1,
It’s going to rain. I think.
In my hand was a flip phone with only the last battery left. I used it to shine a weak light in an attempt to drive away the undead floating in the darkness and the terrifying aura from unknown sources.
This is an abandoned stone house. The house is very small, and the huge fireplace already takes up most of the space.
Otherwise, the room was empty. It was filled with the strange salty smell of sea water, with a hint of imperceptible sweetness.
I am instinctively afraid of this place, but in comparison, I am more afraid of the outside.
The coast is strewn with shipwrecks.
I am the only survivor. A poor painter trying to sneak across the Atlantic Ocean.
Maybe tomorrow's alliance news will report the disappearance of this ship. People will start a search and rescue operation based on the list on the ship. If they are not found, they will pray for the dead to sacrifice their spirits in heaven.
There will be no me among them.
No one will remember that the Union Central Street has lost a poor boy who has been selling paintings on the street all year round.
[Rumble——]
Oh no, the weather is not just about to rain.
Along with the thunder, there will be a storm.
The stone house is located at an extremely low level. Once a storm hits, it may be flooded quickly.
I began to be extremely frightened, and tears gradually blurred my vision until the last light on my phone disappeared and I could not see anything.
Throughout the night, it was as thick as ink that could not be melted. But I can't die, I still want to find Ancheng.
I staggered and ran outside, yelling loudly, desperately trying to tear apart the night and fight to the death.
"Have you ever heard of sirens?"
[Rumble——]
I stopped not far from the stone house.
Someone just spoke. I firmly believe it.
But because of the thunder, I didn’t hear it clearly.
"Have you heard of the Sirens?"
Sirens, beautiful mermaids, guides to the underworld.
There were corpses lying in various places in the distance, and the sound of waves crashing in my ears. I tried to stand firm and recited ancient Buddhist scriptures silently in my heart.
The heavy rain fell suddenly, and at the same time, I heard a strange and beautiful singing. It seems to be humming at random, in the distance and silence, and the beauty is filled with despair from the end of the world.
"Siren?" I muttered uncertainly.
The singing stopped, "Do you know the sirens?"
This is so weird. Where is the speaker?
"No one has listened to me for a long time. You are so kind."
No, I am not good at all. The current situation is terrible!
The singing sounded again, no longer despairing, but with a hint of joy. But even so, this song can also steal people's hearts and souls and kill people.
"Siren, Acheloides." I said, covering my ears tightly.
At this moment, I guess that I should be near the Strait of Messina. Because in ancient myths and legends, the Sirens lived near the Strait of Messina.
The song stopped suddenly, "Acheloides, is dead..."
2,
"Died by the sharp knife of mankind ."
Impossible. That is the Kraken, a sea monster with endless life that dominates the waters of the world. How could it be possible to be killed by humans.
I remained silent and did not answer.
"I am Siren, Achelo's twin brother." The voice became low and sad, "No one knows that my brother Achelo died more than a hundred years ago. . ”
The storm at sea is ferocious and violent. My location may not be able to withstand its brutality and will soon be submerged.
Huge waves crashed onto the shore, accompanied by the occasional rumble of thunder, hitting my chest in the night. The rainwater flowed across my forehead and stained my eyes, making me confused and painful.
"Siren," I said with difficulty, "I think I need a safe place now."
Otherwise I may soon die standing here listening to you. That's nonsense.
"Don't you like sea water?"
"Oh no, I think I do," my voice became harder and harder, "It's just Siren, I'm more suitable to stay here Land."
The other party was silent, and I began to feel uneasy.
In ancient legends, sirens used their singing voices to make passing sailors lose their minds, causing the ship to hit the rocks and sink. I looked at the shore scattered with corpses in the distance, and began to doubt the accident.
As far as I know, the ship Norvis on this trip is ranked high in the alliance. It has eighteen decks, is 1,112 feet long, and has a maximum speed of Up to twenty-one six nautical miles. I don't know the cause of the accident, but the appearance of the Siren at this time made me have to think more.
"Siren, how did you find me?" I thought I was crazy to ask this question so bluntly.
But that was the life of more than 5,000 people on the ship.
I am not a saint, but if all of this comes from the hands of the Sirens, then I think I will not escape death.
After a while, Siren didn't give me an answer.
But I couldn't withstand the raging storm and fainted.
3.
"Lin, do you know the sirens?" That was the fourteen-year-old An Cheng, who ran over to me and asked me holding an ancient book.
I nodded. Silence.
"The Siren is a king who lives in the sea. Every hundred years he comes ashore and disguises himself as a human to look for his lover who has lost his memory."
I started to get impatient. He took the book from Anjo's hand and opened it.
"Acheng, I'm wrong, the siren is a banshee."
The book records that the siren, also known as Acheloides, means "Achloides" Daughters of Cereus."
"No, Lin." An Cheng was very persistent, "A siren is a siren, and Achelo is Achelo. They are different."
The Rum Tavern stands on the coast. Located in the middle of the village, the sea breeze always carries a salty smell and blows the cider in a man's hand. When he drinks it, the originally sweet cider becomes extra special.
"Lin, don't you believe it yet?" I looked up at Ancheng, not understanding where the persistence in his eyes came from. "Sirens can become humans."
"So?" I may be practicing watercolor painting at this moment, because of my large movements, the blue paint was thrown to Ancheng's clothes and legs, "Acheng, your topic is messy, I think I I don’t quite understand what you want to express.”
Ancheng was stunned, “I’m sorry, I thought you could understand me.” He staggered back, the background behind him blending in with the sea water, “I I thought you at least knew about Siren. I thought that after we escaped from that place..." Today, his topic became messy again. I simply can't understand the connection between the two in his words.
I was very irritable, and the paintbrush in my hand became stained with paint and started to paint irregularly. Anjo murmured words and slowly disappeared. When I found out, the Lamb's Tavern was already dark.
A glass of cider was placed on the high bar, mixed with the unique lighting in Lamb's room. The waves of light flowed, showing a strange deep sea blue.
"You remember, right? That was the color of the Siren's eyes."
I woke up and found myself in a stone house.
4.
The storm has passed, and it is a sunny day on the island. The bright sunshine is falling on the stone house, and every corner is warm.
"Want to eat it? I heard that this thing is rich in protein," he stood outside the door of the stone house, holding a big oyster in his hand, "Humans like this, right?"< /p>
I stared blankly, my heart in turmoil.
So similar. The look of that face was exactly the same as Anjo's.
He walked in and easily opened the hard shell of the big oyster, "Eat?" Food in sight. The taste of raw oysters is fishy and sweet, and a unique taste of the deep sea surges into the depths of my taste buds. I was surprised by my inexplicable love for this food.
He was sitting next to me, smiling with unknown meaning, "It's so similar..."
My heart skipped a beat, and the movement of my hands suddenly stopped.
"I mean, you are so similar to my brother Achelo."
"...What a coincidence." At this moment, my heart was extremely complicated, " You look very similar to my brother Acheng."
They are exactly the same, okay!
"Really? That's a coincidence." He smiled, but I always felt that his smile was a bit inexplicable.
"Where is this?" I asked him.
Now, after barely settling down, I thought carefully about the fact that the Strait of Messina is located between the Apennine Peninsula and Sicily, and the Norvis sailed from England to the United States, and the accident happened on the second day of sailing. In the evening, the hull should be located near the North Atlantic Warm Current. The out-of-control hull is drifting along the ocean current. No matter how bad it is, it is impossible to drift to the Strait of Messina.
"Are you still hungry?" He did not answer my question directly, but walked out the door, "Do you like eating stone fish?"
I followed him out of the stone house and was stunned. Lived.
This is not the island before. The identical design inside the stone house deceived me.
"The island was flooded," he said. "The ship, the people, were all sunk to the bottom of the sea."
He was referring to the wreckage of the Novis and those people. corpse.
At this moment we are on a high mountain, with a cliff a hundred meters in front and the sea below.
"Lin, have you ever thought about why?"
I looked at him in shock and panic. It's very windy here, but I didn't miss his words, he called my name!
"Who are you?" I asked nervously.
"Out of more than 5,000 humans, you are the only one who has survived." He looked at me. Under the sunlight, I saw that his eyes were a strange flowing orange. "Have you ever had any doubts?"
He is not a siren. I'm sure.
5,
I began to retreat cautiously, trying to find what I thought was a safe boundary. He looked at my reaction and laughed softly, "Lin, you are so cute."
Before I could refute, in an instant, he put his arms around my body and moved at an inhuman speed. Straight to the edge of the cliff. The fierce wind seemed to be splitting my forehead, and chaotic memories and fears came in like a tide. The moment I was pulled down from the cliff, my fear reached its extreme.
My forehead is going to split.
6,
"Lin, I want to go to sea!" Sixteen-year-old Ancheng ran over and said.
The mural only needs the final coloring. At this time, I hate others disturbing me the most.
"Mariana Trench, the true home of the Sirens." Anjo chattered behind me, "I want to find him!"
I continued to work on it without stopping. Work, ignoring Anjo.
"Lin!" His tone began to sound angry, "You know, do you think we can leave everything behind after we escape?"
The sea water is blue. ,I know. But what about the deeper sea, how to express its depth?
I grabbed the brush and thought.
"The Siren is the key to unlocking all this..."
"Shut up——!" I yelled back, "Damn it, we don't have any damn past, We only have the present and the future! Do you understand?"
"No, Lin." An Cheng stepped back in disbelief and pain, "No one can escape the past, and time cannot heal our monster lives. "
The sailors in the distance waved to Ancheng. Ancheng looked back, and then said to me as if he had made up his mind: "Lin, I know you are starting to have problems with your memory."< /p>
After hearing this, I was shocked and angry.
"The existence of sirens is not a legend. We have always known about it, right?" During this period, Anjo turned around and gestured to the sailors to wait a little longer. "Without the genes of sirens, there would be no monsters." In our existence, the era of human sin has never ended. Only by finding the Siren can we be liberated."
I held the paintbrush and squatted under the corner.
Anjo left and never came back for the next ten years.
The sailors who were traveling with him came back and said that Anjo jumped into the sea on a stormy night. There were actually not many sailors who died in the storm at sea, but Anjo jumped by himself.
The sea water overflowed my chest and filled my eyes, ears and nose, but I didn’t feel uncomfortable.
The fear quietly receded, replaced by unprecedented physical and mental comfort, as if I was born to live in the ocean.
I recalled the scenes before An Cheng left, and I felt terribly sad.
It has been ten years and I can't find him.
7,
The sunlight reflected on us through the transparent sea water. I lowered my eyes and saw the fish tail of this fake siren.
"Do you think it's magical?" he asked.
I did not answer, but asked: "Where is Acheng?"
Even though he had the same face as An Cheng, I never felt that they were the same person. From a terrible intuition.
"Don't worry, my brother." He tried to comfort me, "The artificial mermaid is safe now."
"You mean Acheng?"
p>"Yes. The mermaids created by the sinful hands of human beings cannot be said to be true sea monsters," he said. "That is what humans call a failure, an alien among sea monsters."
"Shut up!" That's my Anjo, and I won't allow anyone to talk about him.
He shrugged, "Take you somewhere."
Then, he took me back to the city of Bermuda, a world-wide secret organization for genetic research. The place where I spent nearly ten years escaping with Anjo.
"That artificial mermaid told you, right?" He pointed to Anjo, "The sirens will come ashore every century, looking for lovers who have lost their memories."
He Finally admitting that he is not a real siren.
"Endless life is a curse. The Siren lives with the ocean, but his lover is trapped in the infinite reincarnation of mankind. Every hundred years, the Siren will shed most of his body. The power turned into a human and went ashore to find his lover."
We slowly shuttled through this underwater city that once terrified me. The cold machinery and equipment were soaked in the seawater and covered with seaweed and shellfish. , so that the whole city was desolate.
"Just in the last century, the Siren was captured by humans when it came ashore." He looked at me with a deep look in his eyes, "Does Lin know why the Siren was captured?"
p>I was stunned, my chest was pounding and tense, and I always felt like something was about to come out.
"Because he forgot his identity as a siren," he raised his hand and brushed it across my forehead, "because the siren forgot that he was a siren.
Human desires tortured the Siren in a sinful way. They imprisoned him, took away his genes, and tried to transform human life to obtain immortality. "
"Bang——! "Suddenly, he suddenly opened the innermost door. Inside were huge transparent vessels containing monster-like corpses, some in the form of human babies, some in the form of mermaid infants, and all kinds of strange mermaid hybrids. Terrifying, Nausea filled my heart.
"The depths of the Mariana Trench are the source of the Kraken clan's power. The Siren has been unable to return there for a long time, so that his power is gradually weakening and his memory is slow. Slow chaos. "
He looked at me, his orange eyes shining brightly in the sea water. From them, I saw my own eyes, a deep sea blue.
"The Siren is here. This sinful city has been imprisoned by humans for nearly a century. It was not until more than twenty years ago that he began to resist subconsciously. Because of the arrival of a little life. "
The sea is deep blue and the waves are flowing. My mind buzzed, and the memories lurking in the depths of the sea of ????consciousness burst out.
I finally remembered that more than twenty years ago, The city of Bermuda has welcomed a new batch of experimental subjects - a batch of human newborns. After being in chaos for a century, my mind suddenly became clear. I want to take him out. This place is too scary, and he will definitely be scared. Bad.
We destroyed the city while escaping.
Even though my mind is sometimes confused and sometimes clear, my power cannot be underestimated.
After all, I am a real siren
8,
“So, Lin, have you remembered? He opened his hands and said, "Welcome back, my brother, Siren." ”
He raised his singing voice, faintly passing through my ears, echoing in this deserted Bermuda city.
I hugged my body and let my feet Transformed into a fish tail, gently swaying in the water under the sparse sunlight
"Aqero, I need to see Acheng. "I said.
"He has been sleeping in the Mariana Trench for ten years. "Then, he swam out of Bermuda City, "Human beings always have both merits and demerits. At the very least, they turned your old sweetheart into a mermaid. After centuries of searching, my dear, you can finally say goodbye. In the Mariana Trench, he will receive the endless life exclusive to our Siren. "
"Really? "I sneered.
No one knows better than me the pain Anjo suffered in the genetic laboratory. Endless life is a curse, and I can't guarantee that after a long time passes, Anjo will follow suit. Just like Achelo, he wanted to die.
"Go back, Siren. You, like the artificial mermaid, need the power of the Mariana Trench. "
"What about you? "I watched him tear off the fake skin that looked like Ancheng on his face, revealing a face exactly like mine, and I was moved. This is my brother, Acheloides.
"Human Gene War is so amazing, I think I'm interested in it. Sin is not exclusive to humans," he smiled playfully, "Seventy percent of this planet is the domain of our sirens. In fact, we should live in peace, but we all underestimate it. of human greed. It is not yet human’s turn to dominate all things. "
"So? "I asked. In fact, as long as Aqero doesn't seek death, I have nothing to worry about.
"So, I decided to go ashore and play with humans for a while. "As he spoke, he pulled an ugly thing off the rock next to him and said, "Here, your favorite stone fish. "
I took the stone fish and said, "Those stone houses have too big fireplaces and unreasonable design. "
Aqero laughed out loud, "There is no other way. I have built exactly the same stone houses on various desert islands in the world for more than a hundred years. It is too troublesome to rebuild them. ”
Before we parted ways, Aqero told me that he only discovered that something happened to me half a century ago. This was really a big trouble for him who wanted to die but couldn’t find it. Because he has to start searching for me all over the world and has no time to think of ways to end the endless life of the exclusive siren.
"Thank you, my brother. ”
The crash of the Novus was not caused by Achero, he just refused to save him.
I quickly rushed back to the Mariana Trench to find my Acheng .
Regarding the human genetic war, if Aqero needs it, I think I will help him.
Non-starter.