EXPERIMENT 101

Chapter 29: Intruder

“eus… Timeus!” call out the man on the other side of the video call.

Timeus shakes his head and glances at the only Family he had. 

Schader smiles helplessly at his beloved nephew. “What are you thinking?”

Timeus just bows his head. “I’m sorry, uncle,”

Schader just waved his hand, “It's fine, it’s fine. I know that you are being like that because of what happened to Asharika.” He kindly says. “It was not your fault little Tim. I am the one who should say sorry. Although we already knew that Ms. Gonzaga might have connections with those Humex, I still didn’t do anything when you took her in. I should have stopped you.”

Timeus bit inside his mouth. “No, uncle. It was my willfulness.”

“This child…”

“Uncle… My older sister Diana.”

“Hmm? What about her? Did you dream about her?”

“No… Just that… You said that my older sister died because her body was weak during the operation. Right?”

Schader stares at his nephew. “Why are you asking me these questions?”

Timeus didn’t know if he should say it. But his uncle was with him since young. He helped him during the time his family died, and rather than taking his inheritance, he had helped him on how to manage their business.

If there was one thing that he was most thankful for, it will always be his uncle. Besides, his uncle won’t lie to him nor do something that would hurt him, right? He had no reason to.

After much thinking, he faces his uncle, “Aharika said, that the humex she was with was my older sister.”

Schader opened his mouth and closed. He was doing that when he exhaled deeply. “Timeus, do you have the video of it?”

Timeus' heart is shaken, but he calms himself and sends the video to his uncle. It was encrypted when he sent it.

Schaer opened the file and watched the whole scene. Timeus even saw that he watched it for a second time and his lips were pressed together. Then his eyes went to him. “Where is she?”

Hearing this, Timeus didn’t answer rather ask. “Uncle… Did my sister really die during her operation?”

“I…” Schader coughs and drinks some water to replenish his dry throat.

Timeus didn’t want to believe it, but his uncle's action and weird movement made his heart go cold. “Uncle…” He inhales feeling pain in his heart. “Uncle!”

“Little Tim. I’m sorry, we lied to you. It was not that we didn’t want to tell, it was just that during that time, you lost your memory. We just don’t want you to remember that painful past-”

Timeus raises his hand. “That was not my question.”

Schader turned silent. “I…” He sighs and stares at Timeus' eyes. “It was true that your sister died, Timeus. You two were kidn*pped, it was just that when you were brought back by the military personnel that time, Diana was not with you. We found Diana’s dead body during the last mission given to the military. Timeus, I didn’t mean to-”

“Uncle… I want to be alone.”

Schader turned silent as he observed his nephew. “Timeus, we just do those things because we love you. Remember that.” Afterwards, Schader closed the video projectile, leaving Timeus who was in a daze.

He didn’t know what to feel at this moment. 

All his life he was living in lies. He held the necklace on his neck. He had no idea who gave it but he did remember a small girl's voice saying some gibberish words to him.

He closes his eyes, feeling complicated inside of him. 

He wants to talk with Asharika again. But was that the right thing to do? 

He sighs when suddenly an alarming sound broke out, reverberating all over the place and an SOS showed in front of him. “Sir, a new type of humex was attacking the whole place! A lot of us already died. I was-” a red liquid wash on the screen, showing a man in a hood. 

The man looks at him, “Yo,” the voice of the man heard on the other side. He looks directly into Timeus’s eyes. “If it wasn't the great Timeus Del Roca. Even though we didn’t meet for a long time, you are still annoyingly disgusting.” 

Timeus’s brow frowns, glaring at the humex with a pair of fingers that was formed into a hook blade. His face was not clear but He could feel a familiarity with the man for some reason, but he felt annoyed with him. He tried to search where he had met this guy but he couldn’t. 

“Who are you?” Timeus’s eyes showed inquiry.

“Does that matter? Where is the humex you captured?”

Timeus’s eyes turn sharp. “Why would I even answer that?”

“Sigh, still annoying as ever.” The sound of guns was heard behind the humex. The humex only glanced at those people who were attacking him and exhaled. “Tsk tsk tsk. These people of yours never learn. I am pretty mad at this time, ya know.” Then Timeus saw him s***h on where they were, and the people started to fall with their bodies cut off.

Timeus’s eyes turn red, glaring at the humex who killed his people as if killing some type of game. 

Timeus contacted Rajveer, giving him commandment.

“If you are getting enforcement at this time. I tell you, it was pointless. Brat, I will leave as long as you give me the humex you capture in Mindanao. The girl's name is Jenievib. The ghost-type beauty.”

Ghost-type beauty? Jenievib?

Timeus, hearing that name, remembers what Asharika said while tapping on the screen at one of his floating computers, giving instruction to his people. “You knew Asharika?”

The Humex turns silent. “Asharika? I’m talking about Humex, not that human girl.”

Timeus feels relieved when he hears that Asharika was a human, but his eyes stay on the humex.

“If you think I am a fool who will stay at one place, then I will tell you at this time, I am not an i***t who will wait to be captured. If you don't give me Jenievib, then I will grab her.”

“How will you grab her, when you don't know where she is?”

“Tsk tsk tsk. Timeus, little bastard. Do you think I couldn’t find her? Then I tell you this, I will be able to find her.” He coldly declares at the same time the view turned black.

Timeus’s eyes turn slit and call one of his logistic groups. “Did you see where that guy was?”

The other side turned white, while he saw his people behind the leader of his logistic team were busy tapping fast on the keyboard, while others were tapping on the floating projectile. The thing was those screens were red, meaning that the system had been hacked. 

Timeus’s eyes flash a glint of anger as his hand clenches.

“Re-reporting sir. We were still trying to c***k where the humex was! It-it was just that someone was hacking our system sir.”

Timeus' eyes glanced at them coldly. “Do everything you can to find where that humex was!”

“Yes sir!”