Age Of The Sirens

The specifications of each floor in the dormitory building are the same.From the apron is a corridor leading to the leisure hall. The surrounding walls are covered with flexible seamless screens, which can display different 3D scenes according to the settings.What is shown today is a green tunnel woven by midsummer trees. The realistic light and shadow texture makes people feel like they can touch the low-hanging leaf tips with their hands.At the end of the corridor is a circular hall, furnished with comfortable and simple furniture such as sofas and lounge chairs, retro stereos, pool tables, and holographic game capsules. The soft background music is lingering above the foggy forest scene on the wall. At first glance, the facilities Complete and pleasant environment.But if you take a closer look, you will find that the tea table and table are full of opened snack packages, some food scraps are scattered on the carpet, and even old steel-tipped bullets are scattered on the table.

"What's going on here?!" The Japanese with a cleanliness squeezed these words through his teeth, "I didn't go to the dojo to train for two hours, why did it become like this here?!"

Lin Maochen and Nolan touched their noses and hid behind their own sea monsters, but they were kicked out one by one by the smiling Tan Mingyuan, "The captain of the [-]th team didn't come back from vacation this morning, so he gave us a lot of special snacks from the fourth base Well, as soon as you left, the two of them were grabbing food in the living room, and they couldn't be stopped."

Nolan stared at Tan Mingyuan in disbelief and yelled, "Youmotherfucker...Obviously you said to eat, it's okay, and you will call the machine housekeeper to come in and clean it later!!!"

Tan Mingyuan pushed down his glasses gracefully, "I meant to bark, but I didn't say when."

Hetian was surrounded by cloudy clouds, lightning and thunder, and the power of the wild was about to erupt. He shouted in blunt Chinese, "Within 10 minutes, clean it up. Don't ask the machine housekeeper to help, and don't ask your siren to help. Let me see a trace of dust, let Dr. Tan cook noodles for you tonight!"

As soon as these words came out, Lin Maochen's face turned pale, and Nolan's white face turned blue even more. The two stood at attention and shouted "Yes, Sir!!!" and quickly found out from the kitchen. Garbage bags and vacuum cleaners were sweating dry.Tang Yi was at a loss, what the hell is asking Dr. Tan to cook noodles for you?

"You, come with me."

The central rest hall is the center of the circle, and there are corridors leading to the individual suites of each team member, the public kitchen and the fitness room in all directions.Tang Yi followed Hetian along the bright and clean corridor with soft white light to a silver-gray password identification door.

"The password is 7361, which Tang Ya has been using before. You can change it, but I don't recommend it, it may arouse quicksilver's suspicion."

Tang Yi just wanted to ask why he knew Tang Ya's password, but then he remembered that the Ministry of Security must have told him.The security department's intelligence system is so powerful, he probably knows even the few times he has called the plane, and the little password is not a problem.

Although the Ministry of Security always said that they respected people's dignity and would not monitor private behaviors, Tang Yi still suspected that there were actually pinhole cameras and monitors in the toilets.When he was a child, he didn't dare to go to the toilet for this reason, he developed cystitis by holding back his urine, and was laughed at by Tang Ya and the children for a whole year.

Tang Ya's suite is divided into two rooms, inside and outside.The wall of the living room in the outer room exudes soft white fluorescence because no one sets the scene. In the center of the wall is a fish tank that surrounds the entire room. There are some rare colorful fish swimming slowly among the artificial coral reefs.The comfortable and clean sofa faces the holographic projector, and on one side of the wall are two independent network access rooms, where you can connect your consciousness to roam in the virtual network space.The numerous shelves along the walls hold some weapons, a number of old records and scores, and a framed picture.Inside is a group photo of Tang Ya and Shuiyin, which seems to be a selfie of Shuiyin.

He said it was a selfie but he didn't smile at all. Those ice-blue eyes stared straight at the camera, which made people feel hairy.Next to him, Tang Ya was sitting on a rough stone, wiping her RD-37 (a microwave gun that can penetrate barriers and damage targets) in her hand.Probably he was photographed suddenly without any preparations. He looked up to face the camera with his eyes slightly wide open, which seemed a little surprised, and his mouth slightly opened in a dazed and cute way. It was not at all like Tang Yi's memory of him who lacked emotional fluctuations. no the same.Tang Yi picked up the photo frame and couldn't believe it. Brother actually put up a group photo at home?And it's still this kind of funny selfie, isn't it really in line with his style?

Tsuruta reached out and took the photo frame from his hand, and put it back to its original position, "This was taken by Quicksilver. At that time, he saw pictures of krakens and their masters in other people's houses, so he always wanted to get one with Tang Yi." together."

Tang Yi sneered, "My brother has changed a lot if he agrees to print out this kind of photo and put it in such an ugly frame."

"Probably because this is what Shuiyin wants. As long as it is what Shuiyin wants, he will try his best to do it for him." Tsuruta's deep voice was a little hoarse.Tang Yi felt a trace of sadness in him.

Presumably, this person should like Tang Ya very much, right?That's why I have so much hostility towards myself.

"Don't touch the things here. Tang Ya doesn't like others touching his things." Tsuruta's voice returned to his bluntness.Tang Yi looked at him amusedly, "But I am Tang Ya."

Tsuruta glanced at him with a bit of stern contempt, "Do you really think you are?"

Feeling stabbed, Tang Yi felt upset, and didn't want to continue to put on Tang Ya's posture, so he grinned, "Of course, for a person like me whose loyalty is so high, the Ministry of Security said I was Of course I am. You like Tang Ya so much, shouldn't you treat me better, otherwise, if you fail the mission, can you bear the responsibility?"

"When it's time to pretend, I will naturally play my role well. But if you want me to admit that you are Tang Ya, you are still far away." Hetian still had that superior attitude, which made Tang Yi want to take off his shoes. to his face.So he sat carelessly on Tang Ya's spotless sofa, lay back, and put his shoes on the coffee table without taking off, deliberately lowered his voice to imitate Tsuruta's tone, "'I want me to admit that you are Tang Ya, You’re still far behind’, tsk tsk, you’re talking like you’re a quality inspector, I said Little Japan, you’re not interested in my brother, are you?”

Tsuruta really didn't expect this counterfeit to be so unrestrained, openly provoking him.He strode over, grabbed Tang Yi by the collar, and stared at him with cold and angry eyes, "Don't think that I won't dare to do anything to you because of the order from the Ministry of Security."

Tang Yi thought to himself that I just know that you dare not do anything to me. He yawned confidently, "Then why are you talking so much? Don't force me if you can."

Hetian gritted his teeth to resist the urge to beat up this little rascal with Tang Ya's shell in front of him until he couldn't even recognize him. Qu Lan had sent a special message before telling Tang Yi not to embarrass him. , he cannot disobey the orders of his superiors.

He pushed Tang Yi away suddenly, calmed down his emotions, and finally looked at Tang Yi with a gloomy and disgusted expression, turned and went out.

Tang Yi lay down on the sofa for a while, the white flowing light on the ceiling reminded him of Mercury's hair.His mind was a bit messy, everything happened too fast, and in such a short period of time, he willingly gave up his original identity and became another person.He didn't realize how much he envied Tang Ya's life and how much he looked down on himself.Only now did he know that in order to get Tang Ya's life, he was willing to give up so much.

From his identity to every mole on his body, from his displayed character to his subtle movements, they are no longer his own.He had never thought of his twin brother so often, scouring his memory for every word he said, the tone of voice he spoke, every movement he made, every mental activity that might have occurred in his decision-making.

He always felt that he was completely different from Tang Ya, it was like the difference between day and night.Tang Ya is mature, confident, rigorous, and serious. He doesn't talk much, and he doesn't often joke, but his popularity has always been good. When he was in the orphanage, other children always liked to follow him and listen to his instructions, and they had inexplicable trust in him. , as if he would always make the most correct decision.The young Tang Yi is completely different from the grown-up one.When he was a child, he was crying and fussy, and his mind was often full of weird thoughts. He always wanted to attract attention, but usually the methods were not very smart, and all he got was the scolding of the orphanage nurse.He was jealous of Tang Ya and wanted to become Tang Ya, the children sometimes recognized him as Tang Ya, and he even pretended to be his brother until the real brother showed up.Unsatisfied with his vanity in real life, he stumbled across the closed old underground library behind the orphanage. He saw a magical thing like a "book" in it, so he slipped in as soon as he had something to do, and it was a day just to see it.He had read about such a wonderful creature as the sea monster in a book. At that time, he could hear the song of the sea monster in his dreams every day, which was as beautiful as his mother's lullaby.

He had never heard his mother's lullaby, and he and Tang Ya didn't even know who his mother was.Most of the babies in the base are bred in test tubes, but about half of them choose to give birth naturally.More than half of the people who choose to give birth naturally produce their children under the control of genetic engineering, which finds the best solution from different gene combinations to ensure that the child produced by the combination of sperm and egg has no genetic defects and is intellectually , health and character to the extreme.The very few remaining children are "unplanned", without any artificial intervention, mistakes made in the passion of men and women, very likely to have all kinds of flaws and imperfections, essentially violating the base Breeding Act.Such children are often abandoned after birth, if not aborted during pregnancy.

Tang Yi and Tang Ya are unplanned children. They were found on a raised reef in the shallow sea of ​​the unpurified wild sea in the southeast of the base.At any moment the sea will overflow the reefs, bringing them back to their pre-existing state.A collector of offshore biological samples found them, regardless of the filth of the sea, and carried them to the shore at the risk of being infected. Finally, like other unplanned abandoned babies, they were sent to an orphanage.

Tang Yi often thought, if their parents knew that their child Tang Ya would grow up to be such an outstanding Siren Squad fighter, would they still abandon him?

If parents see themselves now, will they feel proud?

He stopped his thoughts and reflexively touched the cigarette in his trouser pocket, but found nothing.He remembered that Qu Lan didn't agree with him bringing cigarettes to the dormitory, saying that Tang Ya never smoked, so he had to quit too.

The feeling of irritability became more and more intense. He bit his fingernails and paced back and forth in the living room, rummaging around.Then he entered the clean and dust-free bedroom. The bed was placed in an oval silver-gray capsule, obviously twice the size of a single bed.The gray cloud curtain outside the bay window hangs low and thick, impenetrable, as if it will overwhelm the world at any time.

He looked at everything left by his brother, and the projector on the desktop displayed the book he hadn't finished reading - "Research on the Belief of the Ancient Siren", and one of his coats was still hanging on the back of the chair. There were two of his hairs on the pillow, and one long silver hair - Tang Yi could not help but arouse some lewd associations, but when he thought that his brother was the one at the bottom, he thought it was weird... In Tang Yi's computer There are a lot of things stored, most of which are encrypted. Of course, Tang Yi has already obtained the password, but even if it is in, it is still some dossier information about the mission.He ran into the bathroom again. There was unused shower gel next to the large embedded bathtub. There were some ordinary first-aid items such as band-aids, painkillers, hemostatic medicine, and bandages in the medicine cabinet. Except for sleeping pills, there was nothing there. special.

After looking around, he was a little discouraged and went to bed.He didn't even know what he was looking for.

He was a little nervous about the operation to be performed tomorrow.Those possible side effects were listed in his mission document from the very beginning. He thought that he and Tang Ya had the same genetics, and he would certainly be able to bear any surgery that Tang Ya could bear, so he didn't think much about it.But when things came to an end, he was still a little worried, what if he had a nervous breakdown?He had heard of someone who kept telling others that he could hear the voices of the dead and the howls of ghosts in hell after hearing surgery, and finally committed suicide because he couldn't bear it.These crazy deeds were passed around as jokes and weird things in the Army, and he didn't want to be part of the joke, and he didn't want to be locked up in a mental institution.But looking around, Tang Ya doesn't seem to need to take any special medicine. Does this mean that he doesn't have any obvious side effects?

"Tang Yi, don't be cowardly! This is what you wanted to come!" He said to himself, and then he smirked.

Since he was a child, he has always had such a forward-thinking personality. On the surface, he looks like he doesn't care about anything, but in fact he is always worried in private for some messy reasons, unlike Tang Ya who is confident in everything he does and seems to never regret it.

Suddenly, a pleasant but plain mature male voice sounded in the room, "Tang Ya, welcome back."

Tang Yi jumped up from the bed in fright, looked around warily, but found no one.At this time, the melodious bass sounded again, followed by an image of a man with good features and handsome appearance in a straight suit on the wall, "I am Nas, the artificial intelligence steward of the fifteenth team, responsible for logistics and data analysis. Very soon Excited to continue serving you in the future."

Tang Yi has long heard that some people with status will install artificial intelligence butlers in their homes. In fact, it is an artificial intelligence program that can manage all electronic products and equipment within the authority. It can not only help you cook, wash, clean the room, but also accompany you Chat, sing and play games.He never expected that the Kraken team would even be equipped with smart butlers, which is simply a new level...

Tang Yi stood in front of Nas curiously, "Do you... know who I am?"

"You are Tang Ya, but not the old Tang Ya, but the new Tang Ya."

Tang Yi opened his mouth.Even robots know?Dare to feel that this is the whole team of people and monsters working together to deceive a sea monster...

What exactly is Mercury's identity... This is a waste of money...

Nas smiled, "Don't worry, my order is not to disclose this information to anyone other than you, so I usually assume that you are the former Tang Ya to communicate with you. If you have any questions about the former Tang Ya, I will be very happy To provide you with information to assist you in completing the task of disguising Mercury."

Tang Yi saw this super artificial intelligence for the first time, and looked at Nas' images from different angles curiously.If it weren't for the faint fluorescent lights around him, he would almost have thought he was a real person.Tang Yi stretched out his hand to poke the screen, and ripples formed where his fingertips touched the wall, like a water surface disturbed by a light leaf, and Nas' image also rippled, as if separated by a layer of transparent water waves.

"Who are you taking orders from? Security Department? Siren Squad? Or Squad [-]?"

"My basic instructions are set by the Ministry of Security, but on the premise of not violating the orders of the Ministry of Security, I obey the orders of the fifteenth team."

"Then... did you give the details of my brother's life to the Security Department?"

"good."

"In this way...you are equivalent to a monitor?"

"The word monitoring has too much negative connotation. Personally, I prefer the word 'observation'. Although observation is one of my functions, it is not the main function. My main duty is to assist the life and tasks of the fifteenth team. "The artificial intelligence answered tirelessly, with a calm and pleasant tone.Although the robot should have no emotions, and the so-called "like" is just a conditional setting, Tang Yi still thinks this robot is a bit interesting.

"... Is there anything in this room that you can't see?" Tang Yi smiled a little lewdly, and glanced into the capsule.

"Yes, I don't have permission to observe the bathroom or the Sleeping Capsule..." This answer disappointed Tang Yi, who thought he could see the love action movie between his brother and the sea monster. Nas wanted to say something, but the picture suddenly froze for a moment, and he suddenly changed his tone and said to Tang Yi, "Doctor Tan has prepared a welcome dinner for you tonight, and the vice-captain invites you out for dinner."

"Welcome dinner?" Tang Yi didn't expect his brother's servants to do such a thing, so he shrugged his shoulders and tidied up his appearance before heading out.At this time, Nas suddenly said again, "If you need stomach medicine at night, you are welcome to tell me anytime."

"...Why do I need stomach medicine?"

Nas laughed and said nothing.

Ten minutes later, when Dr. Tan put a bowl of dark green bubbling food in front of him, he suddenly realized Nas' mysterious smile.He raised his head stiffly, and met the doctor's elegant smile, "Is this... for food?"

"I'm going to name it--the Forgotten Swamp, what do you think?" The doctor's proud and eager eyes made Tang Yi sweat, "Uh... I think it might be more appropriate to call it a toilet..."

How could such a thing be able to be put in the mouth?Won't it burn out the vocal cords? !

Peacock, Lin Maochen, and Nolan sitting around the kitchen table were already lying on the table laughing, and the royal sister Siren Rose winked at Tang Yi, "This is the doctor's favorite dish, he made it all afternoon It's too hurtful for you to say that~"

Tang Yi squinted at her, "Then why don't you all have his food of love?"

Nolan slapped him on the shoulder, "Eating Dr. Tan's food is our enlistment ceremony, we have to show face!"

Lin Maochen also booed from the side, "Your brother ate the whole bowl back then!"

Tsuruta Takumi also leaned on the back of the chair and stared at him with a half-smile, as if watching a good show.Tang Yi finally understood, why did these brats unite to punish him? !

He clenched his fists, his heart swelled, his chrysanthemum tightened (huh?), and he grabbed the spoon fiercely, but he couldn't put it into the sticky porridge-like substance.Peacock suddenly held his wrist gently, and Mo Mei's eyes curved into a charming arc, "If you can't stand it, don't force it."

Tsuruta stared at the place where Peacock's hand touched Tang Yi's wrist, his eyes froze, and the surrounding temperature suddenly dropped several degrees.Lin Maochen and Nolan didn't dare to laugh anymore, and the sea monsters also secretly took a breath of air at the peacock's behavior.The only one who is still smiling is Dr. Tan.

Tang Yi suddenly felt that the atmosphere was strange.He has heard that the unwritten rule in the team is that it is not allowed to attack the sea monsters that have been bound, especially to keep a distance from the sea monsters of teammates, which is the same as brothers and wives should not be bullied.Although he was displeased with that little Japanese who always had a stinky face, he didn't want to make the beam too big. After all, when he got along with Mercury in the future, if the other party deliberately tripped him up, it would be easy for him to pass through.So he took his hand out of the peacock's wrist and brought it to his mouth with a low cough, then held the handle of the spoon again, closed his eyes and put the dark green paste into his mouth.

Dr. Tan maintained a fox-like smile, and tilted his head slightly, "How is it, is it delicious?"

Tang Yi lowered his head, his originally neatly combed hair fell down to cover his eyes, and his hand holding the spoon was shaking... After a while, he barely raised his head, wiped away his tears, and forcibly pulled out a cry With an ugly smile, "It's... not as bad as I imagined..."

Everyone was shocked, Nolan silently raised the beer in his hand, "I respect you for being a man..."

Doctor Tan's mask-like smiling face slowly turned to Nolan, "What do you mean?"

Nolan broke out in a cold sweat, "No... I mean, only a real man can taste the deliciousness of Dr. Tan's cooking~~ahhahahaha~"

A few hours later, at 15:[-] at night.Tang Yi was very fortunate that the team dormitories were all single rooms, otherwise the shocking noises he made when squatting in the toilet in the middle of the night would have made the whole team know... After No. Tang Yi heard Nas' voice, "Tang Ya, Ashes has something for you, do you want me to open the door?"

Tang Yi pulled the nearest chair and sat on it, rubbing his sore feet and asked feebly, "Who is Ashes..."

"It's Dr. Tan Mingyuan's Siren."

Hearing the surname Tan, Tang Yi felt his whole body tremble.He thought of the gray-haired siren standing beside the King of Dark Cuisine, without any aggressive appearance, it looked comfortable.

"Open the door." Tang Yi propped up a chair and stood up, moving towards the door step by step.

Ashes stood outside the door, gave Tang Yi a friendly smile, and handed him an injection, "This can relieve your...symptoms."

Tang Yi took the injection in a bit of embarrassment, thinking that he farted too loudly in the bathroom just now and was heard... He rubbed his nose and coughed, "Then what... thank you."

"Everyone will be comrades-in-arms from now on, don't be too polite." The sea monster continued gently, "Ming Yuan is actually a very easy-going and good-tempered person. It's just that in the medical school, in order to ensure that his grades were in the top five in the grade, he had to pay for it." Coping with the Kraken team's training is very stressful. So I developed the habit of venting the pressure by cooking. You must not attack his cooking skills, and you must not enter the kitchen, that is his "sacred place", he will go berserk."

Tang Yi broke out in a cold sweat, "What will happen if you go berserk?"

"I'll cook you a full feast of Manchu and Han people."

Seeing Tang Yi's pale face, he patted him on the shoulder and whispered, "As long as you don't touch his restricted area, he won't go berserk. Don't worry." He said "shh" gesture, and then lightly stepped into the suite on the right.

Tang Yi pressed the door close button, and then pressed the injection on his arm.After a slight tingling, the light blue liquid was quickly injected into the blood vessels. After about 3 minutes, the certain pressure in the stomach was greatly reduced.He let out a long breath, thinking that he could finally go back to sleep, and then he was stuck back in the middle of his breath.He coughed violently from choking on his own saliva.

When will there be an extra person in the bedroom? !