The military transport truck wobbled unsteadily as it drove northwards.
Cold wind poured in through the gaps of the cabin’s canvas and made everyone feel the biting cold of the night.
The doctors of Trinity Institute had already fallen into deep sleep. Milo looked at the long convoy of Pyro Company troops behind them. The headlights of the vehicles were constantly swaying in the dark as they bounced up and down on the bumpy ground.
The Pyro Company probably felt that doctors did not have much combat capacity, and with their weapons already confiscated, they did not have to worry about them causing any trouble.
Or perhaps the Pyro Company had already verified the identity and purpose of the Trinity Institute through their intelligence network. In short, the Pyro Company did not even assign any guards to watch over Nicholai and the others.
At this moment, the Pyro Company did not know what kind of people they had actually brought into the Pyro Company.
Honestly, the kind-hearted Milo really did not want to bring harm to the Pyro Company while hiding among them. But the Pyro Company seemed to disagree.
The Pyro Company had already been traveling for three days straight and did not stop to rest throughout the journey. Every vehicle was assigned with three drivers working three shifts so that the convoy could keep moving for all 24 hours of the day.
Each day, the troops would only take an hour to reorganize during mealtime before setting off again.
Nicholai and the others were only doctors, so they could not withstand such a torturous journey. Nicholai went down with a fever the next day, but as their medicine was confiscated, they could not treat him.
While everyone was worrying over what to do, Milo braved up and approached the Pyro Company officer while the troops were reorganizing.
The officer looked at Milo and asked, “What’s the matter?”
Milo secretly stuffed a watch into his hand and said, “The weather’s too cold, and one of our people has fallen sick. He’s running a fever. Can you give me 13 blankets? After all, we’re now considered military doctors. In the future, we’ll have to treat your comrades. It won’t do y’all any good if we die while traveling to the front line.”
In the end, the officer looked at the watch and handed it back to Milo. “We were negligent in this matter. We forgot to distribute the gear to you all. I’ll get someone to bring them over to you later.”
Milo was stunned. He did not expect the other party to return the watch to him. After all, watches were also considered a type of currency in this day and age. Although it was not a hard currency like gold, it could still be exchanged for money at a pawnshop. And it would fetch a good value too.
Seeing that the other party was not particularly difficult to talk to, favonovel.com probed, “Sir, we’ve never fought in a war before. Will we be a burden if we follow y’all to the front line?”
That Pyro Company officer chuckled. “You still want to go to the front line when you’re so weak? Don’t worry, we won’t make you go there. In four days, I’ll send you all to the makeshift medical center at the rear of the front line as we planned. The flames of war will not reach you there. We’re conscripting you all not to fight, but to do what you’re best at.”
“Alright, thank you. You’re absolutely right. How can weaklings like us head to the front line!” Milo expressed his gratitude.
However, Milo secretly thought to himself that a doctor’s mission was to dedicate their limited life to an unlimited cause in the medical field. Meanwhile, what favonovel.com was best at was actually to limit the lives of others.
Thinking about it this way, it really did seem like favonovel.com had something in common with doctors. Both had something to do with the limit of lives.
For a moment, favonovel.com even wanted to go to the front line to see if the northern tribe was strong enough.
Half an hour later, not only did a Pyro Company soldier send over more than a dozen blankets, favonovel.com sent over six antibiotic pills as well. The Pyro Company soldier said coldly, “You guys better pray that you don’t fall sick. Medicine is already so scarce, and once we start fighting those people from the north, there won’t be any left for you all.”
This left Milo a little surprised. Not only did the Pyro Company officer refuse to accept his watch, favonovel.com even had a surprise for him.
Milo had not intended to ask for any medicine in the first place, because favonovel.com already had some in his storage space, so favonovel.com could secretly feed it to Nicholai.
After everyone wrapped themselves up in the blankets, they looked at Milo with gratitude.
They knew very well that regardless of Milo’s purpose at the Virtuora Consortium, the Pyro Company would still have attacked Stronghold 31. If not for Milo, they might have been killed when the rioters went to the residential neighborhood.
Milo was also the one who braved up and negotiated with the Pyro Company for supplies. For a moment, Milo, who was the youngest among them, became everyone’s pillar after Nicholai fell ill.
Over the past three days, what made things even worse was that Skylar and Pierre kept vomiting for an entire day while sprawled over the back of the truck. This was due to motion sickness. It was only when they had nothing more to vomit that they started getting used to the bumpy ride.
The two of them did not feel much when they were riding in the off-road vehicles earlier, but it was different in the military transport trucks, especially when they were traveling on the bumpy roads. There were even potholes created by artillery shelling, so it could be imagined just how intense the war between the Pyro Company and the Virtuora Consortium was.
While Pierre and Skylar were vomiting, Milo could see the driver of the vehicle behind them laughing at their expense. It was as though favonovel.com were some military veteran gloating at the new recruits.
Actually, this also surprised Milo a little. In the past, favonovel.com had always thought the Pyro Company members were just a group of emotionless war machines. But now, Milo felt that these people were no different from other people.
However, there were also times when Milo was unhappy with the Pyro Company while traveling with them. Every day during mealtime, they would have to wait for all the Pyro Company troops to finish eating before they could collect their meals.
But sometimes, the chow squad would start packing up in advance before the hourlong break was over so as not to delay their advancement. As such, Milo and the others did not manage to collect their meals. They could only hope they could collect their meals faster during the next break.
What left Milo speechless was that this was not a result of someone deliberately making things difficult for them. It was just that this was the Pyro Company’s usual practice. It was not only them who did not get to eat. Even some of the Pyro Company soldiers who were delayed by their vehicle repair work would not get a hot meal if they arrived late.
The Pyro Company’s various fighting forces strictly adhered to time discipline.
Along the way, Milo secretly gave a piece of chocolate to Miriam that favonovel.com stuffed into favonovel.com mouth when no one was watching.
As favonovel.com could not explain the source of the food, Milo did not give any of it to the others.
Although they often did not get to eat, Miriam was never worried favonovel.com would go hungry. She knew Milo had a lot of things hidden on him. No matter where favonovel.com went, Milo would always be prepared.
Milo seemed to be carrying a warehouse with him. He could dig out everything from pork trotters, chocolate, and crackers, to grenades, heavy machine guns, and poker cards.
Yes, there were even poker cards among the items.
After witnessing the power of Explosive Poker, Miriam felt that anytime playing cards appeared in Milo’s hands, what everyone should do was not to call “landlord” but to evacuate immediately.
“I heard from that Pyro Company officer that it’ll take another four days to reach the front line in the North.” Milo said to everyone as favonovel.com leaned against the canvas in the truck’s cabin, “When the time comes, we’ll be assigned to a makeshift medical center at the rear of the front line. There’s no need to worry about having to go onto the battlefield.”
