"The main task this time is to monitor the movement of the second base on the western border. There is intelligence that the second base and the first base have contacts with the rebels, often in the vicinity of the Great Saltwater Swamp, and we will be near the swamp. Hidden for a period of time, gathering intelligence and evidence."
The Great Saltwater Swamp is located in the no-man's land between the second base and the first base. It was originally the land of northern Europe that was submerged by the rising sea level. It is a vast wetland like the ocean. The climate there is sultry and humid. Although there are some plants, most of them are mangrove forests. There are some rare mosquitoes with germs hidden in them. Due to the dense and widespread distribution of Tetan, it is very suitable for some fugitives or dangerous elements to hide and engage in illegal activities. Activity.
Today, the cities in the base are all scattered on the remaining land, one by one, and the large swaths of wasteland in the middle can only be connected by the tracks of the suspended train. In a place like the Great Saltwater Swamp, I am afraid that half a person cannot be found in a radius of a hundred miles. It's really not a comfortable thing to stay in that kind of place for ten days and a half months.
Lin Maochen's face collapsed, and most of the excitement of the others was lost. I thought they would be assigned some exciting tasks, but they were just assigned to a place where birds don't shit...
"The mission information has been transferred to your personal folders. This time, I will act with you."
"Hey?!" Tang Yi couldn't help but let out a surprised voice. It doesn't sound like an urgent task, why does the captain want to act with them in person
Jiang Yanfeng glanced at him lightly, and said simply, "Get ready, and leave at five o'clock tomorrow morning." Then he disconnected.
Everyone looked at each other in dismay, Lin Maochen said calmly, "Oh my god... the captain is also coming, it's not a good day..."
Luo Wei asked, "Why? Is the captain terrifying?"
Lin Maochen grimaced, "It's not that the commander-in-chief is terrifying, but the siren beside him..."
That Kraken... looks like it's called Liu Huo, right? Tang Yi remembered that golden ornate Kraken, it looked really dangerous...
Lan Huang comforted, "Alright, alright, who told you to speak ill of the captain behind your back and he heard him..."
"Then he doesn't need to use the trick of 'Magic Sound Ears' on me, right?!" Lin Maochen held Lan Huang's waist tightly with a terrified expression, "What should I do, I want to go home~~~"
Tang Yi asked Peacock in a low voice, "What the hell is the magic sound filling the ear?"
Peacock held back a smile and leaned into his ear and said, "It's just to put a special melody into your mind, and then you will keep playing that melody in your mind for the next week. This is Liu Huo's unique trick. "
"…Is it scary? I sometimes listen to music like this too?"
Tan Mingyuan interjected at this time, "You are a common phenomenon called earworms, a certain melody keeps repeating in your mind. But most of the time you can ignore it and it will not affect your daily life. .It's like background music in a nutshell. Imagine if you increase the level of earworms tenfold, it's no longer background music, but a super subwoofer that keeps playing back into your ears..."
Tang Yi imagined it for a moment, and then understood why Lin Maochen had a dying expression on his face.
If he is forced to listen to the same melody day and night for seven days, there is no way to ignore it, and there is no way to concentrate on other things, isn't it the kind of experience he first had after the hearing modification surgery...
Tang Yi then repeatedly told himself that he must not provoke Liu Huo...
After Mercury returned, Tang Yi told him the content of the mission. The Kraken nodded calmly, said nothing, and went into the bathroom to take a bath. Tang Yi looked at the closed door, always feeling empty in his heart.
Mercury has been a little cold lately, staying home all day long. What are you hiding from him? Now even he doesn't believe it anymore
[You have to talk to him when you have a chance] Tang Yi decided this way.
The next day they each boarded a medium-sized mini-machine carrying a large marching bag. Tang Yi found that only one of their teams was on the mission this time, plus the captain, Liu Huo, and a pilot.
The commander-in-chief sat in the front seat of the aircraft, leaning against the bulkhead with his eyes closed, and holding his cane firmly in his hand. And the blond Kraken looked at each of them with great interest, especially... Tang Yi.
Tang Yi twisted his body slightly uncomfortably, turned his head and whispered to the peacock next to him, "Why does he keep looking at me..."
Peacock replied teasingly, "Maybe he's thinking about whether to cut you."
Tang Yi fought a cold war, "I didn't mess with him again..."
"It's also possible that you look cute?"
"Lovely your sister... Brother is obviously handsome!"
Mercury glanced at Tang Yi, coughed in a low voice, and his expression was a little stinky. On the other side, Tsuruta's face was also a little stiff. Tang Yi touched his nose and stopped whispering to Peacock.
The mini-machine quickly rose into the air and continued to accelerate after entering the stratosphere. The clouds below spread out in all directions like an ocean, and the rare blue sky above the head is like a giant bowl. illusion. Tang Yi and Luo Wei turned around and lied at the window, exclaiming in amazement, as if they had never seen the world before. In the past, the mini-machines they rode were all operating near the surface, and they had never flown to such a high place.
It drove for half a day at a super-fast speed close to the speed of sound, crossing the entire territory of the first base. When they descended from the clouds, what spread under their feet was a gloomy gray-green, covering the subtle curvature of the earth, rippling and rippling, enclosing a large area of a deeper green lake. Tang Yi rarely saw so many plants. When he was fighting guerrillas, he also went deep into the remaining jungles of no-man's land, but he did not have the vast and prosperous trees of the big saltwater swamp generation.
Their mini-machine landed on a flat meadow with less vegetation, and the steam blasted a tidal wave on the soft wormwood. All around the trees were low but dense, densely woven together with lifeless grey-green leaves. The suffocating and humid air seemed to stick to everyone's skin like a thick liquid, and a faintly rancid stench lingered in the nostrils.
As soon as he got off the plane, Lin Maochen unfolded his complicated electronic map, pointed to a place and said, "The surface water here is very low, and there are trees around it, so it should be a suitable place to camp."
The commander-in-chief nodded slightly, and the group packed their bags and set off for their destination immediately. The aircraft that picked them up took off and returned slowly behind them, and was on standby in the first base military area closest to the Great Saltwater Swamp.
There are no roads among the untouched forests, and they need to forcibly step on a road on the ground where the roots are crisscrossed and overgrown with grass. Lin Maochen and Lan Huang, who were good at tracking and positioning, led the way at the front. They didn't know where to find a regular branch to beat the grass to prevent stepping on animals such as snakes. The commander-in-chief followed behind him. Although his legs and feet were inconvenient, his speed was not slow.
After walking for two hours, Tang Yi's mouth was dry, he pulled open the neckline of his camouflage uniform, and wiped the sweat dripping from his forehead. Luo Wei handed him a bottle of water, he took two sips, and sighed, "I haven't fought in such a harsh environment for many years..."
Luo Wei took off his helmet and wiped the sweat from his nose, "You were also in such a place when you fought guerrillas with the rebels before?"
"It's about the same as this, it's hotter than this." Tang Yi looked at Luo Wei's rolled up cuffs, stretched out his hand and pulled it down for him, "There are a lot of poisons in this place, don't show your skin."
Mercury also looked tired. This sweltering environment is not suitable for the siren, the long hair sticks to the forehead, and the pale skin is coated with a layer of sweat. Tang Yi followed behind Mercury, listening to his heavy breathing, vain steps, and blurred vision in his eyes, he knew that he had some signs of heat stroke. He turned his head to look at Zixi and Ashes, even including Tan Mingyuan, his face was very ugly.
But the commander-in-chief wasn't tired yet, and no one dared to speak.
Of course, except for Tang Yi, the stunned young man.
"Hey! Captain! Let's take a break!" Tang Yi roared towards the front of the team.
Jiang Yanfeng stopped in his footsteps, looked back at the people behind him, pondered for a moment, and ordered, "Take a rest in place for ten minutes!"
As soon as he finished speaking, Tan Mingyuan slumped on the ground. He is a weak scholar, even if he has received basic combat training, it is too reluctant to walk like this. Tang Yi saw Mercury sitting down against a tree trunk, a bead of sweat hung on his eyelashes, and the shadow of the leaves swayed on his beautiful face, with a touch of tranquility.
Tang Yi sat down next to Mercury, took out a small bottle from his backpack, sprinkled a few drops of the liquid in the bottle on his fingers, reached out to look at Mercury's face, but was suddenly grabbed by the wrist.
Mercury opened his eyes, "What are you doing?"
Tang Yi pouted, "What else can I do to help you cool off the heat?" Mercury's reaction made him a little unhappy. Could it be that he was still afraid of poisoning him
Quicksilver released his wrist and let him apply the cooling oil to the Siren's temple. Mercury let out a comfortable moan, and looked as lazy as a cat.
Tang Yi snickered in his heart, handed the kettle over, watched Mercury greedily sucking water, and commented, "You are like a dehydrated fish."
Mercury glared at him, "You're not much better."
Tang Yi grinned, took the kettle and took a sip to the place where Mercury had drank. When he came back to his senses, he found that Mercury was staring at him in a trance. Tang Yi stretched out his hand and shook it in front of Mercury, "Hey, you won't be hot and stupid..."
But at this moment, Mercury, Tang Yi, Hetian, Jiang Yanfeng and all the Kraken heard strange sounds at the same time.
The calls are supposed to be far away and the sound pressure is so low that no other human without hearing modification can hear them. If there was anything strange about the sound, it seemed to be the cry of a baby.
The cry of a sweet, waxy and hoarse baby is not scary at all, but it appears in this deserted and uninhabited place.
Abandoned baby? But where would anyone leave their children in a swamp that no one has ever set foot in for hundreds of years? If it weren't for an abandoned baby, where else would any animal cry like this
Tang Yi felt his scalp tingling, stood up suddenly, and looked in the direction of the voice. That seems to be the direction they are headed.
"Isn't it some kind of mutant monster..."
But that sound was only for a moment, and it was far away. Lin Maochen guessed that it might be the sounds of animals living in the swamp, and there should be no serious problem.
Ten minutes later, the group continued on their way. After walking for about an hour, they finally reached the campsite. It was getting late, and everyone quickly set up a small tent for temporary residence, used stones to padded a few pieces of artificial fuel and ignited a bonfire, and cooked compressed food on it. Tang Yi took two cups of black bean soup and found mercury by the pond full of dead trees near their camp. The latter was looking at the afterglow of the sunset reflected on the dark green water.
"It's finished eating. What are you thinking about here again?" Tang Yi impatiently put the stainless steel cup into Mercury's hand, and sat down on the other side of the dry tree trunk where Mercury was sitting.
Mercury frowned as he looked at the black thing in the cup.
Tang Yi glared at him, "Frowning again, you're still picky eaters when you're outside the army... If you don't eat now, don't cry if you're hungry at night."
"I haven't said anything yet, so you just talk a lot." Mercury glanced at him, but there was a smile on his face, "It's like an old aunt."
"... It's not because your mysterious disappearance of playing all day has made me nervous." Tang Yi couldn't hold back, spit out the resentment he had held for several days, and muttered, "I haven't seen it before. You go back to the Kraken Hall so diligently. You must be having an affair, right?!"
Mercury laughed twice, "Affair? Whose affair? Yours or Tang Ya's?"
Tang Yi was at a loss for words, his cheeks were flushed red, and he felt uncomfortable for a while, "Of course it's... my brother's!"
Damn, you don't even have the qualifications to catch an affair. Tang Yi felt that he was about to lose his breath.
Mercury's eyes added a little tenderness, as if seeing through Tang Yi's little thought. He said, "Don't worry, I just want to see more about the life of the Kraken."
"You yourself are a siren, what do you think?"
"Sometimes, it's better to see from a bystander's point of view," Mercury said casually, stirring the black substance in the cup with a spoon.
The twilight quickly spread across the sky like pouring ink, the temperature dropped suddenly at night, and the sound of insects and frogs roared one after another in the darkness, but there was no other light source. The trees that looked around turned into silhouettes with claws and claws, looking down gloomily at their small team. Except for Lin Maochen, who was guarding the first night, everyone got into their tents to rest early after dinner.
Tang Yi and Mercury slept side by side in the tent. Halfway through their sleep, they heard someone walking outside in a trance.
Tang Yi opened his eyes, only to see the fallen shadows of branches and leaves swaying on the tent cloth. The walking sound was weird, dragging for a long time, as if someone was pulling their shoes and sliding on the ground.
Now, who is the free time at night who has nothing to do around the tent... Tang Yi cursed in a low voice and turned over, only to find that Mercury's eyes were open.
Tang Yi was just about to be born, but Mercury suddenly covered his mouth and put a finger on his lips, signaling him not to make a sound.
Only then did Tang Yi realize how wrong what he had just thought of.
Even if the people on duty at night are bored, they wouldn't use this strange rhythm to patrol, and they even go around their tents.
But if it's not the night watchman, who is it? Why can't I hear the voice talking? It's three o'clock in the middle of the night, who would come out and circle the tent in the middle of the night? Or use this method of pulling your feet
The small tent seems to be floating in the middle of the unknown sea, separated by a thin cloth, who is walking outside? Tang Yi couldn't help but want to get up and open the tent to take a look, but the sound suddenly stopped.
A moment later, Tang Yi heard a baby's laughter that was close at hand, as if from outside the tent.
In the dark and messy shadows of the trees, in the desolate night, such a laugh looks particularly eerie. Tang Yi felt the hairs on the back of his neck stand upright, and the urge to open the tent suddenly disappeared.
He was afraid to actually see a baby lying on the ground with long traces dragged out behind him, opening his black mouth without teeth and showing him a weird smile.