The last time a peacock surfaced was five years ago. There are more and more sea monsters fleeing from land to Guixu City. How to accommodate young children, how to accommodate elderly and sick sea monsters, how to get some necessary medical equipment, countless questions one after another, making He didn't have time to be alone at all.
Tsuruta Takumi was still evading the pursuit of the base when they met last time, and Lin Maochen and several other former team members lived in seclusion at the border of the fourth base. He had made an agreement with him that when the life of the Krakens in Xinguixu City had stabilized, he would come to find him on land. Although Tsuruta said coldly that he looked like a nauseous middle school boy, his performance in the bed that night was really... He still had a burning urge to think about it after five years.
Compared to him, Lan Huang slipped onto the land to see the real, middle-2 boy Lin Maochen in his house, who was afraid that the world would not be chaotic. . Zixi struggled on the line of life and death, and was finally rescued. Luo Wei didn't know where to pick up an abandoned deep-water submarine. After repairing it, he ran into the trench with something that seemed to fall apart at any time to see Zixi several times.
After many years, when they meet, they can't help but talk about their time in the team. But when it comes to Tang Yi, the commander-in-chief, Liu Huo, and Tang Ya, there is always a brief silence.
Then they will think of mercury.
After the tsunami, Qing Ding took several sirens to rescue the dying silver-haired siren. For three months after that, Mercury was in a coma, and the Kraken thought he would never wake up again.
Then, one silent morning, Mercury opened his eyes.
Mercury, who came back from the dead, never mentioned the names of Tang Yi and Tang Ya. To be precise, he became more silent than ever. The only thing he ever asked about that day was when Qing Indigo came to visit him the day he was sober. When Qing Ding was about to leave, he suddenly grabbed Qing Ding's arm and asked in a barely audible voice, "Have you found their bodies?"
Qing Ding's Adam's apple slipped and just shook his head. The entire land area of the entire Kraken team was swallowed up by the waves, and the powerful energy of the nuclear bomb had destroyed everything before that.
Mercury's expression did not change, as if he had known the answer for a long time. Since he woke up, Qing Ding felt that he was different from before. In those beautiful blue eyes, something seemed to be permanently dead, leaving only an empty shell.
However, Mercury recovered quickly, and immediately took on the heavy burden left by Chen Yuan, leading the Krakens to explore the abyss and established a new Guixu City. He didn't even give himself time to immerse himself in the pain. Except for a few hours of sleep, he was constantly busy twenty-four hours a day. He used his power to heal many seriously ill sea monsters. The capable young and middle-aged sirens built houses and terraces, reclaimed the sea and ridges, weaved long nets for fishing, and arranged rotating guards to monitor the changes near Guixu City around the clock.
No one dared to mention Tang Yi or Tang Ya with Mercury, and Mercury didn't talk about the past, but woke up from nightmares again and again with a low roar when she returned to her dream at midnight. His body was getting thinner by the day, but he was as tall and strong as ever. Only in the casual drooping eyes leaked a deep exhaustion.
The night-watching siren often sees Mercury quietly leaving Guixu City in the middle of the night and floating on the sea. In the dim twilight, the silver-haired Kraken floated in the turbulent waves, looking at the direction of the original site of the third base Kraken team in the east. It looked like a whole night, until the sky turned white.
Qing Ding, who met with Mercury the most, knew vaguely that the Siren Lord in front of him was actually just a body that was barely supported for responsibility. The light in the soul of the silver-haired siren has died out. The slightly thin shoulders that appeared in the cold wind seemed more and more lonely in the dim twilight, separated by an invisible distance, no one could break it.
This time they went ashore quietly, and I am afraid that the biggest opinion is Qingdang. But no one can stop what Mercury wants to do. All he could do was to listen to Mercury's arrangement of things during his departure, and then watch the two sirens ride on the backs of the dolphins to the vastness.
After landing on the long-lost land, the two sirens soon saw Tsuruta sitting on a reef waiting for them. Eight years later, Hetian looks more vicissitudes and mature, fine lines appear at the corners of his eyes, he is no longer wearing a military uniform, but an ordinary shirt and trousers. The sharp light between the gun marks and the twitching eyes suggests that he is no ordinary civilian.
Luo Wei was also waiting beside him.
The four met, and after looking at each other for a while, Tsuruta just nodded to them lightly, his eyes stopped on Mercury for a moment, and his brows were slightly wrinkled.
The mercury looks bad. But suddenly I couldn't tell what was wrong.
Although he knew that Tsuruta had already broken some kind of attachment to mercury, Peacock was still unhappy, and he pulled Tsuruta over and kissed his lips deeply. Tsuruta let out a low cry, then raised his knees to push against the peacock's belly. The Kraken let go of the furry human in time, and smiled charmingly, "Forgive me, I haven't seen you for too long."
Rarely, Tsuruta didn't make a few more punches, there was a suspicious flush on his cheeks, and he just gave Peacock a stern look. Luo Wei on the side coughed a few times loudly, "Okay, you two, don't bring such a dog abuser."
Peacock blinked his right eye at Hetian, and then handed a beautiful red conch to Luo Wei, "Zi Xi asked me to help you bring it to you." The sirens have learned how to transcribe their voices into the empty conch shell. It's like writing a letter. Luo Wei took the conch with a faint smile on his lips.
And Mercury looked at them with calm eyes, and there seemed to be a huge void in his heart whistling.
Unpredictable, Tang Yi's smiling face suddenly rushed into his mind, suffocating him for a while. He turned around silently, picked up the camouflage clothes that Tsuruta had brought on the ground, and turned behind a raised rock wall.
Noticing his silence, the remaining three also hurriedly ended their conversation.
Mercury and Peacock put on disguise, darkened their skin with makeup pigments, put on contact lenses, and sat in the mini machine from Tsuruta. The ancient mini-machine slowly lifted into the air with a suspicious cough-like chirping sound, and flew over the vast land of the fifth base covered by the long yellow sand.
At sunset, the rouge-colored rosy color was rendered over the entire desert. A small oasis in the endless rolling sand dunes is like an emerald gem, where there is a human settlement. The mini machine landed beside the light blue lake, and when I came out of the cabin, I saw the lively and noisy scene in this small town. The crowded houses were filled with people buying and crafting, and there were some sand dunes of different sizes spreading in the distance. The mini machine, the rare camel lay down beside the stone trough.
Hetian and Luo Wei took them to a shabby house temporarily. The landlord was an old but kind-hearted uncle who prepared a shabby but hearty dinner for them.
"Although Luo Wei and I are also one of the leaders of the rescuers, we are usually responsible for the first base, and we have never met the leader of the fifth base." Tsuruta told them during the meal, "This time it was because of the mercury. Because of their special status, they agreed to let us introduce you."
Peacock frowned, "Has no one seen that leader? How do you usually communicate?"
"We have our underground network, sometimes by phone," Luo Wei replied.
"Have the Free Alliance and the First Base tried to find him?"
"Yes, but I can't find it. After all, the fifth base is a recognized peaceful and neutral area, and it is so far away that even the first base and the Freedom Alliance can't stretch their hands too far."
Quicksilver suddenly said, "Why does this person know that the Kraken is hiding near the Mariana Trench? Only you and Lin Maochen knew our plan at the time. Did you tell him the news?"
Luo Wei immediately waved his hand and said, "It's really not us! We also joined after we heard that this organization specializes in rescuing sirens and refugees."
Tsuruta also said, "Perhaps some of the sea monsters rescued later leaked to their masters?"
Mercury didn't answer. This is indeed a possibility.
But why is he always looking forward to another possibility that he doesn't want to admit
The night in the desert was extremely cold, everyone slept, and the city of the oasis fell into a dead silence. Mercury stepped into the cold wind and looked at the silver moon hidden in the clouds in the distant night sky. Facing the moonlight, he stretched out his left hand and let the light pass through the translucent silver web on his fingertips, dazed.
"Can't sleep?"
With the sudden voice, Mercury didn't need to turn around to know who it was.
Tsuruta, wrapped in a thick felt, stood beside him. He looked at Ye Feng's quicksilver-silver hair, and the Kraken's whole body seemed ethereal, like a wisp of smoke that would soon disperse.
Mercury did not answer.
He was afraid of sleeping, afraid of dreaming. In the past eight years, he hadn't slept a whole night.
Sometimes the intense exhaustion can make him lose the distinction between reality and dreams, and make him want to shoot his own temple with a laser gun, so that he can sleep peacefully without dreaming forever.
"How are you all these years?" Mercury asked.
Tsuruta nodded, "How about you?"
"I have no idea."
Tsuruta turned his head and watched Mercury's confused face gradually emerge.
"To be honest, I didn't expect you to survive." Tsuruta said with a sigh, "After that day, I thought you would never wake up."
Quicksilver suddenly laughed. The smile is full of exhausted depression.
"I don't know, how come day by day. Sometimes when I think of how long the life of the Kraken is, and there are still hundreds of years to spend in this way, I feel... very tired." Mercury turned his head, empty. His eyes made Hetian secretly startled, "Every time I close my eyes, I see Tang Ya staring at me with blood all over my body. But what scares me more than that is seeing Tang Yi smiling at me. "
Mercury's breath was a little unstable, and it seemed that it was difficult to control some emotions. "He smiled and said goodbye to me, and then fell into the abyss. But I can't do anything, I can't do anything..." He sneered, " I'm a copy of Chen Yuan, the savior they say, but I'm still a fake after all. I can't even save the person I want to save the most. The most terrifying thing is that I can't leave with him. "
Everything is his fault. He killed Tang Ya by mistake, and involved Tang Yi in this whirlpool, but in the end he could only watch Tang Yi also be swallowed by the death light. All those who were close to him, all those who had been put in his heart by him, had no good results in the end.
He wanted to let go and leave so much, but he knew he was not qualified to leave. Continuing to live in this world without Tang Yi is the most appropriate punishment for him.
No matter how tired and boring life is, he will continue to live day by day.
Mercury's smile was so dry and empty that Tsuruta could hardly bear to continue watching. The Kraken said to him, "I didn't even have time to tell Tang Yi, maybe I was bound to him unknowingly. Even without the anti-binding potion."
He just wondered why he didn't realize it before, and why he didn't expect that as a copy of Chen Yuan, he might also have the ability to fall in love with the second person.
He didn't know when he was attracted to Tang Yi, maybe it was when he was watching Tang Yi eating noodles in a ramen restaurant, or when he was in the deep underground when Tang Yi tried to block the venom of the monitor lizard for him. Maybe it was when Tang Yi watched the sunrise with Tang Yi after drinking the anti-binding potion, maybe it was when Tang Yi rushed into the Kraken Hall desperately to save him, or maybe it was when Tang Yi was mixed with helplessness and peace. When the sad smile reconciled to him.
He never knew that it was a bond of general emotion. Although it was completely different from the previous dependence and belief between him and Tang Ya, there was less unilateral worship and attachment, but it was like a trickle of water, filling up little by little in the day-to-day interactions and conflicts. Tang Yi mentioned that the corner of his mouth was smiling like a ruffian, that Tang Yi was biting his nails when he was nervous, that Tang Yi was secretly hiding in the bathroom to smoke, that Tang Yi was bleeding from his nose, and that Tang Yi was yelling at him … all so clearly imprinted on his memory, on his heart.
But he's a fool, he doesn't know. He only knew that he knew that Lee was going crazy with jealousy when he pestered Tang Yi, only that Tang Yi was so sad when he said that they were over, he couldn't sleep all night, and he only knew that when Tang Yi was injured, he wanted to slash Lee with a thousand knives. Cut yourself into pieces.
He didn't know, he thought that all his love had passed away with Tang Ya, and there was nothing left for Tang Yi.
It was not until he saw Tang Yi's figure disappear into the light of death, until the pain that was so severe that it could tear his soul devoured him, did he finally understand what he had missed.
Tsuruta said silently and put a hand on Mercury's shoulder. He knew there was nothing he could do to comfort him, and the only thing he could do was this little company.
In the early hours of the next day, they hit the road again. The mini machine whizzed past the desert, watching the sandbar gradually cover with light green, and the mountains with soft lines in the distance stretched in the distance of an extended plain. The towns of the fifth base are much smaller than other bases, and there are not many mini-machine channels.
On the edge of the sprawling city, there is a small manor. Houses built of red bricks, and large gardens filled with apple trees, with lush leaves spreading out from behind the walls.
There are no guards at the entrance of the manor, and it looks like an ordinary villa of a wealthy family. Luo Wei walked near the carved iron gate and rang the doorbell. Not long after, a man who looked like a man in his fifties came to open the door. Quicksilver followed Tsuruta, walking along the winding cobblestone road to the building ahead.
In the woods, there were two workers looking like people fertilizing trees, and a nurse was pushing a white-haired old man who seemed to have difficulty walking around the fence. In addition, there were a few children squatting under a tree and playing a game of running and jumping.
No matter the elderly, children or workers, they all look like civilians and dress casually, as if they lived here.
Mercury remembered that Tang Ya had said in the CD that he had left a fortune for Tang Yi.
Is a miracle possible
When they finally stood in front of the white door, and the door opened, Mercury found that his heartbeat suddenly accelerated, so fast that he suspected that others could hear his heartbeat.
A man in black trousers and a suit vest is sitting in an armchair in the middle of the lobby, drinking a cup of tea in his hand. Hearing the sound, he turned his head.
A burst of intense disappointment hits.
It really wasn't Tang Yi, but a person who was completely unexpected—Han Qi.