Tang Yi had a dream about a night when he was about five years old. The wind and thunder outside the window, the torrential rain was pouring, and the shabby curtains were blown away, vaguely like a sobbing soul in the dark night. Tang Yi slipped off his bed and got into Tang Ya's bed.
Tang Ya was so frightened that she couldn't sleep, and her body trembled slightly under the quilt. After Tang Yi got in, the two young bodies were tightly pressed together, arms wrapped around each other to keep warm.
When they were two children, they could communicate without talking. Two pairs of black and white eyes looked at each other in the dark, comforting each other.
"Don't be afraid, I will protect you." This is what Tang Ya's eyes said to him.
Tang Yi blinked and grinned, meaning, "This is what I said!"
With a low laugh, Tang Ya glanced at him out of the corner of her eyes, "Who was so frightened that he ran to my bed?"
"I'm afraid you're afraid!"
The young adult Tang Ya sighed like a little adult and stroked Tang Yi's hair, "Idiot, I'm obviously my brother!"
"We are twins, equal!"
At this moment, a thunderstorm sounded, as if a bomb had exploded outside the window. Tang Yi shrank into his brother's arms with a low cry, and Tang Ya hugged his brother tightly too.
Some children on the other beds were already crying. But Tang Yi felt extremely at ease at this moment, extremely safe.
I don't know since when, the two people will no longer hold so intimately, as if they are one person. If you must find a head, it is probably when two people start to want to be independent from each other... Everyone wants to be unique, and no one wants to be the shadow of others. Even twins are not willing to give up such rights.
However, while chasing difference and independence, I also unknowingly lost another rare thing in the world - the stability and integrity of heart-to-heart connection.
Tang Yi opened his eyes and saw the bright lights. The wall of dense plastic around it reflects the unsentimental light. He was lying on a hospital bed with an infusion tube in his arm, and there were occasional figures coming and going outside the separation wall, all wearing dense protective clothing.
Tang Yi felt pain and swelled his head, moved his fingers, and a tingling feeling spread from his limbs. With a dry mouth and a sore throat, he coughed twice, trying to shout, but couldn't make a sound.
He tore off the infusion tube from the back of his hand, propped up on the bed and sat up against the thick pillow behind him. There was a dull pain in his stomach, he lifted the quilt, lifted up his hospital gown, and saw a thick bandage wrapped around his stomach.
"Your physical fitness is really good. You have suffered so much injury and lost so much blood, yet you woke up so quickly."
With the sudden sound, Tang Yi turned his head and saw a half-human-high robot beside him. On top of his head was a monitor showing the face of a young Indian who might be a doctor.
Tang Yi asked in a hoarse voice, "Is this the Kraken team?"
The doctor didn't answer his question, but said the lines step by step, "According to the regulations, all of your team members must go through three days of isolation and observation. Today is the last day, and you can be discharged soon."
Tang Yi looked around, "Where's the others? Where's Mercury?"
"Except for the three soldiers and three Krakens killed in the fourteenth team, everyone else is recuperating in isolation and recovering almost. But your Kraken is not in a good condition, and you haven't woken up yet." The doctor said it lightly, as if it was a trivial matter that was not worth mentioning. Tang Yi was not calm. He lifted the quilt and wriggled around and grabbed the screen of the robot, "I want to see him. His mental state may be dangerous..."
"Then you have to wait for the end of the isolation period. You have mild dehydration symptoms now. Drink some water first." Tang Yi was not polite, and after drinking it in one breath, he finally got a little bit of breath. When he turned his head, he found that the robot's screen had gone black, and the doctor had left.
Tang Yi was exhausted and fell back on the bed, his tense nerves relaxed a little. He couldn't help but scolded, "Dog Day's Kraken team... The whole day's good welfare benefits are all earned by gambling..."
The first mission was so thrilling, and he was in close contact with one of the top leaders of the rebel army. Tang Yi wanted to greet the eighteenth generation of the ancestors of the captain. Is it so difficult to say that the rebels can control the infected and that there are monsters in the research institute? I have also done life-threatening missions in the army before, but at least the intelligence is not too crooked. The information this time is completely the same as if it was not given!
It seems that the most proud intelligence system of the base is also full of loopholes on the battlefield where the most cutting-edge Kraken team performs missions.
What puzzled him most was why the rebels wanted the quicksilver so much? Even Park Shih-hwan is just a bait.
The base also attaches great importance to mercury, but it seems that they have not paid attention to the height of the rebels. You must know that the leader of the rebel army personally took a risk for a siren. This is simply unimaginable for those top human beings who are sitting in the sword, right
Tang Yi reached out and touched his watch, but it was empty. He looked around and found no trace of his watch.
It seems that it was taken away by the security department or the team for investigation. Tang Yi felt very uncomfortable. If a watch is such a private thing, take it away if you say it, without even asking a question. I used to be in the army, at least I had some privacy...
Tang Yi rested for a day and a night, and the next morning, the opening zipper of the plastic room was finally pulled open from the outside. Several doctors in airtight protective suits tore off his hospital gown, looked at him with various instruments, measured his heartbeat and blood pressure, drew blood, and made him stick out his tongue and roll his eyelids. A doctor concluded, "No signs of infection. Can be released from isolation."
One of the doctors took off the mask. It was the Indian doctor with thick eyebrows and big eyes in his thirties that he had seen on the screen before, with a brand name on his chest: Raj Bandyopadhyay (Rosh Bandyopadhyay).
"Your body is still relatively weak, and the wound has not yet fully healed. You will have to rest in bed for this month and do not need to participate in training." The attending doctor named Roche lowered his head and wrote the case on the tablet.
Tang Yi didn't care about this at all, he lifted the quilt and jumped out of bed, "Where's the mercury?"
The doctor closed the flip of the tablet with a snap, raised his eyelids as if he hadn't woken up yet, "He won't even notice if you go there now."
Tang Yi grabbed the military jacket that the nurse had placed beside his bed and put it on, pulled on his slippers and stood up, patted the doctor on the shoulder, "It's been hard work for the past two days, brother. But I'm the owner of the siren, please tell me. Where is he?"
"...Second intensive care unit on the thirty-seventh floor."
Tang Yi left the ward only to find that he was no longer in the Kraken team. On one side of the corridor is a row of floor-to-ceiling windows that are bright, clean and transparent. Outside the windows is a steel forest that stretches to the horizon. Large and small aircraft mini-machines are scattered in the river outside the window, like countless silk and jade belts dancing in the forest, which is spectacular.
Tang Yi saw the sharp sword rushing into the sky across the sky. The minimalist and flat metal shell reflected the rare sunlight that was not seen in the nine days.
"Yandu..."
The corridor is very quiet, except for the occasional nurses and doctors, few other patients are seen. No one stopped him, he clutched his aching abdomen and slowly entered the elevator. His mind was still empty, as if he hadn't recovered from the stupor of a coma. The long yellow sand, the abandoned city, the empty research institute, the disgusting monster, and the equal messenger exuding a dangerous atmosphere. He almost thought he couldn't come back alive.
If there is no mercury, he must be there.
Thinking of the silver-haired Kraken, Tang Yi felt a little excited in his heart. The memory of fighting side by side with Mercury was so clear that it was completely undiscovered. I didn't feel anything at the time, but now that I think about it, the tacit understanding is unbelievable. It's like, it's not the first time they've acted together.
But when he thought of Mercury's empty eyes when he learned that Tang Ya was dead, Tang Yi's heart twitched again.
The door opened, and the thirty-fourth floor was even quieter than the thirty-fourth floor where he was just now. He found the "second intensive care unit" and gently turned the door handle.
In the blurred plastic isolation room, a silver-white figure could be faintly seen lying quietly. At this time, the isolation was over, the plastic zipper was opened, and Tang Yi carefully opened the plastic curtain.
Mercury closed his eyes and sank into the soft bed, wearing a breathing mask on his face, and his long hair like mercury poured out on the bed.
Tang Yi sat down beside the bed, staring straight at the elegant profile of the mercury, the chest that rose and fell with his breathing, and the slightly blue hand with the infusion tube inserted outside the quilt.
Tang Yi took the hand lightly and lightly.
The hands are cold, but not the coldness of death, but the refreshing coolness of the undercurrent of the deep sea.
"Mercury." Tang Yi whispered these two words. Mercury was still asleep, unresponsive.
Tang Yi sighed, and a sense of loss lingered between his eyebrows.
How long will the security department wait if Mercury keeps not waking up like this
Suddenly, the plastic curtain was lifted again. Tang Yi was startled, but when he turned around, he saw an unexpected person. Tsuruta Craftsman was wearing a neat military uniform, and he was stunned when he saw Tang Yi.
Tang Yi blurted out and asked, "What are you doing here?"
This question is purely out of curiosity, not a hint of provocation. But after hearing it in Tsuruta's ears, it changed for some reason.
"What are you doing here again?" Hetian snorted coldly and asked back.
Tang Yi was no longer hostile to Hetian, after all, the other party saved his life. But listening to the thorns in these words, his little temper was stimulated again. He raised one eyebrow, and the ruffian laughed sullenly, "Are you kidding me? I'm his master, of course I want to come and see my siren? Are you our Mercury?"
Tsuruta is speechless. He gritted his teeth angrily, but he finally didn't say anything, just walked to the other side silently, looking down at Mercury's bloodless face.
"The doctor said that his body has begun to recover, but he has not been able to wake up from the drowsiness." Tsuruta's eyes, which were always sharp as falcons, suddenly softened at this moment, even with a bit of melancholy, "The Kraken. Falling into a deep sleep is sometimes a sign of losing the will to live. Did he notice something?"
Tang Yi's heart skipped a beat, and he glanced at Hetian reflexively, pretending to be relaxed, "Don't talk nonsense. I have been professionally trained, and he and I have always cooperated very well."
"Then why did he become like this." Hetian's tone was aggressive, and Tang Yi was also a little flabbergasted.
He stood up slowly, looked at Tsuruta's handsome and serious face, and retorted, "That's because I was almost stabbed to death by a monster transformed from a variant of the Leviathan virus. Mercury cost too much living beings to save me, and was later killed by Rebel siege."
"Hmph..." Tsuruta had such an expression as expected, "I knew you were following and it would only drag us down."
Tang Yi couldn't believe his ears, "Damn, how unreasonable are you little Japan?! Why didn't you ask Nolan if they could survive that institute without me?! It was very worry-free to be captured by the rebels at the beginning. We almost became the full-fledged full of monsters! Before we investigated thoroughly, we made random conclusions, and you are still the captain?! When I was the platoon leader If they were all like you, the soldiers would have rebelled long ago?!"
Hetian was accustomed to the quiet environment of the hospital, and was suddenly yelled at by Tang Yi, his ears buzzing and thinking, "Keep your voice down! This is the hospital!"
Tang Yi rolled his eyes, sat back down, and muttered, "You are so talented."
The two were embarrassed for a moment, and Tsuruta Takumi said reluctantly, "I made a mistake just now, I apologize."
Tang Yi glanced at him, a little surprised. It seems that this person is not completely unreasonable. He rubbed his nose, "Forget it, it's my responsibility for the mercury to become like this. However, what happened to the siren you said lost the will to survive?"