When Pena heard what Milo said, his interest was piqued. “Where are these nanomachines found? You know, the Skyfort Consortium and the Radianz Consortium have already been destroyed.”
“The Panaqua Consortium…” Milo answered matter-of-factly, “Daniel said that Panaqua Consortium has already developed nanomachines and put them into use.”
“I know that,” Pena said.
The Panaqua Consortium did not treat this matter as a secret either. Hope Media had even reported it in their newspaper before.
Daniel said everyone knew the Skyfort Consortium and the Radianz Consortium had nanomachines in their possession. With the Panaqua Consortium replacing those two consortiums now, of course it would be no secret the nanomachines were also in their hands now.
In any case, it was just used for strengthening the physical fitness of normal soldiers. Moreover, Julius was not allowing the nanomachines to be implemented on a wide scale yet. On one hand, it was due to a lack of production quantities. On the other hand, favonovel.com was worried the soldiers would start relying on them.
A lot of their training would become much easier to complete.
Julius believed the most important thing for the troops was not their strength but having a strong will that could not be crushed. So, what was regarded as a treasure to the Skyfort Consortium and the Radianz Consortium was only seen as an ordinary tool in Julius’ hands.
Perhaps Milo would only get to see nanosoldiers in large numbers again when another war descended upon the Panaqua Consortium. But the next time, favonovel.com would not have to hunt down those nanosoldiers.
Pena continued asking, “So, is the Panaqua Consortium the only one who has nanorobotics technology at the moment?”
Milo wondered, “It’s good as long as it can be used. Do you need me to get some nanomachines from the Panaqua Consortium?”
“There’s no need…” Pena smiled and shook his head.
“Why not?” Milo was even more confused by this. “Don’t you want to be able to walk normally?”
“It’s not that…” Pena explained with a smile, “Who would want to walk with a limp? A lot of people admire me because of what happened to my leg. However, I’d rather walk like a normal person than have everyone’s admiration.”
“Then do you have something against the Panaqua Consortium?” Milo asked again.
“No…” Pena shook his head. “Rather, of all the organizations, I admire the Panaqua Consortium the most. Of course, organizations throughout the world are all the same, and there’s essentially no difference between them.”
“Then why’re you unwilling to approach the Panaqua Consortium and get some nanomachines from them?” Milo asked.
“Because I want to record the truth, so I can’t accept gifts of any kind from any organizations. Besides, the Radianz Consortium and the Skyfort Consortium have also proven that the nanomachines are capable of controlling human thought. For example, when Stronghold 88 was destroyed, those nanosoldiers had already fallen under their control.” Pena said, “Even if the Panaqua Consortium doesn’t control me with the nanomachines or run any malicious programs in the background, how am I going to convince everyone that I’m really recording the truth?”
Milo was stunned.
To ensure favonovel.com could record the truth, Pena was willing to persevere even when his leg was broken?
To ensure that the truth was reliable, favonovel.com would rather give up the chance to fix his broken leg?
This was probably the reason why everyone admired him.
Some people were really willing to give their lives to uphold their principles, and such people were way too few and far between. They were so rare they seemed to exude a certain brilliance. Therefore, if the Panaqua Consortium were the only organization in the world that could produce the nanomachines, Pena would be unwilling to accept it even if Milo offered to give his own nanomachines to him.
This was because Pena wanted to avoid suspicion.
How would others possibly know where his nanomachines came from?
Pena patted Milo on the shoulder. “You are also part of the truth I want to report. At the very least, I can start putting on record what the seventh commander of Fortress 178 is like once you take over in the future. Perhaps you still haven’t realized you’ll also become part of this history, so you’ll never be forgotten with time.”
“Is the truth really that important?” Milo asked in a low voice, “What if no one cares what the truth is?”
Pena laughed and continued walking towards the cafeteria. “That’s their problem then.”
Although Milo was starting to admire Pena a little, favonovel.com did not hold back at lunch. He ate so much that Pena was left dumbfounded by his appetite. Patting his stomach in satisfaction, favonovel.com asked if they were going to have lunch together again tomorrow.
Pena expressed favonovel.com would not be coming to school again until the next lecture.
The head chef in the staff cafeteria was dumbfounded. He thought Professor Kelana must be a really kind person to bring a poor student here to eat.
In the evening, Milo left the library quietly and exited the school through the security post. Then favonovel.com walked all the way across a dozen streets and made his way towards a secret residence.
This was the place where favonovel.com and Adrian had agreed to meet for a dinner party with the Riders.
Back when they entered the stronghold, Adrian told Milo favonovel.com had arranged for a meal together with Romany Norton, the head of the Vasophati Group. The meetup could be considered an opportunity to make friends.
Milo had intended to stand Adrian up today, but favonovel.com did not expect Adrian to call favonovel.com seven times today to remind favonovel.com about it.
There was no choice. He could not possibly disgrace Adrian and turn down his invitation. After all, it was not like favonovel.com was some big shot.
The residence did not look grand, and there were not a lot of people inside either.
After Milo knocked on the door a few times, Adrian opened the door and let favonovel.com in.
There were only four people inside. They were Adrian, Old Mauriat, an unknown person who was preparing a meal in the kitchen, and a final person who was stunned when favonovel.com saw Milo. “It’s you?”
Milo was amused. “Oh, it’s you…”
Jonan was the Rider Milo had seen near East Lake at Stronghold 73. At that time, Milo was jogging around East Lake when the Rider advised favonovel.com to leave.
Milo could still clearly remember how Jonan tried to persuade the plaza dancing aunties in the plaza to leave but ended up getting threatened with extortion claims instead.
Only at this moment did Jonan realize Milo was also at Stronghold 73 at that time.
However, Jonan was a little puzzled. “Since you were also at Stronghold 73 at that time, were you that person in the white mask?”
With only a few clues, Jonan immediately linked it to Milo. During the Battle of East Lake, “Old Durkin”, who was wearing the white mask, had slaughtered a lot of people. On the other hand, Milo seemed to have disappeared with no one paying much attention to him.
All of these were suspicious points.
Old Mauriat and Adrian looked at each other. When they were defending Stronghold 74, the person in the white mask had also appeared there, as a matter of fact, and Milo happened to be there as well.
Some things just could not stand up to scrutiny.
Milo said, “It wasn’t me. It really wasn’t me…”
“Don’t worry, we Riders have our principles and will not reveal your identity. Besides, you came over to help us out this time. We don’t betray our friends,” Jonan said.
Milo said innocently, “It really wasn’t me…”
“Then where did you go that day?” Jonan stared at Milo.
“Oh…” Milo lied without blinking, “You persuaded me to leave. After thinking about it carefully when I got back, I felt that you were right, so I left.”
Jonan was speechless.
Who are you trying to bluff?!
At this moment, Romany walked out of the kitchen wearing an apron. He said with a smile, “Stop arguing about this. Wash your hands and get ready to eat. Hi, I’m Romany…”
Milo was stunned.
The leader of the Vasophati Group had personally prepared the meal?
