Luo Nan came out from Mo Ya's room. His eyebrows were locked. He had originally come to warn Mo Ya. He never thought that he would end up with a head full of thoughts.
He understood Mo Ya's intentions. This sister saw Rui Wen's talent in music and wanted to bring this little girl into the profession.
Luo Nan had to admit that Mo Ya had a good eye.
The essence of music was organized sounds. Any sound could be summed up as the vibration of an object. And Rui Wen's body and soul were mixed together. Inside and outside were one. This was the highest form of vibration that Luo Nan could currently recognize.
This realm of using simplicity to control complexity was indeed a talent that no one could reach when used in the path of music.
Uh, the technical discussion could be discussed later. Luo Nan was thinking that rather than letting Rui Wen painstakingly catch up to her peers and forcefully assimilate into normal society, it would be better to display her strong points and put on a layer of disguise in the normal world.
Rui Wen was still young. He could wait and let her decide for herself. But he thought a bit more. With Rui Wen's temperament, she might not be able to express her thoughts clearly even if she had them. Preparing for a rainy day wasn't wrong.
Luo Nan thought too much. His mind was a bit muddled.
Legally, Mo Haihang and Luo Shuqing were Rui Wen's guardians. But in reality, Luo Nan was the one who truly needed to bear the responsibility. Any decision he made could affect Rui Wen's entire life.
This was real pressure, and there was no outlet for it. Perhaps only by watching Rui Wen slowly form her ideal appearance would he have the chance to breathe a sigh of relief.
Luo Nan walked toward his own room. He had just taken two steps when he subconsciously turned his head. He saw that the door to the small room on the west side of the second floor was closed. He hesitated for a moment, but he still walked over.
He hesitated in front of the door for half a second. In the end, he decided not to be hypocritical. He skipped the process of knocking on the door and pushed it open to enter.
This was Rui Wen's room. The room wasn't large, but it was decorated with care. It was mainly a warm and simple beige color, probably to neutralize Rui Wen's cold colors. This was the handiwork of his Aunt and Mo Ya.
There was no one in the room right now, but Luo Nan didn't find it strange. He continued to walk inside. The biggest reason he chose this room for Rui Wen was that there was a small, open balcony on the west side of the second floor. Rui Wen was on the balcony right now.
Luo Nan entered the balcony. The first thing he saw wasn't Rui Wen, but Ink, the enormous bald crow. It hooked its claws on the edge of the balcony railing and spread its wings, making a rustling sound.
It had been a long time since this guy took medicine, but under the nourishment of the closed production line, its body grew larger and larger. Its claws and wings were powerful, and its feathers were glowing. If it wasn't for its short and blunt beak, people would believe that it was an eagle when it spread its wings and flew.
Yes, this small balcony of about four to five square meters was Ink's new residence, and it was the most convenient place for Rui Wen to hook up with it.
Beyond Ink's half-spread wings, a crescent moon hung in the western horizon, casting down dim light that decorated this dark domain.
Looking further down, he saw Rui Wen.
Under Ink's wings, the girl leaned against the railing of the balcony and sat on the ground with her legs bent. Just like Mo Ya, she wore a thin shirt that exposed her calves and bare feet. The cold of the winter night had no effect on her.
Rui Wen's eyes were closed, and she still held the practice zither in her bosom. She casually plucked the strings, and the soft and cool melody of a single note was like a breeze in the night. It brushed across Luo Nan's face, causing a wave of subtle tremors to rise on his skin. But when he carefully experienced it, it was like the rippling ripples of a river. It was so clear that the bottom could be seen, but there was a vacant emptiness within.
Luo Nan could sense the regular deformations of the vibrational waves of the metal strings as they penetrated through the texture of the zither board, but he was unable to experience the part that belonged to a person under this transparent and clear tone.
He was already used to this sort of Rui Wen, but Mo Ya's words crossed his mind. He couldn't help but have a different feeling grow in his hair.
The balcony was very small. It could only fit Rui Wen by herself. Luo Nan didn't move forward. He stopped at the junction between the room and the balcony, and he half-knelt in front of Rui Wen.
Rui Wen must have felt Luo Nan approaching her, for she opened her eyes. Her deep and serene pupils were bottomless, and he couldn't see the emotions that a normal person should have. It was just like the sound of the zither flowing under her fingers.
Luo Nan was a bit dazed when he saw these eyes. Right now Rui Wen was like the silent curtain of night outside the balcony. She was perfect like a painting, but she had completely blended into the background. There wasn't a single vivid focus.
Her thoughts, hobbies, inclinations, ideals, and even her selfish desires were all buried beneath these dark pupils. Or perhaps there was simply nothing beneath them.
What could be assembled from three or four years of memories? Not even a bit of it was forgotten?
Jack. The underground fighting arena. The laboratory. Death … …
Luo Nan didn't want to think any deeper … … The matter was far from being as simple as it was when he first made his decision.
Perhaps Rui Wen's way of surviving in society had never been a difficult problem. It was how to let her live a high quality of life … … Just like all parents hoped, to let their children live freely, happily, and with dignity. This was the crux of the problem.
But could the Rui Wen before his eyes really do it? If she couldn't, then how should he adjust?
Luo Nan was really a bit stupefied.
He was in a daze, and Rui Wen just looked at him like this. Her fingers were still plucking the strings, but it was a subconscious action. Right now Rui Wen was like a robot doll waiting to be inputted with commands.
"That … …"
Luo Nan spoke half a sentence, and his mind became even more stuffy. His originally unformed words were completely blocked up. The void vibrated during his moment of stupor. The minute signs were like the sound of thunder from the distant sea and sky. It was very hard for ordinary people to hear, but it transmitted information from the Restless Lagoon.
This was someone's summons, telling Luo Nan that he had arrived. Hurry up and fulfill the contract.
The plucking stopped.
Of course Rui Wen could feel the vibrations in the void. She had gotten used to it over the past few days, so she put down the guitar and made preparations for her next move.
Ink felt the change in the atmosphere and spread its wings to fly up. The scene in the curtain of night turned from stillness to stillness, and Rui Wen turned from a doll to a soldier on standby … … She was no longer in a daze. But was this the state that a girl should be in?
Then again, what should a normal girl, no, a normal state be like for someone of the same age?
It seemed that Luo Nan himself didn't have a set of rules.
Luo Nan really couldn't think of what to do next. He got up in a bit of a sorry state: "Yeah. Let's finish tonight's practice first."
Rui Wen nodded slightly. Her figure turned incorporeal, and she merged into the depths of the curtain of night right before Luo Nan's eyes.
Luo Nan was stupefied for a few seconds before he picked up the guitar that Rui Wen had tossed onto the balcony. He carried it back into the room, gently leaning against the wall as he put it down. He didn't grasp the angle of the guitar well when he put it down, and the body of the guitar collided with the wall. The guitar let out a buzzing vibration, turbid like his current mood.
Half a minute later, Luo Nan lay on the bed in his room. He closed his eyes, and his terrible mood slowly settled down. What replaced it was a clarity and calmness that gradually approached instinct.
Luo Nan's mind broke through the cage, piercing through the turbid mental region of the public. He entered the Lagoon … … a similarly chaotic and even more berserk domain.
In the Lagoon, the power structure that came from Ghosteye was like a shining lighthouse amidst a violent storm. It marked the position and depth of Extraordinaries, and it issued a provocation to Luo Nan:
"Come come come. Let's fight another three hundred rounds!"
After the fourteenth lecture ended, Ghosteye Che Yi displayed his specialty in being shameless. He claimed to have lost the wager and willingly stayed in Xia City to serve as Luo Nan's sparring partner. She wanted to squeeze out elements that could be used by Luo Nan from the Cage Theory that Luo Nan had elucidated and put into practice. She wanted to improve her own foundation and seek a new breakthrough … … This was the judgment of Her Majesty Empress Wu. There was a seventy to eighty percent chance that it was true.
For an Extraordinary to cast aside his pride, there really weren't many people in this world who could do anything to him.
Ghosteye stayed in Xia City as he wished … … In the outer seas, he trained with Luo Nan in the Lagoon every night. No matter what his intentions were, Luo Nan needed a sparring partner like this. He needed it more than anyone could imagine!
Luo Nan didn't immediately step forward to meet Ghosteye's provocation. Instead, he calibrated his position and locked onto the depths of this chaotic storm zone. There was another target drifting erratically, and he poured the strength of his mind into it.
A rigid barrier towered in an instant, and the impact of the storm was greatly reduced.
Luo Nan entered the fortress constructed by the configuration of the Ring of Blood-Intent. This structure was still simple and crude. It was the standard 'big, stupid, and thick'. Compared to Ghosteye's Extraordinary domain that spanned across the storm, it was quite lacking.
But it was this kind of structure that formed the necessary foundation for Luo Nan's assault on the Lagoon Region. It was like a ship. It could carry a crew, and it could travel amidst the howling winds and huge waves.
As Luo Nan's telepathy entered the fortress, the hundred or so telepathic thoughts that had been rather quiet within the area surrounding the fortress quickly became restless. The corresponding information was sprinkled to every corner of Xia City through the Psychic Wave Network and a few other channels.
In the blink of an eye, telepathic thoughts gathered one after another from every region of Xia City. Most of them were transferred through the Psychic Wave Network. There were also a few who came through the bracelet that Luo Nan had distributed two days ago.
In any case, the number of telepathic thoughts that came from different people within the fortress broke through the five hundred mark in a short dozen seconds. This was pretty much the total number of ability users who could enter the fortress through the configuration of the Ring of Blood-Intent after Lesson Number 14.
Due to the pressure of the Lagoon Region's storm and the limitations of the extremely simple configuration, a considerable portion of ability users had their consciousness in a half-muddled state after entering the fortress. It was very difficult for them to communicate with others. They only retained their basic perception abilities. Only a few B-rank mental users, such as Gao Meng and Bamboo Pole, could maintain the flow of telepathic thoughts to communicate.
But no one was chatting with Luo Nan at this time. For the five hundred ability users within the fortress, every second in the Lagoon Region was incomparably precious. And Luo Nan and Ghosteye's attack drill was a carnival that belonged only to them.
That's right. This was a carnival.
Luo Nan borrowed the strength of the fortress to blast Ghosteye with his first shot. He pushed against the energy turbulence of the Lagoon Region, transmitting the destructive shock several dozen kilometers away.
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