After listening to Thomas’ description, Eric also displayed a look of shock and said two words, “As expected…”
What did favonovel.com 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 is the cause of it.”
Eric nodded affirmatively. Both of them seemed troubled.
If one hundred and fifty thousand people were poisoned in one city, there would be more than two million people being poisoned in more than ten cities. This number was quite scary.
Thomas was acutely aware about the power of Ancestral Water. It had two functions. First of all, it could let people unleash the potential of the whole body in a short period of time. Secondly, it would be controlled by Luck and die at any time.
Obviously, Luck had spread the poison of Ancestral Water to more than ten cities in order to control these ordinary innocent citizens. As long as Luck wanted, they could kill them at any time.
These could be troublesome.
Eric said, “We already made preparations and were about to carry out the net hauling operation to capture Luck. However, they resorted to extreme tactics, so we can’t act recklessly.”
If the conflict was intensified at this time, Luck might get agitated and decide to die together with those two million people. If that happened, who could stand it?
Eric and the others would probably become sinners through ages.
Thomas said, “At this time, not only are they being kept immobile, but they are being held hostage by Luck. This problem is rather serious.”
When the two of them were discussing strategies, an unexpected situation happened again.
Eric’s phone rang. After answering it, a police officer said, “Mr. Wood, watch TV!”
Eric immediately turned on the TV to watch it. They saw a man dressed as a lawyer sitting on the TV screen seriously, and favonovel.com was talking to everyone.
“Hello to the audience sitting in front of the TV. Let me introduce myself. I’m Luck’s personal assistant, and I want to tell you some things…”
“First of all, I believe that many people already know that more than two million people across the country have been poisoned. To be honest, that poison is called Ancestral Water, and we’re the ones who did it.”
He was really crazy enough to dare to take the initiative to admit this fact to people all over the world. Not only that, the more terrifying thing was yet to come.
“Let me tell everyone the bad news. Those who drink the Ancestral Water can no longer control their own lives, as they are all under our control… We can kill anyone who has ever drunk Ancestral Water at any time… That is to say, there are currently two million hostages in our hands!”
This statement was the same as what Thomas and Eric had speculated. Luck had taken two million people as hostages, and they did not know what kind of excessive demands they would ask.
“Everyone can rest assured as we are not murderers, and we will not kill people for no reason. The reason why we take two million people as hostages is also because we are in danger. We had been forced to do this.”
It seemed that Luck had already sensed the danger and knew that the official would take action to start the net hauling operation, so they took this step in advance.
