“This is a place that recruits artists. This is not a canteen. Are you here to interview for a chef position?“You’re poor and ugly, fine. But, you’re also so stupid and hopeless.”Griffin lowered his head. He suppressed his anger without lashing out.The auditioner asked, “What performance have you prepared?”“For my performance… Um… I’d like to prepare a dish on the spot.”The atmosphere instantly became cold. The auditioner’s expression revealed a trace of embarrassment. Although he had received an internal notice from Thomas in the beginning, they could not be so fearless, right?If he were a normal artist, it would be completely fine that he could just be recruited through his connection. The problem was that this man was a chef, and he did not know anything else. What did he mean by preparing a dish on the spot?Flora could not help laughing. “Griffin Jones, stop embarrassing yourself here, okay? Quickly, go away. I feel extremely awkward when I see you looking so stupid
The auditioner stared at Flora and righteously said, “Let me state it again, when Scott’s Remembrance Cultural Arts Entertainment takes in artists, we not only look at their talents. We care more about their moral integrity.“Mr. Griffin Jones has a hundred times better moral integrity than you, and his talent is outstanding.“How can we not take in such an excellent artist with good moral integrity and talent?“But look at you, you’re so arrogant with only a small achievement. You think you’re a superstar, and you get carried away by the compliments from your fans. Think about it, have your singing and dancing reached the professional level?“The empty vessel makes the loudest sound. Flora Fiore, you better behave yourself!”His criticism made Flora speechless.She had never suffered such a great humiliation before. Never! “Great, really great.” Flora pointed at the auditioner. “You’re not taking me in, right? I don’t care about it either! I’ll join Hegemony Entertainment righ
“Yes.”After Anna spoke, she immediately trotted away.Thomas put both hands into his pockets, turned around, and left.He had almost settled the things in Scott’s Remembrance Cultural Arts Entertainment, and Shalom Technology had also been quite peaceful recently.Thomas was bored, so he walked around the shopping mall, bought a few bottles of wine, and went home.When he came back home, he saw Felicia sitting on the sofa. She was holding an Ipad while seriously staring at it.“Mom, what are you looking at? Why are you so focused?”“Hey, Tom, come and take a look. Is this the chef whom you hired for me last time?”“Huh?”Thomas walked over and looked at the Ipad’s screen. He instantly became delighted.Felicia was watching a live-streaming platform called Shark Hunters.On the screen, he could see a small kitchen that was very clean and tidy. Besides, Griffin was dressed up in an ancient costume, and his hair was also styled. His appearance made him look like a soldier in a
In the subsequent days, “One-Armed Hero” was ranked first on Twitter’s trending list, and it became a sensational topic.Whenever Griffin started live streaming every night, a few hundred thousand audience members would be attracted.Today, Flora went to her channel, switched on her camera, and started streaming.After she was rejected by Scott’s Remembrance Cultural Arts Entertainment that day, she was so furious that she directly joined Hegemony Entertainment. She was now the top live-streaming celebrity of Hegemony Entertainment.With her pretty and gorgeous figure, as well as her sweet voice, she attracted a large group of fans to watch her live streams.While she was winking and shaking her buttocks at the camera, she saw a comment. [God of Knives has started his live stream. Everyone, let's go to his channel!][God of Knives has started streaming? I’m sorry, Lola. I’ll leave for a while. I’ll be back soon.][I’m going to his channel too. God of Knives has impressive skills
“All right, I got it. Continue doing your live stream, I’ll handle the rest.”“I got it.”Flora went back to her live-streaming channel, while Donell immediately left the company. He quickly drove to Shark Hunters’ headquarters in the Southland District.Forty minutes later, Donell arrived at Shark Hunters’ headquarters.In the boss’ office...Donell and Elio Gibson, the CEO of Shark Hunters, sat opposite each other.“Mr. Cedar, why would you think of visiting my place suddenly?” Elio asked.Donell did not answer him. Instead, he picked up the teacup, took a sip of the tea, and hesitated to speak.Elio did not receive a firm answer, so he asked, “Mr. Cedar, please just say it. Don’t shock me like this.”Donell sighed before he answered, “Mr. Gibson, there’s something that I think is dangerous to you. I want to say it, but I’m afraid of offending you, so I dare not say it.”“Hey, Mr. Cedar, you’re too polite. Please just say it.”“All right. Mr. Gibson, does your Shark Hunter
Monday, Scott’s Remembrance Cultural Arts Entertainment, the executive meeting room.Every Monday morning, there was a meeting in Scott’s Remembrance Cultural Arts Entertainment to conclude their achievements in the past week and make a work plan for the coming week.As the CEO, Anna strictly controlled every section. Thomas just needed to sit at the side and learn about the company’s development progress.While the executives discussed the coming work plan in the meeting, there was a knock on the door.“Come in,” Anna said.The door was opened, and the receptionist walked in. “Ms. Caspian, Elio Gibson from Shark Hunters is looking for you.”Elio Gibson?What was he doing here?Anna frowned. Scott’s Remembrance Cultural Arts Entertainment did not interact too much with Shark Hunters. Elio was kind of impolite as he did not even call them before he came over.“I got it. Please bring him to the reception room so that he can rest. I’ll go there right away.”“Okay.”Anna let o
She could not just abandon a famous artist who had finally gotten his come-up.Anna forced a smile and asked, “A ten-year contract is too long. Mr. Gibson, let’s take a step back. Can we sign it for one year?”“One year? Am I a beggar?”Elio ruthlessly said, “I told you that I’m here to inform you, not to discuss with you! You either sign a ten-year contract or quit the live streaming. Make your choice!”Anna gritted her teeth while she stared at Elio in hatred.She was thinking about it. Just as she was about to speak further, Thomas reached out to stop her.Thomas stared at Elio coldly and indifferently said, “You can get out of here now.”Hmm?Elio and Anna looked at Thomas at the same time, and both of them were stunned.“What do you mean?” Elio asked.“Don’t you understand what I just said? Artists of Scott’s Remembrance Cultural Arts Entertainment will not go to Shark Hunters for live streaming anymore. You can get out now.”Anna was shocked. She immediately stopped th
They chased Elio away and retained the dignity of Scott’s Remembrance Cultural Arts Entertainment. However, the direct consequence was God of Knives’ live-streaming channel, One-Armed Hero, would be shut down and never be reactivated again.This famous streamer, who had just been promoted, was instantly pulled down.Thomas did not feel upset. Instead, he went to Panda Live Broadcasting Company with Anna, and they met the boss, Dawn Marsh.In the reception room, Dawn asked, “The two of you have suddenly visited my company today. May I know why you’re here?”Thomas then opened the subject. “Let’s get straight to the point. I’ll be honest with you. Scott’s Remembrance Cultural Arts Entertainment wants to purchase and hold the shares of Panda Live Broadcasting Company.”“Um…” Dawn frowned. Thomas’ request was actually quite rude. How could he just come to Dawn’s office and talk about the purchase?Nevertheless, he did not feel bad about it. Instead, he felt a little surprised becau
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