Peacock and Tsuruta Takumi came to the barracks to join Quicksilver and the other Krakens. All the Krakens were busy, carrying boxes of anti-binding reagents and a small amount of supplies that the rebels agreed to finance to the medium sky ship. At that time, Mercury was explaining something to Qingdang, and after turning his head to see them, he walked over.
Contrary to Peacock's expectations, he was greeted by a punch that hit him in the face. His face suddenly turned to one side, and he staggered into the arms of Tsuruta Takumi who quickly hugged him.
"Mercury!" Hetian shouted angrily.
However, the cold and evil spirit on Mercury's face made him startled.
"I said, don't involve Tang Yi. Next time you act in private, you won't be so polite with a punch."
The anger in Peacock's eyes also became stronger, and he sneered, "You know in your own heart how slim our chances of success are without Tang Yi's distraction."
Mercury took a step forward, an invisible energy field spread out from his body, and the surrounding air seemed to be stagnant. Tsuruta stood in front of Peacock and put his hand on the hilt of the knife at his waist, "Mercury, calm down. Now is not the time for infighting."
Mercury still stared at the peacock, and the latter stared back without showing weakness.
"What are you doing?"
The fierce aura that filled Mercury's body suddenly diminished a lot. As soon as he turned his head, he saw Luo Wei walking from the direction of the barracks with Tang Yi, who was injured on his leg. Lin Maochen Lanhuang Zixi who followed behind them also looked at them blankly.
Mercury hurried to Tang Yi, and their eyes were glued together. Tang Yi watched Mercury's clear eyes staring at him, and the air around him seemed to be transpiring with the brighter light on the Kraken, and the surrounding world also disappeared after that light. Tang Yi's breathing was slightly stagnant, and his heartbeat was so loud that he almost suspected that the whole world could hear it.
He clearly knew that he shouldn't feel this way, but seeing Mercury walking towards him like this, staring at him with such suffocating focus, he couldn't control his instinctive reaction.
Mercury stood in front of him, listening to Tang Yi's increasingly rapid heartbeat, and watching his Adam's apple sliding up and down when he swallowed because of nervousness. Suddenly the Kraken knelt down on one knee. Tang Yi was startled, "You... what are you doing!"
And Mercury just put his hand on his injured calf and said without looking up, "Heal."
Warm power flowed into his body along Mercury's palm. Obviously, mercury can now directly control the energy transfer in the body without using sound as a medium. Tang Yi looked down at Mercury's snow-white hair, and suddenly realized that at some point, Mercury was getting closer and closer to the dreaded image of the god he revealed after he lost consciousness in the deep sea. At such a close distance from him, he could also feel the indescribably warm and heavy force field penetrating from Mercury's body.
The wound was healing quickly, and when Mercury pulled his palm away, only a brightly colored scar remained.
Mercury slowly stood up. Tang Yi was stunned, held back for a long time, and said "thank you"...
Quicksilver didn't speak, his eyes turned to the others behind him, "Time is running out, everyone will board the ship immediately."
Tang Yi turned to look, "Where's Tan Mingyuan?"
"He left with the people from the first base yesterday, and Ashes was with him." Lin Maochen replied.
Tang Yi was stunned. He didn't know when he would be able to eat his dark food again, and he didn't even have a chance to say goodbye.
After everyone boarded the ship, Tang Yi stood in front of the screen of the command tower, watching the city with houses below push away a little bit, giving birth to a somewhat unreal feeling. Too many things have happened in one day. At this moment, the setting sun is at the end of the green swamp. Through the gaps in the clouds, the sky is very likely to be transmitted. The calm and peaceful scene seems to have been a long time ago.
Tang Yi guessed, is Lee standing in the command hall at the moment, watching them leave with unpredictable eyes
What will be the way forward
Quicksilver was no longer his siren, he had so many sirens waiting for him to guide him, and he became a leader.
From seeing those tragic afterimages in the deep-sea city, seeing the pain and anger of Mercury, and later learning of Mercury's true identity, Tang Yi vaguely felt that Mercury would one day take this road. But he did not expect this day to come so quickly, so unexpectedly.
And what will he do? He's a human, but he doesn't belong to the base, and he doesn't belong to the rebels. Where should he go
Tang Yi has not felt so dazed for a long time. When he was in the Kraken team, he always had a purpose, either to disguise Tang Ya, to complete tasks, or to train. He knows what tomorrow will be like, where he belongs.
But now, he doesn't know anymore.
Quicksilver sat in the commander's seat and ordered to turn on the stealth function and sailed northeast along the Great Saltwater Marsh. Luo Wei sat in the position of the first mate, and in less than half an hour, he became proficient in the driving method of the ship, and instructed Zixi and several other Krakens to set the course. Lin Maochen was busy analyzing the ship's logbook and contacting the ship's computer in front of another projection computer. Tsuruta Takumi and Mercury were arguing about something, it seemed that they were discussing the issue of heading.
Tang Yi suddenly felt out of place. He turned around and walked out of the bridge gate.
Passing through the corridor where the sirens come and go, Tang Yi felt some unease floating in the air, but more of a pulsation called hope. The Krakens have a clear purpose for their actions, without hesitation, everyone knows where they are going and what to do.
Tang Yi wandered aimlessly through the complex and clean corridors of the ship, and finally, he walked into the now-empty lounge.
Next to the small holographic movie projector, there is a desktop computer that looks some years old. On the thin host, there is a slender crack that looks like an optical drive.
Tang Yi clumsily managed to find the switch of the host computer, and then inserted the CD into the CD-ROM drive.
The main unit made a lingering noise, and the disc was spinning inside, making a creaking sound.
The player's box appeared on the desktop, and the familiar Tang Ya's face appeared on it. Tang Yi held his breath and dragged the small dot on the progress bar with the mouse to the position of the next half.
After Tang Ya finished speaking, her purpose was to control the most powerful sea-monster in the world, Mercury, and to find a way to create more clones of Mercury, she suddenly fell into a brief silence.
Then, Tang Ya suddenly chuckled.
Tang Yi seldom saw Tang Ya smile like this, with a bit of bitterness and helplessness in the smile. He was a little exhausted and messed up his normally neat hair with his hands, and he looked a little like Tang Yi.
"Xiao Yi, I don't know if I can continue to do it... Mercury believes in me very much. He sometimes looks at me like you when I was young... But I want to betray him and hand him over to the rebels... Ren Ai I can't even think what the messenger will do to him. I don't want to go on... Next time they will do something with the mercury. If I don't hand it over, they might do it on you , I can't... I can't lose you."
Tang Yi's heart skipped a beat.
Tang Ya's almost unsteady voice was full of exhaustion, "Do you remember that time I beat you hard after you said you had joined the military academy? I'm afraid that you will be involved in In these messes, once you get involved, you can't get out. But you always don't listen to me... Why don't you always listen to me? I have already prepared everything for you. Why don't you accept it? You Why don't you understand... The one I'm most worried about is you! You fool!"
"Brother..." Tang Yi didn't seem to realize that he was talking to an afterimage of the past.
He suddenly understood why Tang Ya was so angry after hearing that he had volunteered to join the army.
The brother exchanged his own freedom for Tang Yi's freedom, but Tang Yi lost it himself. So Tang Ya's sacrifice and choice suddenly became meaningless.
Tang Yi felt as if his head had been hit by a sledgehammer. Why does the sadness and loneliness in Tang Ya's words feel so familiar.
That feeling was similar to when he watched Mercury meet "Tang Ya" again. It's like looking into a dream that can never be caught.
Tang Ya rubbed her face with her hands, as if she was trying to piece herself together. He looked at Tang Yi again, or at the camera, "Xiao Yi, I opened an account for you at the fifth base, and your new identity and all birth information are ready. I want you to read it. Immediately after this CD, go to the second-hand market in Yandu to buy a button phone, the one without internet access, and dial this number." He held up a piece of paper, pasted it on the lens, and wrote a series of numbers on it. , "If Mercury is also watching this disc, then I hope, you can leave Tang Yi. Sorry, I know it's cruel to say this, but you will not have any future together. The base and the Free Alliance will not let go. You, Mercury, you have the power of Chen Yuan. One day, your power will be awakened, and the base and the Freedom Alliance will no longer be able to control you. But before that, please don't let Tang Yi take risks with you. I know I'm not a good master, and I've been using you and deceiving you. But now that I'm dead, please allow me to be selfish again."
Tang Yi recalled the night when Mercury lost control, and remembered Mercury's desperate and sad eyes, presumably because of these words. Why can Tang Ya say such cold words, did he really not respond to Mercury's binding
Why do you say that... Why do you have to arrange so much for him? Why try to control him even now
He always felt that Tang Ya looked down on him, that he was too stupid and too fragile to make a correct decision by himself. He was always called stupid, stupid, not good enough to be a soldier. He still remembered that when he was a child, he learned to write a poem from a collection of poems he saw in the library, but when Tang Ya saw it, he only got ridiculed, and he read it loudly in front of all the other children in an exaggerated tone, causing laughter one slice. Since then, Tang Yi has never tried to write anything.
Now, he actually told him that all this was to protect him and let him get the so-called freedom
Tang Yi propped up the nearest chair and fell down. He felt difficulty breathing and his heart pounded.
"Xiao Yi, I know that many things I did and said in the past made you sad. If you give me another chance, maybe I will use another way... I just... care about you too much. Although we are A clone of the same person, but you and I are completely different individuals. You giggle, you dream, you are awkward, you do things recklessly, and you have a bad temper. You are everything I can't be. I know you always think you are My shadow, but in reality, I am your shadow. I want to… protect you, and watch you forever…”
He took a deep breath, his eyes were a little red, "But, I'm afraid I can't keep looking at you anymore."
A tear-like pain spread from his chest, Tang Yi unconsciously bit his thumb so hard that his nails cracked. But he didn't notice it, staring blankly at the person on the screen.
Tang Ya forcefully pulled out a smile, the smile was warm, like the dawn in the clean sky, "Xiao Yi, I hope you can be happy."
With my share.
Then, the picture freezes on that smile. The progress bar has come to an end.
This is Tang Ya's last sentence, the last expression.
Tang Yi still opened his eyes wide, staring at the smiling face. After a long while, he stretched out his slightly trembling hand that was bitten and bleeding, and lightly touched the cheek on the screen.
"Brother..." Tears finally fell, Tang Yi hugged his knees, grabbed his hair tightly with both hands, and let out a sleepy roar from his throat.
He doesn't know, he doesn't know anything.
I don't know that when he hated Tang Ya willfully, Tang Ya was smiling at him like this.
I don't know that when he thought he was lonely, there was another person who was more lonely than him.
Suddenly, a hand fell on his slightly trembling shoulder. Tang Yi suddenly raised his head and clapped his hand away.
Mercury looked at him silently, with a dash of distress lingering in the depths of his eyes.
Tang Yi turned his face away, wiped away tears with his sleeves, took a deep breath, and turned to look at Mercury.
"I want to go back to the third base." Tang Yi said.
He was going to find out how his brother died. He wants to find Nolan, find the old dean, whether he will be caught or not, whether he will be executed or not.
Quicksilver said, "Not now."
"You don't have to come with me."
"no."
"Didn't you always want to find out the cause of Tang Ya's death!" Tang Yi suddenly shouted, "Have you forgotten?!"
"I've never forgotten it!!!" Mercury's voice also hardened, and cracks appeared in the calm mask, "But suicide can't find out the truth!"
"That's my own business! I don't need your fucking protection!" Tang Yi stared at him with piercing eyes, "Who are you to me?!"
"I'm nothing!!" Mercury suddenly shouted angrily, "But I can't ignore you! I can't control it!"
A moment of silence.
Mercury's blue eyes full of emotions are no longer cold, there are countless collisions and contradictions, and the other Wang Yinlan has become a bottomless battlefield, lingering with sadness that he wants to talk about. He wanted to cover up, lowered his eyes, shook his head, and smiled bitterly, "I don't want to lose you."
Tang Yi looked at him blankly, and suddenly sneered sharply, "Aren't you going to tell me now that you're fucking in love with me?"
As soon as these words came out, even Tang Yi was stunned.
He never knew he could speak in such a cruel tone.
And Mercury's suddenly pale face also made him regret for a moment.
But what was said could not be taken back.
In the deathly silence, Mercury was finally defeated in this confrontation. He retracted his gaze, covered the wound that might be leaking in his pupils, took a few steps back, and left the room.