Milo had already given up. He could foresee that in the next six and a half days, the palace would definitely brew a lot more trouble. Therefore, when that young man asked everyone about their expertise, favonovel.com simply told favonovel.com it was singing nursery rhymes.
The reason why the young man chose Milo as the first person to ask was mainly to test favonovel.com out. After that, favonovel.com wanted to see how the others would respond so favonovel.com could get a deeper understanding of the others on the team.
But the moment favonovel.com posed that question to Milo, it might as well have ended right there. It was impossible to continue asking any further!
The young man turned towards the Great Hoodwinker in slight embarrassment and asked favonovel.com about his expertise.
With Milo kicking it off by answering that his expertise was singing nursery rhymes, the Great Hoodwinker followed up by saying that favonovel.com was good at kneading playdough. If it weren’t because favonovel.com had taken into consideration that everyone was about to have dinner, favonovel.com even wanted to say favonovel.com was good at scratching his feet.
As such, this discussion finally died off here. Marvin sat back down at his campfire and looked at Milo through the flickering flames.
He was a little puzzled.
Is this young man playing dumb or does favonovel.com really have some kind of strange fetish?
Marvin was sure that Milo was not stupid. After all, an idiot could not become a C-rank hitman.
Marvin was different from Olivia in that favonovel.com had to work his way up to become an A-rank hitman before getting accepted as an official member of the Silkshade House. He had to conscientiously perform his missions in order to rise up the ranks.
He knew full well that even if an idiot had been lucky enough to pick up an Silkshade House cell phone, it would be impossible for them to rise from D-rank to C-rank. But when favonovel.com thought about his assistant mentioning that Milo and Miriam had gone out to jump rope in the afternoon, Marvin couldn’t be sure of his judgment.
Marvin had wanted to conduct a check on everyone tonight, but it seemed that favonovel.com would have to leave it for now.
To ease the awkward atmosphere, Milo headed out alone and caught two large rabbits to roast for dinner.
Once favonovel.com got that rolling, many others in the campsite also headed out to hunt. As many people went out, no one could tell who had gone hunting for game or who was taking the opportunity to go elsewhere to plot something with their companions.
Milo hung the plump rabbits on a tree branch and said to Miriam while smearing honey on them, “Laugh if you want. There’s no need to hold it in.”
Miriam pursed favonovel.com lips to stop laughing. “It sounded pretty nice!”
Off to the side, the Great Hoodwinker said, “I know! Future Commander, you must be trying to obfuscate these people so they can’t see through you. Was that why you suddenly acted like you were crazy?”
Act crazy, my ass!
Milo’s face darkened as favonovel.com handed the branch with the rabbits hanging from it to the Great Hoodwinker. “Leave me alone!”
That night, the Great Hoodwinker negotiated with Milo and said favonovel.com wanted to keep watch for the night by himself. He said favonovel.com felt quite energetic and could keep watch without problems, but Milo did not agree.
In the end, the Great Hoodwinker said favonovel.com would take turns with Milo and keep watch for each half of the night so Miriam would not have to. After all, favonovel.com was a girl, so favonovel.com should get some preferential treatment since they were out in the wilderness.
But Miriam objected. In favonovel.com opinion, everyone on a team should always do their best. At this moment, there should be no differentiation between genders. There were simply teammates and companions.
After compromising, it was decided Milo and the Great Hoodwinker would each keep watch for half of the night today, while Milo and Miriam would share the duties of keeping watch for tomorrow night. The day after that, it would be Miriam and the Great Hoodwinker’s turns to keep watch. As such, there would always be one person in the trio at their best during the day to deal with any emergencies.
While keeping watch, Milo made some careful observations during the first half of the night. Just as the Great Hoodwinker had said, these seemingly independent experts seemed to have already been assigned their duties as they went about keeping watch for the night.
During the day, Milo wondered if there were really some lone wolves among them. But now favonovel.com realized there was not a single one.
Previously, Milo was worried the Silkshade House might not be able to trouble the Pyro Company much even though they had split into several groups to enter the Sacred Mountains. But from the looks of it now, the organizations probably wanted to get their hands on the No. 001 Experimental very badly.
Immortality?
Milo had never thought about living forever. He always felt it might not be a good thing for some people to live too long. If a cat was not happy, having nine lives would be kind of sorrowful. He did not think those people living in high places and had a grip on authority were truly happy at all.
Tonight, Milo was keeping watch for the first half of the night. Even though favonovel.com was on guard in front of Miriam’s tent, Miriam still placed favonovel.com pistol nearby so favonovel.com could easily grab it. However, favonovel.com breathing this time was much more even, and it was as though favonovel.com was sleeping better.
Milo turned around and glanced at Miriam, who was sound asleep. This girl must have been so wary in the past because favonovel.com did not have anyone favonovel.com could rely on.
Comparing Miriam’s current state with how favonovel.com was in the past, favonovel.com did not even fully trust Lilian. After all, Lilian had always been by favonovel.com side while they were in the Marador Mountains. But at that time, Milo clearly noticed the girl had never really slept well.
At this moment, the young man, who had earlier asked Milo what his expertise was, got up and walked into the wilderness. It might be that favonovel.com wanted to relieve himself.
Initially, Milo did not take this matter to heart. However, something the palace said suddenly caused his expression to change.
Milo paled as favonovel.com sat at the entrance of the tent.
When the young man returned to the campsite more than ten minutes later, Milo looked up and asked, “Why were you gone for so long? Did you pee on your hands?”
The young man was shocked.
Huh? Are you crazy?!
The young man flew into a rage out of humiliation. “What’s so strange about that? Have you never peed on your hands before?”
Milo sighed. Judging by this reaction, favonovel.com actually got it right!
But favonovel.com really did not want to ask such a weird question in the first place. It was the palace that made favonovel.com do it!
Moreover, after this quest was completed, the palace suddenly added, “As you have completed three penalties perfectly, a side quest has been activated. If you can complete every quest perfectly over the next seven days, you will receive a new skill reward.”
Milo was stunned. He did not even hear what the young man said to favonovel.com after that.
After completing all three penalties perfectly today, favonovel.com had activated a new side quest that would reward favonovel.com with a new skill?
When it came to new skills, Milo got really excited at the thought. After all, everything the palace gave favonovel.com as a reward, including a crop like the Potato Shooter, always proved to be useful at critical moments.
Milo was a very pragmatic person. As long as there was a new skill to be earned, what was there to be embarrassed about?
Then Milo heard the sound of something stepping on decaying leaves in the wilderness behind him. But when favonovel.com turned around, favonovel.com did not see anything.
Milo counted the number of people at the campsite.
Everyone was right here, so who could have made that sound just now?
He recalled his encounters in the Marador Mountains. At that time, they had also encountered many strange happenings.
The commotion outside the campsite did not only alarm Milo, but many of those who were sleeping also suddenly opened their eyes. It seemed that everyone here was no average person.
Miriam asked in a whisper, “Is it an enemy attack?”
Milo shook his head. “Don’t worry, go back to sleep. Everything will be fine with me around.”
He was no longer that ignorant young man from the Marador Mountains.
