Johnny had his thick eyebrows deeply knit as he sprung up and darted toward her to grab a hold of her arm. "Stop being so stupid! If you really insist on entering the jungle, I can send someone to accompany you first thing in the morning tomorrow. What do you say? Wouldn't that be better?"
Carla blew a fuse due to his repeated attempts to get on her way. This forced her to pull out the dagger she had on her side pocket and point its sharp edge right under his throat.
"Johnny, don't you dare try stop me!"
Carla yelled furiously, intensely glaring at him.
Upon seeing the dagger that was pointed on his neck, Johnny simply let out a faint chuckle. It appeared that she was so well-prepared and quite intent on doing this. "Okay then, you win. Go ahead and do whatever you want. If you die in that jungle, nobody's going to come to pick up your body."
That being said, he just fixed himself up and walked over to his car.
When she was done watching as he drove further away, Carla heaved a heavy sigh. With a torchlight at hand, she finally entered the forest.
After ten minutes, Johnny hurriedly drove his car around and went back. He stepped out frantically and dashed toward the place where he parted with Carla.
But she had already gone without a trace.
Johnny couldn't do anything but stand still, clenching his fists tightly and staring blankly ahead into the forest.
Carla, on the other hand, ran into the jungle as fast as her feet would allow her to. With a map in hand to guide her way, she managed to analyze her location quickly.
There was a high chance that Terence could've been hiding deep beneath that jungle. As Johnny himself had said, Marcus began a thorough search, and that would make it close to impossible for Terence to make it out alive, especially because there were no vehicles around that he could use.
The area below the high mountains was bare and uninhabited. There weren't that many trees nor water around. So, logically thinking, Terence couldn't have thought of hiding close to here.
By deduction, the only place left now where he could safely hide would be the jungle. She was quite certain about it.
In spite of the fact that she had no clue whatsoever how Terence was able to do it, she still simply believed that he would've found a way on his own no matter what.
Carla had so much faith that Terence was still alive somewhere in that forest.
Now, given that she had some time to think about it as she walked around the jungle, she realized that Johnny had indeed brought her to the right place at least.
Johnny had no idea that she actually knew the exact place where the plane Terence was riding had crashed. To try and mislead to her, he just brought her to the opposite side of the actual crashing point.
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