intoxicating

--rehearse--

In the last scene, the scene is the cold palace.

The musician who lost his hearing lost the meaning of existence and chose to commit suicide.

"I have played the piano for half my life. I have learned fingering, music score, tuning, and the skill of chopping the piano. I have hidden the instrument in it. I have already turned you into a murder weapon. I am a person who deserves to die, but before I die, I want to listen to it again. Listen to your voice."

"It seems that you are not willing to forgive me, no matter what, I am the only one on the road to Huangquan, coming and going alone."

Thin threads of blood soaked the ground, and when they encountered cracks, they soaked in.

The strings and body of the qin were blood-stained, and the strings vibrated. This might be the last time it was played. After that, it would either be burned or buried in the soil, waiting to rot.

When the emperor came, the sound of the piano had stopped, the strings were broken and people died, leaving him only a lonely palace and blood that hadn't completely dried up.

After standing there for a long time, he waved his sleeves, "Buried him."

The guard stepped forward after hearing the order, and was about to carry him away.

"Wait, put the person in the coffin first."

In the huge ice cellar, lay a pair of crystal coffins quietly. Its appearance was the same as before, except that it lost its color.

Seeing Yan Qingyao holding the pale-faced Gong Lingxi, he felt pity and regret at the same time. The scene should be as touching as it is touching.

Huajian couldn't help complaining, "When in contact with living people and air, the temperature is not low enough, and it will rot after a short time."

"It's better to pour it into amber, or freeze it directly..." Ye Rong said.

"You can also use alcohol and mercury."

"Then you can't even touch it."

The president of the Ancient Characters Research Institute was not defeated by Yan Qingyao's teacher status, nor by Geng Huang's bad temper, but was stunned by this group of guys who had no romantic feelings.

The day of the performance was set to be one month before the end of the semester. Before that, Gong Lingxi also received a special letter from Tianguixing.

The content of the letter is very simple, he has already passed the preliminary test, and on the first day of the new year, he will participate in the rematch at Tianguixing.

"It seems that this year's New Year will be spent in the competition..." Putting away the letter, Gong Lingxi couldn't help but yearn for the scene of the competition.

Until then, there are performances and final exams.

On an asteroid far away from Ziwei Star, it is quite deserted here on weekdays, but recently there have been frequent arrivals of spaceships, from the formerly powerful Ziwei Empire, from the Zombie Kingdom ruled by religion, from the chaotic Three Kingdoms in the East, and many A small country of luck.

Young talents from all over the world gather here, and after seven competitions, there is only one place.

A spaceship docked, the body of the ship was white, only a golden logo was particularly eye-catching, and the crowd began to commotion.

Everyone in the boat disembarked, uniformly dressed, with golden trims on a white background, the same color as the spaceship.

"People from Xi Kingdom have arrived..." someone whispered.

"Ah, what a bright feeling."

"It's completely opposite to the people in the corpse country, there is lifeless over there."

Following the speaker's gaze, everyone saw a group of people in black clothes, black boots, and frosted metal decorations more than ten meters away, but after being glared at by one person, they all withdrew their inquiring gazes.

"Scared me."

"I thought I was going to be cursed just now."

"Seeing it with my own eyes is even scarier than the legend."

The few people shared the scary stories they heard in the past, and then they were shocked and calmed down, and then turned the topic to the Ziwei Empire that had not yet arrived.

"It was a very powerful country in the past, but now it barely maintains this quota."

The speaker has long forgotten that his country is even smaller and does not even have a single quota.

Others echoed, "I think in a few years, they won't even be able to keep this spot."

"I heard one thing. In last year's league, they were eliminated in the first round. If it weren't for the score being one point higher than the bottom, hehe."

"I think I've heard it too, so it's true."

"Stop talking, people are coming..." Someone poked them as a warning. Talking behind their backs is one thing, but being overheard is another.

Different from the uniformity of the Zombie Kingdom and the Xi Kingdom, when the people of the Ziwei Empire got off the boat, all kinds of colors appeared. They were all wearing school uniforms. The military academy favored heroic and dull colors, while the Royal Academy favored formal dresses. Other schools also have their own characteristics, in short, they don't look like a team.

"It feels like a temporary patchwork..." Someone said this question.

"Shh, don't let them hear it."

"It's so far away, they can't hear it."

In the distance, one of the Ziwei Empire's team said to his companion, "I guess they must be complaining about our clothes."

Zuo Xiyou looked sideways, taking everyone's reactions into his eyes, "There is no one from the corpse country."

"Those spooky guys probably don't have the habit of watching the show."

Zuo Xiyou raised his head and looked at the sky. On the towering tall building, stood a big bird with black feathers, "Up."

"Mechanical?"

"Not like."

"The corpse owl is a divine bird in the belief of the Corpse Kingdom, but whether there is such a god, I don't know if I don't dissect one..." Yu Qiao was eager to try.

"You'd better give up this plan, unless you want to go to war."

The match is scheduled for the day after tomorrow, and the group will stay in the reserved hotel for the time being. The number of rooms for each team has already been fixed. As for the specific allocation, it is up to each team to decide.

The captain of the Ziwei Empire is Duan Linshuang, and he is naturally responsible for allocating the rooms.

The two people in mecha warfare must be separated together, and ground command warfare and space warfare also have similarities, but when the pen fell on the names of the other four, Duan Linshuang hesitated.

Zuo Xiyou, no matter where it is placed, it is not suitable.

He and Yu Qiao are good friends, but the nature of the competition between the two is completely different. To put it bluntly, only the individual competition is outside the group, which seems extremely out of gregarious.

Considering Zuo Xiyou's status, it was impossible to simply follow his orders.

The tip of the pen fell, half an hour later, the room was allocated, Zuo Xiyou put down his luggage and began to pack.

Another person in the same room looked sideways frequently, feeling uneasy.

"Is there something on my face?" Zuo Xiyou put down the pillow towel and asked.

"No..." Luo Mi shook his head, and then asked, "You really won the game? Are you really only 19 years old?"

Faced with this kind of question, Zuo Xiyou didn't want to answer at all, always felt that after answering, he would look like an idiot.

Seeing that Zuo Xiyou didn't get angry, Luo Mi asked more and more vigorously, showing the spirit of being a reporter.

"It's so strong now, isn't it the strongest in the future, the strongest seems to be a little bit worse..."

Luo Mi probably watched too much TV, and began to nickname Zuo Xiyou, "No. [-] in the world? The strongest in the universe? Invincible in the world? Dugu seeks defeat?"

After spreading the quilt and folding the last corner neatly, Zuo Xiyou said, "No one is invincible."

"But now you are the strongest among your peers..." Luo Mi said it as a matter of course, "Even senior students are not your opponents at all."

"Xiyou, are you tidying up? Let's go have supper..." This tone must be Yu Qiao.

"I haven't had dinner yet."

"What about supper and supper?"

"Wait for a while..." Zuo Xiyou took out towels, toothbrushes and other small things.

Without getting an answer from Zuo Xiyou, Luo Mi didn't admit it, and asked Yu Qiao directly, "A person as strong as him, will there be opponents?"

"There are people outside people, and there are days outside the sky."

"I know, but it's critical..." Luo Mi hugged a puppet, resting his chin on the puppet's head.

Except for the puppet, which was half the height of a person, salute was casually thrown aside, and a metal box was carefully placed on the table.

Thinking about the other party's identity, Yu Qiao immediately guessed what was in the metal box, a set of simulators.

Generally speaking, the competition party will provide equipment, especially command warfare, which is quite large, but there are some situations that are different, such as information warfare and simulation warfare. Everyone has their own operating habits, and they will more or less adapt their own Equipment brought.

After leaving the room, Zuo Xiyou said, "How is it?"

"what?"

Although they are friends who have known each other for many years, they have not reached the level of telepathy.

"Information warfare is going on all the time."

"The most important thing to pay attention to is Corpse Country and Xi Country. You don't need to tell me about this. Information about Xi Country's team is very easy to find, and they are basically very active. There is only one person, who has not performed well before, and may be a secret weapon. ..."

After talking about Xi Country, I turned to Corpse Country, "As for Corpse Country, if they can accept the changes brought about by modern civilization, my work will save a lot of effort."

"Then the efficiency of their teaching will be improved a lot."

"So why are they still on paper and face-to-face?"

"You can talk to them about it when you have time."

"In this way, we can know who will be brainwashed first..." Yu Qiao was moved, but let's talk about the business first, "The Corpse Kingdom has done a good job of keeping secrets. It selects students internally and trains them in places far away from civilization. Disciple, and the Zombie Kingdom rarely holds public competitions, and the competitions are mostly held within the sect, so it can be said that only the insiders can know their every move."

After talking for a long time, Yu Qiao paused and continued, "But not everyone can resist the temptation of technological civilization."

I found a piece of information, similar to a short diary, I don't know which unlucky ghost's account was hacked by Yu Qiao.

Zuo Xiyou looked at the above content carefully, mostly complaining, there was very little useful information, but he could piece together a complete image.

The other party is a low-ranking person, and his superiors don't care much about him. They often ask him to do some chores, and only occasionally have the opportunity to meet senior members of the church.

The senior management includes those who hold important positions and those who are mainly cultivated by the teaching staff.

[Damn it, damn it! !I don't know if copying the religious rules a hundred times can ward off evil spirits. 】

[No, today I feel like a ghost is following me all day. 】

Seeing Zuo Xiyou hastily glanced at some daily life, but was interested in these babbling words instead, Yu Qiao said, "The environment is too depressing, there will always be a few days that are not normal."

"I'm afraid what he saw wasn't a ghost."

"Not a ghost?" Yu Qiao was stunned, but the huge information base reminded him of a possibility, "Spiritual manifestation, but the spiritual manifestation that looks like a ghost has been recorded in ancient times, but it has not appeared recently."

"Ghosts are fabricated by human beings, they don't exist, they don't become spiritual manifestations, and neither do gods." Zuo Xiyou murmured.

Yu Qiao immediately continued, "In 7365 of the Imperial Calendar, the director of the Spiritual Concrete Research Institute proposed in the concrete classification report that since then, the concrete is limited to things that have been proven to exist, and the ghosts he mentioned do not exist, let alone It may be some kind of spiritual manifestation affecting the dream body, similar to Huanqisuo."