As if the spell was broken, the frozen time began to flow again. Tang Ya closed the book and put it aside, stood up, and walked towards them, stepping on the fallen leaves on the ground. Tang Yi felt sour in his eyes, and his heart was tumbling, and he couldn't tell what kind of emotions were boiling in his soul.
Tang Ya stopped about five steps in front of him and Mercury, her eyes as quiet as the deep moon in a well passing through the dream of life and death.
"Mercury, Xiaoyi."
Mercury took two steps forward and stretched out his right hand. His fingertips trembled slightly, and he leaned forward with unsure hesitation. Tang Ya stood quietly in front of him, her bottomless eyes easily capturing all his mind. The fingertips touched the real skin, following the outline of the heroic spirit, tracing the corners of the eyebrows and eyes that have not changed. Tang Ya raised her hand and gently wrapped Mercury's hand, intertwining her fingers, feeling nostalgic.
Tang Yi suddenly felt that the distance between himself and Mercury was split into a horizon that could not be crossed.
"Tang Ya..." Mercury's eyes turned red, her voice trembling, "You... are you for real?"
Tang Ya put Mercury's hand on her cheek, rubbed it lightly, and silently told Mercury how real he was. The long-lost touch of intimacy caused Mercury's body to tremble from the violent emotional impact.
The deceased lover reappeared in front of him, reaching out to touch and smell the breath on his body, and hear his murmured words. How many sea monsters who lost their partners can only realize the wish in a dream. But now, Tang Ya was standing in front of him without any change.
Mercury suddenly hugged Tang Ya, holding it so tightly, as if she was afraid that Tang Ya would disappear in the next instant. Tang Ya also hugged Mercury's body back. The two embraced each other in the light sound of the water fountain, and the whole body was immersed in the light color, and the wind lifted the silver and black hair, which was indistinguishable.
When they finally separated a little, Lin Maochen shouted again, "Boss, you are not dead!!!" and rushed over, and Tan Mingyuan and the other Krakens also surrounded them with unexpected smiles.
Tang Yi stood aside, as if suddenly transformed into the shadow of the hibiscus tree beside him. He couldn't move his body, just opened his eyes slightly, watching what was happening in front of him.
Luo Wei suddenly broke the joy of reunion, "If you are the real Tang Ya, why are you in the rebel camp?"
The atmosphere was tense for a moment, Tang Ya's eyes fell on Luo Wei, calm and unwavering, but with an invisible pressure. He sighed and suddenly walked towards Tang Yi.
Luo Wei was a bit alert and seemed to want to block Tang Yi, but Tang Yi gently pressed his shoulders and pushed him aside.
The two who used to be exactly the same, are no longer the same. Tang Yi touched the scar on his face, and suddenly felt that he was so ugly that he was not even qualified to be a substitute.
How strange, before that, he even started to like his different colored eyes and the scar under the corner of his eye.
"Xiao Yi." Tang Ya stretched out her hand, took away Tang Yi's hand covering the scar, and touched the uneven skin with some pity, "You have suffered."
Tang Yi's Adam's apple slid up and down, his eyes were sore, and he asked with difficulty, "You are not dead."
"Um."
"In the end what happened?"
"It's a long story."
"… tell me!"
Tang Ya looked around and saw the confusion on the faces of Lin Maochen and others. He then told the real life experience of him and Tang Yi. Tang Yi was no longer unfamiliar with these words, but in the ears of Lin Maochen, Tan Mingyuan and Luo Wei, it was as incredible as a fantasy. They opened their mouths slightly, and their eyes wandered between the two "brothers" of Mercury and Tang.
Peacock is probably the one that everyone knows the most, so Tsuruta Takumi must have revealed Mercury's identity to him. However, he was a little surprised to know that Tang Ya had always been a spy planted by the rebels.
As Tang Ya spoke, the joy on Lin Maochen's face disappeared. He never imagined that the leader he admired turned out to be a member of the wicked rebel army.
Mercury, on the other hand, had been staring at Tang Ya in a trance, and it was difficult to discern the emotion in his eyes. How Tang Yi hoped that Mercury could take a look at him.
Tan Mingyuan asked, "Then... why did the Free Alliance kill Quicksilver in the battle where you 'died'?"
Hearing this question, Mercury's eyes trembled for a moment. This was something he had never been able to figure out.
In the CD, Tang Ya told Tang Yi that his mission was about to end, and he would hand over the mercury to the Free Alliance for further research. When he saw this place at that time, the pain like a thunderbolt in Mercury's heart and the unbelievable feeling of being betrayed were still vivid to this day.
The joy of reunion faded a little, and he recalled all the hurtful things in the CD.
Suddenly he interrupted, "I didn't want to kill Mercury. That mission was originally a trap of the Free Alliance. Tang Ya gave us less and less DNA samples of Mercury, which made the envoy of benevolence in charge at that time very angry, so Decided to take a risk and plan that operation to transfer Mercury directly to the Free Alliance, so as to facilitate a more in-depth study of the power in his body. Originally everything went well, the third base went up and the Kraken team was dispatched to destroy the stronghold, but well... out After a little problem, your boss regrets it."
"Repent?"
"I… can't bear to hand over Mercury." Tang Ya's tone was steady, but with deep sadness and guilt, "Mercury is my mission, but I have been together for ten years, so I can't just send him to someone like this. Zhang dissecting table."
"If that's the case, why did you bring Mercury with us now?" Tang Yi asked.
Sitting on a bench, he picked a camellia and played with it, and said casually, "You can rest assured that I will take over now. I'm not the kind of Frankenstein who wants to dissect things at every turn."
Tan Mingyuan touched his chin with his hand, thinking about what Tang Ya said, "...you regretted it temporarily, so the rebels killed you?"
"No, at that time I notified the support of other detachments to assist, but I didn't expect that the Free Alliance had expected that I might go back on it, so they still surrounded us. At that time, a member of the 18th detachment suddenly decided to shoot the mercury, probably Think mercury must never fall into the hands of the rebels."
"Then you blocked a shot for me?" Mercury suddenly interjected. Tang Ya looked at him and nodded slowly, "I don't know what happened after that."
What Tang Ya said was very detailed and true, perhaps this was the truth at that time. But I don't know why, Mercury always feels like there is a layer of things.
It was true that he lost the memory of that time, but after listening to what Tang Ya said, it seemed like he was listening to another story and couldn't resonate. Something is missing.
But if the truth is what Tang Ya said, that is to say, Tang Ya did not betray him.
The truth that frightened and saddened him was not true. Maybe Tang Ya still has him in her heart.
Mercury never knew he could be so easily satisfied. Even if the most important thing in Tang Ya's heart is not him, as long as he leaves a more important position for him, it will be enough. He is willing to believe this kind of truth.
Lin Maochen still had a hard time accepting the fact that Tang Ya was a rebel. He shook his head and took a step back, "Boss... How can you join our enemy! How many of our brothers died at their hands!"
Tang Ya narrowed her eyes, "Sorry, I have no choice."
"You are so disappointing! The boss knows how uncomfortable it will be!"
At this time, he stood up, and with a wave of his hand, a soldier pressed the agitated Lin Maochen's shoulder, "Okay, if your leader hadn't been an ordinary person for Tang Yi, he wouldn't have taken the initiative to help us. Do things. Even now he didn't stay here voluntarily, so if you want to swear and beat people, stop, I don't want you to hurt his handsome face."
Tang Yi suddenly put both hands on Tang Ya's shoulders, forcing Tang Ya to face him.
He looked at Tang Ya's face.
The cold and hard feeling of the urn in his hand was still fresh in his memory, and he could not accept the fact that all this was fake.
"You joined the rebels because of me. Isn't it?" Tang Yi heard himself ask in a jerky voice.
The "twins" stared at each other as if the world outside of them didn't exist.
Tang Ya sighed and said, "That's all in the past."
Tang Yi sneered, "You have changed, I thought you would say to me as proudly as before: Don't take yourself too seriously, I just want to prove that you are weaker than me."
Tang Ya was slightly taken aback.
"Why..." Tang Yi's hand on Tang Ya's shoulder gradually tightened, his throat seemed to be blocked by a fast stone, and he couldn't spit it out or swallow it, "Why don't you want to contact me... Contact Mercury..."
If he knew his brother wasn't dead, if he knew...
Maybe he wouldn't take that mission from the start.
Even if he is punished by the base, even if his loyalty value is reduced by 30%, at least he doesn't have to know mercury, he doesn't have to fall into this desperate love net, like a beggar, rejoicing for the unreal tenderness, holding a share The ethereal hope is smug.
Then I watched this hope fall to pieces in front of me.
"Why!!! Do you know that Mercury almost died!!! Do you know that I..." Tang Yi asked loudly, but failed to say the last half of the sentence. After all, he was not used to showing his feelings in front of Tang Ya, even after the distance between life and death.
Due to Tang Yi's strength in holding his shoulders, a painful expression appeared on Tang Ya's face. The next moment, Tang Yi suddenly felt his wrist tighten, and his strength suddenly lost.
Mercury squeezed his wrist tightly, forcing him to let go of Tang Ya. Tang Yi looked at the icy blue eyes that fell on him for the first time after seeing Tang Ya. He never knew that Mercury's eyes could make him feel so cold and distant.
Mercury quickly released his wrist and looked at him with a complicated expression. Tang Yi looked at the two people standing side by side in front of him, one elegant and the other handsome, as if they belonged to each other from the beginning, and there was no other place in between.
He took a step back and suddenly understood that the position beside Mercury never belonged to him. He was just having a dream.
At that moment his heart was numb. He found his brother, but lost the mercury again. He admired how calm he was, but lowered his head and pulled out a somewhat joking, self-deprecating smile.
"The Lord is back, and my mission as a counterfeit can be considered a complete success." The tone pretended to be relaxed, without the slightest tremor.
Probably seeing the loneliness in Tang Yi's eyes that couldn't be concealed, Mercury felt his heart throbbing for a moment.
But he didn't say anything after all.
"Xiaoyi," Tang Ya took a step forward, as if trying to hold him, "I'm sorry, I…"
Tang Yi raised a hand to interrupt him, "No need to explain. You don't owe me anything, on the contrary, I always owe you." The clown's mask, "You talk, I'm... gone."
He escaped.
Fortunately, no one stopped him.
I escaped from the heavenly bright garden, and wandered aimlessly in the spacious and clean corridor. He opened his eyes hard, trying to let the wind dry the crumbling weakness. Everything that happened in his days with Mercury came into view, the whispers in the sleep capsule, the toilet fight in the morning, the tacit cooperation in training, the safe embrace and soft singing after he had just had hearing surgery , the body that hugged tightly, the fluttering eyelashes like butterfly wings when kissing him, the cheeks stained by the sun's rouge when he watched the sunrise, the gentle eyes when watching him eat the birthday cake, and the sentence " Tang Yi... I really hope I can fall in love with you." He didn't even know that he had such a good memory that he remembered so many details, as if it happened yesterday.
They... were already so close...
He originally thought that there was really something between himself and Mercury...
Tang Yi stopped abruptly, and in front of an empty floor-to-ceiling window, he opened his eyes wide to look at the sun shining through the clouds, letting the light beam hurt his pale left eye.
It's a good thing my brother didn't die. Mercury wasn't originally his, and he really shouldn't have behaved so badly.
He should give his brother a hug and bless them lightly. Even if you want to go, you should go calmly and freely.
Tang Yi hated himself more and more.
There was the sound of footsteps behind him, and a hand was placed on his shoulder.
Tang Yi turned his head and saw Luo Wei's worried face.
"Brother Tang... are you okay?"
Tang Yi swallowed the sharp pain in his throat, cleared his throat, put on the mask he didn't care about, and shrugged, "I'm fine, I just had a urgency to urinate."
Hope Luo Wei didn't notice his slightly red eyes.
I don't know if Luo Wei really didn't notice it, or if he knew that Tang Yi didn't want to talk about it, he simply asked, "... What should we do now?"
"Most of the surnamed Li wants to use my brother to threaten Mercury to join them. We are just affiliates. I don't think they will force us to join the army. It is also unlikely to hurt us and your brother. After all, he hopes that Mercury can be willing. If we stay here, hurting us will only make Mercury feel resistant to the rebels." Tang Yi pretended to analyze it calmly, in a business-like tone, "I think he would put us under house arrest at most to prevent anyone from reporting to the base."
Papapapa, sudden applause. Tang Yi's body froze, and when he turned his head, he saw Lee leaning on a square stone pillar, with amber eyes staring at Tang Yi with strong interest, "I really admire you, your sweetheart just ran away, You can still pretend to be so calm, and still have the heart to analyze the situation here? Heart, you are really fascinated me more and more~"