Not far from the upper town, a magnificent carriage stopped in front of them.

A burly horse as tall as a man pulled the cart in front, its long mane fluttering in the wind like a flame. The carriages were gilded and embossed, decorated with intricate silver patterns, which almost glowed in the setting sun.

The doors of the carriage were pushed open from the inside, and in the carriage there were people looking at them and smiling.

"Good day, gentlemen, what a coincidence. ”

Ye Qingxuan originally thought that Edmund was here to find fault, but after seeing the people in the carriage, he was stunned.

In the carriage, a man who looked like a teenager stepped on a cashmere carpet, a sterling silver cane was casually thrown on the ground, and the ruby on the tip of the cane emitted a lonely light.

He has waist-length blonde hair and looks like a girl, but most girls are not as beautiful as him, and they don't have that heart-wrenching handsomeness.

In the past, Ye Qingxuan thought that Charles was very handsome, but he was not the same type as the face in front of him. Compared with the awkward senior brother, there is always a yin qi in his eyes that seems to come from the ancient well and the ice cellar, which is not to be underestimated.

Besides, with such a fancy style, such a money-burning dress and dressing, Ye Qingxuan only knows one person in the entire Avalon......

"Boss?"

He looked at the man in the carriage in amazement, he didn't expect to meet again here.

The mysterious owner of the watch shop, and the imperial knight who had the same name as the great artist Hermes hundreds of years ago, showed a smug smile after hearing Ye Qingxuan's stunnedness.

"It's been a long time since you were admitted to the academy, little leaf!"

He waved affectionately: "Come in a little, get closer, yes, is this your friend? ”

Looking at the blank expressions of the two, he smiled: "Are you interested in having a cup of coffee in the store? Having two visitors might bring me some popularity.

I've got some good stuff from Burgundy, my coffee, and I'm sure you won't find a second one in Avalon. ”

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Half an hour later, renovated the watch shop.

Ye Qingxuan and Xia Er sat behind the table like good babies, holding coffee cups in their hands.

"Oh, I see, you're doing well. ”

Hermes, who had understood the situation, nodded, "Your teacher is Mr. Abraham? I've heard of some, it seems that musicians who have retired from the army, right? Musicians with military backgrounds have begun to be rare these years, you have to cherish the opportunity, Yezi." ”

Ye Qingxuan could only nod.

In front of this mysterious and somewhat neurotic boss, he always felt that his IQ was not enough. But after getting used to his strange way of thinking, you will think that this guy is unexpectedly a good person.

Charles was unusually honest, and just drooled vigorously over the other antique clocks in the store.

After Ye Qingxuan coughed twice in embarrassment, he lowered his head and drank coffee.

I don't know why, he always thinks that the taste of this coffee is strange, a cat...... Is this what fine coffee tastes like? Something is not quite right.

"I thought you wouldn't be able to pass the exam. ”

Hermes sat down in his large chair, propped his feet on the table, and impolitely found the most comfortable position for himself, and said gracefully:

"The last time an Oriental entered the Royal Academy of Music was twenty years ago. But that guy is not like you, he was asked to be a professor.

It's really funny, in the heart of the Anglo Empire, where the sun never sets, in the conservatory of the highest university, there is an Oriental of unknown origin as the vice president......"

"Vice Principal?!" Ye Qingxuan was stunned.

"That's right. Unfortunately, I left for a few years, and when I came back, he disappeared. ”

Hermes shook his head and sighed: "It's a pity that I didn't even make it to that guy's wedding banquet." I heard that after getting married, I quit my job and went to my own two-person world, which is enviable, enviable!"

"Boss, do you remember his name?" Ye Qingxuan asked cautiously.

"Why should I remember a man's name?" Hermes rolled his eyes at him: "Employee One, don't underestimate your boss!"

"Ugh. Boss, there's something strange about how you've been underestimated. ”

Hermes sighed: "Hey, anyway, that Oriental seems to have made quite a mess in the end." Don't learn from him, leaf. ”

Ye Qingxuan sighed and asked, "Isn't there anything more detailed?"

"It depends on the records in your school. Doesn't the average teacher have a file backup in the library?"

The boy shook his head: "It's a pity, the school library is not open to students. ”

"Actually, if you want to see it, there is a way. ”

Beside him, Charles said, "As long as you can be the head of the grade, you can choose any day." Go to the library and consult materials up to level 4. It includes introductory scores for each school, notes and materials numbered below the resonance level......

Of course, if you have a pain in the egg and want to go to the school's personnel file, it doesn't mean that you can't do it. ”

Ye Qingxuan was stunned: "How can you be the head of the grade?"

"Who's more handsome...... It's weird. Charles spread his hands: "The head of the grade, of course, it was typed." You've beaten everybody, and you're the head of the grade!"

"Isn't there a rule?" Ye Qingxuan asked.

Charles rolled his eyes: "The public flag challenge, ten rounds of battles to win, note, it is ten rounds in a row." This is a duel in the method of musicians, Yezi, don't think about it.

You don't have a chance now, do you? at least wait for half a year!"

Ye Qingxuan pondered for a long time and said softly:

"It doesn't sound very difficult. Just to solve Edmund all of them at once. ”

“...... You're so confident, friend!"

Charles no longer knows if he's whimsical or self-conscious.

"Wouldn't they be wheel-fighting if I didn't challenge the chief?"

“......”

"Oh, it's good that young people have fighting spirit. ”

Hermes clapped his hands, his gaze swept over Ye Qingxuan's chest, and then paused.

Suddenly, he got straight up from his chair and stood on the table in such an eerie way. Ye Qingxuan only felt that he was hallucinating, but Hermes stepped on the table, took a step forward, his fingers swept over his chest, and his tail finger deftly hooked the pocket watch chain, pulled out the pocket watch in his pocket, and fell into his hand.

Even if you step on the table and take something out of someone else's arms, you can do it as elegantly as picking flowers for a noble lady on a spring outing......

Hermes looked at the pocket watch in his hand, and his expression suddenly became complicated: "I miss it so much...... Where did you pick this thing up?"

"Well, a friend. ”

Ye Qingxuan was a little embarrassed, took off his pocket watch, and let him look at it. Hermes stroked the lines on it, and seemed to smile happily: "Xiaoyezi, if you like pocket watches, I'll give you a few more." ”

As he spoke, he pointed to the display shelf behind the counter, on which there was a row of valuable antique pocket watches: "It's a belated greeting gift, you can pick and choose." ”

Charles was overjoyed: "Then you're welcome!"

A cane knocked on his head, and he whimpered and shut up. Hermes looked at him with a smile: "This is an employee benefit, you don't count." ”

"How's it going, have you picked it out?"

Hermes pointed to his collection: "These are all good things that I have collected." ”

"You don't need that. ”

Ye Qingxuan waved his hand awkwardly: "It's quite expensive, and besides, I haven't done any work." ”

"Tsk. ”

Hermes pursed his lips and sat back in his place.

He held the bracelet between his two fingers, watched the rotating pocket watch coil around his fingertips, and muttered in a low voice: "Isn't there no way to recover it...... Such a bad work should be destroyed as black history. ”

"What?" Ye Qingxuan asked.

"Nothing!"

Hermes squeezed out a smile: "Since I happened to bump into it, I'm in a good mood today, so I'll help you change it." ”

As he spoke, without waiting for Ye Qingxuan to nod, he threw the timepiece into the air.

Ye Qingxuan opened his mouth to speak, but he snapped his fingers.

In an instant, faint whispers and chanting voices came from the void, and in an instant they went from extremely subtle to extremely brilliant. The sound of countless musical instruments reflected in the sacred chant, turned into thunder, and passed through everyone's ears!

Among the countless chanting voices, an old male voice whispered: "Time, please stop, because you are so beautiful......

So, everything came to a standstill.

It's as if everything is frozen in the air, and a drop of 'amber' falling from the sky encompasses the entire store. Therefore, all changes are forcibly stopped, and the rushing river of time is condensed.

The catastrophe-level score - "Faust", Act IV, begins here!

"My dear friend, all theories are gray, but the tree of life is evergreen. ”

As if incarnated as Mephistopheles, the devil in the score, Hermes smiled and reached out and tapped his pocket watch in mid-air. So in an instant, the pocket watch was dismantled layer by layer.

From the outside in, from the case to the intricate movement......

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It was like taking a nap, Ye Qingxuan blinked and saw the pocket watch fall from the sky and fall back into Hermes's hand.

"No, give it back to you. ”

Hermes laughed happily as if he had succeeded in his prank: "Just kidding, don't care. ”

“...... Can I say I'm used to it?"

Ye Qingxuan had a residual thought.

"Ah, by the way, I almost forgot there's something here. ”

Hermes got up with his cane in his hands, and then rummaged through the cabinets all the way, making a mess all over the floor. Ye Qingxuan watched him sluggishly as he kept rummaging through something, until finally, finally kicked a heavy suitcase down from the attic.

The old suitcase seemed to have some thoughts, and it was covered with dust.

When he lived here before, Ye Qingxuan directly put the bed board on it, and he didn't think to open it to see what was in this dead box.

Now that the suitcase had fallen to the floor, a large hole had been made in the old, hardened leather, giving off all the musty smell of neglected books.

"Now, don't say the boss won't help you. ”

Hermes tapped the suitcase with his cane, "You can pick up a few copies of this pile of garbage and take them with you." ”

"What is this?"

Hermes smiled: "Guess?"

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Ten minutes later, the burly Setton pushed the door open, and saw the wind passing through the room, and the floor was in shambles, Hermes was sitting in the pile of things, drinking coffee, "Yo, Seton, are you back?"

Seton's expression became even more ugly, "What strange things are you doing again?"

"Where, where, I just thought of some strange things that I had collected before, took them out and sorted them out, and then threw them away. ”

Hearing Hermes speak so lightly, Seton pursed his lips, picked up a book from the ground that was about to rot, and stumbled and read:

"Note...... Law of Equals...... Recording...... What is this?"

"Oh, old textbooks that have been eliminated by the times. ”

Hermes lamented: "Records that should have been buried in old papers, or 'worthless' for many people today." Collectors are really bad, how did I use to be like a squirrel, and move things home when I saw them?"

"Speak human words!"

"Okay, okay. ”

Hermes sighed: "You know that the existing system of musicians is based on the foundation of the 'law of average', right?

Compared with the previous rules, the Law of Average has built a new and open system, which is many times easier to operate and easier to use than before.

Based on this, the system of 'Ninth Order of Musicians' and so on was constructed that we are familiar with.

So, here's the problem...... Before the advent of the Law of Averages, how did the musicians, or the people who were still called 'wizards' at that time, cast spells?"

"Rely on it?" said Seton, looking at something that was completely moldy in his hand.

"That's right. ”

Hermes nodded: "In the late Dark Ages, the theoretical foundation of musicians was not perfect, and the seven major factions had not yet been formed. At that time, it was still the 'classical period', and there was no such thing as 'etheric induction theory'.

The dominant doctrine at that time was 'chaos theory', that is, the principle of 'the unpredictability of the ether'.

It's unpredictable, so you have to try it over and over again. As a result, the group of wizards believed that the more records they collected, the closer the calculations would be.

And that creates a problem.

-- There is no surplus of data resulting from the simplification of formulas. ”

"Can you think of a beginner musician trying to learn a note to make a fire, reciting and trying out thousands of different 'mantras'?

It stands to reason that the classical school of thought declined rapidly after the advent of the Law of Equality. And what you have in your hands is one of the chicken ribs left behind. ”

Just as he had finished speaking, Seton saw a familiar look on Hermes's face.

It was like a child's innocent smile after the prank succeeded, with a little pride and a little joy, an irrepressible joy!

"Hahaha, I'm looking forward to it. ”

Hermes looked out the window and whispered, "Twenty-six notes, at least four thousand eight hundred 'spells'." To memorize so many syllables......

I guess someone's brain is going to explode, right?"

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