Unlucky to escape from death in Kabukicho, Tang Yi and others were quarantined for another three days for inspection. The day it was released from the Siren Squad Clinic happened to be the first day of summer. There was a sultry sea breeze blowing from the ocean, and the rotten smell of some kind of fish death was mixed in it. After a long time, it would feel nauseous.
As soon as Tang Yi walked out of the clinic door, he saw Mercury leaning against the flagpole. He looked at his watch impatiently. He was dressed in military uniform, with a low brim and silver hair tied behind his neck. He was very handsome. Tang Yi put his military jacket on his shoulders and walked over, "Waiting for me?"
Mercury glanced at him, "If I knew you were so grumpy, I would have left first."
Tang Yi had become accustomed to Mercury's knife mouth that couldn't spit out ivory, and grinned, but the smile quickly subsided, "How is Nolan? Have you seen him?"
Mercury shook his head, his expression also a little sad.
Everything happened so fast, no one would have imagined that the rose, which had passed through so many times in life and death, would be gone. The most chilling thing is that it was not the rebels that killed her in the end, but the GBU-FireRiver bomb fired by the Ministry of Security.
What if there are still uninfected civilians in those buildings? Why is it directly disinfected without even the most basic rescue
But this kind of thing, no one dares to talk about.
Tang Yi sighed and said, "Go back to the dormitory."
Just took a step, but the shoulder was pressed by the mercury. He turned his head and looked at the siren in confusion, "What's wrong?"
"Get dressed."
Tang Yi rolled his eyes, turned his head and left, "Why do you still care if I wear clothes or not? Are you my mother?"
Mercury grabbed the clothes on Tang Yi's shoulders, shook it, and took advantage of his height to put the clothes on Tang Yi, and said coldly, "Stretch out your sleeves."
"What are you doing! I'll do it myself!" Tang Yi was embarrassed, and quickly trotted a few steps to put his clothes on by himself, looking at Mercury with a black face, "Do you have obsessive-compulsive disorder?"
"Don't forget, you are Tang Ya now." Mercury approached, looked at him seriously, and whispered, "Even if I know who you are, to others, I still don't know your true identity. "
"What a mess..." Tang Yi turned his head a few times before he suddenly understood.
If he wanted to continue to pretend to be a partner with Mercury in front of others, he had to pretend to be Tang Ya. Otherwise, if even others thought he was pretending not to be like Tang Ya, they would naturally suspect that Mercury had seen him through.
The Ministry of Security will not allow Krakens who are at risk of being bound to remain in the team.
"Your sister's... I used to lie to everyone in Lianhe, but now I lie to all of you. The difficulty factor is getting higher and higher..." Tang Yi tied the collar of his clothes depressedly, the sultry air made his forehead straight sweat.
When I passed the outdoor training ground, I saw many players and Krakens on the beach doing double combat training, some running weight-bearing marathons, and anti-exposure to the sun. Pairs of silhouettes float in front of the black velvety sea. Mercury's sight has spread to the ends of the sea, disappearing into the vast cloud in the distance.
Every time I saw such a sea, Mercury felt a deep unease in his heart.
He always felt that the sea should not be like this.
Occasionally in the dead of night, he would sit alone by the sea for a while. Closing your eyes, in a trance, you can hear a hazy but ancient call in the depths of the incomparably deep ocean.
That call was beating in his heart, arousing the deep yearning of the Kraken's soul for his hometown. His home is not on this gray land, nor in that black sea. His home should be dark blue, the quiet, pure, deep blue.
But when I opened my eyes, I felt like I was dreaming again. He was born in this Kraken team, if this is not his home, where is it
"Mercury, what are you looking at?" Tang Yi followed Mercury's line of sight, and saw nothing but two good-looking players practicing pull-ups, "I said, don't you only have my brother in your heart? Also look at the macho, are you the Kraken version of Hong Xing's out of the wall?"
Mercury squinted at him, "What nonsense are you talking about?"
"I'm in better shape than those two. Would you like to see my eight pack abs?"
"roll."
As soon as he entered the dormitory, the low air pressure that hit him almost choked Tang Yi.
In the circular public lounge, Tsuruta Craftsman really sat in the middle of the sofa, the peacock stood behind him, Lin Maochen was paralyzed on the small sofa next to him, playing PGAir (an ultra-thin handheld game console similar to PSP), Lan Huang Sitting on the adjoining sofa, Ash stood by the kitchen door, while Dr. Tan didn't know what to do in the kitchen.
Is such a low air pressure a moment of silence for Rose
As soon as Tang Yi entered, Tsuruta Takumi stood up abruptly, staring at him angrily with red eyes, "You did a good job! Take Nolan and Rose to Kabukicho in a good manner!"
Tang Yi was stunned for a moment by the sudden accusation. Lin Maochen helped him by saying, "It's not that he dragged us to go, we are willing to go..."
"Shut up! I haven't told you what to do in that kind of place when you were young!" The Chinese with a Japanese accent spoke in a powerful voice.
Lin Maochen shrank his neck when he was scolded, and did not dare to speak any more.
Tang Yi knew that he couldn't run away with a white eye, so he took a deep breath and exhaled slowly, and said in the calmest tone possible, "I am indeed responsible for this happening."
"What's your responsibility?"
Tang Yi was stunned, but saw Mercury take half a step forward, slightly blocking Hetian's gaze towards Tang Yi, "No one could have predicted a terrorist attack, we are all saddened by Rose's death, but we can't arbitrarily turn sadness into guilt and blame someone for it. personal."
Hetian didn't think that Mercury would stand up for Tang Yi. He was stunned for a moment before realizing that in Mercury's eyes, Tang Yi was Tang Ya.
There was a deep sadness in his heart, but fortunately, the expression on his face was tense, and he didn't show anything. His hands clenched tightly into fists, glared at Tang Yi, and turned back to his room. Peacock took a deep look at Tang Yi with a half-smile, and followed.
Tang Yi sat next to Lin Maochen, saw a strange cloud of chicken shit and green mushrooms emerging from the kitchen, and swallowed, "What is Dr. Tan doing?"
Lin Maochen pressed the touch screen on the transparent glass plate fiercely, as if there was a button there, "He's in a bad mood, he's just venting."
Lan Huang picked up the sentence next to him, "You haven't heard of it yet, Nolan refused to accept the new Kraken, and may have to be transferred from the Kraken team."
"Ah?!" Tang Yi was stunned, but after a while, he nodded again, "Like a choice Nolan would make..."
Every time Nolan looked at the rose, it was as if he was looking at a goddess, full of happiness and love. It was no longer a one-sided bond of the rose. The relationship between them was two-way.
When his lover just died, asking him to bind with a new siren is unbearable. Even if human's feelings are not as strong and single-minded as the siren, they are not broken at will.
It is too much for the Kraken team to make such a request.
"What about the Nolan people?"
While venting his anger, Lin Maochen said, "He is in a very low mood now, and occasionally makes outrageous remarks. So he was quarantined, and he said he was going to invite someone to do trauma counseling for him. After leaving the Kraken Before the team, we didn't know if we could see him again."
Tang Yi felt that the muscles in his heart were twisted together by an invisible force. A familiar thick and bleak fog gradually came up, and it overflowed between his internal organs little by little.
If he hadn't pulled Nolan and Rose out, if he could have been more vigilant... and the group of lovers he couldn't protect, the old man he left in the dark supermarket waiting to die, who trusted him with all his heart and was taken by him Gao Yan who pushed down the tall building with his own hands, Gao Yan's Kraken who was shot in the head by him, the soldiers who died under his leadership, Su Han who died in his arms, and... my brother.
Ever since he was a child, Tang Yi has often felt this dense gray-black fog, and his anxiety was burning like a fire. At first, his brother could comfort him, but later, even Tang Ya couldn't make him find peace. He was always anxious, doubting himself, and at a loss. Later, when he grew up, he had learned to suppress this suffocating mass, not let it affect him, and even looked very casual.
But that deepest doubt about one's own worth and existence never went away.
"Is this the commander's order?"
Lin Maochen's hands stopped for a moment, and he didn't say anything, and suddenly slammed the game console to the ground.
Tang Yi immediately understood.
Forced isolation, presumably an order from the Ministry of Security.
Tang Yi can imagine what Nolan's radical remarks will look like. He presumably heard the Messenger of Equality, and he presumably questioned whether the base really had a way to control the virus, and why no rescue operations were taken.
These problems alone were enough to cut his loyalty value in half.
Entering the bedroom, Tang Yi looked at the familiar and unfamiliar Tang Ya's room and paused. Quicksilver passed him, skillfully taking off his hat and coat and hanging them on the coat rack. At this time, Nas' image was projected on the wall, "Welcome back, Tang Ya."
Tang Yi nodded casually, pulled the button on his neckline, and pulled open the curtain of the bay window with a swipe. There was thunder rolling in the dark sky, and a storm was coming.
Tang Yi watched one or two raindrops hit the glass, turned around abruptly, pulled up Mercury's hand, and pulled Mercury into the sleeping capsule in the bedroom involuntarily by dividing the water. Mercury didn't resist at all, and sat obediently on the bed he was very familiar with, watching Tang Yi close the doors on both sides of the capsule.
The lights in the cabin turned on, and the roof of the cabin automatically showed the image of the starry sky in the summer night. Tang Ya's water cup and some medicine bottles were still placed on the shelf by the bedside. Mercury raised his head slightly and looked at Tang Yi, suddenly feeling that everything was exactly the same as before.
Tang Yi sat down on the other side of the bed, and without turning his head, he suddenly said, "We have to see Nolan."
Quicksilver also turned his back to him and said, "What can I change when I see him? If his loyalty value drops to that level, even the captain can't save him."
"Because..." Tang Yi opened his mouth a few times, each time he couldn't make a sound because of the indescribable anxiety and fear. But he knew that such words would be said one day sooner or later. NAS can't listen to their sleeping capsules, it's safe here.
"The fact that the Ministry of Security was so quick to order the quarantine not to let us visit shows they are afraid of others, especially what we hear from Nolan..."
Mercury's eyes rolled, and he turned his head slightly, "So?"
"If I remember correctly the information I've memorized before, Nolan's seniority in the team is very old. He entered the training camp at the same time as my brother, and graduated at the same time... I wonder if he knows something... "
Mercury was silent for a while.
Tang Yi asked again, "Do you still remember, who did my brother's last mission with him?"
Quicksilver was afraid to recall the events of that day, but now he has to force himself to recall the details, "At that time... we were ordered to destroy a rebel subsea stronghold. It was not a difficult task, the rebels in that stronghold We are just lingering, and fighting in the sea is the most beneficial for us. There were more than ten teams in the same group, but after entering the opponent's stronghold, the fifteenth team separated. Tang Ya and I also had two pairs of members from the eighteenth team. together."
"What about the members of the Eighteenth Division?"
"All dead."
"They said that my brother was killed by the spies of the rebels in the team, but who was the spies? Why didn't you make it clear?" Tang Yi put the fingernails of his thumbs between his lips and teeth, "You said , After Tang Ya was shot, your memory is very confusing. You don't remember what happened, only vague impressions. Do you have any impression of who rescued you from the rebel stronghold after that?"
Mercury's body was a little stiff. He has tried to recall that memory many times, but every time he thinks of it, he will feel a sudden and intense fear that swallows him like a tide. The memories that had just formed were instantly dissipated like mist. No matter how hard he tried, apart from the vivid picture of Tang Ya being shot, his memory was like quicksand in his hand.
But before the fog cleared he did catch a little bit of fragmented memory... blood, broken limbs, lots of people shouting, flickering lights, steel walls that kept flashing, and...blond hair soaked in sweat.