Outside the courtyard wall of an abandoned factory on the northern outskirts of the city, there is a dilapidated brick-walled hut. The walls of the house are painted with a lot of messy street graffiti, and on the light blue iron door, which is always locked, four large characters are painted with black paint: "Rock Base".

Although often mistaken for a public toilet by passers-by at night, this place is a gathering place for the "rock 'n' roll youth" in the neighborhood.

There are often people who bring in various instruments to perform manically here, and let the savage heavy metal music resound through the empty factory buildings behind.

At this time, two young people are playing a 1v1 duel in this room.

"Xiao Fangshuai exploded!"

"Come on!"

A few guys from the sound effects team of Hellfire Games Company were cheering for the composer named "Sugar Fang" on the net, so that Zhao Nuo, who was standing next to them, gave them a helpless look.

These guys are actually cheering for the "enemy", what a bunch of traitors......

However, Sugarcube's drum kit skills are really good.

Surrounded by cylindrical barrel drums and cymbals that resemble one-sided gongs, the boys are shaking their heads and beating the intricate instruments in front of them, and the drumsticks in their hands cut through the air to bring dazzling light and shadow.

What he is playing is the BGM of "Contra", this rhythmic background music, which is indeed very suitable for rock music.

After knocking out the BGM of the first level, this guy even came directly to a pass music, and then continued to play the background music of the second level.

"It's pretty impressive." Zhao Nuo nodded to the beat and looked at the white-clothed young man who was playing.

Compared with ordinary boys, this person's complexion is very fair, and his cheeks are very small, and he looks quite weak. If you wear a wig, you can COS beautiful girl without makeup at all.

"This is a cute boy! So loving! Jian Tong, who was standing beside Zhao Nuo, stared at the young man with the eyes of the dog on the street who usually looked at it, and kept clapping his hands at the same time.

“…… Eldest sister, you won't be interested in this kind of little ghost, you are an old cow eating tender grass. Zhao Nuo was powerless.

Then he heard his cousin utter a whole bunch of words he didn't know much about:

"I'm very interested in his CP, this person is so good-looking and super good-looking!" Jian Tong clenched her fists excitedly.

"I really didn't see that you were still a rotten girl...... Zhao Nuo couldn't help but sigh.

At this time, the performance of "Sugar Cube" finally ended.

In the applause and whistles of everyone in the sound effect group, the weak young man put down the drumstick and stood up, raised his hand to wipe the sweat beads on his forehead, and then walked up to Zhao Nuo and proudly pointed to his chest:

"It's your turn."

"Okay, okay, let me get used to it first......"

Zhao Nuo closed his eyes as he spoke, made up the picture of the drum game he had played before, and then immediately opened his eyes and said, "Okay." ”

Sit down in front of the drum kit, put your feet on the pedals, and clench the two drumsticks with both hands. He paid a little attention to the layout and distance of the drums and cymbals in front of him, and then began to try to enter "game mode".

As a layman who has never learned a musical instrument and can't even read musical scores, Zhao Nuo has strong drum skills. When he was in middle school, he even appeared on a local TV program, and he was known as a "young genius drummer".

Even his parents were curious about where he learned his technique, but only Zhao Nuo himself knew the true origin of his drum skills.

――In a beat-a-beat music game, you need a strong sense of rhythm and intuition to get a high score, and what you need to play a drum kit, in addition to the basic skills, is actually similar to a music game:

Get a good sense of the rhythm of the song and your instincts about which drum to hit and when.

In fact, that's not intuition.

For Zhao Nuo, it was just an "instinctive reaction". In his opinion, he is not playing at all, but playing some kind of musical game.

This "game" even has a score, so it must be as close as possible to the original song in order to achieve a higher score.

He closed his eyes and held his breath, and after two seconds opened them again, he could even imagine a scorer and a beat bar on the screen.

"Can we start?" The young man in white asked.

"Alright, let's start playing music." Zhao Nuo nodded.

The boy walked behind him and turned on the speaker switch connected to the laptop, and the classic BGM of the first level of "Contra" rang again.

As the first game Zhao Nuo dabbled in, he was very familiar with the music of "Contra", and he often hummed it even when he went to the toilet.

-- Therefore, it is undoubtedly advantageous for me to use this kind of song for competition.

"Knock".

Hitting the barrel drum in front of him made a muffled sound, Zhao Nuo finally began to play.

The young man in white was still looking at this "office worker" with a playful gaze at first, but soon he couldn't laugh anymore.

The rest of the room listened attentively, and even breathed much softer, for fear of missing a note:

Zhao Nuo's way of playing is completely different from that of ordinary drummers.

There are no superfluous movements that shake your head and spirits, and there are no common mistakes of over-pushing or being over-gentle. Every drum he beats is the perfect way to pronounce it.

The rhythm does not deviate from the original song in the slightest, and the delicate and accurate timbre is enough to be described as "PERFECT". In the eyes of others, Zhao Nuo at this time is like a machine with a program set up. Play the perfect music in the most concise way!

"This man...... What a monster ......"

The young man in white, who was very confident a minute ago, was also dumbfounded at this time, and froze in place with his mouth wide open, as if he had seen a god descending.

- Even if he is his own teacher, he can't reach this level, this man's level is simply national, enough to be a drummer in a real professional rock band!

The current young man in white even felt an inexplicable sense of shame in his chest:

With his own skills, he is simply a class axe in front of this person. My own performance just now is no different from shame PLAY!

He shook his head to the beat and accepted his defeat calmly.

If the other party is at the same level as yourself, you will not admit defeat lightly. But now the gap between the two is like the distance between an F1 car and a bike.

――No matter how hard I tried, I couldn't catch up with this monster.

……

After knocking out all the BGM of the eight levels of Contra in one go, Zhao Nuo finally put down the drumstick and let out a long breath. He stood up and said to the people who were still in a sluggish state, "It's over." ”

There was a mysterious silence in the room, and after dozens of seconds, Jian Tong was the first to speak:

"Brother, where did you learn to play the drums? My sister was shocked. ”

"Secret." Zhao Nuo smiled, and then saw "Fang Tang" standing in front of him with his head down.

"I lost! Please let me join the company. And...... And I still want to apprentice! Please teach me how to play the drums! The boy said loudly.

"Uh...... This one...... All right. ”

Looking at the expectant young man in front of him, Zhao Nuo really couldn't bear to tell him that he hadn't learned the drum kit at all, so he could only nod against his will, and then asked, "What's your name?" ”

"My name is Fang Chang!" The boy said immediately.

"Okay, from now on we will be colleagues, please continue to use your abilities." Zhao Nuo patted Fang Chang's shoulder.