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#40 - Don't be sad

After activating the memory fragment: blue and yellow paper rabbit, the scene turned white again.

Subsequently, the scene moved to the first floor of the house.

Old Johnny was alone at the piano, playing "To Riva." The soft and beautiful piano music flowed like a mountain spring in a rocky stream. The monotonous melody, composed of only two notes, continued, but it didn't feel boring.

Paper rabbits were scattered all over the floor of the house, which was quite concerning.

The figures of two doctors flickered and appeared behind the old man.

Doctor Rosalene: "Close visibility and interactivity, it would be troublesome if we were seen."

Doctor Watts responded, his body dimming.

They were now in a semi-transparent state, like ghosts.

Doctor Watts looked around at the paper rabbits all over the house: "I have a creepy feeling... Maybe we should check the old man's psychiatric history."

"What do the paper rabbits represent?" Lin Fan wondered. "Could the old man really have a mental illness?"

Just then, the old man abruptly stopped playing, his hands leaving the keys, and the piano music stopped abruptly.

Doctor Watts: "...He didn't hear what we said, did he?"

Doctor Rosalene: "It should be like this in this memory."

"Clang!" The old man suddenly slammed the piano, making a loud noise.

Maybe he was in a bad mood.

Both doctors had "..." bubbles above their heads.

Doctor Rosalene: "Enough talk, let's find the memory fragment and jump."

A progress bar appeared at the bottom of the screen, with 5 slots.

Small print next to the progress bar indicated: Interact with 5 items to establish a memory chain.

Interacting with the blue and white paper rabbit on the floor, Doctor Watts began his humorous吐槽 again: "Well, you're special, aren't you? All your companions look like they've been drowned in bleach, but you have two colors."

Lin Fan couldn't help but laugh, the metaphor was quite wonderful.

Each time an item that constructs a memory is interacted with, a bead emerges from the item and fills in the slot.

When all 5 items are found, a new prompt appears next to the progress bar: You can now travel with the memory object (umbrella).

Performing a memory jump, this time the scene was a lighthouse in the rain. Old Johnny was holding an umbrella, standing quietly in front of a stone tablet. Beside him was a dark platypus doll.

The stone tablet read: In memory of Riva. It should be the grave of the old man's deceased wife.

Lin Fan remembered: "Isn't this a scene from the preview image?"

When interacting with the platypus doll, Doctor Watts complained again: "To be honest, I don't think this species has the right to exist at all."

Just as the doctor was about to enter the lighthouse to look for memory items, the old man suddenly spoke: "It's all over, Riva."

Accompanied by some sad and mournful BGM, the center of the camera slowly moved to the old man. In the drizzling rain, the old man muttered to himself: "I can take care of her every day, just like you... She will never be alone again. Maybe I will never understand, but I will be loyal to your wish."

Lin Fan was confused. Analyzing from the old man's mutterings, Riva entrusted Johnny to take care of "her" before her death. Who is "she"?

The suspense not only did not decrease, but increased.

After hearing the old man's mutterings, Dr. Rosalene left her stealth state, pretending to be a sightseeing tourist, and went up to talk to the old man.

Johnny: "She didn't have to be buried here. She didn't need to do this, but she... You won't understand, not even I can understand her."

Lin Fan muttered: "Meaning unclear, let's go to the next memory fragment."

Activating the memory fragment platypus, the memory continues to rewind.

This time the scene is a small room. A woman is lying in bed, only her head is exposed, which is reminiscent of the old man's weak appearance on the sickbed before. It is easy to guess that she is Riva. A man is standing by the bed - he is undoubtedly Johnny, but he looks much younger.

There is an open fairy tale book on the bed, as well as a dark platypus doll, and a pile of paper rabbits scattered on the floor. A piano is placed at the bottom of the room. All familiar elements.

The two are arguing fiercely about the use of a sum of money - no, it can't be said to be arguing. Johnny is emotional, begging to use the money to treat Riva's illness, but Riva stubbornly refuses: "If you approve of my ideal, I hope you can use it to build that house well."

After a pause: "Then, I hope that as long as you can live there one day, take good care of 'her'. Spend more time with her, talk to her, and make her live well."

Lin Fan's eyes were full of doubt: "Why would she rather not be treated than build a house? Who exactly is 'she'?"

Seeming a little tired, Riva closed her eyes for a moment, then opened them and asked, "Johnny?"

"What's wrong?"

Riva turned over in the quilt, leaned forward, and handed Johnny a blue and yellow paper rabbit: "I made this. Tell me, what is it?"

A question mark appeared on Johnny's head: "What is it?"

"I want you to tell me what it is."

"It's a rabbit, exactly like the other rabbits you made."

"What else?"

"Its body is yellow, and the other parts are blue."

"Exactly, what else?"

Riva kept asking, but Johnny didn't know what to answer and fell silent for a while.

At this time, Johnny seemed to remember something and said, "By the way, I composed a piece of music, written for you. Do you want to listen?"

"Okay. What's it called?"

"To Riva."

"What a corny name."

Looking at the scene of this little couple making up after a quarrel, Lin Fan couldn't help but smile, and his mood relaxed a lot.

The atmosphere in the house changed from tension and oppression at the beginning, to silence, and now it seems to be relaxed and harmonious again.

Johnny sat down at the piano and began to play.

The familiar melody sounded, the gentle and beautiful piano music was like a trickling stream, like a gentle breeze, like butterflies fluttering in the flowers, and like the faint moonlight sprinkling from the night sky. The jumping notes seemed to be telling the player's calm and firm love.

Johnny played attentively, and Riva lay on the sickbed, silently watching the direction of the piano, listening attentively.

Lin Fan looked at this warm and touching scene, and remembered Johnny's lonely figure after losing Riva. He actually heard a trace of sadness from the soothing and affectionate piano music.

It's clearly the same melody, why did it feel so beautiful the first time I heard it, and now I feel sad?

My eyes are a little sore.

You can listen to To the Moon—Kan R.Gao while watching.

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