After driving for a day and a night, they finally arrived at the edge of the desert.The further they went in, the fewer people there were."That’s enough. There will be no one if we drive further in." Phoebe said, "We'll find a hotel to stay here tonight, ask the locals where the exact location of Tree of Life is, and then we’ll set off again."They parked the car in front of a hotel.They called it a hotel, but it was actually a normal, three-storey small building.There were just three members in the family, including a mom and two children. The father had left his wife and children at home to go to work.The boss lady spoke in broken English and asked, "Three people, staying at the hotel?""Yes!" Phoebe replied. "We need two rooms for one night.""Three people, two rooms, the total cost for accommodation is twenty-one thousand dollars."What?Phoebe was shocked. Although they were quite wealthy, such a rate frightened them.Twenty-one thousand dollars?For one night?T
This was totally unreasonable. "Ugh…" Phoebe sighed. "I would rather not bathe for a month and certainly not shower in such a place. Showering at this place will only get me dirtier and dirtier, right?"While saying that, she walked to the bedside and shook the quilt to clean it up a little.When she was cleaning the room, Thomas double-checked the room to ensure there were no issues.After a while, there was a knock at the door.A tender child's voice was heard. "Guest, your dinner has been delivered."When Thomas walked over and opened the door, he saw the child holding a tray with three dishes, one soup, and two bowls of rice on it."Thank you."He brought the food inside and closed the door behind him with his backhand.Phoebe hurried over, "Can we finally eat dinner already? I'm dying of hunger."Phoebe's anorexia had actually gotten a lot better during the treatment period, and she could now eat normally. She could not help but want to come over and have dinner when sh
Before he could respond, a voice suddenly rose behind him. “Are you looking for me?”The man, startled, jumped up in surprise and turned around immediately, only to find Thomas standing right behind him.The moonlight shone on Thomas’s face, making him look like a frightening demon.The man was so frightened that he was about to pee himself. He could not even grip the knife in his hand properly and only watched as it fell to the ground with a ringing clatter.Instantly, Thomas snatched the rope from his opponent’s hands. With a few swift moves, he tied the two thieves together in a jiffy.The whole process was smooth and did not take long. Phoebe was still fast asleep and had no clue about what had happened.At this time, Pisces pushed the door and entered the room.He brought a man which he had tied up and threw him on the floor.“I got one here, Commander.”“Mhmm.”Thomas then turned on the lights and took a look at Phoebe, who was still sleeping peacefully. He smiled and p
The daylights were frightened out of Vince. It was fine if he alone needed to die. He would not sit well with the idea of his brothers, wife, and children being dragged along to death with him, “Spare my life, sir!”“Spare you? Why should I?”Vince swallowed his saliva. “If you spare our lives, I will... Give you all my money.”“Money? Do you think I am in need of money?”Thomas lifted the knife high. Vince sweated profusely and was about to fall into despair.Phoebe, who was right next to Thomas, was scared stiff.In her eyes, Thomas was a very honest and kind man, not someone who would kill indiscriminately. Even though these people were guilty, there was no need for Thomas to uproot the problem and kill all of them mercilessly, right?As Thomas was about to cut him, Pisces suddenly said, “Oh yeah, commander. Are we not in need of a guide?”As soon as Pisces ended his sentence, Vince immediately responded, “I can be your guide! I am capable of doing that.”For the sake of s
The next morning, when Thomas and others came out of their respective rooms and gathered at the lobby, Vince and his family were already there, standing at attention and having meals prepared for them.The wicked were to be handled in their ways. To deal with such people, all that was needed was to be more vicious than they were.What Thomas said and did last night had truly frightened Vince to the core. Today, he dared not do anything unnecessary.Without asking a single thing, Thomas and Pisces sat down calmly, picked up their cutlery, and began to eat.Phoebe, who was worried, said, “You are just eating the food? Are you not going to test the food with your silver needles for poison? What if you die after eating?”Thomas smiled. “Do not worry. Just eat. There will not be any problems.”Phoebe pouted. She still did not dare to eat her food.Hence, Thomas took a bite of Phoebe’s food. It was only after that did Phoebe dare to eat, since there was no problem with the food.Afte
Perhaps the goat died due to lack of water and food or perhaps it was attacked by carnivorous animals.There were dangers everywhere in this seemingly peaceful and warm desert.If they were careless, their life would be forfeited.“Hmm?”As they were preparing to leave the ruins and continue on their journey to the Tree of Life, Vince felt that something was off.He took two steps forward towards the set of bones. He then squatted down and touched the bones. He found out that the bones looked intact, but in fact, there were a lot of holes in the bones.These holes can hardly be seen with the naked eye. It was only by touch could one feel it. These bones felt like a saw when touched, as they were filled with holes.“Something is wrong.”Vince’s expression changed as he looked around.A gust of wind blew, revealing several more sets of bones in the ruins. These bones were everywhere in these ruins. It was very weird.At the same time, they felt that the ground was moving.Blub
The army ants were a fearsome species.Thomas had encountered these creatures when he was battling in various places. His troops, which numbered up to three hundred, were devoured by these ants in merely half an hour. None of them managed to survive.They were all fully armed soldiers but were decimated in half an hour. One could only imagine how cruel and ferocious these creatures were.Army ants were a species that preferred to live in swarms. Normally, their numbers would be up to a million or two in a swarm.These ants were migratory. Unlike ants that built their nests, they were on the constant move from the moment they hatched from their eggs. While constantly moving around, they picked their targets and devoured them.This species of ants had strong mandibles and a far more powerful bite than ordinary ants. When they were on the hunt, they would form several attack groups, just like a heavily armed professional soldier, which gave it its name.The army ants were of excepti
It was exciting news.They had accidentally moved closer to the Tree of Life.Vince King squatted and continued to confirm their direction forward based on the sand. A while later, he stood up, pointed to the left, and said, “If we move forward in this direction, we can reach the Tree of Life in about an hour.“But there are two problems on this path.“First is the quicksand. There’ll be the constant danger of falling into quicksand. The second problem is the sandstorm. The nearer we get to the Tree of Life, the stronger the sandstorm will be.“We have to wait for the sandstorm to die down before we can enter.”Thomas asked, “When will the sandstorm die down?”Vince shrugged. “Sometimes, the sandstorm is strong throughout, and sometimes, it dies down. There’s no regular pattern. The sky could be full of yellow sand now and become calm in the next second. Maybe, we’ll just have to wait a few minutes, maybe a few hours, or maybe we’ll have to wait anywhere from a few days to a few
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