The Secretly Rich Man

Chapter 1153

Gerald Crawford:The Secretly Rich Man Novel (Invisible or Poorest) Chapter 1153 While both Chester and Yume had already been stunned, their jaws truly dropped the moment theysaw Gerald leap toward the other ship!

The moment Gerald’s foot touched the wooden ship’s surface, it instantly caused a huge wave to formas the ship bobbed up and down due to the impact of Gerald’s landing!

Eventually, the ripples slowed down and Gerald took the chance to begin looking around.

From what he could see, it seemed to be an average-sized wooden ship that could accommodateabout forty to fifty people. It also seemed to have a bit of history to it.

Stepping into the cabin, there seemed to be an old and torn curtain hanging outside the cabin’swindows. As a result, though it was quite sunny outside, the inside of the cabin remained quite dark.

After looking around for a while, Gerald began trying to feel his surroundings. The force he had sensedsurrounding the ship earlier was now nowhere to be found… It was odd, to say the least.

With that, Gerald slowly drew the curtains before making his way deeper into the cabin.

With partitions separating the rooms within the cabin, the corridor in the middle led to small guestrooms on either side of it.novelbin

All of a sudden, the faint sound of footsteps could be heard coming from the control cabin that waslocated at the ships’ bottom level. Someone was walking upstairs!

With that in mind, Gerald stood motionless, looking around attentively until he finally saw who wasmaking their way up the stairs.

Gerald watched as a white-haired old woman with a stooped posture slowly swayed her body whileascending the steps. Aside from the fact that her clothes were old and torn and her hair was particularlymessy, the woman’s most defining feature was the many scars that covered her face.

In the dimly lit area, Gerald couldn’t help but admit that she seemed rather spooky.

Regardless, he took the initiative by asking, “Good day, madam. May I know your name?”

“Dead Annie!” replied the woman with a subtle smile. Despite her friendly gesture, Gerald found himselfgrowing slightly nervous. After all, anyone who smiled with such a scar-filled face would definitelycreate slight feelings of unnerve among those who saw it.

“…Come again? You said your name was Dead Annie, madam?” asked Gerald for confirmation.

“Dead Annie! Two petals bloom and each petal represents a world!” replied the old woman in a rathermysterious manner.

Gerald found himself raising a slight brow as he heard her talking about some mysterious plant. Aflower that only bloomed two petals… Why did that sound so familiar? Thinking about it, he knew hehad come across such a plant before. After all, natural flowers with only two petals were rare, so hewould definitely remember if he had seen one before. But where?

The more Gerald stared at the woman, the odder he felt.

At that moment, he heard someone shouting, “Sir! Here you are!”

Turning around to look, Gerald saw that both Chester and Yume had boarded the ship as well.

“Why did both of you come here?” asked Gerald.

“Well, since you’ve been gone for quite some time and we heard nothing from you, we got slightlyworried!” replied Chester as he and Yume immediately began scanning the old woman—who was nowstaring at the end of the corridor—from head to toe.

While Chester immediately let out a frown, Yume began smoothening her hair, though Gerald could tellthat her breathing had grown slightly more rapid.

“There’s nothing to worry about. For now, head back first!” ordered Gerald.

Since Gerald still hadn’t been able to see through the extremely weird old woman, he was worried thatboth Yume and Chester would end up in danger if they remained here for any longer.

The moment she heard him say that, however, the old woman suddenly began laughing coldly. Herlaugh sounded almost raven-like, making it all the more frightening.

Already feeling extremely anxious of her laugh, Gerald’s unease peaked the moment he realized thatseveral extremely weird-looking flowers had begun appearing—out of thin air—in the middle of thecorridor.

The flowers themselves each only had two petals, with each petal resembling a human’s face!

It was at that moment when Gerald finally remembered where he had seen such flowers before.

He had seen them in a garden back when he was at the Soul Palace!

That garden on his grandfather’s island had been specifically made to plant that breed of flower. Geraldremembered finding the flowers strange, so he had asked Welson more about them.

According to what Welson had told him, the flower bore no name. Seeds of the flower were found in theWestern Regions, and they seemed to date back to ancient times. After attempting to plant it, theywere successful in making it bloom.

Due to the nameless flowers naturally only blooming to have two petals, Gerald’s grandfather haddecided to plant them in a garden, treating them as a living work of art.

As it turned out, the flowers were called Dead Annies…

Just as Gerald’s thought ended, he realized that fine pollen was starting to emerge from the flowers.

The pollen spread a unique fragrance around, and as soon as Yume and Chester smelled it, theyinstantly began feeling dizzy. Soon enough, both of them lost consciousness and fell to the floor!

“The pollen’s poisonous!”