Age Of The Sirens

"Don't you want to be a composer, why don't you play your own tunes."

"I am writing."

"Tch... It's been a year since I wrote it and I haven't seen you write it..."

"What if I write it out?"

"If you write it, I will recognize you as the leader!"

"I was originally your brother."

"That's just a note hanging on us, who knows if it's a mistake, we are equal!"

"Hmph, all right then."

It's been such a long conversation, but now I recall every word so clearly that I can't find it.A drop of liquid wetted the 17-year-late birthday gift in his hand, Tang Yi vigorously wiped the corners of his eyes with the back of his hand, and tightly pursed his trembling lips.

Tang Ya came back before she died, and specially stuffed this sheet music into his favorite book, and put it in the "secret base" of his childhood, waiting for him to discover it.

Did Tang Ya have a premonition that she was going to die?

If he could really sense it, was it because he was involved in some dangerous incident?Does this matter have anything to do with mercury?

An invisible cloud was gathering towards him bit by bit from a distance, but he couldn't see clearly what kind of monster was hidden behind the cloud.Tang Yi opened the picture book of The Classic of Mountains and Seas, intending to clip the score back and take it away secretly, but found that there was another thing in the book.

It is a CD.

This kind of thing has been a relic of several centuries ago, and now even a machine that can read CDs may have to be found in those weird antique shops in Yandu.

Tang Yi thought for a while, put the sheet music and CD into the pocket of his coat, and then put the book back to its original place.

Tang Yi returned to the first floor and found that Mercury was waiting for him leaning on the pillar at the door.Tang Yi guessed that what Mercury was looking for was probably what was in his pocket.

But he somehow didn't want Quicksilver to know.

He asked Quicksilver, "Did you find what you were looking for?"

Shuiyin stood up straight, said lightly, "Let's go," and went out the door first.

Seeing that Mercury seemed a little depressed, Tang Yi felt a little guilty.But he still decided to wait for himself to watch the CD before deciding whether to let Quicksilver know.If there was anything he learned during that month in the sea, it was that Mercury's mental state was really unstable, and he didn't know when he would go berserk again.Tang Yi doesn't want to use the old method to bring back the sea monster's sanity...

He took Mercury to Yandu for a walk.The former Kabukicho was already a piece of scorched earth, and the entire area centered on that long street was cordoned off, with robot police guarding every few steps.Tang Yi had no choice but to take Mercury to the Banqiao Street on the west side at the junction of the slums and the city center.This boundary-like long street has the worst law and order in the entire Yandu. There is a mix of fish and dragons and everyone. The bright and the vulgar are blended in harmony. The brilliance of neon lights reflects the entire gloomy sky in colorful colors.

Tang Yi dragged Mercury into a ramen shop.Small and dilapidated facade, long tables, and a row of stools outside for customers to sit, the boss and his daughter are busy behind the counter.As soon as Tang Yi came in, he yelled loudly, "Boss, here are two bowls of miso soup ramen!"

The uncle laughed when he saw Tang Yi, "Hey! Long time no see!"

Tang Yi grinned, scratched his hair, and winked at the boss's daughter while grabbing a stool and sitting down.The girl was very cute, and she gave Tang Yi a sharp look, but she suddenly noticed the handsome face under the hood of Mercury who was sitting silently next to Tang Yi, and her face turned red all of a sudden.

Tang Yi stretched out his hand unhappily and lowered Mercury's hood a little more. The latter was inexplicably pulled so that his head sank and almost hit the table.

"What are you doing."

Tang Yi rolled his eyes, "Let you discharge the electricity randomly."

"It seems that you are the one who discharged the discharge."

"Are you going to learn if I discharge you? As a siren, don't be so nympho."

Knowing that it was not clear to break up with Tang Yi, Mercury simply rolled his eyes and stopped talking.At this time, the uncle just put two bowls of hot ramen in front of them. Tang Yi took out a pair of chopsticks from the bamboo tube and handed them to Quicksilver, smilingly said, "Try it quickly! This is the best ramen in Yandu." !"

Quick Silver took the chopsticks silently, lowered his head and picked up a noodle and put it into his mouth as if testing poison.Tang Yi asked eagerly beside him, "How is it going?"

"……good."

Satisfied, Tang Yi picked up his chopsticks and started eating with a loud noise.Mercury looked at his exaggerated eating, with a little bit of disgust on his expression.Tang Yi glanced at him, his mouth was full of noodles, and said vaguely, "What are you looking at, you have to speak loudly to be sincere when eating ramen! You look like a rich lady when you eat."

Shuiyin hesitated for a moment, and finally imitated Tang Yi, picked up a chopstick of noodles and sucked them up forcefully.Unexpectedly, this method seems to make people eat more vigorously and more appetizingly.Hearing that Shuiyin had finally awakened, Tang Yi's voice of sucking noodles suddenly increased to a higher level, and Shuiyin was not to be outdone.In the end, the two of them were in a noodle-sucking contest, and the whole shop was filled with the sound of them eating noodles.The guests who came in later couldn't help but also sucked up, and the atmosphere of eating noodles was unprecedentedly hot.

Finally, Tang Yi and Shuiyin drank up the soup at the same time, and put the bowl on the table with a bang.Tang Yi rubbed his slightly bulging belly, hiccupped contentedly, and grinned at Quicksilver.Half of the sunlight reflected a little golden color on his eyelashes.

Mercury couldn't help but smile too.After returning from the sea, he finally showed this kind of childish smile as if the ice peak had dissipated.

Tang Yi likes to see him smile like this, he thinks that Mercury looks much better when he smiles than with a sullen face.

After dinner, he took Mercury to play in a game hall on the street under the pretext that it was still early. The two of them played Star League in the VR machine all afternoon. When they came out of the game hall, the night had already enveloped them. , it seems that it is too late to catch the last bus back to the base from the outer suburbs of Yandu.Fortunately, tomorrow is Sunday, so it doesn't count as a violation of the team's rules.

The two filled their stomachs casually by the side of the road, and found a small hotel with pink neon lights, intending to make do with it for the night.They asked for a standard room, opened the door and saw that the bed was covered with bright red bedding, thick velvet curtains with a few stains, and the pink ambiguous light projected from the window, reflecting everything It's kind of like a sex hotel.Not to mention there were a few small cards for special services in the drawer, Tang Yi picked them up and looked at them with great interest, while Mercury raised his eyebrows aside, as if he was a little worried that he really wanted to call for special services.

Tang Yi looked at Shuiyin's expression and chuckled, "Okay, brother, I'm so handsome and unrestrained so I'm not so hungry." As soon as he finished speaking, he suddenly remembered how he let go of his self-esteem and hunger in that round palace Catering to Quicksilver's movements, his smile froze instantly.

But Mercury didn't notice and didn't think so much. He just took off the hood that he had been wearing all day, let loose the long hair tied behind his head, and then began to take off his shirt boldly...

Tang Yi swallowed, "You...what are you doing...?"

Quicksilver had already taken off his hoodie and started to unbutton his shirt.Pale but firm and muscular chest muscles are exposed a little bit...

"Take a bath." Quicksilver answered simply and directly.

There was a little disappointment in Tang Yi's tone, "Oh..."

Quicksilver took off his boots and even his trousers, and walked to the bathroom naked. Before entering, he glanced at him, "You have a nosebleed."

"Ah?!" While Tang Yi was in a hurry to wipe his nosebleed, Mercury closed the bathroom door with a bang, and soon there was an uproar of water.

Tang Yi couldn't help imagining the scene of mercury bathing in water vapor, water droplets hanging from eyelashes, and long silver hair entwining the curves of his body... He quickly raised his head and pinched his nose, staggered to the bathroom door and shouted in a low voice , "Well... I'm going out to buy a pack of cigarettes!"

Hearing Mercury hum, he hurried out of the room.

After leaving the hotel gate, he took a deep breath of the thick night air and let it out again.Why do you always make a fool of yourself in front of that siren?Why can't you just keep looking cool and handsome?Tang Yi sighed, sighing secretly that he was really useless, then touched the CD in his trouser pocket.

Anyway, after running out like this, Mercury shouldn't suspect that he has other purposes.

He turned off Main Street into a side alley with dull neon signs of underground shops selling illegal ancient books or electronics.He randomly chose one to go in, and the shelves were full of indistinct goods, all of which were used to deceive people.The owner sat behind the counter with Erlangtuo upside down and read a book with a tablet computer. Tang Yi leaned on the counter with a cigarette in his mouth and asked, "How much is it to borrow your CD player?"

The boss glanced at him, "Sixty a night."

Tang Yi took out a few banknotes from his trouser pocket.He is used to keeping some cash with him. After all, there are always some transactions that he does not want to be detected by the base. "I just want to see it from you."

The boss took him into the inner room, and from the inner room into another small room without windows.The inside seems to have been transformed into a mini theater, with a big screen, a dilapidated double sofa, and a shelf by the wall full of CDs, most of which were recovered from the old city at a certain risk. It records the afterglow of that long-lost world in the glory days of the past.Tang Yi used to sneak into similar small shops with Su Han to watch those old movies when he was in the military academy, watching them all night.After the boss confirmed that he knew how to use the DVD player, he left. Tang Yi locked the door from the inside, and then put the CD found in the orphanage into the machine.

As the box-shaped machine squeaked and read discs, the original blue screen flickered for a moment, and then an image appeared.

The face on the screen that was exactly the same as his was as calm as water, just like in memory.The black and white eyes looked straight at him, and Tang Yi had the illusion that he was really being stared at by his brother.

"Xiao Yi, by the time you see this CD, I'm probably no longer alive." This was the first sentence Tang Ya spoke, her voice was calm and emotionless, without even a trace of melancholy or fear.Tang Yi felt a shudder running up his back and straight to the back of his head, his heartbeat suddenly accelerated, and even his hands trembled a little.

He suddenly realized that the truth of Tang Ya's death and the truth of Mercury's identity might all be in this CD.