First Player

Chapter 108·Millennium·"Don't go gentle into that good night (4)"

At night, for safety's sake, Lu Shu and I didn't stay too far apart.

He made a bed on the floor and I lay on the bed looking at the full moon.

"Lu Shu." I suddenly said.

"Yes." Lu Shu's reply came from below, muffled.

"Zhai Xing's moon is not blue." I looked at the blue moon outside the window: "So the old world was not Zhai Xing's, right?"

I still have regrets. If Duplicate were to destroy the old world, then I would be witnessing the end of a civilization. With the lessons learned from the ruined world, I began to fear the possibility of parallel Zhai Star - this may be my untouched [hometown].

Lu Shu replied: "Yes."

His words were always short and firm, as if he didn't need to think for a long time and would just tend to give me the answer I wanted.

So I covered myself with the quilt and fell asleep quickly. I don't know if it was because someone was keeping watch at night, but I slept very deeply. I woke up near dawn and crept around Lu Shu. The student dormitories on the left and right were very quiet, and I didn't know where to go.

Far away from the living area, I heard the sound of a piano, distant and deserted. I quietly approached the auditorium, and light spilled through the cracks in the door.

A woman in a white dress sat behind the piano, and Xia Jiawen, dressed in black, sat next to her. The two were close to the piano bench, playing with four hands, and their projected figures almost overlapped. The light from the stage fell on them quietly, and the notes were cold at the beginning and cheerful at the end. Fine dust floats in the air, like stars floating in the cosmic clouds.

This scene is full of quiet beauty, as if the grief outside the Nine Netherworld has been isolated, leaving only the two people in the auditorium.

I stood in front of the door and listened to their voices.

"...After playing for a long time, I remembered that I haven't heard you play the piano for a long time." Xia Jiawen said.

"...I learned it when I was young. Later, the world became more and more chaotic, so I didn't play the piano much." Yawen said: "Sometimes I feel that the art of music is really a great thing. Dozens of notes connected in series can give people a profound feeling. Enlightenment.”

"...Once history is erased, none of the early songs, paintings, and literature will remain in future generations. It would be great if our reincarnations could remember these."

"...It doesn't matter. No one will bother us in these thousand years. We can spend hundreds of years and long years together."

"...Then will you blame me? I proposed to you, but I can only bring you to play the piano. We don't have extra resources to hold a wedding, and we can't even get a marriage certificate. Because of my special job, we can't have children."

"...No, this kind of love is very good...Didn't we meet through piano lessons? At that time, you were clumsy and pressed the black key to connect to the white key. I remember that the sun shined through the squares that day , your face seems to be separated by black and white keys..."

"...When the children in the experimental city grow up, we will hand over the burden of work to them and teach piano ourselves."

"...Well, when we are reincarnated, maybe we will become more and more powerful pianists..."

They had been playing all night. The rhythm of the four-hand continuous playing is very beautiful. Lin Yawen needs to be more proficient, while Xia Jiawen is a little unfamiliar, so she will slow down her hands and let him try to keep up with her rhythm. Fine notes jumped out like clear-grained ice crystals.

I saw the morning glow.

The dream he described to her was extremely tender, like a seed that was gradually sprouting. They did not look up at the glow-filled window, but stared at the black and white piano pieces on their fingertips, the clean and simple notes, and then smiled at each other.

I don't know why...the sun feels extra warm today. Maybe it's because something of attachment is sprouting.

I left the auditorium quietly, thinking about their vision - as long as it is passed down from generation to generation, sooner or later a rookie with unskilled skills will become a grand pianist. As long as they are reincarnated from generation to generation, even if their life spans will continue to come to an end, they will always be the immortal couple who love each other from generation to generation.

Sincere love, we will never leave each other in life and death, life after life, and eternity.

In this plan that spans a thousand years, Jiuyou is neither involved in the core of the plan nor has access to many key figures, but it made me realize the beauty of this "isolation".

But I have never heard that Mr. Xia Jiawen, a thousand years later, can play the piano. There was no Lin Yawen by his side.

Maybe the years are too long.

Let the piano be covered in dust.

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Time passed quickly. A few months passed without any important milestones. Of course, only half a day has passed in the system time.

Until one day at noon, Jiuyou ushered in the most important part - a man covered in blood stumbled into Jiuyou.

"——General Qin! You are finally here!" Xia Jiawen immediately went to greet him.

I was shocked. The most critical "General Qin" finally appeared.

The man's face was almost covered in blood and dust. He held it solemnly with both hands and raised the wooden box in his hand high.

I have thousands of questions to ask this General Qin - who are you? Who will be your descendants in a thousand years? What is the overall picture of the Millennium Project? But before I spoke, Xia Jiawen seriously took the wooden box from the man's hand and sighed towards the wooden box: "...General Qin, you are finally here."

I fell silent.

...General Qin actually turned into a wooden box.

No, this should be the life hard drive transformed by General Qin. In other words... General Qin is dead. I didn't expect General Qin to die so quickly.

I followed Xia Jiawen to the rooftop, under the watchful eyes of all the researchers. Xia Jiawen solemnly opened the wooden box and took out a talisman-like object - this was the "Life Hard Drive". Although it is called scientifically, it actually involves emotions and soul.

The life hard drive lights up. I heard the clicking sound of mechanical splicing - a chair was raised in front of me, and the hard drive of life was integrated into it.

On the panel next to it, several lines of small words appeared:

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【Notice to all of you. 】

[The "Ark Project" has officially begun. The sleeping address of the maximum life hard drive will be completely blocked and no one or any force will be allowed to enter. 】

[——Until a thousand years. 】

[All preparation work has been completed, thank you for your efforts. We will meet again in a thousand years. 】

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This message was sent to every plan promoter. It's short and powerful, but it declares a thousand years of waiting.

I suddenly understood why General Qin was the only one not reincarnated.

——Because he has been sleeping here for thousands of years, serving as the "largest hard drive of life" to inherit the information of generations. It wasn't until a thousand years later that the old gods came here to wake him up and gathered their savings for thousands of years to become a god.

...General Qin is the [Alien King].

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[Su Mingan said: "How long ago did the Alien King... fall asleep? What was the reason?\