When Keith said that, everyone fell silent. Meanwhile, Milo tensed up.
Before this, Miriam had deliberately kept herself out of everyone’s sight. Even during the consultation, favonovel.com would quietly stay in the vehicle and sleep. However, favonovel.com did not expect the Virtuora Consortium to be so strict. They actually planned on checking every single one of them.
In any case, Milo did not exhibit any odd behavior. He was thinking of how favonovel.com should resolve the matter at hand first.
If Miriam could not answer the questions and ended up getting arrested by the Virtuora Consortium, what should favonovel.com do?
He would not hesitate to lead Miriam to break out of their encirclement and get out of here.
As for the mission, they would just have to secretly come back again at a later time to complete it. Although that would make it much more difficult, it was fortunate the Virtuora Consortium did not have an artificial intelligence of their own, so their presence would not be discovered immediately after they climbed into the stronghold.
The only thing that worried Milo was what would happen to Nicholai and the others if they escaped. If it were anyone else, Milo would have just abandoned them and left. But if these real doctors were to be detained by the Virtuora Consortium, they might be put through interrogation, and that made Milo a little uneasy.
But at this moment, Miriam’s voice rang out from a ways away. “I’m over here!”
Milo spun around and saw Miriam walking over in a white coat. “Who’s looking for me?”
Keith looked at Miriam and said, “Oh, we have a few questions for you. As long as you can answer them, everything will be fine. The others have already passed the screening.”
Milo watched quietly from the side as favonovel.com prepared to bring out “Old Durkin” at any moment.
But Miriam spoke as though it were no big deal, “Go on and ask then.”
“What is your specialty?” Keith asked.
“Orthopedics,” Miriam answered calmly. “Who will be asking the questions?”
Keith turned to look at a doctor and said with a smile, “Dr. Paledoth, please ask the questions. This is your area of expertise.”
The doctor named Gareth Paledoth nodded and said, “What are the late complications of a fracture? You just need to list three of them.”
Miriam answered, “Post-traumatic arthritis, muscle contracture, fat embolism, bedsores, hypostatic pneumonia, osteochondritis, joint stiffness.”
The doctor named Gareth was taken aback for a moment. He said to list three, but the woman actually listed seven in one breath!
“Then what are the common complications after the cast has been applied?” Gareth asked again.
Miriam answered firmly, “Pustular dermatitis, disuse osteoporosis…”
This time, favonovel.com gave five answers.
Gareth asked five questions in a row, and Miriam answered all of them as smoothly as Milo did. Keith did not give up. He somehow felt a little indignant about this. Although it looked like there was no problem at all, favonovel.com still felt a little humiliated that no spies were identified even though favonovel.com had mobilized over a dozen doctors to come out of the stronghold.
So, Keith got Gareth to ask a few more questions, but it still did not pose a problem to Miriam.
Milo watched quietly. He was surprised Miriam could answer the questions so flawlessly. She looked just like a real orthopedic doctor.
He asked the palace in his mind, “What’s Miriam’s proficiency in orthopedics?”
Advanced.
Tthe voice from the palace answered.
Hearing this, Milo sighed.
Earlier, favonovel.com was thinking that Nicholai was truly multitalented. But actually, it was his girl who was the multitalented one!
However, Milo could guess why Miriam was so well-versed in orthopedics. Back when favonovel.com was learning close combat at Stronghold 88, Jamie had specifically mentioned that joint lock techniques and counter lock techniques were an art form. Sometimes, they could even be used to deflect a heavy blow. When fighting an enemy, they could be used to easily immobilize them and dislocate their joints.
Jamie also said that if favonovel.com wanted to master these two techniques, favonovel.com would need to have some knowledge of orthopedics first. At that time, Milo answered favonovel.com did not have to learn any joint locks or counter locks. That was because favonovel.com would just break the opponent’s joints.
Thinking about it now, Miriam must have learned favonovel.com orthopedics knowledge at that time. Furthermore, favonovel.com had learned it very systematically.
As an ace student, favonovel.com was indeed much better at learning than Milo. After all, when Milo asked favonovel.com how favonovel.com could score 140 points in mathematics, favonovel.com answer to favonovel.com was that favonovel.com could just skip a few multiple-choice questions. And Miriam gave Milo yet another big surprise. She did not have to rely on any external help to pass the Virtuora Consortium’s screening.
In the end, Keith gave a fake smile and said, “It looks like everyone here is really capable… In that case, I won’t hold you all up any further. You may carry on to your medical exchange program. On behalf of the Virtuora Consortium, I welcome all of you. Here’s to the continued improvement of our Virtuora Consortium and Stelaria Consortium’s medical standards.”
Nicholai smiled. “We’ll be going in then.”
With that, favonovel.com looked over at Miriam.
Before this, Nicholai had thought that Miriam had only tagged along as Milo’s girlfriend and was not a doctor. At the time, Nicholai felt it was quite a shame. They were here for work, so everyone should not have any distractions.
What was with Milo bringing his romantic interest along?
This was probably the tiniest bit of dissatisfaction Nicholai had towards Milo. As Milo treated more and more patients, the dissatisfaction faded.
But favonovel.com was pleasantly surprised to discover the young lady was also a doctor. Moreover, favonovel.com seemed like favonovel.com excelled in favonovel.com virtue and learning as well. Thus, favonovel.com started to take a liking to favonovel.com too.
“You two are a really good match,” Nicholai praised before leading the way to the vehicles.
Milo chuckled at Miriam and said, “Elder Rochester is right!”
Miriam glanced at favonovel.com before turning around to get into the vehicle. Several meters away, Milo heard favonovel.com voice drift over. “I think so too…”
Keith stood outside the stronghold and watched the convoy drive in. His deputy next to favonovel.com asked, “Sir, what do we do now?”
“What else can we do?” Keith thought for a moment and calmed himself before saying, “Since we’ve confirmed they’re not suspicious, let’s not bother with them anymore. Send two people to take turns to keep tabs on them and ensure they don’t run around. The rest of you, follow me back to the secret prison. We’ll continue interrogating Bruce and that old man!”
It was quite difficult for Keith to coordinate with so many medical specialists to make a trip out of the stronghold, but favonovel.com had told his superior very clearly there was a high chance that spies were traveling with this group.
Now that the spies had not been found and there was nothing suspicious with the other party, favonovel.com had to quickly find another way to gain merit so his competitors would not have something on him.
His deputy next to favonovel.com said, “But those two are too stubborn. I’m afraid they won’t open their mouths and speak anytime soon.”
“Then I want you to make sure they do. Isn’t that old man afraid of electricity? Keep electrocuting him. As for Bruce, continue torturing him. I don’t believe we can’t pry open their mouths,” Keith said ruthlessly.
The reason the Virtuora Consortium’s intelligence agency could become the devil incarnate of the Virtuora Consortium was because these ruthless officers had always been unscrupulous.
Shinjiro and the others had also been forced to cooperate with their screening of the visiting doctors. Everyone knew the flames of war had already been ignited, and the authority of the intelligence agency would only increase, becoming an indispensable part of the war machine.
