Chapter 6: The Devil's Music
Qi Luoling felt her body falling, and it seemed as if it was falling in an unfathomable tube. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 The info body is constantly bumped and squeezed by the inner wall of the tube, and the speed of the fall is getting faster and faster, as if there is no end......
The fall finally stopped, and she opened her eyes to find herself lying in the glowing shadowless lamp, the light too harsh. She felt a little uncomfortable and rolled over and sat up.
She rubbed her eyes and was shocked to see a lot of people busy around her, wearing green disinfectant suits, blue surgical caps, and protective masks covering their faces.
They are cutting the skin, tying the blood vessels, excising, repairing, debridement, suturing ...... Every step is attentive, meticulous, and everything is meticulous and orderly.
The unreinforced disc next to it was filled with scalpels, hemostats, hammers, scissors, scalpel blades, suction devices, gauze, bandages, and sterilized saline.
Isn't this surgery? How could I be in the hospital?
She suddenly recalled a scene of her car accident. But I'm not hurt! I can still sit up.
She shouted loudly, but no one paid attention to her, and everyone seemed to be unable to hear her voice, and they were all trying to save her without distraction.
But who is the woman who is lying down? Who is the woman the doctor is resuscitating?
She looked back and saw that the one lying on the operating table was also herself, pale and bloodless.
She suddenly realized that her body and soul had been torn apart by an earthquake that had torn apart the previously connected land plates. The suspended consciousness is one part, and the lying body is another.
Thinking of this, she was terrified, and tried to pull the two parts together, but it was quite laborious, no matter how she pulled together, one part always had to levitate, and the other part always had to sink.
In the process of pulling, she felt extra pain, and when the two parts were separated, she felt some pleasure, but the pleasure was mixed with fear.
It dawned on her that once the two parts were completely separated, it meant that she was going to truly leave this world. In the process of separating and merging her body and consciousness, she was really powerless to support it.
In the end, she used all her willpower to pull the two parts tightly once, and then finally gave up. Don't do anything in vain anymore, separate and separate, and you can't do anything about it.
She was stunned for a moment, groped her way out of bed, felt her body unusually light, and her soul took off its heavy shell, like a shadow wandering around endlessly.
She was amazed to find that she could see everything, anything she wanted to see. No object could obstruct her vision. Even in the operating room, she could see people anxiously waiting for news outside the surgery, and she could see the hissing push table in the hallway.
But the only thing she was sad about was that no one could see her, she was like a feather that drifted at will, and could pass through the bodies of many people.
She walked slowly out of the emergency room, sat down on the cold plastic chair in the hallway, and looked sadly at the world that was bustling in front of her.
She looked at them as if two worlds were looking at each other. What world do you belong to now? Between heaven and earth?
Am I dead? Am I leaving this world? Am I going to wait for that guide at this time?
The thought of leaving this world, the thought of leaving her parents and lover, she felt extremely uncomfortable. At this moment, she could see her parents cleaning up at home at this time, and there was a gift box wrapped in colorful wrapping paper on the coffee table in the living room. She also saw Gu Tianye wearing a white coat and answering the phone in the hospital corridor at this time.
Just when she was infinitely sad, she suddenly heard a beautiful piano sound, and she was unconsciously attracted by this piano sound. She had never heard such beautiful music.
The sound of the piano came from a distance, and she seemed to be enchanted, and walked out of the hospital and followed the sound, which turned out to be coming from an old building.
The door sign outside the building reads No. 62, Changyang Road, Hongkou District. It is a tall three-story building with a red-roofed arch.
The building is in the Baroque style, the walls are mainly blue bricks, each floor is separated by a red brick band, and the ground floor is a white arch with a black six-pointed star on the arch. This six-pointed star, she was very familiar, as if she had seen it somewhere, but she didn't remember it for a while.
She slowly looked up and saw the striking white crosses on the spires.
It turned out to be a church. Beautiful piano music came from the second floor.
The openwork iron door of the church was open, and she entered.
On the first floor is the chapel, with long seats arranged in an orderly manner, and strangely without any sculptures or portraits of religious idols in the entire auditorium.
There was a coffee-colored wooden door to the left side of the chapel, and along the wooden staircase, she went up to the second floor.
On the second floor is a spacious cloister. In the corner of the cloister, there was a black grand piano, and a man was playing music intently.
He wore a black gown with a white shirt underneath it, as if he was inseparable from the black and white piano.
His eyes were closed, and no one was playing. The afterglow of the setting sun filtered through the open window and sprinkled on the man's body, turning golden yellow all over.
The song was melancholy and melodious, and the sound of the piano was like a complaint, and she remembered all the best times in a trance, the most brilliant wind and frost, or the first appearance, all flowing slowly.
The sound of the piano also reveals a kind of sentimentality, after a thousand sails, look at the years to clarify the heart, or when you are separated by the sea, precipitate all the magnificence.
I should be familiar with this piece, because there is no one in the cloister, and the song should be played for her. But why haven't I heard this tune? Even in a deep dream. But the only thing she was sure of was that the piece was so beautiful, as if it were, as if it were ......
She searched her mind for the right word, and suddenly a word burst out, yes, like the sound of the devil's harp.
She was suddenly startled, her consciousness was as transparent as air, why am I here? Why does he play the piano here?
The man in black pressed the last note, and the last buzzing vibration of the piano slowly spread through the air, slowly disappearing into her consciousness.
He waited a long time before he opened his eyes.
He seemed to sense someone behind him, tilted his face slightly, and looked at her quietly.
His eyes and hair were black, and his skin was as white as paper, but he had melancholy eyes as sad as the passing of time.
She tried to speak, but found that her vocal cords could not make a sound, as if language had lost its function under the sound of his piano.
"Surely you want to know what kind of place this is? Why come here? Actually, I'm playing the piano here, waiting for someone. I'm waiting for a lover who appreciates the sound of my piano. He whispered, his voice clear and pleasant.
"It's called the Devil's Sorrow." He continued.
"You came here with the sound of the piano. But the person I'm waiting for is not you, it's another woman. Although you and she are similar in appearance. But since you are here, I will also hand over the music in my hand to you, although it is not you who I am waiting for. ”
"Surely you want to know who I am? My name is Ebenezer, Jewish, twenty-five years old, I started playing the piano at a very young age, I was born into a family of pianos. My father was a piano musician and my mother was a violinist. We lived in Poland until 1939, when Poland fell to the Germans, and only a small number of Jews in Poland escaped during the Holocaust. Our family was fortunate that we were forced to flee from Siberia to Kobe, Japan, and because the Japanese government refused, we came to Shanghai, China. At that time, Shanghai was the only city in the world that did not require entry visas and property guarantees, so Shanghai became our place of residence. ”
Qi Luoling suddenly realized, no wonder, the six-pointed star on the arch is so familiar, it turned out to be the Star of David, and it is also the pattern on the flag of Israel. Then this church should be a synagogue, the holy object of Judaism is the Old Testament, they do not believe in idolatry, so there are no idol images or sculptures in the church.
"By the way, I just told you that the person I'm waiting for is not you, I'm waiting for my lover. Do you live in China? ”
She nodded.
"My lover lives in China, just like you, but she is of Korean descent. After Japan invaded the Korean Peninsula and imposed colonial rule, she and her family fled here. So we met and fell in love in Shanghai. ”
She froze.
He got up from the stool, walked up to her, looked at her for a long time, and then said with a smile, "Anyway, I'll give you this devil's music now, so you must go back now!" Your life has just begun. You have a new mission, just like me, to be chosen by the devil to pass on this song. ”
She shook her head.
"The bell of fate has sounded, and there is no way back for you. “
With that, the man in black and the black piano disappeared.
But once again, the beautiful melody sounded, echoing through the empty cloisters. The twilight grew thicker and thicker, and the sunset gradually dimmed, and it was a long, long time before the sound of the piano slowly disappeared. The surroundings were quiet.
Finally, a bright white light appeared, enveloping her......