After the little argument, Mary Jane averted her gaze, leaving Allen fuming. She then continued to drive the car without saying anything. In reality, she was controlling her anger. If it had been any random person whom she had been trying to help and the person had been unreasonable, she would have already let him go. But Allen wasn't any random person. He was a player like her and had the most powerful system. He was the main key in destroying the plans of Project Erebus. Without him, it would be very difficult to destroy the consciousness which had already been created. It might even be impossible to do so.To get Allen on their side, she had to take in his nonsense. Well, it wasn't as if the young man meant to behave that way. She understood him perfectly and knew that he cared about his only family. She would have behaved that way if she had been in his shoes. She was luckier because she had no family members currently."We've been driving for two hours now," Dr. Thompson finally
The silence lingered for some moments before Allen spoke, "You live an isolated life, Mary Jane. I never expected someone like this to exist.""It's normal," Mary Jane replied casually. "When you have dangerous people on your neck, you'll learn to live an isolated life. From now on you'll live such a life.""Why does this feel like a curse?"Allen couldn't help but narrow his eyes.Dr. Thompson glared at Allen from the backseat before saying, "You can continue with your story, miss. It seems you haven't finished it."Mary Jane took a deep breath before saying, "I was hated by my parents since I remembered. I was never for once shown love. And to make matters worse my older siblings treated me the same way."It seemed as if they saw me as a tool with which to vent all the frustration they've been going through. I don't blame them. I would have done the same if I was them.""No, you wouldn't have done that," Dr. Thompson said. "I know you as a charismatic person. If you had been in their
After some minutes a cave soon came to their view. It was standing in the middle of the desert, caked in so much dust that no one would have noticed the cave was even there. Allen would have asked what the next step was but he thought against it. The girl he had been arguing with lately had been through so much than him. He couldn't afford to make her feel bad after hearing her story. It would be inhumane if he did something like that.Allen sneaked a glance at her and saw that her expression had turned normal. She didn't even look like someone who had suffered so much. She looked as if nothing in this world could shake her and that made Allen impressed. The young woman was strong, even stronger than him."You once asked how I knew this area," Mary Jane said as she stepped on the brake slowly. "It's because I once lived with my family in that dilapidated street. The last street before we entered into the barren land with so much thorns."The car came to a halt in front of the cave, an
As Allen stared into the tunnel which seemed to stretch endlessly, he sucked in a cold breath. He never imagined that the cave which he had seen to be dirty and ancient would turn out this way. He had expected Mary Jane to use her wind power to push the boulder away and was shocked when she used facial recognition instead."I purchased so many AI systems from the Prime system with all the points I had left and installed them here," Mary Jane said. "I even made the system modify this while in place. No outsider was involved in building this magnificent place and I was the one who designed it before giving it to the Prime system to work on it."Magnificent place? Allen couldn't help but ask himself. All he could see was a very long tunnel. There was nothing magnificent about it. He had been shocked at first but that didn't mean the place breathtaking. So what was Mary Jane talking about?"You designed this whole place by yourself?" Dr. Thompson asked with a surprised expression. It seem
Mary Jane was the last to walk out of the elevator, the doors closing immediately with a beep sound. She walked towards the wine cellar in the dining room to get them some drink."This is more fascinating than I'd expected!" Dr. Thompson said as he nudged at his glasses. "These screens seem to be connected to satellites in space. They're showing various scenes of our city!""True," Allen responded with a nod. "I'm seeing the various streets I'm familiar with.""There is even footage of our hospital!" Dr. Thompson exclaimed as he went to one of the screens. "So this is how she found us!"Allen silently looked at the various screens and soon saw a familiar place. His memory told him that it was his mansion. Seeing his mansion reminded him of his sister. He couldn't help but clench his fists, becoming more determined to find her after he settled down here."She even has footage of my mansion," Allen said as he touched the screen. "She's been stalking me all this while.""Stalking?" Mary
That same day Stephanie was busy preparing food at home. She wanted to take the dish to her elder brother who was still at the hospital. Ever since his mental state deteriorated she has been sending food to him, not for once allowing him to go hungry. Every single day she would visit him and there was no day she didn't buy things for him. His brother was the only member of his family right now and she had to do everything in her power to take care of him.Stephanie still remembered that their father was still alive but she couldn't consider him a member of her family. The man had abandoned their mother and them for another woman. He had even written his will, handling all his property to his haughty stepdaughter. So there was no way she could see someone like that as family. It would be a foolish thing to do."By now Allen should be feeling better," Stephanie said. "I need to make his meal more delicious than before to celebrate this."That night Dr. Thompson had called her to tell he
Allen and the others were still drinking when he saw a scene of the hospital to which had been admitted earlier. There was so much commotion and the cops were moving about, trying to calm the situation. He saw the terrified expressions of the doctors in white garbs and couldn't help but become interested in that particular footage. There was an explosion and everyone except the cops and SWAT team couldn't help but scamper for safety. They were very terrified as they stared at the flames of fire that bloomed from a particular part of the hospital like a mushroom. A thick cloud formed in the air at the hospital and Allen discovered that it was smoke. During that time at the hospital when Agent Jack had wanted to capture him, Mary Jane had shown up to stop him. It seemed they had fought and the fight was what caused the explosions in the hospital. Seeing this, Allen couldn't help but wonder how tough the battle between Mary Jane and Agent Jack had been back then. Were they employing th
"We need to get my sister right now! She's in danger!"When Allen made this announcement, Dr. Thompson who had been looking at the screen shuddered. He had thought that people from Project Erebus weren't going to strike for the time being. Who would have thought that they would immediately go after Stephanie after discovering that Allen had escaped?Dr. Thompson didn't just think that Project Erebus had gone after Stephanie because they just wanted to force Allen out of the shadows. He felt that the reason they sent someone after her immediately was because Agent Jack had been killed by Allen and Mary Jane. This was seen as a quick revenge, an eye for an eye."I think at this moment we shouldn't make rash decisions," Mary Jane tried to calm Allen down. "Project Erebus wants to use your sister as a bargaining chip.""They haven't gotten her, have they?" Allen couldn't help but ask. "Also they don't even expect us to show up to save my sister. They don't think we're gonna show up again