For the next three days, it was rainy in Southland District. It was drizzling every day. Pedestrians on the street held umbrellas, so they could not see the cloudy sky.Amazingly, these three days were also the quietest three days in Southland District.Nothing major happened, and there was no criminal activity either. It was just like paradise on earth.But this kind of calm only put people on edge all the more.This was because Southland District was not paradise. It had its share of sins. When these sins were invisible, it did not mean that they had disappeared. They were hidden, waiting for the opportunity to burst forth.Great evil was coming.Three days later.Ten o’clock late at night.Thomas wore black clothes and carried a gun on his hip. Then, he walked out of the house, passed through the drizzle, and got into the car.He took a deep breath. Then, he started the engine and left.Inside the house, Emma was sitting on the couch. Although her eyes were fixed on the TV
The brawny man grew anxious.He extended his hands and wanted to reach for Thomas, but Thomas evaded the movement.The strength gap between the two was too huge.Right then, an even more unexpected thing happened. Two of the coolies slipped. It was either because they were too tired, or the ground was slippery due to the rain. The box they were carrying fell to the ground and rolled twice.As the box rolled over, there was a scream coming from inside.It was the scream of a little girl!Now, everyone present was stunned.The coolies exchanged glances and looked at the box falling on the ground. Then, they looked at the boxes they were carrying and stopped moving due to fright.Could it be that there were humans inside all the boxes?The goods transported by Art Trading Corporation were all humans?All the coolies had never seen such a scene. No matter how brave they were, they did not dare to transport humans.The person in charge of the delivery frowned slightly. He knew th
The appearance of this little girl in front of them left everyone present feeling lost and clueless, especially when they found that plants actually grew on the surface of the little girl’s body. The coolies were all frightened. They all hid in a corner, as they were afraid of being hurt by this monster.Actually, they should have thought about it. If this monster was really that strong, it would not be locked in the box this easily and transported by people as goods.Thomas stood in the rain with an umbrella and looked at the little girl in the box. A strong sense of pity grew in his heart.He also had a child, and it was a daughter.If someone transported Thomas’s daughter as goods, Thomas would definitely tear that person into pieces.Thomas extended his hand to the little girl as he wanted to take her away.But the little girl did not dare to get out of the box at all. She was like a tamed monkey, and any actions would scare her.She curled up in the innermost of the box. Sh
Thomas did not mind it.He just looked at the little girl in the box and asked softly, “What’s going on?”Vincent became serious as well.He also looked at the little girl and said with a frown, “I don’t know either. I only know that tonight’s goods are very important to the Art Trading Corporation. I asked you to come here just to alert them and see what these goods are. In this way, I could bring my subordinates and come over.“But I didn’t expect that this batch of goods would actually be human! No, can those still be considered humans?”There were flowers growing on the surface of the little girl’s body. To put it nicely, she could be called a flower fairy, but she was just a monster.This little girl, as well as the other “Plant Men” trapped in the other boxes, were very valuable for research.Perhaps, they could understand the secrets behind the Art Trading Corporation after studying these things clearly.Thomas said very seriously, “Mr. Braun, I risked my life as bait fo
Adery walked out of the inner room and said with a cold face, “Dad, don’t talk nonsense anymore, okay? It’s very disrespectful to others.”William coughed awkwardly. “I get it. I’ll pay attention.”Then, William took Thomas’s hand and walked inside. He said as he walked, “The little girl you sent over last night is really amazing. What happened to her is something you can’t imagine. Come, let me show you.”William led Thomas to a research room.This was the place where William usually studied medicine. Now it had been tidied, and a hospital bed was also present. Clover currently lay on it for research.At this moment, Clover closed her eyes, as if she was asleep.The difference from last night was that Clover’s face was not that pale, and she looked quite healthy. It was much better than the pale look last night.It could be seen that in the past seven or eight hours, William had put in a lot of effort.“She fell asleep?” Thomas asked.“Yeah” William beckoned to Thomas and ask
He asked, “Mr. Owen, in your opinion, does this little girl hold any special value?”William touched his beard and said, “I haven’t figured out her special value. After all, there’s nothing special except for being amazing. But…”William pointed to the flower buds on Clover’s body and said, “I keep having an intuition that these flower buds may be the actual source of value. After these flower buds bloom, we’ll definitely get a lot of secrets.”Was it?Thomas looked at the flower buds and decided to wait for the moment when they bloomed.They must find the secret hidden behind the Art Trading Corporation on Clover’s body.At this time, Adery came over and said very angrily, “Have you guys seen enough? Can you go out?”Thomas and William were stunned for a moment at the same time. Then, they got it.Although this little girl was very special, she was still a little girl, after all. She might even be a human. She also had joys and sorrows. How could she be studied like an object
Clover’s matter was put aside for the moment, and Thomas returned home.As soon as he got home, he saw a car stop at the door. The car door opened, and two brawny men walked in with a suitcase. They were followed by a middle-aged woman in her fifties.“Felicia, the goods are here,” the woman said as she walked.When Felicia heard it, she stood up instantly and walked over. She told the two brawny men to carefully put the box down and paid them the shifting charge before they left.Emma, Johnson, and Thomas looked at each other, as they did not know what Felicia was doing.“Felicia, what’re you doing?” Johnson asked her directly.Felicia pointed at the middle-aged woman and said, “Let me introduce her to you guys. This is the deputy director of our company, Charlotte Roux.”Felicia was an English teacher in a high school, and Charlotte was her superior. The two had a very good relationship.After a pause, she pointed to the box and said, “Two weeks ago, Ms. Roux discovered a hug
Felicia was angry. “What do you mean? I have a receipt here!”Kyle smiled. “So what? It’s also possible that you bought the goods from us and changed them. Then, you could attempt framing us by saying it was a fake. Lady, are you trying to blackmail me?”Felicia was really anxious.She had seen shameless people, but she had never seen such shameless people. He twisted the truth and justified what was unreasonable.“Y-You’re too unreasonable!” Felicia went up and grabbed Kyle’s collar.“You witch, don’t push your luck.”Kyle pushed hard, Felicia fell directly to the floor. She screamed in pain.“Security guard!”He shouted, and more than a dozen security guards walked out waving sticks. They drove Felicia and the other two out.A man with a pen could not reason with a man with a gun.When they encountered this kind of unreasonable person, what else could they do about him? Besides, they were three weak women.Emma was afraid that Felicia was injured, so she quickly drove her
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