Defying Fate: The Unstoppable Eileen

Chapter 96

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 go fast, we may reach

we should take the short route.”

cradling a little monkey while lounging in the tree, casually asked, “Is

at her and said, “There’s a river.

“Is the river wide?”

shook his head, “It’s not marked

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

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

to

been walking for less than an hour when they saw the bridgeless river, which seemed to be more than

sighed in relief, saying, “That’s manageable. We

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

puzzled, “Why not?”

that moment, Egbert picked up a stone from the

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

visibly frightened

is also

shoulder, lamenting, “The showrunners are really too much. Never mind, let’s play it safe and take

Eileen nor Egbert

to find items, but this one requires us to cross it. We can’t just swing

tree across the

“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 guys

that his eyes widened in

is almost gone. The last bit of the money will just round it off. I won’t ask for more, just

aside

“I have my

nodded, “If you can get us across

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