Age Of The Sirens

Chapter 7: Entering the team (5)

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On the first day of coming to the training camp of the team, Tang Yi felt that his old bones were probably going to be explained here.

When he climbed out of the underwater training hall, it was already the beginning of the lights. Most of the training in the day had come to an end, and it was the relaxing time for the students to have fun. However, Tang Yi felt that he didn't even have the strength to eat, and he just wanted to go back to bed and sleep in a darkened sky. In the hand-tear robot game just now, he killed a total of forty people, and the results were not bad, even very good, but you must know that he fought his life to not lose face. First of all, it's hard to concentrate when you have to keep sliding your legs in the water to keep your balance. There are more than 20 water monsters screaming, especially the gray sand, don't look soft and weak With the appearance of a beautiful woman, the dolphin sound can shatter the heads of five robots at the same time. Even through the earmuffs that can reduce the noise by 99%, Tang Yi still feels that the eardrum is about to burst. In this harsh combat environment, he had to fight with those muscular gorilla-like robots. He was often beaten in vain because he was suspended in the water. He was exhausted and lost his ability to think. He didn't even need a gun and took out a knife from his waist to cut it. If he wasn't wearing a mask, he would have been bitten.

In this case, he didn't care about competing with Luo Wei, just hoped not to lose too embarrassingly. However, his desperate play still frightened several young students. Finally, everyone stopped and watched him and Luo Wei start killing there. In this round, Luo Wei killed forty-nine. Although it was a victory, under the premise that Tang Yi was the first underwater battle, such a small gap, Luo Wei had no sense of accomplishment at all, and he was in a bad mood. When he was tired, he threw off Zixi's hand that comforted him, entered the glass hall, and threw the mask on the ground. When everyone saw that he was about to run away, they didn't dare to provoke him, and kept a distance of more than five meters from him, forming a small no-man's land around him.

Tang Yi naturally didn't care about this, he only knew that his old waist was about to break, and the stomach that was beaten by the robot was still aching. Lisha supported him gently and said worriedly, "Are you all right? Are you sprained?"

Tang Yi was extremely tired, and he forgot that he was facing the Kraken he had longed for since he was a child, and he also forgot to be nervous. The flirting habit he had formed when he was hanging out with the beauties in Kabukicho unconsciously revealed, and he stretched out his hand gently. Raising the small chin, a habitual, somewhat wicked, ruffian smile appeared on the face covered by the mask, "It won't hurt if you kiss."

Lisha has never heard such blatant words. After all, she is a master siren, other students will not provoke her, and Fu Hao, who is serious, will not tease her like this, and her fair face is immediately red as blood. . Fu Hao in the glass hall was so angry that smoke rose from his head, and he almost rushed into the sea without wearing a diving suit.

Tang Yi returned to the dormitory, fell headfirst on the soft bed, and did not deal with the wound on his body. He was already groggy and clamoring for a deep sleep. As a result, Luo Wei came in at this time.

Tang Yi opened one eye and stared at Luo Wei, who deliberately made a cold and glamorous gesture to ignore him and snorted. Tang Yi sneered, a child is a child, and the uncle who lost was obviously angry.

"What are you laughing at!" Luo Wei stared at each other, looking like he was about to fight. Tang Yi raised his hands in a gesture of surrender, "Okay, little brother, uncle, I don't have the energy to fight you now, can't I just disarm and surrender?"

Unexpectedly, the other party took the initiative to show weakness, and Luo Wei could not continue to lose his temper. He stared at Tang Yi for a while, then turned around and pulled out the chair of the writing desk, turned on the computer and started studying. Tang Yi saw the young man's anger that he wanted to kill him but couldn't kill him. He wanted to laugh for a while, but he began to find it interesting. He walked over slowly, leaned on the side of Luo Wei's writing desk, took out a cigarette pack from his arms and handed it over. Luo Wei glanced at the cigarette sideways, and said firmly, "Smoking is not allowed in the dormitory."

"It's not allowed to fight in the dormitory. Didn't we fight too?"

"What kind of fight is that, it's obviously your one-sided..." Luo Wei suddenly realized how humiliating this sentence was, so he swallowed the word "beat me" back.

"Okay, what's the matter with a man holding grudges like this?" Tang Yi held the cigarette in his mouth and rummaged for the lighter on his body, "Besides, didn't you threaten me first? We don't know each other if we don't fight, it's a big deal. Uncle, can I treat you to a good meal?"

Tang Yi took the initiative to show his favor, Luo Wei himself is not a small-bellied person, and his anger has subsided half. He glanced at Tang Yi and frowned, "Who the hell are you? It's impossible for the training camp to recruit you."

"Don't be old, I'm only twenty-seven, and I'm like an old man." Tang Yi couldn't find a lighter, so he had to kick Luo Wei's stool, "Hey, do you have a lighter?"

Luo Wei rolled his eyes, but still took out a lighter from the drawer and threw it to him. Tang Yi lit a cigarette and said, "As for me, I was sent here as a substitute."

Luo Wei couldn't understand, "Substitute?"

"I have a twin brother named Tang Ya, I don't know if you've heard of it."

"Tang Ya?!" Luo Wei's exclaimed tone clearly indicated that he had heard of the name, "Isn't it the one who reached 1000 points in the training camp at the youngest age! You and Tang Ya are twins?!"

Tang Yi took a deep breath of nicotine, spit out a round smoke ring, and slightly narrowed his eyes clouded by the smoke, "My brother died in battle, I'll impersonate him and control the mercury."

A few short explanations stopped in Luo Wei's ears, but it seemed like a fantasy, "How is this possible? It is impossible for the already bound Kraken to be bound to another person, not even twins. "

Tang Yi choked back a little dejectedly, "No one said that they need to be re-bound, so they said I'm here to be my brother's stand-in."

Luo Wei still couldn't understand, his brows furrowed into a pimple, as if every word Tang Yi said was unreasonable, "Are you going to pretend to be another person for the rest of your life? How can you accept this ridiculous arrangement? !"

Tang Yi slightly restrained his smile, and his slender eyes squinted at Luo Wei, which was quite deterrent, "This is an order from the Ministry of Security, and some words can't be said nonsense."

Only then did Luo Wei realize that he was questioning the military order of the Ministry of Security, and a thin layer of cold sweat immediately oozes out on his forehead. This kind of thing can be big or small, not to mention I don’t know if there are any monitoring devices in this room. If Tang Yi is malicious to him and reports to his superiors, exaggerating and embellishing him, his future is likely to be ruined like this. , being expelled from training camp and being arbitrarily arranged into a factory to assemble machine parts for a lifetime may not be possible.

But he somehow believed that Tang Yi would not be a whistleblower. Even though the two of them have clashed quite a bit so far.

After pursing his lips, he still felt that it was not worth it for Tang Yi, "I just think... this is unfair..." Luo Wei said in a whisper.

Tang Yi softened his expression, but he was still very moved. This kid is quite hot-blooded, and he actually complained about himself. He had forgotten that he wanted to beat himself ten minutes ago...

"Actually, for me, this is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. After all, I have been fascinated by sirens since I was a child." Tang Yi rolled his eyes and smiled. Luo Wei found that although this uncle was usually sloppy and sloppy, he smiled very gently, like the sunlight falling on the quilt in the early morning.

In the early morning of the next day, the haze on the coast was very light, probably because the sea breeze blew all night, and it was difficult for any poisonous gas to gather. According to Qu Lan's order yesterday, Tang Yi turned on the navigator of his watch and searched for Building No. 7 in the misty morning mist. He only slept for four hours, and spent the rest of the time looking at the materials Qu Lan gave him. In fact, he already knew a lot of knowledge in the materials. After all, he liked to run to the oldest library in the base since he was a child. Although a lot of knowledge about the Kraken is confidential, he can still find clues from the ancient documents.

Building No. 7 is at the center of the entire site, a glass-topped circular building buried deep in the sand, close to the sea. When Tang Yi arrived in front of the door, there was a ray of light morning light on the sea horizon in the distance, and the blurry morning sun was floating in the gaps between the clouds, floating on the sea with white foam shaking like gray silk, swaying with floating light and color. of confusion. Tang Yi had read in the book that the sea was supposed to be dark blue with a little bit of cyan, a color similar to the original sky. The sun is also more rosy and dazzling than it is now, and the clouds are pure white with thousands of colors, but now all the colors have faded away. Whether it is the sky, the sea, the sun, the buildings or the air, there are only cold grays full of metallic flavors.

The world is dying little by little.

After waiting for about half an hour, he saw a mini-computer quickly parked near him. Qu Lan was the same as yesterday, glanced at him lightly, and walked straight up the dozen or so steps in front of Building No. 7. Tang Yi noticed that the identifier in front of this building was different from other places. It was a DNA combination lock that collected blood samples from people's fingers. Such locks are expensive to manufacture and are not easily used. It seems that there is something incredible in this building, maybe it is a military secret.

However, the hall was empty, save for an elevator. This elevator has no floor display. After Qu Lan and Tang Yi entered, it automatically began to sink, and it sank for a long time.

When the elevator opens, there is an extended blue passage in front of you.

The passage is made of a transparent material similar to the glass hall I saw yesterday, and the artificially purified sea water is surging outside. There are many aquatic plants and brightly colored sea anemones growing on both sides of the passage. Occasionally, a school of red fish is seen flying past overhead, like a burning whirlwind, rolling up countless diamond-like foam. Tang Yi was fascinated by this dreamy scene and exclaimed, "Fuck... there is such a place... "

Qu Lan was not surprised by his reaction, and explained in a bit of a formality, "This place is a farm that every student who has reached 800 points has the opportunity to visit. The seawater here is filtered through 12 processes, clean The degree can reach levels five centuries ago."

"Farm? What?"

Qu Lan smiled a little weirdly, "You'll find out later."

There are often forks on both sides of the corridor, stretching far into the distance, and I don't know where it leads. Some people in white coats who look like researchers come and go, and occasionally cast strange glances at him. They passed four or five more gates, each of which was equipped with a full-body scanning device. Tang Yi was also taken blood from his fingertips, and finally they stopped in front of an arched gate about three meters high. This door is different from the usual automatic opening and closing doors, but a rather classical stone door, carved with delicate and elegant reliefs of water plants and corals. The tail and the water plants are rolled together, and the lowered eyes have a touch of sadness.

Through the glass of the corridor, you can see that the building behind the door is deeply buried in the fine sand on the seabed. The thick stones are covered with layers of mottled algae like a green carpet, and there are a few purplish red starfish crawling. , looks like it's been a while.

"This is the second-stage breeding hall. Everything you see here is classified as level three, and you are not allowed to mention a word about officers below the school level. If there is any leakage, you may face sanctions by a military court." Qu Lan glanced at Tang Yi, with a hint of warning, "Even if you can't mention it to the students in the team, other students have never entered the second-stage rearing hall, your situation is special, in order to let you in the shortest time. Familiar with the habits of sea monsters, I have to make a special case."

Tang Yi's curiosity was completely aroused, and he immediately said "Yes!", staring at the Kraken carved on the door. He found this scene familiar, as if he had seen similar illustrations in some book before.

The moment the door opened, a faint blue light with a hint of purple flowed down the ground like a tide to his feet. Tang Yi looked at the scene in front of him and held his breath.

In front of it is a long passage, with cylindrical glass vessels about two people tall standing on both sides, like the majestic and sacred columns in the temple. The head and tail of each glass vessel are metal instruments, and the transparent part in the center is filled with some kind of light blue liquid, and in the liquid are suspended humanoid creatures.

Siren…

These sea-monsters looked younger than those they had seen before. They seemed to be about ten years old for humans. They were curled up in liquid like embryos, and their tender arms were holding fish tails covered with scales. On their heads they wear a metal helmet that covers their eyes, and countless threads of different thicknesses run from the helmet to the instruments above the glassware. They wear masks that deliver nutrients and oxygen over their mouths and noses, and on the cheeks of their necks are Conduits filled with clean sea water, and many conduits are wrapped around the limbs, the whole person seems to be imprisoned in the middle of the spider web, whether it is dead or alive.

Tang Yi felt that the scene in front of him had a metallic horror...

"The so-called second stage is the stage between the first 20 years and the age of 60 when the sea monster has passed the highest mortality rate." Qu Lan said in his unique robot-like steady voice, "Here All the Krakens are kept in cryogenic liquid nitrogen, nutrition is rationed according to the physical condition of each Kraken, moderate muscle and nerve stimulation is given every day, and the computer monitors their hormone levels and brain activity. The mortality rate is lower than that of young children in the first stage, but it is also as high as 30%. Today's earth environment is no longer suitable for the survival of sea monsters. The resistance of these young sea monsters is very low, and every time they purify the sea water Any mistakes in the process can lead to widespread death. We have been using bacterial and viral vaccines to find ways to improve the resistance of each generation of sirens, but with little success. Only after the age of 60 their physical condition is really considered Stabilize, and immunity will improve by leaps and bounds."

Tang Yi couldn't believe it, "All sea monsters were raised like this before they became adults? Are they conscious?"

"Of course not. The computer will regularly inject them with drugs to keep them asleep according to their brain wave activity, and the low temperature will also weaken their neural activity." Qu Lan led Tang Yi slowly on the long road with water and light. At the same time, I often see some researchers holding a tablet computer to check the status of the Kraken, "It is extremely dangerous for another Kraken to be conscious before binding, and the Ministry of Security will never allow similar situations to happen. Do you understand why this is?" Tang Yi replied in a low voice, "In order to prevent them from being bound to the wrong person or the same kind..."

"That's right. Binding is our only bargaining chip to control the Kraken. The rebels have always been eyeing this place." I don't know if he thought of something interesting, and Qu Lan showed that chilling ghost smile again. , "I brought you here because only here you can see the whole process of the Kraken from infancy to adulthood."

Passing through the rows of training cabins, Qu Lan asked Tang Yi a few questions about the information given to him last night, and Tang Yi stumbled and answered all of them. However, when they entered the area of the last chicken chop, they suddenly heard a high-pitched siren from a nearby cultivation cabin, and saw that the blue solution of the fifth glassware in the front row had turned ominous. The bright red color was designed for researchers to quickly locate it. As long as the Kraken's physiological condition has a major abnormality, the computer will release some kind of chemical substance that will make it change color into the solution. The Kraken inside was still motionless and could not see anything unusual, but in less than a minute, researchers gathered from all directions, each with a nervous expression like an enemy. They quickly entered something on the control interface at the bottom of the culture cabin. After a while, the level of the solution began to drop rapidly. The Kraken lost the support of the liquid, and its limbs hung on the wire in an extremely uncomfortable position, as if being pulled. Line puppets.

The two researchers climbed up the stairs on both sides of the cylindrical vessel and pressed a few buttons, only to see that the machine at the top rose a little bit, pulling up the sea-monster connected by the wire. One of the two researchers supported the Kraken's body, and the other pulled out the wire on the helmet with extremely quick and smooth movements. The siren, who looked about sixteen or seventeen years old, was pulled out of the tank like a stranded dead fish. His gray tail trailed wet trails on the ground, and after a while the scales began to disappear, and the fish tail gradually differentiated into two legs.

"I've heard for a long time that a siren here has stonefish disease. It happened twice in a week. I didn't expect you to catch up."

"Stonefish disease?"

"A kind of Kraken disease that is difficult to cure. There are many theories about the cause of the disease. The sick Kraken will be paralyzed all over the body, lose its response to external stimuli, and can't even maintain breathing, just like turning into a stone. If you don't find it in time, you will suffocate to death." Qu Lan watched those people inject some kind of medicine into the Kraken on the spot and performed cardiopulmonary resuscitation without emotion, and watched the pair of white and slender legs tremble with the action of beating on the chest. , Tang Yi has an inexplicable sense of absurdity.

Creatures that used to be so terrifying in books are now clumps of dead flesh in a can, so fragile that they can be killed without even moving a finger... Those fresh and beautiful seas he saw yesterday Demon, was it just a can of fish like this

They have no childhood, no memory of the past, and the sea is just a distant legend to them. Once he is an adult, he will be selected as the owner, and then he will start brainwashing day after day, constantly injecting that person's appearance and habits into the empty brain through images, sounds and touch. In their world, in addition to being the master by instinct, everything they do is set by human manipulation; what is the difference between a siren raised in this way and a beast and a robot

This kind of thought caused a lot of disillusionment with the mystery and beauty that always pervaded the word siren in his mind.

"You have to keep in mind that this is what the Kraken really looks like." Qu Lan stopped in front of a Kraken training cabin that was very close to adulthood. The Kraken had long black hair and plump lips. Fleshly, the body is covered with graceful muscles, but even if he is fully developed, he maintains the helpless and fragile posture of a baby suspended in the liquid. There was something dark in Qu Lan's eyes, and I don't know if it was an illusion, but Tang Yi saw a trace of resentment in his always somewhat mocking expression, "Their thoughts and joys and sorrows are in ours. Under their control, they are not people, but weapons and tools. They are completely different from us. Your brother just didn't remember this, and traded his precious life for a Kraken's false life."

False life... Tang Yi felt that this was a bit too paranoid. Could it be that people who have been brainwashed are not human? However, he has no position to refute his superiors now. In this military society, everything the superiors say must be regarded as the truth to be believed and executed.