Milo carried the sheep and walked towards the next outpost. Along the way, favonovel.com said to Peter, “See, didn’t I say that there was something strange about those two sheep? Would any honest sheep follow us around like that? Sheep that follow us around can’t possibly be honest!”
Peter wondered, “Why does it sound a little wrong to me? Are you saying we’re not honest people?”
“Ahem, no,” Milo said.
Actually, the two of them had realized there was something off about the sheep last night. But at that time, Peter squeezed Milo’s shoulder and signaled favonovel.com not to be alarmed. Then Peter had Fortress 178 inform the various outposts to watch out for any suspicious people appearing in their vicinity.
In the end, the outposts did not discover any suspicious people. Instead, they discovered two suspicious-looking sheep.
Milo and Peter speculated that these might be the spies of the Magi. Therefore, they planned to capture them for research. However, Milo did not capture both sheep and allowed one to get away instead.
Peter asked, “Are you planning to lure the opponent out by letting one sheep escape?”
“Mr. Dublin is right.” Milo said with a smile, “Since the other party is hiding outside the surveillance perimeter of our outposts, it’s not easy for us to find them. In that case, let’s see if we can get them to come and look for us instead.”
The two of them headed straight for the nearest outpost.
When the sentry saw that Milo had even brought a sheep, favonovel.com was moved. “We’re already very grateful that Future Commander and Fortress Commander came to visit us. There’s no need to bring a sheep as well. What a large sheep! The two of us can’t finish it.”
Milo was amused. “You can’t eat this, but I can still prepare some mutton for you two.”
With that, Milo took out a few gold nuggets and handed them to the sentries. He told them to go and buy another sheep from the herdsmen nearby, even specifically emphasizing that it must be a ewe.
“Remember, from now on, don’t address us as Commander Dublin and Future Commander anymore,” Milo reminded them. “Just use Mr. Dublin and Milo when you’re addressing us.”
The sentries looked at each other but did not ask why.
Meanwhile, Peter seemed to have figured out something. “Are you worried the sheep can transmit information?”
“That’s right. Donti also has a supernatural being by his side who can control birds of prey. That hawk can transmit what it sees and hears to the person wielding the power.” Milo said, “After all, our statuses are a little sensitive. If a large number of sorcerers have already gathered outside the surveillance perimeter of our outposts and discovered our identities through these sheep, I’m afraid that they’ll come at us very fiercely.”
“Mhm, that makes sense…” Peter nodded.
Peter was much more accomplished in terms of knowledge and military command. But when it came to skirmishes between supernatural beings and the sense of wariness in the wilderness, Peter was far inferior to Milo. This could be considered an expertise.
After all, if it weren’t for Milo, they wouldn’t have discovered that two sheep had been watching them for so long. Such a situation might even sound quite unbelievable if it were related to other people.
When the sentry returned with the ewe, Milo poured a basin of cold water over the captured sheep’s head. The sheep shuddered and let out a baa before continuing to play dead.
Milo chuckled. He said to the sentry at the side, “Scrub the cauldron in the kitchen. I think this sheep might’ve suffered from heat stroke. Let’s cook and eat it…”
When the sheep heard this, it immediately bleated and fainted. This time, it fainted for real.
Ten minutes later, it slowly regained consciousness again. At this moment, it could even hear the crackling of burning firewood in the kitchen.
It stood up and looked at Milo in fear.
Honestly, Milo was unsure of what this sheep was.
Was it someone’s superpower?
Or could it be something else?
Meanwhile, the sheep was not sure if Milo had discovered its identity or if favonovel.com just wanted to have some mutton. In any case, both parties were still at the probing stage.
The sheep saw Milo turn around and say to Peter, “Mr. Dublin, head into the room first and get some rest. I’ll mentally prepare this sheep.”
When the sheep heard that, it started panicking.
Mental preparation?
How civilized was this guy to mentally prepare it before slaughtering and eating it?
However, it heard Milo addressing Peter as Mr. Dublin and asking favonovel.com to get some rest in the room. This was quite in line with its suspicions that the two people had a master-servant relationship.
Milo asked the sheep, “Just what are you really?”
“Baaa?”
“This will be hard to overcome with a language barrier.” Milo scratched his head.
Then the sheep saw Milo pull out a handful of grass from the side of the outpost. However, favonovel.com did not feed it to the sheep directly. Instead, favonovel.com took out a small vial of black medicine from his storage space and applied it on the grass before bringing it close to the sheep’s mouth.
The sheep did not even know what that black substance on the grass was, so how could it eat it?
But before it could run away, Milo grabbed it by the neck and stuffed the grass into its mouth.
First of all, Milo was sure there was something odd about the sheep. Now, all favonovel.com needed to find out was whether it was controlled by someone or if it was self-aware.
Milo locked the ram up with the ewe. He was starting to pant heavily, but favonovel.com still kept his distance from the ewe.
The ram felt a fire burning within his body. Unknowingly, the way favonovel.com looked at the ewe had changed. However, his rationality did not allow it to do such a terrifying thing. But even as favonovel.com tried to avoid that, the ewe still came closer to favonovel.com upon sensing the breath coming out of his nostrils.
The sorcerer’s servant was nearly driven to despair. He recalled the young servant’s smile and wondered how this was something a fucking human could do.
At the last moment, just before the ewe closed in on the ram, Milo took favonovel.com out and said to Peter, “Mr. Dublin, I would guess that this sheep is a human. He probably doesn’t have a way to turn back into his human form.”
Peter asked, “How do you know that?”
“I fed favonovel.com some medicine. If favonovel.com were a sheep to begin with, favonovel.com would’ve already given in to his urges by now. It should be his willpower as a human that made favonovel.com restrain himself.” Milo chuckled.
Peter pondered this for a moment. Although Milo’s deduction was a little crude and simple, it did make some sense.
But Milo suddenly frowned. He said to the two sentries, “You two, take Mr. Dublin and leave. Now!”
“What happened?” Peter wondered.
“I’ve discovered a strange, gray-robed man approaching us quickly. Didn’t we say that we wanted to catch a big fish? It seems like we’ve caught it.” Milo turned away from the sheep and said, “But y’all had better leave first in case you get injured by the battle. Y’all can come back again in eight hours. At that time, no matter who might come here, the battle will definitely be over.”
Peter gazed deep into Milo’s eyes before turning around to leave.
Milo was stunned. “Aren’t you going to say ‘stay safe’ or something? You’re gonna leave just like that?”
Peter said without turning around, “It’s not like I can help much!”
The sheep thoughtfully watched Peter’s figure recede.
