Besides the presence of a traitor, there would not be another reasonable explanation.Actually, Hayden liked to insert spies around his rivals. He was skilled at playing this trick, so he would become defensive about it. He had selected everyone by his side, and they only managed to stay after they had gone through a series of challenges.Furthermore, in the event of any possible betrayal, Hayden would just punish one to warn the others. His way of handling such a thing would be brutal, which prevented people from betraying him.Since Art Trading Corporation was established nobody had truly betrayed Hayden.Some had looked suspicious, and Hayden himself had even made several groundless accusations.However, a real traitor had shown up this time. He even bit Hayden without mercy and destroyed all the plans Hayden had put the effort into making!As such, Hayden could not put up with it.Who was it?Who was the traitor?Hayden glanced around the office and stared everyone in th
However, what kind of person was Hayden? Would he be troubled by such a little problem?As long as he did not personally kill those people, he would have a hundred methods to get out of trouble.Hayden arrogantly said, “Officer, please mind your language. You’ve made many mistakes in your words!”“Oh? Please correct me.”“First of all, the Rahels drank wine in my place, not tea. They recently lost their jobs, so they came to me for help in their job search. We drank while we chatted. Their alcohol tolerance was so poor that they passed out after they drank a glass, and they just slept at my place.”Hayden paused for a while before he continued to say, “I’m a kind person, so how could I leave them be when that happened? So, I asked my people to send the Rahels back home. But, just as they walked through the entrance, the two men came. They said that they were the Rahels’ subordinates and took them away.”Hayden was not lying about that.Those two men were truly the Rahels’ subord
Hayden was behind the Rahels’ deaths!The leader of the police team knew that he could not take this extremely shameless, fearless, and disrespectful man down.He had no choice but to leave.On the way back to the police station, he gave Eric a call.“Mr. Wood, it’s just as you said, Hayden’s too sly. He denied everything. He not only denied committing any crime, but he also claimed to be a warm and kind person. Wow, he’s despicable.”Eric’s voice came from the other end of the line. “I already expected that. Currently, there’s no strong and solid evidence, so we can’t do anything to Hayden. Just come back first. We’ll try to make a breakthrough with Jett.”“Yes, Sir!”Only after all the police officers left did Hayden take his next step: Investigation.First of all, he arranged for a large number of professionals to perform a complete check on the surveillance inside Art Trading Corporation.In the end, they realized there had been a military surveillance setup in Hayden’s of
Hayden had been gloomy about not having a good way to find the traitor. When he suddenly heard Fiora say that, he suddenly became interested.“Fiora, you’re always smart. What reliable method will you give me this time?” Hayden asked.Fiora cleared her throat. She did not rush to reveal the method but told him a story instead.She said, “Uncle, there was once a fire when I ate in a restaurant in the past. Of course, the fire was not serious, but it still caused some panic at that time. While the fire was raging, a waiter rushed into his room. He pried a stone from the wall and took out a small box. The box was full of money.“The waiter had stolen that money from his colleague and boss.“When people are in danger, they lose their wisdom. They immediately go for their most important possession. The restaurant’s boss successfully found the thief using this weakness and the fake fire.”When Hayden heard that, he was inspired.It was a pretty good method.When a fire happened, no o
Indeed, those who could take in Heart Eater were all bigwigs.Now, Hayden had brought it into play, which meant that he was out of ideas to defeat Thomas. So, he could just use the last and most poisonous method.He said, “Just as we dealt with those disobedient jerks in the past, I’m going to make Thomas surrender to Art Trading Corporation this time, and I’ll use Heart Eater!”Hayden paused for a while before he asked, “I’ve talked to Lord Vedastus. Heart Eater will be handed to a reliable person. This person will proceed to carry out the poisoning, and he must confirm that Thomas has been poisoned.“During the process, I need you to cover for me. You have to keep disturbing Thomas and prevent him from focusing on other things. Do you hear me?”“Yes!” everyone answered in unison.“Okay.” Hayden nodded and started to distribute the workload to them one by one.Each person did not have too much workload, but their task was wicked. They had to wear Thomas down so that Lord Vedast
“No… Nothing.” When Cliff spoke, he was not calm, and his voice trembled.“Nothing? What are you hiding back there?”“Um… nothing…. I’m not hiding anything…” “Take it out!”Hayden growled in anger, and it startled Cliff to the point that he directly jumped up from his chair. The dark box also dropped to the ground. Just as he was about to pick it up, two bodyguards pinned him down, and he could not move.“Hmph!”Hayden took a step forward, bent down, and picked up the dark box from the ground.Cliff’s complexion turned pale, and Hayden felt anxious too.Hayden had already lost his son, so he really did not want to lose Cliff. He hoped that the things in the dark box would not be related to Thomas.Before Hayden opened the dark box, he gave Cliff one last chance.“Honestly, what’s inside the box?”Cliff’s expression was dour, and he felt troubled as he said, “Some… home videos.”“What?” Was Cliff the actual traitor? Hayden’s face turned blue.“No, you’ve misunderstood me,
“Mr. Barlow, please listen to my explanation. Someone must have substituted it. It originally wasn’t—” Before Cliff finished explaining, Hayden raised his hand and gave him a slap, instantly knocking out two of Cliff’s teeth.Hayden glared at Cliff in fury. “Trash! I treated you so well. I treated you like my son, but you actually conspired with that b*stard, Thomas, to frame me?”Hayden kept ruthlessly punching and kicking Cliff to vent his dissatisfaction.“Tell me, what benefits did Thomas give you for you to choose to betray me?“Did he give you money or women?“Huh?”Hayden was out of control. He was someone who could not accept betrayal. Furthermore, the person who betrayed him was the person he trusted the most.Hayden had gotten close to making a will on several occasions. It was so that he could leave half of his legacy to Cliff after he died.He had treated Cliff so well, but Cliff betrayed him?He could not understand it.He could not accept it!Hayden had total
Yet, no matter how senseless it was, it was the truth, and he had to believe it.Actually, when he carefully thought about it, Cliff had been the only one who could install the camera in his office. Nobody else would be aware of it. Only Cliff had sufficient authority to see the surveillance cameras in Art Trading Corporation without leaving a trace.It was his fault for pampering Cliff too much.…… After Fiora left Hayden’s office, she went back to her office.She sat in there alone upon chasing Ruby and Rose out.At first, Fiora still appeared normal.One minute later, she raised her head and cackled. She kept cackling, and she looked devilishly charming like a demoness.She laughed for almost five minutes.After she was done, she took some deep breaths. Then she took out a pen and a piece of paper.She wrote down “Cliff Ward” on the paper before she drew a big “cross” on his name, which represented Cliff’s elimination.Everything was a part of Fiora’s plan.When she was
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