Abandoned Lover [Future]

"...You don't need to tell me specifically, and I'm not going to send you off. To me, you're just going on a mission."

On the day Eugene left the Rift, he knocked on Basil's door for the last time.The old man didn't look at him, but left him these words while watering the green plants in the house with a brass watering pot.

So Eugene didn't say anything more.

Besides Basil, the only people who knew where he was going were Miles and Fasha.Fasha left him the communication number of a private channel, and Miles handed him five pounds of fudge.At the entrance of the mooring area, Eugene and Miles finally exchanged a hug, turned and stepped towards a small manned ship.

After Eugene left, Xiao and Miles, who had been standing beside him before, looked at each other.The two reached out and shook hands at the same time, and the red-haired man smiled: "...take care of him."

Xiao nodded.

After the two figures disappeared in the connecting passage, Miles stood there with arms folded, suddenly feeling a strange sense of déjà vu.

——A long time ago, he sent Eugene and No. 6 away with almost the same posture, words and attitude.

He felt at the time that he was witnessing the beginning of a new future for those two men.

So now, when the same idea unfolded in his mind, he couldn't help having a palpitation.

"You must come back safely."

Miles muttered like this, frowning unconsciously.

……

Eugene sat down in the cockpit, raised his hand to adjust the buttons above his head, and confirmed the status of the engine, fuel, and navigation system for the last time.

Xiao packed their luggage and sat down beside Eugene.

"...I never thought you would be able to pilot a ship." He looked at Eugene, his sharp eyebrows stretched unconsciously, and his expression was completely different from when he was facing other people.

"You're talking to a star thief." Eugene raised the corner of his mouth indifferently: "So? Are you more fascinated by me?"

Xiao Xiao couldn't help but smile when he heard this sentence.

It's hard for him to explain how much he likes Eugene, who is relaxed and casual at this moment, with a kind of attractiveness that makes people itch.However, this is not an occasion that requires him to confess seriously, so Xiao just kept smiling and said "yes" softly.

In a casual and natural conversation, Xiao looked at the destination on the navigation, and then was attracted by the location above.

"Going to Acropolis? Don't you go directly to Sagrand?"

"There is an acquaintance I want to meet. Maybe he will give me some advice on how to find a target." Eugene looked forward with calm eyes, and he could no longer see the previous wavering.Xiao still stretched out his hand, and put it on Eugene's hand holding the joystick.

Eugene turned his head to look at Xiao.Xiao gently stroked the back of his hand, his gray-blue eyes were like a quiet sea.

"It'll be all right, Eugene."

His voice was low and gentle.

"No matter what happens next, you still have me."

Amidst the roar of the engine, they looked at each other, and each of them believed in this sentence.

……

The main ship of the Rift stopped not far from Acropolis. The voyage this time was similar to the last mission. After two jumps and three hours later, their ship had arrived at the capital city of Acropolis. , New Athens.

Before setting off on the voyage, Eugene was worried about his wanted arrest, and he also planned to show others in disguise.Unexpectedly, the most wanted database on the Internet has already removed his name, making Eugene guess whether it is Joshua who made a big deal for him.

However, if this is the case, it would be a little strange that the other party did not come to claim credit.

It's just that Eugene wouldn't worry too much about the reality that was beneficial to him. After the ship entered the port, he took out a pair of sunglasses, put them on, and walked into the city with Xiao.

As a border city, New Athens has an overly tough temperament. Most of the buildings are cuboids of metal and cement, and the background color is black, white and gray in different shades.Perhaps in order to neutralize this suffocating atmosphere, these buildings are all decorated with classical golden patterns and carvings, and even painted with Athens-style columns and tops in the Earth Age.It's as if the soul of an old city is trapped in the modern age, with a kind of absurd beauty.

... Eugene knew exactly where he was going.

Next to the central square of New Athens, there is a commercial street with a lot of traffic.Because it connects to sightseeing spots, most of the people who come and go are tourists.And among the many shops and restaurants, there is an inconspicuous, dilapidated antique shop.

Eugene stepped forward, took off his sunglasses, and opened the store door.The bell hanging on the door rang crisply, raising a cloud of fine dust.

The darkened shops are filled with antique collections—jewelry and furniture, swords and guns.Even the few appliances are older models, and everything here seems out of touch with time.

And in the farthest corner of this old room, an old man with a huge beer belly was sunk in a dark green velvet high-back chair.He held a beer in one hand and a terminal in the other, as if he was watching some kind of game broadcast.

"Welcome..." The old man's greeting was extremely slow, his movements didn't change, his eyes didn't lift, and he made no secret of his laziness towards the guests.A smile appeared on Eugene's face, and he called his name as he walked towards him.

"Carl."

The old man was taken aback for a moment, then finally raised his head, and then showed an unbelievable expression: "...Little guy?"

— Before Fasha, Karl was the quartermaster on the Rift.He is a crew member of the same era as Gogo and Basil, and the three together form the trident of the golden age of Rift.This time Eugene came here because he heard from Miles that Karl chose to settle on Acropolis after returning to the mainland.

During the days when Eugene was on the boat, Gogo and Basil took over the duties as his guardians, and Carl was more like an irresponsible uncle, taking Eugene wherever he was in danger, which made Basil very angry stem.

Now that Gao Ge passed away and Basil gradually became a stranger, Eugene had to admit that he missed Karl very much.

The old man has a huge body, but he moves very nimbly.He stood up, first gave Eugene a hug that was almost suffocating, and then patted Eugene's back hard as if he wanted to pat Eugene's internal organs out.

Eugene smiled while enduring the pain, thinking that Xiao was still following behind him, hesitated for a while, and decided to introduce him to Carl.

"This is Xiao who came with me, he..."

It was the first time for Eugene to introduce Xiao to others as a lover, and he was a little weirdly embarrassed when he said it.Carl nodded knowingly: "You finally found a partner too? I was still worried about you before. When my daughter was your age, she had a second child." He glanced at Eugene He glanced at his left hand: "You're not married yet, are you? Let me tell you that if you're married, why should you ask someone to send me a letter?"

There was a faint pain in the forehead, and Eugene could only put up his hands and admit defeat: "... Shall we sit down and talk?"

Xiao was very understanding and walked to the other end of the store, leaving as much space as possible for the two of them to catch up.

Carl was back in his high chair, and Eugene pulled a chair and sat down beside him.The old man took out a bottle of beer from his feet, knocked off the bottle cap on the armrest of the mottled chair, and handed it to Eugene.

This never-changing habit made Eugene jealous. "Come on." As the old man said, two bottles of beer collided, "Tell me about what you have done these past few years?"

...Eugene felt that his life on the Green Star was lacklustre, but perhaps because of his age, Karl took a trivial interest in everything he said.Therefore, he could only recall the past piece by piece, telling Carl about Joshua, Mary, and even Dietrich, and then suddenly found that he remembered these things about the people around him really clearly and vividly.

Because he started to narrate from the recent past, he still couldn't get around the topic seven years ago.Eugene looked down at his hands, and after being silent for a while, he met Carl's eyes again: "...I didn't tell the people on board that No. 6 died during the mission because he was protecting me. .”

Carl sighed: "The past is over. We don't need to talk about him."

No. 6 is Gao Ge's real adopted son, and Karl naturally has feelings for him.Eugene wrung his hands: "...don't you blame me?"

"Why blame you?" Carl showed a puzzled expression: "Could it be you who forced him to protect you?"

Eugene looked down.

"You don't have to think about these things. Even Gao Ge, I know, never blamed you." Carl stretched out his hand and patted him on the head, and then he seemed to think of something, and added: "What happened on the 6th That day, Gao Ge didn’t say anything else, he just said that he wanted to know if No. 6 would get back what he lost before he left.”

In the whole boat, except him and Gao Ge, no one else knew the inside story of the wish at that time.

Eugene closed his eyes, frowned, and whispered, "Yes."

——Because of his emotional ups and downs, he didn't notice that Gao Ge's original words were "take it back", not "get it".

After a few low-key topics, the two talked about Carl's current situation.The old man hiccupped and introduced his life after retirement.Unlike everyone on the boat, Karl has always had a family on land.However, his wife was unwilling to go on board with him, so he and his family lived a life of more than 40 years together.

"She is unwilling to admit that I am a star thief, and has been telling her family that I am a sailor until she died. Where did the Acropolis star come from?? Isn't she lying??" The old man couldn't help raising his voice, nasal But it looked a bit heavy, and the round nose was also flushed.

Seeing his appearance, Eugene hesitated for a moment before guessing: "When you said you wanted to return to Lu, was it because of her..."

"Because she's gone? That's not it." Carl scratched his chin: "After she's gone, I feel that the land is even more boring. It happened that my daughter was going to sever ties with me at that time. I was going to die in the rift. number."

Such an answer was beyond Eugene's expectation: "Then you..."

"It's because I saw something I shouldn't have seen." Carl clicked his tongue: "Basil's magic stick insisted that I would die if I stayed on the boat, and told me to get off the boat quickly."

The old man's tone was not very serious, but if it was something with such serious consequences, Eugene would naturally not take the initiative to inquire.However, now that he is extremely stable after a few years, Carl seems to think that what he saw at that time is not a big deal, so he just said it directly.

"I just saw people from the military buying slaves from the underground black market we often go to. Is this something to be silenced?" He shook his head and took another deep sip of beer: "As a result, Gao Ge heard Afterwards, even the slaves were not bought at all, and the bachelors on the ship at that time were so loud."

"You think Basil just wants to replace me as the captain? After all, I'm the first pick after Gao Ge."

The old man was complaining, but Eugene's attention was on the sentence about the military.He quickly brought the conversation back: "Do you know which military it is from?"

"I didn't know, they didn't wear uniforms when they attacked." Carl hit his chest with his fist, trying to pat the belch down: "But we weren't caught with the military on the Pluto incident." Have you ever been forced to cooperate once? I remember the general’s adjutant, he was the one who bought the slaves.”

Pluto... At that time, the person who forced Rift to cooperate with the military could only be Diev.Eugene frowned, and asked some more inside information.

——This happened some time after the accident on the 6th.The military bought slaves in large quantities, mainly young and strong males.The reason why Karl discovered this was because, as a quartermaster, he needed to help the Rift replenish its combat power; the slave market was originally a convenient place to go, but the seedlings he was eyeing were often snatched away by others.This kind of thing happened too frequently, and he used his contacts to dig deeper, only to find that all the buyers were the same person in disguise.

The information Carl exported was not complicated, but it cast a haze over Eugene's eyes.Fortunately, Karl didn't notice his strange behavior. After talking about this topic, he turned to talking about his daughter. "Who would have thought that she would be the one who cried the most when I came back? She wouldn't let go of me when she hugged me." The old man's expression became more emotional: "My two granddaughters are also different from their grandmothers. It’s a cool thing for grandpa to be a star thief—”

... The length of this reminiscence exceeded Eugene's expectation, and it finally came to an end after more than two hours.At the end of the conversation, Carl invited him and Shaw to have dinner tomorrow, and Eugene nodded after thinking about it.

With deep apologies, Eugene got up and came to Xiao's side.He knew Yi Xiao's character, and he was determined not to be angry because he asked him to wait.However, it was such a place that made Eugene feel more and more guilty.

Before calling out Xiao's name, Eugene suddenly noticed that Xiao was seriously looking at a ring in a display case.

The ring was just a silver ring with a small but brilliant blue gem set in the center.It was obviously a simple and ordinary design, but among all the rings on display, it was the only one covered by a thick transparent protective cover.

As if he had just noticed Eugene's arrival, Xiao raised his head, showing a slightly embarrassed expression.

Eugene's eyes softened, and he couldn't help asking: "Do you want it?"

The author has something to say:

Note: The uniform colors of the troops of the three generals are different.Jiev is black on a red background, Sisong (there are too few scenes) is gold on dark blue, and the only female general of the right way is silver on black.

This chapter is mainly about the plot, because you have to string all the lines together before the ending, so that you will feel "Oh, so that's how it is?! How cool?!"

In the next chapter, two people buy a ring (really) get engaged (not really) and meet their wife's family (just for dinner).

感谢在2020-10-2315:39:50~2020-10-2517:50:54期间为我投出霸王票或灌溉营养液的小天使哦~

Thanks to the little angels of irrigation nutrient solution: 20 bottles of sparrow in the wind; 10 bottles of flowers blooming on the road; 100 bottle of carrot and Zanweier 1%; thank you very much for your support, I will continue to work hard!