The Creator of the Second Dimension

If being surrounded by a few high school girls is a dreamlike experience, then being surrounded by a few strangely dressed non-mainstream motorcycle girls in a restaurant in a strange city is obviously not an interesting experience.

I heard that in some places, the beginning of a fight is usually "what are you looking at" and "what are you looking at". Although Songhai City's folk customs are not tough, high school students immersed in fantasies probably don't think about it. so many.

Xu Rui seemed relatively calm. He glanced at the girl in the lead, and even faintly overwhelmed her in momentum.

"What's the noise? Do you want to eat roast chicken in the future?"

At this moment, Old Feng, who was fiddling with the chicken on the grill, spoke.

With one word from him, the aura of the girls fell apart.

"These are guests who came here specially from Ningjiang. Don't spoil the image of our Songhai people."

When Xu Rui was buying roast chicken before, he had a chat with Lao Feng and explained his purpose of coming, so Lao Feng spoke now.

"Ning Jiang?"

When hearing this word, the eyes of the girls suddenly lit up.

"Is it really Ningjiang?" "Wow, why did you come to Songhai?" "I've always wanted to go to Ningjiang!"

The girls started chatting, at this time, it was quite suitable for their age.

"We are the producers of Ningjiang Fantastic Animation, and we came here to collect materials from Songhai."

Xu Rui thought it was a little funny, so he didn't mention his name when he answered.

"Animation animation!" "Is that an animatronics???" "Wow, boss, it's an animatronics!" "What theme can Songhai have?"

They all looked at the girl in the lead, but after she was stunned, she turned her head and returned to her seat, tore off a chicken leg and began to bite.

However, visible to the naked eye, her movements trembled a little, as if she was deliberately diverting her attention.

"Uh, our boss likes watching animation very much. He watched "Music Girl" and wanted to form a band."

A girl with purple hair explained to Xu Rui.

"And formed a band?"

Xu Rui was suddenly interested.

"Don't talk nonsense, I'm just playing around."

The girl heard that she was exposing her old background here, and argued.

"Boss, don't be awkward, everyone will leave later."

Several girls persuaded.

The leading girl then took off her disposable gloves and walked over.

"My name is Zhou Ping, are you really from the animatronics?"

Facing the girl's question, Cheng Ke took out his business card.

"Really." "The producer, you seem to be very powerful." "I think I've seen this name before?"

A few girls chattered again, surrounding the business card like sparrows.

Before the girls calmed down, Xu Rui spoke to the girl in charge.

"We are now preparing to make an animation with Songhai City as the stage. We will stay here for the next few days. If possible, can I listen to your band's performance tomorrow?"

"ah?"

The girl named Zhou Ping was dumbfounded.

The next morning, Xu Rui and Cheng Ke met Zhou Ping's band near the playground in the living area of ​​the closed Sixteenth Factory.

Although the factory has closed down, there are many people living in it. In the past, large factories would build houses, playgrounds, schools in the factory, and the production area was in the living area. A few decades ago, some workers even appeared The children in my family grew up in the factory, studied in the factory, and worked in the factory. They have never left the surrounding environment in their entire lives.

The members of the band are all the girls I saw last night. There are drums, guitars, basses, and even keyboards. They look quite formal. These instruments seem to have been purchased secretly and stored in an abandoned warehouse. It was a bit strenuous to come over, but the girls seemed to have gotten used to it.

Perhaps because of "Music Girl", the band has two guitarists.

This is an open-air theater, the seats are arranged in a circular ladder, many places have already been overgrown with weeds, and there is a huge and flat wall in the middle, Xu Rui knows that in the past, this should be a place for group screenings of movies. Workers who had worked all day gathered in this place after dinner to watch some black-and-white movies played on the old projector.

At this moment, there were only the two of them in the audience.

"Can I record it?"

Xu Rui shook the phone.

After obtaining consent, he turned on the recording function, and then the girls on the stage began to play.

Xu Rui originally thought that according to their image, what they played should be heavy metal rock, but unexpectedly, the melody flowing from their fingertips was unexpectedly soothing.

This is the song in "Music Girl".

Although the performance is not very proficient and the coordination is a little rusty, under the sun, the girls who played such a melody are undoubtedly shining.

After the song was over, they were still unsatisfied and played another song.

Xu Rui has never heard this song before. The melody is simple but extraordinary, and the lyrics are unadorned, but they have a simple beauty, which is moving.

"It's a song we wrote ourselves."

After the performance, lead singer Zhou Ping said a little shyly.

"not bad."

Cheng Ke said in admiration, perhaps the contrast between the image and the song is too great, and this song is unexpectedly good.

"You guys are quite talented, maybe you can become a real band in the future."

Xu Rui said, but Zhou Ping shook her head when she heard this.

"We're just having fun, and my family will definitely not want us to engage in music."

She didn't have the fierceness of a girl who ran away at night, but she was a little helpless.

When school starts, they will dye their wild hair back to black, put on school uniforms, concentrate on studying, and then go to school, or go to work directly after graduation. Most of the children in this declining city are like this.

For them, music is really a distant dream.

Xu Rui didn't refute her, and didn't say anything about the chicken soup that as long as you have a dream, you can definitely realize it. You just listened to them play another song under the bright sunshine.

A story gradually took shape in Xu Rui's mind. Although Songhai City has lost its former glory, there are still things worth discovering.

Four days later, Xu Rui and Cheng Ke returned to Ningjiang. At this time, it happened to be the Ningjiang Manga Exhibition and the annual animation conference. Not surprisingly, "Music Girl" won the annual animation award, and won many other awards.

Tomato Video Network’s Animation Art Awards were also unveiled on the same day. Not surprisingly, almost Tomato Video Network’s own animations won most of the awards. , These constitute most of the memories of this award.

At the end of August, Fantastic Animation announced the plan for an original animation in January next year when no one expected it.

And this animation turned out to be an idol animation.