At noon in the bamboo forest.The path was narrow and rugged, so the big cars could not pass through. Therefore, Thomas and Pisces rode on each electric bike and moved forward to the bamboo forest.On the way, they heard insects chirping and birds singing, and they could smell the floral scent. It really made them feel relaxed.Pisces said, “Commander, the environment here is quite good. There are bamboos everywhere. I once heard that a person can live without meat, but he can’t stay in a quiet environment like a bamboo forest. Being able to live in such a place means Abner is someone who doesn’t have any desires.”Was that true?That was not certain.If he truly did not have any desires, why would he study and create a monster like the two-headed snake with Mr. Cole in the past?Ultimately, he ended up being permanently disabled, so one could say that he deserved it.There were no broad roads in the bamboo forest, but there were a lot of small paths. There were paths everywher
While they chatted, the housemaid pushed a wheelchair out. The old man in the wheelchair was Abner, who was known as the King of Snakes!Thomas and Pisces immediately got up.Pisces knew he had said something wrong, so he immediately apologized, “Mr. Porter, I’m really sorry. I was speaking nonsense. Please forgive me.”Abner waved his hand in dismissal. “Young people always speak rashly. Forget it.”The wheelchair stopped.Abner looked at the young men and said, “Both of you are very young and energetic. Your auras are balanced, and your bones are strong. Both of you are experts. You don’t have any diseases, and you’re very healthy.”Abner’s standard was really high when he could tell how Thomas and Pisces’ physical qualities were at one glance.Then, he said, “You said you came for consultation, but I think you’re not doing it for yourselves, right? Did any bigwig ask you to invite me?“Let me make it clear first. You also see that I can’t walk now, so I won’t go out for cons
Abner changed his attitude toward Thomas. He stared at Thomas seriously and asked, “You’re Mr. Cole’s student? And you learned grafting skills?”“Yes!”“Okay, since this is the case, I’ll make an exception and give you a chance.”Abner raised his head and said, “If you pass my test and prove that you can succeed Mr. Cole, I’ll cooperate with you to produce the antidotes. Otherwise, you have to leave.”Frankly, Abner doubted Thomas’ ability, so he wanted to see if Thomas had what it took to work with him.It was logical and reasonable.Thomas nodded. “Sure!”“Don’t rush to say yes,” Abner said, “My test won’t be easy. If you fail, someone will die!”He pointed at Pisces and said, “I’ll poison your companion later. If you can get rid of the poison before the sand runs out in this hourglass, you pass the test.“But if you fail, you’ll fail my test and cause your companion’s death!“Thomas, do you dare accept such a challenge?”It was a strict challenge.Once it failed, Pisces
Abner took out some needles before he opened a few jars. The jars contained strange liquid in various colors, including green, red, black, and purple. People could have mistaken them for dyes.“I’ll begin right now!”Abner reached out to dip the needles into the jars before he inserted them into Pisces’ body.While he operated, he explained, “These jars contain special liquid that I deploy with the venom. Now, I’m going to inject the venom into your body using the needles, and you have the time of an hourglass to live. If Thomas can’t cure you before the sand in the hourglass runs through, you can report yourself to heaven.”Pisces was indignant.Although he was mentally prepared, he still felt quite nervous and anxious when he had to actually lie down and be injected with venom.After all, he was gambling with his life!After one silver needle was inserted, he was jabbed with the second needle. In total, ten needles with ten different types of venom were inserted into his bod
Thomas did not answer and focused on conducting an in-depth examination of Pisces using the Asclepius Needles.Time passed.One-third of the sand in the hourglass was down, but Thomas had only been conducting an examination so far. He did not start to treat and cure the poison for real.The nanny was anxious. She could not help but say, “You should hurry up. If you don’t start treating him, he will die! There’s not much time left.”If even an outsider like the nanny was anxious, Thomas was even more so.By right, Thomas should have started to prepare the antidote in a hurry, but to everyone’s surprise, not only did Thomas not prepare the antidote, he also pulled out the Asclepius Needles. Then, he sat there quietly and motionlessly.What was the meaning of this?Had he given up?Seeing that half of the incense had been burned, the nanny said anxiously, “Thomas, what are you doing? Why haven’t you started treating him? Hurry up and prepare the antidote. He is dying!”But no mat
Thomas turned a deaf ear to Abner’s words. He continued to smile and said indifferently, “Mr. Porter, it’s enough, right? Stop acting.”Aber was so angry that he slapped the armrest of the wheelchair with an audible thump. He snapped, “His life is at stake. How can I be acting?”The nanny also chimed in, “Thomas, you’re actually joking about your companion’s life. What a jerk!”Thomas shook his head slightly and looked at the incense next to him. He said, “There are still three minutes left. Let’s wait and see how it ends.”Time passed slowly.The body of Pisces on the bed slowly turned black all over, and his eyes were cloudy. He spat out a big mouthful of blackened spit from time to time. It was very disgusting.If they did not consider Thomas’ words and just looked at Pisces’s appearance, he was not far from death.Three minutes…Two minutes…One minute…The time was up!All the black color on Pisces’s body gathered to his throat. After that, he sat up and spat out everyt
First of all, Pisces was Thomas’s best friend.Secondly, Thomas was someone with superb medical skills. How could he sit still?Finally, the burning incense was both theatrical and added a lot more tension to the scene.If this was an ordinary doctor, even if he could see the balance of the poison, he would be affected by various factors, resulting in the use of the wrong medicine. In addition, the acting skills of Abner and the nanny were superb, so very few people could pass the test.It had to be said that Thomas was top-notch in both medical skills and psychological quality.Pisces let out a sigh of relief and said, “Fortunately, the commander didn’t give me any random medication, otherwise, I would be a corpse now.”Thomas laughed when he heard it. “Don’t worry. It won’t happen.”“Huh? Why not? Didn’t he say that as long as you use the wrong medicine, I would have died of poisoning?”Thomas explained, “After everything that has happened, can’t you see through it? Although
Something that could be preserved with such sophisticated equipment must be extraordinary.After the door was opened, Thomas looked inside and saw various bottles and jars in the empty room. This was an underground laboratory.The thing that stood out the most was a cylindrical container in the middle of the room, where a fiery red snake with two heads was stored!“Two-headed snake?!” Thomas was shocked.Although he had learned about the existence of this kind of creature from Phoebe and Blake long ago, he was still quite shocked when he actually saw it.This was similar to the time when he saw “Plant Humans” for the first time.It was not exaggerated at all to say that it was a devil. The two-headed snake was definitely not an animal that should exist in this world. It was a devil from hell.The very sight of it would put people in awe.The nanny wheeled Abner into the laboratory. Abner explained, “To tell you the truth, I have not given up my research on the two-headed snake
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