Age Of The Sirens

The headache relieved a lot under Tang Yi's fingers, and Mercury grabbed Tang Yi's wrist, signaling Tang Yi to stop.He sat up and looked around his surroundings.In the empty circular palace, the paintings on the walls are bright and magnificent, and it doesn't look like it has been milled for hundreds of years.A medium that seems to be water but can breathe pervades the surroundings, and the light is twisted and swayed by the water patterns.

Tang Yi stood up and looked down at the ground covered by thick sand under his feet.The sand and sand from the place they stepped on flew into the water like smoke, revealing the black and white marble floor tiles below.These floor tiles are paved in a form that gathers towards the center, the periphery is black, and the center is white. It looks like some kind of flower in shape, and the place where they appear is the center of this shape.

Tang Yi walked slowly along the wall, looking at the colorful murals.There were many sea monsters painted on it, wearing very strange and elegant costumes, and one of the sea monsters made him stop and stare.

"Uh... quicksilver?" Tang Yi called out.

Quicksilver walked towards him and asked, "What's wrong?"

Tang Yi stretched out his finger and pointed at a figure on the mural, "Is this you?"

There was a very sad scene painted on it.A beautiful sea-monster with a golden fishtail and curly black hair seemed to be dead, with a gleam of blood at the corner of its mouth, and was held in the arms of another silver-haired sea-monster.The ice-blue pupils of the silver-haired and silver-tailed siren were filled with despair, and a tear-condensed pearl was slipping from his jaw.Around them, there are many sea-monsters wearing armor similar to that of humans in ancient times floating in the air and fighting, blood staining the indigo deep sea.

The silver-haired siren that Tang Yi pointed at looked like mercury!

Mercury's Adam's apple slipped, but he couldn't speak.

"There's more here!" Tang Yi pointed to a mural next to him, it was still the silver-haired "sea monster", but this time he didn't have the characteristics of a sea monster, but was more like an ordinary human being, dressed in a gorgeous silver battle coat. A, with many human soldiers, confronted other people with wings on their backs.

There is this silver-haired and blue-eyed person on almost every mural, sometimes it is the image of a human, sometimes it is the image of a sea monster, and sometimes it has wings on its back, and one even seems to imply that he can become It looks like a fox with nine tails.There is not much connection between the murals and the murals, except for the silver-haired man who keeps appearing.On one of the murals, the image of the silver-haired man is extraordinarily tall, and the depiction is so fine that it is almost like a living person. He is dressed in white robes, and the holy light is shining behind him. Holy and solemn.

Tang Yi opened his mouth slightly, and murmured, "It's a fairy...Shuiyin, you are not the leader of the cult, are you?"

Quicksilver ignored him, and he stopped in front of the last few murals.

The first painting shows a human child lying on the reef, looking at the silver-haired siren floating on the sea with only its head and shoulders exposed.The little boy had a rare red hair.

In the second picture, the silver-haired siren is wearing a silver battle armor, and behind him is leading countless angry sea-monsters rushing to the land. Human soldiers are running away in all directions. High-rise buildings are collapsing and burning in the raging fire, and black smoke rises like pillars of sky. , darkness covered the sky.

Unlike all the previous incomprehensible murals, this one clearly depicts the tragic Kraken War 300 years ago.Moreover, the painters who had been extremely fine before had changed here, the brush strokes became hasty and messy, the painting style was so rough that even the characters were deformed, the background was even blurred, and even later there was no background.

In the third picture, a red-haired man in military uniform stabbed a dagger with a strange blue light into the silver-haired siren's chest with tears in his eyes.The silver-haired siren's eyes widened slightly, and his expression couldn't tell whether it was surprise, disbelief, or sadness.His silver hair flew in the air mournfully, and blood gushed from his chest.

In the fourth picture, there are no people, no scenery, no characters, only a piece of red.

Blood-like red, the color of the God of Death, permeated the sky and covered the sky, devouring everything.Those paints seemed to have been splashed wantonly, even the floor and the dome frieze were splashed with a lot of red paint, as scarlet and gloomy as blood from a murder scene.

This is the last painting. After that, the mural stopped abruptly, and after about ten steps, he walked back to the god-like mural that Tang Yi was looking at.

It should be an unfamiliar story, but a series of pictures suddenly flashed in Shuiyin's head.

The handsome face of a young human being, the tightly intertwined human fingers with silver webbed fingers, the face falling asleep listening to the singing on the reef under the moon, the heroic figure... and the angry, resentful expression, and the bed-bound body , the pain of a cracked heart, the despair of being betrayed...

Mercury took many steps back as if seeing something terrifying, and suddenly missed a few beats of breathing.

Tang Yi heard Mercury's gasp, and hurriedly shouted "What's the matter?" and ran over.

After seeing the last four murals, he remembered the story of Chen Yuan told by Lee.

But if the red-haired one was General Morris, wouldn't the silver-haired one be...

Impossible... Mercury has only been awakened from the breeding hall for ten years, and that Chen Yuan is already a sea monster more than 300 years ago. Such a terrifying enemy, it is impossible for humans to keep him alive?

All kinds of conjectures popped up in my mind, each suddenly becoming possible.

Why does the base value mercury so much, and why do the rebels want it so much.

If Mercury has the power of Chenyuan, then whoever can control him can get the power of God.

But so far, Tang Yi has seen the strength of Mercury.Although it is indeed powerful, it will definitely not reach the level of God's power described by Lee.What exactly is mercury?

Quicksilver suddenly said hurriedly, "We have to get out of here!"

He first aimed at the stained glass and launched a powerful sound wave attack, but the sound wave that was enough to overturn a tank hit the glass that should have been shattered immediately, but only caused some ripple-like vibrations, and the ripples spread throughout the entire body. The building did not cause any damage.

Mercury was not reconciled, and sent out several sound waves in succession, each time with stronger and sharper sound pressure.Tang Yi covered his ears with all his strength and still felt a pain like tearing inside his ears. He shouted, "Mercury!!! Stop!!!"

Mercury reluctantly stopped the sound wave attack, panting violently, his chest heaving rapidly.This place frightened him, since he stepped into this place, strange memories were always poured into his mind.Those were not his memories, but they invaded his spiritual consciousness bit by bit.

Tang Yi cautiously approached Mercury, pressed his shoulder, "Don't worry, I'll go and see what's going on."

He leaned over to the tall glass window and reached out to touch it.The icy-cold brilliance was much cooler than ordinary glass, and it was so smooth that his fingers couldn't even rest on it.

Probably made of a material he hadn't seen before.

He tried to look at the scene outside the window, but he could only see the lingering blue water light outside those phantom colors, and he couldn't see anything else.

He tried to take a few steps back, then slammed into the glass.The result was - he was bounced back hard, if it wasn't for Quicksilver hugging him, he might have been bounced directly to the other side of the palace.

Quicksilver swam up the dome, but did not find any exit.His sonic attack had no effect on these walls, and the sound wave that could have knocked down a house seemed to be completely absorbed by the entire space.

Tang Yi walked around the entire palace again, but saw no other entrances and exits.I reached out and fumbled here and there on those murals, but I couldn't find any hidden compartments.

After an unknown period of time, Tang Yi was thirsty and hungry, and could no longer walk, so he had to sit down against the wall next to Mercury.Mercury sometimes seemed nervous, and sometimes his eyes were a little drawn away, staring fixedly at a certain place in the dome, but his sight seemed to pass through the glowing beads on the dome, getting lost in the endless universe.

"You said, this is not the jellyfish-like building we have seen before, right?" Tang Yi had nothing to say, and the unstable expression of Mercury made him a little worried, "Could it be that all of this Lee's prank?"

Quicksilver shook his head, but didn't make any further explanations.

Looking at his profile, Tang Yi suddenly felt that the mercury was dissipating little by little.The faint light on his body was increasing, but the part of his eyes that belonged to mercury was crumbling, and the misty whiteness spread from the corners of his eyes little by little.

"Mercury... what's wrong with you?"

Shuiyin frowned, as if he was a little confused, "Shuiyin?"

He didn't even recognize his own name.

He watched Quicksilver grab his hair with his hands, pain cracked across his face.Those strange memories kept pouring into his brain like an out-of-control faucet. He just wanted to stop those memories, but he couldn't find a way.

Tang Yi grabbed Mercury's shoulders and shook them, then raised her cheeks with both hands.The empty eyes gradually took on a bit of indifference and coldness.

It was the eyes I saw in the Mariana Trench that day...

Immediately afterwards, a berserk airflow burst out from Quicksilver's body, accompanied by a dazzling flash.Tang Yi's whole body was sent flying, and his body landed heavily in the middle of the hall.

A layer of light so white that it hurts the eyes enveloped the quicksilver.The white figure curled up into a ball, like a baby.Quicksilver let out a low growl of pain.Tang Yi got up from the ground and ran over with hands and feet, but was only bounced away by the strong aura again.

As if in the light that could submerge all darkness, the sea monster slowly stretched its body and floated into the air.His silver hair spread out, his facial features were blurred in the flow, only a pair of burning blue eyes opened little by little.But there, the familiar soul could no longer be found.

Mercury is going to be swallowed...

Tang Yi felt his heart tightened. He pursed his lips, put his hand into the hidden pocket of his shirt, and took out the shell necklace that Mercury gave him.He knew that there was only one person who could save Mercury at this time.

He wasn't sure if this chain was given to Shuiyin by Tang Ya, but since it was Shuiyin's most precious thing, it probably had nothing to do with others.

He hung the chain around his neck.Small sapphire blue shells rolled helplessly on his chest with the noise of the sea.Tang Yi closed his eyes to calm down, and when he opened them again, his eyes became extraordinarily calm and composed.

At least it's feigned composure.

He got closer to Quicksilver bit by bit, the siren's piercing gaze was frightening, but he still insisted on looking at him.He stood in front of the tall siren, raised his head slightly, and opened his hands like open arms.

Then he started singing.

"Flying the other cypress boats is also the same as the flow. If you are insomnia, if you have hidden worries. If you have no wine, you can swim with Ao. The sun lives in the moon, so it is repeated? The worry in the heart is like a bandit washing clothes. Quiet. When you think about it, you can’t fly.”

His voice is very similar to Tang Ya's. I'm not sure if he sings the same as Tang Ya's, but there's not much difference, right?

This is the first time I sang this song, the tune composed by my brother, accompanied by ancient poems that few people know anymore.Ghostly and ethereal, with lingering sorrows, pure and simple.

The siren's body seemed to tremble, and the hot and dazzling light dimmed for a moment, and the radiant flames in the ice-blue eyes struggled back again.The sea monster landed in front of him, looking at the familiar human beings in front of him, the blue shell on his chest was flowing with moisture, and the peaceful and gentle gaze in the dim light was the only comfort in this dark and strange world.

Just like when we first met ten years ago.

The sea monster opened its arms and hugged the gentle fire tightly, hugging so tightly, as if it wanted to rub people into its body.

The singing stopped suddenly, and after a while, Tang Yi hesitated and hugged Shuiyin back.He smiled wryly, thinking how wonderful it would be if this hug was really given to him.

Then he whispered in Quicksilver's ear, "Quicksilver, hold on, I'm back..."

The sea monster's body trembled in his arms, and the lips turned over and over again, "I'm back... I'm back... I'm back..."

"Yeah... I'm back." Tang Yi nodded on his shoulder, and stroked Mercury's back as if to comfort him, "I won't leave you again..."

But Shuiyin suddenly began to refuse his embrace, "But you already..." Shuiyin's deep voice was a little choked and unbelieving, as if she wanted to push him away.Tang Yi suddenly raised his head, kissed the lips that he had been thinking about day and night, and swallowed his unfinished words.

Yes, even though that night on the sub was such a shame, he missed it every night.

Obviously knowing that you shouldn't be nostalgic, knowing that if you are smart, you should quickly find a way to stop thinking about mercury, and stop this temporary obsession.But when he dreams back at midnight, or wakes up in the morning and sees the traces of the beautiful dream on his pants, he knows who he is dreaming about.

Even though they were sleeping on the same bed with only a few inches of distance between them, he didn't even have the right to touch them.

No matter how stubborn he is, no matter how he deceives others and himself, he wants to have mercury again, even once.

He deepened the kiss vigorously, demanding the love he couldn't get.Lips and tongues are twisted, and bodies are rubbing against each other.Mercury's body was extremely hot at the moment, and he didn't know if it was because of the scorching light or because of the emotional excitement.The heat of desire steamed along the limbs, and the blood in the veins boiled little by little.The two fell to the ground hugging each other, tearing each other's clothes.When the mercury broke into his body, Tang Yi let out a low cry that he didn't know whether it was happiness or sadness.

He opened his eyes wide, looking at the swirling patterns on the dome, feeling like he was about to be swallowed.

Pulled into the abyss by an obsession he could never have.