Chapter 42: The Victory Is Divided

The fifth level of Contra is also known as the Snow Pass, and the enemies in this level are not only those small soldiers who put hidden guns, but also the death squads running around with explosive bags on their backs, grenades falling from the sky from time to time, and snowplows covered with spikes, and at the bottom of the level is a UFO flying all over the sky.

Compared with the previous four levels, the background music of this level has more parts that can be played freely, and the atmosphere rendering is more important.

"Knock knock ......"

Da Yang's drum kit did the opening connection this time, and I saw the drum stick in his hand flying, beating the snare drum and the drum in unison, which immediately made the spirit of everyone present even more tense.

Liu Jingxin looked at Zhang Xun with a solemn expression on the other side, smiled faintly, raised his right hand to bring the pick to his mouth and bit it, and then put his hand on the strings with his empty hands.

When Zhang Xun saw this scene, his pupils shrank, and then he smiled helplessly.

All the people around who saw this scene were stunned, and they were speechless in surprise for a while.

What is this for? Fingerstyle electric guitar?

That's right!

Liu Jingxin and Zhang Xun each have their own advantages. Zhang Xun has some research and training in all electroacoustic instruments, while Liu Jingxin focuses more on guitar playing skills.

Zhang Xun came to the third level with four hands, and the fourth level staged a good show of guitar and bass playing each other, which is equivalent to having taken out the housekeeping skills, in this case, Liu Jingxin has nothing to keep, directly attack Zhang Xun's weakness and play finger play!

Although the tone and sense of power of fingerstyle electric guitar are weaker than normal pick-to-pick playing, the freed fingers can give Liu Jingxin more room to play.

Liu Jingxin dared to play with his fingers when he was fighting the piano, and he was confident to win this game!

His self-confidence is not blind, he and Zhang Xun really know each other too well, and he is sure that Zhang Xun can't accept this trick he released.

At the end of the sixteen drums, Liu Jingxin turned on the fingerstyle mode, starting with a set of wheel fingers, using arpeggios instead of hooking the strings, and then for several consecutive bars, the four monotones were followed by arpeggios, and the atmosphere was rendered more tense with more compact notes.

In order to show the scene of being attacked on the back and flying grenades, Bao also called out a sharp whistling sound, which highly restored the scene in the game, making everyone present feel as if they had entered the world of artillery fire and ice, holding submachine guns, running wildly between ice and fire, bravely and fearlessly rushing towards the enemy arsenal hidden underground.

The music style in the first half of the fifth level tends to set off a dangerous atmosphere, so it will seem more oppressive and tense, while the music in the second half is completely different.

As Liu Jingxin's left hand position became higher and higher, the whole piece finally entered the second half of the emotional stage.

After being adapted by him, the main melody has nearly doubled the number of notes, and some of the notes have been changed to finger hook chords, at this time, the fingers of his hands are flying on the neck and strings respectively, so fast that people can almost see his fingering, only one of his hands is dragging the afterimage on the piano, which is dazzling. And the melody he played made everyone get up and raise their arms and shout excitedly.

What are the characteristics of finger play? The key lies in the control of light tones, accents, and emotions.

Liu Jingxin can use finger flicks to play quickly is already very powerful, on this basis, he even achieved the layer-by-layer progression of emotions through the overlapping of light and accents, not only to make people feel passion and blood, but also to feel every breath, every heartbeat, and even every drop of hot sweat rolling down from the temples of that brave man!

A rigid character existing in the game, in the sound of Liu Jingxin's piano, seems to have given birth to flesh and blood, and it really comes to life in everyone's minds!

Zhang Xun is confident that he can also play this piece adapted by Liu Jingxin with the pick, and he can even speed up the speed a little faster, after all, the speed of the pick is faster than that of finger playing, but it is difficult for him to play the effect of finger finger skills such as wheel fingers, and the most important thing is that he can't reach the inner emotions presented by Liu Jingxin.

Moreover, they were fighting the piano at this time, Liu Jingxin had already finger played, and if Zhang Xun couldn't use his finger play to catch the move, he would already be considered a loser.

At this time, they had reached the fifth level, a best-of-seven contest, Liu Jingxin won three games and reached the match point ahead of schedule.

Zhang Xun doesn't want to lose, so he must win two games in a row.

However, he roughly thought about the tunes of the sixth and seventh levels, and knew that it was difficult for him to turn the tables with his next surprise move, so he had to use a risky move.

After Liu Jingxin's side finished the performance of the fifth level, Zhang Xun's side directly opened the sixth level with the addition of a drum kit.

The sixth level is set in the game's protagonist who delves deep into an underground arsenal, where he has to face fire-breathing traps, complex terrain, countless enemy soldiers, and a huge mecha maniac, who likes to throw strange weapons and hurt people.

Compared with the previous five levels, this level is more bloody and the atmosphere is more tense. And because the protagonist enters an underground arsenal, there is still a little ghost element in the music.

Zhang Xun's side played normally at the beginning, nothing more than Solo first and then sweeping the strings. And after he finished the first short playing, and the subsequent speed playing, there was a very obvious change in the music he played, that is, the frequent use of push strings, which vividly expressed the strange atmosphere in the underground arsenal.

The layman listens to the excitement, and the insider listens to the doorway.

When Liu Jingxin heard Zhang Xun play this piece of music, his expression immediately became very solemn, and he felt that Zhang Xun was a little too risky to do this.

When playing normally, the push strings are mostly used to play leaning notes and legatos, and the scale span is not very large, it is common to be semitones, and there are also push semitones.

Zhang Xun actually pushed two full tones this time, which is equivalent to reaching the limit that the strings and frets can bear.

And not only that, Zhang Xun did not just push once, but used this technique at a very high frequency.

Liu Jingxin could feel the frets and strings of the guitar in Zhang Xun's hand heating up rapidly even from most of the distance of the stage.

Zhang Xun is gambling!

If he played the whole piece in this way, then Liu Jingxin would inevitably have to take it in the same way, and the risk would be on Liu Jingxin's side. If Liu Jingxin's strings were broken in the process, there would definitely be no time to change the strings for him, and he would have to borrow an unfamiliar piano for the ultimate duel in the seventh level, or simply admit defeat.

Liu Jingxin watched Zhang Xun use such a risky technique, and his mood became very complicated, worried about both Zhang Xun and himself.

Not only Liu Jingxin, but also many people who know the risks are also listening to Zhang Xun play at this time, and every time the strings are pushed, it makes people feel as if their hearts are about to rush out of their chests.

Seeing Zhang Xun enter the last bar and make the last string push, many people were finally able to breathe a sigh of relief.

It seems that he did it......

But at this moment, with the sound of "pop", everyone looked at Zhang Xun again and found that the second string of the electric guitar in his hand was actually ...... It's broken!