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Gerald Crawford: The Secretly or invisible Rich Man Chapter 1891

“Negative, you just stay here this time. I’ll be heading there with Yann!” replied Gerald as he looked at the trio.

“But… Mr. Crawford-“

“Look, I know you want to come with me to see and learn more of the world, Rey, but not this time. After all, none of us know what dangers await us at Mount Dakriont. There are simply too many risks involved! With that in mind, please just stay here and train with Miss Zorn for the moment!” replied Gerald before Rey could even finish his sentence. In the end, Rey was still an ordinary person, which meant that his capabilities were vastly different compared to Gerald’s. With that in mind, Gerald had only said all that earlier since he truly was worried for Rey’s sake.

Besides, staying here to train with Juno would undoubtedly be more beneficial to Rey. By taking the time to properly train and learn about being a cultivator, Rey would definitely be able to solve problems together with Gerald—instead of simply being a sidekick—in the future.

Regardless, understanding where Gerald was coming from, Rey knew that it was best for him to simply agree.

Either way, once Rey agreed, Gerald turned to face Juno before adding, “As you may already have guessed, I’ll be leaving everything in the office to you, Juno. If there’s anything you’re unsure about while I’m gone, we can discuss it once I return!”

Nodding in response, Juno then replied, “Roger that! Don’t worry about me!”

Juno, for one, didn’t mind Gerald’s delegation of tasks. After all, it was the only way she would be able to support him.

“V’ll take your word for it! Now then… both of you! Continue your training! As for Juno… I’d like to speak to you in private for a bit…” said Gerald, prompting Rey and Yrsa to resume training and Juno to walk over to the side with the youth.

Once they were out of earshot, Juno couldn’t help but ask, “…Gerald… are you really sure that you’re going to cooperate with the Sun Group…? I personally don’t think they’re all that reliable…!” Smiling subtly in response, Gerald knew where Juno’s worries were coming from. Even so, he simply shook his head before replying, “Don’t worry, those from the Sun Group won’t be able to even touch me. Regardless, I’m heading there in the first place to search for an important thing… Remember that picture of a lady that we’ve been trying to track down all this time? I have a hunch that it’s going to appear at Mount Dakriont! With that in mind, I need to head there to see for myself!”

“I see… Still, do be careful… Those from the Sun Group definitely have hidden agendas…” muttered the concerned Juno.

Simply nodding in response, Gerald then smiled as he gently patted her on the back…

At that moment, Gerald’s phone began ringing. It was a call from Yann…

Already having a pretty good guess that Yann was calling to tell him that the departure time had been decided, Gerald simply stared at the phone for a few seconds before eventually picking it up and saying, “Hello? Yes, Yann?”

“Ah, there you are, Gerald. Tye’s updated me on the departure time. We have to be at the highway entrance by nine tomorrow morning!” replied Yann.

“Got it. See you there before nine, then!” said Gerald before hanging up.

“Tomorrow morning? You’re heading off so soon, Gerald…2” asked the surprised Juno.

“Indeed. From the looks of it, those from the Sun Group simply can’t wait any longer!” replied Gerald. “Well, I suppose that’s that. Regardless, again, please be careful out there…!” said Juno with a sigh, not wanting to nag any further…

Soon enough, night fell and by then, Gerald had pretty much packed everything that he needed. While he had only packed four sets of clothes, the rest of his luggage consisted of equipment that he would possibly use during the journey.

After all, nobody knew what hurdles they would encounter during the journey, so all Gerald could do was prepare everything relevant that he could think of so that he wouldn’t regret being underprepared halfway through the journey…

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Regardless, since he made sure to pack early, Gerald was able to turn in earlier that night. After all, the more rest he got, the better shape he would be once he got up…

It was early morning by the time he finally got up again, and after a simple breakfast, Gerald then patted his backpack before driving off to the highway’s entrance…

It was nine sharp when Gerald finally met up with Yann, Tye, and the others. Just as they were about to greet each other, aloud ‘bump’ could suddenly be heard coming from Gerald’s car trunk, followed by a loud, “F*ck!”

Raising a slight brow, Gerald—along with several others—immediately went over to investigate… And upon opening the trunk, Gerald was shocked to see Rey lying inside, his arms wrapped around a luggage bag! “What are you doing here, Rey?” asked the rightfully stunned Gerald.

Chuckling awkwardly in response, Rey then sheepishly grinned as he said, “I… well, I just really wanted to come along! So please let me come with you…!”

“What monkey business is this? Return to Juno’s side!” scowled Gerald, causing Rey to momentarily fall silent.

However, after a short while, Rey stared at Gerald with puppy dog eyes before pleading, “…Please…?”

Upon seeing how pitifully Rey was begging, Gerald could only facepalm as he sighed before saying, “Oh, what the hell… Since you’re already here anyway… Fine, you can come along!”

“T-thank you, Mr. Crawford!” exclaimed the excited Rey.

“Who exactly is this, Mr. Crawford…2” asked Tye in a curious tone.

“Ah, he’s my disciple, Chairman Lamano… He goes by Rey!” introduced Gerald.

Upon hearing that, Tye instantly found himself feeling more comfortable as he replied with a smile, “Your disciple, you say? Well, let’s go together, then! Who knows, your bond could make you stronger!”

Hearing that, Gerald couldn’t help but glare at Rey again before signaling for Rey to follow him into Yann’s car.

Only three cars were going to be driven for this journey, and Gerald’s wasn’t one of them. Instead, it was simply left behind in a parking lot.

Regardless, only three people were in Yann’s car, with Yann naturally being the driver. Sitting beside him was Gerald, which meant that Rey was the only one sitting in the back…

None of them said a word during the first half of the journey. Eventually, however, the nervous Rey mustered up the courage to mutter, “P-please don’t stay mad at me, Mr. Crawford… I know I’ve done wrong…!”

Upon hearing that, Gerald—who had his eyes clothes up till this point—reopened his eyes before fishing his phone out…

“Hello? What’s wrong, Gerald?” asked Juno on the other end of the line, sounding relatively surprised that Gerald had called out of the blue.

Rey himself grew increasingly worried when he realized that Gerald had just called Juno…

“Nothing much, I just wanted to inform you that in the end, I’ve decided to bring Rey along!”

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Naturally, that statement made both Juno and Rey rather surprised. Even so, Juno was quick to recover and simply went with it.

Rey himself hadn’t expected Gerald to take his side instead of ratting him out.

With that, after Gerald ended the call, Rey couldn’t help but look at Gerald for a while before muttering, “Um… Mr. Crawford-“

“There’s no need to say anything. You’re already here anyway so let’s just make the most of it. Regardless, please hold your tongue as much as possible once we get there. And please listen to my orders if I give any to you!” replied Gerald, not even waiting for Rey’s sentence to finish.

“G-got it, Mr. Crawford! Don’t worry, I’ll be extremely obedient!” declared Rey as he nodded rapidly.

At that moment, Yann—who was still driving—couldn’t help but smile as he said, “You know, you have a rather fine disciple, Gerald. After all, he’s worried enough about you to sneak over!”

“Hah! He’s just someone who makes me worry all the time!” scowled Gerald in a playful tone.

Realizing that Gerald was grinning, Rey—at the very least—knew that Gerald wasn’t angry with him anymore. With that, Rey couldn’t help but breathe a sigh of relief as he embarrassedly scratched the back of his head.

Truth be told, Rey very much preferred gaining knowledge of the world by participating in adventures with Gerald rather than simply training indoors. While it was true that danger was aplenty out in the open world, Rey truly believed that adventuring was the best way for him to gain more experience. Whatever the case was, since even Yann was now talking, Gerald figured that it was as good a time as any to introduce Rey to him.

“Speaking of which, this man goes by Yann, Rey. You can choose to address him as Mr. Williams or Brother Yann,” said Gerald.

“A pleasure to meet you, Brother Yann! My name is Rey!” replied Rey with a smile.

“Got it!” said Yann before chuckling in response.

that that’s out of the way… By estimation, how long should it take for us to get to Mount Dakriont…?” asked Gerald

could even reply, Rey beat him to it by saying, “I’ve already checked the route in advance, Mr.

and displayed on it, was a navigation system. Rey himself had keyed in Mount Dakriont as their destination the second

response, Gerald then muttered, “Six hours, huh… That’s going to take quite a while… Guess I’ll take a short

to do in the car for six hours, so he may as well

much earlier than Gerald, which explained why he had been sleepy for a while now. Regardless, upon realizing that the two had dozed off so quickly, Yann could only chuckle in

was around three when Gerald and the others finally

geographical location, Mount Dakriont was also famous for how spacious it was. This was made evident by the fact that at a glance, Mount Dakriont didn’t even

all the way up here for trips, five days was usually the minimum. After all, it was a well-known fact that nobody would be able to truly

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the case was, after parking the car, Gerald and the others immediately headed to the ticket counter to officially enter Mount Dakriont. While a single ticket cost sixty dollars, Tye was the one paying, so

first thing the group did was to find a spot to relax

their energy—Tye cleared his throat before saying, “Alright, listen up, everyone. We’ll be staying

obviously being more dangerous, one could easily lose their bearings

in. Naturally, lodging was never going to be cheap in this place. Adding that to the fact that the wooden cabin—that the group eventually

Gerald, and Rey were grouped together to stay in one of the cabin’s rooms. Upon entering that room, Rey immediately suggested, “Alright, Mr. Crawford and Brother Yann, how

need for that. You can take the bed!”

“But, Mr. Crawford-“

the bed,” said Gerald, not even waiting for Rey to finish his sentence. Hearing that, Rey knew he had no choice but to give in. While he didn’t say it, Rey honestly felt touched. Gerald

when the trio finally decided to hit the hay, they received sufficient rest and were awoken by the chirping of birds at the start of dawn… By the time Gerald and his party went downstairs—all packed up and ready—, they saw that Tye and the others were already

all are! Had a good

to ask, Chairman Lamano! We had a pretty good sleep, at least I did,” replied Gerald in a polite manner

currently here. Our first stop will be the Officer Viewing Deck which is about five miles from where we

any objections. After all, Tye was the owner of the map. Gerald himself could only hope that they would be able to deal with any

final double check—to see if they had

to be photographing

annoyed by all the ‘snapshot’ sounds, Gerald couldn’t help

to get a

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boy be, Gerald. I, for one, appreciate his liveliness since all there is out here is miles upon

group would be able to cover five miles and finally arrive at the Officer Viewing Deck. With that in mind, Gerald had to

by the time the

to the fact that an officer used to come up here to enjoy the view, many centuries ago. While that was the formal

look at the others before saying, “Alright everyone, we’ve arrived! Let’s take a short break and have something

others seemed to agree, Gerald, on the other hand, walked toward Tye before asking, “Could I please have a look at the

Gerald before immediately inspecting

matter, Mr.

later, Gerald then pointed at the map before saying, “Well, after looking through the map, I feel that we could’ve arrived at our destination sooner if we didn’t take the path to the Officer Viewing Deck. After all, from this point on, all that awaits us are rough mountain roads, and I

that, Tye took a closer look at the map… And true to what Gerald had said, they could’ve arrived at their destination much sooner if they simply took an

see… Correct me if I’m wrong, Mr. Crawford, but are you suggesting that we go all the way back

it is merely a suggestion. Naturally, you’re the one who will make the final call. That’s all I wanted to say, now if you’ll excuse

it not been for the fact that Yann was cooperating with them, Gerald would’ve simply brought Yann and Rey

watched Gerald reunite with his party, Tye himself began pondering what Gerald had just said. While it was true that they could technically arrive at their

that, Tye made up his mind to simply continue going down the path he had picked. So what if it was a little further away? The important thing was for them to arrive at

However, it wasn’t too long later when the

how drastic the changes were, Rey couldn’t help but mutter, “Isn’t the weather changing a bit too quickly…? It wouldn’t surprise me if

Rey’s sentence ended, a low rumble could be heard emanating from the sky, prompting the rest of the party to stare at

realizing that he shouldn’t have jinxed it, Rey simply lowered his head, feeling rightfully

this. With that, he diverted everyone’s attention from Rey by saying, “Regardless,

a thunderstorm was a recipe for

but exclaim, “Holy! This place

Rey’s words, a few hundred

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a look at all this!” called out

voice… and soon enough, they all widened their

bright light of sorts could be seen glimmering beautifully… What

had never seen such pure and natural- looking jades and

by everyone else there. To think that such a wondrous place existed here of all places… How

snapping out of it, everyone immediately began looking around the mystifying

notice that one of

toward him—, the man

or jadeites! They belong to

scowled the man before aiming his hammer at one of

through, Gerald immediately bolted toward the man, hoping that he could stop him in time! Unfortunately, Gerald was just a

quivering! Gerald had had a gut feeling that something bad would happen if someone tried to take any of the precious stones, and unfortunately, he

was shaking, everyone became increasingly

a massive stone suddenly came crashing down, completely blocking

this was swell. Everyone was now trapped

the man that had caused all this

the ground, the rest of Tye’s men instantly aimed their weapons at Gerald! “Stop! Everyone, calm down!” yelled Tye as he tried

a few seconds, Gerald took a deep breath before narrowing his eyes at Tye while asking, “…Correct me if I’m wrong, Chairman Lamano, but I specifically recall that my condition for leading you here is that

out of the blue, he had to admit that he really

that he was the one in the wrong, Tye quickly yelled, “Men! Put

I truly hope that we can cooperate nicely… With that in mind, since my men have retracted their

where Tye was coming from, what was the point of

case was, they needed to find a way

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wish to leave this place safely, I implore you to tell your subordinates to be more obedient. No more touching things at random! Trigger one

he had made himself extremely clear this time, Gerald then turned around without saying another word. Whether or not Tye decided to

exit—, Tye couldn’t help but glare at the

quickly lowered his head to avert his gaze, not even daring to look Tye

response, Tye then looked at all his subordinates before declaring, “Alright, listen up! If any of you even dare to touch anything at

command was, his subordinates knew he meant business, prompting each and every one of them to quickly nod

ahead, hoping to find other passageways that they could use to leave the

able to find another exit path! From the looks of it, this place seemed to be mostly sealed off from the world, save for the one exit that was now

there doesn’t seem to be any other exits here…” muttered Rey, clearly getting more and more anxious by the minute. “As much as I hate to admit it, Rey’s right! We truly

Tye to get here. Had he known that one of Tye’s men would bring them so much trouble, there was no way

caused the stone to seal the mouth of the cave in the first place! After all, there’s no way the cave could’ve ended up this perfectly sealed by natural

of jades and jadeites in here? Honestly, the strangest part about all this is the fact that nobody’s excavated this place

after finding out about all the precious stones in here. If that had happened, then this place

then replied, “The fact that the precious stones in here have largely remained untouched makes

ended, the corner of Gerald’s eye suddenly noticed

it appeared that his eyes hadn’t been playing tricks on him. There were hints of human bones inside the

so interested in, Rey’s eyes instantly widened when he paid closer

Those… are human bones, right…?! Why are they enveloped by the jades and jadeites?!” exclaimed the rightfully

like us, this person eventually died. Once he was nothing but bones, all it took was a few years for the jades and jadeites

correct… then that definitely meant that they weren’t the first group to get trapped in here. After all, that was the only plausible explanation for these