They looked at each other at a loss. What was this about?When they wanted to ask what was going on, Samson said, “Everyone, please have fun. I’ll leave first.”Did he want to leave when he just came?Come on, could he explain it before he left?Fabian could not bear it anymore. He stood up, flashed a smile, and said, “Chief Wood, please stay.” Samson looked at him. “What is it, Mr. Burke?”Fabian smiled while asking, “Well, Chief Burke. The chief officer in charge called us to come over in the early morning. What’s this for? You just can’t keep us waiting, right? You should at least give us a reason.”Samson smiled. “Actually, it’s not a big deal. The chief officer in charge knows all of you are the future of the Southland District. He’s worried that you are exhausted but don’t have the time to rest, so he decided this for you. He asked you to come over, eat some food, and drink some tea to rest for a while.“If you have finished eating and want to leave, you can leave anytim
“Not everything had to be explained clearly.“Sometimes, not speaking was more useful than speaking out loud.“If I say it, that would mean I’m abusing my power to force them into doing my bidding. If I don’t say it, they can only guess what I want to do. The more they guess, the more they will do.”It was a mind game.Naturally, the ending of this game was well known from the beginning based on Thomas’s status.What mattered was the kind of method that Thomas chose to achieve this ending.The last person who went out was Fabian.After he got into the car, he did not go back to the company. Instead, he went directly back to the old mansion of the Emperor Residence.His family members felt strange when he came back so early today?Fabian just answered, “Let’s move out immediately.”His family did not understand what had happened, but how could they refute the family head’s words? Everyone quickly packed their luggage and got ready to move.A person with a status like Fabian h
The next morning, after Emma got ready, she put on a black professional suit. She looked fresh and clean.She drove to Emperor Residence, and she was allowed to enter only after she passed the security check.Unit 28, Fabian’s house.When Emma approached the door, the housekeeper walked over and opened the door before she pressed the doorbell.“Are you Ms. Hill?”“Yes.”“Our Master has waited for a long time. Please come in.”While being led by the housekeeper, Emma came to the living room and sat down. The housekeeper then served a cup of tea.Emma was not in the mood to drink tea. Her heart pounded very quickly, and she was worried about how she should start the conversation.Would Fabian become furious once he heard it?Most probably he would.If he got angry, what should she say?Emma secretly thought about every possible situation. Even so, she still did not have the confidence to convince him.A while later, Fabian walked out.It was completely different from what E
She awkwardly shook her head. “Mr. Burke, you must be kidding. The chief officer in charge is way out of our league.“Mr. Burke, why would you ask that?”“Oh, nothing. I was just casually asking.”Fabian remained silent. He respectfully sent Emma off.As soon Emma walked out of the courtyard, the housekeeper from Unit 27 was waiting at the entrance. He smiled faintly as he walked toward her.“Ms. Hill, are you free to visit our house?”“Huh?”“Well, our Master also wants to sign the proposal.”Emma was very surprised. This was extremely good news. How could she reject him?She immediately followed the housekeeper to Unit 27. It was nearly the same as the previous procedure. She let the owner sign the proposal without any hiccups.Before she was able to rest a little longer, the housekeepers of other houses also came over.Emma had worked for the whole morning. She visited the houses one by one to let them sign the proposal. There was no exception in the thirty houses as all
This time, Emma spelled it out clearly, and everyone could undoubtedly hear it.However, nobody wanted to believe this fact.Was she kidding?It had been a few months since they sent a lot of people to go and convince the residents. They had also given many gifts but received no reply at all.Even Harvard had gone over, but he had had also been chased out.Why would Emma be able to do that when other people failed to do so? There was no way!Richard also looked unbelievable. He fiercely said, “Emma, don’t bluff us. This is very important. You can’t just make up a lie to deceive us because you want to help Thomas build a cemetery planning area.“I’m telling you now. Although I’m old, I’m still very conscious. It’s not easy to lie to me!”Emma smiled faintly as she handed the proposal over.Richard felt suspected as he opened it. After he saw the signatures, he was completely shocked. Although he did not like Emma, he still trusted Emma’s personality.Emma would not fake the si
Richard still held the proposal. He stared at it in disbelief, and he could not understand it no matter how he thought. But, it was the truth, and he had to admit to it even if he did not want to!The sun went down as Emma drove back home. Thomas did not go to work today. He had been cleaning the house while waiting for his wife to come home.When Emma entered the house, she showed a smile on her face. She even hummed a song. This could tell she was in a very good mood, and she even felt much better than two days ago.She took the initiative and said, “Thomas, guess how my work progressed today?”The woman looked like she really wanted to share with others after she had good news, and this made Thomas fall in love with her very much.Thomas purposely frowned and said, “Did you get chased out by other people?”“Bah! You’re the one getting chased out!” Emma sat on the couch and confidently said, “I successfully got all their signatures. Now, the reconstruction of Emperor Residenc
The next day, Thomas accompanied Emma to come to the Hill family’s office building. They were ready to witness the project’s completion.After they entered the building, people kept moving forward to congratulate Emma.Today, Emma finally experienced what ‘success’ meant. She received different compliments on the way. When anyone saw her, they would compliment her for her outstanding ability as she could even take down a difficult place like Emperor Residence.She had used more than ten minutes to walk through such a short distance from the entrance of the building to the office.After an arduous journey, Emma finally came to her office. She tiringly put her bag on the office desk. Her work today had not started yet, and she nearly got exhausted.Thomas smiled as he said, “You’re now the most famous person. Whoever sees you will need to respectfully address you as ‘Ms. Hill.’”Emma rolled her eyes at him. “I’m almost exhausted. You’re still laughing at me.”As the two of them ch
She directly went to the chairman’s office.Emma also did not knock on the door as she directly opened it and walked inside. At this time, Richard was discussing the details of Emperor Residence’s reconstruction to a park with Jade and Harvard.When they saw Emma walk in angrily, three of them knew what had happened.Yet, Richard still pretended to be confused and purposely asked, “Emma, what’s going on? You don’t have any manners. Don’t you know that you should knock on the door before you enter?”Knocking on the door?Haha. Emma could not wait to knock on Richard’s head!Emma raised her proposal and questioned, “Grandpa, what’s going on?”“What do you mean by what’s going on? Don’t you understand the proposal?”“Grandpa, don’t purposely act like you don’t know. What did you say previously? As long as I can get consent from Emperor Residence, you will make it a cemetery planning area and allocate a space for Scott. Now, what has happened? Why would the cemetery planning area b
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