He drew a long sigh.“What a detailed scheme, Jade and Lucas. You sure are capable.“But you are still lacking.“Currently you only have 40% of the shares, that is not enough to usurp my seat as the patriarch.”Lucas lifted his head and looked at Richard. He then used a calm but intimidating tone, “Grandfather, do you think I would be so stupid? Will I appear today if I had not planned in advance?”That was true, Lucas Hill was never so careless.He waved his hand and a man immediately came in. Those who knew him recognized that he was the boss of Entertainment City — Ocean from just a glance. Everyone was confused. Ocean had some of the Hill family’s shares too?No one remembered that he had any.Were they wrong?Among those present, Richard Hill was the only one whose face grew pale. He sweated profusely out of fear.At the same time, he was aware of one thing — He had been cornered by Jade Hill.It was just recently where they agreed to harm Emma together. But to his di
Richard knelt down in front of the cross in the Hill family’s prayer room like a Catholic who was there to make a confession. He was sad and gloomy.He had sacrificed his whole life for the Hill family and wanted to develop the family. But he had forgotten that he was old, and his grandson had even schemed against him.One grandson had a scheming mind, whereas the other grandson was disappointing.The Hill family was over.Richard knelt down and repented. When he recalled what he had done throughout his whole life, he felt regretful and helpless.Tap! Tap! Tap! Footsteps were continuously heard.Emma and Thomas walked over.“Grandpa, this is not your fault. Please don’t trouble yourself like this,” Emma said.“Haha.”Richard let out a long sigh and slowly said, “Emma, I’m actually not stupid. I’ve always known that you’re an innocent, kind, an/d good girl.“I kept being cruel to you, but you always put up with me. If I had done it to Lucas or Jade, they would have tried to ki
Richard still hated Thomas very much as usual.Thomas did not care about it either. He just whispered to Emma, “You can go out first. Don’t let anyone come in. I want to have a one-to-one talk with your grandpa.”“Okay, sure.”Emma walked out and closed the door to the prayer room.Thomas walked to Richard, stared at the memorial photos of the Hill family ancestors, and indifferently said, “Mr. Hill, let me be honest with you. Your small family business does not catch my eyes at all. It’s really unnecessary for you to keep fending against me.”“Really? You’re so arrogant. The Hill family’s century-old business doesn’t catch your eyes?” Richard sarcastically said, “So why do you still shamelessly want to be the son-in-law who relies on our family? You look down on us, right? Hurry up and get lost. Why do you still get involved with us?”He was going too far with his words.A normal person would have lost his temper, but Thomas was unbothered.He pointed at the three pennants han
The door to the prayer room was not closed very tightly. When the wind blew, the door opened.Withered leaves were blown in through the door, and they flew in the air.Whoosh!The cold wind blew onto Richard’s face, and he snapped out of his daze. He trembled before he stared blankly at Thomas.It was very strange.He did not feel flustered or too shocked.At that moment, he seemed to be hit by a van that had collided straight into him while he was walking on the road.He was puzzled, and his brain was messed up.It appeared that this world had nothing to do with him. He knew nothing, and he could not think of anything.He forgot how to think.His gaze was dazed as if his soul had left his body.For a long while, Richard’s mind conjured up many scenes.He recalled the situation where Thomas had helped Emma sign the contract that brought a huge amount of profit. He recalled the situation where Thomas had been able to safely return from danger and the situations where Thomas
“I deserve it.“I deserve it!”There was nothing much to say anymore. Richard turned around and looked at the ancestral photos in the prayer room. He felt frustrated.The exposure of Thomas’ identity shook Richard greatly. It was only at this time that he realized how ignorant and incapable he was. Thomas’ powerful presence should have been a support for him to become rich and make the Hill family become one of the top families.But he did not just miss the chance, he had even offended Thomas.Hilarious! That was hilarious!Any intelligent head of the family would not take his steps like this.He should step down and give his position to a more capable person.Richard was speechless.He became silent once again.After a long while, Thomas spoke first. “What I said to Emma just now will definitely come true.”Richard’s eyes lit up.“Are you willing to take back the position of the head of the Hill family?”Thomas nodded. “I will fulfill what I have promised Emma. The only p
Thomas smiled faintly without saying anything. He just turned back and left the prayer room.When Thomas walked to the door, Richard felt warm, and he could not help but shout, “Thomas!”Thomas, who was opening the door, stopped walking.“Thank you! Thank you so much!”Thomas smiled as he shook his head. He left pridefully, leaving a meaningful back view to Richard.This was what a real man should look like.Harvard was stunned. He touched his forehead before he touched Richard’s forehead.“What are you doing?” Richard swatted Harvard’s hand away.“Am I sick or you, Grandpa? Why are you talking about this nonsense?”“What nonsense did I say?”“No, did I hear it wrong? You were thanking Thomas just now. Are you sick? And Thomas. Why did he suddenly want to help me? Did he want to harm me? Maybe he sees that we’re in this situation, so he wants to kick us when we’re down.“Bah!” Richard knocked Harvard’s head. “Thomas is very kind, intelligent, and agile. How can you criticize
“Ha! Give me ten seconds? You really think highly of yourself, huh?“Get him!”As soon as he gave his order, the muscular guards rushed forward at the same time.He initially thought that it would be more than sufficient for five muscular men to deal with Thomas alone. Who would have known that the outcome would be completely different?Thomas stood still and did not move, so people could not see how he reached out to give his punches. They could just hear some breaks in the air and see some shadows in the air.Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh! A few punches were given continuously.Every shadow of a punch was thrown at each muscular man. In the blink of an eye, the muscular men fell down on the ground and lost their consciousness at the same time.“What…” The manager became dumbfounded. Thomas instantly settled many muscular men. Was this something that could be done by a human being?Even a professional killer was not able to do this, right?Before he snapped out of a daze, Thomas
It was hard to argue with such nonsense. No matter how great someone was at fighting, it would be hard for them to demonstrate their ability when they encountered so many guns.If they really fired the bullets together, it would be impossible for him to avoid them in such a small space.The all-rounded shooting would be fired without dead ends.Even Thomas might find it hard to survive the bullets.Ocean arrogantly raised his head and stared at Thomas, while his expressions were full of arrogance.“Weren’t you very arrogant just now?“Why do you stop talking now?“Come on. Proceed with your arrogant attitude.”Ocean did not care about Thomas at all. In front of so many guns, he was actually qualified to not respect anyone.Danger seemed to be very close.However, Ocean might have forgotten something, which was that he was also in this ‘small room’.In his opinion, he was still about eight meters away from Thomas. Even if Thomas wanted to do anything, he would not be able to
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