dtnovels After sending Chapter 178 of the document
After sending Chapter 178 of the document
After sending the document, Lu Renkui saw the "Received" message and a thumbs-up emoji from the other end of the line (a moon icon). He smiled, then arranged the sheet music he had found on the shelf and began practicing.
Halfway through the training, the system WQBYRZM finally returned.
"I'm back." The system WQBYRZM sounded very tired after returning.
"Wow, are you alright? They didn't do anything to you, did they?" Lu Renkui asked while playing the drums.
"They didn't do anything to me. By the way, can you imagine that the moment you step onto the stage, all the eyes in the audience are on you?" System WQBYRZM said, recalling the scene from just now.
The main system had just finished awarding various annual employee prizes when it suddenly called up system WQBYRZM.
After system WQBYRZM went up, everyone's eyes were fixed on her. Although the gazes were mostly curious, to be honest, they didn't feel very comfortable.
System WQBYRZM felt very flustered, but fortunately, after the main system finished speaking, it didn't ask System WQBYRZM to say anything. After introducing System WQBYRZM, it let System WQBYRZM go.
"Standing on the stage and being watched by everyone below is really terrifying." System WQBYRZM said while rolling around in the consciousness space, then asked Lu Renkui, "Sun Xi hasn't woken up yet, has she?"
"Don't worry, he's not awake," Lu Renkui said as he continued playing the drums.
"Okay, that's good—you didn't do anything amazing while I was away, did you?"
“No,” Lu Renkui said, then added after thinking for a moment, “we just formed a band.”
"Oh... what did you assemble?!" System WQBYRZM heard something unexpected and suddenly sat up from the floor of the consciousness space.
"Uh, it's just one band. Don't worry, it won't conflict with the main characters." Lu Renkui knew what the system WQBYRZM was worried about, so he quickly said.
"Ah, no conflict, right? That's good, that's good." System WQBYRZM breathed a sigh of relief upon hearing this, lay back down, then suddenly sat up and asked, "Does it conflict with the villain?"
“Yes, there’s no conflict, really no conflict.” Lu Renkui quickly explained, “It doesn’t conflict with another system and its host.”
"Oh, that's good, that's good, that's good." System WQBYRZM lay back down and said, "I'm going to rest for a while. This annual meeting has given me psychological trauma."
"Okay, then," Lu Renkui said. "How's our mission progress?"
“We haven’t reached the critical point yet,” said the system WQBYRZM. “The task progress bar hasn’t changed either, so please don’t worry, host.”
"Okay, then." Lu Renkui struck the loud cymbal again. He wondered in his mind whether forming this band would improve the original owner's skill level.
Before we knew it, it was Saturday afternoon. As agreed, Lu Renkui waited for the other three people at Tomato Park.
The first one to arrive was Zhao Wuyin, who rushed over carrying a bag of fruit and four boxes of cakes.
Now two girls are waiting for two other people.
Soon, two people appeared from not far away.
The person who kept his head down while walking, carrying a small stool in his hand, with that dazzling red hair, was clearly Andra.
The other one, who was completely covered up, was clearly David.
Now the band members are all together.
Because two members of the team were socially awkward, Lu Renkui found a relatively secluded corner in the park to practice.
"You've all looked at the sheet music I sent you before, right?" Lu Renkui said as she conjured up an attack instrument.
“Yes, I saw it.” Andra nodded immediately, put down the small stool in his hand, sat up, and conjured up his attack instrument, the cello.
"Look! I practiced for a long time." Zhao Wuyin said as he put the fruit and cake on the ground and conjured up his attack instrument, an electric guitar.
David nodded as he conjured up an electric bass.
"Okay, let's begin." Lu Renkui tapped the stick and started playing the drums first—the drum kit is the rhythmic foundation of the band, responsible for stabilizing the structure of the entire piece.
Then Zhao Wuyin started playing, and then Andra and David joined in to the rhythm.
Since it was the first time the four of them had collaborated, there were bound to be some discordant notes – because each of them had their own playing style and approach – some played too fast, some too slow, and there were occasional wrong notes.
After the rhythm went off for the twelfth time, Lu Renkui banged the loud cymbal hard to signal a stop: "We've been practicing for quite a while, let's take a break."
Upon hearing this, the other three deflated like punctured balloons: Andra lowered his bowstring, while David and Zhao Wuyin sat down on the ground.
Zhao Wuyin was still able to sit on the ground, while David lay down and then, finding the sun too bright, turned over to face the ground.
After resting for a while, Zhao Wuyin began to distribute the fruit and cake, while Lu Renkui reviewed in his mind the parts where the music had gone wrong due to playing mistakes and that needed to be replayed.
I lost focus and played three wrong notes; Zhao Wuyin played too fast twice and played one wrong note; David played too slow three times; Andrala played three wrong notes. Good grief, everyone made three mistakes. Pretty evenly distributed, huh? Lu Renkui thought helplessly, and then shared his conclusions with the remaining three.
Zhao Wuyin and David nodded to indicate that they understood and would go back to practice more.
Andra also said she knew, but she seemed too nervous, as if she was afraid that she had not done a good job.
Seeing Andra's fear, Lu Renkui gently patted Andra, gesturing for him to come with her.
After walking about thirty paces away from David and Zhao Wuyin, Lu Renkui told Andra not to be nervous: "After all, this is our first time working together, and it's already quite good that we were able to play like this. You see, there was a time when we were almost finished playing, but I got distracted and played the wrong note."
“Everyone makes mistakes,” Lu Renkui said. “You don’t need to be too nervous. After all, this is our first time forming a band. As long as we can improve, that’s fine.”
Andra seemed a little relieved. The two girls went back to share fruit and cake with Zhao Wuyin and David.
After distributing the cake and fruit, the group realized it was getting late, so they said goodbye and left.
Walking home, Andra felt a joy she had never experienced before.
Despite being a student from a poor family, she summoned a cello at the age when she should have been summoning an attack instrument.
At first, Andra was very happy. She had a talent for using attack instruments, which she could use to protect her parents and her friends.
But Andra soon realized something was wrong.
When the school organized practice for all the students who could summon attack instruments, Andra discovered that she was the poorest of all the students.
As she grew older, Andra found herself having fewer and fewer friends.
Students who practice attack instruments need to spend a lot of time on this, which makes it difficult for Andra to maintain her friendships with her former friends—because Andra cannot keep up with the messages between her friends, creating an information gap between them.
Because school ends late, students who are close friends or whose homes are on the same route usually go home in twos or threes, except for Andra, who lives on Wenying South Road.
Andra also tried to make new friends, but when people learned that she lived on Wenying South Road, they seemed to be somewhat resistant to her approach.
Because Wenying South Road is a notorious slum—although Andra's family wasn't exactly poor, they even had internet access.
Thus, Andra was unable to maintain her existing friendships or make new ones, which led to her having fewer and fewer friends until she had none at all.
Andra himself became increasingly withdrawn, but he still hoped to make friends.
When she saw that the person in the class who practiced the percussion instrument the best was surrounded by people, Andra wondered if she could also have people surrounding her if she could master the percussion instrument.
So Andra set the highest standards for herself, but she didn't consider whether that was within her current capabilities.
So after realizing that he couldn't achieve his goals, Andra fell into a state of self-doubt.
One day, while walking down the street, Andra was lost in thought and didn't notice a car approaching her as she crossed the road. Someone pulled her back, and she snapped out of her daze.
As the sports car sped past him, Andra's heart pounded, and he couldn't calm down for a while.
"Hey, are you alright? Hey? Hey!" A voice came from beside him. Andra turned his head and saw a girl with brown hair and black eyes looking at him with concern.
That was the first time Andra met Zhao Wuyin, and also the first time she made a friend who fit her definition of a friend after acquiring multiple attack instruments.
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