To be honest, T5081 felt his scalp go numb at this moment. Everything favonovel.com had planned to do was already done by someone else. Moreover, favonovel.com was still unable to figure out where the other party was hiding, how many people they had, the number of supernatural beings among them, and what they were planning.
This feeling was not good at all. In fact, it was really strange. Someone had clearly helped favonovel.com do what favonovel.com wanted to do, yet favonovel.com could not feel happy about it!
“Sir, what should we do now?” a T4 combatant asked weakly over the radio.
The aftermath of the inmates’ release from the two prisons was starting to tire the Virtuora Consortium out. As the Pyro Company did not want to go head-on against the garrison troops, it suddenly felt like they had nothing better to do.
In their plan, they were prepared to face death this time when they came to Stronghold 31 for their mission. Moreover, their mission objectives were supposed to be executed one right after another, leaving them with no chance to catch their breaths. Every member of the Pyro Company here was prepared to go all out, but in the end, there was nothing for them to do at all.
Who could they go and reason with in this case?!
T5081 said, “No wonder we suddenly encountered an ambush on the rooftops after entering the stronghold. But we realized later that the Virtuora Consortium did not know we were coming, so that ambush on the rooftops was actually not targeted at us…”
“Then did we take the bullet for someone else?” a T4 combatant wondered.
“Not exactly.” T5081 sighed and said, “Did you guys realize that when we broke through the northern defensive line, the Virtuora Consortium’s garrison troops seemed to be really slow to react and did not attack us with all their might right away? It felt like their reactions were somewhat delayed…”
“It did feel like that. Some of the tactical troops did not seem to be fully prepared.”
“I understand what happened now.” T5081 said, “It’s because the garrison troops of the Virtuora Consortium were alerted to other disturbances in the stronghold and were planning to rush over to reinforce their fellow troops. As a result, that helped us disperse their forces.”
Actually, even Milo himself did not know that favonovel.com had actually contributed somewhat to the destruction of the stronghold.
In his opinion, the destruction of the stronghold this time was entirely caused by the Pyro Company and had nothing to do with favonovel.com at all. Although favonovel.com also wanted to demolish the stronghold, wasn’t the Pyro Company one step ahead of him?
Therefore, favonovel.com was not going to be held responsible for it this time.
T5081 pondered things for a moment before saying, “Let’s go. Since the objective has been accomplished and the stronghold is in chaos, we’ll just directly attack and take out Lionel!”
Although their operation this time was called a decapitation strike, it was actually referring to destroying Stronghold 31 rather than killing Lionel.
On one hand, there was no need to kill him. Even if Lionel were to survive until the Pyro Company’s main forces arrived, there would be nothing favonovel.com could do. It would also be too troublesome since if they went straight for Lionel, the garrison troops would definitely be guarding favonovel.com closely. Although the Pyro Company’s special forces were really strong, they still couldn’t take on a reinforced brigade.
But now they really had nothing better left to do!
T5081 thought that since there was nothing to do, why not just go and kill Lionel instead!
In any case, the garrison troops were already scattered all over the place.
***
At this moment, all of the fleeing residents were trying their best to escape southwards due to the battle going on in the northern part of the stronghold. As a result, Milo and Miriam’s off-road vehicle nearly got stuck on the road.
“After we pick up Nicholai and the others, let’s head straight west. I’ll blow up the city gate once we get there. We can’t escape from the southern gate anymore. I’m afraid that a large number of escapees will be causing a jam over there.” Milo said, “But it’s a pity that we won’t have a chance to kill Lionel anymore.”
Miriam nodded. She looked out of the car window at the escapees fleeing amid the flames. “Let’s put the matter of Lionel aside for now. The outcome that Colton is seeking has already been achieved. It doesn’t matter if Lionel dies or not. Besides, I believe that Colton will definitely be very surprised.”
Based on Colton’s plan, it would take a long time for the Virtuora Consortium to fall into chaos after Lionel was killed. But things were different now. They had skipped a step and reached the end goal.
Speaking of which, this could be considered a one-stop service, and it so happened that Milo was the service provider.
When the off-road vehicle drove into the residential neighborhood, Milo saw the bodies of rioters hanging at the entrance. Blood was dripping from them. It was an extremely terrifying sight.
“This should be the work of Murray and his men to warn the other rioters.” Milo guessed that other than Murray and his men, no one else in the vicinity would be so ruthless.
When the vehicle came to a stop at the entrance of the villa, Milo shouted inside, “Don’t shoot! It’s me!”
Surprised voices rang out from the villa. “Milo and Miriam are back!”
Nicholai opened the door and carefully looked at Milo. He did not ask where favonovel.com had been and immediately checked to see if favonovel.com was alright. “Are you injured?”
“No.” Milo chuckled and said, “About that… Miriam and I just went out for a stroll. We didn’t expect something like this to happen all of a sudden. As a result, we were stuck outside, and it took a long time to find our way back.”
Everyone from the Trinity Institute had looks of disbelief on their faces, but no one knew how to refute his explanation.
When Milo did not see Murray around, favonovel.com looked at Nicholai and asked, “By the way… Didn’t someone come and protect all y’all?”
“Yes, but they left after receiving an order.” Nicholai said, “They… They were they sent here by you?”
“Hahaha,” Milo laughed awkwardly. “How could that be? I only found out by chance when I encountered them earlier. They said that they were coming here to protect you, Elder Rochester. Look, everyone, pack up your belongings and leave this place quickly. Stronghold 31 is done for. If we don’t leave now, we’ll be buried along with this stronghold.”
Milo then realized the people from the Trinity Institute had already packed their luggage and loaded it into the vehicles. After Milo distributed a walkie-talkie to each vehicle, the convoy immediately set off.
The convoy drove all the way west. The atmosphere in the vehicles was extremely silent.
All of a sudden, Pierre asked, “Milo, you…”
“I didn’t do it! I’m just a normal cardiac surgeon!” Milo denied.
“I… I haven’t even asked anything yet…”
But at this moment, a row of black vehicles passed by the Trinity Institute’s convoy. Pierre was about to say something when favonovel.com saw Milo staring intently at the passing convoy.
That convoy of black vehicles was heading east at a very fast speed. It looked like they were escaping.
Milo had chosen to head west because that was where the Stelaria Consortium was. However, other people might not choose to flee in that direction. If they were from the Virtuora Consortium, escaping east would be the highest priority, because there was another Virtuora Consortium stronghold 120 kilometers to the east.
Milo broke the silence by saying to Miriam, “Don’t y’all slow down. I’m heading out for a while.”
Miriam asked thoughtfully, “Lionel?”
“That’s right, that was his license plate. I would guess that favonovel.com doesn’t intend to go down with Stronghold 31. He’s already fleeing!”
With that, Milo opened the door and jumped out of the vehicle. He then ran all the way towards Lionel’s convoy.
In the vehicles at the back of the Trinity Institute convoy, everyone looked silently at Milo who had just gone past them.
Pierre was speechless.
Didn’t favonovel.com just say favonovel.com is just a normal cardiac surgeon?!
