"Wei Yong" You are the Hua of Twilight Ice

Still in such a quiet and beautiful posture, Victor's right hand slid past in front of him lightly, and with his head half raised, he began to slide.He slipped backwards in the lingering melancholy of the contradictory oboe, stretched his arms and stretched out into the distance.This is a kind of quiet contradiction. He turned his body so peacefully to face the direction of taxiing. This is a swallow gesture with a knife.Letting go of the ice skates, Victor began to accelerate, jumping around the back of the ice, which is synonymous with Victor, but this perfect jump has a quietness that people have never felt.Just like the music, take off from the ice calmly, and land on the ice calmly, just like a textbook.

The sound of the flute floated out gently, and together with the sound of the string music at the beginning, a kind of "contradiction" that was forbearing and exposed was fused. The long silver hair slid an arc in the air, like a ray of silver in the twilight The moonlight illuminated the night sky. After Victor's step-continuation, there was a group of joint rotations of swallow-style rotation followed by squat rotation and then foot-changing squat rotation.

The music suddenly heated up. Victor tapped the ice surface lightly. He opened his hands backwards, and amidst the fiery sound of the violin, he seemed to be running in some direction desperately.If we say that in [Meltbeforemidnight], it was the joy of the gods throwing themselves into the world, then in the current [Flamebeforemidnight], it is the fearlessness of mortals chasing gods.

The next one is the Axel triple axel jump. Victor can actually jump a 4A without falling down, but it is unstable after all, and there is almost no perfect 4A. In addition, the Skating Federation’s regulations on the short program also make it impossible for him to jump. Just honestly placed a triple jump.

The timbre of the key sheng jumped and cleared, and with the subsequent choreography, everyone present saw the corners of Victor's slightly raised lips through the big screen, just like a mortal suffering in the flames ignited by a god, but as if Moths fly into the flames, as sweet as sugar.

After the quadruple hook jump followed by the triple axel jump, Victor placed the joint jump near the end of the program. This is also because of the physical strength that he does not need to worry about after the transformation, so he dared to arrange it this way.The roar of the wind group can't suppress the clang of the violin, and the rondo-style melody is the same as the viola dialogue that represents that person.In the struggle between flames and people, the more you persist, the more intense the flames will be, and the more passionate the sound of the violin will be; but the more intense the struggle, even if you are eroded by the flames, it is like moths to the flames.

But mortals cannot survive in the flames of the gods. The speed of the butterfly turning and the phantom turning is getting faster and faster. Victor is almost like a shadow.After spinning, the music suddenly became softer. The harmony of the xylophone and glockenspiel together with the Scottish bagpipes, it was as if the flames in the night had never appeared, and the gods were still high above, but no one knew that there were mortals who chased the flames and turned into ash.

It's like the jungle by the lake in the dark, quiet and peaceful.In the cold, in order to pursue what is slowly beating in the forest, from tranquility to vividness, and then to the faint sharp fire, in the darkness of the night, I sacrifice my life to the flame.The last quadruple jump and the last set of spins are as quiet as the beginning, and everything is frozen in the movement of lying on the ice.

After the sound of the piano stopped, everyone present was silent, although it can be seen that compared with Victor's previous most perfect state, no matter in the connection of emotional changes or in the optimization of choreography, there is still a lot of improvement. space, but no one denies that Victor, who skates with his real mood, has shocked people. It is a different feeling that has never been seen before.

Walking off the ice rink, Viktor seemed to have yet to get out of that emotion. He quietly took the skate cover from Coach Yakov, and together with some little old men who didn't know what to do, walked to the side of the K&C District waiting for results.

He smiled at the constantly flashing camera as usual, but Yakov felt that Victor's smile was the same as in the previous ten years, and it didn't reach his eyes.

"Great, the first skate of Viktor Nikiforov's comeback, this is the brand new Nikiforov, 28 years old, the ace of Russia!"

Victor was still holding his Mackachin paper box, maintaining a very gentle smile.He recovered from the state of [Flamebeforemidnight] just now, and couldn't help himself not to think about Yuuri, wondering if he would watch his game.

Probably not, right?The third stop is Japan, Yuuri will be very busy again, I wonder if he will feel nervous at this time?It wasn't until the broadcast sounded again that Victor pulled back his thoughts.

"Victor Nikiforov scored 110.62 points! Unsurprisingly, No.1! Everyone present was screaming and applauding. Another transformation of the comeback battle, an excellent debut!" If these words were typed out by the announcer in words, no one knows how many exclamation points would be used uncontrollably.

This result did not break Victor's personal record or the short program record currently held by Yuri, and was even a few points behind his own record, but as the first match of the season, it could be said to be a perfect answer sheet.After all, apart from Victor, no one can score more than 110 points in the first game at the beginning of the season.And this time the attempt, it can be regarded as the result!

Well, I have to say, part of it is that he has all the nights, so many hours of practice.

After leaving the K&C area, Victor quickly avoided the reporters and went back to the hotel.He didn't know, when everyone was slowly leaving the ice rink, Phichit, who was hesitant to speak before, muttered something entangled, and then dialed a mobile phone number whose address was in Seoul, South Korea, with a very low voice And it was impossible to restrain myself from complaining about the feeling that I was about to become a mother because I was worrying about my best friend.

The young man on the other end of the phone didn't respond much, but he also listened carefully to someone's nagging, and didn't find him annoying.

By this time, Victor had finished taking a shower and sat on the edge of the bed.He took his mobile phone from the bedside table, and just pressed the power button when he saw several missed calls on it. It was from Moros and Hosenfell.

He called back and it was Hosenfell who answered the call.

"Vicha, how is it?" Victor knew he was asking if drinking the cup of blood would work. Victor thought about it for a long time before boarding the plane, and told him and Mo Ross, after all, the two of them are very kind to Victor.

The silver-haired man said "hmm", "Don't worry, I don't feel much when I meet other people these days." He habitually put his hand on his chin, "There will be nothing until I come back !"

After receiving such an answer from Victor, he gave the Dresden Symphony Orchestra a tour summary and arranged rehearsal tasks until the next spring tour. The conductor who rushed back to St. Petersburg from Germany breathed a sigh of relief.

"By the way, come back as soon as possible after the game, I don't know when that side effect will suddenly appear!" Molos suddenly remembered this matter, and moved to the phone in Hosenfell's hand.The tone was very solemn, as if he couldn't worry anymore.

Victor showed a sly smile on the contrary, "I know this, but the two-person world between you and Hosenfell can't last long!" Moros hung up the phone unnaturally, and then sighed helplessly , Victor is still like this, even when he is unhappy, he will act happy.

There were still drips of water on his hair, and the silver-haired man got into the quilt and leaned against the head of the bed.Now, from a physiological point of view, Victor does not need to sleep at all, but because he always wants to maintain this habit psychologically, he still allows himself to stay in this place where he was supposed to sleep during sleep time.

He is still used to sleeping naked, probably so that the skin directly touches the fabric to give a warm feeling, especially in this early winter, although the body between cold and warm can't feel the cold, but he still likes warm things Woolen cloth!Victor was wearing headphones, and what was playing in it was the song of his free skate - [TheMaskWillInFire].

On the second day, Victor was obviously in better shape than in the short program. It can be said that when he appeared in people's eyes, he was already in the mood of the program.Instead of greeting the players he knew with a smile like before, he started warming up by himself.

However, for him, the term "warming up" doesn't seem right!

But these are irrelevant things.According to the results of the short program, he was the last one to play. Phichit, who didn't know the truth, was an insider of the relationship between Victor and Yuuri. Although he was curious about what happened to the two of them, he still looked at Victor worriedly when he passed by. Phichit felt that things seemed complicated.

[TheMaskWillInFire] Victor has prepared two seasons of free skating, which was discovered by a reporter from the German "Bild-Zeitung" at the beginning of the season, so everyone is looking forward to this program that has been polished for a year.And I'm afraid few people know that it turned out that it was just a repertoire that Victor accidentally chose in order to pursue new ideas, but it has real meaning in this short half a year.

The silver-haired man stepped onto the ice rink, and in St. Petersburg, tens of kilometers away, a blond boy who was on a rest day also turned on the TV while muttering. "Tsk, I made my hair look like this again!" Yuri said, but carefully found that the skin of this "old man" was a little whiter than half a year ago, which was a little abnormal.

In fact, the ice fans at the scene were all stunned when they saw Victor's long hair tied back a day ago. Whether this man has long hair or short hair, he has a charm that makes people unable to move their eyes.Especially now, unlike the neutral beauty with long hair in his youth, this kind of Victor looks like a grown man at first glance, but he always has a temperament that cannot be ignored, which is very indescribable.All in all, it's different than ever before.

He skated to the center of the ice rink and raised his arms to greet the surrounding audience.It was only after people noticed his silver hair that they could clearly see the performance suit of his free skating today.It was a performance suit similar to a shirt style, and it belonged to the three-color interweaving of the grayscale color system, which gradually changed in an irregular manner.The surface of the fabric is dotted with light, giving people the feeling of nothingness around them.Seeing such a costume, they remembered Victor's theme of this season - the word "void" in "KissingToTheVoid". Combined with the topic of free skating, they suddenly felt the intricacies between "mask" and "truth" .The sleeves are cut off in the middle of the upper part of the upper arm, and the two parts of the sleeves are connected by a silver chain, which is elegant and has a Victor-style novelty.

"Next, our last appearance is Viktor Nikiforov, who returned to our sight with a brand-new attitude in yesterday's short program. The selection is still a newly created track, [TheMaskWillInFire], composed by Xiao Starco."

With yesterday's warm-up, as soon as Victor appeared in the ice rink today, the inside of Nuoda's venue suddenly became quiet.Everyone stared at this man, wondering what kind of surprise he would bring to everyone today.In particular, the free skating, which has been polished for two seasons, is different from the short program performed publicly for the first time. Almost everyone in the audience thinks that this song [TheMaskWillInFire] must be more perfect. It is really exciting!

After standing still, Victor unexpectedly half-kneeled down on the ice, with his left leg bent, maintaining a half-kneeling posture, and the other leg straightened to the side facing away from him.His upper body formed a curved arc backwards, raised his head, covered half of his handsome face with his right hand, and pointed to his right leg stretched behind him with his left hand.

Because of this posture, Victor's slender fingers with clearly visible joints, half of his face slightly covered by the hanging hair, all through the LED screen hanging high on the top of the ice rink, so that every audience can see clearly.Several loyal Russian fans even screamed on the spot, and their mouths were covered by their sensible companions.

Look, the girls of the fighting nation are so crazy.

What's more, fans are a group of creatures completely different from ice fans!

Not only that, many people were frightened by the degree of flexibility shown by Victor. Although it was too obvious when he neither lowered his waist nor leaned back, he was already 28 years old. In the eyes of normal people , this is still very abnormal, okay?

Victor didn't care about this at all. At his current age, he is probably just a child in the blood race, right?He is someone who has almost recovered from Bellman.

What drew people's attention back to the center of the ice rink was the unfamiliar music from the speakers.

Modern key sheng and Scottish bagpipes are intertwined, and the tune gradually becomes clear.That seems to be setting off each other and covering each other's voice.The tones of the two are gentle and clear, and they are chasing each other freely, giving people a kind of joy and joy that comes from nowhere.

However, there are also a small number of audiences who understand classical music or who are more careful feel some strange feelings.Although the style of this prelude is relaxed, it uses more dissonant intervals in it, that is, other intervals except pure degrees, pure fourths, perfect fifths, and pure octaves.Even more professional musicians found that there are several very unrealistic augmented fourth and diminished fifth intervals in this section.

At this moment, these smart and keen ice fans suddenly felt a very unfounded uneasiness in their hearts.Now Victor is stretching his arms gracefully on the ice, those seemingly chic slides, those relaxed, free and joyful swallows, bobs and choreographed footwork that belong to grown men, together with the small wide board of the soundtrack, let their There seems to be a faint unsteadiness in my heart, like, not so real feeling.

In fact, the feelings of these audiences are absolutely correct.

The sound of the viola was connected to the main melody without anyone noticing it, and by the time someone started to react, the sound had already entwined towards the bagpipes.

In this free skating, Victor also did not place the jump at the beginning. Because of his familiarity with this program, when skating, whether it is Mohawk or Choctaw, it is just a normal skating. From the audience's point of view, there is a familiar sense of relaxation, as if he looks at everything casually and ignores everything, because he knows that these superficial falsehoods will disappear without a trace one day .

Victor well connected his familiarity with the show with the souls of the people in the show, and that's why he had an indescribable feeling.Although it doesn't seem to care, there is a kind of forbearance.As he slid along the edge of the ice rink and accelerated, the clear melody that had once flashed seemed to be engulfed by the cadenza of the viola.

However, the sound of the modern key sheng and Scottish bagpipe has not dissipated. Under the shroud of the sobbing sound of the piano, the ray of brilliance is still bright and bright, still trying to turn into a flame, and go to the falsehood that wraps the truth.

Gradually, the flute and violin also joined the camp. When Victor took off, the empty melody floated out for a moment, although after he landed lightly on the ice, it was submerged again.

"Hook quadruple jump! Perfect landing on the ice, Victor once again told us what is called a textbook." The narrator expressed his admiration with some irony.

After falling off the ice, the silver-haired man turned around. He lowered his head, put one hand behind his back, and slowly stretched the other hand in front of his body. Choreograph footwork.

After the previous jump.Obviously, the overall rhythm has been accelerated a little bit almost imperceptibly. After the swallow glide, there will be a second quadruple jump soon, so many audiences have not noticed any changes between Victor's swallow and a year ago.But if this is a swallow pose with a knife, then it can be seen from the height that Victor's softness does not seem to have declined due to age, but has improved a lot.

The second jump Victor arranged was a 4S, like a response, the music accompanied his jumps and ups and downs. After a set of Yan-style rotations followed by half-Bellman rotations, the wind group came together again.Victor turned sideways, his figure slid backwards on the ice, turned around and began to slide forward from one end of the ice rink, the arc left by the two ice blades was flat and full of beauty.A group of 3A+1Lo+3S joint jumps was connected without any abruptness.Now, the ensemble dominated by wind instruments and Scottish bagpipes has gradually become equal to the lingering bass part.

Of course, this is not Victor’s best level, because it’s the first time he tried this kind of full “into the play”, let the inner feeling drive himself, changed the way that he had arranged and practiced for a long time, and he still felt a little uncomfortable .But start with the middle section.The feeling in Victor has become more and more in place.

The squat turn ended at the full level of GOE, and he was completely immersed in the memories, some about himself and Yuuri, and the German symphony tour that was still fresh in his memory.After completing a set of jumps dominated by 4T, the feeling has stabilized.Amidst the violin's chanting that became clearer and clearer, with a four-way jump on the back of the ice as a breakthrough, the flame of truth erupted violently.

This is a kind of conflict and struggle that belongs to the truth after experiencing the emptiness of "The Bell", the resentment of "Sonata of Pathos", and Schindler's dark years, after uncovering the mask that has been maintained.

The last section of the free skating began. When the butterfly switched to the squat spin and then the foot-changing squat spin, the first theme at the beginning appeared again.Different from the cheerful but unreal feeling at the beginning, the theme melody of this section is played by violin and oboe, and the guarzi makes the sound a little more calm.Even more so after Axel's triple axel.

Continuing steps, 4Lz+3T, and finally a group of rotations as usual.When the woodwind group was roaring gently and joyfully, Victor tried his best to half-raise his head, with one hand spread out one foot in front of his eyes, and the ice rink was like a raging flame.He seemed to be catching something broken, and his other hand was slightly raised at an angle with tension behind him, exposing his slightly porcelain-white Adam's apple, which made many audience watching the big screen scream.

Through this set of free skating, everyone saw that Victor's emotional expression was sublimated at a visible speed.But only Victor himself knows that he is only gradually getting used to how to control the music with his emotions in front of all the audience on the ice rink, instead of performing with a performance mentality as before.

To be honest, when he chose this song, Victor never imagined that one day he would really experience such similar emotions, nor did he know that one day he would be so helpless.

He is like the person in this piece of music, unable to tell the truth, but wants to tell the truth more than any Kazuto, just hoping that by then, he can get his Yuuri's understanding...his own choice.But in fact, Victor himself is not sure of this, but one day, all the concealment he had to hide will disappear, and he knows this.

This is all he wanted to express on the ice in just over four minutes.

If only Yuuri could see it!Victor believes that Yuuri is so sensitive that he can understand what he means.But unfortunately, in order to prepare for the Japanese Grand Prix in less than 20 days, Yuuri, who has devoted all his time to training, really did not watch the first race of the Grand Prix.

On the contrary, Yuuri's parents and Minako watched the whole scene without missing a second.

At this time, Victor was already sitting in the equal partition.Maybe it was because he tried skating with his own emotions for the first time, and Victor is still not very happy, as if he is still immersed in the program just now.

At this moment, a clear but excited male voice came from the radio: "Victor Nikiforov's score is 207.47 points! The gap is nearly 20 points ahead of the second player, and Victor really is Viktor, an excellent start to the season with a win!"

Victor stood up in the K&C area. He sent a wink to the boiling audience, and after a little greeting, he stood up and left the scope of the camera.

Just as he was about to push open the door of the lounge, a familiar voice sounded behind him. "Vicha, you have changed. I don't know if this is a good thing or a bad thing. I hope what you have done is worthwhile. I haven't seen that Cyril guy for more than ten years. I wish you success and goodbye!" Victor said at the beginning After being surprised, he turned his head and quietly looked at Coach Yakov who said these words in an almost impossibly peaceful tone.

Yakov spoke in a low voice, perhaps because he was afraid that others would hear him, but Victor listened carefully to every word.Just now, when Yakov called out his name, Viktor stopped in a daze, then turned around and smiled back, somewhat more helplessly.

Yeah, he really has changed.What was Victor like before?

In the past, when Victor won the championship, he would be willful, act like a baby, and occasionally show a childish side; instead of being like now, he is obviously happy, but he doesn't want to express his feelings anymore.

In the past, when Victor was sad, he would lie down in a certain place depressedly, and would cry until tears flowed down his face; he would not squeeze out a proper smile like he does now.

Half a year is indeed very short!Victor thought of this in a daze, and responded to Coach Yakov with a smile, but was suddenly shocked in his heart.It turned out that so many changes had indeed taken place in me, and these changes were not allowed.At least when it comes to Yuuri, he has to be the same Viktor.

In his heart, he strengthened the determination he had made half a year ago, but the second gust of wind blown by the same butterfly wing had a stronger impact on the final result.

Shaking his head self-deprecatingly, he walked out of the lounge.He sat quietly aside for a while, and when he opened the door again, stepped onto the podium, and came into the public's sight, he became that gentle and elegant Victor again, it seemed that even the arc of his smile was invisible. There is no difference from before.