Age Of The Sirens

Chapter 56: Undersea missions (11)

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Tang Yi and Mercury quickly dived for about 200 meters. In the darkness, the lamp of the strange fish was extremely bright, dangling far away above their heads. Mercury and Tang Yi restrained their voices, hid in a rock crevice, carefully watched the cluster of ghost fires swaying near and far for a while, and suddenly swam towards the abyss on the south side of the trench.

Tang Yi breathed a sigh of relief, and his whole body was almost paralyzed on the reef behind him.

"It's so embarrassing!" Tang Yi scolded, but he didn't hear Mercury's response. Turning his head to look, he found that the Kraken's face was pale, the cheeks on his neck kept opening and closing, and his chest was also heaving violently, as if he had just finished running 5,000 meters.

"Hey, why do you look like you're going to die!" Tang Yi became restless and grabbed Mercury's shoulders. Mercury shook his head, "Even for the Kraken, it's a little too deep here, the water pressure is too heavy, and I feel chest tightness."

Only then did Tang Yi realize that their current location was about 700 meters under the sea. As long as he, a human, took off his anti-compression diving suit, his lungs would probably explode immediately. In this way, the Kraken is really a terrifying creature...

"Let's go up quickly." Tang Yi dragged Mercury to go, but found a problem.

Except for the faint light emitting from the mercury's skin, the darkness in front of them was as thick as thick ink. Tang Yi wanted to open the watch, but was stopped by Mercury.

"Be careful to bring the angler back again."

"what is it now?"

Mercury's voice was a little weak, "I have a way, but... let me rest..."

Tang Yi stopped making a sound, but his anxiety became more and more intense. The last time Mercury looked so weak was after he had just discovered his identity. Mercury leaned back on the reef, the luster of the skin dimmed a lot, and the eyes closed gently, as if exhausted. Tang Yi felt panic in his heart and wanted to reach out to touch the mercury, but his finger stopped when it was only one centimeter away from the mercury. Tang Yi sighed secretly, turned on the walkie-talkie, and tried to contact the other team members.

However, there was no response after calling for a long time, and there was silence in the headset.

Tang Yi worriedly looked at the motionless mercury, almost wondering if the Kraken was still alive.

In the boundless darkness, the silver-white figure in front of him was the only existence. Tang Yi stared at him blankly, his thoughts drifting back to that crazy and painful night unconsciously. Tight hugs, sweat blending, Tang Yi has never felt so close to a person, never felt that the empty corner of his heart has been filled so fully.

Until that person called someone else's name.

[If only I were Tang Ya...] Inexplicable thoughts flashed in his mind for a moment, startling him.

The feeling of fear hit his heart, Tang Yi couldn't help shaking Mercury's shoulders. The Siren's silver-white eyelashes fluttered twice, slowly opened, and looked at Tang Yi suspiciously.

"Uh... are you okay... as if dead..."

Mercury silently looked at the somewhat frightened face in the helmet, not knowing what was going on in that head. The Kraken sighed, "Don't worry, I'm just recovering my strength."

The two were suddenly speechless, and the awkward silence slowly spread.

Mercury moved suddenly, facing the boundless dark void in front of him, and uttered a faint and low chant. The singing turned into invisible ripples and spread up and down in all directions, hitting stones of different shapes and then returning, flowing into the ears of the Kraken and Tang Yi. Tang Yi only felt that the singing was ethereal and moving, but he didn't know that these sounds could form a sound map when listening to the siren's ears, just like the effect of sonar. Mercury probably sensed the terrain around them. This is still the starting point of the Mariana Trench, and the depth is less than 1,000 meters from the sea surface. It turned out that they had entered the bottom of the trench unknowingly.

At this moment, he suddenly "saw" a strange thing in the abyss.

It was a huge boulder, about ten meters high, and its geometric shape looked like a stone tablet. Half of it was buried in the sand, and the exposed half seemed to be engraved with characters. The erosion of countless wind and frost years is still vaguely discernible.

Why is there a stele in a place where not many creatures can survive? And still that tall

Mercury suddenly felt a burst of heart palpitations.

"There's something down there..." Mercury murmured.

Tang Yi couldn't figure out what he was muttering for a while, "Ah?!"

"I want to go down and have a look." Mercury seemed to be possessed, without even explaining a word, and jumped straight down. Tang Yi was stunned, "Why are you kidding me?! Hey!!!"

The speed of the mercury is very fast, and it has become a small point sinking rapidly in a short time. Tang Yi groped and lay on the edge of the cliff, widening his eyes in disbelief.

"You want to commit suicide?!!! Then the water pressure below will crush you into a dry fish!!!"

Quicksilver ignored him and swam to the bottom of the trench desperately. Tang Yi was devastated, he was worried that if he followed, if he couldn't stand the pressure, he would become a jerk along with him...

After a while, he scolded in a low voice, and jumped after him.

The place where they were originally hiding was not very far from the bottom of the sea. The bottom of the abyss is extremely broad, with two high mountain walls on both sides of the horizon, and the light from Tang Yi's watch can't even reach the stone wall on the opposite side. The strange rocks below were abrupt, the terrain was undulating, the light swept across the shadows, and some gray strange fish fled around as if frightened. Quicksilver was standing next to a very regular-shaped stone, and was looking closely at the surface of the stone.

Tang Yi didn't dare to turn on the light for too long, for fear of attracting a strange fish with a lantern hanging on its head. He landed next to Mercury in the dark, feeling nervously that the protective suit on his body would make a creaking sound, as if he was a little overwhelmed.

Mercury wasn't doing well either, he was breathing hard, and he seemed to have to hold on to the weird stone that looked like a monument to stand firm. Tang Yi approached and asked, "What are you looking at?"

"Here... there used to be civilization..." Siren murmured, his voice was a little light, a bit like talking in a sleep.

Tang Yi frowned, since they camped at the bottom of the sea, there have been more and more times when the mercury is abnormal. Staring at a place in the sea all day long, or muttering some language they don't understand to the fish, even the other Krakens don't quite understand what Mercury is doing.

The surviving sea-monsters are all domesticated in the breeding hall. Apart from their instinctive longing for the ocean, they simply don't know how to communicate with fish.

But why does Mercury seem to have no obstacle

I'm getting nervous here again now. I wonder if the Kraken also has a mental illness like schizophrenia

Tang Yi turned on the helmet's light to the darkest, and also lay down on the flat-surfaced stone that was as wide as two people side by side, watching carefully. There were some vague characters on it, but not the English alphabet, nor any language he had ever seen.

It's really a bit weird... In this valley of death, there is actually a monument

It's a question of whether humans have set foot here before...

"What's written on it?" Tang Yi rubbed the shallow depressions with his heavy gloves.

"I don't know either." Mercury muttered, "I don't know this language."

"Then what are you looking at?!" Tang Yi rolled his eyes and turned his face. The faint light on the helmet pushed away some darkness. He narrowed his eyes and found that there seemed to be a dozen meters away from the left front. The same stele.

Tang Yi swam over, and sure enough, it was also a man-made geometric shape, but it seemed to be folded in half, and the other half collapsed on the ground incompletely, covered with a thick layer of sediment. Tang Yi squatted down and used a dagger as a shovel to peel off the sediment layer by layer. Sure enough, he saw similar text symbols.

"I said! There is also here!" Tang Yi shouted at Mercury, but was startled when he turned his head.

Three or four jellyfish the size of an umbrella and exuding a faint purple light are spreading their transparent umbrellas, and their flowing drooping lips and long whiskers are dancing in the ocean tide like a dream, like elves in a magical world. The same silently floated up from behind the rock. Immediately afterwards, there were another large jellyfish of the same type rushing out from near and far, and the purple and blue dream colors spread like star fireflies in the entire abyss. In an instant, the darkness also retreated in this light, and the rugged place of death became ghostly and gloomy, and it was spectacular.

Tang Yi was stunned by the sudden beauty. Mercury came behind him at some point and grabbed his arm gently, "Be careful, these jellyfish may be poisonous."

"In such a place, there are so many living creatures..." Tang Yi murmured, he couldn't help turning on the camera function on his watch and caught the incredible scene in front of him.

Mercury's gaze drifted to the deeper abyss in the south, "Yeah... No matter what kind of environment, there is always someone who can survive..."

"But why did they all fly up all of a sudden?" Tang Yi was a little nervous for no reason, although he couldn't hear any abnormal noise.

As soon as the voice fell, there was a heavy roar from under his feet. He could even see that the sand on the ground was stirred up by the frequency of the tremors.

Tang Yi stood unsteadily, holding on to Mercury to stabilize his body. Is it an earthquake? However, it is almost impossible for an earthquake to occur in the Mariana Trench. Although it is at the junction of plates, the crust on both sides is too soft, so there is no way to form an earthquake.

However, in the distance of the secluded valley lit by thousands of jellyfish, a large piece of smoke and dust suddenly appeared, and a monstrous sound suddenly erupted along with the roar.

The sound was not made by a specific sound source, but rather like many people screaming, screaming, and crying... An ominous tide hit the face, and the smoke and dust swept across the wide trench, and moved towards Tang. Yi and Mercury came roaring.

Tang Yi turned around and pulled Mercury and wanted to run, but instead, Mercury hugged him tightly, a wave of sound gushing out from his throat, and the endless sound waves formed an invisible layer of protection around them. The smoke and dust spewed out, and it split into two sides in front of them. In an instant, the surroundings were chaotic, and all the scenes became blurred.

However, Tang Yi saw a hellish scene.

Many, many sea monsters, old and young, male and female, rushed towards them in horror. That piercing cry was theirs. Behind them, the billowing red cloud of smoke chased them like a giant beast of life, constantly devouring the Kraken swimming behind. The sea-monsters before being swallowed up by the red mist let out a scream that made the heart tremble, and Tang Yi's whole body got goosebumps when he heard it.

"This is... what..." Why are there so many sea monsters in this place

Mercury was also stunned. His blue eyes widened involuntarily, and his body became cold without knowing it.

The crowd rushed in, just when Tang Yi thought he was going to be hit by these fleeing sea-monsters and buried his head in Mercury's shoulders, he didn't feel anything on his body. He opened his eyes, only to find that the sea-monsters opened their eyes with a pair of terrified eyes and passed through him.

Tang Yi suddenly remembered that he had seen in the library before, some special geographical environments can record what happened in the past on his own rock, and every time a specific time, the scene that happened in the past will be reproduced. . This is where the so-called Yin Soldiers borrow the way.

Could it be that these sea monsters are not alive

The red mist also quickly came to the front, quickly swallowing Mercury and Tang Yi. In an instant, the sight within the red mist drained the blood from the two of them.

On the broad ground at the bottom of the trench, the body of the siren was lying in all directions. Some are not dead, but most are dead. Their bodies mutated rapidly, with red nerve-like lines on their bluish white skin rapidly spreading throughout their bodies, and then they began to rot and ulcers as if they had been splashed with acid. Those who weren't dead were writhing and wailing on the ground in a language he didn't understand. But he guessed that they should be shouting "help".

Tang Yi noticed that a young Kraken, who was probably under 40 years old, was twitching on the ground with a small body. His eyes were wide open, and his mouth was so big that it seemed to be dislocated. Stocks came out of his lacerated throat.

In an instant, the red fog suddenly dissipated, and the tragic images of corpses everywhere disappeared. In front of them was the trench that had regained its silence and indifference, and the beautiful and transparent deep jellyfish still dragged their long tentacles leisurely.

Mercury suddenly knelt down, the whole figure suddenly lost all strength, propped on the ground with both hands, and took a big mouthful of "gas".

Tang Yi squatted down, looked at Mercury's absent-minded eyes, and felt a needle-like pain in his heart.

Did this actually happen? Why see something like this

That's what it's written in the book... The red death potion dropped on the siren's lair in the war between man and siren

Is this... is it really something that humans do

Tang Yi knelt beside Mercury and gently surrounded the body of the Kraken who was about to suffocate. Mercury's hand was firmly clasped into the sand, and his body trembled slightly. He was trying to control himself, trying to calm down.

But it is impossible for anyone to be calm when they see their own clan being slaughtered so brutally.

"In the end... why..." Mercury couldn't go on. It turned out that there were so many sea monsters before

So where have all the other Krakens gone now

"Mercury..." Tang Yi called his name in a dry voice, patted his back lightly, and comforted awkwardly, "We'll find out..."