Age Of The Sirens

Chapter 65: Abyss (8)

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The headache was relieved a lot by Tang Yi's fingers, Mercury grabbed Tang Yi's wrist and signaled that Tang Yi could stop. He sat up and looked around. The empty circular palace, the colorful paintings on the walls are bright and magnificent, and it does not look like it has been milled for hundreds of years. The medium that seems to be water but breathable permeates the surroundings, and the light sways because of the water pattern.

Tang Yi stood up and looked down at the ground under his feet that was covered with heavy sand. The mud and sand from the place they stepped on scattered into the water like smoke, revealing the black and white marble floor tiles below. These floor tiles are laid in a certain form that gathers towards the center, the periphery is black, and the center is white, the shape is somewhat similar to some kind of flower, and the place where they appear is the center of the shape.

Tang Yi walked slowly along the wall, looking at the brightly colored murals. There were many sea monsters painted on it, wearing very strange and elegant costumes, and one of the sea monsters stopped him and his eyes widened.

"Uh... mercury?" Tang Yi called out.

Mercury walked up to him and asked, "What's wrong?"

Tang Yi stretched out his finger and pointed at a human figure on the mural, "Is this you?"

It was a very sad scene. A beautiful-faced Kraken with a golden fish tail and curly black hair seemed to be dead, with a gleam of blood on the corner of his mouth, and was embraced by another silver-haired Kraken. The icy blue eyes of the silver-haired and silver-tailed siren were filled with despair, and a pearl condensed from tears was falling from his chin. Around them, there were many sea monsters wearing armors similar to those of ancient humans floating in the air and fighting, the blood stained the indigo deep sea.

The silver-haired Kraken pointed at by Tang Yi's finger was like quicksilver!

Mercury's Adam's apple slipped, but she couldn't speak.

"There's more here!" Tang Yi pointed to a mural next to him, still the silver-haired "sea-monster", but this time he didn't have the characteristics of a sea-monster, but he was more like an ordinary human, dressed in a gorgeous silver A, with many human soldiers facing off against others with wings on their backs.

Almost every mural has this silver-haired blue-eyed man, sometimes in the image of a human, sometimes in the image of a siren, and sometimes with wings on his back, and even one of them seems to mean that he can become It looks like a fox with nine tails. There is not much connection between the mural and the mural, except for the silver-haired man who keeps appearing. On a mural, the image of the silver-haired man is extraordinarily tall, and the depiction is so detailed that it is almost like a living person, with a white robe on his body, and the holy light behind him. Holy and solemn.

Tang Yi opened his mouth slightly and murmured, "It's a fairy tale... Mercury, you shouldn't be the leader of the cult, right?"

Mercury ignored him and stopped in front of the last few murals.

The first painting shows a human child lying on the reef, looking at the silver-haired siren floating on the sea with only its head and shoulders exposed. The little boy had rare red hair.

The silver-haired Kraken in the second picture is dressed in silver armor. Behind him, countless angry Krakens are rushing to the land. Human soldiers are running away. High-rise buildings are collapsing and burning in the raging fire. , darkness covers the sky.

Unlike all the previously incomprehensible murals, this one clearly depicts the tragic Kraken war three hundred years ago. In addition, the painters who had been extremely meticulous before have changed here. The brushstrokes have become hurried and messy, the painting style is so rough that even the characters are deformed, and the background is even more blurred, and even there is no background.

In the third picture, a red-haired man in a military uniform stabs a dagger with a strange blue light into the chest of the silver-haired siren with tears. The silver-haired Kraken's eyes widened slightly, and his expression could not tell whether it was surprise, disbelief or sadness. His silver hair scattered in the air, blood pouring out of his chest.

In the fourth picture, there is no person, no landscape, no characters, just a patch of red.

Blood-like red, the color of the god of death, pervades the sky and devours everything. The paint seemed to have been splattered indiscriminately, and even the floor and the sash of the dome were splattered with a lot of red paint, as scarlet and gloomy as the blood at the murder scene.

This was the last painting, after which the mural stopped abruptly, and after about a dozen steps, he walked back to the god-like mural that Tang Yi was looking at.

It should be an unfamiliar story, but a series of pictures suddenly flashed through Mercury's head.

The handsome face of a human boy, the human fingers tightly entwined with silver-fingered fingers, the face that fell asleep listening to the song on the reef under the moon, the heroic figure... and the angry, resentful expression, the body lingering on the bed, The pain of a broken heart, the despair of being betrayed...

Mercury took a lot of steps back as if he had seen something terrifying, and his breathing suddenly missed a few beats.

Tang Yi heard Mercury's gasping sound, and hurriedly ran over shouting "what's the matter".

After he saw the last four murals, he remembered the story of Chen Yuan told by Lee.

But if the red-haired one was General Morris, wouldn't the silver-haired one be...

Impossible... It's only been ten years since Mercury was awakened from the breeding hall. That Chen Yuan was already a Kraken more than 300 years ago. With such a terrifying enemy, it's impossible for humans to keep him alive

All sorts of conjectures popped up in my mind, each suddenly possible.

Why did the base attach so much importance to quicksilver, and why did the rebels want quicksilver so much.

If Mercury had the power of Chen Yuan, then whoever could control him could gain the power of God.

But so far, Tang Yi has seen the strength of mercury. Although it is indeed powerful, it definitely cannot reach the level of the power of God described by Lee. What exactly is mercury

Quicksilver suddenly said quickly, "We have to get out of here!"

He first aimed at the stained glass and launched an imposing sonic attack, but the sound wave that was enough to overturn a tank only caused some ripple-like shaking after hitting the glass that should have been shattered immediately, and the ripples spread throughout the entire The building was not damaged in the slightest.

Mercury was not reconciled, and continued to emit several sound waves, each time the sound pressure was stronger and sharper. Tang Yi covered his ears hard and still felt the pain like tearing inside his ears, he shouted, "Mercury!!! Stop!!!"

Mercury reluctantly stopped the sonic attack, panting violently, his chest heaving rapidly. This place terrified him, and ever since he stepped into it, unfamiliar memories have been flooded into his mind. Those were not his memories, but bit by bit they invaded his spiritual consciousness.

Tang Yi approached Mercury cautiously and held his shoulder, "Don't worry, I'll go see what's going on."

He leaned over to the tall glass window and reached out to touch it. The touch of icy brilliance is much cooler than ordinary glass, and it is incredibly smooth, and his fingers can't even stay on it.

Probably made of a material he hadn't seen before.

He tried to look at the scene outside the window, but he could only see the blue water shimmering in the phantom colors, and he couldn't see anything else.

He tried to take a few steps back, then slammed into the glass. The result was—he was bounced back violently. If Mercury hadn't hugged him, he might have been bounced directly to the other side of the palace.

Mercury swam up to the dome, but found no exit. His sonic attack had no effect on these walls, and the sound waves that could have collapsed a house seemed to be absorbed by the entire space.

Tang Yi walked around the entire palace again, and saw no other entrances or exits. I reached out and touched the murals, but I couldn't find any hidden compartments.

I don't know how long it took, Tang Yi was thirsty and hungry, and could no longer walk, so he had to sit down against the wall next to the mercury. Mercury sometimes seemed nervous, and sometimes his eyes were drawn away. He fixedly stared at a certain place in the dome, but his eyes seemed to pass through the glowing beads on the dome, and he was lost in the endless universe.

"Tell me, isn't this place in those jellyfish-like buildings we've seen before?" Tang Yi had nothing to say, and Mercury's unstable expression made him a little worried, "Could it be that all of this is that one? Lee's prank?"

Mercury shook his head, but did not elaborate.

Tang Yi looked at his profile and suddenly felt that the mercury was dissipating little by little. The faint light on his body was increasing, but the part of his eyes that belonged to the mercury was shaky, and that misty white spread out from the corners of his eyes little by little.

"Mercury... what's wrong with you?"

Mercury's brows frowned, seeming a little confused, "Mercury?"

He didn't even recognize his name.

He watched as Mercury grabbed his hair with his hands, painful cracks appearing on his face. Those unfamiliar memories kept pouring into his brain like an out-of-control faucet, and he just wanted to stop those memories, but couldn't find a way.

Tang Yi grabbed Mercury's shoulders and shook it, then raised her cheeks with both hands. The empty eyes gradually took on a bit of indifference.

It's the eyes I saw in the Mariana Trench that day...

Immediately after, a violent airflow suddenly burst out from the mercury body, accompanied by dazzling flashes. Tang Yi's whole body was shaken out, and his body fell heavily in the middle of the hall.

A layer of white to eye-stinging light enveloped the mercury. The white figure curled up into a ball, like a baby. Mercury let out a low growl of pain. Tang Yi got up from the ground and ran over with his hands and feet, only to be bounced off by the strong aura again.

As if in the light that can drown all darkness, the Kraken slowly stretched out and floated into the air. His silver hair fluttered out, his facial features blurred in the flow, only a pair of burning blue eyes opened little by little. But there, the familiar soul could no longer be found.

Mercury is about to be swallowed...

Tang Yi felt that his heart was tightened, he pursed his lips, put his hand into the hidden pocket inside his shirt, and took out the shell necklace that the mercury gave him. He knew that there was only one person who could save the mercury at this time.

He wasn't sure if this chain was given to Mercury by Tang Ya, but since it was Mercury's most precious thing, it wouldn't be related to anyone else.

He hung the chain around his neck. Small sapphire-blue shells tumble helplessly against the roar of the sea. Tang Yi closed his eyes to calm down, and when he opened them again, his eyes became extraordinarily calm and composed.

At least disguised composure.

He approached Mercury little by little, and the sea-monster's stern gaze was terrifying, but he still insisted on staring at him. He stood in front of the sea-monster high above, raised his head slightly, and opened his hands as if he was opening his arms.

Then he started singing.

"Fan the cypress boat, and the flow of it. I can't sleep, if there is any hidden worries. I have no wine, I use Ao to swim. The sun lives in the moon, so it is repeated? The worries of the heart are like bandits washing clothes. Quiet In other words, you can't fly."

His voice is very similar to Tang Ya's. I'm not sure if he sings the same as Tang Ya, but it's not much different, right

This is the first time to sing this song. The tune composed by my brother is accompanied by ancient poems that few people know about. The ghostly charm is ethereal, the light worry has not disappeared, pure and simple.

The Kraken's body seemed to tremble for a moment, and the hot and dazzling rays of light dimmed for a moment. In the ice blue eyes, the radiant flames were struggling to come back. The siren landed in front of him and looked at the familiar human being in front of him. The blue shells on his chest were flowing with lustrous beauty. The peaceful and gentle gaze in the dim light was the only solace in this dark and strange world.

Just like when we first met ten years ago.

The Kraken opened his hands and hugged this tender fire tightly, as if he wanted to rub someone into his body.

The singing stopped suddenly, and after a while, Tang Yi hesitantly hugged Mercury back. He smiled wryly, thinking how nice it would be if this hug was really given to him.

Then he said in Mercury's ear, "Quicksilver, hold on, I'm back..."

The Kraken's body trembled in his arms, and the lips rolled over and over again, "Come back... come back... come back..."

"Well... I'm back." Tang Yi nodded on his shoulder, rubbing Mercury's back like a soothing hand, "I won't leave you again..."

But Mercury suddenly began to reject his embrace, "But you have..." Mercury's low voice was a little choked and unbelievable, as if she wanted to push him away. Tang Yi raised his head suddenly, kissed the lips he was thinking about, and swallowed the unfinished words.

Yes, even if the night on the submarine was such a shame, he misses it every night.

If you know clearly that you shouldn't be nostalgic, if you know that you are smart, you should quickly find a way to stop thinking about mercury and stop this temporary obsession. But in the middle of the night, or when he wakes up in the morning and sees traces of the dream on his trousers, he knows who he is dreaming about.

He clearly slept on the same bed, with only a few inches of distance between them, but he was not even qualified to touch.

No matter how stubborn he is, no matter how he deceives others to deceive himself, he wants to have mercury again, even once.

He deepened the kiss with all his strength, demanding the love he couldn't get. Lips and tongues twisted together, and their bodies were rubbing against each other. Mercury's body is extremely hot at the moment, and I don't know if it is because of the dazzling light or because of emotional excitement. The heat of desire evaporated along the limbs, and the blood in the veins boiled little by little. The two fell to the ground hugging each other, tearing each other's clothes. When the body was intruded by mercury, Tang Yi let out a low cry, whether it was happiness or sadness.

He opened his eyes wide and looked at the swirling patterns on the dome, feeling that he was about to be swallowed up.

Pulled into the abyss by this obsession he could never have.