Mystery: I can change things in books

Chapter 84 Dan's Past
Chris let go of his hand and sat tiredly on the ground, allowing the referee to pull him up from the ground and raise his right hand to declare victory.

Swain was smiling all over his face. He bought Chris Win for five pounds. He watched Chris walk off the stage with a bruised face, smiled and went over to pat him on the shoulder: "I knew you would win."

Chris took the towel and wiped the sweat from his forehead, half-turned around, and he and Dan looked at each other across the ring and the noisy crowd.

"You're injured, you should apply some medicine." Swain's eyes followed Chris, but the latter squeezed into the crowd and walked towards Dan.

"Cough, cough, cough..."

Dan covered his mouth and coughed continuously, and fell to the ground unsteadily.

"What's up with him?"

"Did he be defeated and fainted from anger?"

"Haha, what does it have to do with us? Let's go have a drink!"

The gamblers quickly dispersed, and a small group of people who liked to join in the fun formed a circle around him, looking down at him condescendingly. No one reached out to help, they didn't care.

Dan's lungs went black as Chris pushed his way through the crowd.

Dan's lips moved, as if he was saying something, and Chris lowered his body and put his ear to it.

"Mouth, pocket..."

Dan pointed to the pocket of his shorts with a trembling finger. There was a white pill in it.

Chris fed the pill into his mouth, and Dan swallowed the pill with difficulty, mixed with saliva, and his breathing returned to normal, just like a fish on land returning to the water.

He supported Chris and walked tremblingly to the back of the ring. Swain also came over. He had never seen Dan look like that before.

"What's wrong?" Swain looked at Chris and then at Dan. He would not feel sorry if someone died.

Dan waved his hand towards him: "Boss, I'm fine, just take a rest and I'll be fine."

Anyone can tell that he is lying. Saying this from a pale and stooped man cannot convince anyone, but just now he was a tiger fighting in the boxing ring, and now he looks like a tiger. A sick cat that cannot stand still.

The white pill didn't relieve his condition, it just helped him temporarily suppress the burning sensation in his lungs.When he first started taking this medicine, one pill could last for a day, but he seemed to have developed resistance and now one pill only lasted a few hours.In addition to sharing the money he earned from playing games with his younger brother and mailing it to his ex-wife, he spent the rest on medicine.

"You don't look like you're okay at all. Do you want to go to the hospital?"

Swain seemed to care about him, but in fact, he secretly asked him to go to the hospital and leave the Dragon Bar.Every bar owner will sign an agreement with the players who come to compete, and he will be responsible for everything outside the ring.That being said, he didn't want anyone to die on his property, and besides, there were several more policemen outside today.

Dan smiled weakly, and he heard the implication of Swain's words: "It's okay, boss, I'm okay. I'll leave right away."

"Okay, then I'll go greet the next game first. Everyone is waiting."

Swain winked at Chris and motioned for him to help Dan leave, so that others would not be able to gossip and would only regard them as two boxers who cherished each other.Dan put his arm around Chris' shoulders and the two left the Dragon Bar through the back door.

"Hey, what's wrong with you?" Chris helped Dan back to the alley behind. He didn't know where to go, "Should I take you to the hospital?"

Neither his inspiration nor Star Island reminded him that Ming Dan would not be infected with him, otherwise he would have found an excuse to escape.

Chris is uncompromisingly brave in the face of enemies who hurt his friends. He has indeed implemented the motto of the Machine Heart, such as purifying the strange pollution in Samantha's body and injuring the "mole", and purifying the toxins in Fred's body.But when he meets someone like Dan who is not considered a friend and who is not mentioned in the original book, he really can't get excited.

Chris still vividly remembers what happened in the dock not far from here last time. After that, he didn't dare to think of himself as the protagonist, and he was no longer arrogant in this world.

Even if you are arrogant, you cannot ignore a dark and disgusting tentacle monster in front of you!
Chris felt frightened, but fortunately, Dan showed no signs of suddenly mutating into a tentacle monster.

"It's an old habit." Dan turned his back to the wall and took out a cigarette from his pocket.

"Hiss...don't you have lung disease? Why do you still dare to smoke?"

Chris touched his chin with his hand, and the wound started to scab. Ordinary people's wounds certainly didn't heal that fast.

He planned to chat and leave. His teammates were all investigating the case, and he was embarrassed to be doing nothing.

"This is an old habit," Dan raised his head and slowly blew out a smoke ring, "Have I told you my story?"

Brother, if I remember correctly, this is only our second meeting. You don’t even know my name, so why are you so anxious to confide in me? The days are long!No, you look like you don’t have much time left...

Of course Chris didn't say bad words, but Dan seemed to hear what he said in his heart: "I won't live long anyway, you can listen to a story, or you can think of my words as the soliloquy of a dying patient. Somehow, I always feel that we are very familiar..."

Dan didn't know that extraordinary people existed in this world.He was born in the coastal village of Pulitzer. Every evening, villagers standing on the fishing boats returning to port could see the short Dan kicking and punching against the sunset.He has been obsessed with boxing since he was a child, for reasons he can’t explain himself.

However, his dream of becoming a boxer seems to be difficult to realize. There is a genetic disease in his family. His grandfather died of lung infection, but his father has been living well.It is precisely because of this that Dan's father never allowed him to practice boxing.My father had heard this saying - if Dan's grandfather had a genetic disease and he did not, then there was a chance that his son would also have the genetic disease.

He had seen Dan's grandfather in pain due to a lung infection, so he allowed Dan to maintain necessary physical exercise, but sports that might cause injury were prohibited from him.Dan's sparring partner until adulthood was a fruit tree.

Dan only finished high school.The children of their families who live by the sea and have been fishing for generations will take over when they grow up.

But he didn't want to live by the sea all his life. The seeds of boxing had been planted in his heart long ago, and they continued to sprout and grow as he grew older.

In the end, his father gave in and sent him to live with relatives in Backlund, where Dan had a cousin studying in college.

Dan's subsequent life followed the path he imagined as a boxer. Unfortunately, due to various reasons, he could only fight in bars, but he can also say that he realized his dream.

The boxing match in the bar is bloody and cruel. This is a real fight between men.

(End of this chapter)