The first thought in Tang Yi's mind after waking up was: if it's broken, the eyes won't be blind, right
He opened his eyes, and in front of him was the dark green tent roof, his vision seemed to be half-blindfolded. He raised his somewhat heavy arm and lightly touched his left cheek.
The thick gauze tightly wrapped his entire left cheek.
"Shit!" he yelled.
Could it be that he is not only blind, but also disfigured...
He tried to sit up, the tent wasn't fully zippered, and there were sounds of walking and talking outside. The sky was bright, and Tang Yi was in a trance for a while. It seems that he didn't pass out for a long time
Just as I was about to open the tent, the curtain opened by itself. Tan Mingyuan saw him sitting with the quilt in his arms, and pushed down his glasses with a heavy face, "Awake?"
Tang Yi looked at his expression, his heart began to sink, and he asked bluntly, "How serious is it?"
"The cornea and iris are severely burned, and the skin on the left side of the face is also first-degree burns. You are about to become Quasimodo... Or is the Opera Ghost more appropriate?"
Seeing that half of Tang Yi's exposed face was full of unrequited sadness and a bit of a bewildered expression, Tan Mingyuan couldn't help laughing.
"I'm so crippled, you still laugh!!! Is there any humanity? You!!!" Tang Yi couldn't believe his handsome face... "How will I seduce girls in the future!"
"Are you trying to seduce a girl or seduce Mercury?"
"...Speaking of Mercury, where is he? Where are Luo Wei and Zixi?"
"You still have time to worry about others now?" Tan Mingyuan got into the tent, holding some bandages and ointments in his hand, "Don't worry, Luo Wei and Zixi are out of danger. Mercury consumes too much energy to heal you, and then I have to watch you all night, and I was ordered to rest by the captain two hours ago."
"… a whole night?"
"Yes, he is afraid that your wound will hurt during the healing process, so he uses hypnotism to keep you asleep every once in a while. You have been sleeping for a day and a night." Tan Mingyuan sat down beside Tang Yi and stretched out his hand to relieve Tang Yi's face. gauze on.
Tang Yi's mind turned a little slowly. It turned out that he had slept for a day, but there was really not much pain on his face, just an uncomfortable tingling sensation running back and forth under the skin, which made him want to scratch. Those fears of blindness and disfigurement receded a little when they heard that Quicksilver had watched him all night. He suddenly particularly wanted to see Mercury, even if only to see it.
But... If he really became Quasimodo, he didn't want Mercury to see himself like that...
Tan Mingyuan peeled off the gauze layer by layer, and Tang Yi sat obediently with his hands wrapped around the sheets unconsciously, as nervous as he was waiting for the death sentence.
"How come the healing power of mercury is getting stronger and stronger, and it can be restored to this in a day." Tan Mingyuan tsk tsk amazed, and Tang Yi looked at him with some doubts.
"After they received your distress call, they went into the cave to rescue you. When they first saw you, your left face was burnt to pieces and your blood was blurred... It's a miracle to be able to recover like this..." Tan Mingyuan revealed the last of his left eyes A piece of gauze, "Okay, open your eyes and try."
The moment the last piece of gauze was removed, Tang Yi felt his heart skip a beat, and he couldn't help holding his breath. Through the thin eyelids, he saw the golden red light. If you are blind, you will not see such light.
Eyelashes fluttered like butterfly wings, and they opened cautiously like shyness.
The scene in front of him was a little blurry, like a thin layer of mist. It looked a little hollow from a distance, but other than that, he could really see Tan Mingyuan's clean and elegant face.
"I... I'm not blind?" A burst of ecstasy suddenly hit him. He felt his eyes warm and grabbed Tan Mingyuan's arm. "Mirror, is there a mirror?"
Tan Mingyuan took out a small mirror from his arms and handed it to him.
The pair of eyes reflected on the mirror, the one on the right is still the familiar dark brown, but the color on the left is very pale, slightly yellow, and there is a little bit of green floating around the edge, which looks a bit weird. Obliquely below the left eye, there is a dark red scar, and the newly grown flesh is uneven and looks a bit hideous. But apart from the scar, the other skin on the cheek was only slightly red, leaving no traces.
Although the scar still destroyed the original handsome appearance, it finally did not destroy the terrifying appearance he imagined. Tang Yi looked at himself in the mirror for a long time, unable to say what he felt in his heart. Are you happy because you are not blind, or sad because you are disfigured inexplicably
But among all the tastes, the only thing missing is regret.
"Although the mercury did its best to repair your eyes, because the burns were so severe at the time and the mercury was exhausted from excessive use of bioenergy, it could only be repaired to this extent, and it was impossible for vision to return to its original level, and it may be possible in the future. It will get worse and must be reviewed every year. The color of your eyes is different because of heterochromia caused by iris injury." Tan Mingyuan carefully applied the ointment to the scary scar, "As for the scar, this injury At that time, the bones were deeply visible, so it could only heal to this extent. After the mission is over, the whole body will probably be eliminated. Don't worry about Mercury's dislike of you~"
Tang Yi sneered, "He dares, but I became like this because of him."
"The tone is not too small. I don't know who keeps calling 'Mercury~~Mercury~~Don't go~~' in the dream..." Tan Mingyuan deliberately squeezed his throat and shouted a few words, hearing the color on Tang Yi's face like a traffic light Changing back and forth, roaring in exasperation, "When did I scream like that!"
The curtain of the tent was suddenly lifted again, Tang Yi raised his head, and saw that the silver-haired Kraken's face was still white to blue, his eyes were full of bloodshot eyes, and his hair was tied behind his head in a mess. His eyes were fixed for a moment, and he couldn't take it away.
Tang Yi blinked twice, "Why are you here, aren't you sleeping?"
Mercury stared at him silently like this, Tan Mingyuan saw this, and said with interest, he would come over to bandage Tang Yi later, and then backed out.
Quicksilver slipped in silently and knelt beside him. Youxuan's gaze lingered on his light-colored eyes, as well as the hideous scar. There was a hint of distress in the blue eyes, and he raised his hand and hung it by the side of his face, but hesitated as if he didn't dare to touch it.
In such gentle and pitying eyes, Tang Yi only felt uncomfortable, coughed and grinned, but he turned into a grin because he touched the unhealed part of the scar.
"It's all right! Don't you think my scar looks particularly vicissitudes for a man?" Tang Yi boldly held Mercury's hand, thinking that he would be sorry for not eating two tofu while the other party was feeling guilty... Sure enough Mercury did not break free, but held it back with his backhand.
Tang Yi suddenly forgot about his disfigurement, swallowed his saliva, and melted into the eyes of mercury.
"Why do you do this..." Mercury sighed. It wasn't a question, because he knew the answer in his heart.
He didn't expect that a human who was not bound to him could do such a stupid thing without hesitation.
First Tang Ya, then Tang Yi, he always seems to involve important people in danger.
Tang Yi couldn't bear the heaviness in Mercury's expression, so he slapped the siren on the shoulders pretending to be relaxed, "Don't look like a dead mother! Actually, I think it's pretty good, so you don't accidentally Recognize me as Tang Ya..."
Although this sentence was spoken like a joke, it was also his heart.
After seeing the strangely colored eye and the scar, he didn't feel any pity or sadness, on the contrary, he even felt a kind of relief like pleasure.
Finally, there was no more, that face exactly like Tang Ya.
He was finally different from his brother.
In the next moment, Tang Yi only felt that his eyes were dark, and the warmth on his lips melted.
His mind went blank.
Quicksilver... kissing him
Although this was not the first time that Mercury had kissed him, this time, Mercury was sober and knew that he was not Tang Ya, but he still kissed him.
Tang Yi's brain was stunned, and with his confused eyes open, he could only see the long snow-like eyelashes of Mercury.
The kiss was not very deep, without any taste of desire. It's just that the four lips touch together, and the nostalgia is generally reluctant to part. One of Mercury's hands gently supported his right face, with very close and gentle movements, as if he was something worthy of cherishment.
The lips finally slowly parted, and Mercury brushed away a strand of hair from the corner of Tang Yi's eyes. He stared at Tang Yi so earnestly, as if deeply in love. A sigh drifted in the air, "Tang Yi... I really hope I can fall in love with you."
Tang Yi's heart trembled for a while, and his eyes began to heat for some reason. There was a slight tingling in the left eye as it was overflowing with tears.
Even if he knew that it would never be possible to be bound to Mercury, Tang Yi felt it was worth knowing that Mercury wanted to love him.
He wiped away tears with his sleeves and laughed like a fool.
Tang Yi recovered quickly, and Luo Wei and Zi Xi could also walk, so they packed up overnight, eliminated some traces of camping, and rushed to the next location. The vigil is no longer held by one person alone, but by a group of people and sirens. About four days later, Lin Maochen finally found a trace of a fire in the trees near the swamp, indicating that someone had indeed passed by here not long ago.
Once you find one trace, you can easily trace the second and third. They tracked for two consecutive days, and finally found a group of soldiers in the uniforms of the Second Base camped in the mangroves. Unexpectedly, they saw the figure of the Kraken in the other's military camp.
It seems that the second base sent out the Kraken team.
That was the first time Tang Yi saw the Kraken from another base. It doesn't look much different from the third base, except that each siren has a strange device similar to a collar on its neck.
The commander-in-chief ordered that except for Tang Yi and Luo Wei, who brought their own Krakens and him to stay behind to monitor the movements of the second base, the rest of the people dispersed, searched for traces of the rebels nearby, and reported to him at any time. In order not to be noticed by the second base, after the three groups left, Jiang Yanfeng took Tang Yi and others to build a temporary camp on the other side of the swamp, and then sent the coordinates of their camp to the three groups who were searching for the rebels outside. It is convenient for them to return to the camp to meet up. Sheltered by dense mangroves, three groups of people take turns monitoring the enemy's movements every day.
Tang Yi still had gauze on his face, it hurt and itchy in the sultry weather, so uncomfortable that he couldn't sleep, so he stopped sleeping and went outside the tent to get some air. He moved cautiously outside the tent without waking Mercury. In the swamp at night, frogs croaked one after another, and the wind with a smell of water blew on the sweat on the surface of the skin, taking away a bit of sticky heat.
The commander-in-chief was lurking alone in the mangroves in the distance, holding binoculars in both hands to watch the scene on the other side. Tang Yi looked around, but didn't see Liu Huo.
"Captain, what about Liu Huo?"
Jiang Yanfeng turned to look at him, "I told him to go back to rest."
Tang Yi thought that this is not good, what if he encounters the kind of lizard that sprayed acid before? He had seen the power of those monitor lizards.
But since it was the commander-in-chief's order, he couldn't say anything. So he simply sat down next to the captain with his legs crossed, thinking that if something really happened, there would be someone to take care of.
The captain gave him a strange look, "Aren't you going to sleep?"
"Can't sleep... It's too hot." Tang Yi answered honestly.
The commander-in-chief glanced at his bewitching eyes and the thick gauze on his face, and said in a low voice, "The Kraken's self-healing ability is stronger than yours, why do you have to be a hero and toss yourself like this."
Tang Yi didn't like to hear this, so he smiled indifferently, "Don't you think my eyes are very handsome, Commander? Lin Maochen said that my eyes are called 'gold and silver demon eyes' in those Japanese anime. How cool!"
Jiang Yanfeng looked at Tang Yi's pompous expression speechlessly, "When you get older and your left eye starts to have various problems, and your right eye also suffers from loss of vision due to over-dependence, I don't think you can still laugh. come out."
"I'm still so young, I don't know if I can live to that time, why do I think so much." Tang Yi shrugged, refusing to think about the possible results. Since Mercury "confessed" to him, he has been in a good mood every day for no reason. Mercury has become more gentle lately. He doesn't even let him carry a marching bag. Sometimes, he gently lifts the hair on his forehead, helps him apply medicine on his scars, and sleeps with his body on his back. At the same time, he gently wrapped around his waist. Tang Yi felt that it would be worth it if a scar on one eye could be exchanged for a beautiful woman to hug her.
Jiang Yanfeng ignored the idiot who was about to go to heaven, and continued to look at the silent camp on the other side. Tang Yi sat for a while, feeling a little embarrassed that the surroundings were quiet, so he asked, "Captain, why do you have to follow this mission in person?"
Jiang Yanfeng put down the telescope, but turned on the watch, observing the positioning of the other groups, "I have my own task."
"...Can I ask a question, you don't have to answer, I'm just curious."
"Just ask."
"Is this mission to attract rebels with mercury?"
Jiang Yanfeng turned his head sharply, staring at him faintly. Tang Yi was seen a little uncomfortable.
"I'm just guessing. Because the rebels on the previous two missions were targeting quicksilver, as if they knew everything about our team's actions. I don't think the Ministry of Security will allow this to continue to happen, right?"
The corners of Jiang Yanfeng's mouth were raised, but the smile did not reach his eyes, "You are very smart. However, as a soldier, as long as you obey orders, it is enough. Sometimes being too smart is asking for death."
Tang Yi pursed his lips. He guessed right, this time the mission seems to be just to collect evidence of the second base and the tradition of the rebels, but in fact, it is to find out the rebel spies in the team.
If the spies want to act, now is the most suitable time when all the teams are marching separately.
But why not let him and Luo Wei go out together? Maybe Luo Wei was not considered because he was added in the second mission, but what about him
Did he only join the team for a year because of him
If the Ministry of Security knew that he was a clone raised by the rebels, I'm afraid they would kill him right away
"If you're wondering why I didn't let you out, it's very simple. First of all, you joined the team and are our key monitoring target. You have no chance to contact the rebels. Secondly, you are confused by the mercury, you can't be a spy."
Tang Yi rubbed his nose, his face was hot, and he said hard, "When did I get so dizzy..."
Jiang Yanfeng sighed softly, and the familiar melancholy once again closed between the slightly vicissitudes of life.
"Sometimes, although the Kraken is bound to a human, there are cases where the human is trapped in a deeper state. Those researchers call this phenomenon a 'bonding illusion'. It means that there is no physiological characteristics of a Kraken. However, an abnormal emotional pattern similar to the Kraken has occurred. This phenomenon occurs from time to time among the members of the Kraken team, probably due to the influence of the Kraken's feelings. Your team's Nolan is somewhat like an example of a binding illusion. As for You..." Jiang Yanfeng looked at him with some pity, "Your hallucinations are really serious."
Tang Yi was stunned for a moment, feeling a little uncomfortable in his heart.
Is it just... a hallucination...
If only it was an illusion. Maybe one day when he wakes up, he won't be full of the silver-haired siren that is sometimes cold and sometimes gentle, won't entangle those impossible things between extravagance and sobriety, and won't go for a name. Worry about gain and loss. Maybe he can have a gentle and cute girlfriend who doesn't dislike him, maybe he can have one or two chubby babies, sit on the beach with his family and blow the sea breeze, and tell the story of fighting side by side with the Kraken when he was young .
"Then, how can I wake up from the hallucination?" Tang Yi took out a cigarette from his trousers pocket, bit it in his mouth, but didn't light it.
Jiang Yanfeng's eyes fell on the thick water of the swamp, which was empty and seemed a little lost.
"Maybe one day you will be cruel and throw everything here, and you will wake up." Jiang Yanfeng's mouth twitched, but his smile was a bit bitter, "but more often, if you are reluctant to throw it away, you can only I've been struggling with hallucinations. I can only be careful not to suffocate and die."
Tang Yi looked at the general captain's profile, although he was ordinary, but because of the portrayal of the years, he had a little more profound temperament, and wondered what the relationship between the captain and Liu Huo was.
Although Liu Huo was very obedient, in the eyes he looked at the commander-in-chief, there was not the kind of focus and eagerness that other Krakens showed when they looked at their master. Speaking of it, it is a bit like the bland and alienated look that Mercury had when she had just discovered his identity but had to pretend to be in a relationship with him.
Coupled with the sad and melancholy temperament of the captain from time to time...
Tang Yi always felt that he had dug up some incredible gossip...
At this moment, the sound of footsteps approached quickly. Tang Yi turned his head and saw Liu Huo standing behind them.
The commander-in-chief stood up slowly, "Started?"
Liu Huo nodded, "There is now a group of a dozen or so rebels surrounding 'us'."
Tang Yi stood up suddenly, "Have the rebels surrounded us?"
Jiang Yanfeng ignored him and only asked, "Which area is surrounded by?"
"A zone."
"A district..." A cold light flashed in Jiang Yanfeng's eyes, "Then let's go to a district to meet them."