Tang Yi shrank on the bed, and the doors around the sleeping compartment were tightly closed. He wrapped himself tightly with the quilt, revealing only a pair of eyes that rolled uneasily, gazing around the darkness like a frightened animal meaninglessly.
Tang Yi's head was about to explode at this moment. All kinds of inexplicable voices lingered in his ears like ghosts, and only then did he realize that there were so many voices lurking in the places he usually thought were quiet. Oddly enough, he didn't even know where those voices were coming from.
The most terrifying thing was that several times he heard some kind of strange and distant cry, as if it was some kind of animal, but it didn't look like any animal he knew. That kind of long-sounding sound that seems to have been passed down from the unknown ages ago, from another world, from far to near, and even has a response. He couldn't find the source of these sounds at all, as if those creatures existed in the invisible air or hidden space gaps.
Even if you hide here, you can still hear strange noises. Once or twice, he even felt in a trance that he heard the painful groans or heavy sighs after someone was injured... He simply doubted that this could not be the sound of Tang Ya's ghost...
The door slammed open, and Tang Yi shuddered as if frightened. He suddenly turned his head and saw Mercury came in with a box of lunches from the team cafeteria, including grilled chicken wings, vegetable salad, egg pudding and bread. Mercury turned on the light in the sleeping compartment and put the plate on the bed in front of Tang Yi, "Eat something. The more you get used to it, the more you need to replenish your strength."
The big zongzi on the bed slowly shook his head, his voice muffled, "No appetite, nausea..."
Mercury ordered, "You have to eat if you are sick."
"You have to spit it out anyway. Leave me alone!" Tang Yi twisted his body irritably, and the big zongzi was crooked on the head of the bed, looking rather funny.
Mercury looked at the quilt helplessly and thought:
[Tang Ya, Tang Ya... What kind of scourge did you leave me... ] Mercury climbed onto the bed, peeled off the quilt layer by layer, and finally found Tang Yi's usual dangling, now it looks like But a bit of a pitiful face.
"If you don't eat, it will arouse suspicion."
"How can I cause suspicion if I don't eat?!"
"The sequelae after your operation are so obvious, wouldn't I be suspicious? Wouldn't others suspect that I have already suspected you?"
Tang Yi was so angry that he lay on the bed, "Can't you be a little stupid?! Why do you have to be so smart in your settings?! It's rare to be confused, do you understand?!"
The corners of Mercury's mouth couldn't help but curl up, "Naturally, I can't help it."
Tang Yi finally sat up obediently, grabbed the bread and took a bite. The bread that had just been baked was hot and fragrant, but it tasted like chewing wax in his mouth. The infrasound wave had a certain impact on his physiology, and a nauseating feeling came up just after taking two bites.
Mercury looked at Tang Yi's wrinkled face and tried to swallow the food. For some reason, I felt a little unbearable.
This kid, in order not to let him be dealt with by the Ministry of Security, is working hard enough.
Although I know that Tang Yi saved him in order to stay in the Kraken team, but after getting along with him these days, I always feel that this young man who is sometimes passionate and sometimes inexplicably lonely might really be saving him. He tried hard. After all, if it was just for his own interests, he didn't need to take the risk to investigate Nolan's affairs.
This moved Mercury a bit. He was obviously a stranger in his life. If he said that he treated him special because he could find Tang Ya's shadow in him, then it would be difficult for him to understand that the other party thought of him like this.
Since he was born, he has rarely felt the kindness of human beings. He is a tool to man, a weapon, a pet. Even the words "it" and "only" are used to describe their sirens in official documents. But Tang Ya is different from others. He was the first and only person who made him feel that safe, purposeless, equal good.
Now, there is another Tang Yi out of thin air.
Tang Yi's cheeks are bulging, and he eats a meal like a punishment. Only when he eats egg pudding, he shows an expression of enjoyment. She is obviously the same age as Tang Ya, but she is a little more childish...
Tang Yi pushed the empty dinner plate and glanced at Mercury defiantly, "You're satisfied."
Mercury nodded slightly, "It's a good performance." Then he picked up the dinner plate and planned to go out. Tang Yi stopped him at this time, "Hey, don't forget that we are going to visit Nolan tonight."
Mercury looked back at him and said firmly, "No, I won't go tonight."
"what?!"
"Your current physical condition is not suitable for action." Mercury then eased his tone a little.
"But if you don't go tonight, the training will start tomorrow. There will be no chance to get close to there! What's more, I don't know when Nolan will be transferred."
"I passed by there during the daytime and opened the infrasound net to detect it. There are indeed people in that building. If Nolan was really locked there for treatment, he would not have transferred Nolan overnight. You hurry up as soon as possible. Recuperate, we will act again after a little better." Mercury made a conclusion and left the sleeping cabin without giving Tang Yi time to protest.
As it turns out, Mercury's decision was correct. It suddenly rained that night, and the sound of thunder seemed to explode overhead. Lightning tore through the thick clouds, illuminating the entire black sea of rage in an instant. The rain fell heavily on the window, almost shaking the window and making a clicking sound. The rain had a pungent smell due to its high acidity, and it was combined with the gusting winds blowing against each other from all directions. The whole world is like crazy, the sea, rain, wind, and buildings are rubbing and biting each other, like the mournful cry of Banshee (Note: the dead banshee in Irish mythology).
Tang Yi's suddenly sharp hearing was a disaster in such a thunderstorm, and even the medicine Raj gave him couldn't calm him down. He curled up tightly on the bed on his side, as if he had fallen into a nightmare that he couldn't wake up from, or turned back into the five- or six-year-old child overnight. It's just that even when he was a child, he could climb onto Tang Ya's bed to find some comfort, but now...
Mercury lay flat on the other side of the bed quietly, and it would be fine for the two of them to lie between them.
This is their usual sleeping pattern. If Nas sleeps on the sofa alone, Nas may report the abnormality, so the two have to sleep in the same bed. In fact, Tang Yi didn't think it was a big deal at first. In the past, when he was on a mission, he sometimes slept in the open air, and it was normal for several men to sleep together to keep each other warm. But when I think of the special relationship between Mercury and Tang Ya, the atmosphere becomes a little subtle. Fortunately, this bed is big enough, Mercury's sleeping appearance is very good, and Tang Yi's sleeping appearance is not so bad that people and gods are angry, so it will not be too embarrassing.
But now, Tang Yi felt that the bed was a little too big...
In a trance, he really heard Nalei's roar and the roar of the sea, a terrifying banshee with a thin face, withered white hair spreading like a cobweb between the heavens and the earth was crying mournfully. The voice was so ominous, as if foretelling the imminent death of the world.
The sound was everywhere, and even here, the sleeping pods surrounded by warm quilts were not safe. No place is safe...
No matter how hard you try to live now, life will eventually be destroyed, and together with this planet and this universe... become eternal nothingness...
Boundless despair, he had never heard such a desperate voice. As Raj said, it's the sound of hell...
Tang Yi bit his fingernails so hard that he could get blood. He told himself over and over to calm down, this was just the initial discomfort. Those voices have always been there, they just couldn't be heard before...
There's nothing to fear, it's all natural and can be explained...
But self-hypnosis doesn't work at the moment.
Just when he was seriously considering whether to take the risk of injecting the third injection, he suddenly fell into a warm embrace. Silver hair swept across his forehead, his back pressed against his solid chest, the flexible silver-white fins on his arms swept across the skin on the side of his neck, and a gentle breath fell behind his ears.
Tang Yi's body froze for a moment, and the movement of biting his fingers stopped, and his eyes widened in the darkness.
Mercury has a clear and distant smell, reminiscent of the sea. The deep sea is not the current ocean, but the infinitely spread sapphire described in the book, the pearls and shells shining in the dark, the dancing water plants and colorful corals, and the dolphins flying in the distance...
"Don't listen to those voices." It's like the sound of nature coming out of sleep. "Most of the voices in this world are lies. You have to learn to close your ears to them."
Tang Yi's voice was not too loud at the moment, the stubbornness of the day was gone, a little trembling, a little helpless, "But I can't... I'm a human... I can't control my ears... "
The siren's erratic sigh fell on his cheek. Tang Yi turned his head slightly, and saw Mercury propped up slightly and looked down at him, the moonlight poured down from one side of his neck along his silver hair, translucent with a few strands of blue-purple silver fins and ears like butterflies Spread like wings, a mysterious streamer swirls in his ethereal pupils.
For a moment, Tang Yi really felt that he would never hear those crazy voices again.
Suddenly, Mercury began to sing.
This is a tune that Tang Yi has never heard before. There are no lyrics, only casual humming. The mysterious and empty tune is as distant as a ray of soul transpiring on the sea. The slowly advancing tune is like a surging wave, gradually becoming higher and higher, turning into the unreachable starlight thousands of light-years away in the sky, and tilting sadly, almost melancholy, with the turbulent undercurrent. All the way down… down… right down to the deepest seafloor.
Tang Yi never knew that the tune could suddenly reach Jiuxiao, and it could suddenly drop to this point, like a wandering dragon in the world of sound, stirring up a dazzling blur. He didn't know it was because he had a wider range of voices to hear the siren's singing completely. He seemed to sink to the end of the ruins with the sound, and saw the moonlight tearing apart the darkness and silence of the deep sea, shining on an abandoned palace covered with thick seaweed. What a beautiful palace it was, but it was deserted by time. The exposed stones were as white as jade, the paint on the dome was mottled and faded, and the statue of the goddess shed pearl tears. In the distance, splendid schools of fish circled, dolphins danced up and down, and whales sang long and far-flung calls, swimming quietly across the sky.
Tang Yi wandered in the beautiful underwater world, unaware that he was already in a dream.
Mercury Quietly stopped her singing, looking at Tang Yi who was sleeping in his arms, she felt that somewhere in her already cold heart became soft again.
"Alas... I'm really becoming more and more like an old mother... "