Published at 6th of September 2019 10:22 pm

Volume 5, Chapter 8

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"You finally returned!"

Yue Baylian had been waiting in the living room since early in the morning. As soon as the other secretary walked out from the secret passage, he loudly greeted and informed him, "Without you here these past five days, I truly have been beset from all sides... It's unacceptable! I want three days of vacation!"

Not expecting an unprecedented problem to occur as soon as he arrived home, Zyle froze. Only able to stall for time as he asked Kyle for assistance, he said, "This doesn't seem to be a good idea. The Solaris Emperor would be displeased!"

Before he had the rhanre to receive the real Kyle's reply, Yue Baylian had already clamored, "In that case, there's nothing left to discuss! I've already asked Dev. He said I could leave for two days!"

A strange look emerged on Zyle's face: a mix between helplessness and anger being held in check However, in the end, he held back his other emotions, returning to a cool, collected demeanor This was the attitude Kyle consistently maintained. He asked as a reminder, "But just now you said three days?"

"Yes!" The Baylian spread both of his hands out acting innocent and said "Therefore, I want to vacation for two days and skip work for one day In this way, three days will pass?"

After he finished speaking, he began humming a small tune and lifted up the briefcase that had long been lying next to his foot, as if he really believed this all was acceptable. Then he walked past Zyle and into the secret passageway.

Seeing this, Zyle glared at the back of Yue Baylian's figure with annoyance. When he turned his head back around, a head of brilliant blond hair suddenly caught his eye He was startled greatly and hastily adjusted his facial expression. He used a professional tone to say, "G-Good morning, Solaris Emperor"

"Morning. Glad you returned!"

Devon held a cup of coffee and indifferently said, "Yue Baylian still isn't acceptable. He was completely unprepared. I just allowed him to leave for two days of vacation. Take advantage of these two days to clean up his mess in the Solaris Federation. When he returns from his trip, properly instruct him once more?"

Hearing this, Zyle's anger flared. In the past five days, he had also been so busy that the sky felt like it had been flipped upside down.

Zyle had handed over the problem in the Solaris Federation's branch to the real Kyle to solve, warning him that if he dared to pull any tricks, Kyle would only be able to guess which pieces of flesh his young master would be missing.

But, Zyle also didn't dare to really let Kyle handle the entire thing. He only could wait for Kyle to finish, roughly look it over once, and when he was certain there were no problems with it, officially hand over the documents to his subordinate.

In addition, he personally had to direct the search for Theodore and Ezart. It really was like those two had evaporated. Not the slightest bit of information could be found!

Because of this, Lance had directed his anger at him countless times in the past five days.

In short, after being the Solaris Emperor's secretary for only five days, he was about to go insane. This wasn't something a normal person could do... Nor was it something a modified human could handle. He had no idea how Kyle had managed it for so many years.

In his heart, Zyle suppressed his frustration again_ On the surface, he could only be cool and collected as he responded, "Understood."

"Excellent."

After Devon finished his short reply, he began explaining the situation. "Then I will also stop working for today. Dar seems to be in a bad mood. I was thinking of taking a walk with him. Prepare an itinerary and bodyguards, as well as my disguise kit. Then, remember to search for places Dar might want to visit and find restaurants he would hie to eat at. Times right! They absolutely cannot be dangerous places, to prevent him from having to use hand to hand combat. Hm... What else is there?"

"..."

Zyle put 1000% more effort into suppressing his emotions. It wasn't easy to wait for the Solaris Emperor to stop talking. When he seemingly still could not think of anything else to explain, Devon immediately said the sentence, "Alright Go to make preparations immediately." After replying with the excuse, "I shall immediately make preparations," Zyle promptly exited the living room.

Seeing this, Devon lowered his head to drink some coffee, coffee that was rich and pure and bitter. Drinking a mouthful made him breathe a deep sigh of satisfaction. Then he raised his head to glance at the back of the hurriedly departing secretary. He smiled, and lowered his head to take another sip of coffee.

****

"Shain?"

Yue Baylian called the cell phone several times, but the cellphone only sent the sounds of a computerized voice, informing him that the number could not be reached. This made him extremely impatient. Not being able to know of the situation on Shain Baylian's side made him unsure as to which action to take would be the correct one.

"What the hell is that child doing? He doesn't reply to texts. He doesn't reply to voicemail..." He hesitated for a moment, murmuring, "Nothing could have happened, could it?"

He frowned, and the pace of his footsteps increased. It wasn't long before he stepped out from the secret passageway. The entrance to the secret passage was in an abandoned ironworks factory. The strange thing was, in the filthy ironworks factory, there was a glossy violet sports car parked there. This scene was completely incongruous.

There even was a chauffeur standing by the back door to the car As soon as he caught sight of Yue Baylian, he respectfully bowed and cried out, "Master"

Yue Baylian "hmm'ed" in reply. He walked up to the car door, and after he allowed the chauffeur to open the door for him, he took a seat in the car. Immediately, he opened his mouth to ask impatiently, "How long will it take to return to the Lunaris Alliance?"

The chauffeur also sat down in the drivels seat, and diligently responded, "Approximately one and a half hours, Master. If you do not mind me driving quickly, then it can be shortened to one hour."

"That longer?"

Yue Baylian frowned, saying, "When I return, remind me to suggest to Dev that we build a high speed rail between the Lunaris Alliance and his house. Furthermore, I'll give you fifty-five minutes. It doesn't matter what you do so long as I arrive at the Lunaris Alliance."

"Understood."

As soon as the chauffeur finished replying, he stepped on the accelerator, made a bootleg turn, and then after staying still for a second, floored the accelerator. The car shot out of the ironworks like a bullet.

******

"I must be insane, to come be part of this mess..."

Shain Baylian muttered to himself. He didn't !now how many times he'd said this over the past few days.

The person who replied was the "new friend" he'd made a few days ago, Elite Combat Section's "Sin." He used an extremely angry tone to growl, "Quit talking! Why aren't you going faster?"

"Faster?" Shama Baylian waspishly said, "With my speed, would you even be able to keep up?"

"Ah!"

"What's the matter?" Shain Baylian suddenly felt anything but reassured.

Sin was silent for a while, then replied, "My right leg and left leg are tangled together..."

"..."

"Right leg and left leg are tangled together." Although these words sounded very strange at first, with these two people located in a tight air vent, they seemed to make somewhat more sense.

No one knows which paranoid guy decided to make the shafts of the air ventilation system so narrow. It was actually deliberately made to be crooked and even had many obstacles added to it... However, it was very effective. People who planned to use the ventilation system to stealthily sneak in had to deal with abnormal difficulties.

The only people who could go through were Main Baylian, who had practiced martial arts with a special emphasis on flexibility since he was small, and Sin, who had been gifted with a slight frame. At the order of Principal Antonias the two of them had been shoved into the ventilation system of the opera house.

The objective, of course, was the find the location of Daren Solaris and Elian and the others.

Although Shaba Baylian could easily pass through, the other person who had been crammed in there, Sin, wasn't so lucky.

His build was only slightly slenderer than that of a normal man's, and it didn't mean that he had great flexibility. Whenever they encountered a troublesome bend, he could only rely on Shain Baylian's instructions. Using muscles he had never known could possibly be used, and after contorting into positions stranger than yoga poses, could he force his way through.

The two of them had already been crawling through the vents for an entire day Even Shain Baylian, who had it comparatively easier, felt tired. Sin, of course, was even more anxious to get out of the vent As long as he could get out of there, even if there were five hundred people in front of him blocking his path, he would rather rush in and battle those five hundred people than turn around and squeeze back into the damned air vent.

Although Sin was the person who was stuck, Shain Baylian wanted to cry more than Sin did. He always had to look backwards to see how Sin had managed to get stuck so he could advise him on how to untangle his legs... In this cramped shaft "heading back" simply seemed much easier than continuing to try to twist his head off.

The two of them painfully struggled for a long time before they finally fixed the problem of the tangled pair of legs.

By that time, they were already so tired that neither of them had any way of "going faster." Sin's eyes were about to spew an flames, and he growled, "Wait until I get out of here! I'm definitely going to kill that Ezart punk! So what if he made you get stuffed in here? Why the hell I am stuck in here too?!"

Shain Baylian's movements were almost past the limits of how far the neck could be rotated. In addition to feeling an unbearable pain, he also heard his neck make popping noises. It looked like in the next few days, his neck wouldn't be feeling too well.

Sin caught his breath for a moment. He suddenly realized the person in front of was completely silent. Feeling that something was strange, he opened his mouth to ask, "What the hell are you doing?"

"Checking my cell phone." Shain Baylian turned on his phone, trying to determine the time, and also worrying that he had forgotten something important.

"...You're just great!"

Sin said with contempt, "You still check your phone in this kind of place? I would be too lazy to move a finger!"

Shain Baylian didn't have time to spare and ignored him. He just frowned as he listened to his voicemail. In it was a long string of curses from Yue Baylian. The more he listened, the more frightened it made him. But it wasn't because of Yue Baylian's scolding He'd heard those kinds of words ever since he was little and was numb to their effects.

Instead, it was the content of Yue Baylian's words that was so frightening.

"What is it?" Sin also felt something was off.

Shain Baylian refused to reply, hurriedly returning the call. As soon as the call went through, he loudly shouted "Father... Don't be angry, first listen to my words! Daren Solaris is not dead! Yes, yes. He is not dead. He's still alive and well That is what Ezart and Theodore Avery have witnessed. Therefore, tell the Solaris Emperor to stop being so agitated!"

Sin uncomprehendingly watched... Actually, he could only see soles of the feet of the person in front of him, so it should be said that he "listened" to Shain Baylian agitatedly converse.

"Hm? You want scan images from a booklet over to me? What are they of... Ah? Darer' Solaris and the Solaris Emperor are brothers of the same mother but different fathers? And furthermore, Daren Solaris is..."

After some time had passed, Yue Baylian finally finished explaining the situation. After Shama Baylian had also confirmed that the cell phone had received the image, he hung up. He tiredly said "This is too maddening..."

"Maddening, my ass!" Sin icily said, "Are you going to continue crawling? If not, say so sooner so I can crawl back out of here faster"

Are you certain you can nun around? Or did you intend to crawl out of here backwards? Shain Baylian bitterly smiled and replied, "Of course we continue to crawl onl Just don't get stuck again, I beg you..."

"What's the use in begging me? It's not like I wanted to get stuck!" Sin angrily roared at an abnormal volume, "You think tying myself up into a knot is fun?"

"Shhh shhh! Quiet down. It would not be good if we were to be discovered," Shain Baylian hurriedly urged him.

Sin fell silent Who was the one that loudly shouted "Father" just now?

After Shain Baylian sighed, he coldly said "In short, let us continue crawling on. Wait until after we exit, and once we have the chance... To create a massacre! To thrash those blind-eyed bastards who caused me to inch along this filthy, narrow damned vent, and who nearly caused the world another Ice Age!"

Hearing this, although Sin didn't understand why the world would have returned to another Ice Age, he at least heard that when he exited this place, there would be people to kill! He immediately chuckled and said, "Who would have thought a guy like you would have been a kindred spirit! Compared to those fakes, Elian and the others, you make a lot more sense!"

"Hmph! But of course."

Sin's eyes were shining, and he laughed eerily as he said, "As long as there are people to kill once we get out of this place... Hehehe! I would gladly crawl on!"

******

"Kyle says there's a very beautiful bridge nearby!"

Devon was having a meal in the restaurant, with the main course just served, piping hot. He ate two bites and then lost interest in the duck breast on his plate. Devon set down his knife and fork, and looked across the table at his little brother, suggesting, "Dar, after we finish eating, I'll dismiss all the bodyguards. It'll just be the two of us walking together on that bridge. How's that?"

Daren was chewing on a large piece of steak. When he heard his brother speak, he used a rate of ten bites per second to chew and swallow his piece of steak. Then he cocked his head and looked at his brother. He said with concern, "But, Gege, isn't that very dangerous?"

Daren looked at Devon again. Devon was currently wearing a huge pair of sunglasses and a long trench coat. His brilliant blond hair was even covered by a black wig. In addition, the tables around them were all filled with bodyguards in disguise. Even going out to eat required a disguise and heavy guard to ensure the safety of the Solaris Emperor. Dismissing the bodyguards was undoubtedly a very dangerous thing to do.

"But you'd protect me, right?" Devon said smiling.

Daren nodded. He replied, "Yep! Dar will definitely protect Gege."

"Then there's nothing to worry about," Devon extended his hand, laughed, and said, "Eat quickly! Later, you'll be accompanying Gege for a walk."

"O.K." Daren lowered his head to voraciously eat again.

Devon smiled as he watched his Didi eat. He himself didn't eat anything at all, and only called over the waiter to ask him for a large pot of freshly brewed coffee. Black coffee.

When he heard the words "black coffee," Daren froze. Devon smiled embarrassedly, pleading, "It's a rare night eating out. Dar, let me drink it just this once!"

After Daren froze, he laughed and said, "O.K.! It really can't be helped if it's Gege."

Not too long later, the waiter brought over an entire pot of black coffee. Devon, unable to wait, drank a mouthful. After he drank, he immediately felt a dull ache in his stomach. He hadn't eaten much just now, and last night, he really had drunk too much coffee.

His stomach ached, but he strangely felt much better. He took another sip, hoping his stomach would hurt more, so it would take away the pain from another place...

A stomach in pain couldn't compare to heartache!

"Gege?"

Devon froze. He raised his head and saw Daren was looking at him with concern. His heart skipped a beat and he hurriedly asked, "What is it?"

"Gege, you look like you don't feel too well."

After Devon sighed, he said, "It really looks like I'm a little more used to drinking coffee with milk now. As soon as I drank the black coffee, it felt it was a bit bitter."

"So it was like that. Should I ask the waiter to bring you some milk?" After he finished speaking, Daren beckoned the waiter over.

"No, no!" Devon hastily stopped him, saying, "I only felt it was a little bitter, that's all. I still intend to keep drinking it black."

Daren hesitated, but he still said, "O.K. then!"

With Daren's eating speed, not even ten minutes had passed when two of them stood up to leave.

Devon picked up his cell phone and dialed Kyle, giving him the command to tell all the bodyguards to stop following them.

"But Solaris Emperor..."

Dar will be with me. There's no problem," Devon said firmly.

"...Understood."

Devon hung up and turned his head. He smiled at his little brother and said, "Let's go, Dar!"

"O.K." Daren replied, happily smiling.

And so, two people walked out of the restaurant. Because the bridge was close enough to be seen with the naked eye, they didn't call for a car and just directly walked over on foot.

Although it was summertime at the moment, because it was evening and there was a river flowing nearby, it felt very refreshing. Looking upwards, there also happened to be a full moon.

Devon gave a long sigh. He lamented, "I haven't been on a walk in a long time. It's quite relaxing. I knew I should have gone on more walks with you."

"In the future, Gege can still go with Dar on a lot more walks! This way, Gege's health will be good," Daren said while happily smiling.

"What you said is right," Devon replied with a light smile.

The two of them walked silently for a while. Devon didn't open his mouth again to say anything. Daren curiously looked in all directions, so occupied that he didn't have the time to talk.

Devon only occasionally looked at his brother with a smile. Otherwise, he seemed to be deep in thought. Even gazing at the moon in the sky caused him to stand and stare.

"Gege?"

Devon froze. He turned around, and looked at Daren, who had a puzzled expression on his face. Smiling, he asked, "What is it?"

"Gege, why are you staring off into space?" Daren faced forward and said, "We've already reached the bridge!"

Have we reached it already? Devon paused and looked deeply at his brother's adorable face before he said, "Then let's walk up!"

"O.K." Daren went ahead and jumped onto it.

This bridge actually was for vehicles to drive on, but both sides had a sidewalk for pedestrians. The river was below, so once on the bridge, the air felt even cooler and more refreshing. The wind was strong enough to make the strands of Devon's long black wig blow sideways.

With a bit of impatience, Devon tugged at his hair. In the end, he just simply pulled the wig off, revealing his head of brilliant blond hair. Then he casually tossed the wig aside and walked onto the bridge. By that time, Daren had long been wildly jumping around on the bridge, his happy face filled with smiles.

Devon also smiled. He asked, "Dar, do you like the stars or the moon more?"

Daren raised his head to look at the sky, thought for a moment, then replied smiling, "I like the stars."

"If that's so, then we'll go somewhere darker, so the stars will be even brighter!"

"O.K..."

Daren cheerfully replied, but halfway through, he stopped speaking. He suddenly. rushed at Devon, and they tumbled to the ground. Daren looked down and said, "Enemies. Gege, don't get up." He looked in the direction of where Devon had just been standing. There was now a masked person standing there.

Following that, the masked person was joined by another three or four masked people who had jumped up from the underside of the bridge.

In a glance, Daren analyzed that the situation was unfavorable. The best course of action would be to flee with Devon. So, he grabbed Devon's arm. He was about to lift him up and run away when he heard noises behind him. Daren turned his head to look. There were three masked people behind him.

"What the hell do you want?" Devon growled.

...

There was a large number of people in front of them, but the bodyguards in the restaurant were close by. There was a small number of people behind them, but it was a poor escape route. Jumping into the river was not an option; he weighed too much and would be unable to float. He also had no way to protect Devon while they were in the water. Flying was not an option; opening his wings would take too long.

The microchip rapidly made the optimal judgment: steal a car from the motorway and drive back to the restaurant!

Daren quickly pulled on Devon's hand. Rushing toward the road, Devon could not respond fast enough. Being pulled along, he staggered and almost fell down.

By then, the masked people had already walked up in front of them and even had weapons out. Daren could only block the attacks first. He extended his steel claws and began fighting his opponents.

His opponents were not stronger than him, but they weren't weak, especially the first masked person who appeared. He was strong enough to almost be able to single-handedly fight against Daren, and also would not be able to be defeated within a short amount of time.

Not to mention, there were seven enemies at the moment. The other people weren't so strong, but they had the advantage in numbers.

Although Daren's hands attacked so fast that only the gray blur of his hands and silver streaks of his nails could be seen, his feet never moved from their position. He couldn't leave his position... He couldn't leave Devon's side.

Not being able to move from his position put him at a great disadvantage. This led to him being unable to fully press his advantage in speed.

The situation seemed to be very bad, but by that time, Devon had already called for support. Also, Daren... Or it should be, DSX, had been passing images of this to Lance for a while, also seeking backup.

One minute, or actually, not even that much time would be needed, and reinforcements would arrive. And no matter who they were, regardless of how many people they had, it was impossible for them to defeat DSX within a minute.

At that moment, Devon suddenly stood up. He held a small pistol in his hand. He didn't say a word before he fired at the surrounding enemies.

"Get down..."

DSX only finished half of his warning when a masked person seized Devon. The energy blade in his hand was up against Devon's neck. The masked man said in a flat tone, "Stop or he dies."

DSX immediately halted. However, the other people didn't. Three or four lightsabers pierced his body, and countless bullets flew at him...

"Dar!" Devon called out, heartbroken.

At that moment, the strongest modified human suddenly came and picked up DSX, his strength so great that even DSX could not break out of his grasp.

Just then, the masked person holding DSX roared to the others, "Retreat!"

Finished speaking, he held onto DSX and then leaped off the bridge. The rest of the masked people followed suit and jumped down too.

"No!"

Devon rushed to the side of the bridge, stretching over the handrail. He lowered his head to look, but only saw waves of water. He shouted himself hoarse, roaring as if he were trying to vent all of his pain from the past few days.

"Dar!"

Facing downward, he leaned out over the railing, unceasingly calling out in a broken voice...

However, if other people could have seen Devon's face, they would definitely have been surprised. Devon's expression couldn't be said to grieved—he was completely expressionless. Only that pair of eyes was filled with fury. Currently, his gaze was exactly like when he had declared his revenge to Yue Baylian.

After he issued another choking sob, Devon silently sneered.

Wrong! Completely utterly wrong.

Dar never liked the stars or the moon. He would rather stay under the neon lights of the big city, and wouldn't want to walk to a dark place where he could see the stars and moon. This was because he'd hated the dark since he was little!

"Solaris Emperor!"

At that moment, Zyle rushed over with a large number of bodyguards. As soon as he saw Devon, he sighed in relief, saying, "You're safe."

"Kyle..."

Devon raised his head. Then he suddenly hugged Zyle. Zyle was shocked. He hurriedly said in assurance, "We will immediately search for Young Master Daren. He'll be fine. You don't need to worry..."

"Do you know what you've done wrong?"

Devon suddenly drew close to Zyle's ear. He softly said that single sentence. Zyle froze. What had he done wrong?

"If I was in danger, Kyle would never come here himself, because he knows he would be of absolutely no use here. In addition, he would even be exposing himself to danger. So, since you're Kyle, as soon as you hear that something may have happened to me, what you should do is hide yourself and direct everyone to stabilize the situation."

Devon used an especially enthusiastic tone to say, "Now do you know what you've done wrong? Zyle?"

Upon hearing this, a chill ran down Zyle's spine...

******

It was evening. The river sparkled in the moonlight, the waves glittering. It was extraordinarily beautiful. Regrettably, due to lack of management, the pedestrian paths on both banks of the river were overgrown with weeds. And so, not a single person was there to stop and stare at such a beautiful scene... However, it was well-suited for doing shady things.

For example, jumping into the river to escape after committing a crime, and using the banks as a landing place.

The calm surface of the river was suddenly disturbed. A huge figure shot out of the river, making the water crash together. Luckily, there was no one in the vicinity to startle.

The large figure water-skied to the riverbank. Once on shore, he lay on the weeds, appearing to be out of breath. There was a mask obscuring his face. He ripped off the soaked mask with a hand. The face beneath the mask surprisingly belonged to the several-days-absent Ezart.

After Ezart took a few breaths, he pulled out a cell phone from his pants' pocket. Fortunately, this phone had been kept in a watertight plastic bag. Otherwise, it would have been very strange if he could still have used it after submerging it in water. He tore off the plastic bag and made a call. As soon as the call connected, he immediately said, "Hey! I'm done on my end What about your side?"

After listening to the other side say a few words, Ezart said, "Oh. I've got the microchip, but even if it's been soaked, there's no problem, right? As long as that's fine... O.K.! I'm going back now I'll bring the microchip back! You're really long winded, Theodore old man!"

...You're not allowed to call me "old man!"

The cell phone transmitted a shout loud enough to deafen a person. Ezart immediately held the cell phone farther away, the shout making his ears ring. Not to be outdone, he forcefully roared back into the cell phone's microphone, "Fine then!" and hung up.

After he hung up, he didn't immediately head back as he had said he would. Instead, he lay motionless on the weeds.

"It looks like the only person left that I can have a good fight against is Dar....."

Muttering this, he looked at the moon in the nighttime sky. The silvery moonlight was just like the color of Daren's hair. He couldn't help scratching his face, and muttering again.

"Brat, don't come back in pieces. Otherwise, your brother really will go crazy!"

********

In the opera house basement

Lance suddenly stood up. He was livid as he watched the screen in front of him. The screen was paused at the image of Devon roaring in pain. At the same time, in the lower right of the screen was a small bar labeled, "DSX's status."

At the moment, DSX's status display was gray. Above it was the large red word: "Destroyed."

DSX had actually been destroyed!

This unexpected situation left him shocked. His expression became downcast and uncertain. He was a bit undecided, not knowing how he should act next. He anxiously paced back and forth, unable to decide... Finally, he still stopped in his footsteps and looked at Devon's pained expression on screen.

"Despicable devil's spawn. Always bringing pain to my darling Devon!" Lance was so angry that flames of fury almost shot from his eyes.

"No matter what, I cannot allow that devil's spawn to return to harm my darling." Therefore, to decide it once and for all...

He would kill Daren Solaris!

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