Abandoned Lover [Future]

As the night wore on, the party continued.Eugene found an excuse to get away from the crowd and went to the balcony to enjoy the air.

Xiao saw it from the side, hesitated for a moment, and followed silently.He stopped behind Eugene's side and watched the night wind blow Eugene's hair, and the neon lights fell into the other's eyes, like fire.

Xiao didn't have anything to express to Eugene, he was just pure and wanted to be by Eugene's side very much.This desire is more sincere and pure than before, like a thirsty person needs water, and a hungry person needs food.

He actually wanted to touch Eugene, too, if possible.However, the unhappiness of yesterday was still vivid in his memory, so he carefully stood one meter away from Eugene's body.

Eugene didn't change his movements because of Xiao's approach, and the two of them just stood there speechless.

After a long silence, while looking at the night in front of him, Eugene asked Xiao who was behind him: "...Have you thought about what you want to do in the future?"

Xiao didn't expect him to ask this, he hesitated for a moment, then shook his head: "Not yet."

"It's time to think about it. For example, what kind of job will you do and what kind of place will you live in?" Eugene's voice was calm.

There seemed to be some hidden meaning in this sentence, Xiao couldn't catch it right away, but subconsciously felt uneasy.He lowered his head and pursed his lips, then said: "It seems that there are not many things I can do."

Eugene turned around.Xiao's eyes suddenly met those golden-brown eyes, and he subconsciously took half a step back.

Eugene looked at Xiao's colleagues in the living room, and then looked back at Xiao: "Didn't you be hired before? I didn't even know you had the skills to repair amusement equipment."

Xiao didn't know how to explain it for a while.At that time, he encountered a malfunctioning equipment when he was visiting the playground alone, and wanted to rescue the child trapped in the equipment by virtue of his height.As a result, as soon as I got close to the center console, the device happened to start working again.After the manager arrived, he checked the equipment log, pointed to the record on it, and forced him a job.

Until now, he didn't know why the malfunctioning equipment would always get better after he approached, and he didn't think that this kind of luck could find him another job.

"...I actually don't understand it very well, but I can learn." Xiao carefully considered his words and answered carefully, "Do you want me to go back to work in the amusement park?"

"I hope it doesn't matter what you do, as long as you can find a job that you like and can make ends meet." Eugene could see that Xiao's attitude was a little more humble than usual, with a hint of flattery, which made him not really want to Continue on this topic. "Anyway, there will be plenty of time in the future, so you can think about it slowly."

There is plenty of time.When Xiao heard this sentence, he suddenly felt unreal.

He remembered today's date.

——July 7, his original date of destruction.

He should have been dismantled and crushed piece by piece by the people of the Life Society, and the expensive parts were picked and smelted to become a part of a certain metal device in the future.

Yet here he stood, looking into Eugene's eyes against the artificially lit night sky.

Every minute and every second after today, more or less, was taken by Eugene with his own life.

Seeing Xiao suddenly startled, Eugene didn't ask any questions, and didn't say anything else.He patted Xiao on the shoulder lightly, turned around and walked back to the living room.

……

"...Why did they start putting this thing! Disgusting, turn it off..."

As soon as she stepped back into the bright room, Mary's high-pitched voice reached her ears.Eugene's attention was drawn to the past, and he found that the TV that was originally playing music programs had entered the news file at some point; because the current picture was too bloody, Mary subconsciously began to complain.

After glancing at the projection, Eugene quickly raised his hand to stop Mary from turning off the TV.

"On the border where the Union and Sagrand united, a small non-armed conflict broke out for several weeks... The number of people who died in the conflict is still to be determined, and the corpses discovered so far have reached eleven..."

Eugene frowned, narrowed his eyes slightly, and approached step by step, staring at the picture in the camera.

That picture should have been taken in a hurry by the workers on Mine Star with their own equipment, and it was shaking very badly.The dead bodies whose faces were blurred by the mosaic lay scattered on the bare/exposed sandy soil, and the extremely bony lower limbs and arms were twisted into weird angles.

At this time, the camera shakes violently, allowing Eugene to sharply capture a dozen frames of images that were not covered by the mosaic in time.

At that moment, Eugene in Mary's eyes froze suddenly, and the blood on his face also quickly faded away.This made Mary quickly cut off the projected image, raised her hand and waved it in front of Eugene's eyes.

Only then did Eugene come back to his senses, but he looked as if he had collapsed, and all his anger had been sucked away.

"Baby, are you okay?" Mary looked worried, and wanted to help Eugene, but was stopped by the latter with a wave of his hand.

"Please help me entertain the rest of the guests, I suddenly feel a little uncomfortable."

Saying this, Eugene staggered slightly towards the bedroom where the light was not turned on.

……

——Mummy-like body, instantly ossified movements.There is no iris in the open eye, only a patch of red.

Eugene remembered this kind of death clearly.Because in that mission seven years ago, he also saw the same scene.

In that laboratory, the white walls were covered with spattered blood, and the corridors and rooms were filled with such corpses.Such a scene may seem like hell to ordinary people, but it is not something that will cast a shadow over Eugene.

What left him with a shadow was the task itself.

... The recovery mission was clearly proceeding smoothly, but at the end, there was an explosion without warning.The flames of the explosion ignited the combustibles in the research institute, burned the "heritage" sample they had recovered, and the lives of nineteen gatekeepers.

Among them, the life of No. 6 was also included.

Today, seven years later, Eugene sat in the darkness of a room, trying hard not to recall more memories of that accident.His hands are repeating several strange movements in quick and small steps, which may seem reminiscent of sign language.

— Gather them together, put them in a box, and close the lid.

——Yes, that’s the order.

——If you feel the precursor of collapse, you can try to relieve it in this way.

Following the doctor's instructions to him back then, Eugene mechanically repeated the movements of his hands until the extremely bad feeling left his body.He leaned against the wall behind him as if exhausted, allowing his recovered rationality to slowly understand what he had just seen.

He must have read it wrong.It is impossible for the sample that was burned back then to suddenly appear so far away from the border after many years.

He must be wrong.

... Xiao followed Eugene's footsteps to the bedroom door, and found that Eugene had locked the door.

This was the first time Eugene had taken the initiative to exclude him.

……

Two days later.

Gladiator 64 into 32 one-on-one group match is about to start.

Joshua took his official duties today and came to the arena as the security captain.The thick and gorgeous black uniform of the personal guards was put on him heavily, which looked particularly out of date under the scorching sun.Ninety o'clock in the morning was far from the hottest time of the day, but tiny beads of sweat had already seeped from his forehead, and the skin in contact with the military cap was painfully eroded by sweat.

Behind him, the huge arena has quietly changed its appearance.The battlefield originally used for tens of thousands of people to fight shrunk towards the center, and then was divided into five parts by unequal divisions - two small arenas on the left and right, and the main arena in the middle with an area four times the size of the small arena.Special one-way barriers are set up on the edge of the arena. Spectators outside the arena can see and hear the contestants, but people in the battle can only stand in the gray box and listen to the breathing of themselves and their opponents.

All five players will start the game at the same time, and then as the winner of each game is determined, the next pair of opponents on the list will immediately catch up and continue the game.

And the match between Eugene and Winona will be the first to be held in the main arena.

Given the choice, Joshua would very much like to take another leave of absence.This time it is not for watching the battle, but for being able to leave here far away.

He didn't want to see the competition between these two people on the court at all.

The non-commissioned officer under him knew that he was familiar with Eugene, so he kindly offered to let him go to the corner of the arena to inspect.He struggled for a long time, finally gritted his teeth, and stood on the sidelines of the main arena.

He didn't want Eugene to lose, nor did he want Winona to die.However, if only one person can survive on the field, the balance in his heart has already been tilted towards one of them.

Realizing this, Joshua couldn't help but spurn himself.

Start quickly, and end quickly.

He clenched his fist and then released it, his expression tensed, waiting for the moment when Eugene came on stage.