Enough.Hayden’s approach was unexpectedly cruel and speedy.Before Thomas and Eric were able to respond, he had already killed and gotten rid of the two individuals who had worked for him.It was over this time. There would be no witnesses!“You may leave.”“Yes, Sir.”The police officer left and shut the door.In the office, Eric chuckled awkwardly before he shook his head and said, “This old man is so sly. I’m really surprised by how swift his actions have been.”What should they do now?Their only clue had disappeared. Were they just going to let Stella be the scapegoat now?Thomas sighed, stood up, and said, “Mr. Wood, please give me some time and let me come up with some plans.”“Okay,” Eric said. “But Mr. Mayo, you have to buck up. This is serious, so we have to give the public a reasonable explanation in the shortest time. If we’re late, I’m afraid there will be some criticism.”“I got it.”Then, Thomas left the room.Only Eric remained in the office. He let out a
The only plan now was to discover all the evidence to show that Haden was the one who had been manipulating everything behind the scenes.The problem was, how could he find the evidence?Hayden would not give him such a chance, and he would not even give him the time to look for it slowly. By the time Thomas found the evidence, Stella would have received her verdict and ended up in prison.Pisces did not say anything. He just drove Thomas back to Food and Medicine Hall.He knew that Thomas would not sleep tonight. No matter how difficult the situation was, Thomas would come up with a way to rescue Stella.After they returned to Food and Medicine Hall and were just about to go upstairs, a woman’s voice suddenly came from the corner.“Boss, please take my order.”Huh?It was going to be 1.00 am. Why would somebody sit there and order food? It was not the time for a meal.Besides, Food and Medicine Hall was closed for business at this hour, and there was also a security guard who
Fiora wanted to help Thomas out of his problem?Why should she?After all, including this time, Fiora had just met Thomas three times. They were considered “strangers”!Besides, Fiora was the vice-chairman of Art Trading Corporation.It was clear how strong the grudge between Art Trading Corporation and Thomas was. Who would believe that their vice-chairman had actually come to help Thomas?No matter what, it looked like the next thing that Hayden would do.A normal person would have chased Fiora away without wasting time on chit-chat, but Thomas did not. He stared at Fiora seriously before he asked, “Why?”Thomas wanted to know why Fiora wanted to help him.Fiora took a few more bites. While she ate, she said, “Is this important? I just want to help you, and you don’t have to know everything else. Isn’t it enough as long as it ends well for you?”Thomas smiled faintly and said, “But I don’t trust you.”Fiora was stunned, but she did not get angry. Instead, she smiled and s
Only the girl lived in pain every day. She did not hate her wealthy life. She just did not want to sacrifice her familial relationship for money.At times, the girl wanted to tell her father that she did not want to live a life like this anymore. She wanted to abandon everything, go back to the old house with her father, and live an impoverished life again.Even though they had only eaten simple meals, they still lived a joyful life.Those were the girl’s real thoughts.But she dared not say them out loud.She knew that her father was already lost in the game of power, and all he thought about every day was how to defeat his enemy. He had thrown away the affection they had as a family.As for her brothers, one was dead and one was in prison. The girl did not feel sad, and the father just felt angry instead of sad.Nobody felt sorrow for the brothers’ end.The term “family” nearly did not exist.Later on, to flatter an important “guest,” her father actually slapped her in front
“I trust you.” Thomas said those three words in the end.Fiora smiled through tears. She even purposely asked, “Women are good at lying. Are you sure I’m telling you the truth? What if I just lied to you?”Thomas smiled faintly. “If you’re lying, I’ll take my loss because your story is really touching.”His comment on how touching it was made Fiora feel warm.She took the last bite of the food on her plate before she wiped her mouth and said, “Of course, I’m cooperating with you, not just helping you. I’ll help you this time, and you’ll have to help me next time.”“Of course,” Thomas firmly answered.Fiora added, “Although we have different purposes, we’re using the same approach. I wish us a happy collaboration.”She wanted Lord Vedastus to “stay sober,” while Thomas wanted to obtain Heart Eater’s real antidote.Even though they had different purposes, their approach was the same, which was to destroy Art Trading Corporation! They wanted to strike down the overbearing group th
Thomas frowned slightly. Why did it sound a little off?He asked, “When did Lord Vedastus fall sick?”“Um… regarding that…'' Fiora said, “I don’t really remember. I just briefly remember him suddenly falling sick after drinking Ancestral Water.”Ancestral Water?It was a name that Thomas had forgotten for some time.Luck would recognize the one who could drink Ancestral Water, and this person would be able to rule Celandine City.However, this person would just receive the recognition. His abilities would determine whether he could rule the city.At that time, Lord Vedastus had fallen sick and coincidentally recruited Elliot. Not long after Elliot’s recruitment, he had created Heart Eater.Everything had happened so coincidentally, and it still gave off an odd feeling.Thomas asked, “Do you know what disease Lord Vedastus had?”Fiora shook her head. “I don’t know. All the doctors couldn’t cure him.”Elliot had been able to cure a disease that nobody else could cure? Was Elli
Thomas smiled faintly. “It’s my treat. You don’t have to pay.”“No, I don’t like to owe anyone anything.”After Fiora spoke, she just threw him $100. “Keep the change.”She got up and left, disappearing into the night.Thomas picked up the $100 bill, smiled faintly, and muttered, “What an interesting woman.”He put the money into his pocket before he walked upstairs.Then, he shut the door.Thomas took out his laptop and the flash drive that Fiora had passed to him. He inserted it into the laptop’s flash drive port, clicked on the video, and watched it.There were three parts to the surveillance video, and each of them was less than three minutes long.They came to about eight minutes in total.The content was short but shocking. After Thomas watched the videos, he broke into a winning smile.With the surveillance videos, Stella could definitely be rescued.Despite that, bringing Hayden down using “the footage” was still not a realistic goal.“We have to do one thing at a
Eric chuckled. Was there anything that they could not share?The videos must have been taken from Art Trading Corporation’s internal departments. That meant there was a traitor within the organization.Besides, when Thomas left earlier, he had appeared quite upset. So, he had no idea of the traitor’s presence in the beginning either. That meant, the traitor was also not someone Thomas had planted in advance.Someone who was willing to be a traitor and rescue Thomas, as well as his gang, so quickly had to be in a high position. They would have to at least be a supervisor to get those videos.Eric stared at Thomas seriously and still felt puzzled. Who was this good person who helped Thomas?He could not guess it in that short time.Thomas was not willing to say either, therefore, the person’s identity was sensitive. Thomas was purposely protecting the person so that the person would not be exposed and get into trouble.It was also good for Eric when someone like that helped Thomas
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