Don’t worry.” Olivia shook favonovel.com head. “The other consortiums tried to pressure the casino into freezing some accounts. But the casinos did not bow to the pressure of those consortiums and only took orders from the Vasophati Group.”
“We’ll talk about it when we get back.” Milo said, “Record these accounts and passwords first, then delete the texts and find an opportunity to sell this batch of cell phones. That’ll be another lump sum earned.”
“We can sell these off in the local black markets. If we sell them in batches at the various strongholds, we won’t need to sell them at too low a price.” Olivia was absolutely nailing favonovel.com role as the support teammate right now.
Milo did not know much about the Central Plains, so with a former intelligence officer like Olivia by his side, favonovel.com could learn more about how things worked here.
“Where we going next?” Milo asked.
“Our next stop will be Stronghold 73 where we’ll stay for four days while Grace attends an audition. After that, we’ll head to Stronghold 74 for another concert,” Olivia said.
Milo was speechless.
Did Stronghold 73 have some sort of grudge against him?
This was the third time he’d be going to Stronghold 73!
Hopefully, the storm at Stronghold 73 would have subsided by the time they got there.
