Chapter 268 I didn't Believe It Unless You Swear


Josue was dumbfounded.


Without time for hesitating, he said at once, "Save her quickly!"


Ebony confirmed it. "Will you pay me?"


Josue said hurriedly, "Yes!"


Seventy thousand dollars was nothing to Belinda. He could earn at least a few hundred thousand or at most a few million for starring in a movie.


It was worth spending seventy thousand dollars to save a life!


Ebony curled her lips and said to Donald, "Go fetch some water."


"I'll go too," Josue said voluntarily.


Ebony glanced at him and said, "I'll not charge you less for your help. If you want to go, just go with Donald and fetch as much water as you can. Go and return quickly."


Then she said to Lloyd on the other side, "You can't help her. You are a senior nurse and your charge is not included in seventy thousand dollars!"


Ebony frowned. "Anyway, you can't go with them!"


Lloyd said gently, "Well, I'll not go."


Donald and Josue took a lot of bottles to fetch water.


Josue had thought that they would fetch the seawater, but they went to a mountain stream instead.


He said with shock, "There is fresh water!"


While filling the bottles with water, Donald said, "Miss Gibson said that although the program group is inhumane, they will not bring us to the place without fresh water. And animals in the mountains also need fresh water. So, there must be fresh water here."


Josue thought of how miserable he and Belinda had been for the past two days. If he had known there was fresh water, Belinda wouldn't have been so sick.


Josue held some water with his palms and was about to take a sip.


Donald quickly stopped him and said, "Miss Gibson said there are parasites in the water, so we can only drink it after we boil it!"


Josue was stunned. Then he poured the water and helped fill the bottles.


After all the bottles were filled, the two unexpectedly saw a snake on their way back!


Josue was so frightened that he wanted to run away at once.


But Donald held him and said, "Miss Gibson said this snake cannot see. If we keep motionless, it will leave soon. We have seen such a kind of snake near our camp."


Josue dared not to move after hearing his words.


After a while, the snake slid away.


Josue sighed with relief.


Donald said, "Let's go back quickly."


The two walked faster. On the way, Josue could not help saying to Donald, "You are really a repeating machine of Miss Gibson now. All you said is once said by Miss Gibson."


Donald was stunned, seemed to just realize what he had said at this time and flushed immediately.


After a while, they returned to the camp and gave the water to Ebony.


Josue heard from the house that Ebony was telling Kara how to wipe Belinda's body with herbs to bring down her temperature. Ebony also said that Belinda had recovered a bit.


Hearing that Belinda's condition was not serious, Josue finally felt relieved.


After a while, the curtain was lifted and Ebony walked out. While rolling down her sleeves, she said slowly, "She is awake."


Josue was pleased and called her. "Belinda?"


Soon, Belinda's weak voice rang out from inside. "I am here..."


It showed that Belinda was all right, so Josue sighed with relief.


At that moment, there was a rumbling sound from the sky and it was the program's helicopter arriving.


Ebony looked up after hearing the sound.


The helicopter was already hovering in the mid-air with the door open. The rope ladder was released but no one came down from the cabin.


At this time, Kara helped Belinda out of the house.


Everyone outside saw Belinda at once.


But in the next second, all people were speechless.


"What happened?" Belinda, who didn't know why they fell silent, looked at Josue. "Why do you look at me in that way?"


Josue was stunned for a moment and asked embarrassedly, "Your face..."


Why was it green?


Belinda, who did not know what happened to her face, puzzledly touched her own face.


Ebony said at the moment, "What's all the fuss about? It's herbs that haven't been absorbed yet."


Josue choked.


At this time, the assistant director shouted at Ebony through the drone. "Miss Gibson! Don't hijack our staff!"


Ebony frowned. Leaning against a tree, she stared up and said, "I haven't said that I will hijack you."


The assistant director was not reassured. "I don't believe you unless you swear!"


Ebony was speechless.


She said coldly, "Boring. It's no business of mine whether Belinda dies or survives."


The assistant director was silent for a long time before a medical worker finally climbed down the rope ladder.


The medical worker looked pretty, carrying a medicine box and holding a self-defense device in his hand. While pointing the self-defense device to Ebony, he said, "Don't get close to me!"


Ebony was speechless.


She rolled her eyes and ignored him.


Seeing that Ebony did not attack him, the medical worker walked to Belinda while moving back. He said to the assistant director through a walkie-talkie after he made a preliminary diagnosis, "She looks all right. It's just that she has severe body odor..."


Belinda, who was stunned, looked at the medical worker unbelievably and said subconsciously, "I don't have body odor."


The medical worker said to the assistant director, "She doesn't acknowledge that she has body odor. She seems sane and sober..."


"What? I really don't have body odor!" Belinda was annoyed.


At this moment, Ebony chuckled, slipped to Lloyd and whispered to him. "I put the smelly grass in her clothes."


Lloyd was stunned and turned to look at the clever girl before him. He raised his hand to touch her hair and said, "Naughty."


But Ebony straightened up proudly.


Belinda was still arguing with the medical worker over her body odor, which was about the dignity of an actress!


The medical worker was a bit annoyed and frowned. "Miss Bowman, don't interrupt me. I am reporting your condition. You know, I came down to pick you up at the risk of my life!"


While saying this, he suddenly stared at Ebony, who was whispering to Lloyd!


Ebony was speechless.


Belinda felt speechless too.


Eventually, Belinda got in the helicopter with the medical worker, but she never said "thanks" to Ebony from beginning to end.


The staff said that they would pick up Josue later because the capacity of the helicopter was limited.


Josue agreed with it.


Ebony saw the helicopter flying away and did not say anything. However, after a while, she said to the drone, "I saved your guest when she was at risk. Shouldn't you thank me?"


The assistant director was stunned and then said to the walkie-talkie, "Thank you, Miss Gibson."


Shaking her leg, Ebony said, "That's all I got?"


The assistant director smelt a rat. "So, what do you want?"


Ebony counted the number with her fingers. "First, the water used to bring down Belinda's temperature is the natural water extracted from the special sand layer that was formed in the Wosya Islands, located in northern Southeast Asean, due to the deposition of a huge river system for more than 20 million years. Such water is rare and precious for it is rich in minerals, which would provide humans with lots of nutrition if we drank it for a long time."


The assistant director was speechless.


Wasn't the water fetched by Donald from a mountain ditch?


Ebony added. "Second, the herb used to wipe Belinda is Urdo, known as an endangered herb on Earth. You know, not all herbs are called Urdo, just like not all mike is called Terunso. So, you should know how rare it is!"


The assistant director was speechless.


He thought, "Ah? Didn't you pick the herb by the makeshift lavatory you built on the back hill?"


Ebony looked up at the drone in the sky with arms akimbo and said insolently, "I want nothing but the helicopter. Lend it to me for a few days. I want to fly in the sky."