Chapter 93

For the next three days, Lucas and Eddie had been with Eileen’s crew.

By day four, Eddie was used to this lifestyle.

Whenever it’s time for a meal, he’d be right there with bowl in hand.

At first, Lucas was a bit of a tough nut to crack.

But, before he knew it, he’d given up resisting and was just going with the flow.

On the evening of the fourth day, Lucas did a quick tally of their spending.

He looked at Eddie, who was picking his teeth, with a worried look, “We’ve burned through nearly fifty grand.”

Eddie was taken aback, scratching his head looking at the figures on the ground, “Did we really spend that much? I didn’t notice.”

Lucas was bummed, “We gotta at least make it to third place, or we’re gonna be broke.”

Eddie gave him a pat on the shoulder, “No worries, I’ve got this. Plus, the third-place prize is thirty grand each. That’s sixty grand for the two of us. So, we’ve only spent less than fifty grand. We’ve still got some left.”

Lucas thought Eddie was just too extravagant.

In the last few days, Eileen and her group had gathered a bunch of info, which they had also bought.

The clues on the map were now all laid out.

These clues connect as follows: Head southeast, encounter a circular pond, turn left at the first corner, pass through a grove of banana trees, continue for half an hour, and you’ll reach a snake-shaped cave where the map is located.

But after two days of walking, they still hadn’t come across the circular pond, nor seen any other teams.

Lucas started to think they might have taken a wrong turn.

He took his doubts to Eileen’s group for a chat.

As he walked over, he saw Eileen and Elaine lying side by side in the tent.

Eileen cracked an eyelid at the sound of his approach, glanced outside the tent and asked in a raspy voice, “What’s up?”

Lucas said, “twanted to talk about our route.”

Eileen waved him off, “Talk to Egbert, he’s got this. Not my department.”

So, Lucas had no choice but to go to Egbert.

After a half-hour chat with Egbert, he went back to his tent.

Meanwhile, outside.

dropped from the sky.

had a chat with the drone, then went to find Eileen, “The two monkeys that

him from inside the tent and said absent-mindedly, “If they’re gonna be

said, “We need to go get them.”

checked the time, wiped her face with a wet wipe, revealing a fresh, clean face, “Why

her annoyed expression,

shot. The animal protection organization is worried

Eileen frowned.

from another tent at this

walked over to Eileen,

said to the drone, “Fine, but only

just laughed, “Alright, bring ’em here.”

the two monkeys

“It’s

no biggie.”

Egbert says

and Lucas, clueless about what was happening, just saw

were two monkeys, showing

these… Proboscis

pulled Eddie

was confused,

to open

monkeys are vicious,

Everything went quiet.

looked up

shocked, “What did you

attack, just like tigers or lions. You

terrified, “Why the hell would the crew

he didn’t know either. But he kept Eddie behind him, watching the big cage warily.

head, continuing to open the

“Seriously, don’t! It…”

recognized Eileen’s scent, it stopped showing its fangs and just clung onto

the little monkey to Egbert behind her, joking, “Let your mommy hold

to reach out, but when he heard

dry laugh, “Christy said

a

had to apologize, “I was just kidding, I’m

expression, then

onto Egbert’s clothes, still trembling.

held it

other little monkey out of

on Eileen, it buried its head in

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