Abandoned Lover [Future]

Time went back to the early morning of the 21st.

Eugene hardly slept all night.He knew in his heart that this was probably his last night in Green Star.He kept asking himself if there was any unfinished business that he hadn't done, and if there was anyone he hadn't met that he hadn't said goodbye to. By the time he realized it, the sky had already turned pale.

There was a notification projection floating quietly on his terminal, and when he clicked on it, it was a few messages from Joshua.

"My birthday is next month, why did you suddenly give me a gift?"

"By the way, what is this?"

"I can't understand your message either. What do you mean by helping you suppress the wanted in the future? What are you doing?"

"ignore me?"

"Do you want me to take you to the arena tomorrow?"

"Anyway, I'm on leave again."

Facing such words, Eugene first smiled, and then the corners of his mouth slowly fell back, realizing that he was still a little sad.

"Xiao, come here."

Instead of replying to Joshua's message, he called the cyborg who had been awake with him all night.Xiao sat down in front of him almost obediently, looking at him quietly with gray-blue eyes, which looked like gems without impurities.

Eugene took out a small transmitter from the backpack he packed last night, and stuck it on the inside of Xiao's arm.

"What's this?" Shaw asked.

"Location system jammer. I don't want the Academy to find your coordinates."

From such words, the cyborg seemed to have finally determined what Eugene was going to do, and asked, "...Where are we going?"

"A place far away from the green star, where you can be free." Eugene confirmed the firmness of the transmitter. "Although it seems too late to ask now, are you willing to leave here?"

"Will you come with me?"

"Of course." Though not a destination, Eugene thought.

"Then I am willing." The biochemical man stretched out his hand and gently held his: "I can go anywhere."

Eugene thought such a straightforward answer was cute, reminding him of a pet that had recognized its owner.But thinking about it carefully, Xiao has no other choice—anyone will choose the latter between being destroyed and possible freedom, and besides himself, Xiao has no one to rely on.

After recognizing the facts and looking back, it was indeed very problematic to be able to regard Xiao's desperate situation as/love me before.

Thinking so, Eugene handed a backpack to Xiao: "Let's go."

Before going out, Xiao suddenly asked again: "Are you giving up wrestling just like that? I thought you wanted to make a wish..."

As if realizing that he was not qualified to comment like this, Xiao quickly shut his mouth.

"From the very beginning, my purpose was not to win the gladiator." Eugene turned off the light, and took a last look at the apartment where he had lived for more than ten years.

"After all, the so-called gladiatorial fight is just a scam."

A rare puzzled expression appeared on Xiao's face: "Scam refers to..."

Eugene sighed, not because he didn't want to answer Xiao's question, but because the explanation was too complicated: "I'll explain it to you when we get to a safer place."

... In the early morning light, Eugene drove his heavy motorcycle and drove Xiao away from Cornova, and drove into the unoccupied land outside the city.In the boundless desert extending to the horizon on the left and right, Xiao tightened his arms around Eugene, and looked back at the skyline where Cornova was gradually receding.

In the middle of the skyline, the White Tower was looking back at him.

More than two hours later, Xiao found himself in the underground black market that he had visited once before.Eugene scanned his iris and keyed in the password before the entrance with optical camouflage, and then stepped into the stairs leading to the underground that seemed to appear out of nowhere.

In the empty hall, a middle-aged man was waiting for them with his hands behind his back.The man is very tall, about 40 years old, and has been bald.

Eugene made a brief introduction for Shaw and the man: "Jensen, Shaw. Shaw, Jensen."

The middle-aged man named Jensen extended his hand to Xiao and shook it quickly: "Jensen Sauber, I am the boss here."

-Jensen Soelberg, Jenson Soelberg.Looking at this person's initials, it is probably the man who had been communicating with Eugene through secret channels before.

There were no unnecessary pleasantries, and Jensen took out two brand new terminals and handed them to the two, then asked Eugene, "Will you come back to Green Star in the future?"

Eugene shook his head: "Probably not." He signaled Xiao to return the previous terminal to Jensen, and then added: "I shouldn't have come back from the beginning."

"When you made your decision, you didn't know what would happen afterwards." Jensen explained him, "But the people on the boat seem to miss you very much. When you get back, say hello to everyone for me."

"I will."

Jensen has arranged for the two of them to have a piloted aircraft.Not long after, the streamlined aircraft slowly rose from the ground, and then carried them to the ship port city in the south of Cornova, Emerald Bay.

There, there will be ships to take them where Eugene wants to go.

Now the cabin of the aircraft that the two are traveling in is not big and can only accommodate a square table.Eugene and Xiao sat face to face, on both sides of the square table.

Eugene looked at the scenery passing by outside the window, and then looked at the time displayed on the new terminal.I don't know how long it will take for others to find out that he is gone.

He almost had to imagine how the people he cared about would react to the news.However, more guilt is useless for the decision that has already been made. It is better to focus on the present.

Eugene exhaled soundlessly, looked back, and then pressed the button of the privacy shield at hand.

The small cabin was suddenly plunged into a silence that could hear a needle drop.Xiao subconsciously straightened his back, because Eugene's expression slowly changed, becoming rare and serious.

"You asked me about the gladiators before," Eugene said, "I'll explain it to you now."

"But before that, I should explain a term to you.

"It's the 'inheritance' I mentioned once yesterday."

Xiao Jingjing listened without interrupting.

Eugene looked at the surface of the square table, and then turned to Xiao's eyes: "You know that the humans of the Alliance are not the natives of this galaxy?"

Xiao nodded.

"It can be learned from human textbooks that we are the descendants of humans on Earth who drifted to this immigration zone."

"But it didn't say that. When we came here, what we found was actually a modern planet with traces of development."

——What Eugene wants to tell Xiao is a history that has been deliberately hidden and tampered with by the upper echelons of successive governments.

When the first batch of settlers landed on the green star, what they saw was actually a developed city-state that was extremely similar to the old cities of human beings, and was becoming more and more advanced.However, although these city-states are intact, the residents in them seem to have disappeared suddenly, and there is no trace of any disaster or crisis.

There is nothing in the remains that can explain how the last civilization disappeared or left.However, humans on Earth have already experienced too long adrift. Even if they have great doubts about the past of this land, they still cannot resist this planet that is very similar to their parent star.

They decided to put down roots here.

In order to reward the first batch of humans to discover the habitable zone, the predecessor of the Alliance government even gave them hereditary noble status.In exchange, the nobles tore down most of the buildings of past civilizations to prevent spreading panic about this fact among the other new settlers.After that, the Alliance Government notified the scattered human remnants, who gradually moved here and gradually built new cities on the ruins.

However, not only the overthrow and reconstruction part has been erased from the existing history, but also other information related to the old civilization has been erased.

"What remains from the previous civilization is not just ruins." Eugene's expression became serious: "There are also many technological and research results that cannot be explained by the current level."

"The Coalition government refers to these things collectively as 'heritage'."

These heritages are scattered throughout the habitable zone and surrounding areas, and are strictly supervised and controlled by special departments under the military.In the process of trying to study and understand the "legacy", they gradually discovered that many of the legacies contained terrifying power that could easily subvert their existing civilization.

"I say the gladiatorial is a hoax because it is a ritual of selecting subjects for a certain 'inheritance'."

"That 'legacy' is called 'Innocent Blessing,' and it's one of the most tightly controlled by the military."

"Its ability is to fulfill the wishes of the wish-maker with inexplicable power. However, the prerequisite for triggering it is that the wish-maker's wish must be strong enough to ignore his own death."

"Since a long time ago, the Alliance Government has been trying to collect enough experimental items to understand the upper and lower limits of this heritage ability."

The predecessor of gladiatorial fighting was only within the range of a green star, and it did not involve life and death.As the violence level of the competition slowly escalated, the government quickly realized that this was a natural way to help them choose the experimental products.For this reason, they reformed the competition system and gradually perfected the gladiatorial fight to its current style.

Eugene closed his eyes, as if recalling an extremely bad memory: "Actually, anyone who enters the top 16 in the wrestling will have a chance to be contacted by the government and become a voluntary experiment of that legacy."

When he opened it again, Eugene's eyes were full of coercion and chilling light.

"It's just that they won't say that there are only varying degrees of misfortunes in the end of making a wish to that inheritance."

As a "legacy that makes a legacy", "Innocent Blessing" has several characteristics.

——The way it fulfills the wish does not follow the will of the wisher.

——It will randomly take away one or several items from the wish-maker when the wish-maker's wish is fulfilled.

In many cases, being killed is considered a lucky thing.

At this moment, Xiao suddenly thought of the sentence that Eugene had typed.

"I shouldn't have made a wish."

What wish had Eugene made, and what was taken from him?