Curse the Mainframe! 197 Te.ake's Plans For The Relatively Near Future

They'd left behind the squishy 'civilians' that didn't have any training for this type of situation since there was no telling what could go wrong. Though they said that, only Joseph and his daughters weren't taking part in this operation.

It was only when they were well down the road that Lukas finally found the words to speak, giving voice to his questions.

"So, everyone knew about this but me?" he asked with a frown.

Liam snorted, attracting his brother's glare. "Hardly, brother of mine. Do you honestly think that you were the only one who was paying attention to their motions throughout the day?"

Lukas blinked. Chastised by his brother, Lukas fell silent.

Sometimes, he slid back into bad habits where he kept everything to himself, taking actions and carrying them out by himself without getting a second opinion. Because Karen and Liam were dead. Because he'd allowed them to die on his watch.

But that was then, this was now.

He was part of a team now, but he hadn't been acting like it at all.

He'd been planning on going after them by himself and bring both Dominique and Natalie back by hook or by crook, and he was aware of himself enough that he acknowledged his own shortcomings.

Liam nodded in forgiveness at the slightly sheepish expression in his brother's eyes. He knew his twin better than anyone else, even if he'd been hardened by whatever he'd seen.

One day, he'd get his brother to admit what he'd seen by himself.

Karen spoke up in Lukas' resulting silence from his brother's chastisement. "How are we tracking them, exactly?"

Alec finally spoke up. "I can track Dominique no matter where he goes."

Even Lukas, who arguably had questionable morals from going through the apocalypse already, squinted at him in disbelief.

"You chipped him like a dog??" Karen voiced her disbelief for the party. "That's, like, breaking so many laws. Seriously."

Alec directed his smile at Karen, shutting her up.

"Fine. Shutting up now. It's your life," Karen muttered.

Unlike what they thought, Dominique wasn't chipped – but he might as well have been, considering Alec's bond towards his Spectre mark.

Alec was going to happily ignore the illegality of that because one, this was not their original world, and two, the Spectres could track him back if they so wished it.

More than that, Alec respected their privacy and didn't use it at all, unless they were in extenuating circumstances, such as the one they found themselves in right now.

Dominique and Natalie had left them and were heading back to City J with the alien in tow, though the other things had been left behind. Such as the large piece of meteorite that they'd acquired from N1 base.

However, the alien definitely wasn't omnipresent nor was it omnipotent.

Considering that it was in the middle of the night, they were actually able to exit fairly easily, something that surprised Lukas.

The two, plus an alien, seemed to be heading towards J City. That was the only city in driving distance. Of course, they could have been heading much further away, but it only made sense if Alec took into consideration that many things had happened in J City.

Alec now regretted that he hadn't been to J City himself so that he was able to leave a teleport array. It would have been so much simpler, instead of having to plan around them.

Though they didn't leave too long after both Dominique and Natalie set off, they still had to keep quite a distance between them. For safety sake. Both themselves and those under the alien's mind-control.

He could feel Dominique moving away from them at a very quick speed – but that was to be expected.

Unfortunately for them, Lukas and his party weren't able to move at that kind of speed yet, hence the need for the jeep.

Alec tapped a finger on the jeep wall. "Stop the jeep."

The jeep immediately screeched to a halt despite Liam not yet putting a step on the brakes.

Liam eyeballed the jeep, annoyed. Didn't he and the jeep have an unspoken agreement for Liam to be in control? Otherwise, him being in the driver's seat was just awkward.

Alec got out of the car, popping open the hood of the jeep.

With a brush in hand, he inscribed a few arrays onto the jeep's hood, then moved around and inscribed a few different ones on different parts of the jeep.

By now, they were rather used to Alec's oddness and strange actions, so they just waited patiently inside the vehicle.

No matter how Alec tried to teach them about what he was doing, it just eluded them completely, as if it was some sort of knowledge from the fifth dimension.

Alec hopped back into the jeep.

"What did that do, exactly?"

"Mm," Alec answered a little absentmindedly. "Makes the jeep quic-"

He was cut off when the jeep suddenly lurched forward, causing Karen to choke off a scream that almost left her throat at the abruptness of the action.

The world almost blurred outside the jeep, causing Lukas' party to stare at the boy incredulously.

Liam didn't even dare to try and control the jeep anymore, just leaning back. He felt like this was the real saying of 'Jesus take the wheel'. If they hadn't experienced this, then they were using that expression wrong.

-

Te.ake had taken control over the strongest male human there, as well as that conveniently placed female human. She'd been weak enough on her own that taking over her consciousness hadn't placed the slightest amount of strain on him whatsoever, leaving him with ample leeway to find another host.

This human that he was currently using was perfect. He was the strongest it had seen on this backwater planet, and it was even stronger than Te.ake itself.

It was quite unconceivable that this little planet held such a powerhouse, and Te.ake almost hadn't been able to believe it himself, had he not seen the fight between his host and that other human.

Te.ake salivated over the strength. He was a perfect host, and Te.ake hadn't been able to resist taking him for itself.

Luckily, this host didn't seem to have much mental strength. In fact, none of these backwater hicks did, which was a stroke of luck on Te.ake's part. It was like the universe was aiding him along in his goals.

Anyway, Te.ake had moved his real body back to the original place. 'J City' as it was called, apparently. What strange city names. They made no sense at all. Nor did it have any sort of elegance to it. But then, what else could he have expected from this tiny planet?

Te.ake could feel the presence of his ship here.

The pesky humans had not moved it from the spot where they hid it, and Te.ake's ship was mostly invulnerable to physical damage, so there was no problem in this regard.

These humans would not have been able to touch its beloved spaceship no matter what they tried, with their ancient technology. Find authorized novels in Webnovel，faster updates, better experience，Please click for visiting.

They were leagues too early before they even dreamed of touching galactic technology, which was yet another boon for Te.ake.

Anyway, Te.ake had taken this… Dominique and Natalie with it since they were relatively useful.

Te.ake would keep Dominique with it. This was a perfect host, and easy to use. Dominique's strength was rather sizable even in the galaxy. Around C+ rank.

After reacquiring its spaceship, Te.ake would be able to speed up the red virus infection process throughout this little planet, making it more contagious and irresistible.

Te.ake ordered its hosts to move the rubble that its glorious spaceship was buried under, tutting at the damage the red meteorite managed to do to the surrounding areas.

The buildings on this planet were so archaic that they couldn't even withstand a little blow from outer space, nor did they have any shields to withstand enemy invasion.

Truly, it was a wonder that this planet still stood strong after what seemed like a good number of years.

They were so defenceless, yet it was strange. Had Te.ake not crashed here by accident, he would never have discovered this little planet.

Now that he was here, getting coordinates to this place was easy.

Te.ake wriggled his tentacles. The time was soon to come!

Chapter end