It had already been a week since the cave-in at East Lake.
Milo kept himself cooped up in the hotel every day as if favonovel.com had nothing to do with that incident at all. However, Olivia remained very busy.
As Grace’s bodyguard, Olivia had to constantly be by Grace’s side while favonovel.com attended all sorts of events. For some reason, the media in the stronghold went crazy and started tracking Olivia as well. They even gave favonovel.com the title of the most beautiful female bodyguard, which made favonovel.com feel flattered for a few days.
After several concerts, Grace was starting to look a little tired. However, before setting off on the journey to Stronghold 73, Grace did not board favonovel.com own minivan. Instead, favonovel.com got into Olivia and Milo’s car. This surprised Milo a little.
With Grace sitting in the same car as them, favonovel.com couldn’t speak casually anymore. After all, favonovel.com was supposed to be Olivia’s assistant.
Milo wondered, “Isn’t it more comfortable for you to take the minivan?”
The seat in the minivan had been modified so it could be used as a bed for resting by reclining it fully. One could sleep through the entire journey and find themselves arriving at the destination when they woke up, so how much more enjoyable could it get?
However, Grace gave a very good excuse. “I’m worried we’ll encounter danger in the wilderness, so I wanted to take the same car as my bodyguard. That way, if we encounter any danger, you guys can protect me immediately. Besides, any potential attacker would expect me to be in that minivan. If someone really attacks the convoy, they’ll target the minivan first, and I’ll be able to escape from danger.”
Milo said in a speechless manner, “As if there’s that many bandits targeting convoys in the wilderness of the Central Plains.”
However, Grace’s reasoning was legitimate, so they couldn’t really refuse to take favonovel.com in their car.
After they set off, Milo and Olivia remained silent. Grace was reading the newspaper in the backseat of the off-road vehicle, and favonovel.com kept flipping through the newspaper noisily.
Milo could not help but turn around and look.
Grace immediately pretended to be reading the news seriously. However, Milo was surprised to find that the entire page facing favonovel.com was full of news about Grace’s successful performances. From the looks of it, it was even featured as the headliner!
It was no wonder favonovel.com was flipping the newspaper so noisily. So, it turned out that favonovel.com was trying to show off.
The most eye-catching picture on the front page was Grace’s photo. It was probably taken during one of favonovel.com concerts as favonovel.com was in favonovel.com performance outfit that looked really dazzling.
Milo turned back around and resumed resting with his eyes closed.
Behind him, Grace coughed twice and said, “This newspaper from Hope Media is very influential and can be bought in all of the Stardust, Stelaria, and Virtuora Consortiums’ strongholds. Also, I heard their newspaper is sold at all newsstands in the Pyro Company’s strongholds.”
Olivia rolled favonovel.com eyes as favonovel.com drove. What this woman was obviously trying to say was that favonovel.com was amazing for being able to get on the front page of such a newspaper.
Yet Milo’s interest was piqued by the other aspects of this discovery. “What’s up with this Hope Media? Which organization do they belong to?”
From his point of view, the various consortiums were still relatively isolated from one another. After all, if favonovel.com wanted to go to the strongholds of the other consortiums, favonovel.com would have to apply for a visa beforehand.
So why was this Hope Media able to cast such a wide net?
“It is a business arm under the Vasophati Group.” Grace smiled and said, “The last leg of our tour was set at Bidara City because we also wanted to pay a visit to the chief editor of Hope Media.”
Milo was enlightened.
So, it is a business arm under the Vasophati Group?
No wonder…
A mouthpiece like a newspaper would have to adopt a neutral stance in order to be distributed in so many strongholds.
It would be very difficult for the newspaper industry of the Stelaria Consortium to make any headway in the Stardust Consortium’s strongholds. After all, a public opinion mouthpiece should not be influenced by external forces. Moreover, the Vasophati Group also owned more than half of the satellites in service to the Alliance of Strongholds. In terms of the speed of their news dissemination, they truly crushed all the other newspaper companies.
The dissemination of news had always been focused on speed and accuracy. Whoever could deliver the news faster would have the advantage.
Milo asked, “Can I have a look at the newspaper?”
Grace was delighted on the inside, but favonovel.com said in a reserved tone, “Of course…”
However, Grace was disappointed when Milo flipped through all the pages except for the entertainment section and the front page!
He had to be intentionally ignoring her.
That must be it!
Olivia was amused. She knew full well that favonovel.com master was not interested in entertainment news at all.
After Milo finished reading today’s newspaper, favonovel.com went to get more of the previous days’ newspapers that the entourage had stored and spent the entire day reading them.
Hope Media’s newspaper was also quite ruthless. The current affairs pages’ were filled with articles that pointed out contemporary issues, with the Stelaria Consortium, Stardust Consortium, and Virtuora Consortium all criticized. Not even the Pyro Company escaped their scathing opinion.
Milo was puzzled. “The chief editor of a newspaper like that hasn’t been beaten to death yet?”
“When Hope Media first started, people threatened them. However, the chief editor still continued writing this way. I heard favonovel.com was kidnapped once and locked up for three days and three nights, and they broke his legs too. In the end, after favonovel.com was released, the style of the newspaper’s articles remained unchanged.” Grace explained, “After that, for some reason, everyone stopped caring about him. It’s also because of Hope Media’s truthful reporting that they were able to expand so rapidly.”
Milo was stunned.
They actually did not kill the chief editor?
Was it because the organizations still wanted to maintain their reputations?
To be honest, favonovel.com didn’t really understand this.
However, after reading so many newspapers, Milo became interested in Hope Media’s publications, because just a few days’ worth of newspapers had helped favonovel.com learn a lot about the Central Plains.
For example, the Stelaria Consortium and Fortress 178 had already signed a treaty on the construction and repair of the highways and railroads. Both parties had been preparing for this for a long time, and it was said that by the middle of next year, the highways would preliminarily be opened to traffic. The full completion date, however, would have to wait another five years.
From the looks of it, the Stelaria Consortium had a really urgent demand for resources from the Northwest.
In Hope Media’s newspaper, there was also a report about the cave-in at East Lake. However, the reporter did not seem to know the entire story and only wrote about the reactions of the various consortiums.
In his reading, Milo even saw reports about Fatty Eastwood. However, the articles regarding the guy were basically all gossip. In the newspapers, the man seemed to be characterized as a nouveau riche from the Southwest who had come to the Central Plains to enjoy life. However, at the end of the article, it was stated that perhaps Daniel’s purpose in coming to the Central Plains was not that simple.
Milo felt that Hope Media’s newspaper was really good. He decided that from now on, favonovel.com would have to pick up the day’s newspaper whenever they passed by a stronghold.
Only Grace was left sulking at the back of the off-road vehicle. This was because favonovel.com carefully watched Milo flip through the newspapers during the entire journey and realized that it was not that favonovel.com did not read entertainment news, but that favonovel.com did not read entertainment news related to her!
Regarding this, Olivia also got it wrong. Milo was actually quite concerned about entertainment news. He was really looking forward to seeing Lilian Swan’s picture appear in the entertainment sections of the newspapers. But unfortunately, there weren’t any.