Female Novel
Chapter 1171
Gerald Crawford:The Secretly Rich Man Novel (Invisible or Poorest) Chapter 1171 With that said, Hendrik ordered for Gerald to be arrested.
Not long after, Gerald found himself within a secret room with Hendrik.
“Tell me, Gerald… Are you aware of any secret techniques to get rid of ancient witchcraft…?” askedHendrik coldly.
“Secret techniques? Now why would I know anything of the sort! After all, such techniques are onlytaught to those within the Holy Witchcraft, no?” replied Gerald rather casually as he turned to look atHendrik.
“You’d best stop putting on an act before me, you brat! I’ll admit that I used a secret ancient witchcrafttechnique on Chester’s body long ago… That particular witchcraft poisons a person’s heart, makingthem act in eccentric, unreasonable, and extreme ways! After a long period of time, said person wouldeventually die from insanity! I was lucky to have come across such an ancient technique, you know?Regardless, when I saw Chester again earlier, the witchcraft I had placed upon him seemed to havebeen lifted! While he was able to regain his consciousness, I’m glad that old woman still killed him witha single blow! Otherwise, all my plans would’ve been for nothing!” growled Hendrik as he glowered atGerald.
Grabbing Gerald by his collar, he then added, “Now hurry up and spit out the truth! If it wasn’t you, thenis there anyone else among you who’s proficient in ancient secret techniques?!”
In truth, Gerald had noticed something odd about Chester back when he had just cornered him in thewoods. After using his mind-reading ability on Chester, he realized that Chester wasn’t actually aperson with bad character. In contrast, he seemed to be constantly repenting and confessing his sins!
Simultaneously, Gerald also noticed an inner demon within him that wished to simply act uncontrollably.
Something just didn’t feel quite right about that. After all, while childhood traumas could certainly belinked with having extreme feelings or emotions, the things Gerald sensed within Chester were on awhole new level.
It was then when Gerald realized that someone had used heart devouring witchcraft on him. Suchwitchcraft was poisonous to the afflicted, and the technique could be used on any part of the body. If aperson wasn’t proficient in the technique or if they didn’t know about its existence in the first place,even a master who was skilled with poisons wouldn’t be able to tell if someone was suffering from thewitchcraft.
However, Finnley had previously taught and passed on all his skills to Gerald. As a result, Gerald wasmuch more proficient in poisons since he had received legitimate training on them.
Regardless, sometime after that incident, Gerald found an opportunity to remove the poison fromChester’s body. However, he had refrained from telling Chester about it since he only wanted to tell himabout it once he fully recovered.
Anyhow, that was the reason why Gerald had treated Chester so well. If it wasn’t because of thepoison, Chester pretty much had a simple and kind personality. But there was no use thinking about allthis now…
Chester was no longer among the living.
He had died because of Gerald, and Hendrick was the one who had set him up.
Thinking about that, Gerald turned to glare daggers at Hendrik, immense murderous intent reflected inhis eyes.
“Not only are you refusing to answer my question, but now you’re even glaring at me so murderously?Have it your way! I have many ways to make a useless person like you speak up! While I can’t kill you,
I can still make you suffer by humiliating you to the point where you’d definitely prefer to be dead ratherthan alive!” declared Hendrik as his eyes widened.
“Men! Tie him up before hanging him out at the port! He’s going to be placed there as an exhibit fortens of thousands of people… Only let him down once he’s willing to fess up!” ordered Hendrik as helaughed aloud.
Swiftly obeying, Gerald soon found himself on the ground as Hendrik’s subordinates began tying hishands behind his back…
True to Hendrik’s orders, Gerald was soon hung up—for all to see—at the port.novelbin
Also true to Hendrik’s words, an almost endless number of pedestrians immediately recognized who hewas when they walked past him, prompting many to take the time to stare and discuss Gerald’s currentplight.
“Oh god, isn’t that Mr. Crawford…?”
“The hell is going on? How did he even end up in such a sorry state?”
“Well, I’m sure you’ve heard by now of how vile the internal committee of the Holy Witchcraft actually is,right? You see, Mr. Crawford was the one who had uncovered their lies and exposed them! Due to hisactions, the young lord turned into a new leaf and even announced his departure from the HolyWitchcraft! Since then, Mr. Crawford supposedly took the young lord under his wing!”
“You know, Mr. Crawford’s provided no shortage of economic-based projects for the Yonwick family…In fact, he’s even taken the initiative to invest and start several development projects on MontholmIsland! You can already tell that Mr. Crawford is a good man from all that he’s done!” explained apasser-by.
While they clearly viewed him positively, none of those discussing Gerald dared to speak out loud. Afterall, there were two guardians from the Holy Witchcraft who were keeping a close watch on Gerald, andeveryone knew that those from that clan were proficient in witchcraft that could easily be used to killothers.
Though they were aware that attempting to rescue him would definitely spell trouble, many of thepedestrians chose to remain there. To them, since they couldn’t actively help him, keeping himcompany was the next best thing.
Around that time, a car slowly drove past the area…
“…Hmm? M-miss Queena, look! It’s Mr. Crawford!” exclaimed the shocked driver when he saw whohad been hoisted up at the port.
Hearing that, she immediately rolled the car’s windows down to have a look for herself. Naturally, thesight of Gerald in such a condition made her feel quite distressed.
While she was extremely tempted to lower Gerald right this instant, she kept reminding herself that hiscurrent situation was pretty much ideal for her plan to work out. In her mind, she summarized that afterGerald arrived at the point where he couldn’t bear the humiliation anymore, he would eventually cometo realize that she was the only person who truly cared about him. By that point, he would surelychoose to approach her, begging for mercy!
For her plan to come true, she knew she had to endure her own pain, even if it made her slightlydistressed.
“So it is! Well, he has nothing to do with us! Drive on!” replied Queena as she closed her eyes.
Not daring to delay the car ride, the driver simply obeyed and drove off.
Meanwhile, Gerald was thinking to himself, ‘I have to quickly think of a way to recover my strength! Ifthis goes on, then I’ll definitely miss out on the pledge of the holy water! However, even after I’veescaped, I have no real way of contacting grandpa at all…!’
Hours passed and soon, it was late at night…