Abandoned Lover [Future]

Green Star, Leeds Delta.

"Sir, the list for the next group match is out. The person Benoa will face is Eugene Palmer, who is on the exclusion list you made from the beginning."

"Eugene Palmer...I remember him." The middle-aged man in a black suit was leaning against the window, listening to his subordinate's report while watching the crowd passing by. "It actually hit him. It is said that he was seriously injured in the last match?"

"Yes, it seems that it is still being rescued in the hospital. Should we watch it, or do it?"

The man in the black suit said after a moment of silence: "...Whether he died of illness or was killed, I don't want to see him on the field. Benoa must win this fight, and I don't accept any other results."

"Understood. I'll send someone to Cornova right away."

"Do it carefully, try to do it in the hospital, make it look like an accident."

"Yes."

After the subordinate left the room, the middle-aged man continued to look at the scenery outside the window for a while.From a distance, a father and daughter came to his window. The young father carried his daughter in a pink dress on his shoulders. The little girl laughed happily, making it easy to imagine her giggling. .

The man seemed stung by the scene.He looked away from the window, lowered his head, and took out an old pocket watch from his pocket.

The inside cover of the opened pocket watch is a picture of a girl, a girl of eighteen or nineteen years old holding a bouquet of purple hydrangeas, smiling carefree.

"My baby..." The man's eyebrows were slightly frowned, and a sad look flashed across his face.

——When Benoa signed up for wrestling, he sneered at the young man's almost crazy behavior.He never liked this young man with no strength, but his little princess Ellie fell in love with him.He almost pinched his nose and agreed to the marriage of the two. As the bride-to-be, Ellie withered quickly due to a sudden illness before the wedding.

Like a lunatic, Benoa wrote down his wish to revive Ellie on the wrestling registration form.He looked at him coldly, hoping that Benoa would die.He didn't want such a person to remind him of what he lost all the time, until an official reply letter from the league was sent to Benoa.

The league approved the wish.

That said, it's an achievable wish for the league.

It was hard for the man to describe his feeling when he saw the reply letter—returning the dead to life was not at the level that current technology could achieve, let alone Ellie was already a corpse buried deep in the soil.A chill crawled up his back, and he always felt that he seemed to have glimpsed some terrible secret.

But he still wanted to give it a try.

Players who die before the gladiatorial match will be considered as automatically withdrawn from the match.He and his hands have already taken too many lives, and he doesn't mind killing a few more people to pave the way for Benoa.

"Come back...my baby..."

The man murmured, closed the pocket watch again, and held it tightly in his hand.

……

It was evening when Eugene woke up again.His whole body was hot, his limbs were heavy, and the back of his head was excruciatingly painful.He moved his body in the chaos, but accidentally touched the terrible penetrating wound on the left side of his abdomen.As a result, he gritted his teeth and became sober.

When he was most uncomfortable, a pair of hands stretched out to help him wipe the sweat off his forehead.

Eugene frowned in pain, and looked to the side, where Xiao was sitting by his bed, looking back at him.

"What time is it?" Eugene tried to speak, but his voice was hoarse, as if it had been scorched by fire.

"Six o'clock in the evening. It's the 16th now." Xiao answered while putting away the handkerchief in his hand.The last gladiatorial fight was on the 14th, and Eugene fell into a coma for two days.

It's not too late, he still has time.Thinking of this, Eugene sat up slowly under Xiao's surprised eyes, clenched and loosened his hands back and forth.

"The doctor doesn't allow you to move." Xiao stretched out his hand to stop him, but his movements were very gentle.He could see the straight line protruding from the side of Eugene's jaw, and he knew that Eugene must be enduring pain now.

Eugene was just trying to understand how far his body had recovered, and he was disappointed after trying to move.In addition to the great pain of the wound, he found that he was suffering from a low-grade fever, and his strength was almost exhausted to the point of bottoming out.

Seeing Eugene's frowning, Xiao felt that something was stuck in his throat.He had pictured Eugene waking up many times, vowing to himself to take care of this man as best he could for the time he had left.He hadn't seen Eugene when he was weak, but when Eugene felt uncomfortable, he wished he could hold Eugene's hand and calm him down carefully.

However, he forgot that Eugene would never scream pain in front of him.

Xiao didn't know what other people would look like after being seriously injured, but he certainly wouldn't think about other things quickly after waking up like Eugene did.

"When did the doctor say you can leave the hospital?" Eugene leaned his head back and closed his eyes. His previous actions had already made him break out in a cold sweat.

"At least twelve days."

Eugene seemed to want to smile, but this action made his whole body arch in pain.He controlled his breathing, and looked at Xiao after recovering: "Twelve days? The next match is just four days away."

Xiao looked at Eugene's trembling hand covering his stomach, and felt that someone was pinching his heart.

He took a deep breath silently and said to Eugene:

"The doctor said that you injured your abdominal aorta during the game. If the first aid team hadn't blocked it forcibly at the first time, you probably wouldn't be here now."

Eugene frowned even tighter: "What does this have to do with what I said?"

Xiao pursed his lips, and then said, "That's enough, Eugene."

Eugene did not understand what he was saying.

"You don't have to fight for me anymore." Xiao smiled, "There are four more days, and then let me be destroyed."

Eugene seemed to feel that he had heard a joke: "...do you know what you are talking about?"

Xiao nodded.

"In the past three months or so, I have been really happy." He tried to maintain a smile on his face, his voice sounded calm, and his gray-blue eyes even had a smile that was almost sincere. "Although the time is short, I don't think I have any regrets to meet you."

"A result like the last one, I can't just sit back and watch it happen again."

"You still have friends and family and I can't let them lose you."

"Enough is enough, Eugene."

——This remark was not on his whim.As early as not long after Eugene was injured, he had made the plan to make the other party give up.This decision was not difficult for him, because he couldn't face the possibility of losing Eugene at all.

He looked at Eugene on the hospital bed, at the bright golden eyes that finally opened.He had been worried that Eugene would fall asleep like this and miss saying goodbye to him.But now it seems that God has really treated him well, and he still has four full days.

Time is such a luxury.

"So it's okay." Xiao stretched out his hand and shook Eugene's hand with a smile: "You don't have to think about the next game."

When his hand was about to touch Eugene's, Eugene slowly moved his arm away and turned his face to the other side, avoiding his touch.

After a long silence, Shaw heard Eugene say:

"The last game was my fault. The next game won't happen."

It was as if he was apologizing for his mistake.

Xiao's chest hurt as if pierced by a sharp cone, and his throat seemed to be blocked: "You don't need..."

"Please," Eugene interrupted him slowly but firmly without looking at him, "ask the nurse for a pain pump for me."

Then Eugene let himself return to the state of lying flat, with his back to Xiao, curled up slightly.

……

Xiao left, and Eugene buried most of his face in the pillow, slowly adjusting his breathing.

His pain-sensing nerves are much more sensitive than ordinary people, and now he is almost half-killed by this wound.

Calm down and think about it carefully, he has lived desperately for 31 years, with unwanted scars all over his body and back, but none of the things and people he wanted to keep.In the end, what was left in his hands seemed to be only the memories of the pain besides the feeling of pain.

It's really disappointing.

He remembered the way Xiao was talking to him just now, his eyes slightly bent, his voice low and gentle.For a long time, he just wanted to have such a person by his side.

He can accept that this person does not belong to him, and he can accept that he will break up with this person in the future, but unexpectedly cannot accept that this person is forced to withdraw from his life for other reasons.

Even if it was destined that he couldn't keep it, he didn't want anything else to take Xiao Shengsheng's away.

He doesn't accept it.

……

Eugene's ward had a communicator directly connected to the nurse's station, Xiao realized this only after he ran out in a hurry.However, because many emotions were mixed and blocked in his chest, his ability to think was compromised.

He stood in the corridor, lowered his head, and let his reason slowly return to his body.

... He had clearly thought about what to say to Eugene before, but it was more difficult than expected to say it.

After all, he couldn't bear it.

It was the best man he could have imagined.If you can really stay by this person's side, who wouldn't want it.

It's just that he saw Eugene covered in blood once, so he really couldn't bear it a second time.

When the words came out, he expected that Eugene would nod silently, and was afraid that after Eugene agreed to him, the countdown would really start like this.And when Eugene rejected him, apart from bitterness, he also had a kind of self-deception, as if everything really wouldn't end here.

To be able to think this way, probably because he was really spoiled by Eugene.

...Thinking about this, Xiao stood still in front of the nurse's station and conveyed Eugene's request.

The nurse on duty asked Eugene's bed number with a surprised expression: "Is it the patient with abdominal trauma? He doesn't have a pain pump now?"

Xiao shook his head.

"Please let me confirm."

The nurse walked over to a head nurse beside her and said something in a low voice.Xiao's hearing is much better than that of humans, and he can barely hear a few key words.

"Peritoneal penetration...why not..."

After the two of them talked, the head nurse seemed to have deliberately called up Eugene's information from the system.Although it is a projection screen, because the privacy protection is turned on, from Xiao's perspective, it is only gray and white.

After a while, the nurse came over apologetically: "I'm sorry, Mr. Palmer's past medical history makes the pain pump not suitable for him."

Xiao frowned: "What past medical history?"

"We can't tell you the specifics..."

"This is not in line with common sense," Xiao said anxiously.It was his negligence that he didn't realize that Eugene didn't have painkillers before, but now that he thought about it, it didn't make sense at all, "His injury is so serious, shouldn't he be given painkillers from the beginning?"

"I'm sorry, but even if you say that, we can't tell you more information."

The nurse looked troubled, but apologized quietly.Xiao looked at her, and then at the gray-white projection screen, hating his own helplessness.

However, while he was staring at the screen, he was surprised to find that a few lines of words slowly emerged from the gray and white.

- Drug use history: short-term high-frequency drug abuse: analgesics (opioids) and sedatives (barbiturates)

——Remarks: Retired military officer; diagnosed post-traumatic stress disorder; suicide attempt: 1 time.

"...this gentleman?"

The nurse's question drew Xiao's attention back.He looked at the direction of the screen again, and found that it was still gray and white.The head nurse was doing the work in hand without changing her face, as if she didn't see anything unusual.

"I'm sorry." Xiao said, taking a step back, not sure whether what he just saw was just a hallucination.

"However, since you are Mr. Palmer's family member, there is another thing I want to inform you. His clothes and personal items during the emergency operation have been uniformly cleaned and disinfected, and you can use this to claim .”

The nurse handed Xiao a small electronic card, which showed Eugene's name, a series of serial numbers, and a real-time map of the hospital where the pick-up location was marked.

"Thank you, I... I'll go later."

Xiao took the card, as if he wanted to confirm something, and hurried back to Eugene's ward.

Lying on the bed, Eugene looked back at him, probably because he had been in pain for a long time, and his expression was a bit sleepy.Xiao seemed to inadvertently go around and sit down on the left side of the hospital bed, and said to him: "The nurse said you can't use the pain pump, and they didn't tell me the specific reason."

Eugene didn't look annoyed, and didn't speak, but raised his right hand to cover his eyes, looking more tired.

"Sorry." Xiao whispered, gently raised Eugene's left hand and shook it, but this time Eugene did not refuse him.

When the hand was lowered, the inside of the wrist naturally faced upwards.Inside Mai Se's wrist, there was an inconspicuous light-colored scar running vertically, about three to four centimeters long, superimposed on top of the vein.

Xiao's back trembled uncontrollably, and he forced himself down again, as if shivering.

"resemble……"

"you……"

The two spoke at the same time, and just as they were looking at each other, the sliding door of the ward was opened again.

—Joshua stood outside the door, holding a large bouquet of lilies in his hand.

"Excellent," said Eugene in a low voice, and then heaved a long sigh.