Emma felt embarrassed but angry. She could swear that she had not betrayed Thomas at all. But, where did this photo come from?She felt so aggrieved that she nearly cried. She held the phone while her body shivered.Thomas took off his coat and covered her body with it. “Don’t be anxious. I’ll surely handle it for you,” he gently said.“Everyone knows about this now. How can you handle it?”“Emma, trust me.”Emma bit her bottom lip while she looked at Thomas. When she could no longer bear it, she lowered her head in Thomas’ arms and started crying.Thomas comforted her while he scrolled to the bottom of the news. He stared at the source of the content at the bottom of the page. [Rafferty Cook, editor of Void Interaction Media Corporation.]Half an hour later, Thomas drove the car and brought Emma to Void Interaction Media Corporation’s building.It was a standard office building. Every floor had about four companies, and Void Interaction Media Corporation was located in B301 on
“As a news reporter, my pen is more powerful than a gun. If you offend me, you won’t have a good end.”He was obviously threatening them!Emma felt worked up and angrily said, “This is obviously fake news, and the photo is also photoshopped. You knew all of this, so why did you still publish it? Aren’t you purposely slandering me? Where’s your conscience?”Rafferty dusted off the cigarette with his hand and breathed out some smoke.“Conscience?“May I know how much conscience costs?“How much website traffic can conscience bring?”Emma was speechless. These people did not have any principles for the sake of website traffic and money.Rafferty breathed out more smoke. “All right, I can’t bear to see outsiders like you. Didn’t you just want to remove the news and a public apology to restore your reputation? It’s not impossible. The price is $5,000,000.”Ultimately, it was all about money!“The purpose of publishing the news is for website traffic and money,” he said.“As long
At this time, Bonnie Marsh, the boss of the company, was sitting on her office chair while drawing eyebrows. She was shocked by Emma’s sudden voice. Her hands trembled, so she accidentally moved her eyebrow pencil and outlined her eyebrow wrongly.She angrily put down her eyebrow pencil and mirror before she glared at Emma.“Who are you? Who allowed you to enter my office?“Get out!”Emma sneered. She directly walked over, slammed the table, and questioned, “Your editor, Rafferty Cook viciously created a news article and used a photoshopped photo. He slandered me and caused a huge negative impact. Aren’t you bothered by it?”Right then, Thomas and Rafferty also walked into the office.Bonnie casually asked, “Rafferty, is this Madam telling the truth?”Rafferty kept shaking his head. “No! Don’t you understand me, Boss? I never talk nonsense. I’m very fair. I have evidence for all the news I report.”Bonnie nodded. “Madam, did you hear that? My staff is not wrong.”Emma was tota
Thomas coughed. “So? Do you agree?”Emma pouted. “I don’t want to bet with a pervert like you. Shameless!”She said that, but she secretly felt happy. She even wished that she would lose the bet.She did not only want Rafferty to apologize...She also wanted to “give herself” to Thomas. She already had the thought for some time, and it was rare for Thomas to take the initiative to bring it up.However, she was still a virgin, so she felt embarrassed and anxious whenever she talked about it.Even if she had the intention, she also did not know what she should say.“Sit here for a while. I’ll go and handle something. I’ll be back in a minute.”Thomas then left his seat.He called Anna when he came outside the cafe.“Hello, Anna, did you communicate with all the channels in Southland City that you told me about yesterday?”“Yes.”“Can we publish any content?”“Yes, but we haven’t established the cultural and entertainment base currently, let alone the content production. We h
Emma’s eyes widened. She stared at the page for a while and even enlarged the photo to make sure that she was not having dim eyesight.“Um…” She looked at Thomas before she glanced at the phone again. She was so shocked that she could not say anything.Thomas smirked while he said, “This is what people call giving them a taste of their own medicine. Just to let them know how it feels to be slandered.”Emma asked, “How did you do this?”“I have some friends in Shalom Technology. They have some news media sources and connections, so I asked them for a favor.”“Oh, is that… not very good?”Thomas smiled. “Do you want me to remove it?”Emma immediately raised her head. “Hmph! No way!”At this time, in the boss office of Void Interaction Media Corporation. Rafferty talked to the boss for a while before he opened the door and walked out.As soon as he walked out, a group of people judged him, and some of them even snickered.Rafferty was very sensitive, so he immediately felt som
“Yes, go and write now.” Bonnie urged him. “Publish it right away after you finish writing.”“I’ll write it now.”By the time they got ready to fight back, the secretary ran into the office and anxiously said, “Boss, something bad happened.”“What’s wrong again?”“The Review Department just called over and said our company is suspected of making up stories and intentionally slandering other people. They’ve closed all of our news media channels. They’ve also requested us to stop operating and making arrangements. They want to review every news that we’ve published. If we can’t reach their standard, they will never activate our channels anymore. What should we do now?”Bonnie was totally stunned.This method of pulling the plug was so ruthless.A new media company like them could survive because they relied on the new media channels that contained extremely high website traffic. When their channels were blocked, no news could be published now.If they were not able to publish any
Bonnie’s husband did not listen to her. He was already furious from the get go. When he came over and saw his wife in a room with Rafferty... Well, any man would not have been able to hold back.He lifted Bonnie up and kept slapping her.Rafferty did not fare any better. He was kicked to the bottom of the desk, and a trash can was put on his head.“Shameless couple! Shameless couple!” He left the company while he insulted them.Bonnie sobbed in the office.Rafferty took down the trash can, spat out the paper from his mouth, and fiercely said, “I want to call the police. I want to make a police report!”“It’s useless to call the police!” Bonnie said, “It’s a shame that you’re working in this industry. You can call the police and get the people to remove the post today, but what can you do if they post it again two days later?”Rafferty’s face turned pale.Yes, he had been working in this industry for a few years, and he understood the tricks in the industry better than anyone el
“Sure! I will do what you’ve said.”Emma felt much better.After she released her anger, they even agreed to apologize and clear her name. Her reputation could also be restored.She had to admit that it was because of Thomas.That aside, she wondered how she could be framed by these wicked news media.Rafferty asked, “Um… can we leave now?”“Hold on.” Thomas asked, “You didn’t know Emma previously. Why did you write the news to slander her?”Rafferty cried as he said, “A jerk called Jeffy Berko gave me an envelope. It contained a photoshopped picture and a ‘background story’. I was an idiot, so I used his materials.”“Jeffy… Berko?” Thomas nodded. “All right, I got it. You can go back now. I’ll stop attacking you. Remember to be good people after you go back and quickly handle the apology announcement as well as a press conference. I have limited patience.”“Sure, we understand that.”Bonnie and Rafferty left the cafe gloomily. After they went back, one of them immediately wr
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