Defying Fate: The Unstoppable Eileen

Chapter 184

Eddie slowly rose from the bushes, looking like he’d just crawled out of a grimy mine. Text content © NôvelDrama.Org.

Lost and confused, he walked towards the four girls.

Hearing footsteps, Eileen opened her eyes, and to her surprise, it was Eddle.

She immediately sat up and anxiously asked, “Where have you guys been? I’ve been looking everywhere for you!”

Eddie, like a laborer returning home after a long time, was moved to tears.

He choked up, “You were looking for us?”

Eileen replied, “Yes, I’ve been looking for you guys. Did you see Egbert?”

Eddie was speechless.

He paused, looking bewildered, before asking. “Didn’t Mr. Reed leave already?”

Eileen didn’t respond. She turned her gaze to the other three men behind Eddie, “What about you guys? Did you see Egbert?”

The three men were stunned, looking at each other before shaking their heads in unison.

Eileen frowned, looking displeased.

Meanwhile, the cans on the fire were smelling pretty good.

The aroma was making everyone’s mouth water.

Eddie no longer cared about Mr. Reed, he mumbled, “I’m starving…”.

Eileen glanced at him and generously said, “Since you guys are here, let’s eat together.”

The four men were starving and were thrilled to hear this!

Eileen opened the supplies bag and took out two packs of compressed biscuits, one for the boys and one for the girls.

Eddie didn’t want the biscuits, he wanted the warm canned food. So, he walked towards the fire.

But to his surprise, Eileen was already by the fire, eating the canned food with gusto, clearly not planning to share.

Eddie and the other three men were speechless.

Edna and the other two girls, however, were unfazed. They skillfully opened their biscuits and started eating.

The four men looked at their biscuits, feeling a bit wronged.

But they had no choice. They had to follow the girls’ lead and started eating their biscuits.

After Eileen finished her canned food, she looked up and found that the others had also finished eating.

She stood up and said, “Let’s get ready and continue searching the mountain.”

“Searching the mountain?” The men looked puzzled. “Why are we searching the mountain?”

Eileen declared righteously, “Of course, to wipe out the rebel organization. I am determined to eliminate all the pursuers!”

As soon as she said this, one of the “bodies” in the pile of “corpses” rolled their eyes and grumbled, “Haven’t we already been wiped out by you? You killed all fifty of us, remember?”

Eileen replied grumpily, “You’re already dead, stop talking!”

The “corpse” huffed in frustration but stopped talking.

Eddie figured it out and mumbled, “No wonder we didn’t see any pursuers when we came out… If they’re all dead, who are we searching for?”

Eileen solemnly said, “The leader of the pursuers.”

Another “corpse” couldn’t stand it anymore and yelled, “We already told you, we don’t have a leader! We don’t know Mr. Reed! We were just ordered to chase after you guys! We had no strategy, no plan, this was just a small test!”

Eileen shot at the “corpse”.

The “corpse”, having already “died” once and unable to “die” again, was very cocky and yelled, “I’m telling the truth!”

Eileen ignored them. She turned to the others and ordered, “Get up, we’re wasting time!”

Eileen insisted on leading everyone to search for Egbert.

She firmly believed that there must be a leader. She couldn’t accept that there wasn’t one!

At eleven o’clock at night.

Eileen squatted on the ground and muttered, “Maybe there really isn’t a leader…”

The other seven people stared at her blankly.

Before midnight, Eileen, albeit reluctantly, led the seven people to the meeting point within the designated time.

The staff of the show and the members of the Air Force Battalion were all there.

The moment the door opened, all eyes were on Eileen.

Eileen pretended not to notice and looked away.

Regardless, all eight of them managed to escape within the time limit and passed the test, that was a fact.

The battalion commander didn’t say much. It was already late, and everyone was exhausted.

He ordered a car to pick them up and take them to the Air Force Battalion’s dormitory.

Eileen spent the night in the dormitory and was woken up by the assembly bell the next morning.

After training with the Land Force Battalion, the celebrity guests were no longer late for training.

The morning exercise at the Air Force Battalion was similar to that at the Land Force Battalion, it was a morning run.

Eileen ran two laps before a trainer singled her out, “Eileen, step out.”

Eileen jogged up to the trainer and stood at attention with her hands behind her back.

The trainer handed her a document, “This is the report card for the eight of you from the Land Force Battalion. Take it to the gate and give it to the person outside.”

This was a task for her.

Eileen didn’t refuse. She took the document and walked towards the gate.

Outside the gate, there was indeed a man standing there.

He was facing away from the gate, so Eileen could only see his back and not his face.

But the moment she saw his figure, she rushed over!

Egbert wasn’t in uniform today, just a black jacket.

He was holding his phone, apparently replying to a message.

Eileen was panting slightly when she ran up to him.

Hearing the sound behind him, Egbert turned around.

There was a guard post and an iron fence at the gate.

The black iron fence was between them, Eileen on the inside, Egbert on the outside.

Their eyes met.

Egbert took a few steps forward, getting closer to Eileen.

Eileen looked at his face, hesitated for a moment, then asked, “Am I supposed to give the report card to you?”

Egbert chuckled and nodded, reaching out to take the document from her.

Eileen was staring at his slender fingers as he passed the report card through the bars.

Egbert took it.

Just like that, the simple handover was done.

But neither of them left..

Egbert then asked, “I heard you were looking for me all day yesterday?”

Eileen was taken aback. She didn’t know who had told this to Egbert, she replied, “There was a little challenge yesterday, I thought you were the boss.”

Egbert chuckled, didn’t ask if she was kidding or not, just nodded.

Eileen then asked, “Why did you suddenly drop out?”

Egbert replied, “Something came up, I had to go back to the Capital.”

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Eileen immediately pressed, “What happened?”

Egbert thought about it, decided to tell her, “Do you remember that guy we met in the hospital last time?”

Eileen was stunned, “Your return to the Capital is related to that guy?”

Egbert nodded.

The military had rejected the cooperation proposal from Bloodbane Shadowsociety, and these few days, the Bloodbane Shadowsociety had been a real pain in the ass for the military.

Egbert was summoned back on short notice, under his identity as a Silent Wing.

But the details involved military secrets, he couldn’t spill more to Eileen.

Eileen was pretty bummed out.

She didn’t expect Egbert’s departure had something to do with NightKing!

NightKing was such a pain in the ass!

His sudden visit to Crestonia and dragging Egbert into it was just so out of line!

Eileen was grumbling about NightKing’s incompetence in her mind,

Then, Egbert suddenly pushed his phone towards Eileen.

Eileen was a little puzzled looking at the phone.

Egbert said, “Your manager said you should give her a call when you have the chance.”

Eileen looked at the phone, didn’t want to take it.

What was she going to call Ophelia for, to get a tongue lashing?

But she thought if she didn’t take the phone, Egbert might just leave.

After hesitating for a moment, she took it.

Egbert’s phone was still on the previous screen, opening straight to WhatsApp.

Eileen didn’t want to snoop, was about to exit, but then, she froze.

Eileen saw Egbert’s profile picture.

Egbert’s old profile picture was a regular landscape photo, nothing special.

But now, he had changed his profile picture to an owl clock.

He had changed to the same profile picture as hers!

Eileen was dumbfounded.

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The man outside the fence saw her shocked expression, a smile in his eyes, pretending to be clueless, asked, “What’s up?” Elleen lifted her head, staring at Egbert for a while, then asked, “Why did you steal my profile picture?”

Egbert was speechless.

He looked into her eyes, solemnly said, “It’s called, couple profile pictures!!”