Chapter 90 Is It a Food Show or a Case of Fraud
-- [Ebony's things are priced as high as those of scenic spots.]
-- [That's totally right! It's like that the price of a bottle of water in the zoo was much higher than that outside the zoo.]
-- [The tent of fifteen thousand dollars is a second-hand one! Jeremy, don't buy it!]
-- [It's my first time to watch the show. I'm so curious about it. Is there anyone who can tell me if it's a food show or a case of fraud?]
Jeremy refused to buy Ebony's tents.
It's too expensive.
Ebony went on making her pitch. She asked Tristan and Kelly to bring the bag with supplies to herself, and then took out something from it.
"Do you need clothes and towels?"
Jeremy hesitated, but he thought that if he wanted to take a bath, he would definitely need to change his clothes, so he said, "Yes, I do."
"One or two?"
Jeremy gritted his teeth and replied, "Two."
Warren held him and whispered, "I don't need any new clothes. I'll just wipe myself with a towel. Clothes are too expensive."
Jeremy shook his head, "It's alright. One more piece of clothes can be used later. You can't go without a bath for a month." Then he said to Ebony, "Two."
Ebony took two T-shirts gotten from the gangsters and two towels for him.
It was only then that Jeremy realized that something was wrong. He asked, "Where are the trousers?"
Ebony raised her head and said, "You should pay extra money for them. Do you want trousers or underpants? One hundred and fifty dollars for a pair of underpants and seven hundred dollars for a pair of trousers."
Jeremy, "..."
Jeremy ground his teeth with some anger, "I want both!"
Ebony quickly brought him two pairs of trousers and two pairs of underpants.
Then she said to Tristan, "Hurry to take the Mr. Lerman and Mr. Robinson to take a bath."
Then she said to Jeremy and Warren, "Tristan is going to run a bath for you."
Tristan stood up and said without complaint, "This way."
Jeremy thought he himself was not used to having someone else to run him a bath. Then he pointed at Warren's leg and said, "His leg..."
Ebony clapped the medicine box beside her and said, "You guys go take a bath first, then come back and apply some medicine."
Jeremy and Warren left together with Tristan.
They went back more than half an hour later.
Jeremy saw from a distance as coming back from a bath that Ebony and Lloyd were sitting together.
The two, sitting very close to each other, appeared to be discussing the words on the ribbon.
Jeremy looked a little shocked.
It's said that Lloyd kept a distance from women and never acted intimately with female actresses.
But he and Ebony were sitting so close that they almost stuck together at the moment!
"You're coming." Ebony looked up, stopped talking to Lloyd, and waved to Warren, "Come to have a seat."
Warren walked over to Ebony, sat down, and rolled up his trousers.
Ebony looked at the wound and said calmly, "It is not deep, so two stitches are enough. The wound is still weeping a little. It needs cleaning. Are you scared with pain? If you are, you'll be given anesthesia. But you should pay for the anesthesia. Seventy dollars for an injection."
Jeremy said, "Deal."
"No." Warren refused directly, then turned to Jeremy and said, "I don't need it."
Jeremy squatted beside Warren and watched Ebony applying the medicine to him, saying, "Okay, remember to tell me if it hurts."
After dressing his wound, Ebony handed him some medicines and said, "Don't wash the wound these days. Apply your wound with new medicine by yourself twelve hours later. This is the three-day dose, and after three days, the wound will be almost scabbed."
Warren took the medicine.
Ebony suddenly looked at Jeremy and asked, "Poisonous mosquitoes bit you on your neck, right?"
Jeremy scratched his neck subconsciously and said, "Yeah, there are too many mosquitoes in this forest."
Ebony took out a small bag with herbs in it, and said, "Carry it with you to keep mosquitoes away."
Jeremy widened his eyes in surprise, but he immediately became vigilant and asked tentatively, "How much is it?"
Ebony laughed and threw it to him, saying, "I'm not that mean. You are my first customer, so it is just a gift."
Jeremy was full to the brim with joy, smelled the herbal bag, and praised, "It's really fragrant."
Ebony added, "Seventy dollars for one herbal bag. You have one, but your bro doesn't yet. You're so close to him, so why don't you buy one for him?"
Jeremy, "..."
Jeremy ground his teeth and spent seventy dollars on a herbal bag for Warren.
Warren said he didn't need it, but Jeremy insisted on buying one for him. Jeremy tied the herbal bag to Warren's wrist, and said generously, "I've spent a lot, so seventy dollars is nothing to me now."
After tying the small bag to Warren's wrist, Jeremy went to the others and found that the others, including Lloyd, were not wearing herbal bags.
He asked in doubt, "Why don't you use herbal bags?"
Kelly said as if she couldn't hide her pride, "We've sprayed something on our clothes. It's inconvenient to wear herbal bags on the journey."
Jeremy was a little envious and asked cautiously, "How much is the thing sprayed on your clothes?"
Ebony responded without raising her head, "One hundred and fifty dollars per milliliter."
Jeremy, "..."
Per milliliter?
How much was one milliliter? It's not even bigger than a sesame seed!
Ebony said plaintively, "Sorry, it's hard to produce it, so it's more expensive than herbal bags. I've given it to my teammates."
Kelly and Tristan, her teammates, held their heads high with cockiness when hearing her words.
Lloyd glanced at Ebony, and then chuckled.
Jeremy muttered, "Then I'll just use the herbal bag."
Ebony extended her hand to Lloyd at this time.
Lloyd knew what she wanted, and tacitly handed her the green ribbon.
Ebony waved the ribbon and asked Jeremy, "Do you want to see the words on it?"
Having seen her marketing strategy, Jeremy asked straightforwardly, "How much is it?"
"It's free." Replied Ebony.
Jeremy was shocked, "Free? Really?"
Ebony smiled and said, "I can show it to you, provided that you take us to the place where you found the blue ribbon."
What Ebony and Lloyd were discussing just now was about the ribbons. The information on the green ribbon was incomplete, which meant the rest information was on another ribbon.
Only by finding that ribbon, could they make up a complete information.
But where's that ribbon?
The rest information could be on the blue ribbon, or it could be on a ribbon of another color.
Ebony guessed that the difficulty of obtaining the ribbon might directly correspond to the integrity of the information.
For example, it was of great difficulty to obtain the red ribbon on the hornet's nest, so it directly indicated the overall direction to them, which was southeast.
But it's less difficult to obtain the green ribbon. So the information was not complete.
The show crew was really shrewd.
It's unknown that how many ribbons there were and how long it would take them to gather all the clues and get the map.
"It's impossible to get the blue ribbon."
Before Jeremy could speak, Warren said frankly, "The whole river is full of crocodiles. We were looking for water resources at that time. But as soon as we got close to the river, we almost got bitten. Those crocodiles can get ashore. We almost died, and in the end, we didn't even take a drop of water."
Ebony touched her chin and said to Lloyd, "It sounds like it is very difficult to get the ribbon."
Lloyd nodded and said faintly, "There is a high probability that on it are all the rest clues."
So they must go for it.
Ebony asked Jeremy and Warren without hesitation, "Tell me whether you'll lead the way or not."