Abandoned Lover [Future]

On November 8th.

Eugene and Shaw were preparing to leave New Athens from the ship port.The confirmation and adjustment of the engine and energy sources have been completed, and Eugene turned his head to the side, instructing Xiao next to him to call out the voyage chart to Sagrand.

The current ships will automatically draw the optimal route according to the destination and location.There is a mine star area and a demilitarized zone between the border of Acropolis and Sagran, and you need to pass through a specific guard post before entering the country.Eugene thought about it after checking the distance, and manually changed their sailing route.

Compared with a smooth route, he chose to use short-distance multiple jumps to quickly traverse from the place with the highest density of the asteroid belt in the center of the mine star area.

Such a choice is not infeasible, but there are very few people who will do it because of the need to deal with the sudden increase in the frequency and difficulty of manual driving.Xiao turned his head to look at his lover: "Why did you choose to go this way?"

"Because I can." Eugene smiled.

Xiao has no doubts about Eugene's driving ability, and the mechanical body can bear the burden of the jump completely unhindered.So in the face of Eugene's occasional rise, he naturally did not stop him.

During the subsequent voyage, under the control of Eugene, the ship often quickly avoided the huge rocks scattered on the planetary belt with incredible angles and precision.Xiao Huan was new to Eugene's rare show off, but there was no ostentatious expression on the other party's face.It was after leaving the wide asteroid belt that Eugene suddenly changed direction, aligning the position of the main bridge window with the direction they came from.

Xiao couldn't help holding his breath.

What appeared before their eyes was a belt quietly floating in the center of the universe.The belt crosses the left and right sides of the field of vision, and is composed of countless uneven metal and rock blocks. The part facing the light is reflected in a pure white outline, and the part facing away from the light is almost hidden in the pure black background.If he hadn't seen it with his own eyes, it would be hard for Xiao to imagine that these rough, lifeless stars would actually form such a solemn and shocking scene.

These floating fragments are so strongly perturbed that they can never coalesce into actual planets.Some people say that they are the most primitive remnants of the current galaxy, but for an incalculably long time, they have become captives of the space they are in, and can only revolve around the nearest star indefinitely.

In front of such a lonely and magnificent scenery, the ship they are on is so small and not worth mentioning.Xiao stared blankly at everything in front of him, and then heard his lover whisper from the side: "I want you to see this."

——When Eugene was a teenager, Gogo brought him here on the way to Sagrand.Facing such a view, he thought that it would be great if he could see it from No. 6 who stayed on the Rift.

He always remembers.

After so many years, even if the person he wants to share with has changed, at the moment sitting beside Xiao, Eugene still feels that he has fulfilled this expired, small wish.

He thought, two people watching is indeed better than one person watching.

His golden eyes were reflecting the pale light outside the window, Xiao looked back at him, unable to say anything.And as if aware of Xiao's gaze, Eugene also turned his head to look at him.

After looking at each other for a few seconds, Xiao turned his body, gently grabbed Eugene's collar, and kissed him.This kiss was light and tender, Xiao raised his hand in the middle, turned off the overhead lighting, and made the window their only light source.

Before the extremely lonely planetary belt, they seemed to be the only two people left in this world.Their backs were against the darkness that was almost the same as the background color of the universe, and they were being tightly surrounded by impenetrable silence.However, because of each other's existence, they actually feel unspeakable satisfaction and security.

Between kisses, Eugene slowly opened his eyes and looked at Xiao who had no gap with him—half of that nearly perfect face was plunged into darkness, and the other half was reflected almost like light.Pushed to the extreme contrast in the field of vision, Xiao's kiss at this moment is so gentle that it is unreal.

—I want to be with this person forever.

Thinking of this, Eugene stretched out his hands to hold Xiao's face, and silently closed his eyes again.

- I don't need anything else.

……

After the silent tenderness, they finally set foot on the original voyage again.Eugene looked at the window in front of him, and finally couldn't help but have some kind of hope.

Maybe, he thought, maybe what he could share with Xiao was not just this single scene, but many trivial experiences in the future.Maybe he can be like the most ordinary person, able to grow old by his partner's side in the drowsy and most inconspicuous happiness.

This kind of imagination carried a temperature that made him afraid, but because of the presence of Xiao beside him, he felt that he might have the courage to touch it.

Eugene lowered his head and shook hands, preparing for the penultimate jump before reaching the border post - this is a standard distance jump that will send them to the edge of the mine star area.After taking his seat one last time, Eugene pressed the button.

The scenery in the field of vision shifted and twisted, as if in an instant, a clear outline of a planet appeared in front of them.Eugene wanted to explain to Xiao the precautions when passing the border guard post, but he quickly changed his expression when he turned his head to the side.

Xiao beside him lowered his head and covered his ears, his supposedly grey-blue eyes now had a faint white-gold glow.

……

This is the White Tower.

Amidst the sharp tinnitus, a fuzzy scene trembling and flashing back appeared before Xiao's eyes.

That towering but extraordinarily slender building was the White Tower he had seen in Cornova.

However, the buildings around the White Tower were completely different from what he remembered. They were no longer urbanized landscapes, but black metal boxes that spread out endlessly and stacked back and forth.Instead of windows, these building-sized metal boxes have countless red and green indicator lights that bounce back and forth.

In a city where no one can be seen at all, the sky is covered in pitch black.What finally tore the darkness was the flames falling from the middle of the sky one after another.

--resemble.

--resemble.

—Can you hear me, Shaw?

Eugene's voice dragged Xiao out of this weird hallucination, and a pair of familiar hands had already been placed on his shoulders.Xiao had never felt this way before, the back of his neck was scorching hot, and the operation of the mechanical core was faintly sluggish.

What made him feel most uncomfortable was a kind of indifference that spontaneously emerged from his innermost being.

When he watched the falling flames in the hallucination, he seemed to feel that it was his own end, but he still didn't feel any touch because of it.

It's as if...he has really become a machine without any emotion, and can watch everything meaningless being bulldozed and destroyed.

Fortunately, when he looked up and saw Eugene, his heart would still beat strongly, reminding him again and again where the boundary between illusion and reality was.

Taking a deep breath, Xiao knew he couldn't attribute this to a sudden malfunction.He propped his head on his hands, and tried his best to look at the planet in front of him—it was after the leap that he suddenly fell into this inexplicable situation.

"What... is this place?" He asked with some difficulty.

Eugene was stunned for a moment, and immediately responded: "Mine Star RZ162. Is there any question?"

When Xiao got the name, he quickly searched it in his mind - this is one of the very few azurite ore stars in the alliance, and the mineral reserves are very large, and the purity of the produced minerals is very high.

"Eugene, please, get out of here quickly."

Without asking any more questions, Eugene held Xiao's hand with one hand, and quickly pressed the button to jump again with the other.When he finally saw the border guard post, Eugene's palms were already covered with cold sweat.

He didn't mention that during the short time when Xiao was out of order, the entire cabin actually fell into a state of complete loss of energy for about a second.

Although he didn't react until this second had passed, the great panic had already covered him once again.

It wasn't that he feared that momentary possible death—it was because he was reminded that, in a reality he'd all but forgotten, Shaw carried a legacy of unknown function and purpose.

And the legacy...had only brought him disaster.

Thinking of this, Eugene clenched his left hand on the joystick.

He still didn't let go of Xiao's right hand.

"We're almost there, are you feeling better?" He comforted the cyborg next to him with a tense voice, and even tried to smile.

The stars outside the window were still watching him quietly, but the scattered light spots began to look like sporadic mockery.Like every time before, fate is like a vicious joke. When he finally starts to have hope, it will drag him back into the nightmare time and time again.

But he doesn't want to.

He is unwilling to return to the quagmire of the past, and he is unwilling to give up.

——Even if it is a disaster, Xiao will be a disaster that he welcomes happily and will never let go.

……

As if provoking Eugene's oath, Xiao's condition did not improve even after crossing the border post after the jump.The biochemical man's movements seemed slow and dry, and his neck and chest began to become astonishingly hot.Even if Eugene brought the cooling material immediately, as long as it touched the side of Xiao Tonghong's neck, the frozen water vapor would evaporate instantly after a "swish".

Xiao leaned back in his chair and spoke with difficulty, trying to comfort his human beings with a soft tone: "I'm fine, it's just a sudden information overload."

The cyborg itself has a self-checking system. Under the current situation, Eugene can only trust Xiao's judgment on the status quo.However, Xiao's deliberate tenderness was incompatible with the heat radiating from his body, and mixed into an unbearable anxiety for Eugene.

"...Don't lie to me." Eugene frowned, and his right hand that changed the course was trembling slightly.

In his mind, the light in Xiao's eyes was slowly dimming, and finally turned into a metal body that could not move.This kind of imagination pinched Eugene's stomach, and he pushed down the joystick violently, as if to dispel this ominous possibility.

The author has something to say: The article has been revised on December 12.

The last chapter said entering the ending, referring to the ending part.There should still be tens of thousands of words to write, about 7-10.

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