Chapter 97
Down by the little river, Eileen was all set and ready to rock. With a rope tied to her back, she took off at
full speed.
Suddenly, she flung herself forward. Almost at the same time, a croc hidden beneath the river seized
the opportunity, rearing its head and shing its razor-sharp teeth.
But Eileen had already marked the croc’s position. In fact, she had purposely headed straight for it.
Just as the croc lifted its head, she used her foot to step on it. The moment shended on it, she used
it to boost herself. Without any surprises, she
The river was over ten meters wide, but she took nine steps, using the crocs almost like stepping
stones. Finally, she safely reached the opposite bank. The whole process took less than ten seconds.
On the other side, Egbert had a faint smile ying on his lips..
ine and Burton immediately started pping. Lucas and Eddie werepletely gobsmacked.
After reaching the other side, Eileen didn’t stop.
She picked up a stone from the ground, untied the rope from her body, tied the stone to one end of the
rope, and threw it to the other side.
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The stone, with the rope attached,nded on the river bank on the opposite side, where it was picked
up by Burton.
Eileen then climbed up a nearby tree, almost to the top, and tied the other end of the rope to a thick
branch.
“Alright.” Standing on one foot on the tree, Eileen made an “ok” gesture
to the others.
Burton on the other side returned the gesture, then climbed on arge rock. ine followed suit. Burton
tied the rope around his waist, then hugged ine, saying to the three below, “We’ll show you how it’s
done.”
With that, he hugged ine, took a running start on the rock, and the two of them swung across to the
other side.
They traced a winding arc in the air. A few secondster, they arrived safely on the other side.
After letting go of ine, Burton found a higher point, and swung back. Lucas and Eddie were still in
shock. Standing on the rock, Burton asked the two, “Who’s going first?”
Eddie was so frightened that he quickly took two steps back.
Lucas said, “I’ll go first.”
“Alright,” Burton said.
This time he was holding an adult man, so Burton struggled a bit, but he still managed to carry Lucas
safely to the other side.
Once on the ground, tucas looked up at Eileen, who was still on top of the tree, constantly checking if
the rope was loose. Now Lucas waspletely in awe of this girl, admiring her from the bottom of his
heart.
She was truly amazing.
Burton then brought the scared Eddie and the always calm Egbert over. After everything, including their
luggage, was brought over, Burton came over himself. Only then did Eileen put away the rope and
come down from the tree.
As soon as she came down, Lucas immediately praised her, “You’re a pro.”
At this point, Eddie was still pretty scared, patting his chest, and he blurted out, “That was too close.”
Burton gave Eddie’s back a firm pat and said in a displeased tone, “Why don’t you trust me.”
Eddie was on the verge of tears. He touched his painful back andined with teary eyes, “This
ce has no safety measures, I thought I was going to die here.”
Back at the campsite.
Major Warner smiled, gesturing, “Let’s go and get them.”
The director and some crew members quickly grabbed their cameras and followed suit.
As they were leaving the camp, Major Warner seemed to remember something, turning back to ask, “Is
Mr. Lopez going with us?”
A soldier quickly went to inform him.
After a while, the soldier came back and said, “Mr. Lopez said he is not going.”
Major Warner didn’t mind and urged, “Let’s go.”
Everyone got into the off-road vehicle and zoomed off.
Meanwhile, in the tent.
Derek listened to his friend’s voice on the phone, his expression calm, but finally agreed, “Let’s meet
and talk, then.” After hanging up, his face was still very pale.
ke asked, “What did Mr. Reed say?”
Derek said gravely, “It’s about Eileen. Egbert wants our two families to talk it out.”
ke frowned, “Egbert?”
“Yep, Derek said, “He knew a long time ago, and he’s done the DNA test too.”
ke was taken aback, “And the test results…”
“He wouldn’t tell.” Derek chuckled coldly, “He said he’ll only tell us when we meet.”
ke was silent.
Derek got up from the simple cot, picked up the coat hanging nearby, and said, “Let’s go to the airport.”
As ke helped his father put on his coat, he asked, “You really don’t want to see her? You’ve been
waiting for so many days…”
“I can’t bear it either.”
Derek sighed, “But Egbert is a sensible boy. Since he’s made this request, and even called his dad and
me, he must have a reason. I’ll listen to him this time.”
ke didn’t say anything more, helping his father pull back the tent curtain.
The jungle was brightly lit at dusk.
From a distance, Eileen could see the light.
First, she looked at Egbert and Burton next to her, then looked back at Eddie and Lucas who were
almost exhausted. Better safe than sorry. She suddenly sped up, outstripping the other two teams, and
rocketed towards the finish line like a bullet.
“Beep, Team 01, has reached the finish line. Current ranking. First.”
With the sound of that announcement, Eileen finally rxed and leisurely observed the two teams
behind them,
Egbert nced at Eileen indifferently and calmly crossed the finish line.
“Beep, Team 10, has reached the finish line. Current ranking. Second.”
Finally, Lucas, dragging an exhausted Eddie, struggled to the finish line.
Now the top three had arrived. In the live broadcast room, waves of “Congrattions”ments were
popping up like crazy.
On the way back, Eileen and Egbert shared a vehicle. Sitting in the back seat of the off-road vehicle,
she looked at the camera almost about to hit her face and casually asked, “When will the prize money
be given out?”
The cameraman couldn’t speak and just shook his head in response to her.
Eileen scowled, “What’s with the head shaking? You guys aren’t nning to stiff me, are you?”
The cameramen were at a loss for words. They were from the national public television station! Would
a national public television station not pay their employees?
Seeing that Eileen was about to scare the cameraman, Egbert quickly reassured her by gently patting
her hand and said, “Let’s talk about this when we get back.”
With Egbert present, Eileen managed to cool down a bit.
Back at the camp, they were ushered to clean themselves up. Egbert also entered the tent assigned to
him by the show crew.
As soon as he lifted the curtain, he was greeted by two familiar faces. Egbert paused for a moment
before walking in, calling out, “Mr. Lopez, ke.”
Derek looked at him coldly. But ke greeted him with a smile, “Egbert, long time no see.”
Egbert grunted in acknowledgment, and as he was about to say something, the tent curtain was
suddenly thrown open from behind.
Eileen, still wearing the same camouge outfit from before, walked in briskly and asked directly,
“Egbert, I’m going to ask them about the prize money,
youe with…”
Before she could finish her sentence, Eileen suddenly realized there were others in Egbert’s tent.