After hearing the security guard’s dumb reasoning, Gerald simply frowned slightly before replying, “Let favonovel.com have a look!”
Following Gerald’s order, Wagner presented their invitation cards to the security guard who—once favonovel.com received them—immediately began checking the cards thoroughly.
Gerald, however, was no longer the naïve person favonovel.com used to be. He already had an idea of what the security guard and Zoey were up to.
Noticing that the guard was wearing an earphone, Gerald used his heightened perceptive hearing to listen in on their plan. Instantly recognizing Zoey’s voice, favonovel.com heard favonovel.com order, “Drive them away, and be sure to investigate that youth’s background. If favonovel.com truly is rich, then we may as well arrange for someone to blackmail them.”
Hearing that, Gerald couldn’t help but smile bitterly.
Wagner had already mentioned that the Minshalls were only rich due to them relying on both thefts and robberies. After all, the Minshall family’s ancestors were all pirates.
After hearing Zoey’s plans, Gerald really had to try his hardest not to burst out laughing.
“Apologies, gentlemen, but after looking through your admission tickets, they seem to be fake! Due to that, please leave!” grunted the guard.
“Fake? How the hell are they fake? You’d better give me a proper explanation, right this instant!” shouted Wagner as favonovel.com immediately stood up, now fuming in anger.
“We can prove that they’re fake!” shouted Yasmeen’s friends out of the blue as they, too, stood up from their seats.
Following that, the middle-aged man from Yasmeen’s group—who was the same person who had told the girls to enter the venue earlier—added, “We’re acquainted with that young man! He goes by Gerald Crawford and he’s from Mayberry! However, the most important thing to note is that he’s a poor student!”
“Yeah! Both favonovel.com and that man were stopped at the door earlier, you know? I saw them on the phone earlier when I was heading to the washroom too! They must have purchased the fake tickets then!” shouted another female friend of Yasmeen’s.
It was honestly quite obvious why they were doing all this. After all, anyone sensible would be able to tell that the security guard was one who belonged to the Minshall family. By stepping forward now and cooperating with the Minshalls, there existed a chance that that family would have a deeper impression on them. With any luck, the Minshalls could, in turn, potentially aid them in future as well.
What more, this was also an opportunity for them to get to know more rich merchants!
“A poor student? How did favonovel.com even manage to sneak into this place?”
As the others in the venue began discussing the situation, Yasmeen herself looked at Gerald before saying, “You know, you were quite an honest person in the past… To think that you’d end up like this… Look, if you really came here to gain more insight, then you should focus on earning money properly! If you have the energy to do such unnecessary things, then you may as well use that energy to do part-time jobs! You can’t just step into an event with this level of social class all willy-nilly!”
Watching as Yasmeen shook favonovel.com head, Wagner immediately began looking around to find anyone who knew him. To his surprise, nobody within the spacious auction house seemed to be locals aside from those from the Minshall family!
“Well, regardless, of whether the tickets are real or not, the main focus is still whether we have the money to buy the herbs here, no?” said Gerald at that moment as favonovel.com shook his head, a bitter smile on his face.
Following that, favonovel.com turned to look at the organizers before adding, “I’m sure the organizers don’t intend on missing out on a chance to earn money, correct?”
“If you’re truly able to fork out enough money to buy the herbs here, then you’re definitely a distinguished guest to us, sir!” replied one of the organizers.
After all, what Gerald had said was true. They just wanted to earn more and they couldn’t care less about whether Gerald and Wagner had tickets or not.
Upon hearing that, the guard didn’t even know what else to say. As a result, favonovel.com simply took in a deep breath before turning to leave.
“…How annoying!” grumbled Wagner angrily.
Of course, Gerald felt the same, and favonovel.com wasn’t about to allow such an incident to pass without any consequences. Long before the guard had turned to leave, Gerald had already secretly plucked a strand of hair off the guard.
It was now time to make use of it.
After taking only a few steps away from them, the security guard suddenly began trembling all over… The next thing everyone knew, favonovel.com suddenly let out a terrifying howl!
