8. Piano (II)

I always feel that the time spent on dinner and homework is much less than usual. A long period of time has flown by, probably because I am looking forward to the legendary "patrol".

At 9 p.m. that night, Victoria showed up at the door of their dormitory.

"Are you all ready?"

Mingjuan's eyes were full of determined light, nodded, and reached into the pocket of her down jacket - Su Qian felt that she was roughly clenching the unicorn talisman in her pocket.

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As soon as I stepped out of the dormitory building, the fierce wind hit my body, and the exposed skin became numb at a speed that I could feel. Coupled with the terrifying atmosphere caused by the darkness around him, Su Tian thought that he had returned to the day when he walked through the labyrinth, and everything was blown cold and gloomy. Several people invariably pulled the zipper of the down jacket to the highest place.

"It's cold." Ming Juan muttered a sentence and expressed the hearts of several people.

"After all, you're here on a temporary basis, and it's going to take time to get used to." Victoria said, without any dissatisfaction in her tone, "Today you and Qingchen will patrol the teaching building. ”

Su Qian remembered the essay that the two of them had discussed with Lu Qingchen when the butterfly flew out of the stone cage. By now, the article has naturally been handed in a long time ago, I don't know if it is being reviewed now?

Ay? This hasn't taken two steps yet, and you're distracted again?

Su Tan suddenly came back to his senses and found that his distraction was getting worse and worse. I feel a little panicked, and this kind of problem seems to affect real life. She tried to concentrate on pulling her thoughts in front of her, and kept doing this until she came to the meeting place she had agreed with Lu Qingchen.

Sure enough, Lu Qingchen was still the same Lu Qingchen, and he still didn't show up when the appointed time came.

A few people stood for about six or seven more minutes in the dark night and the howling cold wind before he came running from the direction of the boys' dormitory.

"I'm sorry, I'm late again." Lu Qingchen, a poor student in sports, ran two steps, panting and apologizing.

The three girls looked at each other and exchanged a look, with a somewhat similar expression on their faces.

"It's the school building over there, let's go quickly." Victoria pointed to the building not far away and said.

Su Qian looked in that direction, it was not early at this time, except for the dormitory building, the lights had been turned off, and the flashlight was the only light source in the night when the dark clouds covered the bright moon and starry sky. The building is like a giant made of bricks, standing quietly in the night, looking lonely and desolate. Su Tian was surprised to find that the place that he had been accustomed to for a long time on weekdays could really look eerie on a moonless night...... But the other two didn't think as much as she did, so they just walked over there. Su Tilt was at the end, fearing that there would be something behind, so he stepped up and followed.

In total, they had three school buildings to inspect. Among them are two new buildings and one old building. When Xingyue College was still relatively small, there were only two old buildings: one for regular teaching and the other for multi-purpose teaching. The latter includes an auditorium, an art teacher, a music classroom, and various laboratories. In recent years, the faculty of Xingyue Academy has become more and more powerful, the teaching quality has been continuously improved, and the selection of new students has become more demanding, which has finally improved the overall level of Xingyue Academy to an incomparable level. As a result, the school has renovated the campus.

The old regular school buildings on the campus were demolished and replaced with two brand new school buildings. As for the multi-functional old building, the school did not plan to demolish it, but refurbished all the equipment, which is equivalent to keeping the shell and replacing the core.

So, if the three people on patrol now were ten years early, they would have been able to inspect one less regular school building.

"Which building to start with?" Lu Qingchen asked the two girls.

"It's close to us." Ming Juan didn't talk much, probably because she was so cold that her teeth were fighting, and she couldn't speak. Su Tan felt a trace of pity for no reason, and stepped forward to pull her hand and put it in his pocket.

"Xiaotian, your hands are so warm." Ming Juan gently squeezed her hand.

Lu Qingchen's eyes drifted over, landed on the two of them, and lifted his glasses: "Ahem......"

"What's the matter?" Su Tian asked inexplicably.

His face was inscrutable, and he coughed several times, and seeing that neither of them seemed to understand what he meant, he simply stopped making trouble: "The nearest building is our oldest building." ”

The eldest? He's talking about multi-purpose buildings, right? It's an interesting statement.

The three of them held flashlights, pushed open the door and walked in.

The first floor is where several biology labs, physics labs, and chemistry labs are located, and there are no problems along the way. They walked up the stairs at the end of the hallway to the second floor. The auditorium is on the second floor, and it covers a huge area, almost filling the entire floor. Several people walked into the backstage of the auditorium stage with flashlights. It's darker than the outside, almost like a haunted house that Su Tan has been to. After walking a few steps, one of them stumbled into the curtain, which was so fluctuating that the two girls were frightened.

"Senior, aren't you afraid?" Ming Juan's face was not very good, so she took measures to talk to people to ease her fear.

"Why be afraid?" Lu Qingchen replied to her a rhetorical question as usual, and then explained, "Those legends are all false. Even if it was true, it wouldn't be in the Star Moon Academy, it's the safest place, you know it. ”

"Senior, in fact, there is no need to say the last sentence......" Ming Juan took Su Tian's hand and said to Lu Qingchen, "Especially the sentence 'even if it's true'." ”

Su Qian listened quietly to the conversation between the two, and began to wander in the tense dark environment as he listened. They say that Star-Moon Academy is the safest place to be, but is there any basis for this? Human beings live in the world, at least the world from which Su Tian came, without any supernatural powers, and the legal system is perfect. Could it be that a world with supernatural powers would be safer than a world without supernatural powers?

"Alright." Ming Juan's voice pulled Su Qian back to reality, "Although the auditorium is a little scary, there is no problem. Let's go to the third floor. ”

They walked out through the side door of the auditorium, and as soon as they got out, the stairs were on the right-hand side. So they followed the stairs and climbed up the third floor.

The third floor contains art classrooms, music classrooms, and a badminton hall. The art and music classrooms occupy a small area compared to the badminton hall, so the inspection tasks on the third floor are mainly for the badminton hall. When Su Tian first heard that the badminton hall was on the third floor, he was very puzzled. I don't know what the designer thinks, to design the indoor stadium on the third floor, just climbing the stairs is not tiring enough!

Several people walked to the art room and pushed the door open, nothing strange. The art teacher's calligraphy and ink paintings are hung on the wall, plaster statues of white flowers are placed on the table, and several watercolors "painted" by art elective students are piled up in the corner.

"There's no movement, let's go." Lu Qingchen shrugged.

A few people closed the door of the music room and walked in the direction of the music room.

"Ah......" When the few people were still dozens of meters away from the music classroom, Ming Juan screamed softly and held Su Tian's hand tightly. Su tilted her head and saw that her face was pale in the light of the flashlight, as if she was greatly frightened.

"What's wrong?" Su Tian noticed that something was wrong and asked with concern.

"Xiao Lean, listen to it......" Mingjuan's thin voice trembled.

Suddenly, Lu Qingchen, who was at the head of the line, stopped and signaled everyone to be quiet.

In the silent night sky, there was no human voice, and the rest of the voices were amplified several times. Su Tan held his breath and listened quietly. Indeed, her ears caught the tiny ring. On a quiet and peaceful school night, when all the students should go to bed, the melodious sound of "ding ding dong" was coming from the music classroom.

Everyone is familiar with the piano music, "Canon".

When they realized it, the piano paused and then continued.

The quiet night, the warm tune, but when superimposed with the darkness of the music classroom, it becomes a faint whisper. Su poured a drum in his heart, he should have been very scared, but because he experienced the matcha green incident a few days ago, he feels okay now, it seems that he is more courageous than he imagined? I actually felt a little relieved in such a terrible situation. She could see the expressions of the two people around her.

Ming Juan's face was pale, and it was obvious that he was very scared, while Lu Qingchen's expression was complicated, mainly surprised and panicked, but surprised a little more. Maybe it's because he hasn't believed in such a supernatural event in the world, and now the example is in the music classroom dozens of meters away.

This song tells about loneliness and sadness many years ago.

Lu Qingchen made a few gestures to let the two girls stay where they were, turned off the flashlight, walked to the door of the music classroom quietly, and stretched out his hand-

There was a "squeak" and the door opened.

The moon came out from behind the clouds, and it was a bright moon, radiating a bright light.

"Hey, why are you?" Lu Qingchen faced the door, unloaded all the panic, and replaced it with a surprise of 10,000 percent. The sound of the piano stopped abruptly.

The two girls were originally quite nervous, but when they heard him say this, they suddenly relaxed. They stepped forward and walked to the door.

In the moonlight, a beautiful silver hair shone brightly.

Liuliyuan was sitting on the piano bench by the piano, stunned and looking at the few people who suddenly broke in.

After a while, she remembered that Lu Qingchen had said something to her just now.

"Oh, me." Liuli was willing to speak, as usual, in the soft voice, "I'll tune the piano." ”

As she spoke, she picked up a tuning fork and a very complicated box of tuning equipment from a few centimeters next to where she was sittingβ€”at least Su Tian couldn't understand it.

"Eldest sister, you came to tune the piano in the middle of the night?!" Ming Juan's voice was painful and unbelievable, she simply collapsed, and accused Liuli Yuan, "It's scary to know!" ”

"I ......" Ruri Yuan seemed to want to defend herself, but finally shut up.

Ming Juan looked at her like this, regretted it a little, and buried her head on Su Lean's shoulder.

But judging from Liuliyuan's performance after that, she didn't care very much. She started from the center C, pressed an octave upwards, and turned to Su Tilt: "Little Tilt, do you hear that?" This 'Mi' is not allowed. ”

Su Qian looked at her with a puzzled expression, and finally nodded.

"Even experts can't make out a single inaccurate sound. Therefore, if we all hear it, it can only prove that the sound has been crooked to a certain extent, and it cannot be out of tune. Liuliyuan's voice was soft, but firm, "We want to guard the music, so that every note does not deviate from its own track." ”

Ming Juan threw herself into Su Tian's arms and laughed angrily.

"Well, since it's you, there's no problem." Lu Qingchen sighed helplessly, "Let's change the time to tune in the future." By the way, it's 9:20 and there is still a 40-minute curfew, so let's go back early. ”

"Okay, wait until I'm done tuning this tone." Liuli was willing to pick up the tuning equipment and leaned into the piano cover to tune, and after a long time, she finally withdrew, "Okay." ”

Then she ran to the keys again, tapped the tuning fork, and pressed "Mi". After that, she was finally satisfied, covered the piano, and put away the tuning equipment.

Su Qian retreated a little with Ming Juan so that she could go out.

Liuli wish floated out of the door......

"There's really a bit of a horror on her......" Ming Juan looked at her drifting back and sighed.

Nothing happened that day, except for this little episode. There were no incidents during the inspection of the two regular school buildings. The group successfully completed their patrol mission, reported to Victoria, and went back to their dormitories.