Chapter 72

The menacing black barrel of a gun was aiming at a man and woman right before it.

Among the three people of different races, holding guns, one Asian man, speaking Japanese with some difficulty, coldly said to Eileen and Egbert, “Don’t move!”

Eileen and Egbert glanced at each other, raised their hands, and didn’t resist.

The criminals started conversing in the local language.

“Which country’s military uniform are they wearing?”

“Are they here to capture us? But they don’t seem like it; they’re not carrying any weapons.”

“You’re the interpreter; why don’t you ask them?”

The Asian man asked, “Are you in the military?”

Out of the corner of her eye, Eileen noticed that the drone in the sky had flown further away, hiding behind the trees.

She squinted her eyes, then said, “We’re from the International Wildlife Rescue Association. We received a signal that a juvenile jaguar, which had been implanted with a tracking chip, was in danger in the northwest of the jungle. Its vital signs are weak, and we’re here to rescue it.”

The Asian man furrowed his brow and relayed that explanation to his companions.

Eileen carefully listened to their conversation.

Their language skills varied, indicating that they were not from the same country.

What brought them together?

As Eileen was mulling over this, a brown-skinned man with a submachine gun walked over, using the barrel of his gun to flick off Egbert’s hat.

Eileen was on alert, ready to take action at any moment.

Egbert suddenly grabbed her wrist and gave her a look, signaling her not to act rashly.

brown-skinned man furrowed his brow, sizing up Egbert’s face.

companions, “Doesn’t he look

look

take a look.”

man they referred to as Monkey was the only Asian among

looked at Egbert and said, with some confusion, “He does

gray-blue vest at the back suddenly blurted out this name in a less

she walked over with her gun, pointing the

back and excitedly told her companions in a tongue-twister

man and the Asian man both frowned. Apparently, they were not familiar with movies and were living a life full of

her eye sockets were somewhat dark. She greedily traced Egbert’s face with her gun, oozing

contentedly, “I really like

light flashed in Eileen’s eyes.

that she was about to take action again, frowned, and tightened his grip on

Egbert and finally gritted her teeth, deciding

the woman’s dissatisfied protests, he said to the brown-skinned man, “It’s simpler

The dark-skinned man came over,

grew cold, and he suddenly made a move. Eileen blinked; this time she grabbed his wrist, stopping him in his tracks. At the same time, she looked at

say to stay

eyes; his expression was gloomy.

looker.” The dark-skinned man grinned, “Let’s take her

but didn’t say more. He walked over, pressed on Eileen and Egbert’s backs,

come out to fetch water. After they got the water, they took the two with them. They took a roundabout path and headed deeper

flew in from

the live broadcast first? And the others, should

his brow in thought. Then, after a while, he said, “I’ll make a call.”

when he came back, he asked the soldier operating the

the

taken aback, “How did he end up like

by a wasp, then ran into a crocodile, and then a python. He slept in a tree last night and woke up to find several pustules from

young man in the frame, carefully squatting by the

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