Abandoned Lover [Future]

Come to the No.15 year of the long star.

Eugene is 46 years old.

In the workshop, Eugene's terminal suddenly rang.Connie's name was displayed on the floating window. He took off his gloves and clicked on.

"Master, everything went well! I, I have good news..." The young man's voice was full of excitement, with a nasal voice: "It's twins, we have twins!"

Eugene was startled, and then stretched out an almost bright smile: "Great, how is she feeling now?"

Connie couldn't stop rambling on the other end of the call. Eugene smiled and approached the window on his side.Xiao, who was standing opposite, raised his head and showed him a questioning expression.Eugene pointed at his own terminal with his hand, and silently said "good news" with his mouth.

Xiao looked at him smiling so much that his eyes narrowed slightly, he couldn't help but stop what he was doing and look at him.In the workshop, while calculating the time when Connie and the others returned from the neighboring city, Eugene asked, "Ask Lily what she wants to eat tonight? Come to my house and let's celebrate together."

Lily's excited voice came faintly from the other end, it sounded like a middle school girl who was about to have a festival.The corner of Eugene's mouth couldn't help but rise—even if he was going to be a mother, their little girl was still a little girl.Connie relayed her favorite ingredients one by one in a good temper, and Eugene nodded subconsciously: "Okay, I'll check if there are any taboos for pregnant women..."

In Connie's ears, Eugene's laughing sentences were muffled by some kind of noise.

"Master?" he asked, "Maybe the signal is bad, I didn't..."

"Sorry, I'll call you later."

Eugene hung up the phone directly.

…Connie blinked at his terminal.

In a scene he couldn't see, Eugene looked down at the blood dripping from his chest, feet and right hand.

He couldn't remember the last time he saw human blood.This sticky and warm touch is like a hallucination that has been too long, and it has become extremely strange and incomprehensible.He raised his head hesitantly, and in the reflection of the window, he saw the corners of his mouth and chest soaked in red, and Xiao's face with a changed expression on the other end.

He licked his lips.Rust smell.It was blood gushing from his body.

At the end of his line of sight, Xiao's eyes were wide open.No.Eugene read his mouth.No, no, no.The biochemical man pushed the table in front of him violently, and ran towards him quickly.

Eugene still couldn't digest the sudden situation, and his first reaction was just that it was difficult.Xiao has always attached great importance to his health in a fuss-like manner. If something like this happens, he will have to comfort him for a few days.Eugene wiped off the blood around his mouth, and then wiped his hand on the cloth behind him.He had already thought out the words to deal with - "it's okay", "I feel fine", "we're going to the hospital now", it wasn't difficult.

When Shaw's face appeared in his field of vision, Eugene raised his hand familiarly and smiled.

I'm fine.He wanted to say so.

However, before opening his mouth, it seemed that someone took his consciousness away in an instant.The curvature of his mouth is still there, but the light in his eyes has dimmed.In an instant, he fell forward heavily, and then fell into Xiao's arms.

More blood overflowed from his slightly opened mouth, slowly soaking Xiao's front lapel.These endless reds seem to be tired of his container and want to escape to somewhere else.

……

The workshops and flower houses were shrouded in unspeakable low pressure.

Lily was sitting on the chair, twisting the handkerchief in her hands, with tears in her eyes, and begged her husband beside her in a low voice: "I'll go too, Connie, I'll go too... What if? What if he..."

Connie frowned, his lips were pursed, and his expression was unconcealable worry.He wrapped one arm around Lily's shoulders, and gently placed the other on her belly, which was not yet fully visible. "You are a pregnant woman. If you go with me, they will have to take time to take care of you. If you really get to that point, you should leave time for the person he most wants to see."

The two of them talked very softly, as if they were afraid of disturbing anyone.Heavy footsteps hit the stairs, and Xiao walked down the stairs with two huge travel bags.Because his head was down, his long hair was scattered in front of his eyes, and Connie couldn't see his expression clearly.

When he came to the first floor, the tall man slowly turned his head in the direction of Connie and the others, and then slowly retracted.Without saying a word, he continued to walk forward.Connie gritted his teeth, said "wait for me" to Lily, and then chased after her.

"Mr. Xiao." Connie called the other party's name.When the man turned his head, Connie could only see the lower half of his face, unable to see all the expressions on his face.A terrible sense of coercion came down to him, and he knew that if he said something wrong, this person would tear him apart in an instant.

"We will stay here forever. So," Connie took a deep breath, "please bring him back."

The man was silent, and after a long time, he said in a low voice: "...Thank you."

His voice was completely hoarse.Connie looked at him and thought he was looking at a beast crying blood.

……

What happened to Eugene was beyond anyone's expectations.

Ever since he suddenly collapsed in the workshop that day, Eugene's physical condition has rapidly deteriorated.In the face of hard-to-trace internal bleeding and serial failure of multiple organs, symptomatic therapy was used to the limit; the speculum sewed up the bleeding spots in Eugene's body again and again, and the auxiliary machinery gradually replaced his autonomous organs.However, the turbulent symptoms of undiagnosed causes made the largest hospital in Flintstone helpless. Now that he was almost in a desperate situation, Xiao decided to take Eugene back to the green star with the highest medical level.

News of Eugene's serious illness spread quickly.Knowing his current situation, Joshua directly borrowed a private rescue boat from Changxing, so that he could seamlessly transport him from Changxing's hospital all the way to Cornova.Xiao went home briefly to get their clothes and utensils, and then boarded the ship with Eugene, who had long been unable to walk.

Eugene was lying on a fixed hospital bed, and the accompanying medical staff locked the instruments connected to his body one by one to avoid accidents during the jump.They told Xiao that such a voyage puts a heavy burden on the body of a normal person, and they should be prepared for the worst.

Xiao sat by Eugene’s bed and didn’t speak.Beside him, Eugene's face was covered with an oxygen mask, and the sheets on his body covered his severed body and dense pipelines.Facing Xiao's silence, Eugene slowly raised his unfixed right hand, and gently touched Xiao's forehead with his index finger - such a movement was already very strenuous for him.

Xiao didn't move for a moment, then slowly held his hand and pressed it against his forehead.This won't work, Eugene thought, so I can't see his face.

"……look at me."

The exiting syllables were only light and inaudible breath sounds, which were almost completely covered under the oxygen mask.Yet Shaw understood what he was saying.The cyborg raised his head and looked at him, his brows were slightly frowned, and his lips were tightly closed.

Eugene watched the tears pool in those gray-blue eyes, then fall silently, soaking his fingers little by little.

None of them spoke.He hasn't figured out what to say, maybe Xiao is the same.Eugene wanted to smile at Shaw, but in a scene like this, it might look like a goodbye.

To be honest, he still has no real sense of his current situation.He has walked on the line of life and death too many times, and every time he was returned exactly, like some kind of defective product that was rejected by the god of death.Is this the end of him?Eugene found it hard to believe.For no reason, without warning, one fine day, he fell ill and never woke up again?

Will not.He reassured himself without hesitation, no.He will be fine.They'll find out what's wrong with him and cure him like they did every time before.Maybe he'll have an aftereffect, and some more scars, but he'll be fine.He will remember Xiao's tears, and then use it to make fun of him at the right time in the future.

...or maybe he shouldn't bring it up again.Because the current Xiao looks really scared.

Eugene refused to consider the possibility of going the other way.He used a lot of strength to shake Xiao's hand back, so that the other party could barely feel him.The ship's engine started slowly, and Eugene turned his gaze back to the light source above his head, and then slowly closed his eyes.

I hope that when I wake up, everything will be back to normal.

……

After returning to Cornova, Eugene spent three days at Baita General Hospital before undergoing another transfer.

The decision to transfer is made by the female general.Knowles, who has passed his sixtieth year, is slowly fading out of government affairs, but he always remembers his best student.In the first three days, the best medical team in the league gathered in Cornova, but it was still impossible to determine what caused Eugene's abnormal condition.Faced with such a situation, the female general sent someone to send Eugene to a special hospital run by pioneers under the name of the Life Society.She had a faint, not optimistic premonition, and urgently needed to ask the people there for confirmation.

And her hunch was finally confirmed.

In the ward, Eugene was sleeping peacefully.The humanoid legacy she had seen once hunched over slightly, standing motionless by Eugene's bedside.She stepped forward and patted the biochemical man named Xiao on the shoulder.The other party looked up at her, and then slowly and silently followed her up.

In the empty corridor, what Knowles wanted to say suddenly became difficult to export.This is really hard to imagine, because out of her own position, she has announced the death of too many people time and time again, and even ordered others to sacrifice for a certain goal.

But the Palmer in front of her is no longer a soldier under her command.

...He was a normal guy with a life of his own, loved and missed by others.

Knowles looked at the cyborg in front of him. "It's not the disease that's killing him, it's the price of his vows," she said.

The cyborg lowered his head, opened and closed his mouth slightly, and then asked, "... at what price?"

Knowles handed him a note that had been bent once.The cyborg unfolded the note, and after seeing the writing on it clearly, he trembled violently.Knowles selectively made himself forget how he felt when he heard the news, but the grief of the man in front of him saturate the air around him, letting the emotions she wanted to suppress leak out irresistibly.

— When she met Eugene, he was only 19 years old.She used to think that he was not suitable to be a soldier because he was too ideal, too sensitive, and too soft-hearted.But at the same time, he was smart enough, strong enough, and cruel enough to himself.

From the perspective of her boss and mentor, she watched him get smashed once.twice.many times.Every time it was because he wanted to protect but ended up losing someone—his comrades-in-arms, subordinates, civilians who were supposed to be protected by him, his lover.His life seems to be more difficult than others.So when Eugene finally put down everything and left Green Star, she sincerely hoped that he could enjoy a smooth life in the future, and become an old man she couldn't see in the long years.

However, fate still came to this point.Her hair hadn't quite turned gray before she was about to send him off.

Her best, proudest, and most indebted student.

The female general who had never lost her composure in front of others raised her hand and placed it on her eye socket.

……

"Halve life expectancy".

The words stuck in Shaw's mind, and each repetition felt like killing him.This price represents two equally cruel facts-these sudden illnesses have no cure, and are only a means to drag Eugene to an established end; time of year.

Xiao sat at the end of the bed, looking at his beloved, beloved, beloved human being.

——He was still very young, so young that no one could guess his age when they first met.Thanks to him, even if his appearance has not changed in 15 years, passers-by will only say that they are a pair of people who are especially favored by God.Two years ago Eugene finally had his first fine lines that wouldn't go away around his eyes, and the man even opened a bottle of wine to celebrate, as if aging had never been the enemy.Shaw watched him get slightly drunk and said to himself that at the age of 50, he would start trying to grow a beard and become a charming yuppie gentleman.

But you're charming enough, ever was, and still is.At that time Xiao thought so, kissed the fine lines at the corners of his eyes, and then asked him: What about me?Do you need me to change your face? ——This kind of question comes from the heart. Every time he imagines that Eugene is getting old, but his appearance is permanently pressed the pause button, Xiao will feel a kind of undirected hatred from the bottom of his heart.However, his human beings were not worried about this, and just smiled half-truthfully and said, when that time comes, some blind people will probably think that you and I are father and son, and the rest will think that I must be rich, so I can To such a beautiful little boy.

Every time he faced this worrying topic, Eugene would comfort him in such a way that he would really think that nothing would change.So when the reality hit him this time, he was a million times more at a loss than he expected.

——It turns out that I don't need to worry about these problems at all, because his boy will not grow old anymore.His short life will stop at No.40 for six years.

……

Eugene opened his eyes and looked at the empty ceiling.When he woke up again and bumped into Xiao's expression, he understood his sentence.

He had seen such an expression of the cyborg once before.A long, long time ago, when Xiao thought he would lose him, he behaved the same way.

He breathed slowly, and finally turned his gaze back to Xiao.Xiao looked at him, staring at him motionless.Eugene couldn't help but still showed a smile: "Don't cry."

- The perfect counter-effect.

"...Is there anything you want to say to me?" He asked him softly.

The cyborg didn't say anything, just took his hand and kissed him repeatedly, kissing his wrist, palm, and knuckles.The trembling breath fell on the palm of his hand, and his hand wiped Xiao's wet face again and again.

Eugene was silent for a while, and said slowly: "Your flower shop is doing very well, and it will definitely continue to operate in the future."

"Lily and Connie can be regarded as your company. Especially Connie, he likes you so much."

"after……"

Having said that, Eugene suddenly became confused.Every dying person has a fixed line, so that those who are left behind will have a better life.He said mechanically what he was supposed to say, but began to be unsure of what to say next.

—wish you had the chance to love someone else?Xiao probably would be so angry that he would collapse.Even himself, he couldn't imagine Xiao showing the same affection for himself to other people.But what is Shaw going to do if it doesn't happen again?In the endless time, is Xiao going to go down alone like this?

His cyborg is gentle, patient, and considerate, and will give people warm hugs and sweet kisses.He hopes that someone in this world can see through his indifference and inaccessibility, and love this person who deserves to be loved.His cyborg doesn't like distance and can't cook.He hopes that someone can accompany him at home and cook three meals a day for him who cannot learn to cook.His cyborgs have some slightly extreme possessiveness, and some tendencies that may be difficult to empathize with.He wants someone who can fully accommodate him and not make him feel uncomfortable because of his differences

—but at the end of the day, he hoped it would be him.

He understands better than anyone else in this world what a wonderful person he is.

They have spent 15 years together and have integrated each other into their own lives. While loving each other, it is like loving themselves.

"Eugene."

His cyborg finally spoke.

"Please, don't leave me."

"...don't leave me alone."

Violent tremors came from the clasped hands.Eugene didn't dare to look at Xiao's expression at all.

He closed his eyes.

...What a nuisance.

How could he say goodbye after hearing such words.

Unspeakable unwillingness and tears were pressed under his eyelids together.This may be quite ironic. He had wanted to give up his life many times, but the only thought he had at this moment was "I don't want to die".

This kind of thought was repeated over and over again. At the beginning, it was full of resentment towards fate, but in the end it became clearer little by little.

"resemble."

Eugene opened his eyes and opened his mouth slowly.

"I want to stay with you."

"No matter what, I want to stay by your side."

He turned his head to look at his lover's face.

"So, help me, Shaw."

……

The female general's eyes widened slightly.

"...Is this his own request?"

The cyborg nodded.

"We need to contact each other immediately... I don't know if such technology can be spread, but fortunately, their new party leader has a good relationship with us." Knowles quickly planned in her mind, but she still couldn't believe it, it was the one who always Eugene, who didn't care about his own life, would go so far willingly.

This made her turn her head to glance at the humanoid legacy.

"Thank you," she said.

Shaw looked up at her.

"Thank you for making him willing to try to stay."

……

Shaw will always remember that day.

On the hospital bed, Eugene, who was already speechless, raised his hand and slowly took off the ring on his left hand.

He tried to give Xiao the ring, but Xiao didn't want to take it—to this day, he refused all forms of goodbye.

But Eugene just lightly tapped the inner edge of the ring with his finger, and then smiled at him.

……

Nine hours later, Eugene's ECG monitoring became a straight line without ups and downs.