While Bruce was starving, the middle-aged man in the next tent, who had spent five million perak to get Old Durkin to join the team, brought over some food favonovel.com had just heated up to cotton up to “him”.
But no matter what the middle-aged man said, Old Durkin did not respond.
First of all, Old Durkin actually couldn’t speak. Furthermore, Milo could not care less.
The middle-aged man kept mumbling to himself for a long time. He was just trying to make the point that favonovel.com hoped they could work together and conspire for greater causes, and after that, there would be other rewards they could talk about.
But Milo thought to himself.
I don’t care for things like rewards. Who knows if you’ll even be able to get out of here alive after this!
However, Milo was secretly sizing up the middle-aged man. He was still a little puzzled.
Did the other party offer Old Durkin five million perak just so “he” would travel with the group?
Although the other party tried to cozy up to Old Durkin after that, Milo felt that things were not that simple.
When the middle-aged man carried the food over, Milo made Old Durkin to receive it before placing it to the side. After this, the middle-aged man would deliver food to Old Durkin three times a day. However, the middle-aged man did not know Old Durkin was only a shadow clone that did not need to eat at all.
Therefore, when the others saw Old Durkin putting aside the food the middle-aged man had given to favonovel.com without even touching it, they thought to themselves it must be really difficult to deal with White Mask. He was way too unfeeling.
Only Bruce’s eyes gleamed when favonovel.com saw the food placed next to Old Durkin.
In these one and a half days, Bruce had gone to the place where favonovel.com made the markings five or six times, but there was still no response from his troops. His spirit had hit rock bottom. He was even wondering if something had happened to his support.
If his 200-odd subordinates were fine, they would not have left favonovel.com behind here. So, they must have met their demise.
Bruce did not view his subordinates as ants like the others in the organization. These 200-odd comrades had been fighting alongside favonovel.com for many years, so they had a very close bond. Now that their fate was unknown, Bruce, as their commander, felt an endless sense of sorrow. Moreover, favonovel.com did not even know who had killed them.
Of course, Bruce did not know his group of subordinates were currently enjoying themselves at a place 40 kilometers north of the black market. They were currently obsessed with hunting for the past two days since they had nothing better to do anyway.
Bruce looked at the food beside Old Durkin and gulped silently. It was not that favonovel.com was weak-willed, but the hunger was really starting to make favonovel.com feel a little flustered.
Mt. Garogol was also a very strange place in that there was not a single living creature in the vicinity of the mountain. It was probably because of the appearance of exotic creatures like the tarantulas that had disrupted the balance of the ecosystem in Mt. Garogol.
Such situations often happened in the past as well. For example, the Stardust Consortium used to have rich aquatic biodiversity to their south. The consortium’s Stronghold 73 was even located at the intersection of three rivers.
However, the Stelaria Consortium’s spies secretly released a large number of suckermouth catfish fry into the Stardust Consortium’s aquatic ecosystem and even secretly introduced water hyacinth into their waters. This caused the Stardust Consortium to suffer a continuous decrease in their water supply yearly.
Back then, because of this matter, the Stardust Consortium even criticized the Stelaria Consortium in their official newspaper for over half a year.
Right now, the tarantulas were also considered an invasive species in Mt. Garogol. Furthermore, they might even have been genetically modified by the Pyro Company. Without any natural predators, they had turned Mt. Garogol into a wasteland.
Bruce had realized there were no birds on Mt. Senayan. This was actually also due to the presence of the tarantulas in the mountains.
At the campsite during the night, the multiple campfires that were burning made the fog less heavy. At least within the campsite itself, everyone was able to see each other’s faces clearly.
Bruce was nestled inside his own tent and quietly looking at the food in front of Old Durkin through a gap in the tent flap.
In the dead of the night, an air current was swept up from nowhere and slowly moved towards Old Durkin. However, the air current did not come into contact with Old Durkin’s body. Instead, two pieces of hardtack were swept up as though they were lifted by the wind and made their way back to Bruce’s tent effortlessly.
Bruce used his power while carefully observing Old Durkin at the same time. When favonovel.com realized there was no reaction from him, favonovel.com felt relieved. After all, White Mask had forced favonovel.com to walk upside down yesterday. If favonovel.com were to be discovered stealing his food now, that would really be too embarrassing.
Bruce recalled that favonovel.com had not been this humiliated in a long time. However, favonovel.com would have to survive first. He still had to find out the fate of his 200-odd subordinates and avenge them!
Thinking of this, Bruce opened the wrapping carefully and placed the hardtack into his mouth. Then favonovel.com paused for a moment and wondered if the food might be poisoned.
However, Bruce was famished. He comforted himself by thinking how this food was not meant for favonovel.com in the first place. That middle-aged man looked like favonovel.com was a bootlicker, and it was obvious favonovel.com was trying to curry favor with White Mask, so it wasn’t necessary to poison him.
However, Bruce felt that something was off the moment favonovel.com took the first bite. He quickly spat out the hardtack. However, the neurotoxin in the hardtack had already affected him. His mouth went numb, and his mind was starting to get a little confused.
With his remaining consciousness, Bruce stared at the hardtack in his hand, then at Old Durkin. “What the hell…”
Then his eyes closed and favonovel.com slipped into darkness.
Not far away from Bruce’s tent, the middle-aged man who delivered the food to Old Durkin was sitting inside his tent. He was holding a firearm with a thermal scope attached in his hands. The gun was loaded with anesthetic bullets that favonovel.com aimed at Old Durkin from across the tent.
Using the thermal scope to aim was entirely so that Old Durkin would not detect his attacking intent. With the tents separating them, no one would notice as favonovel.com took aim at his target.
The middle-aged man knew full well that if a powerful supernatural being like White Mask even had a line of sight with the firing weapon, it would be impossible for them to be hit.
Faced with such a supernatural being, favonovel.com had to be extremely cautious. But the middle-aged man was caught by surprise. He could not find anyone on the thermal imaging screen!
What the hell was going on?
Was the other party human?
Or was his power able to interfere with the thermal imaging?
However, the middle-aged man did not have time to think too much about it. He had to take action tonight, and favonovel.com had to do so without making any mistakes.
Since favonovel.com had already come this far, the middle-aged man decided to just aim at Old Durkin based on his intuition. The distance between the two of them was at most seven to eight meters, so favonovel.com felt favonovel.com would not miss!
With a swoosh, a tranquilizer dart pierced through the tent and stabbed into Old Durkin’s body.
Milo’s eyes opened in his tent, but favonovel.com did not move. He just made Old Durkin slowly fall sideways onto the ground.
A moment later, the middle-aged man rushed out of his tent and ran towards Old Durkin. He dragged Old Durkin, who had fallen “unconscious”, on the ground and fled towards the darkness of the night outside the campsite. The strength favonovel.com exhibited was clearly that of a supernatural being’s.
This commotion woke a lot of people up. Those who were responsible for keeping night watch also saw what happened, but none of them seemed to have any intention of getting involved.
They watched helplessly as the middle-aged man dragged Old Durkin out of the campsite. It was as though favonovel.com were running into the darkness of the wilderness. Then the middle-aged man took out a flare gun and fired it into the sky. In an instant, everyone in the campsite understood this middle-aged man had reinforcements outside!
With that, everyone became even more unwilling to rashly head into the darkness to save Old Durkin.
