The center of the darkness of the universe, the trembling black hole of Azathoth.

The head of the blind and foolish gods danced wildly with hundreds of lower-level feudal gods. Hordes of servants and remnants played grotesque music with ugly flutes and drums, trying to match the many hideous alien gods.

Suddenly, the music itself lags for a moment.

Truningbra directs the music; Truningbra is also the music itself. In the void, the ugly tune played a low variation, at the same time full of mockery and disdain.

The outer god, who was the chief of the gods, sensed that a genius soul it had destined to take to the trembling court had escaped its grasp.

Two hundred years later, the weakened body is healing. The Sgerhoo clan, who were being ordered to act, also lost their hands.

But just as Truningbra turned its attention to the insignificant planet in the distance, it sensed the presence of another force.

【……】

On the other side of the Crazy Court, the chaos of the ambush waited as usual. The outer god with countless faces stared contemptuously at the mindless lower feudal gods, and then gestured to Truningbra.

Oh, yes. Wandering Chaos, messenger of the gods, you always favor small and ephemeral civilizations......

The Piper of Azathos resumed his composure in his playing. Two hundred years is a blink of an eye for the gods, and Truningbra doesn't mind waiting another two hundred years. It did not revoke its orders to the Sgerhoos, and even its own dependents, the great outer gods, were indifferent.

[Did you leave it to me?] All right. 】

Nyaratotip, the spirits and messengers of the outer gods, remained motionless on the surface, but on the distant Earth, one of its countless incarnations had already taken a step.

It seems that something particularly interesting is quietly happening on Earth.

……

The next evening.

Dr. Todd yawned. The man was stronger than expected, and now Dr. Todd had allowed him access to his private lounge.

Chen Qiang is not worried that letting Todd and Old Man Bei contact alone will lead to leaks. With his ubiquitous bluff contract, he's fooled Todd into his ranks of investigators.

……

[Name: Howard Todd; Age: 41; Race: Human; Occupation: Doctor】

【HP12/12; MP14/14;Sanity 70/99;Lucky 45/99]

[Strength 50; Constitution 65; Body type 55; Dexterity 60; Appearance 60; Intelligence 75; Will70; Education 80]

[First aid 75%; Medicine 91%; Native Speaker (English) 80%; Chinese 51%; German 56%; Latin 16%; persuasion 40%; Credit rating 60%; Music Theory 55%; Piano performance 46%】

[Touchstone: Motto.]

Keeping secrets for others is protecting others and protecting yourself]

……

This is also the reason why Chen Qiang is relieved to throw Lao Bei to him - even if Old Man Bei is accidentally exposed, the possibility that Todd will say that he leaked his mouth is very small.

For those whose "touchstone" is a creed, breaking it is tantamount to a sane collapse.

Dr. Todd, who was once young and vigorous, had a double degree in medicine and the arts, but apparently he was more gifted in medicine than music.

Now, after many storms and storms, Dr. Todd, who has opened a private practice in China, is no longer in high spirits, and for him, not thinking about the privacy of his clients is more important than anything else.

It's been a long time since Dr. Todd has done major surgeries himself, but he will leave important surgeries to his peers he can trust. Such patients are generally not short of money, and Todd is willing to hire suitable doctors from all over the country and around the world to make "flying knives" for these patients.

Incidentally, for Dr. Todd's own hobby, his private lounge is furnished in a very "classical" way, looking like a large 18th-century living room, with all the audio equipment embedded in the walls, except for the chaise longue and large bookshelves, the most conspicuous is the Yamaha C3 grand piano.

As he pushed the door open, Dr. Todd heard piano notes coming from inside.

He smiled.

It seems that this tsundere (because the old man always looks very grateful but refuses to thank him, Chen Qiang's translator translated a large paragraph of Todd's complaint about him into this one word) The old man is also quite leisurely and elegant......

……

Beethoven was indeed a 19th-century man with a bad temper and a bit of an old-fashioned personality, but that doesn't mean he wasn't good at learning. Unlike the hapless thief, as one of the most influential musicians in human history, Mr. Pei's intelligence and understanding are among the highest among ordinary humans.

While inspecting, he stumbled upon a glimpse of the year on the calendar – the 21st century. After two days of tossing and turning, he was almost convinced that he had arrived in the real 21st century, not some earth-shattering joke.

Perhaps, only a doctor in 200 years will be able to cure his ear disease.

With that figured out, it's not unacceptable to let these rude people fiddle with those strange instruments on themselves.

From Todd's words, Beethoven could tell that the city was located far to the east. He also saw the world map on the wall - the world had changed drastically, but he still found Vienna on the map, which gave him some peace of mind.

In any case, the mere fact of restoring my hearing is nothing to repay. Old Bakery struggled to maintain the grace of a European gentleman—but when Dr. Todd's cell phone rang, he jumped up in surprise and nearly fell.

He guessed that the little box was the "gramophone" - it was said that from Europe to the New World, there were some utopians who were pouring this fantasy around.

I really didn't expect to see the real thing in my lifetime......

And this object is still so small, and the sound it makes is so clear and wonderful (no matter how clever he is, he thinks of the tape recorder, and he can't connect Todd running to the corner to answer the phone and communicate)!

I wonder how long this machine can keep its sound? If you could have the duration of a symphony...... At least one movement would be fine, and that would be fantastic.

But what made him even happier was that at the end of the day, he saw a brand new grand piano in Dr. Todd's private room. Compared to those strange machines, it is still a familiar instrument that is more reassuring.

No, it's not familiar. Beethoven noticed that the piano was very different from the wooden piano he was used to, with more keys and different pedals. After a cursory glance, he immediately judged that the instrument had a sound range of seven octaves, not five and a half octaves two hundred years ago.

Restoring his hearing made the old musician look ten years younger, and the sight of the new piano lifted his spirits. The great musicians are very happy to think that the musicians and inventors of the future are working hard.