Chapter 87
Three in the morning.
Around the bonfire.
Burton was staring at his sister in a daze, obviously not fully grasping this pile of information.
ine sat next to him, whispering, “Did you really get it?”
Burton nodded, “I heard it, but why did our aunt grow up somewhere else instead ofing home?”
“You still don’t get it!” ine thought her brother was a bit slow on the uptake.
She exined again, “Our aunt was originally a kid from the Howard family. She was taken away from
our home for some reason and was adopted by the Howard family. She always thought that she was a
Howard until her foster father died and her foster mother remarried. The man she married happened to
be someone from our Lopez family. After moving with her foster mother, she changed herst name.
You should get it now!”
Scratching his head, Burton still didn’t get it.
He asked, “So, have grandpa and uncle confirmed that she’s our aunt now?”
“Notpletely.” ine lowered her voice to avoid being recorded by the drone. “That’s why I came
back. I need to get our aunt’s blood for a DNA test.”
“Are you gonna make her bleed?” Burton frowned, asking, “How?”
ine shook her head, “I don’t know.”
Burton looked at his sister, asking, “Don’t you have a n?”
ine shook her head, “No.”
ine said, “That’s why I told you. Let’s think about it together.”
Burton was silent for a while, then delicately refused, “Actually, this is yours mission, it has nothing to
do with me. Your job, your responsibility…”
ine suddenly reached out and tightly grabbed her brother’s hand, her eyes wide, “We’re siblings!”
Burton retuctantly withdrew his hand and said awkwardly, “You know how good she is at fighting, right?
If I make her bleed, she might beat me half to death, and then you won’t have a brother!”
ine was silent for a moment, then lowered her head and mumbled, “I know, it could be dangerous,
so… let’s think it through?”
Burton stroked his chin, pondered for a moment and said, “How about hair? Or saliva?”
ine shook her head, “The doctor said blood is the most urate.”
After thinking for more than ten minutes, they still had no ideas. ine was really sleepy, and said
through a yawn, “Let’s call it a day, I’m going to sleep.” She stood up to leave.
Burton grabbed her, “Where are you going?”
ine pointed to the tent behind her, “I’m going to sleep.”
Burton shook his head, “We can’t sleep in the tent. We only prepared two tents, one for Mr. Reed and
one for Eileen. We don’t have any, we can only sleep in sleeping bags.”
ine asked incredulously, “Aren’t there many tents? I saw itst night, even the monkeys could sleep
in tents!”
Burton exined, “We took away the previous tents this morning. They were from the bandits, so it’s a
bit difficult to set up new tents tonight. We only set up two. They got one each, but we didn’t get any.”
“I’m injured!” ine said angrily.
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Burton nodded, stood up and generously said, “Then I’ll give you my spot. There aren’t many rocks
here, but be careful not to roll into the fire when you turn over. It’s okay if you get burned, but if your
clothes catch fire, you don’t have any to change into. Aunt won’t give you any clothes. She always
thinks that having you around is a burden.”
In the end, ine had no choice but to sleep on the ground.
Egbert was lying in the tent, listening to the faint sounds outside. He was a bit weary. He raised his
hand and rubbed his forehead. It seemed that he needed to make a call.
When Eileen woke up the next day, she saw ine sitting on the ground, carefully wiping the dew off
the wild fruits with a clean cloth. Seeing here out, ine eagerly handed over a fruit and said
tteringly, “Breakfast?”
Eileen walked over, took a fruit, sniffed it and asked, “Did you wash it?”
ine immediately nodded, “I washed it with dew, not with the water from your bottle.”
Eileen suspiciously looked ine up and down, took a bite of the fruit, and found that it tasted okay.
ine hadn’t poisoned it. She ate the fruit and asked indifferently, “Is your leg okay?”
ine hurriedly shook her head, “It’s fine. It’spletely healed now. I can move freely after removing
the bandages.”
Eileen squatted down, lifted her trouser leg and said, “Eat breakfast. After you finish, I’ll change your
dressing.”
ine was ttered and quickly said, “I don’t need to change the dressing. The doctor said I could
remove it.”
Eileen raised her eyebrows at her, “Are we gonna listen to you or to`me?”
ine hurriedly said, “I’ll listen to you. It’s just one leg. However you want to change the dressing is
fine.”
Eileen got up and left ine. She thought ine was a bit off since she came back to life.
When Eileen was going to wash up, she saw Egbert standing behind the bushes, talking to the drone.
She shouted, “Hey.”
It took Egbert a while to turn his head and then he walked towards her, “Why?”
Seeing the drone quickly flying up to the sky behind him, Eileen’s face changed immediately. She
asked, “Are they secretly tricking you into doing something shady again? Tell me, what are they asking
you to do? I’ll stand up for you!”
Egbert pursed his lips,fortingly held her hand and led her to the other side. At the same time, he
said, “They didn’t ask me to do anything.”
Eileen didn’t believe him, “Then what were you talking about in private?”
Egbert was silent for a moment, then shook his head, “Nothing.”
Seeing that he wouldn’t say, it Eileen unhappily pulled her hand back and went to the other side. Egbert
looked at her angry figure and his expression also became serious.
In the morning, everyone was chowing down on some wild fruits. After the meal, Eileen started to
change the dressing for ine. Burton, who was tidying up stuff, stopped in his tracks when he saw
Eileen pull out a bottle of medicine from the medical box. He blurted out in surprise, “Isn’t that the same
stuff we used for that monkey’s wounds yesterday?”
ine was speechless.
ine, a bit puzzled, asked Eileen, “Auntie… Is this medicine for animals?”
Eileen calmly replied, “No, it’s for humans.”
ine found it hard to believe and stared at her leg in horror.
At this moment, Eileen looked up, a confused expression on her face, “Did you just call me auntie?”
ine didn’t utter a word.
Burton also remained silent, the awkwardness in the air was palpable.
Meanwhile, back in the homnd.
The door to the office of the Capital’s First Military Region was knocked.
Albert was going through some documents. Hearing the knock, he didn’t look up and just said, “Come
in.”
The door was pushed open and a subordinate walked in with a satellite phone in hand, “Marshal, you
have a call.”