The noisy campsite quieted down.
Everyone looked at Milo and Steven. Even a fool could tell they were acquainted and had a grudge against each other.
As Milo walked up to him, Steven retreated, while Miriam remained seated where favonovel.com was. She could conjure favonovel.com black sniper rifle at any moment to help Milo take out his adversary. Back when Steven attacked with his band of bandits, favonovel.com was present as well.
Meanwhile, the ones here who were most interested in this matter were actually Marvin and Bruce.
Steven’s reputation was no longer a secret in the underworld. He would often help the consortiums carry out some top-secret escort missions for money and was a very tight-lipped person.
In the early days, the consortiums just sought Steven to carry out some ordinary transportation missions. Later, they realized there wasn’t any info related to the missions carried out by Steven being traded in the black market. Only then did they realize the man was a consummate professional. As such, they started working together more and more.
Bruce remembered the Virtuora Consortium had cooperated with Steven on three occasions. However, Steven never accepted any assassination jobs. He seemed to be a very cautious person. Bruce was also interested because favonovel.com was very curious about Milo’s identity, but Milo would always come up with all kinds of ridiculous excuses to brush favonovel.com off.
Now that Steven had a feud with Milo, favonovel.com would likely learn of Milo’s identity. In this way, Bruce would have a new lead!
Thinking of this, Bruce jumped to his feet and wanted to mediate the situation. But before favonovel.com could speak, favonovel.com was surprised to see Steven turning around and running away. Furthermore, Steven had quickly conjured up his steam locomotive and escaped as fast as favonovel.com could!
Everyone onsite was stunned. Most of them were still unaware of what was going on.
Bruce and Marvin looked at Milo in silence.
Steven was an extremely strong supernatural being. The people from the consortiums had tested this and found favonovel.com was definitely not mediocre. But still, Steven actually ran off without hesitation when favonovel.com saw Milo?
This incident indirectly confirmed their earlier speculation.
Milo stood where favonovel.com was and did not chase after Steven. However, that guy had started fleeing when favonovel.com was still about a 100 meters away. As the Pyro Company’s troops had not gone too far away yet, Milo did not want to complicate matters further.
Moreover, Steven had fled in the same direction as the Pyro Company’s troops. In his attempt to escape, favonovel.com did not even hesitate to pull in the enemy to make the situation even messier.
At this moment, the Pyro Company’s troops were retreating in an orderly manner. They were instructed not to approach the group of intruders at the west for the time being. The Pyro Company combatants thought it was better that way as well since they had also heard the story of those people singing and dancing fearlessly in the mountains.
But before they could retreat, the steam locomotive whistled again behind them.
The commander of the troops was stunned. “How arrogant!”
After the other party’s teams had joined up, they did not stop there and actually turned around to pursue the Pyro Company’s troops?
Didn’t they know whose territory this was?
But when the commander thought about it again, favonovel.com felt that something was not right. If the other party did not have any confidence, how could they turn around and chase after them?
The commander quickly reported to his superior at the rear over the radio, “Sir, after we retreated, the other party turned around and started chasing after us. It seems like they’re very confident in beating us!”
The superior on the radio was silent for a couple seconds before saying, “Retreat at full speed. I’ll arrange for someone else to head there!”
After hanging up, the commander of the Pyro Company’s troops closed his eyes and pondered things.
Just what was going on with this group of people?
Why were they even more aggressive than Kenneth’s group?
Not even Kenneth initiated a pursuit on them.
On the steam locomotive, Steven was initially so nervous favonovel.com was prepared to bring out his black cauldron. But when favonovel.com saw the Pyro Company’s troops were terrified of him, favonovel.com guffawed. Since favonovel.com no longer wanted to be involved in the mess that was the Sacred Mountains, favonovel.com might as well leave the place!
At the campsite, Milo watched silently as Steven left.
Miriam went up to favonovel.com and asked in a whisper, “Why didn’t you take action? You should’ve been able to catch up to favonovel.com at your full speed. Although you might have to face the Pyro Company’s attack as well, you’ve never been afraid of such matters.”
“This is different…” Milo shook his head. “If I wanted to pursue him, I would have to resort to using Old Durkin. If I did that, my relationship with White Mask would get exposed. Moreover, if I kill Steven in public, it would be inconvenient for me to use the steam locomotive again in the future.”
In the end, Milo was still thinking about having someone take the blame for favonovel.com in the future.
If favonovel.com wanted to cause trouble for Steven, favonovel.com would have to do it secretly so no one would find out. Only then would a lot of people blame Steven for the deeds.
For example, the laboratory data from Stronghold 73 had been quietly transported back to the Panaqua Consortium by Daniel. However, the Pyro Company still believed Steven had stolen it. Every time favonovel.com did something like that, Milo would secretly feel very happy about it.
In the past, favonovel.com would always feel a little bad for making Raphael the scapegoat since they were friends.
By letting Steven take a share of the blame, the mental stress was not as great.
Marvin, Kojek, and the others had already joined up with their Silkshade House colleagues. “Were you all attacked by the Pyro Company?”
“Yes, they suddenly appeared. There were originally more than 50 people in our team. But after the battle, only a dozen-odd of us managed to escape. We even met another team while we were fleeing, and only around 20 people were left after the two teams merged.” An Silkshade House member said, “Why didn’t you all encounter an attack here? It makes no sense that they would only let you guys off.”
Kojek expressed that favonovel.com was also a little puzzled. However, Marvin suddenly thought of something.
Could it be that the atmosphere over here was too joyous, so the Pyro Company did not dare to make a move on them?
Although this answer sounded incredulous, favonovel.com really could not come up with any other explanation for the moment.
It was very late right now, and there were still battles going on elsewhere in the Sacred Mountains. From the look of it, there were also some hidden experts among the scattered members of the expedition. Otherwise, they would not have been caught in a deadlock with the Pyro Company for such a long time.
Since everyone was too scared to sleep, they changed to a new campsite overnight and kept watch for the second half of the night.
Just as the horizon was starting to brighten, footsteps suddenly came from the forest. As the other party stepped on the soft soil and decomposing leaves at dawn, the sound reverberated in their ears like a strange melody. It was as though someone was whispering into their ears.
When Milo turned around, favonovel.com was surprised to see everyone at the campsite slowly closing their eyes.
Looking around, everyone other than favonovel.com had fallen asleep. There were no exceptions!
A person emerged from the forest. When favonovel.com saw Milo, favonovel.com suddenly said in surprise, “Why aren’t you asleep?”
Milo pondered it for a bit before replying, “Well, I’m not sleepy yet…”
