by Hao Yang
About two hours later, Klizan felt that the floor started to sink and it lowered to a big glass box. Klizan saw Liutein and Lreque on the other side of glass.
“Surprise?” Liutein said proudly.
“I must say you do have some balls.” Klizan said calmly.
“This conversation will decide whether I will have more balls than you. So if I were you, I will be careful.” Liutein said easily.
“We all know why I am still alive, don’t we?” Klizan grinned. He clearly knew Liutein could make a clone of him and then kill him. But the deployment of fleets required the code that came directly from him. Right now Liutein was not able to command any of Glycan fleets. Besides this, Klizan was the only one who could initiate Glycan’s ultimate weapon, the Gaya cannon. Glycan was the only species could weaponize dark energy. The Gaya canon was the crown jewel of such weapons.
“I guess you really want to do this.” Liutein said as he winked at Lreque. Lreque walked away and returned with three old Glycan women several minutes later. They were all Klizan’s wives.
“How come I am not surprised? What else you got?” Klizan said in a relaxed tone.
“All of your families and your friends’ families. Do you think your loyal friends and subordinates will sacrifice their families for you?” Liutein said coldly.
“You are very welcome to kill them all.” Klizan said carelessly.
“I will keep the girls.” Liutein said with an evil smile.
“You are still too young. You know how this will end, right?”
“Please enlighten me.”
“This is what I offer. You let me go. I will only kill you but spare your family.” Klizan said confidently.
“Sometime, I really admire your confidence.” Liutein said ironically as he presss a button. The floor beneath Klizan started to ascend, bringing Klizan back to the metal container.
“What else we got?” Liutein asked as he glanced over at Lreque.
“All those generals don’t give in. Other people switched to our side.”
“Those people doesn’t matter. Without an army in our hands, we won’t last long. Anything from Estian?” Liutein said calmly.
“Two of Estian’s fleets has reached the circumference of our defense system. Our fleets stopped them.”
“Did they receive my order?”
“Yes, they did. But they say they are waiting for the order from their fleet commanders.”
“I am not surprised.” Liutein sighed. He knew this was just the start of problems. All fleets would soon started to check in with their commanders.
“The prime minister of Estian called and asked about the access to the Gaya cannon.” Lreque said in a worried tone.
“I will call him back. What else?”
“We have questioned scientists who have close ties with Klizan. One scientist named Zserie said that they have been doing research on Hylocan eyeballs and managed to build a huge one on planet Agirue.”
“This result is consistent with what Human found.” Liutein said excitedly.
“Yes. The eyeball has been fitted into the Cruiser General Klizan and they have finished the test runs.”
“Where is it?” Leituit asked hastily.
“Nobody knows except Klizan and Kalan.”
“I see. It’s good Estian never found out what they are doing on planet Agirue. Iteiten once told me that Klizan was doing something on Agirue.” Liutein said in a low voice.
“I will ask Human to find the eyeball as soon as possible.”
“And tell them this is their first priority.”
Liutein was happy that he made this move before Klizan was able to use the Hylocan eyeball, but he also knew this was just the beginning.
Chapter 102
When General Kalan finally got out of the hall and ran into the forest, it was the second day noon. He was tired and hungry, but he kept going. He tried several times to call Neiteo, but he couldn’t get through. He was dying to save his family, but there was nothing he could do without his fleet. Later he recalled the big Hylocan eyeball. He knew where it was, but he couldn’t contact the crew operating the Cruiser General Klizan. Because it required encrypted communication device. He was worried that Liutein might learn the location of the eyeball from Klizan. If Liutein had the eyeball, everything was done. Kalan thought for a while and decided to ask Klaycon to go there and contact the crew in person. He took off his badge and called Klaycon.
“Dad, are you alright?”
“I am fine. How about yourself?” Kalan said excitedly. He was so happy to hear from Klaycon.
“I am all right. We left the training center. If you didn’t call me beforehand, I would die. How about my mom and others?”
“I have no idea where they are, but I will figure it out and save them. In order to do that, I need your help.” Kalan said seriously.
“Sure.”
“We have a weapon on planet Yuwtoow that will save us all. Go to that planet and find the Cruiser General Klizan. When you find it, you tell the crew what happened and asked them to leave Yuwtoow immediately.”
“Why you care an old cruiser?”
“Klaycon, do what I said. We can’t afford to let the royal family has it. Do you understand?” Klaycon said in a hard voice.
“Right away. Dad, you take care. Stay safe.” Klaycon said emotionally.
“I will. Don’t worry about me. I will be fine. Klaycon, we all count on you. I will call you later.” Kalan said hastily and hung up. He didn’t want to give Liutein the chance to track down the call.
Klaycon put back his badge and rushed to the bridge. Everyone was there except Jason and Gloria.
“We will go to planet Yuwtoow.” Klaycon said in a hard tone.
“What is the plan?” Zier asked curiously.
“On that planet, we will find Cruiser General Klizan.”
“But why?” Zier asked.
“We have to secure a weapon on that cruiser.” Klaycon said.
“This is what your father told you, right?” Carila asked.
“Yes. He is counting on us.”
“I thought we could count on him.” Zier said as he shook his head.
“Shut up! Zier!” Carila yelled.
“It’s your call, Klaycon. I will follow your lead.” Nissen said.
“Where are Jason and Gloria?” Klaycon said as he looked around.
“Don’t know. Don’t care.” Carila said casually.
Others simply shook their heads.
Klaycon left the bridge and checked around. It was a small cargo vessel so it didn’t take him very long to locate them. Not to his surprise, they were together. Jason was leaning against a wall and looking out of a porthole. Gloria was standing by his side. Driven by curiosity and jealousy, Klaycon tread lightly and slowly to them and listened their conversation.
“You didn’t ask your friends to come along this time?” Gloria asked gently.
“No. I had a bad feeling about this.” Jason said in a worried tone.
“That is not like you. You always see the good side.” Gloria joked.
“From time to time.” Jason sighed.
“I only do this for one time and that’s it. I don’t want to owe Klaycon.”
“What did he do to make you owe him?” Jason asked unhappily.
Gloria turned away her head to escape Jason’s stare. She thought for a second and said, “I borrowed a vessel from him and used it to save you last time.”
“I will return this favor myself.” Jason said coldly.
Gloria sighed. She was happy that she didn’t tell Jason about how Klaycon saved her from the death sentence. She knew Klaycon begged Klizan to save her.
“I know you hate him.” Gloria said innocently.
“That is under the statement.” Jason said in a provocative tone.
“Jason, I guarantee you there is nothing between Klaycon and me.” Gloria said in a begging voice.
“I certainly hope so!” Jason said ironically.<
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Klaycon let out a sigh. He cleared his throat and walked out from behind a wall. He looked at Jason coldly and said, “We will go to planet Yuwtoow. Can you set the course?”
“Is this your plan or someone else’s plan?” Jason asked.
“Oh, you want to discuss who is in charge here?” Klaycon said impatiently.
“We can find it out real quick.” Jason said as he tightened his fists.
“Guys, we are not doing this here!” Gloria shouted.
Jason and Klaycon stared at each other, preparing to attack.
“Klaycon, we will be in the bridge in a second.” Gloria said nicely.
“One day, after all this, we have to figure this out. You know that, right?” Klaycon said in a hard voice.
“I can’t wait.” Jason said with an evil grin.
Klaycon headed out angrily.
Chapter 103
While Mark was waiting in the hangar, he never saw Jason leave the cargo vessel. Then he saw several Glycans run into the cargo vessel. He was shocked. Then the vessel took off. Mark knew Aron was tracking down all the vessels leaving the training center, so he decided to deal with this later.
After several hours, Mark and Salmon finished cleaning up the Glycan area and then they delivered all Glycan trainees, dead or alive, to planet Satulous. Mark was thinking taking a break and found his son, but they received an order from Treton London which requested them to locate Cruiser General Klizan as soon as possible. None of them had any clue. While they were pondering what to do next, Mark contacted Aron and learned that the vessel carrying Jason was now on planet Yuwtoow. Mark recalled the name and knew there was a facility Diilre built for superace. Mark didn’t really care the cruiser at the moment, so he made up the relation between the cruiser and planet Yuwtoow. Aron and Salmon believed him and now they were on their way to planet Yuwtoow. The order also mentioned that the big Hylocan eyeball was fitted into the Cruiser. Mark knew there was something about the cruiser, but he was a little surprised to learn this.
Salmon walked to Mark leisurely and said, “We will get there in about one hour. What are you thinking? You look lost.”
“I don’t like where this whole thing goes.” Mark said tiredly. He was actually thinking about Jason and wondering how he got involved with those Glycans.
“What do you mean?” Salmon asked.
“So what we get if the royal family won?”
“I don’t know exactly, but I will say a big paycheck.”
“I am quite sure this is a black operation.”
“Does it matter? I mean we are all in this because of money. You do it for your sick son. Am I right?”
“Our ancestors probably thought that after we could explore other planets and galaxies, we will have enough resources for everyone. Everyone will have a good job and just lay back and enjoy life. They were lucky enough to die early. They didn’t see this mess.”
“Man, you really think a lot.”
Mark smiled in embarrassment. He knew they both stuck here with no way out. It was just the way it was.
One hour later, their vessel entered the atmosphere of Yuwtoow. It was a purple planet dotted with geysers shooting liquid hundreds of kilometers into the sky. The purple color came from moss and lichen.
Mark had no idea where the facility was, so they sent out more than 30 probes to scour the planet. He didn’t care about the facility, but he did hope to find the vessel carrying Jason. After a long while, they found the entrance. It was a huge geyser.
“They certainly designed a very good entrance.” Salmon said in surprise as he gazed down at the geyser from the bridge. Tons of liquid came out of it intermittently.
“There might be other entrances.” Mark said as he marveled at it. He was still thinking about finding Jason.
They waited for a while. All probes returned with the same information: there was no other entrance, so Mark and Salmon decided to get in there. The vessel suspended next to the geyser for a while. Salmon lost the patience and flew the vessel into the geyser right after one eruption. The opening was actually a skylight of a dome. As the vessel descended in the dome, another eruption shot it. Instead of going out through the skylight, the vessel hit hard on the dome, and then glided to the ground.
In the bridge, Mark felt he was on a roller coaster for the past several seconds. Salmon didn’t strap himself in the chair, so he bounced up and down several time in the bridge and ended up shooting his lunch on the dashboard.
The vessel sustained some damages. Mark and Salmon left dozens of soldiers to assist the repair, and went into the base with the rest.
Chapter 104
Jason and others knew anything about planet Yuwtoow. In fact, they all heard it the first time. After the vessel penetrated the atmosphere, Jason and others used all kinds of equipment scanning the ground, but they didn’t find anything. After a long while, they all got frustrated.
“Klaycon, are you sure this is the planet your father told you.” Zier asked quietly.
“Yes. Is there another Yuwtoow?” Klaycon said impatiently.
“Maybe call your father? He might know.” Carila said.
“He said he would call me later.” Klaycon said unhappily.
Jason didn’t join their discussion. After cycling around the planet dozens of times, he noticed that all rivers converged on one colossal hole. He maneuvered the frigate right above the hole. Hundreds of rivers were pouring in it from all directions. Nobody could tell how deep the hole went.
Klaycon stared at Jason and asked, “What are you going to do?”
“You guys may want to fasten your seat belts.” Jason said easily and then the vessel shot into the hole like a bullet. After a long fall, it ditched into the liquid. As it went deeper and deeper, several gigantic squid like creatures strolled leisurely along the vessel, their tentacles fondling the hull.
“Jason, why are we here?” Gloria asked, her voice shaking.
“We will see. I hope I am right.” Jason said excitedly.
Klaycon gave Gloria a blank stare as if he was saying where you found this guy.
Soon, they saw hundreds of thousands of outlets on the wall. Jason flew the vessel close to the wall.
“Jason, what are you doing? Maybe we can help.” Gloria asked in confusion.
“Check all those vents and see anyone stands out.”
Everyone in the bridge looked out of the windows. After several minutes, Klaycon found one outlet had a filter like structure over it.
“One down there.” Klaycon said excitedly pointing the vent to Jason.
Jason maneuvered the vessel close to the outlet and said, “Yes. That’s what I’m talking about.”
“Good job, honey.” Gloria said and kissed Jason on his cheek. Other Glycans were shocked, but nobody said a word.
The vent was large enough to fit the vessel, but the filter was in the way, so they swam out of the vessel and removed the filter. Then Jason flew the vessel into the outlet. When they came out on the other side, they were in a monstrous tank the size of a lake. Jason parked the vessel on the shore. They stepped out of the vessel and marvelled at the huge space. Dozens of giant pillars were holding the sky high ceiling.
They soon found a big gate the size of a tennis field and there was a slot at the bottom of the gate. Gloria immediately recognized the slot and said, “This is for our crystal.” She inserted her crystal into the slot, but nothing happened.
“Let me try.” Klaycon said as he stepped forward. He slowly inserted his crystal.
“Clank! Clank! Clank!” The door slid open.
Niseen, Carila and Etoe backed down in panic. Zier jumped aside and fell over. Jason and Gloria walked forward to the door holding each other’s hand.
Suddenly, lights went on. They could see the door opened to a long corridor.
Jason stuck his head in the doorway and looked around for several seconds. He patted Gloria’s shoulder and said, “Stay here.” Then he carefully put a foot into the corri
dor.
“Jason, Jason.” Gloria called him in a worried tone.
“It’s OK. Wait there until I call you.” Jason said easily as he walked in.
All of a sudden, a snake like robot appeared from nowhere and confronted Jason. Gloria scurried to Jason and pushed him away. Klaycon was right behind Gloria. He showed the robot his crystal. The robot scanned the crystal, and then dashed away.
“You OK?” Gloria asked caringly as she hugged Jason.
“It’s under control.” Jason said in embarrassment.
Klaycon rolled his eyes at Jason and then motioned others to come in.
The inside was cold and clean. It felt like the place had been frozen for a long time. They walked along the corridor and soon ran into an intersection, so they decided to break up into groups.
“Check in every ten minutes. Find the hangar, the cruiser should be there.” Klaycon said seriously as everyone was testing their badges.
“Find the kitchen as well.” Jason joked.
Klaycon gave him an angry stare.
“What? I am hungry.” Jason said in a relaxed tone.
They parted away in three groups and went deep into the facility.
Chapter 105
Jason and Gloria were holding each other’s hand and walking side by side. He couldn’t remember when they started to hold each other’s hand. It came so natural and he felt peace in his heart. He was still thinking about the moment Gloria ran to him when he encountered the snake like robot. That moment he felt a warm current running all over his body. Before that moment, Jason loved Gloria, but it was all about her body and face. He helped Gloria just like he would do for any beautiful girl. But now he found himself love her with his heart.
Jason suddenly stopped and pulled Gloria in his arms. He looked at her and said, “Gloria, I love you.”
Gloria paused for a second. She was surprised and when she looked in Jason’s eyes, she suddenly felt that the old Jason was back. She busted into tears and said, “Do you know how long I have been waiting this?”