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?”

said, “The longer way around might take three or four days to reach the exit. But the shorter route is much closer. If we

should take

cradling a little monkey while lounging in the tree,

at her and said, “There’s a river.

“Is the river

“It’s not

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.

too much time. If other teams got out first, they’d

the end, everyone agreed to take the short route.

had been walking for less than an hour when they saw the bridgeless

“That’s manageable.

on the bank, observing the river, shaking her head and saying, “We can’t swim

was puzzled, “Why not?”

a stone from the other side and

instantly, a crocodile with sharp teeth emerged from the water, snapped up the stone in

visibly

“This is also

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

Egbert said

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 would we do it? There are no trees here for

big tree across the river and said, “Isn’t

the other side. How

and said, “Give me ten grand,

surprised that his

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

aside and asked

have my

“If you can get us across the river, the money’s yours.”

Elaine and Burton over, “Over here.”

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