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Gerald Crawford:The Secretly Rich Man Novel (Invisible or Poorest) Chapter 1071

Surprised, everyone immediately began gathering around the screaming girls as they asked, “What happened?!”

However, the answer to that question was immediately made clear the moment they looked in the direction the screaming girls were staring wide-eyed at.

Lying on the dune were two dead bodies! Under the moonlight, the corpses looked like they had been sucked dry, with their skin clinging on tightly to their torsos after having all their internal fluids sucked out.

“Those… Those are Minnie and Juan!” cried out someone from within the search party who recognized the clothes the corpses were wearing.

“How could this have happened…? It’s only been half an hour!” said Professor Yale.

Though the professor had a lot of experience in his field, he couldn’t help but feel that the current turn of events was absolutely incredulous. The sight of the two dead bodies alone made his hair stand on end!

“…It’s… It’s the Capra Nanny… She’s here!” stuttered the Master of the Desert in horror before gulping.

Hearing that, everyone grew even more frightened, prompting them to huddle closely together.

“Come to me, Giya! Stay by my side!” shouted Wynn, fear in his voice.

Meanwhile, the Master of the Desert—who was now already kneeling—began praying, “We’re just passing by, Capra Nanny! We have no other intentions, please forgive us!”

Hearing that, everyone else immediately began mimicking his actions, repeating the exact same words that the bearded man used.

Gerald, however, simply walked over to the two corpses and after taking a look, he said, “What Capra Nanny? This was done by a mere beast!”

“…W-what did you say? Nonsense! You’re just a young lad who doesn’t know any better! You’d best watch your tongue or you’re going to be the first person Capra Nanny kills!” reprimanded the Master of the Desert in return, clearly feeling that Gerald’s words were too careless.

“Watch your tongue or you’re going to be the first person Capra Nanny kills~!”

As soon as the Master of the Desert said that, a faint voice—that almost blended seamlessly with the wind and sand—was heard

Everyone listened in horror as the sinister-sounding, childlike voice was repeated. The fact that all this was happening under the night sky only served to make the atmosphere feel even more surreal.

At that moment, Professor Yale and the others held on to their breaths as they stared wide-eyed behind Gerald.

“B-big brother! Careful! Something’s behind you!” warned both Giya and Meredith as they simultaneously stood up, immense fear in their voices.

Gerald already had a good hunch of what that ‘something’ was. He had already bumped into her earlier, and after turning around to glare at the monster, his guess turned out to be right.

The monster itself had green eyes and messy hair, and it was currently crawling out from a dune. Standing upright, she looked similar to a human at first glance. Closer inspection, however, anyone would definitely know that she was anything but.

Still repeating the same line from before, Capra Nanny began slowly crawling toward Gerald with her long tongue—which was filled with rows of barbs on it and was occasionally dragged across the sand—hanging out.

“C-Capra Nanny!” stuttered the Master of the Desert in fright as he instantly began kowtowing before her.

“I’ve been looking for you for an entire night and day, you know? So you’ve finally decided to show yourself again!” shouted Gerald, coldly.

Quite honestly, with Gerald’s speed, he had earlier made it long past the center-point of the desert. However, not long after, he discovered the existence of Capra Nanny.

Under normal circumstances, Gerald would’ve just walked past it so that he could be on his way. However, these weren’t normal circumstances. After all, Giya and her group were still behind him.

Gerald had feared for Giya’s safety since for one, the beast seemed to prefer attacking tourists. Secondly, he could also tell that the beast wasn’t something ordinary people could deal with easily. With that in mind, he could only turn back around to look for Giya.

When the beast finally realized who Gerald was, rage filled its green eyes as green saliva dripped from her gaping mouth.

“Leave! All of you! I’ll deal with her!” ordered Gerald as he turned around to look at Professor Yale and the others.

While Professor Yale and the others instantly nodded, Wynn himself took out a pistol from his pocket before saying, “It’s just a beast, isn’t it? What are all of you so afraid of? Worry not, Giya! I’ll protect you! Watch me kill her!”

Being the egoist that he was, Wynn was definitely not letting his rival steal his spotlight. With that, he took aim at the monster and pulled the trigger!

Though the bullet hit its mark, Capra Nanny was barely fazed by the attack.

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As the Master of the Desert had earlier said, the monster was near bulletproof due to its extremely tough skin.

“What?!” shouted Wynn, stunned.

Even though the bullet didn’t hurt it, the beast was enraged by Wynn’s attack! Rushing toward him, the beast then got on its feet and grabbed Wynn by his collar before tossing him into the air!

Seconds later, Wynn found himself crashing back down onto the sand. After a brief moment, he began spurting out blood from his mouth as well!

“H-how strong!” stuttered Professor Yale who had gone pale from fright as he led his group of researchers toward the back.

With Wynn now out of the way, the beast turned to face Gerald again, its main target from the very beginning. Just by looking at him, she could already sense how strong and vicious Gerald was.

The moment she rushed at him, Gerald sent her flying back with a strong kick! Though the beast had thick skin, Gerald was still a semi-great master. In other words, there was no way it could handle Gerald’s inner strength. Falling to the ground, Capra Nanny then released a horrifying scream.

Now feeling much more anxious, the beast began clawing into the sand with all four of her limbs.

At that moment, Giya—who had stayed back along with Meredith instead of running away with the others—nervously shouted, “B-big brother! Please be careful!”

Hearing her voice as well, the beast suddenly turned to stare at Giya. Within a second, the beast seemed to make up its mind as she grabbed a handful of sand and threw it directly at Gerald!

While Gerald was evading the attack, the beast dashed toward Giya! The next thing Giya knew, Capra Nanny was already standing before her!

Gerald truly hadn’t expected the beast to be this clever. To think that she had manipulated him into thinking that she was about to attack him when in actuality, she was going for Giya!

By the time Gerald realized all this, both Giya and Meredith had already been captured by the beast!

Seeing that, Gerald dashed toward Capra Nanny before tossing an extremely fast black object straight for her chest! However, the beast didn’t look too affected and hurriedly sprinted away, abducting Giya and Meredith in the process.

“Giya!” shouted Gerald, feeling his heart clench as he watched the beast escape into the dark of night.

From what he knew, the beast was extremely bloodthirsty. Was there even a chance that Giya and Meredith would survive after falling into her hands…?

“W-what should we do? Giya and Meredith have been taken away!” cried out several of the researchers nervously.

At that moment, Gerald turned to look at the Master of the Desert—who was still kneeling—before walking over to him and lifting the bearded man with a single hand!

“Answer me this. Do you know where the beast’s lair is? Or anyplace she frequents?” asked Gerald coldly.

“I-I’m not too sure… What do you intend to do? Please remember that you were the one who had angered Capra Nanny in the first place! Once she gets mad, her intention to kill drastically rises!” replied the Master of the Desert?

“Kill, you say? Well if that’s the case, I’ll kill you as well!”

“Please don’t act rashly, young man! Calm yourself!” yelled Professor Yale, attempting to calm Gerald down.

After that, he turned to face the Master of the Desert before saying, “Master of the Desert, you saw how he fought against that beast earlier. He clearly has the ability to take on the beast and potentially kill it! Besides, Capra Nanny now has two living humans within her grasp! We can’t just leave them to die! So please… Please be merciful and tell us where the beast’s lair is! Otherwise, there’ll truly be no chance for those girls to be saved!”

“…I can tell you where it is… But first, please tell him to put me down!” replied the Master of the Desert who was currently more terrified of the extremely angry-looking Gerald.

Hearing that, Gerald frowned before tossing him to the ground.

Following that, the Master of the Desert dusted the sand off his clothes before saying, “…Many people say that you should never head toward the ancient well located within the Thousand Sand Ridge… People are forbidden from going there for a reason. After all, anyone who heads there will most definitely get eaten alive by Capra Nanny! Due to that correlation, I assume that that’s where her lair is! Despite the warnings not to go there, nobody truly knows where it’s located! Nobody can confirm where it lies either since nobody who’s entered has ever made it out alive!”

“The Thousand Sand Ridge you say…?” murmured Gerald under his breath.

Looking at his watch, he then turned to find the Big Dipper constellation in the night sky. Once he got his bearings, Gerald shouted, “I know where it is!”

With that, Gerald instantly began running in a certain direction.

Since the Thousand Sand Ridge had been marked on the map that the mysterious man had sent to him, Gerald had no difficulty locating where it was.

As he ran on, members of the research team began calling out, “Brother, wait for us!”

After seeing how strong he was, they knew that sticking with him would be their safest option. They were also following him since it was way too terrifying to stay in their current position.

With all of them thinking more or less about the same thing, they all began chasing after Gerald.

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After running for quite a while, Gerald finally arrived at the Thousand Sand Ridge. Upon arriving, he quickly found out why the area had been named the way it was. With probably no less than a thousand sand dunes overlapping each other, the inspiration for the area’s name was evident.

However, even after looking around for a while, he still couldn’t find the ancient well that the Master of the Desert had mentioned about.

It was sometime later—after walking around for quite a bit—when his nose picked up an odd scent, prompting him to look down. At his feet was a pool of blood!

Squinting his eyes, he saw that the blood had traces of dark green in it. That alone was enough to tell him that the blood belonged to the beast.

While Capra Nanny hadn’t initially reacted much after Gerald’s Dawnbreaker struck her chest, Gerald was sure that he had successfully harmed the beast, consequently causing it great discomfort.

After all, no matter how strong the other party’s defenses were, they’d still get seriously injured once they were hit by the Dawnbreaker!

By following the trail of blood, it wasn’t long before Gerald finally found where the ancient well was. If it hadn’t been for the blood, it would’ve been extremely difficult to locate it. After all, the well—located north of the Thousand Sand Ridge—was very well hidden, not unlike an obscure cave entrance.

As he approached the well, a horrendous stench filled his nostrils!

“The beast is here!” shouted Gerald as he stared down the well.

Though the smell was truly terrible, Gerald didn’t really have any other choice if he wanted to save Giya. Holding his breath, he then leaped into the well!

impact before diving straight into it. The well water ran deep and after coming out from the other end, Gerald

river had an edge, Gerald had a hunch that he was currently in

river, he quickly realized that the beast was present. At the time, Capra Nanny was staring at both Giya and Meredith’s unconscious bodies, her barbed

she turned around to look. Upon realizing that it was Gerald, she instantly bared her fangs at him, simultaneously

first reaction, however, was to call out, “Giya! Giya, are

unconscious girl looked, Gerald turned to look at Capra Nanny next before angrily yelling, “You beast! Let’s see

while simultaneously dashing toward her for an attack! With two dangers to suddenly keep track of, the beast

result, the Dawnbreaker easily pierced through the beast’s thick skin and directly stabbed her

the Dawnbreaker

held onto her neck, continuing to

about Giya’s safety, Gerald then commanded the Dawnbreaker to return to his hand as he held onto Capra Nanny’s head and personally decapitated

done, Gerald continued rushing over

Giya had only gone unconscious due to lack of oxygen. As it turned out,

girls were severely out of breath after traveling through the dunes for such a long time. Unfortunately, there was only one method Gerald could use to

you!” muttered Gerald to himself as he began performing CPR on Giya. Naturally, he had to do the same for Meredith.

ten minutes later when Gerald held Giya in his arms. Shaking her slightly,

twitched as

Giya as

came to realize that he had tossed his mask aside earlier due to how anxious he had been!

so excited that she looked

To think that I’d finally be able to see you again, Gerald… Did you know that I’ve been thinking of you every single day throughout your

worried that this truly was all just a dream, and that he would disappear again

felt an acute pain in

this lifetime. Gerald simply couldn’t bear hurting her

thought to himself for a moment as Giya

later, he formed a surprised expression on his face before saying, “…Um…

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you for someone else!” replied Giya almost instantaneously as she clung on tighter while wiping the tears off her face

the person who carried you that you mentioned before…? Do I look that similar to him?”

time to practice his poker face since he had

his expression was, she slowly began feeling that she truly was

Giya had fallen for was rather thin, quiet, and had

was

could two people living on the same

of you resemble each other a lot…

not of any Gerald, especially not one that looks like me. Still, from how

do!” replied

for a while, I’ve noticed a few differences between you and him… For one, Gerald is quite weak and probably nowhere near as strong as you are… Aside from that, he isn’t as skillful as you are either… Regardless,

finally able to convince herself that this truly wasn’t Gerald. Even though both of them looked so alike, there

wasn’t him

I’d like to see a picture of this Gerald once we’re out of this place… Even I’m curious as to how similar we look

as she continued staring at Gerald in disbelief. Though her mind was convinced that he wasn’t Gerald, her gut was telling her otherwise. In the end, she chose her rationality over her feelings

moment, Meredith herself slowly

that, Giya instantly supported her up

a very weird dream earlier…” replied Meredith as she scratched

“A weird dream…?”

that someone was

of the situation we’re currently in? To think that you’re still in the

really am

Gerald couldn’t help but blush

be big brother?!” said Meredith

face instantly turned red as she

looked like. After all, who’s to

mask was off, however, Meredith truly hadn’t expected him to be

the girl breathed heavily, Gerald simply replied, “Indeed I am. You

you for saving us, Xadrian!” said Meredith

entire time. When he had blushed earlier, she couldn’t help but feel that even

lurking nearby, so let’s get both of you out to safety

faint outlines of a stone door that was

look like a stone

agreement after looking

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to find out is by trying to push

While I do so, you girls should back away

heard from around the world—and subsequently told Gerald—treasures

sun itself was discovered by his family’s ancestors within a cave that was located in a dense forest. It was guarded—at the time—by a large, man-eating white ape, and many of his ancestors lost their lives before finally succeeding in retrieving the

was already here anyway, he may as well just go in

looked, he knew he needed to use his

After managing to find it, he took in a deep breath before focusing all his energy on that spot… And launching it all out

slightly! Seconds later, the sound of stone dragging against dirt could be heard as the gaps on the door began

and once it was wide enough, a tunnel revealed itself

asked Meredith excitedly as she ran over to Gerald’s

feeling slightly uneasy after

like one!” said

look around then! You girls can follow me from behind!”

ancient tomb or not. After

the tunnel, it slowly turned into a corridor which, in turn, led them to a lobby area of sorts. While the corridor itself was completely empty, a stone platform stood in the center of the lobby

of them realized that the lobby’s walls were adorned with oddly-patterned frescoes that would make

there were also oil lamps within the room, they lit them up, brightening the

more like a storage area, to

group of researchers from the north all the way to the south in the past year, Giya had quite a bit of experience

Gerald himself nodded in agreement while saying,

The things painted

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have a look for himself, he had to

back then went about with

inspection, they seemed to tell the tale of the items that had been hidden in this

intently at the murals, Gerald then asked, “Do you understand what the murals are

call me?” asked Giya as she immediately came to her senses and stared at Gerald, a blank expression on her

name wrong, did I? After all, I’ve

replied

then replied, “…I’m able to understand some of them… But the tale they tell is rather odd… The first mural here seems to say that something… incredibly odd happened, to say the least… From what I

have suffered a miserable death before falling from the sky… Regardless, it caused quite a stir back then since the locals were all superstitious. They believed that the corpses were heavenly soldiers, so

sky… I’m guessing that all this was just some fairy-tale they

soldier seemed to have received very special and different treatment from the locals. Based on the murals, it appears that they worshiped this particular corpse like a king, even going so

since they found his body on a big tree that had fallen from the sky with all the other corpses!” added Giya, feeling that the story was getting a

coffins being transported though?” asked

other coffin… She was supposedly extremely beautiful, and everyone who saw her would end up feeling shocked. Apparently, she looked extremely beautiful even though she was as dead as the other corpses! What more, she was found lying on top of the heavenly soldier who was found on the same big tree I mentioned earlier. From what

was placed someplace else… Also, both he and the woman dressed in white ended up not getting buried together… This was supposedly because some old beggar had stood in their way, preventing them from proceeding with the plan. Due to that old man’s interference, the mysterious heavenly soldier ended up being placed inside a very special coffin before being stored in a secret room… As seen on this part of the mural, the ones present at that particular scene were the king, the ones burying the mysterious

asked Gerald, feeling extremely confused as he was

over, he laughed a few times before disappearing into thin air! Right after that, a massive object appeared that shrouded the entire royal city! It’s… improbable to say the least, but it looks like a battleship! I… can’t make sense of this part either…” replied Giya as she shook her

the hell could such a huge battleship even

this is all just the result of people of old’s exaggerated imagination… From what I can see, the heavenly soldier couple must have been the prince and his most beloved concubine. It would make sense for the people of that time to paint the mural this way to symbolize their deep love for one another. What more, the prince theory also explains why everyone in the murals is bowing to him! He’s a noble after all! As for the corpses that fell

Meredith’s theory, Giya couldn’t help but laugh before saying, “Though the love story you came up with sounds a little unrealistic, it still makes sense, in a way. At the very least, it’s by far the most logical conclusion

draw such a huge battleship thousands of years ago!” chimed

the stone platform before adding, “So… the item hidden within that stone box should be the weapon the heavenly soldier carried, right?” said Gerald as he gently touched the stone

was easily able to open the stone

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both Meredith and Giya walked toward him—once the dust settled—before peering into the box

Despite the coat of dust on it, that wasn’t enough to hide the sword’s brilliant gleam. It was so shiny in fact, that all three of them felt that even people who

it probably being thousands of years old, the sword still looks pretty sharp!” said Meredith as she tried picking

the sword—simply returned to look at the

as she continued attempting to lift the sword. It almost felt as if the sword was stuck to the bottom of

Applying a bit of strength, Gerald was

to shake the dust off the sword. While it didn’t look particularly special, just as Meredith had earlier said, the sword appeared

inspection, the word ‘Lightbane’ was etched on it, and Gerald couldn’t help but feel that the sword

a magical artifact as well…?” muttered Gerald to himself

to find any real spiritual traces on

moves—from the Dawnbreaker—made the find even better. Coincidence or not, he now had a perfect new weapon to accommodate

seems to be something

come over and see

don’t understand! After looking a bit more closely at the latter part of the mural, I don’t think all of this is

could fly, then everything starts to make sense! Nearing the end of the mural, it’s shown that on the night before the heavenly soldiers’ burial, this huge battleship appeared and took three hundred young men and women away! See the king and the others bowing there? Don’t they look

that while everyone was kneeling, the mural made sure to highlight the old beggar’s face! Among all the painted people, only the beggar held his face up high while portraying an ugly grin. The ancients even made sure to make him look like

what? Tens of thousands of years ago? Whenever it was, the time period had to be ancient! With that in mind, how could your theory possibly make any sense? Battleships? Girl, if the ancients

but this mural just gives me a very

as he stared at the mural

to look at Gerald

by the way Gerald and Giya were looking at each other, Meredith immediately stood between them before asking, “Speaking of which, Giya, where

were separated! Regardless, do you think that all this is just a fantasy

even reply, Meredith interrupted him by saying, “Y-you know, why don’t we discuss this once we’ve left this place? It feels a little hard to breathe in

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late at night and the moon was high in the sky. Gerald then led the

saw that the crowd of people had regrouped again. Ever Professor Yale and the other researchers were there. They had earlier returned to the building once they realized that there was no way they

from the two deaths, the only other person seriously injured was Wynn, and he was also suffering from a

could finally rest a bit easier after going through so much