The woman chuckled. “I’m Aurora Barker, Dr. Katz’s personal assistant.”…… Thomas stood in front of Food and Medicine Hall’s door, raising his head and staring at the sky.The sky slowly turned from bright to dark before it started to drizzle. Pisces held out an umbrella for Thomas.“Commander, why aren’t you going inside? Why are you standing at the door and getting wet in the rain?“Are you feeling sentimental?”Thomas chuckled. “Stop your sarcasm. This rain is giving me a bad feeling, like things might go out of control.”Pisces said, “Commander, based on your prediction, Elliot should be dead by now. After this, Fiora will definitely give Lord Vedastus the suggestion to leave Celandine City. Are you worried that Lord Vedastus will turn her down?”Thomas shook his head. “Changes in the environment will force people to change. With the current situation, I believe Lord Vedastus doesn’t have the desire to stay either. He’ll agree with Fiora’s suggestion.”“So, why are you
Within the chairman’s office in Art Trading Corporation…Lord Vedastus looked at the woman and felt puzzled. “Aurora Barker?” He remembered her. He had seen this woman beside Elliot a few times. She was a rare woman who was close with Elliot, and she was also the only woman Elliot favored. He never shared her with others. Why was she here?Theoretically, Elliot had betrayed Art Trading Corporation, so anyone who was related to Elliot would either cut ties with him or pack their things and run away.Nobody would directly come to Lord Vedastus' office like Aurora.Did she really think that Lord Vedastus was in so much distress that he could not even deal with a woman like her?Lord Vedastus became furious.She was underestimating him.He sarcastically said, “Elliot has betrayed Art Trading Corporation. As the woman he favored, why is it that you have the guts to come to my office? Why? Do you think I don’t have the power to even deal with the likes of you?”Lord Vedastus slam
Lord Vedastus initially had no idea what to expect. But when he saw Fiora walk into the room with Damian, he sensed that something was wrong.Then, when he heard it… Lord Vedastus accidentally flipped the teacup on the table, and he was shocked.When he watched the people in the video and listened to the conversation between Fiora and Elliot, he was completely taken aback. He dared not believe the truth.“This is impossible.“This is not real.”Lord Vedastus glared at Aurora. “Bitch, tell me, who sent you here? Thomas Mayo or Eric Wood? Why are you trying to instigate a conflict between me and my daughter?”Aurora said, “Do I need to instigate anything? Lord Vedastus, you’re such a smart person. How could you not notice anything strange about Ms. Vedastus? I think it’s not that you didn’t notice, but more like you weren't willing to consider it? After all, one was your best friend, and another's your daughter. If I were you, I would find it hard to accept that Ms. Vedastus kill
Aurora was momentarily stunned before she immediately snapped out of her daze. Then, she turned around and left. She never thought that Lord Vedastus would be able to hold back and act as if nothing had happened in front of Fiora.He was truly an experienced, sly, and capable manLord Vedastus then waved at the staff from the IT Department. “You may leave too.”“Yes.” The staff lowered his head and quickly walked past Fiora.Only then did Fiora take a few steps into the room and ask, “Dad, why did they come to you?”Lord Vedastus casually said, “Elliot betrayed Art Trading Corporation, so everyone who was related to him can't wait to cut ties with him. Elliot favored Aurora, and she was afraid that I would kill her, so she purposely came to show me her loyalty. The staff came to repair my laptop. When you’re down, misfortune just keeps happening to you. My laptop suddenly froze for some reason. Ha!”Fiora nodded and sighed in relief. It seemed like she had been overthinking and w
After some time, Damian came to Lord Vedastus’ office after Fiora dragged him there.He still could not believe it. Lord Vedastus acknowledged him as his son-in-law?People always said that a marriage should happen between families with equal status. Who was Fiora, and what was Damian’s status?He was not good enough for Fiora.A rich man like that could never accept the fact that his daughter was marrying a normal person.So, Damian never thought that one day he would be able to marry Fiora. He just thought it sufficient as long as he could be by Fiora's side his entire life.If Lord Vedastus chose to marry Fiora off to another man one day, Damian would still wish her the best and leave secretly.He had already pictured that sad ending.Unexpectedly, Lord Vedastus was not as heartless as other rich parents. He could accept anyone whom Fiora liked.From that aspect, others were not really as good as Lord Vedastus.Soon, Damian arrived at the office.He had visited this offic
“Damian?“Damian!”Fiora raised her head and was completely stunned. She had been over the moon just a moment ago, but now, her heart was broken like it was pierced by thousands of steel knives.She did not understand why.“Damian!” Fiora screamed.Damian fell down on the floor with a thud. He lost his life before he was able to close his eyes, and one could still see the happiness within them.Fiora leaned over Damian’s body and sobbed.She felt devastated and hopeless.She could not accept what just happened before her.She cried for a long time before she turned around, glared at Lord Vedastus, and asked, “Why? Why did you do this? If you didn’t want us to be together, you could have just told me. Did you have to kill him? You’re cruel!”Did not want them to get together?Haha, not really.Lord Vedastus slowly sat down and put his gun on the desk. He exhaled and said, “Why did I kill him? Do you still need to ask? Isn’t what you did to Hayden more ridiculous?”Bam!Fio
It was drizzling, and Thomas stood outside Food and Medicine Hall with his head raised to the sky.Something was off with the time.There had been no word from Fiora after such a long time, and it was definitely not normal.Thomas frowned slightly and prepared for the worst.Right then, Blake gave him another call. This time, Blake only uttered one sentence, “Lord Vedastus has come to House of Vistaria.”His words were sufficient to paint the severity of the situation.Pisces asked, “Commander, shouldn’t Lord Vedastus be on the international flight with Fiora? Why is he in House of Vistaria? What’s going on? Why isn’t there any news from Fiora yet?”Thomas shook his head. He sighed and said, “We’ve failed.”Failed?Pisces widened his eyes. “What do you mean ‘failed’? Did our plan fail? That’s impossible. Every step we planned was perfect. How could we fail? Did something go wrong?”Thomas said, “There’s never a perfect and flawless plan. No matter how perfect your plan seems,
Lord Vedastus met Declan, but they were not on good terms. When they met, they did not even greet each other.Naturally, there was no need for it either.“I’d like to meet Luck,” Lord Vedastus went straight to the point.Declan glanced at him before he said, “You can’t just meet Luck as you please. You can tell me anything, and I’ll pass your message to Luck. In fact, I just talked to Luck and told him about the situation in Celandine City, so you have nothing to tell him.”That was a reasonable point.House of Vistaria was the messenger, and under normal situations, Lord Vedastus could not meet Luck. He had to pass his message through a middle person.But the situation was different now.“I want to meet Luck. I don’t have to repeat myself, do I?” Lord Vedastus said fiercely.He was furious.Declan frowned. “Sure, but you know the rules. If you want to meet Luck, you’ll have to…”He then placed a dagger on the desk.No one other than the middle person could see Luck. If ther
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