Along with hurried footsteps, the staff of FDA arrived in Third Southland General Hospital.Victor put his cup down and said with an unserious attitude, “Look, there is absolutely no problem with my list.”Before he finished his words, the door was opened, and a middle-aged man brought some people to walk into the room.“You guys are finally here.”“Why did you come so slowly this time? You’ve made me wait for a long time.“Do you believe that I’ll fire all of you later?”Facing the staff of FDA, Victor was similarly bad-tempered. He did not care about them at all.The middle-aged man took off his tophat, and he coldly asked, “Who do you want to fire?”When Victor heard the voice, he was immediately so shocked that he got up from the chair. He widened his eyes and carefully looked at the person before he instantly became stunned.“Dad?“Dad, why are you here?“You can just let Mr. Reid come to handle this kind of small matter.”When Victor saw that Timothy personally came,
Other people initially wanted to come forward and stop Timothy, but he angrily yelled, “Everyone, step back! I’ll beat whoever dares to come forward and stop me!”Slap! Slap! Slap!Again and again, he beat Victor very hard, and painful screams were heard in the room.Susan was totally dumbfounded.She pulled Thomas by the arm. “Wha-what’s happening?”Thomas smiled. “It’s simple. There is a problem with the list. Mr. Payne can’t bear it, so he punishes his son for justice.”“Is it so simple?”“Otherwise?”Susan pouted. “Why do I feel that you’re the one who secretly plays tricks?”Thomas smiled without saying anything.Timothy ruthlessly beat his son for twenty minutes. It made Victor faint because of the pain all over his body.“This is the hospital. Don’t need to be so troublesome. Just ask the nurses over to carry him out.”His subordinates looked at each other before they immediately called the nurses over to help out.Timothy threw the broom away. He gasped while walki
After Thomas sent Susan back home, he hurriedly had his dinner and slept.The next morning, Thomas woke up early and left the house. Then, he rushed to Swan Restaurant at 166 Jewel Road.As soon as he pushed open the door, he heard the boss asking, “May I take your order?”“Uncle Ben, it’s me.”“Young Master?”This restaurant was opened by Ben. Since he left Shalom Technology, Ben did not have any skills. He was quite good at cooking, so he used his savings to open a small restaurant.The restaurant was just opened three days ago.Ben immediately arranged Thomas’ seat. Then, he prepared a few side dishes and a dozen beers.He poured a cup for Thomas.“Young Master, why are you so free to come to my place today?”Thomas glanced around. “Uncle Ben, your restaurant seems pretty decent.”“It’s just so-so. I just earn a living.”Thomas took a sip of the beer, put the cup down, and spoke seriously, “Uncle Ben, based on your ability, you’re wasting your talent to run a restaurant
Ms. Floral casually moved a chair over and sat down. She took out an account book, and she flipped it through while saying, “You haven’t paid for this month, right?”Ben showed a bright smile. “I just opened this restaurant not long ago. We also agreed that I will start to pay next month.”Ms. Floral frowned slightly. “Next month? Haha! You can open the restaurant next month. Close it now.”“Don’t! Ms. Floral, we can talk about it. Please don’t close my restaurant. Don’t you just want the protection fee? I’ll give you. How much do you want?”Ms. Floral flipped through the account book. “The protection fee is 6000 dollars per month. Your restaurant is newly opened this month, so I’ll give you a 20% discount. You can just give me 4,800 dollars.”“Ms. Flora, there are less than five days remaining this month. Isn’t this too much?”“Why? Are you bargaining with me?”“No, I dare not.”Ben immediately went to the counter, took the money, and passed it to Ms. Floral. He dared not say
Ben looked depressed. He was very clear about Ms. Floral’s character. How could he just sit here and enjoy the meal?But, he also could tell that Thomas was angry.“Young Master, don’t make trouble. You don’t know who Ms. Floral is, but you can’t offend her.”Thomas looked aloof, and he asked, “Is she the owner?”Ben shook his head.Thomas asked again, “Is she the official management staff?”Ben continued shaking his head.Thomas smiled. “Why do you give her money without any reason?”Ben sighed. “You don’t know that this region is under her management. For whoever doesn’t give money, the shop will be immediately demolished. It’s also useless to call the police. Police chase them away today, but more people will come and make a fuss two days later. So, I can only spend some money for protection. I can’t just get away from this kind of person.”This meant that Ms. Floral was actually a person who collected protection fees.Meanwhile, Ms. Floral saw that Ben did not go to take
Ms. Floral took her phone out and made a call. The call was answered in a few seconds. Then, she kept crying while shouting that she was bullied, and she wanted Ballard to find justice for her. She even wanted to demolish the restaurant.After Ms. Floral hung up, she ruthlessly said, “Just wait. Within three minutes, my man will come and kill you!”However, Thomas just continued drinking and eating. He did not feel terrified at all.Ben felt so worked up.He had been in Southland City for many years. He was very clear about who Ballard was. His restaurant would definitely be demolished today. Whether he could live safely or not was still a problem.“Young Master, you’ve caused big trouble.“How could you still have the appetite?“Please run now. You’re the only member of the Mayo family. Don’t lose your life here.”Thomas smiled faintly without answering.Indeed, within three minutes, a big group of bald men walked over pridefully. Everyone was wearing a singlet and holding a
Thomas glanced around before he asked, “Why did you bring so many people here?”Ballard chuckled and said, “I saw that your restaurant has just opened recently, but the business is still not very good. So, I thought of showing you my loyalty by bringing my buddies here to eat and giving some business to your restaurant.”He was quite good at speaking good words.Thomas clearly knew that Ballard was bluffing. But, since Ballard had said that, nobody could continue feeling angry at him.However, Ms. Floral looked dumbfounded. She made a call and asked so many people to come, but all of them were as timid as tortoises. They dared not breathe loudly at all.Ms. Floral had initially thought of releasing her anger, but she felt madder now.She angrily walked over before she reached out to pinch Ballard’s ear.“How dare you, Ballard! I asked you to come here and find justice for me, but you came here and called him boss?“Could you be more shameless?“Is just a young jerk able to fri
Ballard forced a smile. “Boss, don’t make fun of me. I’m just doing some small business, so I can’t earn a lot.”Thomas asked, “Tell me honestly, how much can you earn from collecting debt and being a loan shark every month?”Ballard hesitated, but he was so frightened by Thomas’ gaze that he immediately spoke honestly. “I can earn about four hundred thousand dollars for debt collection every month. I use the money for loan sharks. If I’m lucky, I can earn one million dollars in a month. If I don’t have luck, I can’t earn a single cent.”Thomas nodded. “So, you mean you can earn about one and a half million dollars every month?”Ballard’s face darkened as he spoke, “Actually, it’s not that much. You can also see that about twenty buddies work under me. Besides, I have a few women, and they are so good at spending money. The income is not sufficient for me every month.”This was true.Other than Ms. Floral, Ballard still had other women. All of them were not easily dealt with, and
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