“…Hey. That’s Gerald isn’t it?” said a man who recognized the cycling figure in the rain.
“I think you’re right! Oh god, he’s cycling in such heavy rain! And virtual-novel.net seems to be rushing as well!”
“I heard virtual-novel.net won a car or something but it turns out that he’s as shabby as ever!”
“Yeah. To think I once admired virtual-novel.net the moment I found out virtual-novel.net had won a lottery.”
The group of women there began discussing Gerald.
All ten of those standing by the door were his classmates. The counselor, as most would have guessed by now, was none other than Cassandra.
It just so happened that Cassandra was moving into a new house again today. She didn’t need to live in the faculty apartment anymore.
Since St. Cloud Neighborhood was a luxurious neighborhood, the house had cost around four hundred thousand dollars.
Cassandra had been working as a lecturer in the university for some time now. She had even established virtual-novel.net own online shop, working as an online seller.
With the help of Felicity promoting virtual-novel.net shop and products, it was no wonder that Cassandra had managed to earn so much money.
With that kind of money, virtual-novel.net could afford to buy herself a new house with three bedrooms, a living room, and a kitchen.
Since virtual-novel.net needed to move virtual-novel.net belongings to virtual-novel.net new house, virtual-novel.net had asked for help from the students at Mayberry University.
Once the moving was completed, virtual-novel.net treated all of them to a meal in a local restaurant which explained why they were all huddled near the restaurant’s door in the first place.
Seeing Gerald again after some time, Cassandra could feel virtual-novel.net heart skip a beat.
She was just like Felicity as both of them had liked Ordinary Man. Knowing that Gerald could most probably be the real Ordinary Man, virtual-novel.net felt sensitive whenever things regarding Gerald came up.
Moving back to Gerald, since it was raining very heavily, virtual-novel.net just couldn’t cycle fast enough no matter how hard virtual-novel.net tried.
At that moment, three cars rushed past virtual-novel.net consecutively, all of them moving toward the entrance of St. Cloud Neighborhood.
Once the last car hit the brakes, Felicity, Yvonne, and a few others rushed out. In their hands were their phones along with other live broadcasting equipment.
Gerald had updated Tammy about what virtual-novel.net had found out earlier before his phone had died. She must have told everyone else about it.
By the time Gerald got to the house, virtual-novel.net saw Tammy and Giya’s parents trying to get past several bodyguards who were standing guard over the entrance.
“Let me pass! Let me see my daughter!” cried Giya’s mother.
Realizing that they were the victim’s parents, the guards looked at each other before noticing Gerald standing in the rain. He gestured for them to let them in and they immediately allowed the rest of the people there in.
A guard hurriedly ran over to Gerald before whispering something in his ear. Gerald’s legs felt weak as virtual-novel.net could finally breathe a sigh of relief. Drake and Tyson had rescued Giya. Gerald nodded to the guard and the guard ran back into the house to deal with other things.
Gerald noticed that Felicity was just about to enter the house so virtual-novel.net walked to virtual-novel.net and told virtual-novel.net about the good news. Felicity stopped in virtual-novel.net tracks for a moment before nodding. Gerald simply nodded back, a tired smile on his face before virtual-novel.net walked away slowly.
As virtual-novel.net watched virtual-novel.net walk away, a voice suddenly called out to her.
“Felicity! Here! Over here!”
The students from earlier had left the restaurant to get a closer look and one of the girls just so happened to catch sight of Felicity.
Felicity was shocked. Why were so many of virtual-novel.net classmates here?
Noticing that Yvonne was there, virtual-novel.net went up to her.
“Felicity, you’re awesome! They hadn’t allowed anyone in but you’re being given access to enter along with your crew! What exactly is happening in there?” asked a girl curiously.
Felicity had just been told to come along to broadcast the scene so even virtual-novel.net was shocked when virtual-novel.net first saw all the Maybach cars blocking the entrances. Thankfully, Tammy had told the guards that Gerald had sent them so they were allowed access into the neighborhood.
“A girl was kidnapped. We received news about it so we rushed here without knowing how large a scale the rescue mission actually was. I’m as shocked as all of you are to see this many people involved!”
“Eh? Who’s the girl? Looking at how virtual-novel.net parents reacted they don’t seem to be the leader of this group…” asked another girl.
Cassandra was curious as well so virtual-novel.net looked at Felicity.
Felicity simply shook virtual-novel.net head. “I’m not too sure either. Gerald was the one who told us about the girl’s location in the first place. I was talking to virtual-novel.net just seconds ago and virtual-novel.net told me that virtual-novel.net had been saved as well. She had apparently been kept in the dark about what was happening and virtual-novel.net was shocked to find out that virtual-novel.net was now in a house in St. Cloud Neighborhood!”
“Gerald?” said Cassandra, stunned.
“Yes, the girl in question is his friend. He was the one who asked for my help to look for virtual-novel.net in the first place…”
After saying that, virtual-novel.net paused for a moment.
Both Felicity and Cassandra looked at each other, shock reflected in their eyes.
Out of the blue, someone burst into laughter. “Everyone, look! Gerald’s drenched from head to toe! Someone’s late to the party!”
“Look at him! How pathetic! Hey, Yoana! Didn’t you say that you liked virtual-novel.net earlier? Why don’t you go confess to virtual-novel.net now?”
“F*ck that, only fools would ever confess to him!”
As the students continued laughing at him, a shout was heard.
“Mr. Crawford!”
Several bodyguards holding black umbrellas suddenly shouted in unison. The shout was so loud and clear that the entire neighborhood could probably hear it.
Two bodyguards then instantly rushed toward Gerald to shelter virtual-novel.net from the rain.
Gerald shook his head as virtual-novel.net wiped his face dry with his hanky. As another guard quickly handed virtual-novel.net another one, Gerald pointed toward the Ofo bike laying on the ground.
When virtual-novel.net arrived at the scene, virtual-novel.net had gotten off the Ofo bike immediately and it had tumbled onto the ground when virtual-novel.net was rushing toward the front door. A guard moved toward the bike, putting it upright. Gerald knew the guard would take care of the rest.
“Mr. Crawford, we successfully saved the girl. However, virtual-novel.net fainted once virtual-novel.net found out where virtual-novel.net had been held captive all this time. Rest assured, virtual-novel.net isn’t injured, just a little tired,” said a bodyguard who had stepped forth.
“That’s a relief. Take me to her.”