Entertainment City was located in the west-northern side of the Southland District. It operated twenty-four hours a day. There would be a bigger crowd when it was late at night.Normal people were unable to go to many special venues as special tickets were needed to go inside.Neon lights were blinking, and it was an extravagant life.Harvard finally found a suitable place to park his car.“We reached!”Harvard’s eyes flashed with lights. When he stared at the broad and majestic entrance of the Entertainment City as well as the good-looking men and women who walked in and out, he became excited. It was not his first time there.When Harvard usually had the money, he liked to spend his time here.He could sing, dance, drink alcohol, spend money, play cards, and pursue women. This place could let men and women enjoy themselves at the maximum level.“Go with me. I’m familiar with this place!”Harvard excitedly led the way in front, while Jade and the other people followed him.
“Three words, Three Card Poker! It’s simple and challenging,” he said while he dragged Emma to sit down. Four people were already sitting at the table, and there were now a total of six people with Harvard and Emma.“Do you want to join?” the dealer asked.“Yeah.” Harvard threw out a card. “You know the password. Change all the money into colored chips.”Soon, someone brought the changed colored chips.There were chips with 10, 50, and 100 written on them.Emma curiously asked, “How does it count?”“It’s easy. Ten represents a hundred thousand dollars, and one hundred means one million dollars. It’s simple, right?”“One million dollars?”Emma heard it, and she was shocked. She glanced at the colored chips in Harvard’s hands, and they totaled to more than $30,000,000! He really dared to take out so much money.Harvard simply gave two 100 chips to Emma.“Emma, this was considered the cost I borrowed to you. If you win money, remember to return it to me.”“Huh? I don’t…” “H
Harvard said in a mocking tone, “Emma, why do you look as if you’re reluctant to discard them? Show me what the cards are.”He casually lifted the three cards in the discarded pile. After he saw the cards, Harvard and other people were stunned.Harvard was taken as he said, “Hey, did you just discard those cards?”Emma also did not know how she should answer. Honestly, there was no reason to discard these cards. But, when Thomas asked her to discard them, she could only do so.Harvard turned back and looked at Thomas. “My dear brother-in-law, I want to ask if you can play Three Card Poker? Do you know how big these cards are?”“Someone’s cards are bigger than this in this round. We won’t win any money,” Thomas said indifferently.“Hey, do you have supervision or something? How do you know someone’s cards are bigger than this?”“It’s up to you whether you believe it or not.”“Haha, Thomas. You’re really good at bragging.”Harvard lifted his head and looked at his own cars. A Ki
The other people chose to discard their cards, so only Harvard and Emma were left.“Emma, what should I say? Are you going to fight me?”Emma was a little hesitant. She did not know what she should do.Yet, Thomas confidently said, “We will win this round. We will follow no matter how much money you want to bet.”“Haha! You're quite arrogant.” Thomas said, “After all, we’re cousins. We don’t need to fight like we’re rivals. Why don’t we do this? Each of us bets $10,000,000, and we’ll just open our cards. How’s that?”Ten million dollars?Was this not called fighting like rivals?If Emma lost, how could she pay back $10,000,000?While she was puzzled, Thomas answered, “No problem, we bet $10,000,000. Open the cards.”Emma took a deep breath, and she prayed that she could get some big cards.After all, this round was worth $10,000,000. She could not lose!“God bless us.”Emma secretly prayed while opening her three cards, including Two of Clubs, Eight of Clubs, and Ten of Hea
When there were people who felt happy, there were people who felt sad.Emma happily kept her money, but Harvard wanted to cry. He had lost $10,000,000 just like that.The more he wanted to win, the more he lost.He was so unlucky!“Come again!”The cards were shuffled once again.The fact that Thomas could precisely predict the cards in every round was terrifying. Under his guidance, Emma just needed to discard and follow the cards. She did not need to care about the rest.If she discarded the card in any round, there must be someone who owned a bigger card than her. As long as she persisted until the end, she would definitely win.In the beginning, the other people did not believe it. Slowly, they were used to that kind of operation.Other people hid from Emma in a casual fashion. Only Harvard would feel worked up due to being defeated, and he wanted to follow no matter what cards he had.Fifteen million dollars, twenty million dollars, twenty-five million dollars, and thirt
Not only Harvard, but the other people also had the same thought.Therefore, everyone was very alarmed by Thomas. They kept an eye on him, but the problem was, nobody could tell how Thomas had cheated.Thomas just stood still at the side without making any moves at all. He did not even touch the cards.Even if he wanted to cheat, it seemed that he could not do it either.About that, Thomas’ answer was very simple. “It’s actually not hard to know the value of the card. You just need to remember the order of the cards.”“Order of the cards?”“Yeah, because a new set of cards will be used in each round, and there’s a common point about new cards, which is that all the cards will be arranged accordingly from Ace to Kings. This has been set when they are first used.”“So?”Thomas smiled faintly. “So, when you know the initial order of the cards, you just need to see the dealer’s shuffling techniques. When she shuffles, you watch the position of each card and remember the order of ea
Did he still want more chips?Everyone in the room was stunned, especially Emma. She did not come to win today. She came because she wanted to be back on good terms with her cousins. But with the current situation, things did not seem to turn out the way she wanted.Emma advised and stopped Harvard. “Harvard, forget it. Don’t get more chips. You know what? I will return all the money I won to you. I don’t want any cent.”“Haha, are you pitying me?“Am I the person who needs you to sympathize?“Go away!”Emma’s kindness was wasted. Her sincerity was totally ignored by Harvard.Soon, Ocean, the person in charge of Entertainment City, walked over. He held a red wine glass in one hand and smiled faintly as he asked, “Mr. Hill, are you looking for me?”“That’s right. I want to mortgage 15% of the Hill family shares to you to get more money in exchange and continue this poker card game.”“Mr. Hill, you should think about it more carefully.”“Of course.”“All right, I can do that
Did he not decide that he wanted to go after Emma tonight? Did he not say that he wanted to grab Emma’s shares? Why did he lose all of his shares instead?Done! He was completely done for!“No, I can’t lose my company shares.”Harvard looked at Ocean fearfully. “Give me back my shares. You give them back to me!”“I’m sorry, Mr. Hill. If you want the shares, bring me $1,500,000,000 in exchange.”“One point five billion dollars? But you just gave me five hundred million dollars.”“That was just now, but we’re talking about now. Besides, even if I say $500,000,000, can you afford it?”Harvard was stunned.He was not able to take it out.At this time, Harvard felt as if he had fallen into cold storage. He felt so cold and weak.He even felt as if he was deceived.However, when he carefully recalled it, he realized that they were all mistakes that he had made in a moment of madness. Nobody had forced him to make those mistakes.Ocean had not forced him to mortgage the shares.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