Chapter 96

Elaine’s words must’ve been a hell of a shocker, ’cause everyone around fell silent.

Burton felt embarrassed, his face turning red. He quickly approached and pulled Elaine away.

Elaine struggled all the way.

Eileen stood still for a moment before gently patting Egbert’s arm. He turned to look at her.

Eileen looked puzzled and asked, “What’s her deal?”

“She wants to team up with you.” Before Egbert could speak, Eddie chimed in with a laugh.

As soon as Eddie finished speaking, he seemed to get a bright idea. He threw his arm around Lucas’ shoulder and said, “Let’s form an alliance too. We’ve been through hell and back together.”

Lucas shrugged off Eddie’s arm and walked towards Egbert, saying, “Mr. Reed, I want to take another look at the map.”

Egbert put his pocketknife away. He glanced back at Eileen, then he and Lucas went off to the side to discuss their route.

After a while, Burton and Elaine returned.

Eileen was lounging in the branches of a large tree! With her legs crossed and a blade of grass in her mouth, she was sneakily watching the siblings below.

Seeing her gaze, Burton called out, “Auntie.”

Elaine stood behind Burton, and she also seemed a bit shy now, sneakily watching Eileen and mumbling along, “Auntie.”

Eileen laughed, ignored them, and beckoned two little white monkeys over.

A few minutes passe. Egbert folded up the map and said, “There are two paths, one short and one long.”

Eddie was stumped, asking, “What’s the difference?”

to reach the exit. But the shorter route is much closer. If we go fast, we may reach the exit by tonight.”

“Then we should

a little monkey while lounging in the tree,

and said, “There’s a river. We need to cross

“Is the river

head, “It’s not

white monkey, jumped down from the tree, hands on hips, and said, “Then let’s take the short route. No matter how wide the river is, we can always swim across. That’s better than walking a few

kept walking for a few more days, they’d lose too much time.

everyone agreed to

an hour when they saw the

saying, “That’s manageable. We can swim across.”

river, shaking her head and

puzzled,

the other side and threw

from the water, snapped up the stone in its mouth, and slowly sank back to the bottom.

visibly frightened

said calmly, “This is

legs went soft. He was trembling as he leaned on Lucas’ shoulder, lamenting, “The showrunners are really too much. Never mind, let’s

Egbert said a word.

previous dangerous one. That one only required us to find items, but this one requires us to cross it. We can’t just swing across, and even if we could, how would we do it? There are no trees here for us to use

pointed to a big tree across the river and said, “Isn’t that a tree?”

“But it’s on the other side. How will

a while, then suddenly turned to Eddie and said, “Give me ten grand, and I’ll help you guys cross the river.”

his eyes

will just round it off. I won’t ask for more, just put my bank account info for the prize

pulled Eddie aside and asked Eileen, “How are you going to help

“I have my

then nodded, “If you can get us across the

smirked, and beckoned Elaine and

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