Everyone was at a loss for words when they heard Daniel say that.
Could favonovel.com get any more shameless?
But someone suddenly realized something. “Aren’t there five ladies in total? Did you miss out on counting one of them? The five of them are just enough to form a group.”
Daniel was stunned for a bit. Only at this moment did favonovel.com realize favonovel.com had left out Miriam.
As favonovel.com knew about Milo and Miriam’s relationship, favonovel.com had filtered favonovel.com out of his mind and did not treat favonovel.com as a woman!
Daniel gave an awkward laugh and said, “Hahaha, I counted wrong!”
“Has Daniel always been this thick-skinned?” Miriam asked Milo in a low voice while everyone’s attention was on Daniel.
Milo lamented, “He’s always been this thick-skinned…”
After all, when Daniel tried to recruit Donella to join him, favonovel.com kept running down to their clinic every day to look for her.
“We should be more careful. Not even ‘Old Durkin’ was able to find out what has been loitering around us.” Milo said, “The other party might have some way to avoid Old Durkin’s detection. I didn’t even notice anything when those two were killed just now.”
“Okay…” Miriam said, “The Great Hoodwinker and I will be keeping watch tonight. You should have a good night’s rest to conserve your strength. But what’s with that fox? Why are there human organs in its stomach?”
“I’m guessing that it might be following something around to find food for itself. Whatever that thing is, it only cares about killing people. It must have gone away after ripping off the neck of its victim and left the fox to feed on its kill. That was why Daniel and his group discovered the corpse with its organs consumed. We had assumed it was done by one creature, but in fact, there were actually two of them. There are many symbiotic relationships in the wilderness and…”
“And what?” Miriam asked.
“And if I guessed correctly, the perpetrator might very well be a person, and this fox could be their pet.” Milo frowned and said, “If that’s really the case, it’ll be a little troublesome.”
“Why did you come to such a conclusion?” Miriam wondered.
“Did you notice that the fox’s fur is very clean? Like someone’s washed it before? Even for the animals in the wilderness that are particularly clean, they wouldn’t be as clean as this,” Milo explained.
The others might not have noticed this, but how could Milo not notice it when favonovel.com had been venturing into the wilderness for so long?
If this fox were really someone’s pet, the other party would probably hate favonovel.com to the bone for using “Old Durkin” to kill it. There would be some form of retaliation waiting for them later on.
At this moment, “Old Durkin”, who was scouting about one kilometer ahead of the group, suddenly turned around and saw a stone flying at favonovel.com from out of nowhere in the wilderness.
The stone was extremely fast and hit “Old Durkin” in the chest like a bullet, causing it to stumble a little. If a normal person got hit like that, they would probably vomit blood on the spot. Even supernatural beings might not be able to withstand it.
But when “Old Durkin” went around to investigate, it could not find the culprit who threw the stone.
Milo’s back was hurting so much favonovel.com started sweating. “The culprit’s already started taking revenge on Old Durkin. But I can’t identify their location yet, so I can’t determine what it really is.”
But at the very least, Milo had guessed something right. The fox was indeed the other party’s pet. Otherwise, they would not be so anxious to take revenge on Old Durkin.
“How’s it taking revenge? What did it do?” Miriam asked.
“It threw a stone at Old Durkin,” Milo replied.
Miriam was stunned.
Hitting someone with a stone?
Why did that sound like something a child would do?
When they continued the journey again on the same day, everyone obediently followed the instructions and tightened their marching formation due to their fear.
Not only that, but Daniel also divided the group into several smaller teams so they could take turns to guard the rear and protect the flanks as they made their way forward. At this moment, Daniel felt like favonovel.com had returned to the days when favonovel.com was leading fresh recruits at the Panaqua Consortium. He even found this quite fun.
It had to be known that the brigade Daniel had led previously was one of the most fearsome fighting forces in the Panaqua Consortium.
In the afternoon, when the enemy seemingly realized there was no suitable opportunity to kill anyone, it did not make any further moves.
Some people in the group wanted to leave, but how could they possibly get away now?
If anyone tried to turn back at this moment, they might even get ambushed by that monster. Without knowing what and how strong it was, leaving the group on their own was as good as suicide.
When they set up camp again at night, Daniel arranged for each of the teams to take turns keeping watch. He even drew up the night watch areas himself and specified the positions where the sentries had to be stationed, how to rotate duties, and when to change shifts. Everything was well-organized.
Milo watched quietly. He realized Daniel’s assigned night sentries were particularly thought out. Anyone who tried to sneak attack the campsite would not be able to escape the sight of these sentries.
If something happened to the sentries at any of the positions, the others would find out very quickly.
Regarding this matter, Marvin and Kojek also felt a little ashamed of themselves. Although they were supernatural beings, they did not have any experience in leading troops into battle. They might be able to kill people, but they were far worse than Daniel when it came to organization and coordination.
Sometimes, the way Daniel portrayed himself could easily cause others to overlook his talents.
A long time ago, someone from the Panaqua Consortium had mentioned Daniel might be more suitable to be the organization’s Shadow than Julius. But because Daniel was an illegitimate child, no one brought this matter up again.
After making arrangements for the night sentries, Daniel swaggered back to his campfire and got ready to sleep.
Marvin quickly stopped him. “Aren’t we going to discuss how to deal with the thing that attacked us?”
Daniel gave favonovel.com a strange look. “That’s something for you supernatural beings to handle. What’s it gotta do with me?”
After that, Daniel ignored Marvin and went straight to sleep.
Marvin looked like favonovel.com could do nothing about Fatty Eastwood. Then favonovel.com asked Kojek, “Just what the hell is that fatty planning? Why the f*ck does favonovel.com even want to go to the Sacred Mountains?”
“Who the hell knows?” Kojek sighed.
But a minute later, Daniel’s snoring reverberated loudly throughout the entire campsite. He was sleeping so soundly his breathing even made a beat.
Next to Daniel, Bill was already sprawled spread-eagle, asleep.
Marvin found this a little strange. He asked Kojek, “Wait a minute, aren’t those two together? Why didn’t one of them stay up to keep watch? They just went to sleep like that? Is that Fatty Eastwood not afraid we’ll plot against him? Were they also like this before?”
Kojek was taken aback. He thought back for a bit and said, “No, when favonovel.com was traveling with our group, favonovel.com was extremely vigilant. The two of them would never sleep at the same time.”
“That’s strange…” Marvin looked towards the campsite and said firmly, “This means that Daniel and Bill must have someone they can trust in this camp. The level of trust they have is even allowing them to fall asleep in an environment like this without having to worry for their own safety. Daniel would only dare to sleep so soundly if favonovel.com believes no one here is capable of killing him!”
