Dark Universe & Forbidden Love

by Hao Yang

  Chapter 87

  When Jason woke up, he found himself lying on a stretcher carried by two airborne robots. It was sunny and warm.

  A Human and a Tizuee were walking beside him and looking at him kindly.

  “Jason Marton.” The Human said gently.

  “Yes, how do you know my name?” Jason said tiredly.

  “We also know you are a trainee in the Guardian Fleet training center.” The Tizuee said.

  “Where am I?”

  “Right now you are on planet Z17-M and we are taking you to the outpost station of Guardian Fleet.” The Human said.

  “Take it easy. You somehow crash landed on this planet. But you are fine.” Tizuee said.

  Several hours later, Jason felt much better and he learned that he was found lying near a lifeboat with his watch sending distress signal. He had no clue or memory how he ended up on this planet. He called Erikon and realised that all his teammates were looking for him for the past several days. Erikon told Jason that Gloria had been worried to death and asked Jason to come to the Human colony.

  It took Jason five hours to arrive at the Human colony. When he stepped out of the public transport vessel, he saw Erikon and Lucis in the distance. He waved at them. At the same time, he saw a girl rushing to him. She was wearing a big hat and a white skirt. While Jason was thinking who she was, the girl rammed into Jason. She held Jason’s face and said, “Jason, I miss you so much.”

  Jason smiled politely and winked at Erikon and Lucis for help. But they just smiled at him.

  “Excuse me. Excuse me. I think you must mistake me for somebody else.” Jason said gently. He hated to say things like this, because this girl was beautiful.

  “I guess my disguise really works.” Gloria said happily as she lifted her hat a little.

  “You are Glycan!” Jason said in surprise.

  “Jason, don’t play dumb on me, OK? Do you know how worried I was?” Gloria said kindly.

  “I am sorry I really hope I am the one you are waiting for.” Jason said sadly.

  “Jason, what is going on?” Gloria said in confusion. She started to feel something was wrong.

  “That is my question as well.” Jason chuckled.

  “You don’t know me?” Baffled and shocked, Gloria gazed at Jason.

  “I certainly hope I know you.” Jason said in a relaxed tone.

  Just at this moment, Lucis and Erikon walked to Jason and Gloria.

  “Guys, let’s do it in my place, all right?” Erikon said happily.

  “Yea, don’t have sex in public. That is wrong.” Lucis joked.

  “There is no law against it!” Erikon said confidently.

  “Thank you, Erikon. We just knew each other like 10 seconds ago, but I really appreciate you guys arranging this for me.” Jason said easily.

  Erikon and Lucis looked at each other in confusion. Then they glanced over at Gloria, but she had the same look.

  “Jason, you are fucking with us, right?” Lucis said uneasily.

  Now Jason was wearing a confused look.

  Gloria paused for several seconds and said, “I think I know what is going on.”

  “Let’s get out of here first.” Erikon said hastily. They headed out of the station and went to Erikon’s hover car.

  As soon as they got in the car, Gloria took out a four inch long cylinder filled with black liquid.

  “Jason, I know you couldn’t remember me. That is OK. But right now, you need to inject this in your body to save your life.” Gloria said hastily as she handed over the cylinder.

  “What is it?” Jason asked as he checked the jello like sticky liquid.

  “Tiegotteen’s blood.”

  “How did you get that?” Jason asked in surprise.

  “We went to planet Rioto, you and I.” Gloria said emotionally.

  “I knew about that, but only I was there. I also remember I got very sick.” Jason said calmly.

  “You did. The bacteria almost kill you back then. You need to inject that to remove the bacteria in your body.” Gloria said seriously, making it sound like it was life or death.

  “If I got very sick because of the bacteria, how can I come back to see you guys? Erikon, Lucis, you guys know this bacteria thing?” Jason asked.

  “I heard it from Gloria.” Erikon said.

  Lucis put on an innocent face and didn’t say a word.

  “Jason, trust me! I almost died for this!” Gloria said in a begging voice.

  “Well, it seems I don’t need it anymore, as you can see, I am fine.” Jason said happily as he gave the cylinder back to Gloria.

  Gloria grabbed the cylinder and jumped on Jason, pushing the cylinder towards Jason’s chest. But she couldn’t match Jason’s strength. Jason grasped both of her hands and held her still on his lap.

  It was the aroma that ignited Jason’s memory. When Gloria hugged him back in the station, he felt something familiar. Now he knew it was this aroma, but he didn’t know why he had such memory.

  “I think I did know you, but I just don’t remember you.” Jason said in confusion.

  Gloria suddenly dived in and kissed Jason on his lips for several seconds. Then she broke up and asked, “How about now?”

  “If I say yes, will you kiss me again?” Jason said in a teasing voice.

  Gloria let out a long sigh and said, “If you let me inject this, you can kiss me as long as you want.”

  “No, thank you.” Jason chuckled as he gently pushed Gloria away.

  Erikon and Lucis were shocked at Gloria’s kiss. Erikon really hoped he was in Jason’s shoes. If he was Jason, he would let Gloria do whatever she wanted. Lucis looked at Jason jealously, wondering why Jason always had such good luck.

  Soon the hover car emerged from the underground tunnel, passed a huge gate guarded by four robots and slowly stopped at the driveway in front of a three floor villa.

  “Welcome to my humble house!” Erikon said cheerfully.

  They all got off the car and marveled at the palace like villa. It took up the ground as large as a football field. The white marble wall was accompanied by huge windows. Numerous robot guards walked around leisurely, making it look like a fortified castle.

  “So you finally got your own place.” Jason said easily.

  “Yea, I made a bet with my father. He thought I would be kicked out in the first semester. This is what I won.” Erikon said proudly.

  “It’s a nice place!” Gloria said.

  “Thank you, Gloria. You compliment is very much appreciated.” Erikon said happily.

  “Well. It is impressive. However, Gloria, if you saw the place I live, you will see the difference!” Lucis said confidently.

  They walked into the hall, followed by robots carrying their luggage.

  “Oh, Jason, just in case you don’t know, Gloria will stay with us for several days.” Erikon said with a big grin on his face.

  “I do not know.” Jason emphasized on each word.

  “Jason and I will share the same room!” Gloria said firmly, gazing at Jason in a lovely way.

  “I see. Jason, you are the man. I know you will nail it.” Erikon gave Jason an evil smile.

  “Nail what? I am not sharing a room with her. She will stab me with that thing whenever she gets a chance.” Jason said coldly.

  “Jason, if I were you, I will share with her, even if I know she will stab me.” Erikon sighed.

  Lucis and Erikon looked at Gloria, waiting for her decision.

  “Then I will have a room right next to Jason.” Gloria said coldly as she rolled her eyes at Jason.

  After they settled in their own rooms, they had a scrumptious dinner, and then they discussed Jason’s situation. Jason wasn’t really in the mood for that, but he did realize that he a lot of things didn’t add up. Gloria tried to persuade him to take Tiegotteen’s blood, but Jason didn’t listen.

  Chapter 88

  The next day before dinner, Titainein, Sayilin, Idi and Orizy arrived at Erikon’s house. They al
l travelled long way to come to see Jason. Idi even cried when she met Jason. They soon learned that Jason only lost the memory about Gloria and the Hylocan girl. They talked about it for hours, but none of them had any solution, except Erikon who suggested Gloria have sex with Jason to recall his memory.

  After dinner, Jason went to swim in the pool behind the villa. Gloria and Titainein were watching him from the second story balcony. Erikon and others were playing simulation games in the game room.

  It was a quiet night with cool breeze.

  Titainein took a sip of the beverage and said, “Have you ever thought there might be another possibility?”

  “What do you mean?” Gloria asked.

  “I am thinking Jason might ask Hylocan to remove you from his memory.”

  “That is impossible! He loves me. That Hylocan bitch Lisania did it so that she could replace me.” Gloria said angrily.

  “But Jason didn’t remember Lisania either.”

  “It doesn’t matter. Then why Jason remove me?”

  “Because he loves you so much. He knows he can’t stop it. He knows if you two continue like this, both of you will die just like Logan and Lilisa.” Titainein said sincerely.

  “Do you love him?” Gloria asked, staring at Titainein.

  “Yes, but not in the sense you mean.” Titainein said easily.

  “That is a real comfort.” Gloria said ironically.

  “Even now, although Jason couldn’t remember you, I can tell he likes you very much. The way he looks at you and listens to you. Sooner or later, he will find himself repeat the old story. It’s not too late to stop it now” Titainein said in a worried tone.

  “So that you can take over?” Gloria said coldly.

  “If I really want to, I will have done it without you realizing it.” Titainein said confidently.

  Right at this moment, Jason got out of the pool. Both Gloria and Titainein leaned forward to get a better view. He wasn’t bulky or big, but his wide shoulder, ripped abs and lean muscles delivered the natural beauty of a man.

  Gloria shot out of the chair, rushed to downstairs, grabbed a big tower and walked to Jason.

  “Thanks.” Jason said as he took over the tower from Gloria.

  “You are very welcome.” Gloria said in a sweet voice.

  “I can see why I love you before.” Jason said politely.

  “Thank you.” Gloria said shyly.

  “I am sorry I can’t remember anything. So how you and I met?”

  “In the Glycan library, it was not that romantic at the very beginning.” Gloria said and smiled reluctantly.

  “I didn’t fight with you, did I?”

  “Yes, you did and more than once.”

  “Did I win?” Jason asked curiously.

  “No, you didn’t. Now I think about it, you are very violent.”

  “I guess I got it from the preselection institution. When Erikon and I was there, for the first two years, we had to fight for everything. The senior guys always tried to take advantage of new guys and when Erikon and I became the senior ones, we thought we could change that.”

  “You learned your fighting skills in the preselection institution?”

  “Actually, I learned it by myself. The teachers didn’t teach us much, because they believed that it is very rare to get into hand to hand combat in the battlefield. That is truth. But I think I like fighting.”

  “Yea, tell me about it.” Gloria smirked.

  “Maybe we can try sometime, I can’t believe I lost to you.” Jason joked.

  Gloria smiled in embarrassment. They chatted until midnight and talked about everything from families to lives in training center. Jason felt they had endless things to say and they both enjoyed the conversation. Before they parted for their own rooms, Gloria asked Jason to come to her room, but Jason shied away. He was still worried that Gloria would inject that blood into him.

  Chapter 89

  General Klizan had been waiting for this moment for the past three months. The eyeball was ready to be fitted into Cruiser General Klizan. He felt it was fate that the super vessel named after him was going to carry out this mission.

  Klizan arrived at Agirue with Ilina, Tuies, Cazon and Liliyana. Ilina and Tuies were the members of Joint Commanders of Stuff. Cazon was the vice chairman of Defensive Department. Liliyana was the chairman of military intelligence agency. Kalan and Doisgy greeted them. After a brief welcome, all of them headed to the main hangar where the eyeball installation was ready to start.

  Klizan and other generals saw the eyeball for the first time and they were surprised by its size which was about 120 meters in diameter. The blue pupil in the dark red iris was looking at the generals.

  “It is much bigger than I thought.” Liliyana said in surprise.

  “It is huge!” Tuies gaped at the eyeball.

  Zserie, the chief scientist, walked leisurely to the generals and said, “Welcome, generals. My name is Zserie. I am in charge of this project.”

  “So tell us, what this thing can do?” Klizan said calmly.

  “What you are seeing here is the research result of almost 90 years. We started this project during UWII. At that point, our plan was to catch the Oracle and get her eyeballs. But as we know, that didn’t work, so we had to change the plan. Using what we recovered from the dead Oracle, we managed to grow this. There were a lot of failures, of course, especially at the beginning. One of the things was to keep the eyeball alive. That is why we have to consistently feed this eyeball with the liquid we squeeze from the eyeballs we collected from Hylocan reserve. We…”

  “Zserie, General Klizan ask what it can do.” Kalan interrupted Zserie politely.

  General Klizan and other generals smiled at Zserie kindly.

  “Sorry, I was a little carried away. Anyway, this can do everything an Oracle can do and it is much powerful than the Oracle. The Oracle could only have a two to three kilometer effective range of her power and I think that was the main reason why Hylocan lost in UWII. But this could reach 100 million kilometers. When it is installed on the cruiser, it basically can reach anywhere depending on the position of the cruiser.” Zserie said excitedly.

  “What about the Oracle we captured five or six months ago? Did you made any use of her?” Klizan asked.

  “I was looking for this question. We removed her eyeballs and I used them to extend the capability of this eyeball. This eyeball now can simultaneously engage more than 20 million targets.” Zserie said proudly.

  “More than 20 million. Do you know the limit?” Klizan asked.

  “We don’t know yet.”

  “Speaking of which, General Kalan, do you find the Oracle?” Liliyana asked.

  “Not yet, General Liliyana.” Kalan said in embarrassment. He planned to track Jason down to find the Oracle but he only ended up locating Lucis. He had no idea how the tracer got into Lucis’ body.

  “Without the eyeballs, she is no longer a threat.” Cazon said easily.

  Just at this moment, some 20 robots slowly gathered under the bottom of the eyeball.

  “General Klizan, we are ready to start the installation.” Zserie said.

  “Go ahead.”

  Those robots lifted the eyeball in the air and Cruiser General Klizan slowly glided under the eyeball. It opened its hull and the robots slowly lowered the eyeball down into the compartment. Six tissue arms slowly rose up from the deck and held the eyeball nice and tight. They set the eyeball in place. Then those robots flew away.

  After the installation, Klizan, Ilina, Tuies, Cazon and Liliyana gathered in a conference room.

  “This is much better than we expected.” Cazon said happily.

  “I didn’t expect this eyeball could engage that many targets at one time. Then it will be much easier for us to carry out our plan.” Tuies said.

  “We proceed with our plan. According to what Zserie said, it will take two weeks to run field tests to make sure the eyeball could function well in the cruiser. Then they also need more
time to test its capability and stability. That might take another two to three weeks. After that, we can do a real run on the second species like we discussed before.” Klizan said confidently.

  “These days the royal family is not as active as before. We don’t see that many protests anymore.” Cazon said.

  “Maybe we don’t even need to use the eyeball.” Tuies said happily.

  “We need to be careful when we use this on our people.” Liliyana said.

  “We will see how it works on second species, and then we will decide.” Klizan said calmly. He had been waiting for this moment for more than 80 years. He knew he had to be patient.

  Chapter 90

  In the past days, no matter how hard Jason thought, he couldn’t recall Gloria in his memory. He also found a ring in his pocket which he couldn’t remember where he got it. It was a black ring carved from a single crystal. When Jason put on the ring, a sentence appeared on his palm, saying “I love you. Lisania.” He didn’t tell Gloria about the ring, because he could tell she was a jealous girl. Sometimes he wondered who Lisania was.

  Gloria had a good time with Jason’s friends. She had never enjoyed life with so many companies. They played on the beach, hiked on mountain trails and got drunk in dance clubs. She kept an eye on Jason. She knew he would need that blood when the moment came and he wouldn’t be able to fight back.

  It was a quiet and chilly night. Gloria, Jason and all his friends were roasting fishes and enjoying wines around a bonfire at the backyard.

  “I kind of enjoy life like this. Not thinking the responsibility, future and business.” Erikon said tiredly.

  “What business do you need to think?” Titainein asked.

  “Like what to eat tomorrow?” Sayilin joked.

  Everyone laughed.

  “It will be boring after a while. I mean we are born to do something.” Lucis said in a relaxed tone.

  “It won’t be boring, if you spent it with someone you love, right?” Idi said happily as she winked at Jason and Gloria.

  “I really hope so.” Jason nodded.

  “You always have so many troubles.” Orizy joked.