Age Of The Sirens

Tang Yi curled up on the bed, and the doors around the sleeping cabin were tightly closed.He surrounded himself tightly with a quilt, only revealing a pair of uneasily rolling eyes, looking meaninglessly at the dark surroundings like a frightened animal.

Tang Yi's head was going to explode right now.All kinds of inexplicable voices lingered in his ears like ghosts, and it was only then that he discovered that there were so many voices hidden in the place he usually thought was quiet.Strangely enough, he didn't even know where those voices were coming from.

The most terrifying thing was that several times he heard some strange and distant calls, as if from some kind of animal, but it was not like any animal he knew.The long cry that seemed to come from an unknown eternity, from another world, came from far and near, and there was even a voice of response.He couldn't find the source of these sounds at all, as if those creatures existed in invisible air, or in hidden space gaps.

Even hiding here, you can still hear weird sounds.Once or twice, he even felt in a trance that he heard the painful groans after being injured, or heavy sighs... He simply suspected that this could not be the voice of Tang Ya's ghost...

The door swung open, Tang Yi shook as if startled, turned his head suddenly and saw Shuiyin came in with a box of bento from the team cafeteria, including grilled chicken wings, vegetable salad, egg pudding and bread.Mercury turned on the light in the sleep cabin, and placed the dinner plate on the bed in front of Tang Yi, "Eat something. The more you are in the adaptation stage, the more you need to replenish your strength."

The big rice dumpling on the bed shook its head slowly, and said in a muffled voice, "No appetite, disgusting..."

Mercury ordered, "You have to eat even if you are sick."

"Anyway, I'll spit it out after eating. Just leave me alone!" Tang Yi twisted his body irritably, and the big rice dumpling was tilted on the head of the bed, looking quite funny.

Mercury looked helplessly at the quilt, thinking:

[Tang Ya, Tang Ya... What kind of disaster did you leave for me...] Quicksilver climbed onto the bed, peeled off the quilt layer by layer, and finally found Tang Yi's usual foolishness, now It looks a bit pitiful.

"You will be suspicious if you don't eat."

"How can I arouse suspicion if I don't eat?!"

"The sequelae after your operation are so obvious, wouldn't I be suspicious? Don't others suspect that I have already suspected you?"

Tang Yi was so angry that he lay down on the bed, "Can't you be a little stupid?! Why do you have to be so smart in your settings?! It's rare to be confused, do you understand?!"

The corner of Mercury's mouth couldn't help but curl up, "It's natural, and I can't help it."

Tang Yi finally sat up obediently, grabbed the bread and took a bite as if venting his anger.The bread that had just been baked was hot and fragrant, but it tasted like chewing wax in his mouth.The infrasound had a certain impact on his physiology, and he felt nauseous just after taking two bites.

Seeing Tang Yi's wrinkled face, Shuiyin tried hard to swallow the food.For some reason, I couldn't bear it.

This kid, in order not to let him be dealt with by the security department, is desperate enough.

Although he knew that Tang Yi saved him in order to be able to stay in the Sea-Monster team, but after getting along with him these days, he always felt that this lonely young man who was sometimes impulsive and sometimes a little inexplicable might really be saving him. He is working hard.After all, if it was only for his own benefit, he didn't need to take the risk to investigate Nolan's affairs.

This moved Mercury a little.He was obviously a stranger, but if he said that he treated him special because he could find Tang Ya's image in him, then it was hard for him to understand that the other party cared about him so much.

Since he was born, he has rarely felt the kindness from humans.He is a tool for people, a weapon, and a pet.Even the words used to describe their sea monsters in official documents are words like "it" and "only".But Tang Ya was different from others.He was the first and only one who made him feel that kind of safe, purposeless, equal goodness.

Now, another Tang Yi appeared out of thin air.

Tang Yi's cheeks were bulging, and he ate the same meal as the previous punishment, except when he ate the egg pudding, he showed an expression of enjoyment.She is obviously the same age as Tang Ya, but she has a little more childishness that doesn't match her age...or is she a bitch?

Tang Yi pushed the empty dinner plate and glanced at Mercury provocatively, "You are satisfied."

Quicksilver nodded slightly, "Good performance." Then he picked up the dinner plate and planned to go out.Tang Yi stopped him at this moment, "Hey, don't forget that we are going to visit Nolan tonight."

Quicksilver looked back at him, and said firmly, "No, I won't go tonight."

"what?!"

"Your current physical condition is not suitable for action." Mercury then softened his tone slightly.

"But if you don't go tonight, the training will start tomorrow. Then there will be no chance to get close to it! What's more, I don't know when Nolan will be transferred."

"I passed by that area during the day, and opened the infrasound wave network to detect it. There are indeed people in that building. If Nolan was really locked up there for treatment, he probably wouldn't transfer Nolan away overnight. You should hurry up Rest and recuperate, we will act again when we feel better." Quicksilver made a conclusion and left the sleeping cabin without giving Tang Yi any time to protest.

Facts have proved that Mercury's decision is correct.There was a sudden heavy rain that night, and the sound of thunder seemed to explode overhead, and the lightning tore through the thick clouds, illuminating the entire angry black sea in an instant.The raindrops fell heavily on the window, almost shaking the window and making a rattling sound.The rainwater exudes a pungent smell due to its high acidity, and it is combined with the strong winds blowing against each other from all directions.The whole world is like crazy, sea water, rain, wind, and buildings rub against and bite each other, just like Banshee (Note: the death banshee in Irish mythology) mournfully wailing.

Tang Yi's suddenly sharp hearing was a disaster in such a thunderstorm, even the potion Raj gave him could not calm him down.He curled up tightly on the bed beside him, as if he had fallen into a nightmare from which he could not wake up, or he had turned back to the five or six-year-old child overnight.It's just that even when he was a child, he could climb onto Tang Ya's bed to find some comfort, but now...

Mercury lay quietly on the other side of the bed, and it would be fine for two more people to lie between them.

This is their usual sleeping pattern.Nas might report the anomaly if one person slept on the sofa, so the two had to sleep on the same bed.In fact, Tang Yi didn't think it was a problem at first. When he was on a mission, he sometimes slept in the open air, and it was normal for several men to sleep together and keep each other warm.But when thinking about the special relationship between Mercury and Tang Ya, the atmosphere became a little delicate.Fortunately, this bed is big enough, and Mercury's sleeping appearance is very good, and Tang Yi's sleeping appearance is not so bad that both people and gods are angry, so it won't be too embarrassing.

But now, Tang Yi feels that this bed is a bit too big...

In a trance, he really heard that amidst the thunder's roar and the roar of the sea, a terrifying banshee with a thin face and dry and spreading white hair spread like a spider web between the sky and the earth was crying pitifully.The voice was so ominous that it seemed to foretell the impending death of the world.

The sound is everywhere, even here, the sleeping cabin surrounded by warm quilts is not safe.No place is safe...

No matter how hard you are living now, the fresh life will eventually be destroyed, together with this planet and this universe... into eternal nothingness...

Boundless despair, he had never heard such a desperate voice.As Raj said, it's the sound of hell...

Tang Yi bit his fingernails so hard that blood came out of the bite.He told himself over and over again to calm down, this was just the initial discomfort.Those voices have always existed, but they couldn't be heard before...

Nothing to be afraid of, all natural phenomena, all can be explained...

But self-hypnosis has no effect at the moment.

Just as he was seriously considering whether to take the risk of injecting the third injection, his body suddenly fell into a warm embrace.Silver hair brushed his forehead lightly, his back pressed against his solid chest, the flexible silver fins on his arms swept over the skin on the side of his neck, and his gentle breath fell behind his ears.

Tang Yi froze for a moment, stopped biting his fingers, and his eyes widened in the darkness.

Mercury has a clear and distant smell, reminiscent of the sea.The deep sea is not the current ocean, but the infinitely spreading sapphires described in the book, the pearls and shells shining in the dark, the dancing aquatic plants and colorful corals, and the dolphins soaring in the distance... …

"Don't listen to those voices." It's like the voice of nature separated from sleep, "In this world, most of the voices are lies. You have to learn to close your ears to them."

Tang Yi's voice was not loud at the moment, the stubbornness that he held on during the day was gone, he was trembling a little, a little helpless, "But I can't... I'm human... I can't control my ears ..."

The siren's erratic sigh fell on his cheek.Tang Yi turned his head slightly, and saw that Mercury raised his body slightly and looked down at him. The moonlight poured down from one side of his neck along his silver hair, which was translucent with a few blue-purple silver fins like butterflies. Stretched like wings, mysterious streamers swirled in his ethereal pupils.

For a moment, Tang Yi really felt that he would never hear those crazy voices again.

Suddenly, Quicksilver began to sing.

This is a tune that Tang Yi has never heard before. There are no lyrics, only casual chanting and humming.The mysterious and empty tune is as distant as a ray of soul transpiring on the sea.The slowly advancing melody is like a surging tide, gradually rising, turning into the untouchable starlight in the sky thousands of light years away, and turning sadly, a little melancholy, following the turbulent undercurrent Going down...down...into the deepest depths of the ocean.

Tang Yi never knew that the melody could suddenly go straight to the sky, and then suddenly drop to such a low level, like a dragon swimming in the world of sound, stirring up a colorful and confusing scene.He didn't know that it was because the sound range he could receive was wider, so he could hear the siren's singing completely.He also seemed to sink to the end of the ruins with the sound, and saw the moonlight tearing apart the darkness and silence of the deep sea, and shining on an abandoned palace full of thick seaweed.What a beautiful palace it is, but it has been barren by time. The exposed stones are as white as jade, the paintings on the dome are mottled and faded, and the goddess statues shed tears of pearls.In the distance, the colorful fish circled, the dolphins danced up and down, and the whales sang a long and long cry, swimming quietly in the sky.

Tang Yi indulged in the beautiful underwater world without realizing that he was already in a dream.

Mercury stopped singing quietly, looking at Tang Yi who fell asleep in his arms, he felt that somewhere in his already frozen heart became soft again.

"Oh... I'm really looking more and more like an old lady..."