165 Rays Smile... (1/2)

Even with the combined effort of every single member of Moby's group, they were still unable to locate Ray. They searched damn near everywhere in the school in just the span of a single lunch, plus a little extra after. Abby even used multiple wisps and Jayden used her doppelganger powers to help search and it still yielded no results, Ray was nowhere to be found.

The only places that Moby was not able to search were the upstairs area with all of the second-year students, every single classroom, janitor's room, closet, storage area. Other than that, everywhere else was covered.

They did not want to ask around with the other students or even teachers in order to not throw off the people possibly keeping him on a leash that people are trying to look for him, which would, in turn, make them hide him even better.

The only places he thought that he could have been was in a hidden area of the forest, in a room he had not checked, or in one of the dorm rooms.

On his search, Moby was asked by other gangs if he was willing to join them which he of course rejected and thrashed out of his way if they kept on insisting or tried to force him. However, he was only asked by a very small, insignificant amount. He was expecting to be asked by at least 10 groups or gangs which turned out to be very far from what actually happened.

The only possible explanation that Moby could think of was that the news of him rejecting the Zexis gang had spread throughout the entire school, and if any other gang had Moby as a member it might just bring them trouble from the Zexis gang. If that was the case, then the Zexis gang was stronger and held more influence than he had first assumed. He needed to keep his guard up around them, which was precisely why he needed Travis for that job.

Of course, Travis had accepted Moby's offer of paying him to be a spy. Moby knew that in the end, he would choose whichever yielded him the most amount of money. It was just in his nature, he would do anything for his mother, something that Moby could use to manipulate him.

In addition to him accepting his offer, Moby asked him various questions concerning the gang, most of which he had no idea since he was a very low ranking member. Questions like who is the leader, how many members does the gang have, how far is their reach, what is their purpose, all of those questions Moby was given vague or no answer at all.

This confirmed to Moby that in Travis's current state, he would not be a useful spy and that even if the Zexis gang truly did have Ray, he would be withheld from that information.

He just hoped that if they find out that he was trusted and would be useful in obtaining him as a member, he would undoubtedly rise in the ranks and be provided with more information.

'Maybe I should have accepted their offer just to do some spying, then immediately leaving… No! That would have been way too risky!' Moby thought at the time, questioning his previous hasty actions before deciding to stick to his guts.

In the end, Moby left Travis to continue searching the entire school, not without providing him with a little payment for his services and giving him some throwaway information he could claim to have extracted from him to gain further trust in the gang, in turns providing him with more information in the future.

After many hours of failed searching, the school doors closed and they were forced to leave the building, meaning that Ray was probably not even there.

Ray was still not answering his phone and their only near 100% reliable way of finding Ray was to just head back to their dorms and wait until curfew where he would be forced to come under the school rules or else he would be in big trouble. And if that didn't work, then they would just have to camp out of Ray's classroom the next day until he comes out.

Until any further notice, Moby had ordered all of his servants to stop the search and go back home as it was yielding no results.

Jayden went home in her limousine, escorted by a few servants. As Moby went to bid her farewell, he noticed that none of the servants present where her butler who had always stood out and greeted her on arrival, at first he thought that it was very odd, however, he pushed the thought away as he believed that it was nothing of importance and that the butler was probably in the driver's seat or had something super important to take care of at the mansion.

As for Abby, she kept on insisting that she could keep searching but ended up following Moby's orders in the end and headed back to her dorm.

Moby and Alex were now walking together back to their own dorms, not even saying a single word to each other. The worried and less than chipper expression on their faces told the entire story.

When they finally reached the front of his dorm, Moby let out a loud sigh, scanning his card before tightly grasping the door handle, twisting the knob and opening it up.

As the door slowly opened, the light from the inside flashed in their eyes, something that they did not at all expect as they were almost certain that the lights would have been turned off.