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?”

days to reach the exit. But the shorter route is much closer. If we

immediately said, “Then we should take the

in the tree, casually asked,

looked at her and said, “There’s a river. We need to

an eyebrow, “Is

“It’s not marked

monkey, jumped down from the tree, hands on hips, and said, “Then let’s take the short route. No matter how wide

few more days, they’d lose too much time. If other teams got out first,

the end, everyone agreed to take the

for less than an hour when they saw

in relief, saying, “That’s

bank, observing the river, shaking her head

was puzzled,

picked up a stone from the

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

visibly frightened

calmly, “This is

was trembling as he leaned on Lucas’ shoulder, lamenting, “The showrunners are really too much. Never mind,

Egbert

their expressions, Eddie quickly warned, “Don’t act rashly. This river is not the same as the 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

across the river and said, “Isn’t that

exclaimed in surprise, “But it’s on the other side. How will we tie

a while, then suddenly turned to Eddie and said, “Give me ten grand, and I’ll help you

his eyes widened in

won’t ask for more, just put my bank account info for the

Eddie aside and

said, “I have my ways.”

a moment, then nodded, “If you can get us across

Elaine and Burton over,

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