Age Of The Sirens

After narrowly escaping from Kabukicho, Tang Yi and others were unlucky enough to be quarantined for another three days for inspection.The day he was released from the Kraken Squadron Clinic happened to be the first day of summer, and there was a sultry sea breeze blowing from the ocean, and the rancid smell of some kind of dead fish was mixed in it, which would make one feel sick after smelling it for a long time.

As soon as Tang Yi came out of the clinic, he saw Mercury leaning against the flagpole, looking at his watch impatiently. He was dressed in a military uniform with the brim of his hat pulled down and his silver hair tied behind his neck. He looked very heroic.Tang Yi put his military jacket on his shoulders and walked over, "Are you waiting for me?"

Shuiyin glanced at him, "If I had known you were such a jerk, I would have left first."

Tang Yi was used to Mercury's knife mouth that couldn't spit out ivory. He grinned, but the smile quickly subsided, "How is Nolan? Have you seen him?"

Mercury shook his head, and his expression was a little sad.

Everything happened so fast, no one would have imagined that Rose, who had gone back and forth so many times in life and death, would just disappear like this.The most chilling thing is that it was not the rebels who killed her in the end, but the GBU-FireRiver bomb launched by the Ministry of Security.

What if there were still uninfected civilians in those buildings?Why did they just disinfect without even the most basic rescue?

But no one dares to talk about this kind of thing.

Tang Yi sighed and said, "Go back to the dormitory."

Just after taking a step, his shoulder was held down by mercury.He turned his head and looked at the sea monster wonderingly, "What's wrong?"

"Get dressed."

Tang Yi rolled his eyes, turned his head and left, "Why do you still care if I wear clothes or not? Are you my mother?"

Mercury grabbed the clothes from Tang Yi's shoulders forcefully, shook them, and took advantage of his height to drape the clothes over Tang Yi's body, and said coldly, "Extend your sleeves."

"What are you doing! I'll do it myself!" Tang Yi felt awkward, trotted a few steps to put on his clothes, and looked at Shuiyin with a dark face, "Do you have obsessive-compulsive disorder?"

"Don't forget, you are Tang Ya now." Mercury approached, looked at him seriously, and whispered, "Even if I know who you are, to others, I still don't know your true identity. "

"What a mess..." Tang Yi turned his mind a few times before he suddenly understood.

If he wanted to continue pretending to be a partner with Mercury in front of others, then he had to pretend to be Tang Ya.Otherwise, if others think that he is not pretending to be like Tang Ya, they will naturally suspect that Mercury has seen him through.

The Ministry of Security will not allow Krakens who are at risk of binding to stay in the team.

"Your sister... Lianhe and everyone lied to you before, but now they lie to you. The degree of difficulty is getting higher and higher..." Tang Yi tied up his collar depressedly, the sweltering air made him Sweat dripped from his forehead.

When passing the outdoor training ground, I saw many team members and Krakens on the beach doing double combat training, as well as running a weight-bearing marathon and anti-exposure.Pairs of silhouettes floated in front of the black velvety vast sea.Mercury's line of sight spread all the way to the end of the world, and disappeared into the vast cloud in the distance.

Every time he saw such an ocean, he felt a deep uneasiness in his heart.

He always felt that the sea should not be like this.

Occasionally, in the dead of night, he would sit alone by the sea for a while.Closing your eyes, you can vaguely hear a hazy but ancient call in the depths of the incomparably deep ocean.

That call was throbbing in his heart, evoking the sea monster's yearning for his hometown in the depths of his soul.His home was not in this gray land, nor in that black sea.His home should be dark blue, that kind of quiet, pure, and deep blue.

But when I opened my eyes, I felt like I was dreaming again.He was born in this sea monster team, if this is not his home, where else is it?

"Shuiyin, what are you looking at?" Tang Yi followed Shuiyin's line of sight, and saw nothing but two well-built players practicing pull-ups, "I said, don't you only have my brother in your heart? Also look at the hunk, do you count as the Kraken version of the red apricot cheating?"

Quicksilver squinted at him, "What nonsense are you talking about?"

"My figure is better than those two, do you want to see my eight-pack abs?"

"roll."

As soon as he entered the dormitory, Tang Yi was almost choked by the low air pressure coming towards him.

In the circular public lounge, Takumi Tsuruta is sitting in the middle of the sofa, Peacock is standing behind him, Lin Maochen is lying on the small sofa next to him playing PGAir (an ultra-thin handheld game console similar to PSP), Blue God Sitting on the adjacent sofa, Ashes stood at the door of the kitchen, while Dr. Tan didn't know what to do in the kitchen.

Is such a low air pressure a silent tribute to Rose?

As soon as Tang Yi entered, Takumi Tsuruta stood up abruptly, glaring at him with red eyes angrily, "You did a good job! You dragged Nolan and Rose to Kabukicho!"

Tang Yi was stunned by the sudden accusation.Lin Maochen said something for him beside him, "It's not him who dragged us to go, we are willing to go..."

"Shut up! I haven't said why you went to such a place at such a young age!" The Chinese with a Japanese accent clanged forcefully.

Lin Maochen shrank his neck from being scolded, and didn't dare to talk anymore.

Tang Yi knew that he couldn't run away if he rolled his eyes. He took a deep breath and exhaled slowly, and said in a calm tone, "I am indeed responsible for this kind of thing."

"What are your responsibilities?"

Tang Yi was stunned, but saw Mercury take a half step forward, slightly blocking Tsuruta's gaze at Tang Yi, "No one can predict a terrorist attack. We are all very sad about Rose's death, but we can't turn our sorrow into guilt and blame it on someone personal."

Hetian didn't expect that Shuiyin would stand up for Tang Yi, he was stunned for a moment before realizing that in Shuiyin's eyes, Tang Yi was Tang Ya.

There was a deep sadness in his heart, but fortunately, the expression on his face was tense, and he didn't show his feet.He clenched his hands tightly into fists, glared at Tang Yi, turned and went back to his room.Peacock took a deep look at Tang Yi, smiled half-smile, and followed.

Sitting next to Lin Maochen, Tang Yi saw a strange green mushroom cloud of chicken feces emerging from the kitchen, and swallowed, "What is Dr. Tan doing?"

Lin Maochen pressed the touch screen on the transparent glass plate fiercely, as if there was a real button there, "He's in a bad mood, he's venting."

Lan Huang answered next to him, "You haven't heard yet, right? Nolan refuses to accept the new Siren, and may be transferred from the Siren team."

"Ah?!" Tang Yi was stunned, but after a while, he nodded again, "It seems like Nolan would make a choice..."

Every time Nolan looked at Rose, his eyes were full of happiness and love, as if he was looking at a goddess. It was no longer a one-sided bond between Rose and the relationship between them was two-way.

Asking one's lover to be bound to a new siren when his lover just died is unbearable for anyone.Even if the human emotions are not as strong and specific as the sea monsters, they are not easy to cut off at will.

It was too much for Siren Team to make such a request.

"What about the Nolans?"

Lin Maochen made big moves in the game as if venting his anger, and said, "He is very depressed now, and occasionally makes radical remarks. So he was isolated, saying that he would invite someone to do trauma counseling for him. After leaving the Kraken Before the team, we didn't know if we could see him again."

Tang Yi felt as if the muscles in his heart were twisted together by an invisible force.A familiar thick and dim fog gradually surged up, filling his internal organs bit by bit, impenetrable and dark, soaking through his blood veins.

If he hadn't pulled Nolan and Rose out, if he could have been more vigilant at that time...there would be that group of lovers he failed to protect, the old man he left in the dark supermarket to die, who trusted him wholeheartedly but was killed. Gao Yan who he pushed down the tall building with his own hands, Gao Yan's sea monster whose head was shot by him, the soldiers who died under his leadership, Su Han who died in his arms, and... brother.

Since Tang Yi was a child, he often felt this thick gray-black fog, and the anxiety in his heart was burning like a fire. At first, his brother could comfort him, but later on, even Tang Ya couldn't make him find peace.He was always anxious, doubting himself, and not knowing what to do.Later, when he grew up, he had learned to suppress this suffocating mass, not to let it affect him, and he even seemed very careless.

But that deepest doubt about one's own worth and existence never faded away.

"Is this an order from the captain?"

Lin Maochen stopped the movement in his hand, said nothing, and suddenly threw the game console to the ground.

Tang Yi understood immediately.

Mandatory isolation, probably an order from the Ministry of Security.

Tang Yi could imagine what Nolan's radical remarks would be like.He presumably also heard from the Equality Messenger, who presumably questioned whether the base really had a way to contain the virus and why no rescue action was taken.

These problems alone were enough to cut his loyalty value in half.

Entering the bedroom, Tang Yi paused as he looked at the familiar yet unfamiliar Tang Ya's room.Quicksilver passed him, skillfully taking off his hat and coat and hanging them on the coat rack.At this time, Nas' image was projected on the wall, "Welcome back, Tang Ya."

Tang Yi nodded casually, unbuttoned his neckline, and pulled open the curtain of the bay window with a snap.There was thunder rolling in the dark sky, and a storm was coming.

Tang Yi watched two raindrops hit the glass, turned around abruptly, grabbed Mercury's hand, and pulled Mercury into the sleeping capsule in the bedroom without splitting the water.Quicksilver didn't resist at all, and sat obediently on the bed he was very familiar with, watching Tang Yi pull the doors on both sides of the capsule cabin.

The lights in the cabin turned on, and the roof of the cabin automatically displayed the image of the summer night starry sky.Tang Ya's water glass and some medicine bottles were still placed on the bedside shelf, and Mercury slightly raised his head to look at Tang Yi, suddenly feeling that everything was still exactly the same as before.

Tang Yi sat down on the other side of the bed, without turning his head, he suddenly said in a daze, "We have to see Nolan."

Quicksilver also turned his back to him, and said, "What can you change if you see him? If his loyalty value drops to that point, even the captain will not be able to save him."

"Because..." Tang Yi's mouth opened several times, but each time he couldn't make a sound because of the indescribable anxiety and fear.But he knew that such words would be said sooner or later. NAS can't listen to their sleeping capsules, it's safe here.

"The Ministry of Security issued the quarantine order so quickly that we were not allowed to visit, which shows that they are afraid of others, especially what we heard from Nolan..."

Mercury's eyes rolled, and he turned his head slightly, "So?"

"If I remember the information I've memorized correctly, Nolan's qualifications in the team are very old. He entered the training camp at the same time as my brother and graduated at the same time... I wonder if he knows something... "

Mercury remained silent for a long while.

Tang Yi asked again, "Do you still remember, my brother's last mission, who were the ones who carried out the mission with him?"

Mercury is afraid to recall the events of that day, but now he has to force himself to recall the details, "At that time... we were ordered to destroy a rebel stronghold under the sea. It was not a difficult task at first, and the rebels in that stronghold The army is just lingering, and fighting in the sea is the most beneficial for us. There are more than ten units in the same company, but after entering the opponent's stronghold, the fifteenth unit separated. Tang Ya and I have two pairs of the eighteenth unit. team together."

"Where are the members of the eighteenth team?"

"All dead."

"They said that my brother was killed by a spy from the rebel army, but who was the spy? Why didn't you make it clear?" Tang Yi put his thumbnail between his lips and teeth, and said, "You said , after Tang Ya was shot, your memory was very confused, you don’t remember what happened specifically, you only have a vague impression. Do you have any memory, who rescued you from the rebel stronghold after that?”

Mercury's body was a little stiff.He tried to recall that memory many times, but every time he thought of it, he would feel a sudden strong fear, swallowing him like a tide.The memories that had just been formed instantly dissipated like mist again.No matter how hard he tried, except for the vivid picture of Tang Ya being shot, his memories were like quicksand in his hands. The more he tried to hold on, the harder it was to hold on.

But before the fog dissipated, he did catch a little bit of fragmented memory fragments... blood, broken limbs, many people shouting, shaking lights, steel walls flashing past, and... blonde hair wet with sweat .