Age Of The Sirens

Everyone was stunned for a moment, no one expected to see Han Qi here.

Tsuruta was the first to react, and quickly touched the gun at his waist, "Why are you here?"

"I live here." Han Qi raised his eyebrows as a matter of course, put the teacup on the table, raised his legs and looked at Hetian, "I advise you not to touch that gun, there are armed guns everywhere in this house. The defense system will launch an attack immediately if it detects that you are inclined to use weapons."

Luo Wei frowned almost together, "Are you the leader of the rescuers?"

Han Qi smiled smartly and confidently, "Of course... no. I'm just helping to look after the house. By the way, I'll borrow the equipment here as a laboratory." His eyes fell on Shuiyin and Peacock, and his eyes lit up suddenly, " Hi! Long time no see, you two beauties. Oh, Mercury, why do you look so bad?"

"Didn't you join the Freedom Alliance?" Luo Wei interrupted him, his tone impatient. After all, they didn't want to find out that the rescuer was just a puppet of the Freedom Alliance after running so far, "Are you in the rescuer's house? What identity!"

"He, like the other rescuers, has left the Freedom Alliance." Another deep female voice suddenly intervened, making everyone turn their heads to look at the person who was walking down the stairs.It was a tall and straight lady in her 60s, with all white hair tied into a strict bun, bright eyes behind glasses, and wearing classical and elegant dresses.She went straight to Quicksilver and held out her hand, "Welcome."

Mercury shook that hand symbolically, and stared at the strange lady with solemn eyes.But this face engraved with the traces of time made him inexplicably familiar. "Who are you."

She glanced at the three people behind Shuiyin, and smiled kindly and politely, "I am the current main person in charge of the rescuers, you can call me Tang Qing."

Tang Qing...

After a moment of hesitation, a certain memory suddenly popped into Quicksilver's mind.

CD...ValentineProject...

She is the female doctor who created Tang Ya and Tang Yi!She was also the one who escaped from the Freedom Alliance with Tang Yi and Tang Ya, and left the two babies in the territory of the third base.

She is still alive?

The shock in Quicksilver's eyes did not escape her attention.Tang Qing nodded in understanding, and looked at him with softer, even kinder eyes.

Tsuruta and the others noticed the abnormality of Mercury, and looked at the elegant lady with a bit of wariness.Tang Qing turned slightly and made a gesture of invitation, "Please sit down." At the same time, she ordered the robot butler standing by the wall, "Rogers, go get some snacks."

The four of them sat down on the exquisitely embroidered sofa, while Han Qi sat there casually at home, staring at Mercury with great interest.But Mercury didn't bother to pay attention to him at all, and all kinds of speculations swirled in his mind.

"I know you must have a lot of problems." Tang Qing said in a steady and deep female voice while pouring tea into the teacup, "I am not the founder of the Rescuer, the person you are looking for is not in good health and needs to recuperate , so I went to live in seclusion a year ago. I will take care of this place for the time being."

"Have you been alive?" Quicksilver asked suddenly.

Tang Qing paused slightly, then raised her head, "Yes, I have been alive. I faked my own death, escaped the Freedom Alliance, and have been living in seclusion in the fifth base ever since."

Everyone was at a loss, not knowing what Mercury was talking about.But seeing Mercury's solemn expression, he knew that now was not the time to interrupt.

"Is it you who Tang Ya asked Tang Yi to contact?"

Tang Qing showed some approval, "Not bad."

Quicksilver paused for a long time.A feeling of anxiety rose from his chest, and the cheeks on his neck fluttered as if he was dehydrated. After a long time, he asked in a tense voice, "Tang Yi...is he still alive?"

Tang Qing looked at him and didn't speak for a long time.

And her silence already represented everything, Hetian Luowei and even Peacock opened his eyes wide in astonishment.

"How is this possible...at that time it was obvious..." Luo Wei couldn't continue.Everyone understands what he wants to say. Under the power of nuclear bombs, how can there be anything left?

Tang Qing sighed, "I shouldn't have told you. He didn't want you to know."

Mercury forgot to breathe, and his heart trembled violently.

The indescribable taste is ecstasy, or sadness because the other party doesn't want you to know.

Tang Qing continued, "Tang Ya protected Tang Yi with her body. His modified body can obviously resist a certain degree of heat radiation and shock waves. Later, the tsunami extinguished the fire, and Tang Yi was washed ashore. We found his body I thought he was dead for a while, but fortunately, I found a weak pulse."

She paused, and the whole hall was silent, only the sound of Han Qi drinking tea could be heard.

"For the next three years, he struggled with radiation syndrome, and almost died several times. But his vitality was not so strong, and he survived in the end. Later, he used the assets left by Tang Ya to carry out the Kraken and the rescue of the refugees, and founded the Rescuer organization. Until a year ago, when his physical condition deteriorated again, he left here.”

Tang Qing said everything lightly, but when it stopped in Mercury's ear, every word was as sharp as a knife's edge, cutting his blood dripping.

It should have been a miraculous happy event that Tang Yi did not die, but he had never heard of radiation syndrome.Vomiting, high fever, internal bleeding, skin ulceration...

He couldn't believe that Tang Yi was enduring these tortures silently by himself, and he didn't know anything about it.

"Why... didn't you tell me?" Quicksilver's voice seemed to come from the back of his throat, and his hands were clenched tightly, trembling slightly.

Tang Qing took off her glasses, and stared at the sea monster who was suffering from self-blame and pain with calm eyes, "He is in a very bad physical condition now, I don't know how many years are left... He said, he doesn't want you See what he looks like now."

Mercury's eyes widened slightly, suspicious moisture overflowed the eye sockets, but those blue eyes finally revealed vivid emotions that had never been seen in eight years.Although the emotion was deeply distressed, it seemed that something dead had been rekindled.

"I have no children in my life. Tang Ya and Tang Yi are like my children, although I have not fulfilled any obligation to raise them." She lowered her head to hide the emotion in her eyes, "This time, I am behind his back. I agree to see you, because I know that he actually wants to see you... No, it should be said that he needs to see you. "

Quicksilver stared at her with burning blue eyes, "Where is he?"

"Before you decide to go, you have to think clearly." Tang Qing looked at him with a serious expression, almost sternly, "Now he is no longer the lively Tang Yi before. The damage caused by radiation is continuous , he has a high chance of suffering from various cancers, and may not live as long as a normal human being. You have nearly 500 years to live."

Mercury's posture didn't change. He listened to Tang Qing's words carefully, thought about it carefully, and then said, "I've figured it out."

No matter how much time is left, even if it is only one day, he will not waste another moment.

After all, this is their last hope.

hope of happiness.

Tang Qing nodded slightly, her tightly pursed lips softened into a gratified smile.

Before they left, Han Qi handed a chip to Mercury, "The improved formula of the anti-binding reagent can effectively reduce various side effects."

Quicksilver took the chip, handed it to Peacock, and said to Han Qi, "The Krakens will remember your help."

Han Qi smiled narcissistically, and waved his hands, "It's easy to say, and it can be regarded as repaying Tang Yi for sending people to rescue my father from the Liberty League and the Third Foundation. Before you go to see him, drink it yourself. "

Mercury lowered her eyes and said lightly, "I don't need it anymore." Finally nodded to him, then turned and left.

Tang Qing stood in front of the gate of the villa, looked at the backs of the silver-haired sea monster and Tsuruta, and let out a long sigh.

Hopefully she's doing the right thing.

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Tang Yi lay on the toilet and retched for a while.Even though he hadn't eaten anything, he still felt nauseous.The mouth was filled with the sour taste of gastric juice, and the face wrinkled together in pain.

After flushing the gastric juice in the toilet, he straightened up and looked at the thin and pale man in the mirror with some sleepiness.

When he was rescued, he had multiple burns all over his body. After several skin grafting operations, most of the scars were finally eliminated. The doctor even removed the scars on his face by the way.Now in the mirror is the face of a middle-aged man with pale stubble and a pale beard.One dark and one light yellow pupils of different colors looked forward with some apathy.

He was thin and his clothes looked a little too baggy.Seeing himself like this every morning, he also forgot what the healthy and strong self was like before.

I washed my face with cold water, squeezed a lot of toothpaste to get rid of the smell in my mouth, and then took a handful of pills of various colors as a routine, and swallowed them with cold water.

Along the long corridor, the dilapidated windows of the abandoned orphanage were pushed open one by one.The long branches of the withered apple tree stretched out to his window, within reach.He stood by the window, breathing in the cool morning air.The child who was in charge of taking care of him was trimming the weeds near the courtyard wall outside the window. The morning light shone on his young skin and smooth black hair, making him look vigorous.

Tang Yi recalled that when he was his age, he seemed to be watching adult movies with Su Han in the military academy, right?

Recently, I like to recall the past more and more, giving birth to a certain feeling of red sunset.He is only 36 years old, his temples already have gray hair, and his whole body aches when it rains. No wonder the old man always jokes that he is more old than himself.

Sighing, he went back to his room while exercising his muscles - in the spacious lobby where he and Tang Ya lived before.This place has been transformed into his room. Apart from a comfortable bed and a projection computer, there are cabinets of ancient books.When he wasn't sick and had nothing else to do, he read those books over and over.

He still likes to read books about sea monsters the most, and he likes to read over and over again the bizarre illustrations in the Book of Mountains and Seas.He rubbed the illustration of the merman with his fingers, the corners of his mouth would slightly rise, and his eyes were a little sad.

He knew that Mercury built a new city of Guixu in the trench, and that the devastated sea monsters finally found their homes in the sea bit by bit.In the dream, he stared at those icy blue pupils again and again, wanting to reach out and grab that cold hand again and again, but when he stretched out his hand, he saw that his skin was festering rapidly, leaving only white bones.

At that time, he would wake up panting, his eyes wide open to the high roof.The surrounding air suddenly squeezed against him, and he would wrap the quilt tightly around his body to find the illusion of being hugged.

Eight years is long enough for human beings.He described the face of a sea monster in his mind over and over again, but still felt that the face became a little blurry inevitably.He was afraid, afraid that one day when he dreamed of Quicksilver, only a blank face would be left.

It would be great if there was even one photo taken with Mercury.He hated that he didn't know what he was busy with at that time, but he had no choice but to try harder to recall.

The strange old man had already prepared breakfast and it was placed on his table.Tang Yi felt a little sick after taking two bites of bread, and pushed the plate aside.He sighed as he watched the light cast through the stained glass. It was the same day.

It seems that Tan Mingyuan will come to review him today, right?

He secretly hid the bread under the pillow, drank the milk, and went to the kitchen with the tray.The strange old man was watering the potted flowers on the window sill, and glanced at his plate, "Is it really finished?"

"real."

"Hmph, let me check in your room later."

"Hey... have some confidence in me, okay?"

"Hmph, I'm really stupid to believe you." The strange old man turned around and gave him a glare.

At this moment, the kitchen door was suddenly opened, and the kid named Ah Qi ran in, blushing, "Brother Tang, someone is looking for you!"

"You mean Dr. Tan?"

"No." Ah Qi looked a little nervous, "He looks a little...strange? I've never seen him... He must see you, and I can't stop him. What should I do? Shall I drive him out?"

Tang Yi frowned, unable to think of any guests, could it be that Tang Qing sent them?He stood up, "It's okay, take me to see him."

He followed Ah Qi to the first floor, pushed open the two heavy wooden doors, and white sunlight flooded in instantly, making him dizzy for a moment.When he got used to the light outside, he saw the figure standing alone under the apple tree.

Tang Yi felt that everything around him disappeared in an instant.He couldn't hear anything except his heartbeat, which was so heavy that he was surprised by it.

He must have entered a dream.

Otherwise, how would you meet him?

The faint mist in the morning hovered between the two standing figures.Time suddenly stopped, and the stolen time between them seemed to have never left.

After a while, the silver figure moved.The beautiful sea goblin strode towards him, her white hair fluttering behind her like a veil, on her fair to bluish handsome face, her pair of blue eyes collected all the stars of the day, staring at him with the most focused eyes in the world .

The next moment, he fell into a wide embrace.

The distant breath of the sea gently enveloped him heavily, as if afraid of him disappearing, the tight force took his breath away.Tang Yi opened his eyes wide, and the tears flowed out of control.

He opened his mouth, but couldn't speak.

And Mercury was also silent, and after a while, gently lifted his thin cheeks.

This is Tang Yi, the real Tang Yi.

The young man who used to be as warm as the sun is now such a thin and pale man.Mercury felt like drinking a cup of sweet poisonous wine, so heartbroken and so happy.

He kissed the chapped lips, as if absorbing life and giving life.

It seems like a lifetime has been spent.

When they finally separated, Tang Yi, a man who was almost 40 years old, cried like a child.Quicksilver gently wiped the tears streaming across his face with his thumb.

Tang Yi asked in a trembling voice, "Why did you come?"

He obviously doesn't want to see Shuiyin, doesn't want to be seen by Shuiyin as he is now, and doesn't want to be a burden to him or anyone else.He was obviously ready to finish the rest of his journey alone.

But at this moment, he realized that he had been waiting for the arrival of mercury.

But Mercury pressed his forehead against Tang Yi's and closed his eyes slightly.

"Sorry...for making you wait so long."

But I won't make you wait any longer.

In the days to come, if there is pain or happiness, I will bear it with you.

The abandoned orphanage is still so quiet, and the surrounding towns haven't fully woken up yet.The whole world is bathed in the peaceful morning light, so peaceful and tranquil, as if there has never been war and killing, injury and misfortune, pain and parting.The vast sea is rolling with majestic waves, washing and colliding with the reef again and again, and sometimes you can faintly hear the beautiful singing.

The suffering in this world is far from over, and the collapsing world cannot be redeemed by one person alone.But hope never dies, no matter how deep the despair.

And a new era will eventually come.

Finish

The author has something to say: Wow, the pit is finally leveled~~~

And it's my rare HE! ! !

The age of the Kraken has just begun (after all, it has just been liberated), and it is not ruled out that there will be extra episodes and related articles in the future (such as Lee and Freedom Messenger).I really didn't expect this pseudo-sci-fi to be dug up so long by me, thank you comrades who follow the article! ! !bow! ! ! !

Then I have started to dig a new hole, and I am still saving the article, which is ABO theme~ I hope that comrades who like me have time to bookmark my column, so that I can continue to abuse me in the future (huh?)