The night was dark, and a lighthouse from ancient times stood silently in the dark on the black mountains that stretched like arms in the distance. ancient ocean. The rough sand was littered with rubble, shell fragments, black seaweed, and occasionally dead fish, surprisingly large and weird-looking, washed ashore by the waves that exuded some kind of pungent sour smell.
Tang Yi kicked away a strange fish with six eyes on its head and thorns on its back, and made a disgusting expression, "I've seen more and more of these strange things in the past two years."
Mercury walked ahead and led the way. Hearing the words, he was silent for a long time, and suddenly said in a sigh-like voice, "The sea is about to die."
Although the sea engulfed a large area of land, the only thing that continued to spread was the ocean that was lingering and losing its vitality. Today's seawater needs to be purified by more than a dozen processes before it can be used by underage Kraken before the age of 60. If a small Kraken comes into contact with even half a liter of original seawater, the probability of bacterial infection and even organ failure is as high as 46%. %. The most expensive meat on the market today is fish, and it’s all marine fish raised in purified waters. As for how many lives and how many mutant monsters are still alive in the boundless primordial ocean, no one knows.
No one could have imagined what the blue sea looked like, and that was too long ago. Seawater is the blood of the earth. If the ocean dies, how long can humans survive without the Leviathan virus? All human beings have been vaguely aware from birth that this planet is coming to an end.
The terrain became steeper and steeper, the peaks on one side rose suddenly, and the straight up and down cliffs seemed to be cut by lightning. From the bottom up, the exposed rock condenses into large swaths of black shadows. The road became difficult to walk. Large and small rocks were piled up, blocked by crossed wood, and one had to pay attention to avoid the patrol searchlights that swept over the cliff by accident.
"How far is it?" Tang Yi stuck to the stone wall of the cliff to avoid the light flowing in front of him.
"Coming."
Tang Yi looked at the time, it was almost ten o'clock in the evening. They took a leave of absence with Tsuruta, went to the nearest town for a drink, and then quietly turned back halfway, climbing down the cliff north of the relatively desolate team. Even if you could spend the night in town drunk, it would be best if you could go back before midnight.
After stumbling and walking for about fifteen minutes, the two of them stopped at the same time.
The cliff ahead turned to the east, forming a small U-shaped bay, where the sea swirled and swirled, creating several small whirlpools. In the bay, which is surrounded by cliffs on three sides, there is an octagonal glass building standing in the divided sea.
The whole body is made of translucent nano-frosted glass structure, and the light turns countless times between the corners. The moonlight occasionally sprinkled in the clouds seems to be made of ice crystals, and the whole body exudes a faint hazy light. But when I looked more closely, I found that the light was just an illusion. Much of the glass was shattered, revealing dark openings. The glass was also covered with dust, scratched beyond recognition by the sea breeze and sand and dust, and black traces of being burned by fire. A corner on the west side of the building collapsed completely, and the steel bars and walls were piled up in the sea.
Only one corner of the building is connected to the ground. The gate has been rusted, but it has only been pushed open recently, and the broken chain is hanging aside. Two soldiers were standing outside the door smoking and chatting. One of the soldiers was not quite like the one in the team. He wore a white uniform, but looked like a member of the Peace Brigade directly under the headquarters and sharp sword.
Tang Yi and Mercury Hide behind the reef for a while and observed, but they saw the door opened, and a Kraken came out, chatting with the guards in the team.
Tang Yi snorted, "It's not easy to handle, if there are a lot of sirens guarding it, even if you use hypnotism, it will be difficult for you to bring them all down at the same time, right?"
Mercury thought for a moment, then said with infrasound, "There is another entrance, you come with me."
Tang Yi followed Mercury into the sea under the cover of the reef. Seeing that the turbid seawater gradually submerged to his waist, Mercury didn't stop, so Tang Yi panicked, "Hey! Where are we going! "
Mercury didn't look back, "Under the sea."
"Ah?!" Tang Yi quickly covered his mouth and lowered his voice, "But I didn't bring any diving equipment!"
Quicksilver glanced back at him, "Trust me."
When the words fell, he suddenly stabbed a savage, a silver fishtail jumped up from the waves, splashed a splash of water and disappeared in the swaying tide. Tang Yi secretly scolded whether to be so straightforward! But he had to take a deep breath and plunge into the water.
The sea is dark, and the sea of night lacking the light of the stars and moon is thick like ink, but the siren in front exudes a faint shimmer. A ray of moonlight roaming in the boundless darkness, illusory like a dream. The sea water stings Tang Yi's eyes, but he is reluctant to blink, swaying his arms and legs vigorously, chasing behind the Kraken and swimming towards the mysterious depths of the sea. The Kraken deliberately slowed down and swam beside Tang Yi.
About four minutes later, Tang Yi felt that he was reaching his limit, and the disturbance of the infrasound waves in his ears also increased. While he was in a panic, he saw Mercury suddenly pulling him over, turning his hands around his body, and then...
Tang Yi's mind was blank, his lips were captured by another pair of soft lips, and oxygen was continuously poured into his chest.
Mercury slowly let go of his lips, his white hair fluttered, and his face was so beautiful, Tang Yi felt that he was going to be drunk. The Kraken nodded to him, then continued to dive deeper into the sea...
Tang Yi's heart was beating wildly, the infrasound waves in his ears suddenly disappeared, his whole body was fluttering, his steady arms cut through the dark tide, chasing the ray of moonlight. Every three to four minutes, the mercury would supply him with oxygen in the same way. Tang Yi secretly hoped that the exit had better be a little deeper... a little further...
At this moment, in the distance, Tang Yi suddenly felt that he heard something...
singing…
solitary... lonely and lonely...
The singing became clearer and clearer. It was not a single person's voice, but many, many voices gathered together, inextricably linked and lingering endlessly. They dived nearly 100 meters. How can there be singing in such a deep ocean? Is it a siren
But isn't there no siren here? Or is the siren guarding Nolan singing? Did they find so many sirens to guard a small team member of Nolan
Tang Yi listened to it, and always felt that the singing was a little weird. It's not that he hasn't heard the siren's singing, although it is very secluded, but it is not so erratic.
Tang Yi turned on the lighting function on the watch, and a beam of light passed through the dark green darkness and reflected on a smooth surface.
In front of them is the bottom of a huge glass building. Here, the glass is completely transparent, and the light passes straight through, reflecting the scene inside the Feiqi Sanatorium.
The seabed was covered with layers of dead and rotten aquatic plants and sea anemones, moss marks spread on the glass walls, and the seawater that was supposed to be purified turned out to be as turbid as the open sea. In the center of the hall, a huge transparent glass tree was built, which looked like a coral shape, and there were houses like small water droplets hanging on it. Some furniture was scattered on the bottom of the sea, and many glass houses were shattered, but the coral tree still stood, with layers of long algae hanging on it, like broken yarn dancing with the tide.
It turns out that this is what the interior of the healing hall looks like... It's like a world enclosed by a glass cover...
It's just, a little eerie feeling...
I don't know how many sirens here have ushered in the end of their lives... Sirens choose to die, mostly because of the death of their partners. They could have lived five times longer than humans, but because they were bound by humans, they lost the rest of their time in this glass cover in vain.
The so-called willingness is actually still under the control of people. When you think about it, it's scary.
Those who use it on the one hand and the other on the other feel that everything is voluntary. Human means even Tang Yi, who is a human, sometimes feels terrified.
At this time, the sound waves of mercury entered Tang Yi's ears along the sea water, "Nolan should be locked on the floor above the sea, we can enter from below."
Tang Yi was worried that the Kraken guarding Nolan would go to this underwater abandoned place to walk around in the middle of the night, but thought that Mercury had said that for their Kraken, this place is a forbidden place, and they can hide if they can. . They shouldn't be so rude.
Through that layer of glass, the light on Tang Yi's watch swept across the silent coral branches, and the tiny suspended matter swirled like dust. In an instant, a pale face flashed across the branches.
Tang Yi froze for a moment, and immediately moved the light back, only to see the floating yarrow, curled and stretched like a woman's long hair.
[Dazzled?] Tang Yi shook his head and followed Mercury.
There really is a small door at the bottom of the sea, which is locked by a combination lock. But the combination lock covered with seaweed has long since lost its function, and Tang Yi kicked the door open with a kick. Before entering the door, Mercury gave Tang Yi another oxygen, then looked at Tang Yi seriously and said, "After entering, if you hear someone calling your name, don't agree, and don't look back."
Quicksilver's words reminded Tang Yi of the fleeting face just now, and suddenly a chill climbed up his spine.
From the bottom, the glass coral tree seemed to grow larger and more majestic, and a deep, ancient murmur passed through my ears like a sigh. From the moment he stepped on the threshold, Tang Yi noticed a strange, gloomy atmosphere, tangled like spider silk. It was obviously the same sea water, but it was completely different from the feeling outside the door just now.
Mercury took Tang Yi around the branches. The houses in the shape of water droplets are actually very spacious. Some of them still have beds in the shape of mussel shells, projection TVs on the walls, and decorative starfish on the walls. Of course, they are long dead now, releasing a smell of rancidity. .
Suddenly a sigh came from the ear. As if someone was blowing a breath against his ear, even the hair on his temples fluttered a bit. Tang Yi thought it was Mercury who came over to give him the "kiss of life", but when he looked up, he found that Mercury was swimming in front of him...
Tang Yi felt that the hair on the back of his neck stood up, but he wasn't sure if he was hallucinating.
He remembered that Quicksilver had said that there were many biological energy residues of dead sirens here. In layman's terms, after the Siren's death, their brain waves and bioenergy will not simply dissipate. According to a belief secretly circulated among the Krakens, they believed that those creatures could transform into another life form. However, some sirens are extremely painful before they die, and the creatures can't leave the last place of death, they will gather and accumulate, and finally cause some unfortunate things to happen. They suspect that the fire was caused by the accumulation of too much residual bioenergy in the nursing home.
Of course, Tang Yi didn't believe this. After all, isn't this still the same as the souls, ghosts, and ghosts that humans believed in before? In a world that believes in science and power, there is no market for this kind of nonsense. Most of these sea-monsters are controlled by humans and cannot help themselves, so they believe in these illusory things that are related to fate.
But now, in this dark green siren cemetery, he is suddenly not so sure.