Age Of The Sirens

The small submarine trembled violently, the lights on the instrument panel flickered on and off, and there was a crumbling sound like cracking somewhere.The six people in the submarine sat in their seats and fastened their seat belts, not daring to let out the atmosphere.

The submarine's computer sounded an alarm, reporting a series of system failures.Among them, Tang Yi understood the failure of the propulsion system, positioning system and communication system, but it was enough for him to worry.Without these three things, they were like blind men drifting in the deep sea, unable to get in touch with the base, and unable to know where they were.All he could hope for now was that the sub wouldn't crack, or it would be the end of the six of them.

Or at least the three of them are finished as humans.

When the chaotic sirens and violent shaking finally died down, only black velvet darkness remained around them.Luo Wei tried to repair the propulsion system and positioning system, but due to the lack of tools and the damage seemed to be quite serious, all he could do was repair some of the most basic functions of life support.Luo Wei was sweating profusely from work, and Zi Xi was helping. The others didn't know much about machinery, so they could only worry about it.

Tang Yi was exhausted, so he leaned on the cabin and closed his eyes to rest silently.There is only a small amount of emergency food and drinking water stored in the submarine. The six of them do not know how long they will drift in this darkness, and they must try to save all the resources they have.

Peacock stood beside Quicksilver, looking at the one or two dark-colored swimming fish occasionally caught by the beam of light outside the window, with some unpredictable emotions in his eyes, "There are extremely powerful biological energy left in that city. "

Mercury glanced at him, but didn't answer.

Peacock asked with low-pressure infrasound, "What do you know?"

Such Xi Wei's low-pressure infrasound waves, not to mention Tang Yi and Tsuruta Takuma, even Zi Xi, whose power is slightly weaker than them, would be difficult to detect.It is not necessary to move the lips too much to make such a sound wave, so from a human point of view, the two of them are just standing side by side without talking.

Quicksilver replied with the same low-pressure infrasound, "You probably don't want to know anything about that place."

"why?"

Because you have fallen in love with a human being, you are used to everything that human beings give you, and you believe that human beings have no malice towards you, and without human beings, the fragile siren cannot survive till now.You are willing to be an appendage of human beings. If you have firmly believed in this from the moment you awakened, if you know how cruelly human beings have slaughtered your people and put you in a position of slavery, you will still be able to continue doing what you are doing now. way to live?

Quicksilver had always been suspicious, but when those memories rushed into his mind, he still felt that his soul was about to be torn in two.

From the moment he was born in this world, how much of everything he was told was true?

Quicksilver didn't say this, he hesitated whether he should tell Peacock how humans slaughtered the siren.He didn't want to say too much before verifying whether the memory he got was real.

"That's where the old sirens buried their dead," he told Peacock briefly at last.

"The former Kraken?"

"Well, before being domesticated by humans."

Peacock frowned beautifully, "How do you know? Is it the prayer in those infrasound waves? Did you hear something?"

Quicksilver turned to look at him.He and Peacock have known each other for ten years. Although they often compete with each other, if it is said that among the sea monsters, who understands Mercury best, he is probably the one.

Mercury has never been good at making friends, and the other sea monsters always retain a bit of awe of him, perhaps because no one can match his strength among the sea monsters except Liuhuo, or maybe because the base has always treated him very well. Pay attention, even though he himself doesn't know why.

"I need to verify something. To be precise, it is a sea monster." Quicksilver paused, and continued, "You still remember the rumors that are always circulating among sea monsters, saying that there was a powerful sea monster a long time ago, Being emotionally bonded to one human being and miraculously falling in love with another."

Peacock immediately said the name, "Chenyuan..."

Mercury nodded slightly.Peacock's eyes turned to the deep sea as if nothing had happened, but his voice was full of surprise, "Chenyuan...is it real?"

On the other side of the submarine, when Tang Yi was drowsy and about to fall asleep, Tsuruta Takuma quietly sat next to him and asked calmly, "What's wrong with the mercury?"

Tang Yi groaned like he had a headache, and wanted to turn his face in the other direction, "Brother, I'm very tired now, can you interrogate me another day?"

"I'm serious." Tang Yi had to open his eyes because of Hetian's focused gaze, and said in surrender, "Okay, okay, I can tell you." Then he told the story about Chenyuan that Lee told , the strange palace full of murals and Mercury's performance have all been said, of course the part where he pretends to be Tang Ya and the later part is skipped.Tsuruta Carpenter's expression became more and more dignified, and Tang Yi's scalp tingled when he saw the end, "I know you have always had a bitter and bitter expression on your face, but your current expression will scare the children .”

Tsuruta glared at him fiercely, "If you hadn't obeyed my order, the mercury would not have fallen into the hands of the Equality Messenger, and these troubles would not have happened! You have no idea how much trouble you have made!"

"...Okay, okay, it's all my fault, I'll go back and put myself in confinement, okay?"

"What's the use of confinement! If the mercury is recovered, I'll see if you can still laugh!" Tsuruta squeezed out the words between his teeth, and Tang Yi's impatient expression froze for a moment.

"Recycle?"

Although I don't understand this word very well, I know it is not a good word just from the literal understanding.

Tsuruta sneered angrily, "Let me tell you, today's sea monsters reproduce mainly by artificial insemination, but Mercury was not born by this method. He was created by the third base, as long as the base detects him If there is any sign of disobedience, he can be recycled at any time. I don't know what will happen after recycling, but I know it will not be very good!"

Created by the Third Foundation?What's the meaning?Tang Yi thought of those murals and Chen Yuan, his eyes widened, but he shook his head, "Impossible... The base has always banned research on cloning technology?"

He Tian was quite surprised that Tang Yi, a stunned young man, even knew about cloning technology, but he didn't want to talk about the details. After all, it was a confidential file. If Tang Yi leaked it one day, his loyalty value might be affected. .He interrupted Tang Yi's train of thought and said decisively, "In short, if we don't want Shuiyin to die, we can't let the Ministry of Security know that Shuiyin came into contact with Lee."

"..." To be honest, Tang Yi was a little surprised that Tsuruta Takumi, whose loyalty is high in the sky, was suggesting that he was deceiving the base.He almost wondered if Tsuruta was joking or fishing for him.

But Tsuruta was obviously serious this time, "Think about it, Lee captured us, but instead of killing us, he let us go. If you were the wise men in the sword, what would you think?"

Tang Yi was silent.

If those wise men even speculate that Lee may have told the truth about the extinction of the Quicksilver Siren, Quicksilver's situation is in jeopardy.After all, if it is true as he guessed, Mercury is a copy of Chen Yuan, the base will definitely be wary of him.If such a suspicious situation occurs, even if he is not taken back, his loyalty value will probably plummet, and he will even be labeled as a "suspicious element" and monitored day and night.

In that case, Mercury is doomed.

Tsuruta continued, "We have to make a comprehensive statement. After being captured before, my communicator was turned on, so Lin Maochen and the others couldn't agree on the same caliber. Now we can only say that after being captured, we were in three It escaped under the cover of a sea monster, was chased into the trench by the rebels, and accidentally hit a rock and damaged the machine, so it drifted until now."

"What about Guixu City? If the base finds out that it was destroyed by a nuclear explosion, won't it know that we are lying?"

"According to my guess, the third base should not know the existence of Guixu City. If they knew, they would have destroyed it long ago, and they would not keep it for the rebels to use."

What Tsuruta said was indeed reasonable, but Tang Yi's heart always felt like it was hanging on the edge of a cliff.He sighed, leaned back against the bulkhead, put the nail of his thumb in his mouth and gnawed lightly, "I'm worried that someone will sell mercury..."

"Luo Wei?" Tsuruta raised his eyebrows, "If he listens to you so much, will he betray your siren?"

"It's not Luo Wei." Tang Yi glanced at the young man who was working hard behind the hatch of the electrical compartment, and shook his head, "Don't you think that the rebels know our actions too well? And why can they be silent? They are approaching us without a breath. Could it be that all the detection systems in the underwater base have failed? The most important thing..." Tang Yi glanced at the direction of Mercury and Peacock, "These two rebels targeted Mercury. "

Tsuruta took a deep breath, "You mean, there are eyes and ears of rebels in our team."

Tang Yi glanced at him and said nothing.

Although they all cooperated with other teams to perform missions, the only team that participated in both missions was the fifteenth team.

The atmosphere suddenly became heavy.

Excluding Luo Wei who just joined and Nolan who had already left, and ignoring Siren, only Tang Yi, He Tian, ​​Lin Maochen and Tan Mingyuan remained.Tang Yi was almost sure that Tsuruta Carpenter was not a spy, because his concern for mercury was too obvious, which was a big taboo for a spy.

Moreover, a person deeply influenced by Japanese bushido would disdain being a spy.Tsuruta's true loyalty value is higher than that of his brother, and he is simply the perfect soldier trained by the base.Taking a step back, if Tsuruta wants to rebel, he should be blatantly joining the rebels in the name of freedom and loftiness...

"I have known Tan Mingyuan for nine years, and Lin Maochen for five years. They are the most loyal fighters of the base and mankind." Hetian said solemnly.

Tang Yi sneered, "Nonsense, can a spy write 'I am a traitor' on his face?"

"Then how do I know that the mole is not you? These incidents all happened after you joined."

"If I'm a spy, why am I talking about this with you now?" Tang Yi snorted and rubbed his nose.In fact, he himself didn't want to doubt Lin Maochen and Tan Mingyuan. Although they had only known each other for half a year, they were born and died together after all, so how could they have no feelings.

At this moment, Luo Wei came out of the electrical compartment, his face was dark, but his eyes were shining with joy.He quickly ran to the console and pressed a few buttons, cheering, "The propulsion system is now ready to use!"

Tang Yi smiled and said, "You can do it, kid!"

Luo Wei's proud smile had just hung halfway, when the peacock poured cold water on it, "impressive, but there is no positioning system and no navigation, which way should we drive?"

So Luo Wei was blocked, and Zi Xi thoughtfully rescued the scene beside him, "You can go to the surface of the sea first, and use the sun to determine the direction."

"Smart." Peacock continued to spread negative energy, "But our drinking water is only enough for two people to live for three days. Now even if the Kraken is eliminated, there will still be three people crowded in this deep-water submarine. Even if we find the right direction, we need at least one person." Weeks to float to the nearest land."

……

Tsuruta glanced at Peacock, who spread his hands with an expression of "Okay, I know I hurt the kid's self-esteem" and stopped talking.Tsuruta said, "We can ration drinking water according to the number of people every day, and it will not be a problem to last a week."

Tang Yi saw that Mercury made a very strange movement.The siren put his palm on the glass window in front of him, lowered his eyelids, opened his cheeks slightly, and opened his lips lightly, letting out a distant and long whistle.The sound waves turned into invisible ripples and spread out along the tide, spreading in the velvety darkness.He made the sound four or five more times, and then, miraculously, there came a long answering cry out of the deep darkness.

When the huge figure of the spirit beast in the sea emerged from the darkness, Tang Yi couldn't help but gasped and let out a low sigh.

The huge body of the whale covered with seaweed is like a high wall sinking in front of it. A calm and hazy eye stares at them silently through the glass of the submarine. It is obviously just an animal in the sea, but the sight of the whale has something to do with it. A power that shakes people's hearts in silence.It was from the vast and peaceful spirituality that the dying planet once had, as if it was traveling to them through the vastness of time.

There was a faint smile on the corner of Mercury's mouth, and through several layers of glass, the whale's head brushed against his palm, and a short cry came from its body, even with a bit of joy and kindness.Then it turned around and wandered away towards the deep sea.Its speed is not fast, it seems to be waiting for them on purpose.

Quicksilver turned his head to look at the stunned crowd, and said plainly, "There is no need to float to the surface, he will lead us to join the reinforcements at the base."

Even Peacock and Zixi had a little difficulty accepting what was happening before them.Although the Kraken used to be the master of the sea, that was already too far away.The current sea monsters may contract diseases and die even if they come into contact with unpurified seawater before they are minors, let alone control the creatures in the ocean.Although they yearn for the sea by nature, the sea is as alien to them as humans.

Luo Wei said in disbelief what everyone wanted to say, "You can summon a whale?!"

Mercury's flat expression didn't change, as if it was a perfectly natural thing, but Tang Yi was able to catch the fleeting pride and pride in the subtle and inconceivable changes in the sea monster's expression...

It seems that Mercury's soul is still not completely swallowed by those memories.This made Tang Yi heave a sigh of relief.