Back when they were in the Marador Mountains, the entire expedition group was on tenterhooks due to the disappearance of their teammate’s corpse.
Before today, Milo could not understand why the fish meat and bones would vanish. The vanishing corpse could be explained as it could have been dragged away by the Experimentals. But surely the Experimentals would not be so desperate they had to resort to stealing fish meat and bones.
Right now, the answer to this mystery finally played out in front of Milo. He inexplicably felt his heart beating faster and faster as favonovel.com looked at the ground. However, favonovel.com was unable to ascertain what might be beneath it.
Milo immediately manipulated “Old Durkin” to start digging up the ground barehanded to look for that strange plant.
Marvin and the others were left dumbfounded by this sight. They felt White Mask was way too daring.
Wasn’t favonovel.com afraid the plant would attack him?
Everyone looked at Old Durkin in silence. But even though Old Durkin had already dug half a meter into the ground, there were still no signs of anything strange. It seemed that those gray, mossy tentacles had already retreated deep into the ground after feeding on the corpse.
“Does it only devour dead bodies?” Marvin’s assistant wondered. “We have so many injured here, and there’s a lot of blood dripping onto the ground, yet we didn’t see it appear earlier on. It only came out right after that man died.”
“We can’t simply deduce that.” Milo shook his head. “It might also attack us while we’re sleeping.”
The situation was too uncertain. Based on the situation in the Marador Mountains, the deduction by Marvin’s assistant would have been correct. But at that time, the plant was proven to have not devoured any corpses in the presence of people.
Milo suspected the strange plants in the Sacred Mountains were much more powerful than the ones they had encountered in the Marador Mountains.
Of course, this deduction was also very logical. After all, the Sacred Mountains started undergoing changes much earlier than the Marador Mountains. Moreover, more than a year had passed since the expedition to the Marador Mountains.
“Then how are we gonna sleep at night?” This was the first thing Daniel was concerned about. “I noticed that many of us only brought along tents without the waterproof ground cloths. We can’t defend against this plant at all.”
Milo said as favonovel.com looked up at a tree and pointed at the forked branches, “Then we can only sleep in the trees.”
Daniel looked overhead hesitantly and attempted to climb up the tree. But when favonovel.com tried to lay on a branch, it actually broke under his weight.
With a loud thud, Daniel fell from the tree and grimaced in pain. “Any other ideas?”
“If you want to live, you had better find a thicker branch.” Milo sighed and said, “Although we might be overthinking things, it’s better to be safe than sorry.”
Daniel thought about it and quietly went off to search for a thicker branch. Milo had only managed to survive for so long in the wilderness because favonovel.com lived by this saying, “Better to be safe than sorry.”
***
In the evening, everyone remained silent as they sat in front of their campfires. Fortunately, Bruce had already finished gathering intel from the wounded personnel and treated their injuries.
Although the wounded personnel were still in a pathetic state, at least their wounds were not painful anymore. They also knew they would not die due to an infection.
Some of these people used their information to trade for the black medicine, while the others simply bought the black medicine off Bruce for 1.2 million perak. Bruce did not push it too far either since favonovel.com also wanted more companions to travel with them into the Sacred Mountains.
Bruce kept his promise and approached Milo. He said, “I’ve only five relatively important pieces of intel. Let me tell you them one by one. The first one was told to me by that young woman standing to my 9 o’clock. She’s a superhuman. When we exited the canyon, favonovel.com was the sixth person to regain consciousness.” Bruce said, “Based on my observation, favonovel.com has six other companions traveling with her, but I’m still waiting to see which organization she’s from. If I get any clues, I’ll also share them with you.”
Milo looked at Bruce in surprise. This intel sharing was much more detailed than favonovel.com had expected. He thought Bruce would try to fool him.
As such, Milo asked in a serious tone, “What do you want in exchange?”
“It’s always so easy to communicate with smart people.” Bruce said with a smile, “My demands are simple. I only hope that if you really manage to get into the core region of the Sacred Mountains and find the No. 001 Experimental, you can give me a sample of his DNA. I won’t need to take favonovel.com away with me.”
Bruce had to provide such “premium service” to Milo because favonovel.com was also trying to gain his support.
Since favonovel.com was not strong enough, favonovel.com would have to rely on the strength of others to aid him. This was the basic principle that intelligence staff followed.
Now that favonovel.com was 80% sure that Milo was the Stronghold Destroyer, favonovel.com would be a little foolish to not ride on his coattails. Therefore, Bruce wanted to use his expertise in exchange for some benefits from Milo.
But Milo shook his head. “I’m sorry, I can’t promise you that.”
“Why not?” Bruce was a little surprised.
“I can’t provide you with what you’re asking. Do you have any other demands?” Milo said.
If the No. 001 Experimental were really Donti, how could favonovel.com possibly use Donti’s DNA sample in exchange for intel from others?
Bruce immediately had another thought. It shouldn’t require much effort to extract a DNA sample of the No. 001 Experimental since the human body had so much blood and tissue.
He was only asking for a DNA sample, so why was the young man before favonovel.com unwilling to agree to that?
Unless the other party personally knew the No. 001 Experimental, or favonovel.com knew there was something more to it and had a valid reason for not agreeing to the condition. But at least in Bruce’s opinion, favonovel.com could not figure out what this reason was.
However, Bruce was not insistent on the matter either. He broke out into a smile and said, “It’s fine if you don’t want to give me that. We can just change it to another condition. I’d like to seek your protection to keep me from death. Whatever’s within your power to do so. If your friends and I get put in danger at the same time, you can save them first.”
Milo sized up Bruce. The other party’s condition was actually not asking for too much. Whether to save favonovel.com or not was entirely up to Milo’s own judgment. Rather than calling this an exchange, it might as well be called a verbal agreement.
Milo asked, “Aren’t you afraid that I won’t save you even if I can?”
“I’ll take a gamble,” Bruce said with a smile.
“Alright, it’s settled then.” Milo said, “Tell me the rest of the intel.”
“The intel provided by this woman is regarding the Virtuora Consortium, which is also the organization I work for.” Bruce said with a smile, “There’s no need for me to hide my identity anymore. I believe that you also know I’m Bruce Lennox, the director of the Virtuora Consortium’s 2nd Military Intelligence Division. She said that Vanilla from the Silkshade House was the one who created the accident that led to the death of Lionel, the head of the Virtuora Consortium’s intelligence agency…”
“I already knew about this, but favonovel.com also added something that I didn’t know, and that’s that the Silkshade House and the Stelaria Consortium have reached an agreement to assassinate more of the Virtuora Consortium’s higher-ups in the future. From the look of things, the Stelaria Consortium is only doing this because they’re ready to start a war.”
Hearing this, Milo thought to himself.
As expected, the Silkshade House and the Stelaria Consortium are already working together…
Bruce said, “I just don’t understand something. In reality, politicians don’t like to resort to assassination as a means to an end, because it won’t look good on them. Besides, Colton, as a mature politician, should even be more like this. But now, it seems that favonovel.com is also becoming unscrupulous. It’s as if… He’s getting desperate.”
