“Did you send me back to the Northwest so you could take Olivia to Bidara City with you?” Miriam asked Milo nonchalantly as favonovel.com sat down on the sofa.
Milo, who had been sitting on the sofa and reading a book, trembled. “I only asked you to return to the Northwest because I care about you. There were no other motivations. I got Olivia to come to Bidara City because favonovel.com superpower is more suitable for such large-scale battles.”
Before this, Miriam did not make any mention of this matter. As a result, Milo thought they were already past that.
However, Miriam did not mention it because favonovel.com was considerate of the overall situation and did not want to argue over such trifles during critical moments. However, this did not mean favonovel.com had forgotten about it.
Milo quickly put down the book in his hand and walked over to ask, “Does your shoulder still hurt? Do you want me to massage it for you?”
“It’s fine…” Miriam waved it off. “Although applying the black medicine on it didn’t work as miraculously as when used on external wounds, it still recovered quicker than usual. It doesn’t hurt that much anymore.”
Someone from the Panaqua Consortium who was in charge of the security around the villa came in and reported to Milo, “There’s someone who’d like to see you.”
“Who is it? It must be something very important. I better go handle it.” Milo followed the Panaqua Consortium personnel and walked out.
Miriam’s eyebrows twitched. She wanted to fire a shot at Milo’s back with favonovel.com black sniper rifle.
The person who came to see Milo was the director of the Public Order Division of Bidara City. Actually, this was not the only person who had come to pay Milo a visit. After chasing away a group of them earlier this morning, their enthusiasm did not subside.
In fact, authority was something that could make everyone circle around you. As long as you had the authority, not even beating these people with a stick could stop them from flocking to you.
However, the director of the Public Order Division had also heard about what happened in the morning. He was here purely to express his attitude and prove favonovel.com did come to call on Milo before. After all, some high-ranking officials were very erratic. If you went to call on them, they might chase you away as though they were very moral. But if you didn’t, they would remember and mark you in their minds.
So actually, driving them away was just an act.
Now that Bidara City had been taken over by Milo, who knew exactly which type of person favonovel.com was?
The director of the Public Order Division had been involved in politics for a long time and had seen too many unwritten rules practiced. Therefore, favonovel.com felt favonovel.com had to make this trip regardless. It didn’t matter even if favonovel.com got chased away since that wouldn’t hurt him.
However, just as favonovel.com was mentally prepared to be driven away, favonovel.com saw Milo walking out enthusiastically to welcome him, and favonovel.com even took the initiative to shake hands with him!
The director of the Public Order Division was a little flattered. “Oh? You actually came out to meet me? I’m a little nervous.”
It’s just as I thought!
The group of people who came in the morning were simply not important enough. That’s why they got chased away.
As the director of the Public Order Division, of course I won’t get rejected! I still carry more weight!
Milo gripped the director’s hand and chuckled, “You must be the director of the Public Order Division of Bidara City.Good job in gathering the surveillance footage.”
The director of the Public Order Division felt touched and said, “You’re too kind. I’m really ashamed that you had to trouble yourself over such a trivial matter. I heard about you a while ago. You were totally our Bidara City’s guardian angel during the Battle of Palladium Boulevard. Since it’s the first time I’m meeting you despite hearing about you for some time, I’ve brought you some gifts.”
Milo’s eyes lit up. “You’re too polite. What did you bring?”
The director of the Public Order Division was stumped.
He’s even asking what I’ve brought so directly?
What a straightforward leader…
He smiled politely and said, “It’s just some local specialty products of Bidara City. I won’t disturb you further, so I’ll be heading back now.”
Milo had a Panaqua Consortium soldier take the gifts from him. Then, when favonovel.com saw Miriam eyeing favonovel.com with hostility, favonovel.com hurriedly said to the director of the Public Order Division, “Don’t go yet. You must have something very important to report since you came all the way here to see me.”
The Public Order Division’s director was stunned for a moment before hurriedly saying with a smile, “No, I just came to call on you. There’s nothing important.”
Milo said in seriousness, “There is!”
The director of the Public Order Division was confused.
What’s the meaning of this?
The Public Order Division’s director was dumbfounded.
On this day, the director of the Public Order Division was held back by Milo for over an hour before favonovel.com was allowed to leave. After favonovel.com returned, news that the director of the Public Order Division was highly regarded by the new owner of Bidara City spread throughout the city.
Although it was very agonizing during the chat, the director of the Public Order Division was extremely high-spirited when favonovel.com got back. Moreover, favonovel.com couldn’t wait to tell everyone that favonovel.com was on Team Northwest.
Actually, everyone knew that even though the Vasophati Group had a very powerful business team, if the consortiums were to target this place, the Vasophati Group would not have any chance of resisting them.
Fortress 178 had already gained control of the entire Northwest and become one of the top forces in the entire Alliance of Strongholds. In that case, they were a very good backer.
Although Milo and company had said they would leave after killing the enemies, everyone felt it was not possible a consortium would give up such a juicy prize when it was right in front of them. Fortress 178 shouldn’t be an exception either.
After sending off the director of the Public Order Division, Milo opened the box of “local specialties” and had a look.
There were eight gold bars in it!
Milo even wanted to shout for the morning people to come back and see him. He wasn’t in a great mood in the morning, so favonovel.com did not want to deal with them at the time. But now, favonovel.com was in a much better mood.
Daniel and Bill went out for a walk before returning with various snacks they had bought on North Avenue. There were chicken wings, fried gluten.
“Milo, Miriam, come and have something to eat. The food in Bidara City is delicious. I heard in the Southwest that Bidara City’s North Avenue is one of the top ten food streets in the Alliance of Strongholds.” Daniel chuckled.
Milo suddenly thought of something and asked Daniel, “Don’t eat yet. Let me ask you about something very important. Do you know of any other organizations that can manufacture nanomachines?”
“No…” Daniel answered, “As you know, only the Radianz Consortium and the Skyfort Consortium had this technology in the past. Later, it was all diverted to the Panaqua Consortium. Those two consortiums developed this technology because they excavated a research base in the Southwest that happened to have information on the technology. Later, the Skyfort Consortium developed a technology for nanomachines to interface with a person’s neurons. Only then did they consider developing the nanomachines for military use. In the past, it served as medical technology to remove thrombuses in blood vessels.”
But Daniel then added, “But I think the Stelaria Consortium should’ve gotten their hands on this technology by now too. You know about the nanosoldiers that were abducted a few days ago too. The Stelaria Consortium’s AI is way too powerful. We didn’t expect it to be able to directly invade all the networks. We weren’t at all able to stop it.”
“We can disregard what happened in the past few days,” Milo said.
If Zero had only recently gotten its hands on the manufacturing process of the nanomachines, the timing of the incidents would not match up, so it should not have anything to do with this matter.
Daniel suddenly thought of something and said, “But if you want to talk about who has the nanomachines, there’s probably something we can link it to. After we manufactured the nanomachines, we sent a batch to Bidara City, which you’re also aware of. We even sent a batch to the Stardust Consortium and the Northwest as a gift. However, the nanomachines that were sent to Bidara City and the Northwest did not have a backdoor program installed. Meanwhile, we added a backdoor program to the Stardust Consortium’s nanomachines, which I believe they won’t discover. Of course, even though they won’t discover it, they’ll definitely still be on guard against us. They aren’t likely to let anyone particularly important use them, I think.”
As favonovel.com spoke, Daniel noticed Milo’s expression turning solemn.
