Female Novel
Chapter 1150
Gerald Crawford:The Secretly Rich Man Novel (Invisible or Poorest) Chapter 1150 It was at that moment when Yume led a middle-aged man into the room where Gerald and the othertwo currently were.
The moment Yume saw that Jasmine—who seemed to be as charming and attractive as Yume was—was standing quite close to Gerald, for some unknown reason, she couldn’t help but feel slightlyuncomfortable.
Due to that discomfort, however, her tone was slightly harsher as she coldly said, “Here’s the personyou were looking for, Gerald! Mr. Yarrow here had brought along all the island’s relevant information onthat year!”
With that, she moved to stand on Gerald’s other side. Seeing that, Jasmine herself began carefullysizing up the beauty who was now standing as close to Gerald as she was.
As sparks flew between the two women, the middle-aged man—who was holding onto the informationin his hands—greeted, “Mr. Crawford!”
“A pleasure to have you here, Mr. Yarrow. Please, have a seat.”
Tim Yarrow was someone from the cultural affairs bureau in Montholm City. According to what peoplehad told Gerald, the man knew all about the development of Montholm City from ancient times till thisvery day. If one wanted to investigate the origins and history of this place, Tim was the perfect guy tolook for.
After exchanging some pleasantries, Tim went straight to the point.
“So I’ve heard that you’re interested in the history of Montholm Island’s city construction, Mr. Crawford.With that in mind, I’ve investigated quite a bit into the subject this afternoon. You see, Montholm Cityactually began as a small fisherman village by the sea. Back then, there were only a mere hundredfamilies inhabiting the area. As for the island’s history, I’m afraid that it originates from about tenthousand years ago… The evidence to back that claim up is the fossils that were successfullyexcavated on the island a few decades ago…”
“All this sounds very well recorded and I have no doubts about the evidence you speak of. However,Mr. Yarrow, I’d like to know if you’re aware of any legendary but well-founded unofficial historic events?”asked Gerald after hearing all that.
“Unofficial historic events you say? I’ll have you know that there are far too many of those! Forgive myenthusiasm, but researching unofficial historic events and gathering evidence to disprove the officialones has been a personal—and the only—hobby of mine for as long as I’ve lived! If that’s what youwish to ask me about then you can rest assured that you’ve found the right person!” replied Tim with asmile.
With that, he began detailing a few old legends to Gerald.
“Let’s see… It was about twenty years ago when I first started working. Through sheer coincidence, Icame across a very ancient book in the cultural bureau’s library at the time! Its contents were simple,yet very ancient words that fascinated the younger me greatly!”
“I had reason to be so excited. After all, the words in that book were vastly different compared to theancient words that could commonly be recognized and found. Since I had chosen to major inarchaeology in university, I was lucky enough that one of my professors had taught me the meanings ofa few ancient words. Once I was done deciphering the text, I found that the book was filled withlegends and unofficial historic events. To put it in simpler and more modern terms, the person recordingthe legends seemed to be making memoirs.”
“Regardless, I also found out that the contents in the book had been extracted from a stone tablet. Inother words, the story predated even the people who had transferred the memoirs into book format! Asfor the contents, it described an incident about an old man surviving through luck.”novelbin
“In the book, the old man had said that he was lucky enough to have been chosen to participate in aspecial funeral. The funeral itself was considered to be special since he was tasked with heading thereto bury a fairy! As for the burial place, it was a magnificent palace under the sea!”
Hearing that, both Gerald and Yume couldn’t help but exchange glances in dismay.
“Moving on, the book then described how thirty-seven people—including the master—had carried thecoffin all the way to Montholm Island. They had apparently made a stop here to rest due to a heavystorm.”
‘…Isn’t this… the same story from the six stone tablets…? I’m pretty sure it is! With any luck, the bookhopefully contained what had happened after they came to the island. After all, I remember thefollowing mural showing that the old beggar only had twenty-seven men with him after stopping by theisland. Where had the nine other people disappeared to?’ Gerald thought to himself as his eyelidstwitched slightly.
‘Come to think of it, the contents of the stone tablets seem more and more like an ancient epitaph ofone of the nine people who had been left behind on the island… From the looks of it, the words seemto be describing said person’s entire life… Could that mean that the nine who were left behind didn’tdie? What happened then? Why would they decide to stay behind halfway through their journey…?’
“It’s then stated in the memoir that after the writer arrived on Montholm island, his entire life waschanged due to a scene that he witnessed which he claimed that he would never be able to forget forthe rest of his life. To go into detail, the group of men was camping one night when all of a sudden, theheavens seemed to fall while the earth split open! Everyone was sure that calamity was about to befall
them and that the whole island was about to sink! However, as they were about to begin escaping, allof them saw an enormous, bronze house that hovered in the air!”
“Not only was the hovering house massive, but there also seemed to be people inside it! After one ofthe house’s inhabitants walked out, the large door of the flying house was slid open. The second thathappened, the men—who were still on the island—immediately heard wretched wailing from inside thefloating house!”
“Due to that, all of the men were scared half to death, and for good reason too. It’s described here thatthe wailing that those people made sounded like they were all suffering terribly…”