Mercury has only seen the CD once, or seen it in a similar audio-visual product store when cleaning the infected in the abandoned city, but now few people use such a cumbersome thing to store information, even if it can read The entire team of disc machines could not find a few. Mercury glanced at Tang Yi, who was sleeping in the capsule, and his eyes became hesitant.
Why didn't Tang Yi want him to see this CD
Mercury hesitated for a while, but still put the CD back in the envelope, stuffed it back into Tang Yi's pocket, and quietly returned to the bed.
The next day, Tang Yi was woken up by the automatic alarm bell playing in the sleeping compartment as usual. He opened his eyes in a daze, letting the unfinished dream settle down, turned his head and looked at the sleeping mercury beside him.
A faint sourness swirled in his throat a few times.
24 hours is like a long dream.
Tang Yi sighed, got out of bed, rubbed his sleepy eyes and walked to the bathroom. Before entering the door, he saw his jacket on the back of the chair, and suddenly remembered the CD. He patted his head hard, thinking about how dizzy it was yesterday, and even forgetting such an important thing. He hurriedly rolled up his clothes, pulled out the closet and stuffed it to the innermost position, burying it with other clothes, and then looked back at Mercury again alertly.
Mercury was still quietly asleep, breathing long and long.
Tang Yi breathed a sigh of relief and entered the bathroom to wash. What he didn't see was that Quicksilver opened his eyes behind him, looked at the bathroom door with a complicated expression, and then looked at the wardrobe.
For the next few days, everything was business as usual. Tang Yi thought it was too dangerous to watch the CD in the team, so he decided to take advantage of the next weekend to go out to visit Su Han's grave and find a safe place to read the CD.
Life in the team was not easy either. Team 15 began to be crowded out by other teams. When they needed to share the Strait training ground, they were often "accidentally injured" by other players in training, and the training grounds that Tang Yi applied for were often not approved. Once Tang Yi was so angry that he rushed into the shooting training ground with Lin Maochen and Luo Wei, only to find that more than half of the targets were empty. Tang Yi had a fight with the administrator at that time, and then was thrown into the confinement room by Qu Lan.
Tang Yi laughed at himself that he was becoming more and more familiar with the confinement room, and even felt a little like home.
However, Tang Yi found that even though those team members crowded out their 15th Division, the Krakens always respected their team's Krakens, especially Quicksilver.
Once when passing by the restaurant, Tang Yi found that behind the human team members who spurned them, the sea-monsters were silently nodding their heads towards Mercury with a respectful look. On the other hand, Mercury's expression was the same as usual, without squint, as if everything was natural, and even inadvertently, there was a trace of a king's spirit in his steps.
A strange atmosphere spread in the air, the eyes exchanged by the sea-monsters occasionally, the infrasound communication that was not noticed by the masters, and the buzzing in Tang Yi's ears was louder than before, but he couldn't. Listen clearly to what is being communicated. Mercury is still missing from time to time. He will return to the Kraken Hall every other day. Although he is no longer homeless at night like before, the frequency of such frequentness is still suspicious in Tang Yi's heart.
As a human team member, he was not allowed to step into the Kraken Hall. He could only ask several researchers in the Kraken Hall if he noticed anything abnormal. The researchers told him that everything was normal with a "nosy" expression, and that when Mercury returned, he would only perform singing rituals that the Krakens only understood with other Krakens in the sea. It was a kind of social interaction among the Krakens The method, in simple terms, is no different from chatting with humans, and there is nothing to worry about.
But Tang Yi always felt uneasy in his heart.
After Tang Yi came out of the confinement room, he found that Mercury was not in the dormitory. Asked others, they all said that not long after he was locked up yesterday, Mercury went out, and he didn't know what to do.
Tang Yi was a little angry.
He was locked up all night, but Mercury wasn't worried at all...
The most exaggerated thing is that the mercury did not come back until late at night. Tang Yi decided that when he saw Mercury this time, he must have a good talk with him. He is always so late at night, it will make others suspicious.
Tang Yi sat on the bed and read a book for a while, but he didn't wait for Mercury to come back until one o'clock in the morning. He thought: Forget it, tomorrow is the weekend, and he has to go into the city early in the morning to find a way to watch the CD. He stood up, dug out his coat from the depths of the closet, and reached for his pocket.
Then he froze.
The disc is missing...
Unwilling, he turned over all the pockets of his clothes again, and then threw all the clothes out of the closet, and scattered them all over the floor. He got into the closet and touched them everywhere. His heartbeat accelerated to the limit, hitting his chest heavily, and cold sweat dripped from his forehead. In a panic, he didn't even hear the door opening.
"Don't look for it."
A cold, somewhat hallucinatory voice suddenly sounded, like a bolt of lightning piercing his bewildered mind. Tang Yi's back froze, and a sudden intuition made him a little scared to turn around.
But he still turned around. After all, he had no other choice.
In the dark night, Mercury's figure was like a ghost, standing in front of him with a clear stream of light, holding the CD in his hand.
The moment Tang Yi saw Mercury's eyes, he knew that Mercury had seen the CD...
Even... more than he's ever seen...
Tang Yi felt that his throat was stuck, his internal organs sank into the endless ice field, and he couldn't even move a finger.
The ethereal flow in Mercury's eyes disappeared, leaving only a bottomless void and sadness. The last time Tang Yi saw him look like this was when he saw through his disguise and knew the news that Tang Ya had died.
Mercury looked at him quietly, suddenly moved his lips, and pulled out a heartbreaking tragic smile.
Mercury always thought that he was lucky among the Krakens. Even if his binding was not a completely autonomous choice, it was not the result of subconscious brainwashing like other Krakens. After he had contact with Tang Ya, he naturally developed feelings for the first person who extended his protective hands to him. And after being bound, Tang Ya also responded to his love. Even though she never really said the word love, Mercury still believed in Tang Ya's occasional tenderness, the pampering eyes she showed when she touched his hair, and taught him. The stern but patient eyes when fighting skills, and the warm embrace when hugging him are true feelings.
From the day he woke up in this world, Tang Ya was everything to him. He worked hard to learn how to control bio-energy, to learn everything Tang Ya wanted him to learn, just to see the relieved smile on the man's face. Even if Tang Ya died later, it was the tender memories that Tang Ya gave him that supported him through the most difficult days.
It was only now that he finally understood that everything was a lie.
His whole life was a lie, a surrogate for accidental success, a shadow from hundreds of years ago.
Tang Ya never loved him.
The most important thing in Tang Ya's heart is not him.
Tang Ya betrayed him.
As soon as he released his hand, the disc fell to the ground. Mercury's laughter was scattered, like tears splashing all over the floor. Tang Yi's heart trembled in the laughter that was more painful than crying. He wanted to say something, but he only said the word "mercury", and he couldn't find any other words.
Mercury sat down on her knees with a smile, raised her hand to wipe away the tears from the corner of her eyes. He raised his head and looked at Tang Yi with indifferent eyes, "Have you seen everything in here?"
Tang Yi pursed his lips, his voice hoarse, "I...I didn't finish it..."
"You know, but you're not going to tell me?" Mercury's voice was still calm, but there was a trace of trembling in the end.
Tang Yi shook his head, feeling like he was slapping his mouth with every word he said, "I'm not sure if the contents of this CD are true or false... I don't want you to be sad."
"Don't you want me to be sad?" In a sarcastic tone, Mercury turned his head slightly, and his expression was burning with anger, "Are you laughing at me? Laughing at me like an idiot, being played by you humans in the palm of your hand. Are you very proud that my self-righteous siren is firmly controlled by your 'brother', trying so hard to please you like a pet?!"
Mercury's words were like sharp thorns, piercing Tang Yi's hole like a thousand arrows. Tang Yi couldn't take it anymore, he stood up suddenly and shouted, "Enough!"
Mercury glared at him, and there was even a hint of hatred in it.
Tang Yi didn't understand why Mercury hated him, he was not Tang Ya, and he didn't know anything about everything. Why did Mercury get him involved? !
Of course, at this time, he didn't think that there might be other things in the half of the disc that he hadn't seen that could add to the damage of mercury.
"Do you think you're the only one wronged?! Do you think I want this?! I don't know at all!!! I'm not Tang Ya, I don't know these messes, I just want to save you!!! I'm so special I just want to be with you!!!"
Tang Yi couldn't believe that he had shouted out words that he had never shown in his heart. He took a step back and felt a dull pain in his chest, but some words were like spilled water, and once they started, they couldn't stop, "You think I'm happy to be punished. You, being called by others Tang Ya Tang Ya all day long? You think I want all my identity information to be erased and can only live as someone else from now on? Do you think I want to listen to you while calling me your sweetheart 's name? I'm a person too! I'm also working hard to live! What do you want from me!!! Why do you say that about me!!!"
The calm on the mercury surface was no longer there, anger, humiliation, and sadness alternated. The power of bio-energy blew his long hair into the air, and suddenly a scream like a trapped beast exploded in the entire room. The glass and windows were shattered into pieces, the entire towering dormitory building trembled with the sudden surging force, and the sound of the alarm echoed in the otherwise quiet night.
Tang Yi's body was so shaken that it flew backwards, and his back slammed against the wall, making him almost gasp. He was lying on the ground, surrounded by shattered glass, ceramics and even plastic and metal, and cracks appeared even on the walls where he could project.
At the center of this vortex of power, Mercury's whole body burst into light, making him unable to open his eyes. He couldn't stand up straight, couldn't move, the mercury's power terrified him, and the endless despair in that power made him cold.
When Mercury finally restrained the explosive force, he propped himself up on the ground as if he had collapsed, gasping for breath. Tang Yi didn't know when his eyes were wet, and he crawled forward a few steps before coming to Mercury. He grabbed the back of Mercury's neck and pressed it against the Kraken's forehead. The voices of the two people's breathing were so loud that they echoed in the messy suite.
"Mercury... You still have me..." Tang Yi's voice was also broken, like shards of glass around him.
Mercury was breathing heavily, as if trying to control his emotions. He grabbed Tang Yi's arm like a drowning person grabbing a life-saving driftwood, leaving deep bruises on his skin, "Is it really all fake... Not at all. What's left..."
After a whisper, the siren raised his eyes. There were tears in there, but they didn't fall. Seeing Mercury's empty expression, Tang Yi felt as if his heart had been twisted a few times, and it hurt sharply.
Tang Yi hugged Mercury's body tightly and told him in an unsteady voice, "I don't know about the others, but I'm not fake to you...".
"My head hurts..." Mercury whispered into his ears like a moan. Almost at the same time, the door of the suite was violently invaded, and many team members and Krakens in battle uniforms filed in, besieging him and Mercury. Tang Yi and Mercury's bodies were forcibly separated, and a sound-absorbing mask was fastened to Mercury's face. Special creatures could restrain the handcuffs from the Kraken's wrists. During the whole process, Mercury did not struggle, and her long hair swayed as her head swayed feebly. Tang Yi, on the other hand, was firmly pinned to the ground by the other hands, so he could only turn his face to the side, widening his eyes to look at Mercury's face covered by his long hair.
"Mercury... Mercury!" Tang Yi shouted the name of the Kraken, but the other party didn't look up at him for a long time.
Qu Lan stood at the door of the bedroom, looked at them with an unpredictable expression, and ordered in a cold voice, "The binding is invalid, take the mercury back to the Kraken Hall, and take Tang Yi to the headquarters for temporary detention."