Chapter 55: A New Employee of the Fortress of Sanity
Lesheng didn't rush to start playing. He knew he needed a little time to get used to the new pedals. He sat on the bench and pressed the keys from left to right, pondering questions about range and timbre.
"Old sir," Todd walked in, "do you know how to play the harp?" ”
Well, asking Beethoven if he can play the piano is a really good question, better than asking Messi if he can play football.
Beethoven ignored him. He's pretty much trying.
He casually played his Piano Sonata No. 23 in F minor, "Passion". Maybe this piece is not suitable as an experiment, but since the person in front of you wants to hear his name two hundred years later, he can just play his own tune.
【Ludwig van Beethoven Piano Performance Verification 59/99 Success】
……
Todd froze.
He collected no less than ten CDs of Beethoven's complete piano sonatas alone. He doesn't know how many times he has heard this "Passion Sonata", many times it was performed live by famous pianists, but ......
The playing in front of you is different.
The clear, hazy timbre contains endless emotions: warmth, joy, sensitivity, the pain of the end, the joy of rebirth, the strong willpower is like a magnificent classical palace, connecting all excitement and enthusiasm together, and in the beautiful shocking notes, the steely willpower spirals up, in addition to the poetic and picturesque, it also shows the fierceness and courage of the performer.
Todd suddenly felt ashamed - hell, this level of performance should not be only his own audience, let alone his own mediocre piano!
You should use those real world famous pianos, Steinway, Bechstein, Bösendorfer! If Yamaha's president can hear this humiliating scene, it's best to give him a YAMAHA-CFX that has been tuned up and is in perfect condition!
The notes change, and Dr. Todd feels as if he is on the move, as if everything is playing towards him, and the stars are singing to him, time becomes space, and flowing notes become a sublime picture belonging to Beethoven.
“……”
Until the end of Zone 1, Todd was still immersed in the memories of the music.
"Old sir," Todd stammered after a long time, "you ......."
He could not have imagined that such a great player was deaf and that he was the first to treat him properly.
Then he finally realized......
Deaf, great musicians, strange old German, anachronistic words and deeds, and Beethoven.
[Howard Todd Intelligence Test 71/75 Success]
The face of the person in front of him overlapped with the resolute face in the portrait.
"Excuse me......" Dr. Todd felt his mouth dry.
"I'm back."
Chen Qiang said to himself, walked into the room, and closed the door.
"It's you." Old Man Bei recognized Chen Qiang.
"You may be a little uncomfortable when you first arrive," Chen Qiang said, anyway, Dr. Todd, who had the most contact with Beethoven, would find out the secret sooner or later, and it was better to tell it himself than to wait for him to find out, "I hope that life in 200 years will make you satisfied." ”
"Thank you for everything you did for me." Even the stubborn Lesheng is no longer arrogant at the moment. He wanted to beg the other party to send him back to the Vienna he knew, but he suddenly felt that it was good to stay in this fresh future world.
"Mr. Beethoven," Chen Qiang took out some German materials from his bag, "here are some basic common sense in the world today, including the situation in the world, as well as some technological developments in the past two hundred years, etc., although you may be more concerned about music, but you should also look at these...... Feed? Dr. Todd? What happened to you? ”
[Howard Todd Psychology Examination 6/10 Success]
Todd, a classical music lover, realized that Chen Qiang was not lying to him the moment his heart beat violently.
Then, he clutched his heart and fell down.
"Someone, doctor, he's fainted......"
……
Late at night.
Chen Qiang sat in the driver's seat of his black pickup truck and yawned heavily.
After appeasing the overly excited Todd and the bewildered Beethoven, Chen Qiang drove the car back to his "Fortress of Reason" company.
The poor thief was still in a vegetative state and didn't know if he could be saved, but the result of forcing the living voice creature made him feel good.
There are two emissaries from Sgrojo this time, and they are specially here to collect the souls of great musicians who are about to die. They are good at using sound to find people, but they hit a wall in Beethoven, a deaf person, and mistakenly took another traverser as a target, and were finally controlled by Chen Qiang's "mythological interference".
As long as the physical condition of the great musician improves, the condition for the outer god Trunibra to take the soul will no longer be satisfied.
"Unlike the old rulers who were extremely dominant," Chen Qiang said secretly, "the outer gods act according to their own laws. If the sonic creature hadn't lied...... Keeping Old Man Bei healthy is a shortcut to avoid the arrival of the outer gods in person; But if the pursuit is foolproof, the old man must be sent back to his time as soon as possible. ”
Chen Qiang hesitated.
Truningbra doesn't like to have nothing to do like Nyarrathotep, right? Although before the end of the effective time of "Mythical Interference", he did kill the sonic creature.
"I hope that the remaining living voice creature will also roll back to Scho Bay as soon as possible, and stop grinding in this world." Chen Qiang said in his heart.
It is not ruled out that Old Man Bei's health improves, and the other party will also attack.
……
Dead.
"Are you there?" Chen Qiang turned on the light in the basement of the "Fortress of Reason".
"You're back." Under the light, the ancient man with his tentacles swinging and Uncle Xu, a ghoul with gelatinous skin, sat on the ground, talking about something.
For Chen Qiang, a secret keeper who already has the talents of [Friends of Ghouls] and [Friends of the Ancients], even if he sees this terrifying scene, he will not lose his sanity.
"Come on, let's talk about today." Chen Qiang walked briskly towards the two mythical creatures employees.
"Xiao Gu is a quick learner," Uncle Xu said enthusiastically, "In a few days, it will be able to take on a human form." ”
Xiao Gu is a surname given to himself by this ancient man.
Uncle Xu thought that his transformation spell could only be used by ghouls, but he didn't expect that the ancients didn't spend much effort to improve this spell.
"I, but, genius." The young old man was in high spirits.
"You think about it," Chen Qiang asked, "you want to become...... Male or female? ”
The ancients had no concept of gender, and Chen Qiang chose a term that he felt might be easier for the other party to understand.
"Female, I intend to become a woman," said the old man, "Your Excellency Chen Qiang, your words are so ugly, you want to say 'male' and 'female'. ”
…… It's hard to be educated by mythical creatures.
"So, why choose a woman?"
"You and Lao Xu both said that my voice is good," the old man triumphed, "like a girl's voice." ”
"Okay." Chen Qiang touched his chin, as if he was brushing his non-existent beard.