Chapter 263 Maybe We Are One as a Couple


The azure waves were lapping the stony shore.


Kara was looking into the distance. After a while, she suddenly squatted, stuck a branch in the sand and gravel, looked at the sea, clothes her eyes, and put her hands together.


Donald watched and asked wonderingly, "What are you doing?"


Kara bowed her head reverently and said seriously, "Offer incense to the directors. I pray they'll be good people in the afterlife."


Donald was stupefied.


After offering incense, she planned to kowtow to Heaven.


Ebony lifted her suitcase, used her other hand to pat Kara on the head, and said, "Let's go."


Kara froze, quickly got up, and bumbled to hold Ebony. "Ebo, you can do it, right? Your performance in Survival Game is phenomenal. You will guide me, right?"


Ebony looked askance at her. "Even if I don't want to, I can't get rid of you."


"Ahhh, you're the best!" Kara said and kissed Ebony on her face.


Behind them, Lloyd frowned, unhappily walked over, took the suitcase from Ebony's hand, and said, "Let's go find a place to hide from the rain."


Kara froze. "Hide from the rain?"


Ebony looked up at the sky, observed it for a moment, and said, "It's really going to rain. Let's go ahead and take a look."


Kara was in a daze. Seeing the two leave, she followed in a hurry.


Donald saw it and also followed.


Only Josue and Belinda were left on the beach.


Josue lifted his suitcase and said, "Let's go too."


Belinda was reluctant. She had been feeling unwell, to begin with. After two consecutive days of travel, she was as white as a sheet.


She asked, "Can we go our own way?"


Josue froze. "Our own way?"


Belinda said, "Yeah, isn't this a honeymoon trip? A honeymoon is between a couple. We don't have to go with them."


Josue frowned. "But we're on a desert island. If we go solo, I'm afraid..."


"It's okay." Belinda pointed to the drones overhead and said, "We can turn to the director if there is any problem. He won't leave us behind, will he? We're on a dating show rather than a survival game. The program team is just trying to scare us. When we're hungry and thirsty, they will bring us food and water."


What she said was unreasonable.


Josue didn't believe the directors would really leave them behind to survive on a desert island either.


He hesitated for a moment, remembered the grudge between Belinda and Ebony, and said, "Have it your way."


A smile immediately appeared on Belinda's haggard face. "Let's go over there."


She pointed in a direction opposite to where Ebony and others had gone.


Josue pursed his lips. He had no intention of arguing about that.


After walking for a while, Donald sighed as he found that Josue and Belinda didn't come along. They had headed in the opposite direction.


He asked in surprise, "What happened to them?"


Ebony looked back and snorted, "Don't mind them. We should find a place to take shelter first. In ten minutes at most, it will rain."


Donald was bewildered. "Rain?"


Kara chimed in, "How is that possible? It's freaking hot in this place."


Ten minutes later.


Pitter-patter!


The sudden thunderstorm drenched everything and seemed to flood the whole island.


Each holding a banana leaf, Kara and Donald cowered beneath a low rock.


Kara muttered incredulously, "Why on earth is it raining?"


On the other side of the rock, Ebony sat on Lloyd's suitcase. While sheltering from the rain, she fiddled with a stone and said casually, "Thunderstorms are common in tropical places."


Kara asked, "But how did you predict it?"


Ebony pointed to the sky and replied, "The clouds were settling fast. We can roughly tell the recent rainfall from the descending speed of mist."


Kara didn't quite understand it but marveled, "Ebo, you are awesome."


Then she said to Lloyd, "Lloyd, you're too. Why do you guys know so many things?"


Lloyd, who was leaning against the rock wall, said blandly, "Maybe we're one as a couple."


Kara didn't know what to say.


Ebony was also speechless.


After a while, the thunderstorm stopped.


This kind of shower would not last long.


Because of the rain, the temperature was brought down a little.


Ebony came out from under the rock, looked around, and said, "Wait a sec."


With that, she went into the distance. When she came back, there were a few wet leaves in her hands.


She asked Kara, "Did you bring your cotton pads?"


Kara quickly replied, "Yeah."


She opened her suitcase, took out the cotton pads, and handed them to Ebony.


Ebony took three pieces, tore them apart from the middle, divided the leaves she had plucked into three portions, and then put them into the three cotton pouches.


Then she handed the pouches out to her companions.


Lloyd took it, put it to his nose, sniffed, and then put it into his pocket.


Kara and Donald didn't know what it was about.


Donald asked, "What is this?"


Kara sniffed at it and said, "It's not fragrant and kind of... pungent?"


Ebony said, "Yeah, a bit pungent, but it's refreshing."


Kara blinked. "Refreshing?"


Ebony explained, "After the rain, the methane in the dense forest will evaporate. It's not that toxic but will affect people who are in poor health. Take it with you. If you feel uncomfortable, breathless, dizzy, or sick, sniff at it. It has a soothing effect."


Kara immediately put the cotton pouch into her bosom and said with admiration, "Ebo, how can I live without you?"


Ebony waved her hand and said, "I'm flattered. We should hurry and find a place to camp. At places near the equator, it will get dark at 5 p.m."


At 3 p.m., they found a relatively dry cliff and decided to camp under it.


Kara and Donald were out of breath and sweating profusely. They were not used to the tropical forest environment. It was too sultry.


A devastated Kara said to Donald, "Thankfully, we're a fake couple. If we're real, I will get a divorce right away if you dare to take me to this kind of place for our honeymoon."


Donald said helplessly, "This is not my arrangement."


Kara rested her head on her suitcase and sighed, "The program team is inhumane. No couple will like this kind of place for their honeymoon. Instead of bringing people closer to each other, it draws them..."


Before she could finish her words, she saw Ebony and Lloyd ahead.


Ebony took a sip of water and handed it to the man next to her.


Lloyd glanced at her, took the bottle, and drank from it.


Ebony slapped his arm and said, "Why didn't you pour it into your mouth? I only have this one bottle!"


Lloyd put the bottle down and said, "I don't know how to do that."


Ebony huffed, "I don't want it anymore."


She then blamed Lloyd, "I asked you to take more bottles of water on the plane, but you were reluctant. Regret it now? What happens to the water on a plane? It's free, and we can take it away!"


Lloyd put the cap back and wiped her face with the back of his hand. No one knew where she had gotten the dirt on her face. Then he said, "It's not that I was reluctant, but my suitcase was far away."


"Stop quibbling!" Ebony unhappily snatched the water bottle and put it back into the suitcase, "We should drink it sparingly."


Lloyd smiled at her and said, "I thought you didn't want it anymore."


With arms akimbo, Ebony sulked, "I mean I don't want you!"


Lloyd froze, turned sideways, laughed, and asked curiously, "So, you wanted me before?"