"Don't you want to be a composer, why don't you play your own music?"
"I am writing."
"Cut... it's been a year since I wrote it and I haven't seen you write it..."
"What if I write it out?"
"If you write it, I will recognize you as the leader!"
"I was your brother."
"That's just written on a note hanging on us, who knows if it's a mistake, we're equal!"
"Hmph, that's fine."
It was a conversation that had been so long ago, but now I recall every word and sentence so clearly that I can see it all. A drop of liquid wetted his birthday present, which was late for seventeen years. Tang Yi wiped the corners of his eyes with the back of his hands, and pursed his trembling lips tightly.
Tang Ya came back before his death, and deliberately stuffed this score into his favorite book, waiting for him to discover it in his "secret base" when he was a child.
Did Tang Ya have a premonition that she was going to die
If he could really have a hunch, was it because he was involved in some dangerous event? Does this have anything to do with mercury
An invisible cloud was gathering from a distance to him little by little, but he couldn't see what monster was hidden behind the cloud. Tang Yi opened the Shanhaijing picture book, and wanted to take the score back and secretly take it away, but found that there was another thing in the book.
is a disc.
This kind of thing is a relic from centuries ago, and now even a machine that can read CDs may have to go to those strange antique stores in Yandu to find it.
Tang Yi thought for a while, put the score and CD in the pocket of his coat, and put the book back in place.
Tang Yi returned to the first floor and found that Mercury was waiting for him leaning against the pillar at the door. Tang Yi guessed that what Mercury was looking for was probably what was in his pocket.
But he somehow didn't want Mercury to know.
He asked Quicksilver, "Have you found what you were looking for?"
Quicksilver stood up straight and said lightly, "Let's go." He took the lead out of the door.
Seeing that Mercury seemed a little depressed, Tang Yi felt a little guilty. But he still decided to wait until he watched the CD before deciding whether to let Mercury know. If there was anything he learned that month in the sea, it was that Mercury's mental state was really unstable, and he didn't know when he would go berserk. Tang Yi doesn't want to use the old method to bring back the mind of the Kraken...
He took the mercury to Yandu and turned around. The former Kabukicho was already a scorched earth, and the entire area around the long street was cordoned off, and there were robotic police guards every few steps. Tang Yi had no choice but to take the mercury to the west side of Banqiao Street at the junction of the slum and the city center. This long street with a general demarcation line has the worst security in the entire Yandu. There is a mixture of fish and dragons. The bright and the vulgar blend together. The brilliance of the neon lights reflects the whole gloomy sky in a variety of colors.
Tang Yi took the mercury into a ramen shop. Small and dilapidated facade, long table, outside stools for guests to sit, the owner and his daughter are busy behind the counter. As soon as Tang Yi came in, he shouted loudly, "Boss, here are two bowls of ramen with miso soup!"
The uncle laughed when he saw Tang Yi, "Yo! Long time no see!"
Tang Yi grinned, scratched his hair, glared at the boss's daughter, grabbed a stool and sat down. The girl looked very cute, and gave Tang Yi a bit of a snarky look, but suddenly noticed the handsome face of Mercury who sat silently beside Tang Yi under the hood, and her face turned red all of a sudden.
Tang Yi unhappily stretched out his hand and pulled down Mercury's hood a little further. The latter was inexplicably pulled by him and his head sank, almost hitting the table.
"What are you doing."
Tang Yi rolled his eyes, "Let you discharge indiscriminately."
"It seems that you are the one who discharges it."
"Do you learn if I discharge it? As a siren, don't be so crazy, okay?"
Mercury knew that it was not clear what to do with Tang Yi, so she simply rolled her eyes and stopped talking. At this time, the uncle just placed two big bowls of hot ramen in front of them. Tang Yi took out a pair of chopsticks from the bamboo tube and handed it to Mercury. He said with a smile, "Try it! This is the best ramen in the whole Yan. !"
Mercury silently took the chopsticks, lowered his head and picked up a piece of noodles and put it into his mouth like a poison test. Tang Yi asked eagerly, "How is it?"
"… good."
Tang Yi picked up his chopsticks contentedly, and ate it in a rush, with a loud noise. Mercury looked at his exaggerated eating appearance with a bit of disgust on his expression. Tang Yi glanced at him, his mouth was full of noodles, and he said vaguely, "Look at it, you have to be sincere when you eat ramen! You look like Miss Qianjin."
Mercury hesitated for a while, and finally imitated Tang Yi to pick up a chopstick and suck up the noodles. Surprisingly, this method seems to actually eat more vigorously and more appetizingly. Hearing that Mercury was finally enlightened, Tang Yi's voice of sucking noodles suddenly rose to a higher level, and Mercury was not to be outdone. In the end, the two were simply having a noodle-sucking contest, and the whole shop was filled with the sound of them eating noodles. The guests who came in later couldn't help but suck and slip, and the atmosphere of eating noodles was unprecedentedly hot.
In the end, Tang Yi and Mercury drank all the soup at the same time and put the bowl on the table with a bang. Tang Yi rubbed his slightly bulging belly, hiccupped contentedly, and grinned at Mercury. Half of the sun reflected a little gold on his eyelashes.
Mercury couldn't help but smile. After returning from the sea, he finally showed this kind of childish smile that seemed to dissolve Bingfeng once again.
Tang Yi likes to see him smile like this, and he thinks Mercury looks better when he smiles than with a sullen face.
After eating, he took the mercury to a game hall on the street to play on the excuse of time. The two of them played Star League in the VR machine for an afternoon. When they came out of the game hall, the night had already shrouded heavily. , It seems that it is a little too late to catch up with the last bus from the outskirts of Yandu back to the base. Fortunately, tomorrow is Sunday, which is not a violation of the team's rules.
The two casually filled their stomachs on the side of the road, and found a small hotel with pink neon lights to make do for a night. They asked for a standard room, opened the door and saw that the bed was covered with a bright red quilt, heavy velvet curtains with a few stains, and the ambiguous pink light projected from the window reflected everything. It's a bit of a erotic hotel. Not to mention that there are several small cards for special services in the drawer, Tang Yi actually picked it up and looked at it with great interest.
Tang Yi looked at Mercury's expression and smirked, "Okay, you, brother, I am so handsome and handsome, so I am not so hungry." As soon as he finished speaking, he suddenly remembered how he put down his self-esteem and hunger in that circular palace. To meet Mercury's actions, his smile froze for a moment.
However, Mercury didn't notice or think about it so much, just took off the hood that had been worn for a day, let loose the long hair tied behind his head, and then started to take off his shirt boldly...
Tang Yi swallowed, "You... what are you doing...?"
Quicksilver had taken off his hoodie and began to unbutton his shirt. Pale but firm and strong chest muscles are exposed a little...
"Bath." Mercury answered simply and directly.
There was a bit of disappointment in Tang Yi's tone, "Oh..."
Mercury took off his boots and even his trousers. He walked to the bathroom naked, and glanced at him before entering the door, "You have a nosebleed."
"Ah?!" When Tang Yi was in a hurry to wipe his nosebleeds, Mercury closed the bathroom door with a bang, and soon there was an uproar of water.
Tang Yi couldn't help but imagine the scene of mercury bathed in water vapor, water droplets hanging on his eyelashes, and long silver hair entwining the curves of his body... He quickly raised his head and pinched his nose, staggered to the bathroom door and shouted in a loud voice, "That... I'm going out to buy a pack of cigarettes!"
Hearing Mercury's humming, he quickly escaped from the room.
After exiting the door of the inn, he took a deep breath of the thick night air and let out a long breath. Why do you always make a fool of yourself in front of that siren? Why can't I keep looking cool and handsome all the time? Tang Yi sighed, secretly sighing that he was really useless, and then touched the CD in his trouser pocket.
No matter how he ran out like this, Mercury shouldn't suspect that he had other purposes.
He turned from Main Street into a small alley with dimly-colored neon signs lit by underground shops selling illegal ancient books or electronics. He randomly chose a house to go in, and the shelves were full of shadowy goods, all of which were used to hide people's eyes and ears. The shopkeeper was sitting behind the counter with Erlangtuo and reading a book with a tablet. Tang Yi leaned on the counter with a cigarette in his mouth and asked, "How much does it cost to borrow your CD player?"
The boss glanced at him, "Sixty a night."
Tang Yi took out a few banknotes from his trouser pocket. He is used to keeping some cash on his body. After all, there are always some transactions that the base does not want to detect. "I just want to see it here."
The boss took him into the inner room, and from the inner room into another small room without windows. It seems to have been transformed into a mini-cinema, with a large screen, a dilapidated two-seat sofa, and the shelves by the wall are full of CDs, a large part of which were retrieved from the old town at a certain risk, It records the afterimages of the long-lost world in the past glory days. Tang Yi used to sneak into similar small shops with Su Han when he was in the military academy to watch those old movies. After the boss confirmed that he knew how to use the DVD player, he left. Tang Yi locked the door from the inside and put the CD found in the orphanage into the machine.
As the box-shaped machine squeaked and read the disc, the original blue screen flickered, and then an image appeared.
On the screen, the same face as him was as calm as water, just as he remembered. The black and white eyes stared directly at him, and Tang Yi had the illusion that he was really being stared at by his brother.
"Xiao Yi, by the time you see this CD, I'll probably be dead." This was the first sentence Tang Ya said. Her voice was calm and emotionless, not even a trace of melancholy or fear. Tang Yi felt a shudder climb up from his back to the back of his head, his heartbeat suddenly accelerated, and even his hands trembled.
He suddenly realized that the truth of Tang Ya's death, and the truth of Quicksilver's identity, may be in this CD.