the pipe, passed the
wall and made another big hole to get off on the other side.
Thousands
of cylinders were cramped in the room.
“This
will take forever.” Mark murmured as he marveled at those cylinders. He quickly
took out the scanner he brought with him and started working. He knew when the
pipe was flooded, Ajiese would found the breach.
One hour
had passed and Mark still didn’t locate the cylinder. But he found something
else, the information of the missing Hylocan girl. Unlike other Hylocans borned
on the Hylocan reserve, she was from somewhere else. When Uainanese found the
girl, she still had her original eyes and mind-reading ability. After Uainanese
captured her, they transferred her to Eva-1. After that she just vanished
without a trace.
“Where
did she go?” Mark asked himself. He wasn’t sure whether there was any
connection between this Hylocan girl and those missing Hylocan eyeballs.
After
another hour, he finally found the cylinder that stored the observation
records. Just when he started duplicating cells to transfer the data, he heard
the clatter sound from the pipe.
“Come
on! Come on!” He said quietly as he stared at the duplication process. The
clatter sound was getting louder and louder and he could even hear the
bubbling. Right before the blue liquid flooded the room, the duplication
process was complete. Mark climbed into the pipe and got out on the other side.
“Buzz!
Buzz! Buzz!” The blaring alarm echoed in the sewer.
Mark ran
for his life as the liquid started to fill the shaft. By the time he got out of
the sewer and reached the hall, securities were evacuating the astronomy
center. Mark blended into the flow of Ajiese and left the building.
Chapter 10
In the Guardian Fleet museum on
Eva-1, second class species trainees were listening to Sistyen’s introduction
of different vessels. The museum was actually a hangar the size of 20 football
fields. Hundreds of spacecrafts and vessels from different eras were exhibited.
Thinking
how to get back Gloria’s necklace, Jason couldn’t care less about what Sistyen
was saying. Lucis listened very carefully and checked on his watch occasionally
to make sure he had everything in record. Erikon was looking at another vessel
about 200 meters away. It was 900 meters long and 80 meters high, resembling
the shape of a shark.
“What is
that, man?” Erikon wheezed to Jason.
“That
is… a good-looking spacecraft.” Jason said. He actually had no idea.
“I can
see that. I mean name or model.” Erikon said.
“And
what is in the kitchen on that ship.” Jason smirked.
Even
though Jason was looking at the vessel, he had no idea that Gloria was standing
in the bridge of the vessel and staring at him right now. She and other Glycans
were having a tour on Cruiser General Klizan. For first class species like
Glycan, they could send 200 trainees to training center every year.
“What
are you looking at?” Klaycon asked gently as he stood next to Gloria. He had a
square face, big brown eyes and a eagle nose. He was tall and bulky with long
white hair reaching his muscular shoulders. Unlike female Glycans whose hair
had different colors, all male Glycans’ hair was white.
“Nothing.”
Gloria said coldly without even looking at Klaycon.
“It’s a
nice vessel, isn’t it? Even if it was decommissioned.”
“How do
you feel stepping into the vessel named after your grandfather?” Gloria asked
in a very cold way.
“Pretty
good and I will name a much better vessel with my name in the future.” Klaycon
said proudly.
Gloria
didn’t say anything. She was thinking about her grandfather.
“I
wonder...” Klaycon didn’t finish, because he noticed Gloria turned away her
head.
“Klaycon,
you are here! Come on, we are going to see the medical bay.” Another Glycan
girl named Carila said hastily as she dragged Klaycon away. They were leaving
the bridge.
Gloria
was on her own, following the group in the distance. She knew