Chapter 85 Don't I Know I'm Smart? You're Telling Me!
There was a long silence.
Tristan Gibson looked at Ebony Gibson who glanced at him continually.
He asked quite unwillingly, "Do you provoke me deliberately? You should know that Kelly is my sister!"
Ebony Gibson slapped Tristan Gibson on his shoulder and agitated, "As a good elder brother, you have to protect your sister!"
At that time, Lloyd Vasquez sighed and took Ebony Gibson's hand off Tristan Gibson's shoulder. He said quietly, "I'll go and have a try."
Ebony Gibson frowned and looked at him, "You should keep your mouth shut. I'm discussing with him."
Lloyd Vasquez walked to the tree directly.
"Eh!" Ebony Gibson pulled his sleeve just then.
Lloyd Vasquez turned and said softly, "Don't worry. There is a certain distance between the ribbon and the beehive. I'm sure if I climb from the back."
"You can't do that, either! It is too dangerous!" Ebony Gibson compressed her lips and fell into silence for a moment. She finally said, "Well, there is another way."
Tristan Gibson asked immediately, "What?"
Ebony Gibson didn't say anything, but bent down to look for something on the ground.
Soon after, she found a bundle of pebbles, fructus aurantium and something else like those.
She held those small things with her hat and walked forward.
Just after taking two steps forward, she found another two men behind her were still still, so she asked impatiently, "Don't you follow me?"
Lloyd Vasquez fell into silence for a moment and then followed her.
Tristan Gibson also followed her hurriedly.
Just in a little while they three got to a high slope which was standing back from the beehive.
Ebony Gibson warned, "Wrap your heads with your clothes and find somewhere to hide yourselves."
Tristan Gibson asked in bewilderment, "What do you want to do on earth?"
"You'll know later."
Ebony Gibson didn't explain too much. She climbed up to the highest tree around them and sat on the limb. She took off the hair rope from her head.
At that moment, Ebony Gibson's hair tumbled in a cascade down her back.
Lloyd Vasquez stood under the tree. There was a flash of smile in his eyes when he looked at Ebony Gibson's cool, bright, delicate and fair face.
When he looked back, he found that Tristan Gibson stood by had been speechless.
Lloyd Vasquez frowned with displeasure.
He rapped on Tristan Gibson's head with his hand and said coldly, "Your head."
And then Tristan Gibson came back to earth. He wrapped his head with his coat and said with rosy cheeks, "She, she is beautiful..."
Lloyd Vasquez, "Is she still beautiful when she beats somebody?"
Tristan Gibson remembered the brown man who had three ribs broken, and was beaten black and blue. Besides, the brown man's face was swollen which made him indecipherable.
Tristan Gibson turned pale immediately.
Tristan Gibson said with a pale face, "Sorry, I was wrong."
Lloyd Vasquez chuckled and put the hat on his head. Then he took some steps back.
Using the hair rope as a slingshot, pebbles and fructus aurantium as bullets, Ebony Gibson sat on the highest tree and aimed at another tree which had the beehive.
Tristan Gibson found out her purpose and asked in a whisper, "Does she want to shoot the beehive down?"
Lloyd Vasquez said quietly, "No."
Tristan Gibson said, "Why not? Does she aim at the beehive?"
"She doesn't have to spend so much time aiming at the beehive. She wants to..."
"Whoosh!"
A surprising sound shook the air suddenly.
Then, the pebble hit the trunk and made a sound like "bang".
Tristan Gibson squinted his eyes. He paused when he saw the circumstance clearly, "Does she want to hit the red ribbon? The ribbon is tied to a tree. If one can untie the ribbon directly, she doesn't have to touch the beehive. However, how can she hit the tied ribbon down with a slingshot?"
Lloyd Vasquez didn't say anything.
Just then, the second surprising sound shook the air.
At this time, the pebble hit the knot of the ribbon.
"Did that hit the target?" Tristan Gibson mumbled, "But that is useless!"
The bullet screen comments of the live broadcast also thought that was useless.
[ Does Ebony Gibson want to shoot the ribbon down? ]
[ That is impossible. How can a tied thing be shot down just by exogenic action? ]
[ Is the director serious? He doesn't need to tie the clue beside the beehive even when he wants to deepen the difficulty. Those are hornets, which will cause death! ]
[ But to tell the truth, Ebony Gibson aimed at the target precisely. Except for the first shoot, which was used to adjust the accuracy and made the pebble hit the trunk, she then hit the knot of the ribbon accurately. ]
[ Eh, the knot of the ribbon has been hit again and again and is nearly broken. However, the knot can't be untied. How can she untie the ribbon just with slingshot? That is... Ah! ]
[ Ah! Ah! Ah! ]
[ ! ]
[ How does the ribbon float down? ]
Tristan Gibson was dumbfounded when he saw the two pieces of the ribbon on the ground, which floated down from the tree.
Lloyd Vasquez smiled and explained quietly, "The knot of the ribbon was hit again and again. Because of the repeated friction, the ribbon was finally broken into two pieces. "
"The knot of the ribbon was broken. And then two pieces of the ribbon separated and floated down."
Ebony Gibson didn't want to make the ribbon loose and open with the slingshot.
At the very beginning, she was aimed to broke the ribbon directly.
Though the ribbon was broken into two pieces, they could also see the words on it after putting the two pieces together.
They only had to get the information on it, but not the ribbon itself.
At that time, Ebony Gibson jumped from the tree. She took out the remaining pebbles and fructus aurantium from her hat and beat dust out of it.
She walked forward and picked up the two pieces of the ribbon.
She looked at the words on it and then walked to Lloyd Vasquez. She passed the ribbon to him and let him to have a look.
Lloyd Vasquez spoke out the words on it, "The southeast."
Ebony Gibson picked up the package from the ground and placed it on her back. She said, "Let's go to the southeast."
After finish speaking, Ebony Gibson found that Tristan Gibson looked dumbfounded and stood there still.
She asked curiously, "What's wrong with you? Were you stung by a hornet?"
Tristan Gibson came back to earth then. He said to Ebony Gibson loudly with excitement and admiration, "You are so smart!"
Ebony Gibson clicked her tongue and thought that he was a little boresome.
She said disapprovingly, "Don't I know I'm smart? You're telling me! Go quickly!"
After that, she walked towards the southeast.
In the encampment outside the rain forest, an officer looked at the performance of Ebony Gibson in the show smilingly with hands behind him. He couldn't help praising, "She is smart indeed."
The director of the show said with smile, "Was that the way you thought about when you tied the ribbon? They had to break the ribbon and got the information."
The officer smiled, "I've thought that the information would never be got by anyone."
"Yes. Even if somebody wanted to break the ribbon, he wouldn't know how to do that. So it is important to have not only the thought of breaking the ribbon, but also the capability to do that. If he chooses this way, he will have to face dual difficulties, or he had better climb up the tree to get the ribbon."
The officer smiled again, "The girl is talented indeed and her brain works fast. But it is a pity that she isn't my student for she didn't enter the military college last year."
"Captain!" Just then, a dogface ran in from the outside, "Someone wants you on the phone."
The officer got the phone. His face turned after hearing for a while. He answered loudly, "OK. I guarantee to fulfill the task!"
After answering the phone, the director of the show asked him, "What's wrong?"
The officer said seriously, "It was the call from the superior. There will be a great man here and I have to treat him well."
"A great man? We're having a live broadcast here. Who will come?"
The officer shook his head, "I don't know. I just know that he is an old man. His flight is from Andalasia, and will arrive here this afternoon. His family name is Gibson."