Age Of The Sirens

Tang Yi and Mercury quickly dived about 200 meters. In the darkness, the strange fish's light was extremely bright, dangling far above their heads.Mercury and Tang Yi restrained their voices, hid in a rock crevice, carefully watched the cluster of will-o'-the-wisps fluttering near and far for a while, and then suddenly swam towards the abyss on the south side of the trench.

Tang Yi heaved a sigh of relief, and almost collapsed on the rock behind him.

"It's so fucking difficult!" Tang Yi cursed, but he didn't hear Quicksilver's response.Turning his head to look, he found that the sea monster's face was pale, the gills on his neck were constantly opening and closing, and his chest was also violently heaving, as if he had just finished running 5000 meters.

"Hey, you look like you're going to die!" Tang Yi lost his composure and grabbed Shuiyin's shoulders.Quicksilver shook his head, "It's a bit too deep here even for the Kraken, the water pressure is too heavy, and I feel chest tightness."

It was only then that Tang Yi realized that their current location was about 700 meters below the sea. As long as he, a human being, took off his anti-pressure diving suit, his lungs would probably be crushed immediately.From this point of view, the sea monster is really a terrifying creature...

"Let's go up quickly." Tang Yi dragged Mercury to leave, but found a problem.

Except for the faint gleam on Mercury's skin, the darkness in front of them was as sticky as thick ink, and they couldn't see their fingers, and they couldn't tell the direction at all.Tang Yi wanted to open the watch, but was stopped by Mercury.

"Be careful to lure that anglerfish back."

"what is it now?"

Mercury's voice seemed a little weak, "I have a solution, but...let me rest first..."

Tang Yi didn't make a sound anymore, but his anxiety became more and more intense.The last time Mercury looked so weak was after he had just discovered his identity.Quicksilver leaned back against the reef, the luster of his skin became much duller, his eyelids were slightly closed, as if he was exhausted.Tang Yi felt panicked and wanted to reach out to touch the mercury, but his fingers stopped when they were only one centimeter away from the mercury.Tang Yi sighed secretly, turned on the walkie-talkie, and tried to contact other team members.

However, there was no response after calling for a long time, and there was silence in the headset.

Tang Yi looked worriedly at the motionless Quicksilver, almost wondering if the sea monster was still alive.

In the boundless darkness, the silver-white figure in front of him was the only existence.Tang Yi stared at him blankly, his thoughts drifted back to that crazy and painful night unconsciously.Tang Yi has never felt so close to a person, never felt that the empty corner of his heart has been filled so fully.

Until that person called someone else's name.

[It would be great if I were Tang Ya...] An inexplicable thought flashed in his mind for a moment, which shocked him.

A feeling of fear came to his heart, Tang Yi couldn't help shaking Mercury's shoulder.The siren's silver-white eyelashes fluttered twice, slowly opened, and looked at Tang Yi suspiciously.

"Uh... are you alright... as if you're dead..."

Quicksilver looked at the somewhat frightened face in the helmet speechlessly, wondering what messed things were going on in that head.The sea monster sighed, "Don't worry, I'm just recovering my strength."

The two of them suddenly had nothing to say, and an awkward silence slowly spread.

Quicksilver moved suddenly, facing the boundless dark void in front of him, and uttered faint and low chants.The singing voice turned into invisible ripples and spread upwards and downwards in all directions, hitting stones of different shapes and then returning, continuously flowing into the ears of Kraken and Tang Yi.Tang Yi only felt that the singing was ethereal and moving, but he didn't know that these voices could form a sound map in the siren's ears, just like the effect of sonar.Quicksilver probably sensed the terrain near them.This is still the starting point of the Mariana Trench, and the depth is less than [-] meters from the sea surface. It turns out that they have already entered this far from the bottom of the trench without knowing it.

At this moment, he suddenly "saw" a strange thing in the abyss.

It was a huge boulder, about ten meters high, and its geometric shape looked like a stone tablet. Half of it was buried in the sand, and the exposed half seemed to be engraved with characters. The scouring of countless wind and frost years is still vaguely discernible.

In such a place where not many living things can survive, why are there steles?And still so tall?

Mercury suddenly felt a palpitation.

"There's something down there..." Quicksilver murmured.

Tang Yi couldn't figure out what he was muttering for a while, "Ah?!"

"I'm going to go down and have a look." Mercury seemed to be possessed, and jumped down without even explaining.Tang Yi was stunned, "Are you kidding me?! Hey!!!"

The speed of the mercury was very fast, and it turned into a rapidly sinking dot not long after.Tang Yi groped and lay on the edge of the cliff, his eyes widened in disbelief.

"You want to commit suicide?!!! Then the water pressure below will crush you into a dried fish!!!"

Quicksilver ignored him and swam toward the bottom of the trench desperately.Tang Yi was in a state of desperation, he was worried that if he followed, if he couldn't resist the pressure, he would become a human being along with him...

After a while, he cursed in a low voice, but still jumped to follow.

The place where they originally hid was not very far from the bottom of the sea.The bottom of the abyss is extremely wide, and there are two high mountain walls on both sides of the horizon. Even the light from Tang Yi's watch can't reach the opposite stone wall.The strange rocks underneath are abrupt and the terrain is undulating. When the light sweeps past, they are indistinct. Some gray strange fish fled around as if they were frightened.Quicksilver was standing next to a stone with a very regular shape, and was looking closely at the surface of the stone.

Tang Yi didn't dare to turn on the light for too long, for fear of attracting some strange fish with a lantern on its head.He landed next to Quicksilver in the dark, nervously feeling the creaking sound of the protective clothing on his body, as if he was a little overwhelmed.

Mercury's condition was not good either. He had trouble breathing and seemed to be holding onto the strange stone that looked like a monument to stand still.Tang Yi approached and asked, "What are you looking at?"

"Here... there used to be civilization..." the sea monster murmured, his voice was a little light, a bit like talking in sleep.

Tang Yi frowned, since they camped at the bottom of the sea, there have been more and more abnormal mercury.Staring at a certain place in the sea all day long, or muttering something to the fish in a language they don't understand, even the other sea monsters don't quite understand what Mercury is doing.

The surviving sea monsters today are all domesticated in the breeding hall. Apart from their instinctive yearning for the ocean, they don't know how to communicate with fish at all.

But why does mercury seem to be unhindered?

Now I'm here again, as if I'm going crazy.I don't know if the Kraken also has a mental illness like schizophrenia?

Tang Yi turned on the helmet light and adjusted it to the darkest, and lay down on the flat stone as wide as two people side by side to watch carefully.There were some blurry glyph-like things on it, but not English letters, or any language he had ever seen.

It is indeed a bit weird... In this valley of death, there is actually a monument standing?

It is a question of whether humans have set foot here before...

"What's written on it?" Tang Yi rubbed those shallow depressions with his heavy gloves.

"I don't know either." Quicksilver muttered, "I don't know this language."

"Then what are you looking at?!" Tang Yi rolled his eyes and turned his face. The faint light on the helmet pushed away some darkness. He squinted his eyes and found that there seemed to be a place more than ten meters away from the front left. The same stele.

Tang Yiyou went over, and sure enough, it was also a man-made geometric shape, but it seemed to be folded in half, and the other half collapsed incompletely on the ground, covered with a thick layer of sand.Tang Yi squatted down and used a dagger as a shovel to peel off layers of mud and sand, and sure enough, he saw similar characters and symbols.

"I said! There's something here too!" Tang Yi yelled at Shuiyin, but was taken aback when he turned his head.

Three or four jellyfish that are as big as an umbrella and exuding a faint purple light are opening their transparent umbrella cover, with their flowing lips and long whiskers floating in the tide like a dream, like elves in a magical world The same quietly floated up from behind the rock.Immediately afterwards, similar large jellyfish emerged one after another from near and far, and the dreamy colors of purple and blue spread like fireflies in the entire abyss.In an instant, the darkness also receded in this light, and the bony land of death became ghostly and ghostly, a spectacle.

Tang Yi was stunned by the sudden beauty.Quicksilver came behind him at some point and gently grabbed his arm, "Be careful, these jellyfish may be poisonous."

"In this kind of place, there are so many living things..." Tang Yi murmured, and couldn't help turning on the camera function on his watch, capturing the unbelievable scene in front of him.

Mercury's eyes drifted to the deeper part of the abyss in the south, "Yes... No matter what kind of environment, there is always someone who can survive..."

"But why are they all flying up suddenly?" Tang Yi was inexplicably nervous, although he couldn't hear any unusual noises.

As soon as the words fell, there was a heavy roar from under his feet.He could even see that the sand on the ground was stirred up and scattered by the frequency of the tremor.

Tang Yi couldn't stand upright, he held onto Mercury tightly to stabilize his figure.Is it an earthquake?However, it is almost impossible for earthquakes to occur in the Mariana Trench. Although it is at the junction of the plates, the crust on both sides is too soft, so there is no way to form earthquakes.

However, in the distance of the valley lit by thousands of jellyfish, a large cloud of smoke and dust suddenly appeared, as well as a monstrous loud noise that suddenly erupted with a roar.

The sound was not made by a specific sound source. Instead, it seemed that many people were screaming, screaming, and wailing... An ominous tide hit the face, and the smoke and dust swept the entire wide trench, heading towards Tang Yi and Mercury came roaring.

Tang Yi turned around and pulled Shuiyin to try to run, but Shuiyin hugged him tightly instead, a wave of sound gushed out from his throat, and the continuous sound waves formed an invisible layer of protection around them.The smoke and dust gushed out, and they were divided into two sides in front of them.In an instant, the surroundings were in chaos, and all the scenes became blurred.

However, Tang Yi saw a hellish scene.

Lots and lots of sea monsters, big and young, men and women, rushed towards them in fear.It was they who made the piercing cry.Behind them, billowing clouds of red smoke chased them like living monsters, constantly devouring the Kraken swimming behind.The sea monsters before being engulfed by the red mist uttered heart-shaking screams, which made Tang Yi's skin crawl all over.

"This is... what..." Why are there so many sea monsters in this place?

Mercury was also dumbfounded.His blue eyes widened unconsciously, and his body became cold unconsciously.

The crowd was surging, and the moment Tang Yi buried his head in Mercury's shoulder thinking he was going to be knocked away by these escaping sea monsters, he didn't feel anything.He opened his eyes, only to find that those sea monsters opened wide and terrified eyes, passing through him.

Tang Yi suddenly remembered that he saw in the library before that some special geographical environments can record the past events on his own rocks, and the scenes that happened in the past will reappear at certain times .This is where the so-called Yin soldiers borrow the way.

Could it be...these sea monsters are not alive?

The red mist also quickly arrived in front of the eyes, quickly swallowing Mercury and Tang Yi.In an instant, the sight within the red mist drained the blood from both of their bodies.

On the wide ground at the bottom of the trench, the bodies of sea monsters lay in all directions.Some are not dead, but most are.Their bodies mutated rapidly, with red nerve-like lines on the bluish white skin that quickly spread all over their bodies, and then began to rot and ulcers as quickly as if they had been splashed with acid.Those who were still alive rolled and howled in pain on the ground, shouting in a language he could not understand.But he guessed that they should be shouting "Help".

Tang Yi noticed a young siren who was probably less than 40 years old was twitching his small body on the ground, his eyes were wide open, his mouth was so big that it seemed to be dislocated, but he couldn't make any sound, only pus and blood. Strands emerge from the holed throat.

In an instant, the red mist suddenly dissipated, and the scene of corpses everywhere disappeared.In front of them is the trench that has returned to silence and indifference, and those beautiful and transparent deep-sea jellyfish are still dragging their long tentacles leisurely.

Quicksilver suddenly knelt down, and the whole figure seemed to have lost all strength suddenly, propping up the ground with both hands, sucking in "qi".

Tang Yi squatted down, looked at Shuiyin's absent-minded eyes, and felt a pain like a needle prick in his heart.

Did this really happen?Why do you see something like this?

Is that the red death potion that was written in the book...the potion of red death that was thrown at the lair of the sea monster during the battle between man and sea monster?

Is this... is it really something humans did?

Tang Yi knelt beside Quicksilver, gently wrapping his arms around the body of the sea monster who was about to suffocate.Quicksilver's hands dug tightly into the sand, his body trembling slightly.He was trying to control himself, trying to calm down.

But it is impossible for anyone to be calm when they see their own people being slaughtered so brutally.

"In the end...why..." Quicksilver couldn't finish his sentence.It turns out that there were so many Krakens before?

So where are the other Krakens now?

"Mercury..." Tang Yi called his name in a dry voice, patted his back lightly, and comforted him clumsily, "We will find out..."