Age Of The Sirens

The night is deep, and an ancient lighthouse stands silently on the black mountain stretching like an arm in the distance. The unmoving watchman who has gone through vicissitudes of life guards the city that has been polluted by waste water, oil, heavy metals and nuclear waste. ancient ocean.The rough sand is covered with rocks, fragments of shells, and black seaweed. Occasionally, some surprisingly large and strange-looking dead fish are washed ashore by the waves that exude a pungent sour smell.

Tang Yi kicked away a strange fish with six eyes on its head and thorns all over its back, and made a disgusted expression, "I have seen more and more of these strange things in the past two years."

Shuiyin walked in front and led the way. Hearing this, he was silent for a long time, and suddenly said in a sigh-like voice, "The sea is about to die."

Although the sea has engulfed a large area of ​​land, what continues to spread is only the lingering ocean that is losing its vitality day by day.Today's seawater needs to be purified through more than a dozen processes before it can be used by juvenile Krakens before the age of 60. If a little Kraken comes into contact with even half a liter of original seawater, the chances of bacterial infection and even organ failure are as high as 46% %.The most expensive meat on the market today is fish, and it's all marine fish raised in purified seas.As for how many lives and how many mutated monsters are still alive in the boundless primitive ocean, no one knows anymore.

It was too long ago that no one could have imagined what the blue sea looked like.Seawater is the blood of the earth. If the ocean dies, how long can humans survive even without the Leviathan virus?All human beings faintly know from birth that this planet is coming to an end.

The terrain became steeper and steeper, one side of the mountain rose abruptly, and the straight up and down cliffs seemed to have been cut by lightning.Seen from the bottom up, the exposed rock condenses into large black shadows.The road became difficult to walk, large and small rocks piled up, cross-cut wood barriers, and attention must be paid to avoid the patrol searchlights that accidentally swept over the cliff.

"How far is it?" Tang Yi stuck to the stone wall of the cliff to avoid the light flowing in front of him.

"Coming."

Tang Yi looked at the time, it was almost ten o'clock in the evening.They asked Tsuruta for leave, went to the nearest small town to drink some wine, then quietly turned back halfway, and climbed down the cliff to the north of the relatively desolate team.Even if he could use the excuse of staying overnight in the town drunk, it would be best if he could go back before midnight.

After stumbling and walking for about 15 minutes, the two stopped at the same time.

The cliff in front turned towards the east, forming a small U-shaped bay, where the sea water swirled and formed several small eddies.In the bay surrounded by cliffs on three sides, there is an octagonal glass building standing in the separated sea area.

The whole body is a translucent nano-frosted glass structure, and the light is turned countless times between the corners. In the moonlight that occasionally sprinkles in the clouds, it seems to be made of ice crystals, and the whole body exudes a faint hazy light.But when I looked closely, I found that the light was just an illusion.Much of the glass was broken, revealing dark holes.The glass was also covered with dust, completely scratched by the sea wind and dust, and there were black traces of being burned by fire.A corner of the building's west side had completely collapsed, with rebar and walls piled in the sea.

Only one corner of the building was connected to the land, and the gate was rusted but had been recently pushed open, with broken chains hanging aside.There were two soldiers standing outside the door, smoking and chatting. One of the soldiers didn't look like a member of the army, wearing a white uniform, but more like a member of the peace brigade directly under the headquarters and the sword.

Tang Yi and Shuiyin hid behind the reef for a while and observed for a while, only to see that the gate opened, and a siren came out, talking to the guards in the team.

Tang Yi clicked his tongue, "It's not easy to handle. If there are many siren guards inside, it will be difficult for you to bring them all down at the same time even with hypnotism, right?"

Quicksilver thought for a moment, then said with infrasound, "There is another entrance, follow me."

Tang Yi followed Mercury into the sea under the cover of the reef, seeing the turbid seawater gradually submerged up to his waist, but Mercury still had no intention of stopping, Tang Yi panicked, "Hey! Where are we going! "

Mercury didn't even look back, "Under the sea."

"Ah?!" Tang Yi quickly covered his mouth and lowered his voice, "But I didn't bring any diving equipment!"

Quicksilver glanced back at him, "Trust me."

As soon as he finished speaking, he suddenly made a sharp thrust, and a silver fish tail suddenly jumped up from the waves, and disappeared in the swaying sea tide after splashing a splash of water.Tang Yi secretly scolded whether he should be so straightforward!But he had no choice but to take a deep breath and plunge into the water.

The sea is pitch black, and the night sea lacking the light of the stars and the moon is as thick as ink, but the sea monster in front exudes a faint gleam, with a slender figure elegantly posed, and a huge tail fin dancing gracefully like silk, A ray of moonlight cruising in the boundless darkness, illusory like a dream.The sea water hurt Tang Yi's eyes, but he was reluctant to blink, swung his arms and legs vigorously, and chased behind the sea monster to swim into the mysterious depths of the sea.The sea monster deliberately slowed down and swam beside Tang Yi.

At about 4 minutes, Tang Yi felt that he was reaching the limit, and the disturbance of the infrasound wave in his ears also increased. While he was panicking, he saw Mercury suddenly pull him over, turned his hands around his body, and then...

Tang Yi's mind was blank, his lips were captured by another pair of soft lips, and oxygen was continuously poured into his chest cavity.

Mercury slowly let go of his lips, his white hair fluttered, and his face was so beautiful that Tang Yi felt like he was going to be drunk.The sea monster nodded to him, and then continued to dive into the depths of the sea...

Tang Yi's heart was beating wildly, all the infrasound waves in his ears suddenly disappeared, his whole body was light and light, and his steady arms cut through the dark tide, chasing the ray of moonlight.Every three to four minutes, Mercury uses the same method to provide him with oxygen.Tang Yi secretly hoped that the exit would be a little deeper...a little farther away...

At this moment, in the distance, Tang Yi suddenly felt that he heard something...

singing……

Indistinct... secluded and lonely...

The singing became clearer and clearer. It wasn't the voice of one person, but many, many voices gathered together, inextricably linked and lingering.They dived nearly 100 meters. How could there be singing in such a deep ocean?Is it a siren?

But isn't there no siren here?Or is it that the siren guarding Nolan is singing?Did they find so many sea monsters to guard Nolan's small team?

Listening to Tang Yi, he always felt that the singing was a bit weird.It's not that he hasn't heard the siren's song before, although it's also very faint, but it's not so erratic.

Tang Yi turned on the lighting function on the watch, and a beam of light passed through the dark green darkness and reflected on some smooth surface.

Stretching in front of them was the bottom of a huge glass building.Here, the glass is completely transparent, allowing the light to pass through, reflecting the scene inside the nursing home.

The bottom of the sea is covered with layers of dead and rotten aquatic plants and sea anemones, moss marks spread on the glass walls, and the seawater that should have been purified has become as turbid as the open sea.In the center of the hall is a huge transparent glass tree, which looks like a coral shape, with small water drop-like rooms hanging on it, presumably the bedrooms of the Krakens recuperating here.Some furniture is piled up on the bottom of the sea, and many glass houses are broken, but the coral tree is still standing, with long layers of algae hanging on it, like torn gauze sash dancing with the tide.

It turns out that this is what the interior of the convalescent hall looks like... It seems like a world closed by a glass cover...

It's just that it feels a little spooky...

I don't know how many sea monsters here have ushered in the end of their lives... The sea monsters chose to die, mostly because of the death of their partners.They could have lived five times longer than humans, but because they were bound by humans, they lost the rest of their time in this glass cover for nothing.

The so-called willingness is actually still under the control of people.When you think about it, it's terrifying.

People who use while being used feel that everything is voluntary.Even Tang Yi, who is a human being himself, sometimes feels apprehensive about human methods.

At this time, the sound wave of mercury traveled along the sea water to Tang Yi's ears, "Nolan should be locked on a floor above the sea surface, we can enter from below."

Tang Yi was worried that the sea monster guarding Nolan would come to this abandoned underwater place for a walk in the middle of the night, but he remembered that Quicksilver had said that for their sea monsters, this place was a forbidden place, and they could hide if they could. .They shouldn't be so memorized.

Through that layer of glass, the light on Tang Yi's watch swept across the silent coral branches, and the fine suspended matter swirled like dust.In an instant, a pale face passed by among the branches.

Tang Yi's movements froze, and he immediately moved the light back, but only saw the floating waterweed, curly and stretching like a woman's long hair.

【Dizzy? 】 Tang Yi shook his head and followed Quicksilver.

There really is a small door on the bottom of the sea, which is locked by a combination lock.But the combination lock covered by seaweed had already lost its function, Tang Yi stretched out his foot and kicked the door open.Before entering the door, Mercury gave Tang Yi oxygen again, then looked at Tang Yi seriously and said, "After entering, if you hear someone calling your name, don't say yes, and don't look back."

Mercury's words made Tang Yi think of the flashing face just now, and suddenly a chill ran up his spine.

Seen from the bottom, the glass coral tree grew larger and more imposing, and a heavy, ancient murmur echoed across my ears like a sigh.From the moment he stepped on the threshold, Tang Yi sensed a strange and gloomy atmosphere, entangled like a sticky cobweb.It is obviously the same sea water, but it is completely different from the feeling outside the door just now.

Quicksilver led Tang Yi around the branches.Those drop-shaped rooms are actually very spacious. Some still have clamshell-shaped beds, projection TVs on the walls, and decorative starfish on the walls. Of course, they are dead now, releasing a rancid smell. .

Suddenly there was a sigh in his ear.It was as if someone had blown a breath against his ear, and even the hair on his temples fluttered.Tang Yi thought it was Mercury who came over to give him the "kiss of life", but when he looked up, he found that Mercury was swimming in front of him...

Tang Yi felt that the hair on the back of his neck stood up, but he was not sure if he was hallucinating.

He remembered that Quicksilver had said that there were many living things of dead siren left here.In layman's terms, after the sea monsters die, their brain waves and biological energy will not simply dissipate.According to some whispered belief among the sirens, they believe that those creatures can transform into another life form.But some sea monsters are extremely painful before death, and the creatures can't leave the place where they finally died, so they will gather and accumulate, and finally lead to some unfortunate things.They suspect that the fire was caused by too much residual bioenergy accumulated in the nursing home.

Of course Tang Yi didn't believe this.After all, isn't this still the same as the soul and ghost that humans believed in before?In a world that believes in science and power, there is no market for such fantasies.Mostly because these sea monsters are controlled by human beings, they can't help themselves, so they believe in these illusory things that have something to do with fate.

But now, in this dark green sea monster cemetery, he was suddenly not so sure.