Super Bowl Domination

Chapter 942 Reluctant
The laughter stirred in my chest, and my gloomy and dull mood became a little brighter.

Smith looked at Levi and hesitated for a moment. "So how are you going to convince me, like you convinced Eric?"

Everyone in the Kansas City Chiefs team knows that Levi and Berry have a strong relationship. It was with Levi's encouragement that Berry successfully returned to the field.

Now, is it Smith's turn again?
Levi looked innocent, "Why do you all think I'm a lobbyist? If I were good at this, my career goal would be in Washington."

After a complaint, the subject suddenly changed.

"In fact, you don't need me at all. You already have the answer, don't you?"

Levi met Smith's gaze, and Smith frowned in confusion.

"The doctor once said that the best way is to amputate because the infection is too serious. If you continue to insist, even if you can get through it successfully, you will suffer worse and more severe pain than ordinary people in the future."

"Yet you rejected the doctor's advice."

Subconsciously, Smith still has a tenacity and persistence. He grits his teeth and refuses to surrender. It is precisely this mental will that helped him to burst out with energy and reverse the situation with the team in the playoffs last season. It is also this mental will that helped him to firmly grasp the glimmer of hope and leave a window for himself amid the torture of complications.

Therefore, Levi believed that Smith already had the answer in his heart.

All the complications disappeared and his condition finally stabilized, but Smith fell into darkness, became irritable and depressed, seemed to have lost hope in life, and refused all help. This caused his family to suffer as well, and the difficulty of the matter was far beyond their imagination.

But in Levi's view, it was a kind of frustration, which just proved that Smith was unwilling to give up and found it difficult to accept the reality. He could never really give up the hope of returning to the court. It was just that the difficulties before him were too huge, too painful and too terrible. The lingering fear of surviving a disaster made him panic.

This is human nature.

If it were Levi, he didn't think he could do better.

Not everyone can be strong all the time, and not all difficulties can be made insignificant by facing them calmly as the chicken soup for the soul says.

They are professional players, but before that, they are also ordinary people, ordinary people who can get hurt, be vulnerable and be afraid.

Smith was stunned, and Levi hit his pain point——

That was his instinctive reaction as he was dazed by the effects of the sedative.

However, it is precisely because it is instinctive that it is more real.

It was not until the anesthesia wore off and he was fully awake that he truly realized the quagmire he had fallen into. Pain and despair occupied his brain and dragged his soul into darkness. When he realized his own timidity and cowardice, he began to hate himself, and his anger and irritability could no longer be suppressed.

He didn't even dare to look at himself in the mirror, for fear of seeing an ugly face.

Smith looked away. "You misunderstood. There's no need to over-interpret. I just don't want to use a cane. It's better to give me a quick death and put an end to it than to use a cane all my life and be treated as a disabled person."

Levi encountered setbacks, but he was not worried. Instead, he smiled.

"of course."

Levi's affirmation made Smith turn his head again, doubting his ears.

But I didn't expect that Levi looked calm.

"You are speaking for yourself, so how can I, as an outsider, have the opportunity to refute you?"

"No one knows your situation better than you do, and you are right."

"In fact, you can choose to retire. Elizabeth should be very happy. She didn't ask me to come here to persuade you to return to the game. She should very much hope that you will take this opportunity to retire."

“You already have everything.”

"After a championship ring, proving myself on a brand new team, and having been in the league for more than a decade and having a career, now is the right time to retire."

"You can stay at home with your children, maybe find a job as a commentator, or just enjoy your retirement life like Peyton Manning did. After all, after ten years of long training, you should be allowed to indulge yourself." "This is good news for Elizabeth."

Levi slowly began to describe his daily life after retirement, but Smith couldn't help but be stunned and gradually lost in thought as he listened to Levi's words.

"You see, it's just like Revis."

"One day, I suddenly got tired of it and resolutely turned around and left."

Smith was stunned and looked at Levi, "Did he say anything to you?"

During the offseason last season, Revis announced his retirement and bid farewell to the league completely. It can't be said to be breaking news, but it was unexpected.

In the 2017 playoffs, Revis once again played the key role and proved with practical actions that he is still as good as ever. Such an experienced cornerback is still in demand in the league. Given Revis' greed, if he wants, he can continue to earn one or two years' salary in the league.

Revis, however, did not.

Revis has almost no friends in the Kansas City Chiefs locker room, so they have no way of knowing what the legendary cornerback is thinking.

Could it be that Revis and Levi are still in contact privately?
Under Smith's inquiring gaze, Levi shrugged lightly, "He just said that he was tired of it."

"Injury. Rehabilitation. Competition."

"Then, again."

"Injury. Rehabilitation. Competition."

"And he has to prove all the time that he deserves that salary, that he is not greedy, that he is not the money monster that those teams portray him to be, that he is just trying to get the compensation he has earned."

"He was tired of it. So this time he chose to turn around and leave."

Smith paused, unable to believe his ears, "That's it?"

Levi smiled and nodded gently, "Yes, that's it."

"You can do it, too. Everyone can do it. One day, you suddenly get tired of it all, leave the mess behind, turn around and leave, and say goodbye completely."

"Maybe those office workers can't do it because they still have to make a living; but you don't have that, and you don't need it, so you can leave now."

"Elizabeth would be very, very happy."

At the door of the ward, Smith's wife Elizabeth Barry stopped walking, her hands clenched into fists involuntarily, and her heart almost stopped beating.

She wants Smith to retire.

Yes, that's what she thought deep down.

She witnessed her husband struggling on the brink of life and death, she stayed outside the operating room day and night during seventeen operations, and she tossed and turned in the dead of night, worrying that Smith might need amputation or even disappear at any time.

The fear, the torment, the pain, left her exhausted.

If even she is like this, what about Smith who is actually going through all this?

Smith took this opportunity to bid farewell to the football field and start a new life. Will they be able to embrace more happiness?
However, Elizabeth couldn't say it out loud because she was worried that it might irritate Smith.

Now, Levi said it unexpectedly, which made Elizabeth's heart tighten and she could hardly breathe.

There was complete silence in the ward, without any sound.

(End of this chapter)