One day in 2510.
Tang Yi took a deep breath of cigarettes and looked at the dark gray sky from under the brim of his hat. The seemingly non-existent raindrops hit the windowsill, leaving muddy traces one after another. Outside the window, the endless gray city spreads out on the ground like an ancient circuit board. Only the sky-reaching building in the distance is visible, like a huge sword blade inserted into the thick cloud layer, even if it is so far away, it is still clearly discernible.
That is the highest command of the third base on earth, known as the sword, like a temple.
The Yandu Security Department Building where he is located is the second tallest building in the city. The people who work in this building are all important security officials in the third base. Generally speaking, lower-level officers like Tang Yi are not qualified to set foot here.
Tang Yi was a little nervous. While waiting for an interview, he ran to the men's bathroom to smoke a cigarette, and unconsciously bit the nail of his right hand.
He really couldn't figure it out, didn't he just beat up a few hooligans who bullied other people's escort girls when he went to Kabukicho to have fun? It's not enough to give a sanction for this matter, as for alarming the military plane...
"Tang Yi!" There was a knock on the door, an inhuman voice. Tang Yi had to throw the cigarette butt on the ground and stomped it out, pushed open the toilet door and walked out.
The dark brown chestnut door was pushed open by a well-dressed security guard. The office behind was empty and clean, with valuable oil paintings hanging on the walls. Sitting in front of the large desk was a slightly fat gray-haired white uncle. , the stomach is surrounded by the military uniform, and a string of stars shines on the epaulette.
This is Lieutenant General Buck who pulled him out of the army. Tang Yi suspected that he was so fat. If he really got to the battlefield, he would become a sandbag in about a second, right? Or the kind of sand that leaks...
Tang Yi stood at attention and put on a stern face of military standards.
"You are Tang Ya's younger brother Tang Yi?" The lieutenant general lit a cigar and looked at him lazily.
"Yes, sir!"
Lieutenant General Buck looked him up and down and nodded, "Sure enough, they look exactly the same."
Tang Yi complained in his heart, of course identical twins look exactly the same, is it possible that they can still have a male and a female? But on the surface, he answered loudly, "Yes, sir!"
Lieutenant General Buck seemed satisfied, his whole body stood upright from the back of the chair, his hands were placed on the table, and a moment of sympathy appeared on his face, "Second Lieutenant Yin, your brother died while fighting the rebels in the South China Sea."
Tang Yi first reflexively replied "Yes, sir", and then suddenly recalled what the other party was talking about.
So he was stunned, his eyes widened a little.
Tang Ya... sacrificed
died
how can that be
Although Tang Yi and his elder brother Tang Ya are identical twins, they are both soldiers. But the status is very different. Tang Yi spent so many years in the army before he got the rank of second lieutenant, and his brother was selected into the most enviable elite unit in the army, the Kraken Squadron, when he was ten years old. You must know that only one person can be selected out of a thousand people who can enter this army, and they have outstanding talents in all aspects. The selected children will spend their teenage years in the team training camp, and will be the top soldiers in combat, weapon use, tactical development, and will to survive. So whenever a comrade-in-arms learns that Tang Yi has a twin brother who works for the Kraken team, the first question he asks is, "You two have exactly the same genes, why didn't you go in?"
This question has risen to become Tang Yi's most hated question, no one. Every time an ignorant Leng Touqing asks, he will inevitably beat him up.
And now, the fat uncle actually told him that his brother who was omnipotent that day was dead
Unable to hold back, Tang Yi burst out laughing.
The lieutenant general was stunned, "You can still laugh?"
"Lieutenant General, this is impossible, my brother will not die, is your information wrong?"
The lieutenant general wanted to get angry, but then he thought about it, maybe the other party was deeply in love and sad, so he was so excited that he actually questioned the intelligence of the military department. But as a lieutenant general, how can you be so small? So he leaned his huge body back on the chair again, picked up a rare paper document on the table, and handed it to the young man in front of him, "See for yourself."
Tang Yi quickly turned the pages, and then turned it over again. The first document was stamped with a big red stamp "deceased", and the corner of the stamp was printed on the same face as himself.
Tang Yi's hands trembled a little. In fact, the relationship between him and his brother is not very good. In the past ten years, the two have rarely seen each other. As soon as they met, they quarreled. After all, that was his only relative in this world.
He still remembered that the last time they met was a year ago, and he scolded his brother in a dirty foreign language, "go fuck yourself!" Without paying attention, it turned out to be the last word he said to his brother
A ton of pain, like being smashed by a big hammer, spread from his brain to his heart.
The lieutenant general let out a smoke ring, "Actually, I called you here today. Besides telling you the unfortunate news, there is another task to be assigned to you."
That's right... a soldier died in battle, just let the superiors inform him that he is not good. Why do you need to call someone to the Security Department building
Tang Yi diligently turned his brain cells, which were numb from the shock of the news, and looked at the lieutenant general.
"You also know that every soldier in the Kraken team is equipped with a Kraken."
Tang Yi nodded.
"Your brother is the captain of the fifteenth division of the Kraken team. This team has the highest success rate of mission execution among all teams, and the personnel are also the most elite. The loss of anyone is a big blow to us. .Your brother's Kraken is named Mercury. He is a male Kraken with extremely strong combat power. It can even be said to be the most powerful Kraken in the team. He once led two other Krakens to kill an ultrasonic submarine. But you also Know that the neural structure of the Kraken's brain only allows them to be loyal to one person, and if their master dies, they often choose to commit suicide. Even if they don't commit suicide, the security department can't take the risk to keep them."
When the lieutenant general said this, he paused and looked at Tang Yi, as if he was afraid that the subordinate second lieutenant would not understand what he was saying. Seeing Tang Yi nodded, he continued, "But it is extremely difficult to raise a siren to adulthood. The siren's fertility rate is low, and the survival rate is also low. It is not adult until the age of sixty. The powerful one only emerges in hundreds of years, and we have spent a lot of effort on him. It would be a pity to let it be scrapped like this. So, we decided to send you to try it."
Tang Yi slowly blinked his eyes, "That... Sir, I don't quite understand... What did you send me to try?"
"You and your brother's genes are exactly the same, and you can't tell any difference just by looking at your appearance. In addition, your loyalty value has always been relatively high, and the Ministry of Security still trusts you. As long as you can pretend to be your brother and comfort it instead of your brother. And control the mercury, you can be transferred to the Kraken team and enjoy the same treatment as all the members of the Kraken team, what do you think?"
Tang Yi couldn't believe what he heard and asked him to pretend to be Tang Ya? !
Who came up with such a bad idea? !
Tang Yi really wanted to ask him if you had water in your head, but the other party was a big man with a much higher rank than him, a little ant like him could only retort carefully, "Although I am willing to obey any order from the Ministry of Security... but you Don't you think you'll be ganged up soon? The Kraken watched Tang Ya get shot. Although Tang Ya and I are twins, they don't have very similar personalities. Couldn't he think that I'm a fake?"
The lieutenant general put out the cigarette butt, feeling a little impatient. Why are there so many problems with this junior officer? The order issued by the Ministry of Security can’t be implemented, “Don’t worry about this, Mercury didn’t see Tang Ya’s death with his own eyes, and the information we collected also shows that Tang Ya never mentioned him to Mercury. There is a twin brother. Nowadays, most people are artificially inseminated, and even natural production is carried out under the control of genetic engineering. Unplanned twins like you are a rare breed, and the siren can't guess. As for your character The problem, you can adjust and modify it slowly. Okay, the details of the task will be transferred to your personal database later, you can take a closer look." After the lieutenant general finished speaking, he waved his hand, indicating that he can go out.
Ten minutes later, Tang Yi wandered blankly on Chang'an Street, the most prosperous street in Yandu, feeling a little lost. In this way, he smoked two cigarettes at the station in a trance, boarded the suspended public train, and blinked wearily at the dimly lit gray scenery outside the window. Thirty minutes later, he got out of the car in front of the 305th unit battalion four hundred miles away from Yandu, tore off the collar of his military uniform, scratched his hair irritably, reported to the lieutenant first, and then returned to the dormitory. .
The other second lieutenant in the same dormitory was startled by his appearance, "What's the matter? Have you been expelled from the military?"
Tang Yi tossed his shoes, went to bed, and sighed, "Bad news, good news."
The second lieutenant came over immediately, lest the world be in chaos and asked, "What's the bad news?"
"My brother is dead."
"what?!!!"
With this roar, people passing by in the corridor looked straight into the room.
Tang Yi glanced at his roommate, "Why don't you ask me what the good news is?"
The roommate was still in a state of shock, unable to recover. After all, the heroic deeds of brother Tang Yi have been spread all over the barracks, and everyone was urging Tang Yi to call his brother to sign for the big guy.
Without waiting for the roommate to ask questions, Tang Yi suddenly showed a strange smile on his face, "The good news is... I can join the Kraken team."
…
A month later, Tang Yi scattered his brother's ashes into Zhonghua Bay, and then officially signed the mission document. In fact, no matter whether he is willing to accept it or not, as long as the order is issued, he will not dare not to accept it even if he eats the courage of an ambitious leopard. What's more, as long as you join the Kraken team, you can receive 5,000 coins per month, as well as many allowances and subsidies, enjoy lifelong free medical care, and you can freely view the information on restricted domains (under certain confidentiality regulations), and you can contact To the world's most advanced weapons, the most important... can fight side by side with the legendary terrifying and mysterious Siren.
Since he was a child, he has liked to read paper books that no one likes to read anymore. Tang Yi, who is fascinated by ancient hero stories, has long dreamed of joining the Kraken team, and once boasted about Haikou in front of his friends in the orphanage. Said that in the future, he must become a great hero surpassing the captain of the previous generation of the third base Siren Squad, Gino Hill. Although life gave him a big mouth in the end, Tang Yi still did not forget this dream.
But now the dream is about to come true, but it is built on the bones of his brother.
This method of realization gave him no sense of accomplishment at all. On the contrary, he felt that he was like Wu Dalang who married Pan Jinlian. He was obviously not worthy of it, but he would be killed sooner or later. Although he has always been jealous of his brother, he has to admit that he has lost seven out of ten fights with Tang Ya, and his IQ and EQ seem to be incomparable.
But another voice in my heart said again: Maybe you just didn't realize your potential? Without the shadow of my brother, maybe I can suddenly burst into a small universe, and then become famous in a battle. Since then, I will command the siren named Mercury to traverse the universe, making the enemy feel fearful... (10,000 words of imagination are omitted here)
Tang Yi lost sleep the night before being transferred from Unit 305. He remembered the question he asked before leaving the lieutenant general's office that day, "How did my brother die?"
Lieutenant General Buck's expression was weird, and he didn't seem to understand the answer very well. "When the battle with the remaining rebels, there was a traitor in the team, trying to attack Quicksilver. Your brother blocked a few shots for the siren."
Tang Yi pondered for a long time, but did not understand how Tang Ya would do this. The one who is emotionally bound is the Kraken and not the owner of the Kraken. Even if the Kraken dies, my brother can adopt another Kraken, and it will take less than a year or two to return to the team. Why would he use his own life in exchange for the life of the monster in the sea
Unless... my brother also has feelings for that siren...
Tang Yi was frightened by this guess. The lieutenant general said that the siren named Mercury was a male, right? In my memory, the older brother who was always unsmiling and his eyes could kill people with an old-fashioned personality turned out to be gay!
Then if you want to pretend to be a brother, don't you have to pretend to be gay too? !
Tang Yi shook three times, and suddenly felt as if he had been deceived.
Early in the morning, Tang Yi opened his eyes and saw a gray fog outside the window. All the scenery was swallowed up by the fog, and even the listless plane tree outside the window with few leaves was lost.
If you want to go out in this weather, you must wear a purifying mask, otherwise you will have difficulty breathing and hypoxia symptoms if you don’t take two steps. Tang Yi's luggage was only a travel bag, he put on the iron-gray mask made of nanomaterials, and put a box of limited edition Hongtashan on the quilt of his roommate who was snoring loudly, saying goodbye. The playground outside was silent. Due to the heavy fog, the morning exercise in the morning was canceled, and he was alone. Tang Yi was originally a platoon leader from 5th to 8th classes. Although he often bullied his subordinates on weekdays, he had a good relationship with his subordinates because he had fun and didn't like to be serious, but he had few friends, especially those above the second lieutenant. . This time he was going to leave, and the soldiers under him dragged him for a long night in Kabukicho, the capital of Yan. He probably fell asleep in the morning. He originally said that he was going to send him off, but no one was seen. The huge playground was submerged in thick white smoke, and it felt choking through the mask.
Tang Yi didn't really care if anyone said goodbye to him. He was the most uncomfortable with this sensational parting scene. A silver-gray minicomputer was already waiting for him outside the gate. He took a last look at the military camp that had been in service for 8 years, turned around and opened the door and sat in.
The unmanned mini-aircraft is referred to as the mini-machine. This small aircraft that can accommodate four to five people is the main means of transportation for people on earth. It does not require a driver. Just enter the destination and it can automatically identify the route and pass between the military camp and the base. The desolate desert area was soon merged into the spider web-like complex three-dimensional transportation system in Yandu. The towering buildings are all of a similar style, straight up and down, with a series of dense black windows, like a huge gray forest, passing quickly from the window.
This is a world that has long since lost its vitality. The initial greenhouse effect caused a huge rise in global temperatures, rising sea levels annihilated a third of the land, and the environment rapidly deteriorated. Coupled with the global outbreak of Acute zetaretrovirus infection, also known as the Leviathan virus, which occurred 50 years ago, there are only less than 300 million people left on the earth today, concentrated in 15 countries in Eurasia, Africa and North America. in a base. Under the shadow of death and racial destruction, there is no country on the continent today. Each base has a supreme command, which is composed of many elite scientific researchers. The Global Command Federation is held every year. In this meeting , the discussions are often on issues related to the survival of mankind. The Ministry of Security is actually responsible for maintaining order at each base.
The operation of the base is based on a strict social class division of labor. All human data over ten years old will be collected in the Supreme Command, and the giant quantum computer will analyze each person's genes and social behavior characteristics, and then classify each person into different industry fields. In extraordinary times, there is no such thing as democracy, freedom and pursuit of dreams. All people have to do is to survive as a part of this huge survival machine, and no one can resist the Supreme Command. Any suspicious remarks can be detected by the ubiquitous machine security guards and reported to the Ministry of Security. But even if most people understand that this is a necessary means of survival, there will always be a small group of people who will resist, that is, the rebels mentioned earlier.
Seeing that the base camp of the rebels in the central Eurasian continent has been taken over by the coalition forces of the five major bases, and only the remaining troops need to be cleaned up. Unexpectedly, Tang Ya, who has already experienced the most tragic decisive battle, capsized in the gutter. put a life on his tail. Thinking like this, Tang Yi felt suffocated in his heart. He just took out his cigarette and tried to light it, when he heard the cold voice of the mini computer, "No smoking in the cabin."
In order to avoid being sprayed with fire extinguishing powder by the computer of the mini machine, Tang Yi obediently put away the cigarette and unconsciously began to bite his fingernails...
[Kraken... Is it really like the illustrations in the book?]