After Thomas had waited in the car for 20 minutes, Jacob and others came out, carrying the large plaque board.Jacob grinned and said, “Mr. Mayo, I apologize for keeping you waiting.” In the end, Socrates would never think about returning to Central City in this life because of his vim and vigor after being tossed by Jacob.“Get in the car, I will send you back.”“Thank you, Mr. Mayo!”The crimson Ferrari sped down the road, mirroring Jacob's relaxed and carefree mood.Jacob’s father recovered from his illness, the family plaque board was returned, and also, Summer Land’s medical reputation was restored. All of these events combined to give him a one-day experience of both heaven and hell.Two hours ago, Jacob was so overwhelmed with sorrow that he hardly wished to live. Two hours later, he simply wanted to give himself a pair of wings and fly into the sky!And Thomas was the one who brought it all to him.Inside Big Dipper Pharmaceuticals...Socrates was beaten up so badly
Just then, the door opened. Master Centipede, the CEO, entered, wobbling on his cane. "Godfather!" Laura put down her glass of wine and hurried forward to assist Master Centipede enter the room and take a seat. "Godfather, you have not recovered yet. Why are you discharged from the hospital? " “If I don’t leave the hospital, Thomas is going to bully you to death.”Laura bowed her head and said, "Godfather, you know all that happened today?"Master Centipede smiled as he asked, "How could you hide such a huge matter from me? Since the moment you approached Socrates, I’ve suspected him to be untrustworthy. All foreigners are overconfident and unrealistic. They are unable to reassure others. To deal with Thomas, we still have to rely on ourselves. “Laura asked, “Godfather, you got an idea?”Master Centipede chuckled, "It's not really a good idea anyway. I just thought of something to make Thomas's life a little more difficult."“What do you mean by making his life difficult?
The store was about to be sold?Jacob Nolan’s went red with anger as soon as that sentence registered.“Who has the guts to lay their hands on our Nolan family’s long-time brand?”The man with the red hair tie laughed. “I have the guts to do so! Mighty Dragon Properties is willing to offer you thirty million dollars for all of Red Society Pharmacy’s shops. With this money, you can simply find another place and reopen the shop, right?”Nolan was enraged. “What are you talking about? Can a long-time brand be opened at will? We, the Nolan family, have been operating for over a hundred years, and we are considered a long-time, honorable brand. There is only one of us in all of Central City, and we have no other branches. Such is the devotion we have, the essence of our culture, and the inheritance from our ancestors!”The man with the red hair tie sneered. “What you are saying has nothing to do with me. I only know that Mighty Dragon Properties wants this land.”Jacob stared at him c
Jacob Nolan looked downcast, as he was completely speechless.It was not until then that Jacob finally understood that winning back the plague board was nowhere near enough. The reputation that was lost, the connection with the people, the trust that others had, all of these needed to be regained with extra effort. Sadly, Maxima Romuald did not plan to give them any time to redeem themselves.He repeated himself, “The only way out for you guys is to sign this transfer agreement and reopen the pharmacy at another place. That is your only choice.”It seemed like he was right.The Nolan father and son duo fell silent at the same time. Their fists were clenched tight as they were not content with this, but there was nothing they could do.At this moment, Thomas Mayo voiced out, “Mr. Romuald, you seem to be wrong about one thing.”Maxima raised his eyebrows. “What is it?”“I have inquired the conditions that the government established back then. It stipulates that if the long-time
Maxima Romuald snapped his fingers and more than a dozen men blocked the entrance of the pharmacy in a tight formation. No one was allowed to enter or leave.From the looks of it, if Thomas Mayo did not pay up, he would not be allowed to leave.Maxima took his mobile phone out. “I will call the government official right now and ask them to get someone over and get all the procedures over with. If I find that you are playing tricks on me or plan to run away, boy you better be careful of your head.”Thomas smiled and simply took a stool to have a seat.“Dear disciple, get all the documents ready for the transfer. We want to avoid chaos when the government official arrives.”“Roger that!”Jacob immediately moved a table over and prepared pen, paper, along with needed items.The Nolan family had no way of keeping this piece of land. If Thomas managed to get this piece of land, at least the Nolan family’s long-time brand will be kept alive. No matter what, it must not fall in the han
Thomas simply replied, “It is one billion dollars, not ten dollars. Do you think it is like buying candy?”Maxima sneered. “Alright then, I will wait along with you. I want to see till when you can put up a front!”Another five minutes had passed but there was still no transaction to the account.Maxima finally lost his composure. He walked to Thomas and shouted, “Stop pretending! You are just dirt poor and yet you are acting like you are rich. I will let you know how serious the consequences of putting up a facade are!”He grabbed on Thomas’s collar while he was still talking.But in a flash, Thomas turned his wrist lightly and applied pressure directly on Maxima’s arm, pinning him on the table and completely disabling his movement.Maxima had thought that he was pretty strong.Normally, Maxima flaunted how strong he was and beat up whoever he wanted. He had a really bad temper. But now, he was pinned down by Thomas’s elbow alone. He could not even lift his arm up no matter how
Maxima Romuald ran away with his men into an alley and stopped as they gasped for air.He massaged his arm as he said, “This Thomas is pretty strong. He almost broke my arm.”One of his subordinates asked, “Mr. Romuald, are we giving up just like that? Do we no longer want that piece of land?”Maxima frowned.It never crossed his mind that Thomas was capable of paying one billion dollars for that piece of land. Furthermore, he did not expect that Thomas did it not for the sake of money, but for the sake of cultural inheritance.‘Idiots’ like these were really rare.“Let me ask the director.”Maxima called the director of Mighty Dragon Properties — Emmanuel Saul. After the call went through, he told Emmanuel the whole story.Emmanuel listened to the story and became silent for a long while. His final answer was, “Get the piece of land no matter what you do!”The call was disconnected.Maxima’s subordinate asked, “Mr. Romuald, what did Mr. Saul say?”Maxima who was in a tough
It was late in the evening.The director of Mighty Dragon Properties, Emmanuel Saul, walked out of a high-end club while completely drunk.He was hugging Honey’s waist with his left hand and holding on to a packet of cigarettes with his right hand. All that was on his mind was getting beyond the third base.As he opened the passenger door and allowed Honey to get on the car, a silver van appeared out of nowhere and stopped right behind him.The doo of the van opened immediately. A powerful hand covered Emmanuel’s mouth and dragged him towards the van as another grabbed onto his waist. Both of them worked together in unison and dragged Emmanuel onto the van in the blink of an eye.A third person closed the door immediately.The whole process happened so fast that it only took around two seconds.Finally, the driver of the van stepped on the gas pedal and drove away as if nothing had happened.Honey sat in the car and waited for Emmanuel to get on like an idiot. After a few secon
No one knew how far down the title Emperor of Luck was inherited.They had finally caught Luck.Following that, Eric leaped into action and reeled in his haul as fast as he could. With that, all the remaining accomplices of Luck were caught in one fell swoop!The two million innocent citizens were saved, as all of them took the antidote.Once again, Thomas saved the day.In order to express their gratitude, the citizens decided to erect statues of Thomas in Celandine City and many other cities as well.In the House of Vistaria.Phoebe ran towards her father hurriedly. She then smiled at him and said, “What did I tell you, dad? Thomas will definitely turn things around, right? I won!”Declan was so agitated, that he started tearing up.Thomas was really too amazing. He was capable of turning things around, even in such a predicament.At the same time, the curse that had plagued the Mars family for over a thousand years was finally broken. From then onwards, Declan was finally
Luck was dumbfounded. Why was Thomas still alive and kicking?“No need to doubt your own eyes. I am indeed still alive.”The crowd parted, making way for a very familiar figure. It was Thomas, the very Thomas whom the public watched him die.As he walked, he said, “Our previous research has already reached ninety-nine percent completion. But no matter how hard we tried, the final one percent remained out of our grasp. At that time, I thought that perhaps the only way was to drink the Ancestral Water and experience the poison itself, which would allow me to have a breakthrough for the final one percent.“And that was what happened. I managed to do it.“After drinking the Ancestral Water, I finally understood what the one percent was and successfully created the antidote for Ancestral Water. Now that the antidote has been created, it will sever your connection with the Ancestral Water.“You will not be able to kill anyone anymore.“You have lost, Luck.”Lost?Luck's eyes were wi
It was obvious that Eric could not afford to take a gamble this time. But he had no choice. His only choice was to listen to whatever the other party said and prepare a helicopter in twelve hours’ time.That was not all. He was also supposed to request for his superiors to help Luck get out of the country.The thought of it made Eric furious.“Damn it!”He left in anger to deal with the rest of the matter.The sky of Celandine City was covered with clouds.The patriarch, Declan, was in his garden in the House of Vistaria. He stared at the withered flowers as he grieved.His entire life was spent supporting Mr. Cole in hopes that he would be able to create an antidote to Ancestral Water. But at the end of the day, Mr. Cole accomplished nothing.His two disciples — Capricious Holy Hand Elliot, and Thomas — were both dead.There was no one in the world who was capable of creating the antidote for Ancestral Water anymore.“Alas...” Declan sighed. It seemed that it was impossible
At that moment, the general public was suddenly dumbfounded, as if struck by lightning. Everyone was down in the dumps.Many of those with poor psychological strength directly collapsed on the ground.They believed Thomas' death could be exchanged for their own safety, but who knew, in the end, they got nothing, and Luck, as usual, used their lives as a bargaining chip to force the authorities to listen to His Majesty's words.No antidote to Ancestral Water would ever be created by chance.The lives of people were still in His Majesty's hands.Whenever luck wanted them to die, they would die without any ability to resist.However, this was not the most frightening part. What was even more frightening than this was that the only person who could create the antidote to Ancestral Water had been forced to die alive by them.It would be impossible to create the antidote to Ancestral Water without Thomas.Mr. Cole and Elliot had all died, Thomas was the last person who mastered the
Eric sighed deeply, "Thomas, even though things have reached this point, you still remain so kind.""I have nothing to say except to choose death because the research failed." Thomas let out a long breath. "Before I die, I want to talk to my family on the phone."Originally, Emma and the others came to Celandine City because they wanted to be reunited with Thomas.Who knew it had turned into a life and death situation?The world was like a chess game; everything was unpredictable.When Thomas was video calling with his family, Emma was already bathed in tears at the other end. She was crying and shouting at Thomas to not be impulsive, and saying perhaps there was still room for things to turn around.That was what she thought, but it was not the case.Every minute Thomas dragged on, more people perished as the result of Ancestral Water, and the crowd’s fear and rage grew.Thomas’ life no longer belonged to him."Honey, take care of the baby."I love you."Those were Thomas’
For such demanding research, half a day was really too short.Thomas had recruited the best doctors and researchers he could find to work on a detailed study of Ancestral Water.In the past, it was difficult to achieve breakthroughs in the research on Ancestral Water. That was because figuring out how to create an antidote for the Ancestral Water was challenging. On the other hand, it was also because obtaining the Ancestral Water was incredibly difficult. Because they only had a few samples, the results were underwhelming.However, it was different now. Because the entire city's water supply had been turned into Ancestral Water, they were able to collect the samples at their convenience. This made it much easier for Thomas and the others to get the materials.With Thomas in charge, hundreds of researchers were conducting a massive study in just half a day. Unfortunately, things did not go according to plan.Thomas still failed. “We almost got it.“We were so close to makin
How sinister. “All we want is nothing but—safety.“As long as we’re safe, we definitely won’t make it difficult for everyone. If we’re safe, no one will die.“Now then, I have a small request to make to ensure everyone’s safety.“I demand that Thomas drink Ancestral Water immediately! This person is a real hassle for His Majesty, and we must keep him under our control for our own protection. Please forgive us for the inconvenience.“We'll only give everyone half a day to consider this. The emperor will begin killing people if Thomas does not step forward and drink Ancestral Water by this afternoon.“Okay. I've said everything I wanted to say. Goodbye.” The TV screen went dark, and so did Eric's face.He kicked the trash can over and said fiercely, “What is this? You're the only person in the world who can create an antidote for Ancestral Water’s poison, Thomas!“Once you drink Ancestral Water, you’ll be controlled by them!“Won't you have to obey Luck's every command by the
After listening to Thomas’ description, Eric also displayed a look of shock and said two words, “As expected.”What did he mean by, as expected?Was it possible that Eric knew that Luck was behind it from the start?“Thomas, follow me.”Eric took Thomas into an empty ward and locked the door. The two sat in the corner of the ward.He whispered, “There is a piece of news that I haven’t announced to the public, that is, besides Celandine City, there are more than ten cities that have problems. Do you know which cities they are?”Thomas’ eyes lit up. He already knew what Eric wanted to say.At the previous meeting, Eric had clearly stated that more than ten cities across the country had been controlled by Luck. Now, there happened to have more than ten cities where residents had been poisoned.Was there such a coincidence?Thomas said, “The residents are poisoned by Ancestral Water. Over ten cities are all under the control of Luck’s forces, so it is almost a certainty that Luck
“I didn’t. I saw the news early in the morning and was shocked. I haven’t dared to drink a sip of water until now.” Pisces took a deep breath and said, “Is this a natural disaster or a man-made disaster? It’s really terrible.”No matter whether it was a natural disaster or a man-made disaster, it was no small matter.Soon, Thomas drove to the hospital.Eric had been waiting here for a long time. As soon as he saw Thomas coming, he quickly let him enter the ward.He saw a patient lying on the hospital bed with his eyes closed, and his body was trembling. Although it was very hot, he was as cold as if he had just been lifted out of the freezer.A doctor walked over and said, “Mr. Mayo, let me tell you the general overview of the current situation.”The virus was spread through water sources.After drinking water with the virus, the virus would lurk in the human body.However, lurking did not mean that it would cause an outbreak.At present, over one hundred thousand people had b