Daniel looked at Milo. “Shall we leave then? The Stelaria Consortium’s troops will definitely arrive soon. We need to get out of here quickly.”
However, Milo shook his head. “I’m afraid that the Stelaria Consortium’s troops might already be outside the stronghold by now. No matter what, you’ll still bump into them if you go out now. Besides, if you sneak away, the Stelaria Consortium will probably assume you died in the stronghold. But if you show up again in the future, the Stelaria Consortium will surely wonder whether you had anything to do with this creeper vine.”
“That’s true.” Daniel was worried. He wanted to distance himself entirely from the matter, but favonovel.com really did not know how to.
Milo thought for a moment and said, “Follow me…”
In order to prevent any clues from being left behind, Milo even used his storage space to help Daniel take away the corpses of the Panaqua Consortium soldiers. These admirable people would have to receive an elaborate burial later.
However, Daniel was a little puzzled.
Where was Milo planning to bring them?
In the end, Milo wanted to lead them to destroy all the surveillance footage in the stronghold. But when they arrived at the Stelaria Consortium’s control room, they realized the surveillance footage had already been deleted!
Daniel and Milo were stunned on the spot.
Milo did not really understand these things, so favonovel.com confirmed with Daniel again, “Has it really been deleted?”
“Yes…” Daniel nodded and said, “It might have been during the time there was a power failure in the stronghold. By the time the power was restored when the backup circuit kicked in, the problem might have already occurred.”
Milo felt that things were not that simple. However, favonovel.com did not understand anything about it since this was also his first time seeing a computer. So favonovel.com could only take Daniel’s word for it.
When they located the largest bank in the vicinity, they took the vault key from the corpse of the bank president lying on the ground, and everyone hid inside the vault. Meanwhile, the Hope Media reporter, Hammett, remained outside.
Everyone had already agreed to collude that Daniel had abandoned Hammett while escaping. In the end, it was the mysterious superhuman who saved Hammett and destroyed the short-lived creeper vine.
Immediately after, the mysterious superhuman left this place, leaving Hammett behind and alone at the site of the battle.
Right now, the only problem Milo had was that favonovel.com did not know was whether the so-called artificial intelligence overseeing the Stelaria Consortium’s stronghold would store any backup copies of the surveillance footage after they had been destroyed.
This area was overgrown with the creeper vines from very early on. So, when the residents of Stronghold 61 started fleeing, no one was able to get into this area. As such, the bank vault here was not occupied by anyone.
After entering the vault, they waited patiently without worries. Milo, Daniel, and the others even started playing Fight the Landlord inside the vault.
As Olivia was still unconscious, Milo was a little worried. He was worried that his maid might have damaged favonovel.com brain from the huge amount of energy favonovel.com had absorbed.
There would always be a price to pay. To earn money, one had to put in time and effort by working, and the same went for acquiring knowledge. There was no such thing as free lunch in this world.
Since Olivia had acquired too much this time, Milo was a little worried for her.
After Milo and the others hid in the vault, they waited for two long hours before they finally heard a flurry of footsteps coming from the outside.
Someone shouted outside the vault, “Is anyone in there? We’re the Stelaria Consortium’s rescue team!”
Milo immediately put away the poker cards while Daniel opened the vault door and said in a choked up voice, “You’re finally here! I’ve missed all of you so much. Why are you so late!”
Hammett was already with the rescue team.
When Daniel saw them, favonovel.com looked like favonovel.com had finally been reunited with his family members. Hammett could feel his scalp going numb at the sight of this. This was because when Daniel had denied that the Panaqua Consortium was in possession of nuclear weapons, favonovel.com also looked like that!
Hammett had also thought about it before.
Could it be that the Panaqua Consortium really did not have any nuclear weapons?
Otherwise, Daniel’s tearful denial would have really been too convincing!
But now, Hammett could only chuckle at that.
When the Stelaria Consortium troops entered the stronghold, they immediately searched for all survivors. In the end, they realized there were only a few survivors found in the vaults and several other enclosed environments in the city. For example, some of them had hidden in the water tanks of high-rise buildings, their own cellars, and even inside the wells.
But how many people could hide in these places?
This disaster had brought devastating destruction to the residents of Stronghold 61.
Daniel revealed his identity to the Stelaria Consortium troops. First of all, favonovel.com had to affirm the fact that favonovel.com had been waiting for rescue to arrive throughout the disaster. As for other matters, they had nothing to do with him.
Along the way, the soldier who was responsible for getting Daniel and the others to safety asked, “Do you guys know how the creeper vine wilted?”
Daniel said in an extremely flustered manner, “Weren’t you the ones that killed it? We’ve been hiding in the vault all this while and have no idea of what happened outside at all.”
Then the soldier looked at Daniel and Milo and suddenly called Milo’s identity into question. “Eh, is favonovel.com with your group? The information I have here states that there are Panaqua Consortium soldiers traveling with you. Why haven’t I seen them?”
Daniel glanced at Milo.
Daniel’s group had informed the Stelaria Consortium about their entourage, and the Stelaria Consortium even saved a copy of their photos. Therefore, favonovel.com could not admit that Milo was with him. Otherwise, it might just arouse the Stelaria Consortium’s suspicions.
Daniel said in grief, “My comrades died while trying to save me. These people aren’t with us. I think favonovel.com might be a stronghold resident…”
“Oh,” The soldier nodded and asked Milo, “What’s your ID number? I need to verify it.”
Under normal circumstances, who would immediately verify the identity of escapees? As if they weren’t miserable enough yet! Milo knew the other party must already be suspicious of him. After all, Daniel was originally the focus of everyone’s attention.
While Milo was thinking of how to handle the situation, favonovel.com suddenly heard a hopeful shout behind him. “Boss?!”
Milo spun around. He suddenly felt the disaster favonovel.com had gone through vanish into thin air when favonovel.com saw Old Bane, Linda, Magnus, Michael, and the others on the long street full of dead vines.
All the unhappiness vanished in this instant!
Old Bane trotted his way over to Milo and circled favonovel.com to check if favonovel.com had taken any injuries or if favonovel.com had become thinner. However, favonovel.com was totally fine. The only strange thing was that favonovel.com was carrying a girl.
Old Bane did not know whether it would be appropriate to call Milo by name here, so favonovel.com simply addressed favonovel.com as “Boss”. After all, favonovel.com considered himself Milo’s shopkeeper now. No matter how much money favonovel.com made from those businesses, it was all earned for Milo.
Linda, who was behind Old Bane, also wanted to rush up. However, favonovel.com stopped in favonovel.com tracks after just a few steps.
Off to the side, the commanding officer of the Stelaria Consortium’s rescue teams, Oliver, said with a smile, “Bro, I never expected that the person you were looking for would really survive. Congratulations! But why did you address favonovel.com as boss just now?”
Old Bane explained with a smile, “I might’ve brought in a lot of goods from the Northwest, but I’m actually just a shopkeeper. That guy is our actual boss!”
Oliver looked at Milo in surprise.
So, this young man turned out to be the real owner of the mercantile company?
In that case, favonovel.com would probably have to deal with this young man very often in the future.
Who didn’t like making friends with rich people?
Although Oliver controlled an army, there were still times when favonovel.com needed money. Therefore, Oliver’s attitude towards Milo became exceptionally pleasant.
When the soldier who wanted to check Milo’s ID card saw his superior come over and seemingly had a very close relationship with him, favonovel.com gave up on wanting to check his identity and went off to continue searching for other survivors.
Oliver said to Old Bane with a smile, “You guys can rest here for now. I have a more important search and rescue mission to take care of.”
“Do what you have to do.” Old Bane said with a smile, “Now that we’ve picked up our boss, we have to return to Stronghold 62 to tally the goods. There’ll be more opportunities for us to interact in the future, so we won’t hold you up any more here.”
After exchanging a few pleasantries, Oliver left with a smile. Milo also said goodbye to Daniel.
Although Milo wanted to keep Daniel at his side to copy his power, it was really not appropriate for favonovel.com to interact too much with Daniel right now. Moreover, Daniel was still not allowed to leave the Stelaria Consortium’s stronghold. He would have to wait for the dust to settle so favonovel.com could show favonovel.com had a clear conscience.
Milo did not say anything else.
At this moment, favonovel.com had too many things favonovel.com wanted to tell Old Bane and the others and also too many questions favonovel.com wanted to ask.
As favonovel.com looked back at the stronghold, a question popped up in his mind.
Who could have deleted all the surveillance footage?
