Age Of The Sirens

The first thought in Tang Yi's mind after waking up was: It's broken, his eyes won't be blind...

He opened his eyes, and in front of him was the dark green tent roof, half of his vision seemed to be covered.He raised his somewhat heavy arm and lightly touched his left cheek.

The thick gauze tightly covered his entire left face.

"Shit!" he cursed.

Could it be that he was not only blind, but also disfigured...

He tried to sit up, but the zipper of the tent was not fully closed, and there were sounds of walking and talking outside.The sky was bright, and Tang Yi was in a daze for a while.It seems that he didn't pass out for a long time?

Just as I was about to open the tent, the curtain opened by itself.Tan Mingyuan saw him sitting blankly holding the quilt, and pushed down his glasses with a heavy face, "Are you awake?"

Looking at his expression, Tang Yi's heart began to sink, and he asked straightforwardly, "How serious is it?"

"Severe burns to the cornea and iris, first-degree burns to the skin on the left cheek, and you're about to turn into Quasimodo...or is the ghost of the Opera House more appropriate?"

Seeing Tang Yi's exposed half of his face with a look of bewilderment and sorrow, Tan Mingyuan couldn't help laughing.

"I'm so crippled and you're still laughing!!! Do you have any humanity, you!!!" Tang Yi couldn't believe it, his handsome face... "How will I seduce girls in the future!"

"Are you trying to seduce a girl or quicksilver?"

"...Speaking of Mercury, where is he? Where are Luo Wei and Zi Xi?"

"You still have time to worry about others?" Tan Mingyuan got into the tent, holding some bandages and ointment in his hand, "Don't worry, Luo Wei and Zi Xi are out of danger. Mercury consumed too much energy to heal your wounds, and I have to guard you all night, and I was ordered to rest by the captain two hours ago."

"……a whole night?"

"Yes, he was afraid that your wound would hurt during the healing process, so he used hypnotism to keep you asleep every once in a while. You have been sleeping for a day and a night." Tan Mingyuan sat down beside Tang Yi, stretched out his hand to relieve Tang Yi's face on the gauze.

Tang Yi's mind turned a little slowly.It turned out that he had been sleeping for a whole day, but there really wasn't much pain on his face, but an uncomfortable itchy feeling running back and forth under his skin, which made him want to scratch it.Hearing that Quicksilver had guarded him all night, those fears of blindness and disfigurement subsided a little.He suddenly wanted to see Quicksilver, if only to see it.

But...if he really turns into Quasimodo, but he doesn't want Quicksilver to see himself like that...

Tan Mingyuan peeled off the gauze layer by layer, Tang Yi sat obediently, his hands unconsciously wrapped around the sheet, nervous as if he was waiting for the death sentence.

"Why is Mercury's healing ability getting stronger and stronger, and it can be restored to this in a day." Tan Mingyuan was amazed, and Tang Yi looked at him with some doubts.

"After they received your distress signal, they entered the cave to rescue them. When they first saw you, your left face was burned and bloody... It is a miracle that you can recover like this..." Tan Mingyuan uncovered his left face. The last piece of gauze in front of his eyes, "Okay, open your eyes and try."

At the moment when the last piece of gauze was removed, Tang Yi felt his heart jump suddenly, and couldn't help holding his breath.Through the thin eyelids, he saw the golden-red light.If you are blind, you will not see such light.

The eyelashes fluttered like butterfly wings several times, and they were opened cautiously as if shy.

The scene in front of me was a little blurry, like a thin layer of mist.It looked a little faint from a little distance away, but other than that, he could indeed see Tan Mingyuan's clean and elegant face.

"I... am not blind?" A burst of ecstasy suddenly hit him, he felt his eyes heat up, and grabbed Tan Mingyuan's arm, "Mirror, is there a mirror?"

Tan Mingyuan took out a small mirror from his arms and handed it to him.

For the pair of eyes reflected on the mirror, the right one is still a familiar dark brown, but the left one is very light, slightly yellowish, with a little green floating around the edge, which looks a bit weird.Diagonally below the left eye, there was a dark red scar, and the newly grown flesh was uneven, making it look a bit hideous.But apart from that scar, the rest of the skin on the cheek was only slightly red, and there were not many marks left.

Although the scar still destroyed the original handsome appearance, it was not destroyed into the terrifying appearance he had imagined.Tang Yi looked at himself in the mirror for a long time, but couldn't tell what feeling he felt in his heart.Are you happy because you are not blind, or are you sad because your face is disfigured for no reason?

But among all kinds of tastes, only regret is missing.

"Although Mercury tried its best to restore your eyes, because the burns were too severe at that time, and Mercury was exhausted due to excessive use of biological energy, so it can only be repaired to this extent. It is impossible to restore your eyesight to its original level, and it may be possible in the future. It will get worse, and you must have a reexamination every year. The color of your eyes is different because of heterochromia caused by iris injury." Tan Mingyuan carefully applied the ointment to the horrible scar, "As for the scar, this scar At that time, the bone was visible, so it can only heal to this extent. After the task is over, the whole body will probably disappear. Don’t worry about Mercury dislike you~”

Tang Yi sneered, "He dares, but I became like this because of him."

"The tone is not small, I don't know who kept calling 'mercury~~mercury~~don't go~~' in the dream..." Tan Mingyuan squeezed his throat deliberately and yelled a few words, hearing the color on Tang Yi's face and the traffic lights The same changed back and forth, and shouted angrily, "When did I yell like that!"

The curtain of the tent was lifted again abruptly. Tang Yi raised his head, only to see that the silver-haired siren's face was still pale to blue, his eyes were bloodshot, and his hair was messily tied behind his head. His eyes froze for an instant, and he couldn't look away.

Tang Yi blinked his eyes twice, "Why are you here, aren't you sleeping?"

Shuiyin just stared at him silently. Seeing this, Tan Mingyuan said wittily that he would come back later to bandage Tang Yi, and then backed out.

Quicksilver came in silently, and knelt beside him.His ghostly eyes lingered on his light-colored eyes and that hideous scar.There was a ray of distress in the blue eyes, and he raised his hand to hang on the side of his face, but hesitated as if he didn't dare to touch it.

Under such gentle and pitiful gazes, Tang Yi felt uncomfortable all over. He coughed and grinned, but it turned into a bared grin because it affected the part of the scar that hadn't fully healed.

"It's okay! Don't you think my scar is particularly vicissitudes for a man?" Tang Yi boldly held Mercury's hand, thinking that he would be sorry for himself for not eating tofu when the other party was feeling guilty... Sure enough, Mercury didn't break free, but held back with his backhand.

Tang Yi immediately forgot about his disfigurement, swallowed his saliva, and melted into the tender eyes of mercury.

"Why do you do this..." Quicksilver sighed.This is not a question, because he knows the answer in his heart.

He never thought that a human being who was not bound to him could do such a stupid thing without hesitation.

First Tang Ya, then Tang Yi, he seemed to always involve important people in danger.

Tang Yi couldn't bear the heaviness in Mercury's expression, so he pretended to be relaxed and thumped the sea monster's shoulder, "Don't look like a dead mother, okay! Actually, I think it's pretty good, so you won't be careless You recognized me as Tang Ya..."

Although this sentence was said as a joke, it was also from his heart.

After seeing that strange-colored eye and that scar, he didn't feel pity or sadness. On the contrary, he even felt some relief-like pleasure.

Finally, that face that was exactly the same as Tang Ya was gone.

He was finally different from his brother.

In the next moment, Tang Yi felt his eyes darken, and his lips melted with warmth.

His mind went blank.

Quicksilver...is kissing him?

Although this was not the first time that Shuiyin kissed him, but this time, Shuiyin was conscious and knew that he was not Tang Ya, but she still kissed him.

Tang Yi's brain crashed, and he opened his confused eyes, only seeing the snowflake-like long eyelashes of Mercury.

The kiss was not very deep, without any taste of desire.It's just that the four lips touched together, as if they were nostalgic and reluctant to part.Quicksilver gently supported his right cheek with one hand, his movements were extremely gentle, as if he was something worth cherishing.

Finally, the lips parted slowly, and Mercury brushed away a strand of hair from the corner of Tang Yi's eyes.He stared at Tang Yi so earnestly, as if deeply affectionate.A sigh floated faintly in the air, "Tang Yi...I really hope that I can fall in love with you."

Tang Yi's heart trembled for a while, and his eyes began to heat up for some reason.There was a slight sting in the left eye because it was overflowing with tears.

Even if he knew that he would never be bound to Shuiyin, with these words, knowing that Shuiyin wanted to love him, Tang Yi felt it was worth it.

He wiped away the nearly spilled tears with his sleeve, smiling like a fool.

Tang Yi recovered quickly, and Luo Wei and Zi Xi could also walk, so they packed their luggage overnight, eliminated some traces of camping, and rushed to the next location.The vigil is no longer one person alone, but a group of people and sea monsters.About four days later, Lin Maochen finally found a trace of a fire among the trees near the swamp, indicating that someone had indeed passed by here not long ago.

Once you find one trace, you can easily trace to the second and third.After two days of continuous tracking, they finally found a group of soldiers wearing the uniforms of the Second Base camped in the mangrove forest.Unexpectedly, they saw the siren in each other's barracks.

It seems that the Kraken team was also sent by the second base.

That was the first time Tang Yi saw sea monsters from other bases.It doesn't look much different from the third base, except that each siren wears a strange device similar to a collar around its neck.

The captain ordered Tang Yi and Luo Wei to stay behind and monitor the movement of the second base with their respective sea monsters, and the rest to disperse, search for traces of the rebels nearby, and report to him at any time.In order not to be noticed by the second base, after the three teams left, Jiang Yanfeng took Tang Yi and others to build a temporary camp on the other side of the swamp, and then sent their camp coordinates to the three teams who were searching for the rebels outside. It is convenient for them to go back to the camp and meet up.Under the cover of dense mangroves, three groups of people took turns to monitor the enemy's actions every day.

Tang Yi's face was still covered with gauze, and it hurt and itched in the sweltering heat. He was so uncomfortable that he couldn't sleep, so he stopped sleeping and went outside the tent to get some fresh air.He moved cautiously outside the tent without waking Quicksilver.Frogs croaked one after another in the swamp at night, and a trace of watery wind blew on the sweat on the surface of the skin, taking away some sticky heat.

The captain was lurking alone in the mangrove forest in the distance, watching the scene on the other side with binoculars in both hands.Tang Yi looked around, but did not see Liu Huo.

"Captain, where is Liuhuo?"

Jiang Yanfeng turned his head and glanced at him, "I told him to go back and rest."

Tang Yi thought this is not very good, what if he meets the lizard that sprays acid before?He has seen the power of those monitor lizards.

But since it was the captain's order, he couldn't say anything.So he simply sat cross-legged next to the captain, thinking that if something really happened, there would be someone to take care of him.

The captain gave him a strange look, "Aren't you going to sleep?"

"I can't sleep...it's too hot." Tang Yi replied honestly.

The captain took a look at his strange eyes and the thick gauze on his face, and said in a low voice, "The siren's self-healing ability is stronger than yours, so why bother to be a hero and make yourself look like this."

Tang Yi didn't like to hear this, so he smiled indifferently, "Captain, don't you think my eyes are handsome? Lin Maochen said that my eyes are called 'gold and silver demon pupils' in Japanese anime. How cool!"

Jiang Yanfeng looked at Tang Yi's flamboyant expression speechlessly, "When you get older and your left eye starts to have various problems, and your right eye also loses vision due to years of over-reliance, I don't think you'll be able to laugh. come out."

"I'm still so young, I don't know if I can live to that time, why think so much." Tang Yi shrugged his shoulders, refusing to think about the possible results.Since Mercury "confessed" to him, he has been in an inexplicably good mood every day.Recently, Mercury has become more and more gentle. He is not even allowed to carry a backpack, and sometimes gently pushes the hair on his forehead, helps him to apply medicine to his scars, and sleeps with his body on his back. At this time, gently wrapped his arms around his waist.Tang Yi felt that if a scar in one eye could be exchanged for a beautiful woman, it would be worth it.

Jiang Yanfeng ignored the idiot who was so nympho that he almost went to heaven, and continued to look at the silent camp on the other side.Tang Yi sat for a while, feeling that the surroundings were a bit awkwardly quiet, so he asked, "Captain, why do you have to personally follow this mission?"

Jiang Yanfeng put down the binoculars, but turned on his watch, observing the positions of the other groups of people, "I have my own mission."

"...Can I ask a question, you don't need to answer, I'm just curious."

"Just ask."

"Is this mission intended to lure the rebels with mercury?"

Jiang Yanfeng turned his head suddenly, staring at him quietly.Tang Yi looked a little uncomfortable.

"I'm just guessing. Because in the previous two missions, the target of the rebels was mercury, as if they knew all the actions in our team. I think the Ministry of Security should not tolerate this kind of thing from happening?"

The corners of Jiang Yanfeng's mouth were raised, but the smile did not reach his eyes, "You are very smart. However, as a soldier, it is enough to obey orders. Sometimes being too smart is asking for death."

Tang Yi pursed his lips.He guessed right, this mission seemed to be just to collect evidence of the Second Base and the tradition of the rebels, but in fact, it was to find out the rebel spies in the team.

If the spy wants to act, then now is the most suitable time when all the teams are marching separately.

But why not let him go out with Luo Weiyi?Perhaps the reason why Luo Wei was not considered was because he was added in the second mission, but what about him?

Just because he joined the team for a year?

If the Ministry of Security knew that he was originally a clone cultivated by the rebels, I'm afraid they would get rid of him immediately, right?

"If you're wondering why I didn't let you out, it's very simple. First of all, you just joined the team and are our key monitoring target. You have no chance to contact the rebels. Secondly, you are so dazed by mercury, you can't be a spy."

Tang Yi rubbed his nose, his face was hot, and he said stiffly, "When did I get so fascinated..."

Jiang Yanfeng sighed softly, and once again the familiar melancholy appeared between the vicissitudes of his eyes.

"Sometimes, although it is said that the sea monster is bound to the human being, there are situations where the human being is trapped deeper. Those researchers call this phenomenon 'bound hallucination'. It means that there is no physiological characteristic of the sea monster. But it produced an abnormal emotional pattern similar to that of the Kraken. This phenomenon happens from time to time among members of the Siren team, probably because of the influence of the Siren's emotions. Nolan in your team is a bit like an example of binding illusions. As for You..." Jiang Yanfeng looked at him with some pity, "Your hallucinations are really serious."

Tang Yi was taken aback for a moment, feeling a little uncomfortable in his heart.

Is it just... hallucination...

If only it were an illusion.Maybe one day when he wakes up, his mind will no longer be filled with that silver-haired sea monster that is sometimes cold and sometimes gentle, he will not be entangled in those impossible things between extravagant hope and sobriety, and he will not go for a name. Worry about gains and losses.Maybe he can have a gentle and lovely girlfriend who doesn't dislike him, maybe he can give birth to one or two chubby babies, take the family to sit by the sea and enjoy the sea breeze, and tell the story of fighting side by side with the sea monster when he was young .

"Then, how can I wake up from the hallucination?" Tang Yi took out a cigarette from his trouser pocket, bit it in his mouth, but didn't light it.

Jiang Yanfeng's eyes fell on the thick water surface of the swamp, which was empty and seemed a little lost.

"Maybe one day you become cruel and throw away everything here, and then you can wake up." Jiang Yanfeng's mouth twitched, but his smile was a bit bitter, "But more often, if you don't want to throw it away, you can only wake up." I have been struggling in hallucinations. I can only be careful not to suffocate to death."

Tang Yi looked at the general captain's side face, which was ordinary but a little darker due to the portrayal of the years, and wondered what the relationship between the chief captain and Liu Huo was.

Although Liuhuo was very obedient, but in the eyes he looked at the captain, there was no concentration and eagerness that other sea monsters showed when they looked at their masters.Speaking of it, it was a bit like the bland and alienated expression of Shuiyin when he had just discovered his identity but had to pretend to have a relationship with him.

Coupled with the sad and melancholy temperament that the captain reveals from time to time...

Tang Yi always felt that he had dug up some terrible gossip...

Just at this moment, the sound of footsteps quickly approached.Tang Yi turned his head and saw Liu Huo standing behind them.

The captain stood up slowly, "Started?"

Liu Huo nodded, "Now there is a rebel team of more than a dozen people surrounding 'us'."

Tang Yi stood up abruptly, "Have the rebels surrounded us?"

Jiang Yanfeng ignored him, and only asked, "Which area is surrounded?"

"A district."

"A District..." Jiang Yanfeng's eyes flashed a cold light, "Then let's go to District A to meet them."