Tang Yi rested for a day, and got up from the bed early the next day as soon as the fever subsided. Life on a submarine is boring and boring. After all, they are not submarine soldiers. Except for occasional help with physical work, they have nothing to do most of the time. They can only take turns to go to the gym to do some physical exercise, or get together in twos and threes to play cards, Watch a little yellow magazine, video with your family, or find a place with your own Kraken to release the enthusiasm that has accumulated for many days, etc...
Tang Yi spent the whole day trying to avoid mercury. He first went to the gym to spend the morning. During lunch, he got acquainted with a submariner. In the afternoon, he was taken to the torpedo room by the submariner. Even dinner was eaten in the control room with the three submariners. During the meal, the captain and Academician Huang came in once and talked on the heading map.
"The Izu Islands near the Ogasawara Trench are suitable as mining bases, where the terrain is higher and the water pressure is lower. The only possible problem is volcanic activity. But we have complete monitoring measures, so there should be no problems."
Academician Huang seems to want to be closer to the mining site. Since the mine site is closer to the Mariana Trench, it is hoped to camp in the Mariana Islands, but the captain strongly objected, but refused to explain the reason. Tang Yi could see the fear hidden in the eyes of the calm and determined captain.
After the two left, several submarine soldiers around Tang Yi were talking about what kind of bad ideas that academician Huang had come up with... Tang Yi could feel a tense atmosphere spreading in the small cabin.
Tang Yi asked, "You seem to be very afraid of that trench?"
The two submariners were silent, and Jonney, who had the best relationship with Tang Yi, looked at the topographic map of the seabed in front of him and said, "The Mariana Trench is the place closest to the center of the earth, it's pitch-dark underneath, and the human body will immediately be exposed to it. Crushed to pieces by the water, not even your sirens could survive there."
Tang Yi shrugged, "We went to the junction of the Ogasawara Trench and Mariana. Besides, we don't really need to go down to the bottom."
Another submariner turned his head mysteriously, "Our submarine cruises along the Philippine plate once a year, and the sailor who used to be on duty on this submarine said that the trench is very unlucky. It will eat people. Once, five submariners were ordered to take a deep-sea submarine to explore the Challenger Deep (note, the deepest place in the Mariana Trench). After losing contact, they pulled the small deep-sea submarine up with a noose. You Guess what? The submarine is all good, the hatches are closed, the equipment inside is ok, the walkie-talkie is still on, but all five people are gone."
Tang Yi asked suspiciously, "It's true or false, why haven't I heard of it?"
"This kind of weird and chaotic thing must have been pressed down by the top." The submarine muttered. Jonney also said, "When passing over that trench, the submarine's instruments often fail. This is our own experience. For that place, we submariners can avoid it."
In the deepest part of the earth's surface, inside a sealed submarine, all five people suddenly evaporated
Tang Yi suddenly felt a chill on his back.
Although the earth has been almost exhausted by human beings, there are still so many places that people cannot understand and cannot explore. Did they see something in the closest thing to hell
Even if there is no difference between day and night in the submarine, the members of the Kraken team try their best to sleep according to their usual routine. When Tang Yi went back to the bedroom, everyone fell asleep. Holding his breath, he carefully stepped on the edge of the mercury bed and turned to the top bunk. He didn't know that Mercury had actually kept his eyes open, watching him tiptoe past him.
Tang Yi's situation of leaving early and returning late lasted for three days.
Mercury knew that Tang Yi was hiding from him. The anomaly between him and Tang Yi has already made the other team members suspicious, and Tsuruta Craftsman asked him today what was going on with Tang Ya. Fortunately, the peacock called Tsuruta away at that time.
On this day, the submarine rarely surfaced, giving everyone the opportunity to go to the top deck to breathe fresh air. Several sea monsters even jumped into the water for a swim, and they were in high spirits. Mercury also went up, and he sat beside the command tower, quietly looking at the rising sun in the distance of the vast eyes, rendering the advancing clouds with layers of bright colors. In the natural waters far away from the mainland, the water has lost its ink-like black color, revealing a green with a dash of blue. The sunlight penetrated the gap between the clouds, like a huge light wheel shining obliquely, and scattered a handful of broken gilt on the sea.
This is how the ocean should be...
When everyone returned to the cabin one after another, Mercury was still sitting outside.
After about an hour, the hatch at the entrance was opened again, just blocking the figure of Mercury. Tang Yi climbed up, stood at the hatch and stretched out, a lazy snort coming from his nose. He took a deep breath against the sea breeze with his eyes half-closed, and smashed his mouth, as if it were very refreshing. Then the hatch was closed.
The moment he closed it, he saw the mercury, and the cheerful smile on his face froze immediately.
Mercury stood up slowly, brushed away the long hair that was blown by the sea breeze, and stared into Tang Yi's eyes seriously, "Tang Yi, we need to talk."
Tang Yi knew that he could not escape this time. He rubbed his nose with his hand and took out a cigarette from his pocket, "What do you want to talk about?"
Mercury took a few steps forward and came to Tang Yi. He looked down at Tang Yi's face that was half-reddened by the setting sun, and felt a lot of discomfort in his heart.
"I'm sorry..." Mercury's low voice entered Tang Yi's ears, a little hoarse, "I don't know how to make up for it... I don't know how I would do such a thing. No matter how you want to take revenge, I can accept it. ."
Tang Yi lowered his head, looked at his boots, and laughed.
Mercury didn't expect Tang Yi to react like this, and was stunned.
"What do you think you have done to make me sorry?" Tang Yi asked, looking up at Mercury's eyes.
Mercury's eyes shrank for a moment, and his lips twitched, as if he couldn't speak, "That night... I forced you... I... "
"Hehehe..." Tang Yi's laughter interrupted him. The young lieutenant kept laughing, and the laughter seemed fragmented. He turned around, letting the sea breeze wash his dry eyes, and put the cigarette in his mouth, "Forcing? Don't lift yourself up too much. Even your small body can force me? I do it of my own accord."
Mercury didn't understand what Tang Yi was talking about, frowned and shook his head, "What..."
"Yes, you fucked me. But..." Tang Yi showed a somewhat ruffian smile, took out a lighter bought from a convenience store from his trouser pocket, lit a cigarette, took a deep breath, and said, "I was voluntarily killed. You got on and enjoyed it. We're all grown ups, as you please. You don't owe me anything."
Mercury didn't seem to understand the meaning of Tang Yi's words very well, her beautiful blue eyes were full of confusion, "But..."
"I must say that I'm angry with you, but it's just because you treat me as Tang Ya." Tang Yi continued to interrupt Mercury's words, he didn't want to listen to Mercury's words, "When I went to bed, I called another person. Everyone's name will make you angry, right? Your bedding is really not bad."
"… "
Tang Yi let out a long puff of smoke, and watched them disappear like helpless souls in the steaming heat of the morning. He suddenly laughed dryly, "Don't you understand? I'm mad at myself, and it has nothing to do with you."
Mercury suddenly understood what Tang Yi had been trying to explain to him.
With the most indifferent tone, it seems that everything is light.
Mercury opened his eyes slightly, and the feeling of stagnation in his chest not only did not ease, but instead became heavier. He didn't know how to speak, "Tang Yi... I... "
"I know, you and Tang Ya are already bound. You also said that you and I can never be lovers." Tang Yi shrugged, "I was probably obsessed for a while. Fortunately, I'm not a sea monster, so I can move it at any time. Don't fall in love." After he finished speaking, he turned around and patted Mercury's shoulder, "Don't worry, although you are beautiful, it is more comfortable to hold a woman's soft body."
After Tang Yi finished speaking, he flicked off the remaining half of the cigarette, and opened the hatch to get back. Mercury suddenly grabbed his arm.
Tang Yi raised his head, his figure was reflected in Mercury's eyes, there were thousands of words, but he couldn't utter a single word.
Tang Yi smiled at him slightly, his eyes curved, looking a little childish.
"It's business as usual."
But can everything really be business as usual
After traveling for about five days, they reached the southern part of the Ogasawara Trench.
After negotiation between the captain and Academician Huang, the submarine base was temporarily selected on the Iwo Jima. Most of these volcanic islands have been annihilated by sea water, and only the highest volcanoes are still slightly out of the sea. The submarine slowly landed on a relatively flat seabed, and all the members of the Kraken team got busy, and followed the submarine soldiers to unload the construction robots and materials out of the submarine. One hundred and fifty meters below the sea, the shimmering sunlight could still be seen upwards. Tang Yi raised his eyes and suddenly heard a long and beautiful song, as if it were an echo from a distant ancient era.
Others seemed to have heard it too, but it was not as clear-cut as what he heard, like a carefully composed movement. From the distant darkness, a few huge figures slowly emerged, their bodies covered with thick algae, and their slender and graceful giant tails cut through the waves, like huge clouds across the sky, and shadows flowed from everyone's faces. Pass.
There was dead silence on the walkie-talkie, and no one believed their eyes. Many people thought that whales were extinct.
It seems to be a group of sperm whales, large and small, one of which is the largest, with mottled white patterns, and the huge head swings unhurriedly. It has witnessed countless years of eyes that have a depth and mystery that humans cannot understand.
Quicksilver was also attracted by the spirits of the sea. His eyes looked a little crazy, and after a while, he suddenly opened his mouth, and a long and distant voice came out.
Unexpectedly, the group of whales responded. The singing voices of the two sides are intertwined, sometimes high and sometimes low, sometimes short and long, and there is an indescribable ethereal beauty. They started circling over their heads, and a few baby whales even swam down. Mercury showed a long-lost smile, leaped into the air, spread out her dorsal fins like butterfly wings, and swayed her silver tail, spinning and dancing around with the little whales, like a dream against the blue background.
It wasn't until Qu Lan's siren Cangyu suddenly drank, as if warning, that Mercury suddenly woke up from some kind of magic spell and swam out of the siege of little whales. The sperm whales circled again and slowly left. Mercury looked at the direction they left, and it seemed that the line of sight also drifted to another time and space farther away.
Tang Yi noticed that Mercury was wrong. Was he talking to a whale
How could he understand the language of whales