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

said to his companions, “Doesn’t he look

look

take a

Monkey was the only Asian among them.

also looked at Egbert and said, with some

short hair and a gray-blue vest at the back suddenly blurted out

with her gun, pointing the

told her companions in a tongue-twister language, “He’s

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

short hair had deep features, and her eye sockets were somewhat dark. She greedily traced Egbert’s

contentedly, “I

dangerous light flashed

about to take action again, frowned, and tightened his grip on her wrist.

finally gritted her teeth, deciding

stepped forward, forcibly pulled away the loose woman, and amid the woman’s dissatisfied protests, he said to the brown-skinned man, “It’s simpler

definitely taking them with us.” The dark-skinned man

time she grabbed his wrist, stopping him in his tracks.

asked, “Didn’t you say to stay calm? What are you

eyes; his

take her back. It’s been a while

He walked over, pressed on Eileen and Egbert’s backs,

got the water, they took the two with them.

the sky, a drone flew in from afar, following

anxiously asked, “Should we stop the live broadcast first? And the others, should we rescue them

Then, after a while, he

he came back, he asked the

the disheveled, shirtless Burton appeared in the frame.

“How did he end up

and then a python. He slept in a tree last night and woke up to find several pustules from mosquito bites. He’s currently looking for a water source to clean his wounds. He lost his

watched the muscular young man in the frame, carefully squatting by the river and

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