When Tang Yi returned to the hotel, Mercury was already lying on the bed and fell asleep, and the light outside the window cast a stream of splendor on his silver hair scattered on the bed. Tang Yi sat on the bed opposite him, silently looking at Mercury's sleeping face stuck in the pillow.
He felt a little distressed about the mercury.
If the Kraken knew that Tang Ya's encounter with him was a design, if he knew that Tang Ya's bond with him was just a conspiracy, how sad would he be
It's better not to let him know.
How did Tang Ya die? If they were killed by the rebels, why did they kill their own people? Tang Yi guessed that the answers were in the second half of the CD. But he wondered, did he really want to know the truth
If he hadn't seen this CD, the days would have continued. He was still a child growing up in that orphanage, and he was the lucky one who squeezed into the Kraken team before he was 30 years old. He believes in the leadership of the base, the rebels are his enemies, and maybe one day he will die on the battlefield, just like his best friend, but at least this kind of life is clear and clear, there is nothing unclear. .
But everything is different now. Even Tang Ya, whom he had always admired and had to admire, suddenly turned into a rebel, and said that the two of them were not real twin brothers at all, but replicas of the ancestor of the rebel army three hundred years ago.
Therefore, he is not only the shadow of Tang Ya, but also the shadow of an ancient person whom he has never even seen before.
Tang Yi smiled bitterly, sighing that he was indeed a life of a shadow...
"what are you laughing at."
The voice of Mercury scared Tang Yi almost bounced off the bed, "You...Aren't you asleep?!"
The siren didn't open his eyes, he just chanted in a lazy voice, "You open the door so loudly, the deaf will be woken up." He turned over, brushed the hair on his forehead with his hands, Face Lai lazily opened his eyes and looked at Tang Yi, "Where have you been? It's been so long."
"Buy cigarettes." Tang Yi took out a pack of cigarettes from his trousers pocket and shook it. "By the way, I just strolled outside. After all, I haven't been in the city for so long."
Mercury's eyes traced Tang Yi's eyebrows, and he didn't know if he was looking for another shadow through that familiar face. Tang Yi turned his face a little uncomfortable.
"Today's orphanage is where you and Tang Ya lived before the age of ten."
"Um… "
"Did you feel lonely then?"
Tang Yi pursed his lips, "It's okay. With Tang Ya here, there are many other orphans."
"Tang Ya seldom told me about his childhood. Today I finally saw the place where he lived when he was a child, but it still feels unreal." Mercury said in a dream, "I always think he might be very lonely. child, because no one can understand what's going on in his head."
Tang Yi thought to himself, who is not equally lonely? No one in this world can really understand what another person is thinking, how barren and pale language is, full of deceit. Life is doomed to be lonely.
However, Tang Ya is indeed a mystery. Even growing up he couldn't read him.
Obviously they are both copies of the same person.
Tang Yi lit a cigarette and took a deep breath, "Mercury, why do you have to go to the orphanage today? Are you looking for something?"
Mercury sat up from the bed, and unconsciously played with the thin silver webbed between his fingers, "In the deep sea, I remembered some things that were forgotten before. Among them is a memory, when Tang Ya and I carried out the last encirclement and suppression of the sea. Before leaving for the mission of the rebel base. Once Tang Ya quietly left for a day, he took a password box that he valued most. He kept the box in his personal safe, and even I couldn't touch it. After he left that time, I didn't see that cipher box when I was cleaning Tang Ya's things."
The password box... Is it the CD and the scores
"Do you suspect that the secret box contains the truth about Tang Ya's death?"
"Just intuition." Mercury didn't seem to want to say more.
"Then how do you know he took the box to the orphanage."
Mercury raised his eyes and glanced at Tang Yi, "Because I guess, if you are so important to him, he probably left the box for you. And the deepest bond between the two of you is that you grow up together. big place."
Tang Yi was stunned, not knowing how to respond.
Mercury's blue eyes captured his mind deeply, like two supernatural starlights in the dim room. He leaned forward slightly, and Tang Yi felt an invisible pressure, "Did you find something?"
"...No, what can I find."
"Don't lie to me." Mercury seemed to have seen everything with a condensed expression. Tang Yi's heart trembled unconsciously.
"I really don't have anything! What are you asking me to find?"
"… "
"If you don't believe me, search me!" Tang Yi simply put out the cigarette butt in the ashtray on the bedside table, stood up and opened his hand with a pleasing expression. Mercury stared at him for a while, but actually stood up and walked in front of Tang Yi with a hint of provocation on his expression.
The distance between the two is only an inch, and the pores on each other's faces can be clearly seen. Mercury's hand also exuded a faint coolness through the fabric, and moved along the curve of Tang Yi's muscles.
Tang Yi felt a shivering sensation like a butterfly's wings in his chest, goosebumps formed where the mercury touched, and bursts of inexplicable heat quickly burned after the coolness passed. Mercury stared at his eyes tightly, but his hands caressed his body recklessly, brushing his chest muscles, abdominal muscles, narrow waist, upturned buttocks, firm thighs...
Tang Yi coughed in a low voice, realizing that his voice was hoarse, "Hey... Are you taking the opportunity to eat my tofu... "
Mercury looked down at him, her long eyelashes shed some of the softness that was fleeting, "Sometimes... I wonder if it would be easier if I bound it to you..."
"… what?"
Mercury did not say a second time. Tang Yi almost wondered if he had auditory hallucinations just now.
Mercury suddenly let go of him, fell back on the bed and turned his back, "I believe you, go to sleep."
Tang Yi stood there for a while, and the place touched by the mercury was still burning because of the residual touch. He was stunned for a while, before he snorted, took off his clothes and burrowed into the quilt.
He covered his head tightly with the quilt, and a deep shame hung over his head. Quicksilver said he believed him, but he lived up to that belief.
However, he was also secretly thankful that fortunately he kept the CD and the score in another place. Who would have thought that this Kraken would actually search his body...
In the following period, Tang Yi began to use the encrypted restricted domain to check information about the old dean, about Tang Qing, and about cloning. As he thought, all information about Tang Qing had been deleted, but the information about the old dean was quite complete. From birth to retirement, he was in the 16th district, which was the closest to the 15th district, and basically no suspicious qualifications could be seen. But Tang Yi noticed that the old dean spent his time at the first base until he was forty years old, and only immigrated to the third base when he was forty-one years old.
The information on cloning technology is also pitiful. Each document reads: The base restricts the development of cloning technology, believing that it will threaten and damage the existence of human beings.
Tang Yi found more and more times when Mercury returned to the Kraken Hall. Although the Kraken can return to the Kraken Hall at any time, the general Kraken will only go back once a week after being bound, and it is rare to go back two or three times a week like Mercury. What's more, I didn't feel that Mercury had any special attachment to that place before.
Tang Yi asked Mercury what to do when returning to the Kraken Hall, and the Kraken just said that he liked the tranquility in the purified sea water. Obviously don't want to say too much. Tang Yi did not continue to ask questions. After all, Mercury was not there, so he had time to verify the "truths" that Tang Ya told him.
During this period, the wind direction of the third base also gradually changed.
At first, there was negative news about the first base or the second base in the news. Although it's trivial, it's clear that the media has begun to focus on negative images of Base One and Base Two, such as people who are drunk, the stark contrast between rich and poor, or about the third base going to News of the unfair treatment of the first and second base tourism.
The conflict started when the third base reported to the first base and sank a fishing boat of the third base that had strayed into the waters of the first base. Although it is very likely that the first base mistook the fishing boat for the rebel boat, after all, the so-called "fishing boat" was equipped with some weapons. It is also possible that the fishing boat did not respond appropriately after the first base raised the alarm. In short, the fishing boat of the third base was sunk, and all a dozen people on board were killed.
Tang Yi thought this news was a bit strange. Now that the ocean is heavily polluted and fish are extinct in large numbers, what kind of fishing boat would go to such a far place to fish
But no matter what he thought, the news or the entire third base was boiling. Everyone is accusing the first base of violating human law and a betrayal of the base system and the entire human race. The first base insisted that the fishing boat itself did not respond to the warning, nor did it identify itself. Residents of both sides scolded each other on the Internet, various conspiracy theories were flying around, and even the head of Luo Jianzhang came forward in person and strongly condemned the behavior of the first base. Relations between the two parties plummeted.
The clan also began to spread that after the bad relationship with the first base, a civil war between the bases may eventually be set off.
Conversely, there has been much less reporting on the rebels.
As the demand for coastal defense increases, half of the Kraken team will be sent out to perform certain patrol and surveillance missions. But the 15th detachment has been in a refrigerated state and cannot accept any tasks. Even though Qu Lan was already a deputy, they could only do daily routine training, and then pass the time in the dormitory. Tang Yizheng and Lin Maochen were wearing VR glasses, holding a mop as a sword, and slashing "zombies" all over the house. Hetian wiped his samurai sword beside him, Peacock was reading a book beside him, Luo Wei was using the horizontal bar indoors to do pull-ups, Zi Zi Xi Zai is playing chess with Ashes, while Tan Mingyuan is studying his "moving love cooking" in the kitchen as always, and Mercury spent last night in the Kraken Hall, and has not returned yet...
Everyone felt a little bored. When the other teams were rushing back and forth between different tasks, they could only pass the time in such a boring way. Tang Yi could guess that the base realized that someone was trying to fight mercury, and dared not send the mercury out easily.
However, the big screen in the lounge suddenly lit up by itself, and the face of the commander-in-chief appeared on the screen.
"The fifteenth unit gathers."
In less than a minute, everyone and the Kraken were standing side by side in front of the big screen. Usually, when the commander-in-chief appears with this expression, it means that there is a mission.
After being idle for nearly three months, I can finally move my muscles and bones.