The small submarine vibrated violently, the lights on the instrument panel flickered on and off, and there was a shattering sound from somewhere. The six people in the submarine fastened their seat belts in their respective seats, and the atmosphere did not dare to come out.
The submarine's computer sounded an alarm, reporting a series of system failures. Among them, Tang Yi understood the failure of the propulsion system, positioning system and communication system, but it was enough for him to worry. Without these three things, they would be drifting in the deep sea like blind men, with no way to get in touch with the base, and no way to know where they were. All I can pray for now is that the submarine doesn't crack, or the six of them are dead.
Or at least the three of them are finished.
When the chaotic sirens and violent shaking finally ceased, there was only a black velvet airtight darkness around them. Luo Wei tried to repair the propulsion system and positioning system, but due to the lack of tools and the damage that seemed to be quite serious, all he could do was repair some of the most basic functions of sustaining life. Luo Wei was so busy sweating profusely, Zi Xi was helping out.
Tang Yi was exhausted, and silently leaned on the cabin and closed his eyes to rest. Only a small amount of emergency food and drinking water were stored in the submarine. The six of them did not know how long they would be drifting in this darkness. They had to save all the resources they had.
Peacock stood beside Mercury, looking at one or two dim-colored swimming fish occasionally swept by the beam of light outside the window, with some unpredictable emotions in his eyes, "That city contains extremely powerful biological energy residues. "
Mercury glanced at him, but did not answer.
Peacock asked with low pressure infrasound, "What do you know?"
Such a faint low-pressure infrasound wave, not to mention Tang Yi and Hetian Jiangzhen, even the purple breath, which is slightly weaker than them, is difficult to detect. You don't need to move your lips too much to make such sound waves, so from a human point of view, the two of them just stood side by side and didn't talk.
Mercury replied with the same low-pressure infrasound, "You probably wouldn't want to know anything about that place."
"why?"
Because you have fallen in love with a human being, you have become accustomed to everything that human beings have given you, you believe that human beings have no malice towards you, and without human beings, the fragile siren cannot survive to this day. You are willing to be an accessory of human beings, and you have believed this since the moment you woke up. If you know how cruel the human beings have used to slaughter your people and put you in a position of slavery, you can still continue to work with the current situation without any distractions. way to live
Mercury has always had doubts in his heart, but when those memories rushed into his mind, he still felt that his soul was about to be torn in half.
From the moment he was born in this world, how much of everything he was told was true
Quicksilver didn't say this, he hesitated whether he should tell Peacock how humans slaughtered the siren. He didn't want to say too much before verifying whether the memories he got were real.
"That's where the old sirens buried their dead," he told Peacock briefly at last.
"The former Kraken?"
"Well, before being domesticated by humans."
Peacock's pretty brows furrowed, "How did you know? Are those prayers in the infrasound waves? Did you hear something?"
Quicksilver turned to look at him. He and Peacock have known each other for ten years. Although he often competes with each other, whoever among the Krakens understands Mercury the most is probably him.
Mercury has never been good at making friends, and other Krakens always retain a bit of instinctive awe towards him, perhaps because his strength is unmatched among the Krakens except for Liu Huo, or because the base has always been very fond of him. Pay attention, although he himself does not know why.
"I need to check something. To be precise, it's a Kraken." Mercury paused and continued, "You still remember the rumors that always circulated among the Krakens, saying that there was a powerful Kraken a long time ago, After being emotionally bound to one human being miraculously in love with another."
Peacock immediately said the name, "Chen Yuan..."
Mercury nodded slightly. Peacock's eyes turned to the deep sea as if nothing had happened, but his voice was filled with amazement, "Chen Yuan...is it real?"
On the other side of the submarine, when Tang Yi was drowsy and wanted to fall asleep, Tsuruta Takumi sat quietly beside him and asked calmly, "What's wrong with Mercury?"
Tang Yi groaned like he had a headache, and wanted to turn his face away, "Brother, I'm very tired now, can I interrogate me another day?"
"I'm serious." Hetian's focused gaze made Tang Yi have to open his eyes and said in surrender, "Okay, okay, I'll tell you it's not enough." Then he told the story about Chenyuan that Lee had told , The strange palace full of frescoes and the performance of mercury have all been said, and of course the part where he pretended to be Tang Ya and the later part was omitted. Tsurutian Craftsman's expression became more and more solemn, and Tang Yi's scalp was numb when he saw it at the end, "I know you have always had a bitter look on your face, but your expression now will frighten the children. ."
Hetian glared at him fiercely, "If you didn't obey my orders, Mercury wouldn't have fallen into the hands of the Equality Messenger, and these messes wouldn't have happened! You don't even know how big a basket you've stabbed!"
"...Okay, okay, it's all my fault, I'll go back and lock myself up, okay?"
"What's the use of confinement! If the mercury is recovered, I see if you can still laugh!" Tsurutian squeezed these words out of his teeth, and Tang Yi's impatient expression froze for a moment.
"Recycle?"
Although I don't understand the word very well, but just from the literal understanding, I know that it is not a good word.
Tsuruta said with an angry sneer, "Let me tell you, the current Kraken breeding mainly relies on artificial insemination, but Mercury was not born this way. He was created by the third base, as long as the base noticed him If there is any sign of disobedience, he can be recycled at any time. What will happen after recycling, I don't know, but I know it will not be very good!"
Created by the third base? What's the meaning? Tang Yi thought of those murals and Chen Yuan, his eyes widened, but he shook his head, "Impossible... The base has always prohibited research on cloning technology?"
Hetian was quite surprised that Tang Yi, a stupefied young man, even knew about cloning technology, but he didn't want to say much about the details. After all, it was a confidential file. If Tang Yi leaked his words one day, it would probably affect his loyalty value. . He interrupted Tang Yi's thoughts and said categorically, "In short, if we don't want Mercury to die, we can't let the Security Department know about Mercury's contact with Lee."
"..." To be honest, Tang Yi was a little surprised that Tsuruta Takumi, whose loyalty value was high in the sky, was implying that he was deceiving the base. He almost wondered if Tsuruta was joking or catching his fish.
But Tsuruta was obviously serious this time, "Think about it, Lee captured us, but instead of killing us, he let us go. If you were those wise men in the sword, what would you think?"
Tang Yi was silent.
If those wise men even guessed that Lee might have told the truth about the extinction of the Mercury Siren, Mercury's situation would be in jeopardy. After all, if it was as he guessed that Mercury was a copy of Chen Yuan, the base would definitely be on guard against him. In such a suspicious situation, even if he is not recalled, his loyalty value will probably plummet, and he may even be labeled as a "suspicious element" and be monitored day and night.
In that case, the mercury is over.
Tsuruta continued, "We want to have a comprehensive statement. After I was captured before, my communicator was on, so Lin Maochen and the others couldn't unify the caliber. Now we can only say that after being captured, we were in three Only under the cover of the Kraken escaped, was chased into the trench by the rebels, accidentally hit the rock and damaged the machine, so it has drifted to the present."
"What about Guixu City? If the base finds out that it was destroyed by a nuclear explosion, wouldn't it know that we are lying?"
"According to my guess, the third base should not know the existence of Guixu City. If they knew, they would have destroyed it long ago, and they would not have been used by the rebels."
What Hetian said really made sense, but Tang Yi's heart always felt like it was hanging on the edge of a cliff. He sighed, leaned back against the bulkhead, put the fingernails of his thumb in his mouth and nibbled lightly, "I'm worried that someone will sell the mercury..."
"Luo Wei?" Tsuruta raised his eyebrows, "He listened to you so much, would he betray your Kraken?"
"It's not Luo Wei." Tang Yi glanced at the young man who was working hard behind the hatch of the electrical warehouse, and shook his head, "Don't you think that the rebels know too much about our actions? And why can they be silent? Approaching us without interest, have all the detection systems in the subsea base failed? The most important thing..." Tang Yi glanced in the direction of Mercury and Peacock, "The targets of the two rebels are Mercury."
Tsuruta took a light breath, "You mean, we have the eyes and ears of the rebels in our team."
Tang Yi glanced at him and said nothing.
Although they all cooperated with other teams to perform missions, the only one who participated in both missions was Team Fifteen.
The atmosphere suddenly became heavy.
If Luo Wei, who had just joined, and Nolan, who had left, were excluded, if the Kraken was not considered, only Tang Yi, Hetian, Lin Maochen and Tan Mingyuan were left. Tang Yi was almost certain that Tsuruta Craftsman was not a spy, because his concern for mercury was too obvious, which was a taboo for a spy.
Moreover, a person deeply influenced by Japanese Bushido, is disdain to be a spy. Tsuruta Takumi really has a higher loyalty value than his brother, and is simply a perfect warrior trained by the base. Taking ten thousand steps back, if Tsuruta wants to defect, he should blatantly join the rebels in the name of freedom and lofty...
"I have known Tan Mingyuan for nine years, and Lin Maochen for five years. They are the most loyal soldiers of the base and mankind." Tsuruta said solemnly.
Tang Yi sneered, "Nonsense, the spies can still write 'I'm a traitor' on their faces?"
"Then how do I know that the traitor is not you? These events happened after you joined."
"Why am I talking to you now if I'm a spy?" Tang Yi cut and rubbed his nose. In fact, he himself did not want to doubt Lin Maochen and Tan Mingyuan. Although they had only known each other for half a year, they were born and died together after all, so how could they not have feelings for each other.
At this moment, Luo Wei got out of the electrical warehouse, his face was dark, but his eyes flashed with happiness. He quickly ran to the console and pressed a few buttons, cheering, "The propulsion system is now available!"
Tang Yi said with a smile, "You kid can do it!"
Luo Wei's proud smile just hung up halfway, when the peacock poured a basin of cold water, "impressive, but there is no positioning system and no navigation, where are we going?"
So Luo Wei was blocked, and Zixi rescued the scene considerately next to him, "You can go up to the sea first, and identify the direction according to the sun."
"Smart." Peacock continued to spread negative energy, "but our drinking water is only enough for two people to live for three days, and now even if the Kraken is excluded, there are still three people crowded in this deep-water submarine, even if we find the right direction, at least one It takes weeks to float to the nearest land."
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Tsuruta glanced at Peacock, and the latter spread out his hands with an expression of "Okay, I know I hurt the self-esteem of the children" and stopped talking. Tsuruta said, "We can ration the drinking water every day according to the number of people, and it is not a problem to last a week."
Tang Yi saw Mercury make a very strange move. The siren put his palm on the glass window in front of him, his eyes closed, the cheeks on his neck opened slightly, his lips opened slightly, and a long, long whistle was emitted. The sound waves turned into invisible ripples and spread out along the tide, spreading in the velvety darkness. He made that sound four or five more times, and then, miraculously, there was a long, responsive cry in the deep darkness.
When the huge figure of the spirit beast in the sea emerged from the darkness, Tang Yi couldn't help taking a breath and let out a low sigh.
The giant body of the whale, draped with seaweed, is like a high wall sinking in front of it, and a calm and vast eye stares at them silently through the glass of the submarine. It is obviously just an animal in the sea, but the sight of the whale has a different vision. A power that shakes the heart in silence. It was from the vast and peaceful spirituality that the dying planet once had, as if it were passing through the vastness of time before them.
A faint smile appeared at the corner of Mercury's mouth. Across several layers of glass, the head of the whale brushed against his palm, and a short chirping sound came from its body, even with a bit of joy and kindness. Then it turned around and wandered into the deep sea. It wasn't fast, and it seemed to be waiting for them on purpose.
Quicksilver turned his head to look at the stunned crowd, and said, "Don't float to the surface, he will take us to join the reinforcements at the base."
Even Peacock and Purple Breath had a bit of a hard time accepting what was happening in front of them. Although the Kraken used to be the master of the sea, that was too far in the past. Today's sea monsters can contract diseases and die even if they come into contact with unpurified seawater before they are juveniles, let alone control the creatures in the ocean. Although they naturally yearn for the sea, the sea is as foreign to them as humans.
Luo Wei said in disbelief what everyone wanted to say, "You can actually summon a whale?!"
Mercury's indifferent expression did not change, as if it was a natural thing, but Tang Yi was able to grasp the fleeting complacency and pride when the sea-monster's demeanor changed to an incredible size...
It seems that Mercury's soul is still not completely swallowed by those memories. Tang Yi breathed a sigh of relief.