Age Of The Sirens

Tang Yi and the other six were found by the search and rescue team in the early morning of the next day. Time seemed to be frozen in the darkness. When the light from the search and rescue submarine suddenly shone into their eyes, it felt like a lifetime away.

The exploration mission was called off urgently, and the surviving research institutes and team members had all returned to the base first, and the Kraken team sent [-] teams to patrol and search for traces of the rebels.Qu Lan, other members of Team [-], and another Kraken from another team were not seriously injured. Among the researchers, Han Qi was one of the few survivors.Tang Yi and the others were sent directly back to the team base, and after undergoing a series of physical examinations, they were called in for questioning one by one.This time it was no longer Qi Yu himself who was interrogating them, but they were also the commissioners of the intelligence agencies.In the deep-sea submarine, Tang Yi and Tsuruta Takumi had already colluded with Luo Wei and the three sea monsters, and even discussed the details clearly. Although Tang Yi was nervous when he was questioned, seeing the other party's expression seemed to be Didn't hear any problems.

However, the Kraken team made serious mistakes in this operation, and Qu Lan was also punished and suspended for one month.All surviving team members, including the [-]th team, were also required to temporarily "freeze", that is, they could only carry out daily training, could not take on tasks, and could not be informed of any other team's actions, just like being put into a refrigerator for storage status.

Quicksilver was asked to return to Siren Hall for a health and mental state check, which lasted a week.During the period, Luo Wei asked Zixi to find an excuse to go back to the lobby to inquire about the situation. He only heard that Mercury was quarantined for observation, and that some siren experts would sometimes conduct some tests on him.Tang Yi's heart has been hanging in his throat this week, and he can't even taste the food.

Fortunately, a week later, Mercury came back intact.

At that time, Tang Yi was doing pull-ups, and he was thinking about what to do if the Ministry of Security knew that the memories belonging to Chen Yuan in Quicksilver's mind had begun to wake up.When he was sweating profusely and put his body down tensely, when he opened his eyes, he saw the silver-haired siren standing in front of him. He loosened his grip and immediately fell to the ground.Seeing Tang Yi's disheveled face, Shuiyin raised the corner of his mouth with a bit of joy.

Tang Yi propped his body on his elbows and looked at the sea monster that he had not seen for a week. The white light shone from behind him, and the silver hair was coated with a bright halo as if it were transparent.

"...You can't just show up like a normal person?"

Mercury tilted his head slightly, with an innocent expression, "It's normal for me to appear, it's because you were too careless."

Tang Yi got up from the ground and patted the sand on his buttocks, then looked at Quicksilver again, "It looks like you're all right?"

"I'm fine. It's just some routine inspections and inquiries." Mercury's expression seemed a little tired, his eyes spread to the other side of the sea, and suddenly showed a sneer with a bit of contempt, "They seem to be a little fear me."

Tang Yi blinked, "Who?"

"The wise man from the sword and his men."

Tang Yi gasped, "Li Jian sent someone to question you?!"

"Hmm. He's the second wise man." Mercury talked about such a big matter innocuously, but it really scared Tang Yi into a cold sweat.

Shuiyin noticed the panic on Tang Yi's face, slightly softened the expression between his brows, and then changed back to the previous Shuiyin.With one hand deep inside, he squeezed Tang Yi's shoulder, "Don't worry, I have a sense of proportion. They didn't notice anything."

Tang Yi raised his eyes to look at those ice blue pupils, full of anxiety and didn't know where to start.Quick Silver patted him on the back suddenly, "Let's go back."

At night, after a long month of work, Tang Yi finally lay down with Quicksilver on the large bed embedded in the sleeping capsule.The two of them looked up straight at the slowly rotating starry sky on the roof of the warehouse, and there was still a distance as wide as one person between them, but the once natural and familiar atmosphere was replaced by an embarrassing silence at this moment.

What happened on the submarine and in the frescoed palace made the relationship between them like a tight string.It's about to break at any moment, but no one wants to talk about it.

Tang Yi turned over, turned his back to Quicksilver, curled up his body, intending to close his eyes and force himself to fall asleep.

But then Mercury spoke, "I remembered some clips, about Tang Ya."

Tang Yi didn't answer, but his ears were pricked up, and his breathing stopped unconsciously.

"I remember him with tears in his eyes, as if he was very guilty, saying sorry to me."

Tang Yi turned around abruptly, Mercury's eyes gleamed like sapphires in the dim starlight, and it was difficult to distinguish his emotions.

"I'm sorry?" Tang Yi asked, "Why is he sorry for you? Did he save your life?"

Mercury said quietly, "I don't know, but I also recalled the feeling at that moment. I felt very painful at that time, and my heart hurt, as if something important had collapsed, as if it was hanging in mid-air Fell to the ground hard."

"...Could you have mixed other people's memories with your own? Didn't you say you got some of Chen Yuan's memories?"

"Yes. That city passed on a lot of memories and knowledge to me." Mercury lowered his eyes, "But I don't have any particularly strong and direct emotional reactions to the memories that don't belong to me. But the one about Tang Ya This memory belongs to me."

"..."

"When you and Tang Ya grew up together, what kind of person was he?"

Tang Yi froze for a moment, he realized that Mercury had never asked him about Tang Ya and his childhood.

Tang Yi felt that his mouth was dry and his voice was also dry.He cleared his throat and said in a low voice, "He has been sensible for a long time. He doesn't like to talk. He likes to read books and listen to music, but other children are willing to listen to him. He is born to be a leader." Tang Yi laughed dryly, "He likes to call me stupid, he likes to be sarcastic, but he takes good care of me, he always thinks he's my brother so I have to listen to him. If I don't listen, we always get into fights. I can't fight all the time. He did it when he was a child, and he did when he grew up. He has always opposed my joining the army, and when he heard that I voluntarily applied for the army, he really beat me up."

He still remembered Tang Ya's furious and terrified expression when she learned that she had applied and was successfully admitted to the military academy.It's not that he never quarreled with Tang Ya, but that time he really almost thought that Tang Ya would kill him.One of his eyes was swollen for a week after the beating, and his nose was bleeding intermittently.

Tang Yi really didn't understand why his brother had to let him be assigned to the ordinary school system.He likes to read books, but he doesn't want to spend his life in a peaceful office or workshop.Although being a soldier is risky, he is not a weak scholar. Does his brother look down on him so much, thinking that he will be scared to pee when he goes to the battlefield?

Mercury was silent for a while, then suddenly said, "You know, I'm actually a little jealous of you."

"what?!"

"Tang Ya must value you very much, so she doesn't want anyone, including me, to know your existence. He keeps you in his own memory so that no one will hurt you."

Tang Yi blinked and blinked, "What nonsense are you talking about?"

"After being bound to him, sometimes I feel that he likes to take care of me and control my feelings. Sometimes he looks at me, but I feel that he is looking at someone else." There is a gradually condensed gleam in Mercury's eyes. haze.He closed his eyes and took a deep breath, "I want to visit the place where Tang Ya and you grew up."

Tang Yi groaned, and asked again, "Orphanage?"

Quicksilver nodded.

"...I'm not sure if that orphanage is still there." Tang Yi sneered, "I haven't been back for many years..."

"Tomorrow is the weekend." Shuiyin turned his head sideways and stared at him seriously, "Take me there."

Being looked at by Shuiyin with a pair of high-cold dog eyes, Tang Yi of course couldn't say no.Early the next morning, they changed into civilian clothes, and Quicksilver wore a hoodie that covered the siren's characteristic ears and his long silver hair.They took the mid-sized mini-machine that took the soldiers to the nearest town early in the morning and transferred to the suspended public train in District 25, looking out the window at the long yellow sand and the afterimages of countless abandoned cities flying by.After more than an hour, they got off the car in a desolate small town near Yandu.

This is District 15, which belongs to the outer suburbs of Yandu.The barren land undulates with gentle relief, and sparse gray-green shrubs and a few feeble trees dot the hills in twos and threes.That small city dwells in a mountain depression. The gray-white and black buildings seem to be covered with a thick layer of sand, without any bright colors.Yet it is still a fully functioning city, a remnant of a town from 200 years ago.Tang Yi and Tang Ya's orphanage stands in the east of the city, and it was rebuilt on the basis of a previous library.The building has a sense of the times, with baroque columns, thick walls, and curled pattern carvings on the doors and windows, which is very different from other buildings with simple lines and single shapes.However, its age is indeed too old, the pillars are covered with cracks, some gray vines have covered half of the wall, many glass windows are broken, and the black holes are like the empty slots of old people's teeth.

Standing in front of the orphanage, Tang Yi suddenly realized that the building was not as tall as he remembered, it was just a dilapidated ancient building.

When he was a child, he felt that the orphanage was so huge, and the long corridor seemed endless, and the golden sunlight would be scattered on the dark brown wood, transpiring a warm light.Nothing like the pale, fragmented, pathetic building it is now.

Perhaps this is the result of growing up.

The courtyard wall was more dilapidated and low than in memory, one wall even collapsed, and some gray bricks were stacked underneath.The carved iron door is full of rust, as if no one has pushed it for a long time.

Tang Yi stretched out his hand to push the door, and heard a harsh creaking sound.

The yard was overgrown with weeds, but the apple tree stood where it had been before, with its bare branches stretching toward the sky.Tang Yi suddenly saw a little boy sitting under the tree carrying a ponytail, and another boy who was exactly the same standing beside him, slowly turned his face to smile at him.

Tang Yi blinked, and the two little boys disappeared.

"Is it really abandoned..." Tang Yi sighed in a low voice.

Unexpectedly, the closed black door on the front of the building suddenly opened a gap, and a pale face that was as old as hundreds of years emerged from the darkness, pushing the mirror on the face.

"Who are you looking for?"