Rocco picked up his teacup. “Let’s use this tea to replace beer and wish for our plan’s success tomorrow!”“Cheers!”Therefore, a slapstick of making “the real Thomas” pretend to be “the fake Thomas” began.After the detailed planning, Rocco and the gang booked a large area at the center of Celandine City for 11.00 am the next morning, which was near noon.They set up ten tables and hung a huge banner. It said, [Thomas Mayo, the Magic Cook from Food and Medicine Hall, is cooking on the site. Free tasting as a contribution to society and gratitude to our country!]They set up a small stage, where Thomas would stand in the middle while he cooked. The surroundings were covered by translucent folding screens, so Thomas’ appearance could be vaguely seen but not too clearly.Rocco was also afraid that people who truly knew Thomas would expose the imposter in public, and that would ruin his business.Actually, he did not need to worry at all, and the folding screens were not needed eit
The three of them moved inside.Hayden was the first to walk away, and he met Rocco at the corner.As soon as they met, he scolded him. “What the heck have you done? Why is the crowd reacting differently from the expected reaction? I asked you to prepare terrible food, but look, why have you made such delicious food? Why? Do you want to help Thomas build a good reputation?”Rocco wanted to kill himself.How could he know what was going on? Everything was going as planned. Why would something go wrong suddenly?Rocco said, “I don’t know what went wrong either. I just found an imposter and asked him to cook a few dishes that taste bad. Why is the crowd still reacting like the food tastes good? Is there something wrong with these people’s taste buds?”It was impossible to say that there was something wrong with the people’s taste buds.Similarly, there were so many people on the site, and it was impossible to say that all of them were fake.So, what was the problem?Hayden looked
Thomas greeted Hayden “mockingly”. Then, he left amid the cheers of the crowd. There was a smile on his face when he left.Someone had spent money to “support” him. It had been a long time since he encountered such a good thing.After finishing the work here, Thomas immediately brought the ingredients and drove to the House of Vistaria with Pisces.As soon as he walked into the hall, Blake walked over happily. He patted Thomas’s shoulder and said, “You did a good job this morning. You taught Art Trading Corporation a lesson they won’t be forgetting soon.”“Mr. Winslow, you already know what happened this morning?”“Of course, it’s hard not to know such big news.”After a pause, Blake continued and said, “Besides, I would like to thank you. Mr. Mayo, you really did not break your promise and cured my granddaughter’s ‘illness’. Last night, Stella actually called me on her own, and she was in a very good mood. She repeatedly asked me to thank you. Mr. Mayo, you’re really amazing. My
His grafting technique had three levels.The first level was the easiest, and it was to graft flowers onto a trunk.Although it was the easiest, it was only when it was compared with the other two levels. In fact, the difficulty of this grafting was still quite high. The explanation alone took one hour.“All right, I have told you all the key points. The rest depends on you.”Mr. Cole sat at the side and crossed his legs while drinking tea. Then, he lit a stick of incense.He had to finish the first level of grafting by grafting the flowers onto the trunk within one hour. One could only imagine the difficulty. Not only that he had to digest the information he received one hour before, but he also had to gain a thorough understanding and overcome the difficulty in real life at the same time.This was not something an ordinary person could do.Even Mr. Cole needed at least two hours to learn from scratch.He was indeed forcing Thomas to do things that were beyond his ability.Bu
There was no doubt that Mr. Cole was very satisfied with Thomas’s performance. There was no need for him to express his joy, as it could be seen directly from his face. Mr. Cole stroked his beard and said, “Today’s lesson will stop here. Thomas, come back tomorrow at noon, and I’ll teach you the second level of grafting.”Thomas was overjoyed. “Thank you, Master.”This utterance of “Master” almost made Mr. Cole’s tears fall.Mr. Cole was good at every aspect, but he had a problem. He was arrogant, as he was proud of his ability.He usually treated people with kindness and was a spoony person. But when it came to academic issues, he looked down on everyone.He basically did not take anyone seriously.So, he had only accepted one apprentice before Thomas, and that person was the Capricious Holy Hand, Elliot.Elliot was also an extremely talented person. He could be described as a “gifted” person. But even such an outstanding person had only mastered seventy percent of Mr. Cole’s
After a pause, Mr. Cole continued to say, “Blake, I could see that you seem to have some opinion regarding Thomas.”Blake was stunned and said, “What opinion could I have? To be honest, Thomas’s cooking skills are better than mine. I’m not qualified to be his teacher.”Mr. Cole smirked. “If you can’t be his teacher, you can be his grandfather.”Blake immediately blushed. “You old man, what are you saying?”Mr. Cole said, “We’ve been friends for decades. How could I not know what you’re thinking? You must have taken a liking to Thomas and want him to be your grandson-in-law.”Blake refused to admit it. “Don’t talk nonsense. Stella is still a university student. It’s a little too early to talk about her marriage.”“She is in her early twenties, so she is not young anymore. She can get married soon.”Talking about this, Blake could not help but sigh. “There’s no use talking about this. Thomas is already married.”“Huh? There’s such a thing? What a pity.”Blake said helplessly, “Y
This was the feeling of liking someone, right?…After leaving the House of Vistaria, Thomas did not choose to go back to the Food and Medicine Hall but rushed to Caring Hospital instead. This was because he had received information that Aina’s autopsy had been released.Thomas drove all the way, and he quickly came to Caring Hospital. He went to the autopsy room with Pisces.This was the core of Caring Hospital, where protective measures were taken.Even if the Art Trading Corporation invaded by force, it was absolutely impossible for them to barge in.Right after Thomas walked in, he asked, “What’s the result?”Lewis Madden, the doctor who analyzed the anatomy, came over and said through the mask, “Mr. Mayo, based on the information you provided about the Heart Eater, we have conducted an anatomical analysis of Aina’s corpse. Everything matched, and Aina was indeed poisoned by Heart Eater.“Although she is dead, the toxin is still spreading in her body. This poison will not s
All of a sudden, Thomas was brainstorming and thinking about all the possibilities.Lewis stood at the side and waited silently without saying a word. He had been with Thomas for a long time, so he knew of Thomas’s habits. He must not disturb Thomas’s thinking at this moment.About twenty minutes later, Thomas finished brainstorming.He calmly said, “Flowers are both antidote and poison. Someone uses flowers to make Heart Eater control the entire Celandine City. At the same time, he uses flowers to make an antidote to ensure that these controlled people won’t die.“I brought this flower back from Mr. Cole’s garden. On the surface, the possibility of Mr. Cole being the culprit is very high. However, don’t forget that Mr. Cole has another apprentice, Elliot, Capricious Holy Hand.“Elliot has also learned the cultivation skills of this flower. The most crucial point is that Elliot is poached by Lord Vedastus, and he has been working for him.“There is a much higher chance of Heart E
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