Age Of The Sirens

It had been five years since the peacock last surfaced.There are more and more sea monsters fleeing from land to Guixu City, how to house young children, how to house old sea monsters and sick sea monsters, how to get some necessary medical equipment, countless problems one after another, making people feel uncomfortable. He has no time to spare at all.

The last time Tsuruta Takumi met, he was still avoiding the pursuit of the base, and lived in seclusion on the border of the fourth base with Lin Maochen and several other former team members.He once made an agreement with him that after the life of the sea monsters in Xinguixu City stabilized, he would come to land to find him.Although Tsuruta said coldly that he looked like a nasty sophomore in middle school, his performance in the bed that night was really... It still made his blood boil when he thought of it five years later.

Compared with him, Lan Huang sneaked up to land to see his real-school boy Lin Maochen, who was afraid of chaos, a little more often, but due to the tight rumors in recent years, he hadn't seen each other for a while. .Zi Xi struggled on the line of life and death, and was finally rescued.Luo Wei picked up an abandoned deep-water submarine from nowhere, and after repairing it, he took the thing that seemed to fall apart at any time and went to the trench to look at Zixi several times.

After many years, when they got together, they couldn't help but talk about their time in the team.But whenever Tang Yi, the captain, Liu Huo, or Tang Ya were mentioned, there would always be a short period of silence.

Then they think of mercury.

After the tsunami, Qingdi took several sea monsters to rescue the dying silver-haired sea monster.For three months after that, Mercury was in a coma, and the sirens thought for a while that he would never wake up again.

Then, on a still morning, Quicksilver opened his eyes.

Mercury, who came back from the dead, never mentioned the names of Tang Yi and Tang Ya.To be precise, he has become more silent than ever.The only time he asked about that day was when Qing Di came to visit him on the day he was sober.When Qingdi was about to leave, he suddenly grabbed Qingdi's arm and asked in a barely audible voice, "Did you find their bodies?"

Qingdi's Adam's apple slipped, and she just shook her head.The land within a radius of a hundred miles of the entire Kraken team was swallowed by the waves, and the powerful energy of the nuclear bomb had destroyed everything before that.

Mercury's expression didn't change, as if he already knew the answer.Ever since he woke up, Qingdi felt that he was different from before.In those beautiful blue eyes, it seemed that something had died forever, leaving only an empty shell.

But Mercury recovered quickly, and immediately took up the heavy burden left by Chen Yuan, leading the sea monsters to explore the abyss, and established a new Guixu City.He didn't even give himself time to immerse himself in the pain. Except for a few hours of sleep, he was constantly busy 24 hours a day, using his own power to heal many seriously ill sea monsters, guiding some The capable young and middle-aged sea-monsters built houses and towers, reclaimed sea and field ridges, weaved long nets for fishing, and arranged rotating guards to monitor the changes around Guixu City around the clock.

No one dared to mention Tang Yi or Tang Ya to Shuiyin, and Shuiyin didn't talk about the past any more, but woke up from the nightmare with a low growl again and again when the dream came back in the middle of the night.His body was getting thinner and thinner day by day, but he was as tall and strong as before.A deep exhaustion was only revealed in the inadvertent drooping eyes.

The siren watching the night often saw Mercury quietly leave Guixu City and float towards the sea in the middle of the night.In the dim twilight, the silver-haired siren floated in the turbulent waves, looking in the direction of the original site of the third base siren team in the east.This look lasted all night until the sky turned slightly white.

Qingdi, who often meets with Shuiyin, vaguely knows that the Siren Lord in front of him is actually just a shell that is reluctantly supported for the sake of responsibility.The light in the silver-haired siren's soul has died out.The shoulders that were slightly thin in the cold wind looked more and more lonely in the twilight, and there was an invisible distance that no one could break.

This time they went ashore quietly, Qing Di was probably the one who had the biggest opinion.But no one can stop what Mercury is going to do.All he could do was listen to Quicksilver arrange one thing during his departure, and then watch the two sea monsters ride on the back of the dolphins and sail into the boundless sky.

Landing on the long-lost land, the two sea monsters soon saw Tsuruta sitting on a rock waiting for them.Eight years have passed, and Tsuruta looks more vicissitudes and mature, with fine lines appearing in the corners of his eyes, and he no longer wears a military uniform, but an ordinary shirt and trousers. The marks of the gun and the sharp light between the eyebrows suggest that he is not an ordinary civilian.

Luo Wei was also waiting beside him.

The four of them met, and after looking at each other for a while, Tsuruta just nodded to them lightly, his eyes stopped on Shuiyin for a moment, and his brows frowned slightly.

The way Mercury looks, it looks bad.But suddenly I couldn't tell what was wrong.

Even though he knew that Tsuruta had already lost his attachment to Mercury, Peacock was still upset, and pulled Hetian over to kiss him deeply.Tsuruta let out a low cry, then raised his knees to touch the peacock's belly.The sea monster let go of the fur-throwing human just in time, and smiled charmingly, "Forgive me, it's been a long time since you can't hold back."

It was rare for Tsuruta to make up a few more punches, his cheeks were suspiciously flushed, and he just gave Peacock a hard look.Luo Wei on the side coughed loudly a few times, "It's alright, you two, don't bring such dog abusers."

Peacock blinked his right eye at Tsuruta, and then handed a beautiful red conch to Luo Wei, "Zixi asked me to bring it to you." The sea monsters have learned how to transcribe their voices into the empty conch shell It's like writing a letter.Luo Wei took the conch with a faint smile on his lips.

But Mercury looked at them with calm eyes, and there seemed to be a huge hole in his heart whistling with wind.

Caught off guard, Tang Yi's smiling face suddenly rushed into his mind, making him suffocate for a while.He turned around silently, picked up the camouflage clothes that Tsuruta brought on the ground, and turned behind a raised rock wall.

Noticing his silence, the remaining three also hurriedly ended their conversation.

Quicksilver and Peacock put on camouflage, darkened their complexion with makeup paint, put on contact lenses, and sat in the mini machine driven by Tsuruta.The ancient mini machine made a suspicious coughing sound and slowly lifted into the air, flying across the vast land of the fifth base covered by long yellow sand.

At sunset, the rouge-colored glow casts over the entire desert.A tiny emerald oasis among endlessly rolling sand dunes is a human settlement.The mini-machine landed beside the light blue lake, and when we came out of the cabin, we could see the bustling scene of this small town. There was a constant flow of people buying and working among the crowded houses, and there were some trees of different sizes spreading on the sand dunes in the distance. A miniature machine, a rare camel lolling beside the stone trough.

He Tian and Luo Wei took them to settle temporarily in a simple house. The landlord was an old but kind-hearted man who prepared a simple but sumptuous dinner for them.

"Although Luo Wei and I can be regarded as one of the leaders of the rescuers, we are usually in charge of the first base, and we have never met the leader of the fifth base." He Tian told them during the meal, "This time it is because of mercury. Because of their special status, they agreed to let us introduce you."

Peacock frowned, "Has anyone seen the leader? How do you usually communicate?"

"We have our underground network, sometimes by phone," Luo Wei replied.

"Have the Liberty League and First Foundation tried to find him?"

"Yes, but I can't find it. After all, the fifth base is a recognized peaceful and neutral area, and it is so far away, even the first base and the Freedom Alliance can't stretch their hands too far."

Quicksilver suddenly said, "This man, why did he know that the Kraken was hiding near the Mariana Trench? At that time, the only ones who knew about our plan were you and Lin Maochen. You guys told him the news?"

Luo Wei immediately waved his hands and said, "It's really not us! We only joined after we heard that this organization specializes in rescuing sea monsters and refugees."

Tsuruta also said, "Perhaps some krakens rescued later leaked it to their masters?"

Mercury didn't answer.This is indeed a possibility.

But why is he always looking forward to another possibility that he doesn't want to admit?

The night in the desert was extremely cold, everyone fell asleep, and the oasis city fell into a dead silence.Mercury stepped into the cold wind, looking at the silver moon hidden in the clouds in the distant night sky.Facing the moonlight, he stretched out his left hand, and let the light pass through the translucent silver webs of his fingertips, dazed in a daze.

"Can't sleep?"

With the sudden sound, Quicksilver knew who it was without turning around.

Tsuruta was wrapped in a thick blanket and stood beside him.He watched the night wind blowing his mercury-silver hair, making the sea monster look ethereal, like a wisp of smoke that would soon disperse.

Quicksilver didn't answer.

He was afraid of sleeping, afraid of dreaming.In the past eight years, he has not slept a full night.

Sometimes the strong sense of fatigue would make him unable to distinguish between reality and dreams, and would make him want to shoot his temple with a laser gun, so that he could sleep peacefully and forever without dreaming.

"How have you been all these years?" Quicksilver asked.

Tsuruta nodded, "What about you?"

"I do not know."

Tsuruta turned his head away, watching Shuiyin gradually reveal a somewhat confused face.

"To be honest, I didn't expect you to survive." Tsuruta said in a sigh-like voice, "After that day, I thought you wouldn't wake up."

Quicksilver suddenly smiled.The smile is full of exhaustion.

"I don't know how I come here day by day. Sometimes when I think about the long life of the sea monster, and there are still hundreds of years to live like this, I feel... very tired." Mercury turned her head, The empty gaze shocked Hetian secretly, "Every time I close my eyes, I see Tang Ya looking at me covered in blood. But what scares me more than this is seeing Tang Yi smiling at me .”

Mercury's breath was a little unstable, as if it was difficult to control certain emotions, "He smiled and said goodbye to me, and then fell into the abyss. But I can't do anything, I can't do anything..." He sneered, "I am a copy of Chen Yuan, the savior they say, but I am still a counterfeit after all. I can't even save the person I want to save the most. The most terrifying thing is that I can't leave with him yet. "

Everything is his fault.He killed Tang Ya by mistake, and then dragged Tang Yi into this vortex, but in the end he could only watch Tang Yi being swallowed by that ray of death.All the people who were close to him, all the people who were in his heart, all ended up with no good results.

He wanted so much to let go and leave, but he knew that he was not qualified to leave.Continuing to live in this world without Tang Yi is the most suitable punishment for him.

No matter how tired and boring life is, he will continue to live it day by day.

Mercury's smile was so dry and empty that Tsuruta couldn't bear to look any further.The sea monster said to him, "I didn't even have time to tell Tang Yi, maybe I was bound to him unconsciously. Even without the anti-binding potion."

He just wondered why he didn't notice it before, why didn't he think that as a copy of Chen Yuan, he might also have the ability to fall in love with a second person.

He didn't know when he fell in love with Tang Yi, maybe it was when he watched Tang Yi eating noodles in the ramen restaurant, or when Tang Yi was deep underground, regardless of his body, blocking the monitor lizard's venom Maybe it was when Tang Yi watched the sunrise with Tang Yi after drinking the anti-binding potion, maybe it was when Tang Yi rushed into the Kraken Hall desperately to save him, or maybe it was when Tang Yi used a mixture of helplessness and When she said reconciliation to him with a sad smile.

He didn't know it all the time, that was the feeling of being bound.Although it is completely different from the previous reliance and belief between him and Tang Ya, there is a little less one-sided worship and attachment, but it is like a trickle of water, filled little by little between the daily relationship and conflict.When Tang Yi mentioned the corners of his mouth with a grin, the way Tang Yi bit his nails when he was nervous, the way Tang Yi secretly hid in the bathroom and smoked, the way Tang Yi had a nosebleed at him, the way Tang Yi yelled at him ... It was all so clearly imprinted in his memory, on his heart.

But he's a fool, he doesn't know.He only knew that he knew that Lee was going crazy with jealousy when pestering Tang Yi, that Tang Yi was so sad that he couldn't sleep at night when he said they were over, and that when Tang Yi was injured, he wished he could cut Lee into pieces, wished he could Cut yourself to pieces.

He didn't know, he thought that all his love had gone with Tang Ya, and there was nothing left for Tang Yi.

It wasn't until he saw Tang Yi's figure disappear into the light of death, until the pain that was so severe that it could tear his soul swallowed him up, that he finally understood what he had missed.

Tsuruta said wordlessly and put a hand on Quicksilver's shoulder.He knew that there was nothing he could do to comfort him, and all he could do was this little company.

In the early hours of the next day, they hit the road again.The mini machine roared over the desert, watching the sandbar gradually covered with light green, and the soft-lined mountains in the distance meandering in the distance of an extended plain.The fifth base's town is much smaller than the other bases, and there are not many mini-machine lanes.

On the edge of the sprawling city, there is a small manor.The house is built of red bricks, and the large garden is full of apple trees, and the luxuriant leaves spread out from behind the fence.

There are no guards at the gate of the manor, and it looks like an ordinary villa of a wealthy family.Luo Wei walked to the carved iron gate and rang the doorbell.Not long after, a man in his 50s who looked like Guan came to open the door.Quicksilver followed behind Tsuruta, walking along the curved cobblestone road to the building ahead.

In the woods, there were two workers who looked like workers fertilizing the trees, and another nurse was pushing a white-haired old man who seemed to have limited mobility for a walk by the fence.There are also a few children squatting under a tree playing some running and jumping games.

Regardless of the elderly, children or workers, they all look like civilians and dress casually, as if they live here.

Mercury remembered that Tang Ya had said in the CD that he had left a fortune to Tang Yi.

Is a miracle possible?

When they finally stood in front of the white door, and when the door opened, Quicksilver found his heart beating so fast that he doubted that anyone else could hear his heartbeat.

A man wearing black trousers and a suit vest was sitting on an armchair in the middle of the lobby, drinking a cup of tea in his hand.Hearing the sound, he turned his head.

A burst of intense disappointment hit me head-on.

It really wasn't Tang Yi, but someone completely unexpected——Han Qi.