Dark Universe & Forbidden Love (15 page)

When Cruiser General Klizan
arrived at the coordinate, it drained most of its power. Titainein and others
were facing a lifeless planet. Black sand covered every inch of the bleak
plain. Looking at the planet in the space, they had no idea where they were.
After scanning the planet, they did find something. It was a colossal cubic
structure. They landed the cruiser near that structure.

“I guess
we just walked into another hell.” Sayilin said as he pointed at the white
cubic.

“Maybe
we can find some useful parts there.” Erikon said.

“Erikon,
how many people do you need to repair the vessel?” Lucis asked.

“Three
minimum. The more the better.” Erikon said.

“Idi,
you stay.” Lucis said.

“Actually,
I...I...I... feel like staying.” Orizy said nervously as he looked at the white
cubic.

“OK, you
stay.” Lucis said as he looked at Sayilin and Titainein.

“Alright,
I will go with you.” Sayilin said uneasily.

“I like
to find out what is in there.” Titainein said curiously.

Lucis,
Sayilin and Titainein each carried a rifle, heading to the white cubic. Each
side of the cubic was one kilometer long and it was not white but transparent.
There was white liquid circling in the cubic, which made it look white. On one
of the walls, there was two seals carved into the surface. One was from
Guardian Fleet and the other was from United Galaxies.

“Looks
like UG shut down this place a long time ago.” Titainein said as she marveled
at the cubic.

“How to
get in?” Lucis asked as he knocked on the wall.

“Maybe
that is why the cruiser stored the location of this planet. I think Guardian
Fleet must send the cruiser here to shut down the facility.” Sayilin said as he
pointed at Guardian Fleet seal.

“Where
is the door?” Lucis asked and slid his hands over the wall.

“If they
shut it down, we shouldn’t go in there. It gives me goose bumps.” Sayilin said
slowly.

When
Lucis slid his watch over the Guardian Fleet seal, a door suddenly appeared.
The white liquid in the cubic rushed out and flocked around Lucis.

“Run,
Vampire!” Sayilin shouted.

It was
too late. After about 10 seconds, the white liquid spewed him out. His face
looked fresh and his clothes looked like new.

“You
alright?” Sayilin asked, standing far away from the door.

“I feel
good.” Lucis said in surprise.

“What?”
Sayilin was shocked.

“Whatever.”
Titainein said and stepped into the cubic and the white liquid also swallowed
her. After 10 seconds, she came out clean as well.

“Come
on. Sayilin!” Titainein shouted.

Sayilin
took a deep breath and jumped into the cubic. The same thing happened to him.

Inside
the cubic, the thick liquid was circling along the walls. While the three
reached the center of the cubic, a stream of white liquid slowly touched down
in front of them, forming a Glycan like figure.

“Please
provide the authorization code.” The figure said gently.

Lucis,
Sayilin and Titainein looked at each other nervously.

“Please
provide the authorization code.”

“Guardian
Fleet inspection!” Titainein said.

The
figure reached out its hand and touched on Titainein’s wrists. After it reached
her watch, the flow said, “Welcome.”

A door
appeared on the ground and they entered the underground facility, followed by
the figure.

“What is
this place?” Titainein asked the figure.

“The
building along with the underground facility was the research center for
biogenetic weapon during UWII. It was constructed by Glycan and Estian.” The
figure said.

“What
are you?” Lucis asked.

“I am
the robot running the research center.”

“What
are those white liquid?” Sayilin asked.

“It
serves as a generator to provide power to the facility, working by transforming
light into energy. It also functions as security and cleaning tools.”

They
continued walking in the well-lightened corridor. Most of rooms were empty,
filled with trash.

“When
was the facility shut down?” Titainein asked.

“The
facility was shut down by Guardian FLeet right after the United Galaxies passed
article 14.”

“Where
can we find parts for a space vessel?” Lucis asked.

“The
facility doesn’t store any space vessel part. But there was one broken
spacecraft in the hangar.”

“Where
is the hangar?”

“Level
one. Region D.”

“Look.”
Sayilin said as he pointed at one room. In the room, Hylocans’s skeletons piled
up like mountains.

“Wow,
how many Hylocans they killed?” Lucis asked. He felt chills running along his
spine.

“The
exact number is not available.” The figure said.

“I
remembered reading this somewhere. Near the end of UWII, the nine species used
a biogenetic weapon on Hylocan. It was specifically designed to use Hylocan’s
body to generate some creature to kill Hylocan. Most Hylocans on planet Akenlys
were slaughtered this way.” Titainein said.

On the
way to the hangar, they saw more and more rooms filled with Hylocans’ skeletons.
In some rooms, there were Hylocans bodies or body parts submerged in blue
liquid. There were also hundreds of containers holding Hylocans’ eyeballs. In
other rooms, disgusting creatures were kept in large sealed tubes. Lucis,
Sayilin and Titainein had no idea what all those creature were. They walked
slowly, their hands holding rifles, their ears stretching out.

After 40
minutes, they arrived at the hangar and checked the broken spacecraft. It was
much smaller than the cruiser and more like a fighter jet. The white figure was
still staying with them.

“Erikon,
how is the repair going?” Lucis called Erikon on his watch.

“There
are so many leaks on the hull. I really don’t know how long it will take.”
Erikon said.

“Erikon,
I think we can try something else. There is a spacecraft here. It has some
problems, but not something serious. We can use this one and get out of here.”
Titainein said.

Lucis
and Sayilin was surprised at first and then they nodded at Titainein.

“Then
what about the cruiser? We just leave it here?” Orizy said.

“Well,
Glycan will find it anyway. We don’t need to worry about that.” Lucis said.

“We need
to go back to training center as soon as possible. That is the key point!”
Sayilin said.

“Alright,
I am coming.I will bring some food with me.” Erikon said.

“Erikon,
don’t forget the crystal above the captain seat.” Lucis said.

“Got
you.”

Erikon,
Idi and Orizy left the cruiser and headed to the cubic. They met Lucis at the
door and went through the same process as Lucis did. The white figure did scare
Idi a little bit. Then they went to the hangar.

Titainein
was right about the broken spacecraft. After they cleaned the engine and
rebooted the system, everything was working now. Everyone strapped themselves
on seats.

“The
course is set.” Lucis said.

“Engine
is good.” Erikon said.

“All
systems checked.” Titainein said.

The
hangar door opened slowly and lights poured in. The figure waved to the
spacecraft.

“Alright,
let’s go home!” Sayilin shouted as he pushed the controller forward.

“Boom!”
The spacecraft launched into the sky, heading to Eva-1.

Mark knew he didn’t have much
time, so he set the course to the closest planet inhabited by second class
species. He decided to get his son out of danger first. On the way to that planet,
Mark checked Jason’s wounds. Mark was surprised to see his son could survive
the wound on his chest. But Jason had lost lots of blood, so Mark did a blood
transfusion. The blind girl was all right. She only got some bruises and
scratches.

As soon
as they got close to the planet, Mark carried Jason and the girl to a lifeboat.
Then he fired the lifeboat to the planet. He knew he was gambling in this case.
But he also knew if he took them with him, Glycans would catch all of them.

Mark let
out a long sigh. Now he didn’t know what to do next. He knew Glycan must have
bugged him and there was no way he could find it in a short time.

“Proximity
alert. Proximity alert!” The alarm sounded.

Mark
checked the screen. To his surprise, the incoming vessel wasn’t Glycan. As he
was wondering who that could be, someone hailed him.

“Yes,
who is this?” Mark answered the call.

“Mark
Marton. You really think you can get away from us?”

Mark
recognized this voice. It was that male Hylocan.

“We will
see.” Mark hung up and pushed the throttle all the way forward. The vessel
blasted away.

“Warning!
Incoming missiles!”

Mark
made several sharp turns but still couldn’t get away. While he was trying to
engage the dark matter passageway, one missile exploded right behind his
vessel, projecting hundreds of drones at his vessel. Some of the drones landed
on the vessel and drilled into the hull. Soon the vessel lost power and came to
a stop like a sitting duck.

Several
seconds later, the Hylocan vessel flew close to Mark’s vessel and grabbed it
with a machine claw and pulled it into its hull.

Mark
knew Hylocan would soon break into his vessel and they would read his mind and
know what he was thinking. It was just a matter of time they would found out
what happened. He took out a needle from his backpack. It could paralyse brain
for 10 minutes. He knew this wasn’t a good idea, but he really ran out of
options.

“Boom!”
An explosion blasted a hole on Mark’s vessel.

Just at
this moment, Mark stabbed the needle into his arm. He sunk into the chair and
his mind went blanked.

When he
opened his eyes again, he felt the pain on his left forearm. He looked down and
saw his left ulna sticking out of skin. He glanced over at the window and
caught some 10 Glycan vessels. Mark could imagine what happened. Those Glycans
tracked him down and attacked the Hylocan vessel. Mark could hear Glycan
soldiers running and shouting outside the compartment. He looked around and
found his backpack on the nearby table. He quickly stood up, grabbed his
backpack, took out the face transformer and put it on. Now he looked just like
a Glycan. He walked out of the compartment and followed behind several Glycan
soldiers onto a Glycan vessel. Nobody even looked at him. He quickly found his
way to the vessel’s hangar. There were five small fighter jets. He climbed into
one and started the engine. As he was preparing the takeoff, someone hailed him
in the cockpit.

“Please
provide flight plan.”

“Ah,
Ah.” Mark didn’t know what to say.

“Please
provide flight plan.”

Just at
this moment, the hangar door opened and a fighter jet flew in. Before the door
shut, Mark flew the jet out of the hangar.

Jason felt someone shaking his
shoulder. He slowly opened his eyes and saw a girl with bandage over her eyes.
He couldn’t see or hear clearly. He only could tell that he was lying on a
slope of a hull or something. He felt a little better, but still too weak to
get up.

“They
are coming. Five of them.” The girl whispered into Jason’s ear.

“Where
am I?” Jason asked weakly.

“I don’t
know. They are very close now.” The girl said.

Jason
blinked his eyes, trying to make out what they looked like.

When
those five figures stood right in front of Jason, he finally found out that
they were Tizuees. One of them crouched down beside Jason and checked him
carefully. He said something in Tizueelish, but Jason couldn’t understand. The
blind girl was scared, her hands holding Jason’s hand tightly.

The five
Tizuees discussed for about a minute. Jason’s vision was getting vague and he
passed out. The blind girl called Jason, but couldn’t wake him up.

After
several minutes, a hovercraft landed on the slope. Those Tizuees carried Jason
and the blind girl onto the craft. Then it took off, heading towards mountains.

When
Jason woke up again, he found himself lying on a bed in a spacious room. A
young Tizuee girl wearing a keen length blue skirt was checking the wound on
his chest. Another Tizuee lady stood beside him and asked, “How do you feel?”
She was an old lady, around 60 or so, tall and slender.

Jason
was surprised to hear somebody speaking English. In the training center, he
spoke Glycanese all the time except when he talked to Erikon and Lucis.

“Much
better.” Jason replied in English.

“I know
you are a member of Guardian Fleet. You must could speak Glycanese. My English
is so poor.” The old lady said.

Jason
nodded.

“Do you
remember what happened?” The old lady asked.

“No. Not
really.” Jason said. He remembered everything until he was kicked on the head.

“The
wound on your chest was made by a special Glycan blade. Those blades were
usually poisonous. You were lucky to be alive.” The old lady said kindly.

This
reminded Jason of his hands. He gazed at them. They were no longer black,
looking normal as usual.

“You
neutralized those poison?” Jason said as he sat up on the bed.

“No,
even if we want, we couldn’t. Your body somehow cleansed it out on its own,
which amazed us as well.” The old lady smiled.

As Jason
was talking to the old lady, the other lady was speaking on a communicator.
Then she turned to Jason and said, “Somebody wants to talk to you. By the way
the girl is all right. You slept three days. She is worried about you.”

“What
girl?” Jason asked in confusion.

“The
blind girl travelled with you.”

“Oh, I
see.” Jason had no idea what she was talking about.

A male
Tizuee appeared at the doorway. He had a cold and serious face with Tizuee
signature red eyes, 40 something. The two ladies acknowledged the male Tizuee
and said goodbye to Jason.

The male
Tizuee walked close to Jason and said, “Mr. Jason Marton. My name is Fieute.
How are you doing?”

“I am
feeling much better.” Jason said.

“I was
told that your condition improved and you were able to answer questions.”
Fieute said seriously.

“As you
can see.” Jason smiled politely.

“How did
you leave Guardian Fleet training center?”

Jason
was hoping he asked something more general. In that case, he might be able to
play dumb. But he didn’t see the point of lying to this Tizuee, so he went
ahead and told him everything starting from leaving the training center.

After
hearing the story, Fieute stared in surprise at Jason for a while and said, “At
least we know you must had a fight with someone having a special Glycan blade.
Probably a high rank Glycan officer. The wound on your chest proved it.”

“He is a
Glycan general.” Jason said easily.

“How do
you know it was a general?”

“He was
wearing black uniform.”

“Name?”

Jason
shook his head.

“What
does he look like?”

“He is
very old but strong, large build. Oh, he had a red scar on the left eye.” Jason
said.

“A red
scar on the left eye?” Fieute asked in surprise.

“Yea.”

Fieute
strolled back and forth several times and said, “I will be right back.” He left
the room in a hurry.