Saving Dharma's Family

"Mr. Dharma, can you hear me, sir?" The C-Pad in Ryan's hand wasn't the latest, the holographic avatar that appeared wasn't very good considering Ryan was on the road, like an old television show that lost its signal.

Inside one of the engine rooms of the Pangandaran Lord's spacecraft. Dharma was quite shocked when he found the avatar of someone he knew very well appear on the virtual screen of his communication device.

"Ryan!" Dharma's eyes widen with a frown. He even had to suppress his voice. "What are you doing?!"

"Sir, listen to me. I'm afraid it will be too late if you hear this from someone else!"

"What do you mean?" Dharma looks around because he doesn't want anyone to hear his conversation. "You infiltrated my network!"

"Listen to me, sir. Switch the conversation to earphones."

Dharma does what Ryan asks. He was really angry about it, and he felt he had to know the reason behind it. Better it's a good one.

What will happen if the guard system of the castle's network discovers the existence of the spy that Ryan planted?

That means it will be bad for Dharma itself. No-no-no, more specifically, his family life.

Dharma looks around, he finds several workers in the same room, also the humanoid robots. He decided to leave the room to find another quieter room.

He found a room. It looks like the small room is used to store files. Hundreds of thick books are neatly arranged on a special shelf.

"Are you gone crazy, huh!" Dharma once again suppressed his voice to avoid unwanted things. He watched the situation outside through the round glass on the door.

"Listen carefully, sir. Sorry, if I have planted an intruder into your gadget. But believe me, our goal—"

"Our?" said Dharma cutting Ryan's words, and he was getting more and more displeased with this. "So you're not alone, huh?!"

"Well, five of us if counted with me. But, never mind, forget about that first! There are more important things for you, sir. The fat ruler has no intention of taking your wife and daughter!"

"Don't fool me, Ryan!" the captain's jaw twitched to contain his emotions that suddenly grew.

"I'm not fooling you, sir. You see, that bastard Lord himself said this. He did send some people to pick up your daughter and wife. But believe me. He, that bastard—sorry to say this, he will make your wife a slave to his lust."

"You're not making this up, did you!" veins tightened in Dharma's eyeballs. He couldn't express how angry he was at this moment.

"You already know that I have infiltrated your gadget since this afternoon, right? Don't you realize that I have infiltrated the communication device of that evil ruler too?"

Dharma is silent for a moment. His memory flashed back to this afternoon. While in the office of the fat ruler.

Right, he thought. Even though it is faint, Dharma can remember. An unusual file appeared just after the ruler pounded the crystal table. And Dharma's emotions are increasing, she is very sure this time, Ryan is not fooling her.

"So the ghost file, it was yours?"

"Bingo..! Listen to me, sir. Right now, I—the five of us are on the way to save your daughter and wife. You can find out later if you call them. Not now! The ruler will use the camouflage program to replace your wife's voice and avatar. And that would interfere with my connection."

"You can save my daughter and my wife?"

"We will see later. In the meantime, can you trust us?"

"I bet on it," there was no other reason for Dharma not to trust Ryan. After all, so far neither Ryan nor Cinnong has given him any trouble, except for the previous request for two seats on the plane. "What can I do now?"

On top of his chameleon, Ryan smiled at Cinnong, which meant the captain was now on their side.

"Now, I want you to be on standby in the cockpit, sir. Wait until we can save your daughter and wife. After that, I will give further instructions."

"Okay. And hey, please chop up the bastards who dare touch my daughter and my wife! Do you understand?"

"Consider it done!" Ryan cut off the conversation. And he switched the network connection to his four comrades. "We've got the green light, guys," the fingers of his right hand are so agile playing the virtual screen. "Soon, we will meet with the men of the fat ruler. We catch them here."

"Roger that!" Yuma who was in the front swerved the chameleon to the right, stopping among the rubble of the building that swayed to the rhythm of the waves.

Cinnong took a position on the left side, hiding behind the mountain of garbage. While Boris and Naomi are also on the left side.

"There are four chameleons," Ryan gave a breakdown of what he got from the C-Pad in hand, "Two on the front, one in the middle, one in the back. The captain's wife and daughter are in the chameleon in the middle."

There was a moment of silence, their positions were on standby without lighting, and without even the engine sound of their vehicles at all.

"Yuma, you'll take down the last chameleon!"

"Okay, Boss!" said Yuma while activating his PSG. The laser-throwing gun in his hand was twice as big as the size the others were using.

"Boris, Naomi," Ryan continued giving his instructions. "You guys move to the right. Takedown the leading chameleon on that side!"

"Roger that!" said Boris. He carried his chameleon to the right, ten meters behind Yuma.

"Cinnong and I will take down the leading chameleon from this side. And Yuma, once you manage to knock down the last one, make sure you can stop the chameleon in the middle without tipping over. Do you understand what I mean?"

"More than enough!" said Yuma.

"All right, get ready, guys!"

Like what Ryan said earlier, it was displayed on the C-Pad screen, even though it was only red dots. Two chameleons side by side at the front, followed by one chameleon at the back. And one more chameleon acting as a guard.

Dharma's wife and daughter are tied to the back seat of the chameleon in the middle. Their mouths were covered with duct tape. There are two men in the back seat watching over Dharma's daughter and wife, while the other in the front acts as the driver of the vehicle.

The look of fear was visible on the little girl's face—Xian, 12 years old. She hid her face on her mother's shoulder. And the mother—Yuan Xi, 33 years old—could only curse the treatment of the people sent by the Pangandaran Ruler to herself and her child. Although, the sound that came out of her mouth could not be heard clearly.

TO BE CONTINUED ...