Age Of The Sirens

When Tang Yi returned to the hotel, Mercury was already lying on the bed and fell asleep, and the light outside the window cast a layer of luster on his silver hair scattered on the bed.Tang Yi sat on the bed opposite him, silently looking at Mercury's sleeping face buried in the pillow.

He felt sorry for Mercury.

If the sea monster knew that the encounter between Tang Ya and him was a design, if he knew that Tang Ya's binding with him was just a conspiracy, how sad would he be?

Sure enough, it's better not to let him know.

How did Tang Ya die?If they were killed by rebels, why did they kill their own people?Tang Yi guessed that these answers were in the second half of the CD.But he wondered, did he really want to know the truth?

If he hadn't seen this CD, his days would still continue. He was still the kid who grew up in the orphanage, and he was the lucky one who got into the Kraken team before he was 30 years younger.He believes in the leadership of the base, and the rebels are his enemies. Maybe one day he will die on the battlefield, just like his best friend, but at least this kind of life is clear and clear, and there is nothing unclear .

But now everything is different.Even Tang Ya, whom he had always envied and had to admire, suddenly became a rebel, and said that the two of them were not real twin brothers at all, but replicas of the ancestor of the rebels 300 years ago.

So he was not only the shadow of Tang Ya, but also the shadow of an ancient man whom he had never even seen before.

Tang Yi smiled wryly, lamenting that he was indeed a shadow...

"what are you laughing at."

Mercury's voice made Tang Yi almost bounce off the bed in fright, "You... aren't you asleep?!"

The sea monster did not open his eyes, but groaned in a lazy voice, "You open the door so loudly, the deaf people will be woken up." He turned over, smoothed the hair on his forehead with his hands, and turned to Face Lai lazily opened his eyes and looked at Tang Yi, "Where have you been? It's been so long."

"Buying cigarettes." Tang Yi took out a pack of cigarettes from his trouser pocket and shook them, "By the way, I just strolled outside, after all, I haven't been in the city for so long."

Mercury's eyes traced Tang Yi's eyebrows and eyes, and he didn't know if he was looking for another shadow through that familiar face.Tang Yi turned his face a little uncomfortable.

"The orphanage today is where you and Tang Ya lived before the age of ten."

"Um……"

"At that time, will you feel lonely?"

Tang Yi pursed his lips, "It's okay. With Tang Ya here, there are many other orphans."

"Tang Ya seldom told me about his childhood. Today I finally saw the place where he lived when he was a child, but it still feels unreal." Mercury said dreamily, "I always think he might be very lonely. child, because no one can understand what's going on in his head."

Tang Yi thought to himself, who is not equally lonely?No one in this world can really understand what another person is thinking. Language is such a barren and pale thing, full of deception.Life is doomed to be alone.

However, Tang Ya is indeed a mystery.Even when he grew up, he couldn't understand him.

Obviously the two of them are copies of the same person.

Tang Yi lit a cigarette and took a deep breath, "Mercury, why do you have to go to the orphanage today? Are you looking for something?"

Quicksilver sat up from the bed, and unconsciously played with the thin silver webs between his fingers, "In the deep sea, I remembered some things that had been forgotten before. There is a memory among them, which was when Tang Ya and I carried out the last sea siege. Before leaving the mission of the rebel base, once Tang Ya quietly left for a day, and he took away his most important cipher box. He only kept that box in his personal safe, and even I couldn’t touch it. After he left that time, I didn't see the cryptex again when I was cleaning Tang Ya's things."

The cipher box... Is it just that CD and those sheet music?

"Do you suspect that the password box contains the truth about Tang Ya's death?"

"It's just intuition." Mercury didn't seem to want to say more.

"Then how do you know he took the box to the orphanage?"

Quicksilver raised his eyes and glanced at Tang Yi, "Because I guess, if you are so important to him, he probably left that box to you. And the deepest bond between you two is when you grew up together. Great place."

Tang Yi was taken aback for a moment, not knowing how to reply.

Mercury blue eyes captured his mind deeply, like two supernatural starlights in the dark room.He leaned forward slightly, and Tang Yi felt an invisible oppression, "Did you find something?"

"...No, what can I find."

"Don't lie to me." With a somewhat condensed expression, Mercury seemed to have seen everything.Tang Yi's heart trembled unconsciously.

"I really don't have anything! What do you want me to look for?"

"..."

"If you don't believe me, you searched me!" Tang Yi simply put out the cigarette butt in the ashtray of the bedside table, stood up and opened his hands, with an expression of letting go.Mercury stared at him for a while, then actually stood up and walked in front of Tang Yi with a provocative expression on his face.

There is only an inch between the two people, and the pores on each other's faces can be seen clearly.Mercury's hands also exuded a faint coolness through the cloth, moving along the curve of Tang Yi's muscles.

Tang Yi felt his chest trembling like a butterfly's wings, goosebumps appeared on the place touched by the mercury, and the inexplicable heat burned quickly after the cooling.Quicksilver stared closely at his eyes, but his hands caressed his body recklessly, brushing over his pectoral muscles, abdominal muscles, narrow waist, upturned buttocks, and firm thighs...

Tang Yi coughed softly and realized that his voice was hoarse, "Hey... you are not taking the opportunity to eat my tofu..."

Mercury looked down at him, and the long eyelashes drew back a bit of the fleeting softness, "Sometimes... I wonder if it would be easier if it was bound to you..."

"……what?"

But Mercury didn't say it a second time.Tang Yi almost wondered if he had an auditory hallucination just now.

Quicksilver let him go suddenly, fell back on the bed and turned his back, "I trust you, go to sleep."

Tang Yi stood there for a while, the place touched by the mercury was still burning due to the residual touch.He froze for a while, then let out an oh, took off his clothes and got under the quilt.

He covered his head tightly with the quilt, and a deep shame lingered over his head.Quicksilver said he believed in him, but he failed to live up to that belief.

However, he was also secretly thankful that fortunately he kept the CD and score in another place.Who would have thought that this sea monster would actually come to search him...

In the next period of time, Tang Yi began to use the encrypted restricted network domain to search for information about the old dean, about Tang Qing, and about cloning.As he thought, all the information about Tang Qing has been deleted, but the old dean's information is very complete. From birth to retirement now, in the 15th district closest to the 16th district, there are basically no suspicious qualifications.But Tang Yi noticed that the old dean spent time in the first base until he was 40 years old, and only immigrated to the third base when he was 41 years old.

The information on cloning technology is also pitiful.Every piece of information reads: The base restricts the development of cloning technology, believing that it will pose a threat and damage to the survival of human beings.

Tang Yi found that Mercury returned to Siren Hall more and more often.Although the sea monster can return to the sea monster hall at any time, the general sea monster only goes back once a week after binding. It is rare for mercury to go back two or three times a week.What's more, I didn't feel that Mercury had any special attachment to that place before.

Tang Yi asked Shuiyin what he was doing back in the Siren Hall, and the Siren only said that he liked the peace in the purified sea water.Obviously don't want to say too much.Tang Yi didn't continue to ask, after all, Mercury was not there, so he had time to verify the "truth" that Tang Ya told him.

During this period, the wind direction of the third base gradually changed.

It started with negative news about First Base or Second Base in the news.It's all trivial stuff, but it's clear that the media is starting to focus on negative images about First and Second Bases, such as people getting drunk, contrasts between rich and poor, or stories about how Third Base goes. News of the unfair treatment of first and second base tourism.

The conflict started when the third base reported to the first base and sank a third base fishing boat that strayed into the waters of the first base.Although it is very likely that the first base mistook the fishing boat for a rebel boat, after all, the so-called "fishing boat" was actually equipped with some weapons.It is also possible that the fishing boat did not respond appropriately after the first base raised the alarm.In short, the fishing boat at the third base was sunk, and all the dozen or so people on board were killed.

Tang Yi felt that this news was a bit strange.Nowadays, the ocean is heavily polluted and fish are extinct in large numbers. What kind of fishing boat would go so far to fish?

But no matter what he thinks, the news still stirs up the whole Third Base.Everyone is accusing the First Base of violating the laws of humanity and betraying the base system and the entire human race.The First Base insisted that the fishing boats themselves did not respond to warnings or identify themselves.Residents of both sides abused each other on the Internet, and all kinds of conspiracy theories were flying everywhere. Even the head of Luo Jianzhang personally came forward to strongly condemn the actions of the First Base.The relationship between the two parties plummeted.

It was also rumored in the team that after fighting against the first base, there might be a civil war between the bases.

On the contrary, there were far fewer reports about the rebels.

As the demand for coastal defense increases, half of the Kraken team will be sent out to perform certain patrol and surveillance tasks.However, the [-]th team has been in a state of refrigeration and cannot accept any tasks.Even though Qu Lan is already a deputy, they still can only train as a routine every day, and then pass the time in the dormitory.Tang Yizheng and Lin Maochen were wearing VR glasses, holding a mop as a sword, and hacking "zombies" all over the room. Tsuruta was wiping his samurai sword, Peacock was reading a book next to him, Luo Wei was doing pull-ups with the indoor horizontal bar, purple Xi is playing chess with Ashes, while Tan Mingyuan is studying his "touching love dishes" in the kitchen as always, and Mercury spent last night in Siren Hall, and has not come back yet...

All feel a little bored.While the other teams are running between different missions, they can only pass the time like this.However, Tang Yi guessed that the base probably realized that someone was hunting for quick silver, and dared not send quick silver out easily.

However, the big screen in the lounge suddenly lit up by itself, and the face of the chief captain appeared on the screen.

"Fifteen teams assemble."

In less than a minute, everyone and the Kraken stood side by side in front of the big screen.Usually when the captain appears with this expression, it means that there is a mission.

After being idle for nearly three months, I can finally exercise my muscles and bones.