Follow the sound and follow the way

The black-haired girl and the middle-aged woman took over the work of taking care of Sushir. The girl woke up at four o'clock and seemed to be in good condition.The mission of the Drowned Legion to rescue the princess was successfully completed, and all members returned to their respective positions. Those who should sleep continued to sleep, and those who should think about others continued to think about others.

Mu Kang had no cigarettes on hand that night, and it was quite difficult.

Without the paralysis of nicotine, his thoughts of Lin Yan seemed to be amplified suddenly, and all relevant details such as memories, tastes, touches, etc. were magnified countless times.The feeling of the onset of lovesickness burned his heart and lungs, and when the rain stopped, Mu Kang felt that his entire chest began to ache.

At seven o'clock in the morning, the clouds and fog in the sky dissipated, and the blue of the morning light was faintly revealed, indicating that the new day is a good weather.

Everyone breathed a sigh of relief. The residents went back to each house and repaired each house. Mu Kang stood up unsteadily and said to the crew members: "Is there any smoke?"

The drowned chicken didn't know when he fumbled in his pocket for a long time, and found out a bag of Zhongnanhai soaked in rain.

An hour later, the sun, which had not been there for many days, gradually showed its face in the east. The three senior smokers, Mu Kang, Xia Shu and Luo Tangji didn't know when they found a sunny place, squatting on the ground to bask in Zhongnanhai and their mobile phones.

Mu Kang: "How long does it take to fuck, I'm about to die."

Xia Shu had two huge dark circles under his eyes: "I don't know, I haven't been exposed to the sun."

The soaked chicken didn't know the date: "It seems that the taste will change after drying."

Mu Kang: "Fuck, do you have to say it?"

"Didn't you say to reduce the amount?" Xia Shu said, "No reduction at all."

Mu Kang: "He can choose one of the two."

"What do you mean?" Xia Shu asked hesitantly, "You don't have to smoke when Evan is around?"

Mu Kang: "To be precise, I can live a healthy life with him and without cigarettes, but with cigarettes and without him, I can only live for a while."

He stared blankly at a small boat floating slowly not far away: "It's almost the limit now, if I don't see anyone again, I guess you have to prepare to collect my body."

"I didn't realize it before." Xia Shu sighed, "Your words are disgusting enough."

The boat drifted closer and closer, so close that Mu Kang could see the brown-skinned boy on the boat.The little brother has disheveled hair and is wearing a suit. He looks like an outsider who has strayed into a forbidden area, yelling "Sushir" incessantly.

A dark-haired girl's voice came from behind the smoking crowd: "Louis! Here!"

Louis jumped into the water and ran up to the shelter with an anxious expression on his face. Susil was still sitting on the horrible floor, looking in good spirits.The scene where the brother and sister met in the flood, hugged each other in the morning sun, and wailed loudly in public was truly a rare and good material.

The drowned chicken secretly said to Xia Shu, "Director Xia?"

Xia Shu stood up understandingly: "Let's go."

Mu Kang was the only one left among the people squatting on the ground to dry cigarettes.From the perspective of the crowd, the man's back is lonely and desolate. If it is placed in Xia Shu's lens, the soundtrack is indeed as the genius said, and it must be Chai Liu.

The brother and sister who became the focus of the audience hugged and cried for 5 minutes, and gradually calmed down.Louis wiped away tears and said to his sister, "I'm sorry I'm late."

The brunette girl said from the side: "Sushil is sick."

Louis was startled, and looked at Sushiil worriedly: "What's going on?"

"I'm fine, don't worry." Sushiil said, "Where did you go this time?"

Louis touched Sushil's face: "Go to Singapore."

"Headquarters?" Sushiil's eyes lit up, he pulled his brother's sleeves and stood up, asking eagerly, "Do you know when Evan will come over?"

Louis shook his head: "I don't know, Mr. Lin seems to be in City M recently."

Evan...Lin?

Mu Kang, who had been in a half-life state, suddenly turned around.

Although he didn't listen to a single word of the conversation between the siblings, it still didn't prevent Mu Kang from defeating the enemy with one move, and accurately captured the key words that were closely related to his life.

Sushil said disappointedly: "Evan hasn't come for a long time."

Mukang stood up abruptly and said loudly to Sushir, "Evan? EvanLin?"

When Xia Shu came over excitedly with the equipment on his back and No. [-], he just ran into the murderous scene where the great talent Mu was torturing the little local girl.

The drowned chicken didn't know the number: "Teacher Mu is so fierce."

Xia Shu didn't think it was a big deal to watch the excitement, and said to the crew members: "Hurry up and start up."

Sushil was stared at by Mukang, and tears immediately began to flow in his eyes, and he shrank behind Louis and dared not speak.

Louis looked at Mu Kang in surprise, and said in disbelief: "My God, is that you, sir?"

He stretched out his hand excitedly: "Sir, it's really you! It's so nice to see you again!"

Mu Kang: "...do we know each other?"

Louis: "Sir, I am Louis!"

Mu Kang secretly thought who knows which Louis you are, but said: "Long time no see, Louis, were you talking about the musician Evan Lin just now?"

Louis said happily: "Yes sir, you also know Mr. Lin?"

"Of course I do." Mu Kang said boldly, "I'm his partner."

Louis: "..."

Sushiil popped up suddenly, and retorted aloud: "You are lying, Evan is obviously single."

Mu Kang raised his eyebrows and looked at Sushil with interest: "How do you know?"

Sushiil came out from behind her brother: "I have known Evan for a long time."

Not to be outdone, Mu Kang said, "I've also known him for a long time."

"I was born to be Evan's Soulmate." Sushiil said proudly, "He likes me the most, and he makes me sing solo every time."

Mu Kang was taken aback: Solo?

He narrowed his eyes and looked at Sushil, and slowly showed a very flat smile: "So it's you."

Sushil: "..."

I don't like this bastard.she thought angrily.

Mukang ignored Sushir, and said politely to Louis: "Recently, Evan and I have had a bit of trouble, do you know where he is now?"

"I'm not sure, sir." Louis hesitated. "Got to ask a colleague."

"Okay, please." Mu Kang grabbed Louis with a threatening look of "ask me quickly or I will kill you", "Is there a signal?"

Louis was frightened by Mu Kang, took out his mobile phone and said, "Mr., please wait a moment."

Seeing that Louis turned around and obediently went to call his colleague, Mu Kang picked up the sun-heated mobile phone from the ground and tried to turn it on again.

Facts proved that what Xia Dao said was true, the phone that had sunbathed for a while really returned to its soul, and it responded for the first time in a few days.

After 2 minutes, the phone is powered on.

After 1 minute, the signal search is completed.

After 3 minutes, new messages and new emails are received.

Mu Kang couldn't wait to open the inbox, and an unread email from "Andrew Henry" exploded in front of his eyes like a flash bomb.

Although the content of the email is exciting, the time of sending it is very disappointing.

Mu Kang stared at the short English on the first line of the email, nailed to the spot motionless as if possessed by a ghost.

After talking on the phone with his colleague, Louis hesitated for a while not far away, then walked over and said, "Sir..."

Mu Kang didn't even look at him.

Louis summoned up the courage to speak, "My colleague said...Mr. Lin left last night."

Mu Kang thought painfully: Please stop talking.

Andrew's email was sent two days ago.

Louis said that Lin Yan left last night.

This is the last usable clue in Mu Kang's hands.

He had been waiting for two months, the last ray of hope after ninety-nine and eighty-one disasters, and was sent to the hopeless West Paradise by Taotao flood by accident.

The flood seemed to come suddenly, but in fact it came as expected.Year after year, it has washed out countless piles of impermanence from the slums. Mukang has seen and heard it with his own eyes, but he never thought that one day he would need to experience it himself.

Even though Jakarta has an endless summer, it cannot take away the boundless winter in Mu Kang's heart.

God really doesn't want to give the talented Mu a chance.

He squeezed the phone tightly, and the ferocious pain and soreness surging from the soles of his feet rushed straight to the top of his head. It was more violent than a rainstorm and hotter than the sun, which made him feel the urge to cry for the first time in his life.

Seeing Mu Kang's expression, Xia Shu knew that something was wrong, and immediately grabbed a dust-wrapped baked version of Zhongnanhai from the ground, and quickly handed it over.

Mu Kang took it unconsciously, and tremblingly brought the cigarette to his mouth, trying four times before successfully biting the cigarette holder.

The word "love" caused the talented man to tremble and suffer from frostbite. Xia Shu didn't want to record his brother's embarrassment, so he made a gesture to make the drowned chicken turn off the camera sometime.

There was no sound in the shelter.

The dried cigarettes smelled of a strange dead fish, and the nicotine was greatly reduced. It took Mu Kang three times longer than usual to suppress the heart-piercing feeling.He took a puff of smoke heavily, and glanced at Sushiil: "Do you like singing?"

Sushir asked vigilantly, "What are you going to do?"

Mu Kang said coldly: "Answer the question."

Louis lowered his head and said something softly to Sushil. The little girl curled her lips and said reluctantly, "I like it."

"Where's the piano? I'll hear you sing." Mukang said, "Sing EveMaria."

Sushil: "..."

Louis: "..."

Before the brothers and sisters could react, Director Xia, who had a keen sense of smell, hurriedly said, "I know where it is!"

Talented Mu came out to practice singing with little girls from the slums, and the Wet Chicken Legion once again got material.The crew members were full of enthusiasm. They dried their feathers one after another, carried equipment, waded through the water for 10 minutes under the scorching sun, and arrived at the destination together with Mukang, Sushir and Louis.

It was a dangerous building bumping up and down in the ruins, its structure reduced to only the frame, allowing sunlight to penetrate easily, reflecting the mist and dust flying in the air.

A steaming flood, a dusty facade, a ragged girl.

A piano with only skeletons left, a vigorous and beating original heart, and a cowardly and hypocritical self.

Mu Kang savored the magical realism scene that seemed familiar before him, and had mixed feelings for a moment.

Sushil looked up and asked Mukang, "Can you also play the piano?"

Mu Kang smoked a cigarette: "Hmm."

Sushil: "Is Evan playing well?"

Mu Kang raised his hand and changed the cigarette to his fingertips, with a gentle arc on the corner of his mouth: "He plays better than me."

Sushil: "I knew it."

The girl didn't understand what "beauty is in the eye of the beholder", and hearing what Mu Kang said, she couldn't help but underestimate this vicious and annoying ghost.

The crew quickly set up the venue, and the members filed out, leaving only Xia Shu standing in the corner with the camera on his shoulders.Drowning Chicken No. [-] said: "Teacher Mu, Sushir, please."

Mu Kang sat down in front of the piano boldly, and said to Sushil beside him, "Do you want to open your voice?"

Sushil said disdainfully, "No need."

Mu Kang said "hmm": "I'll play it once first, and you come in for the second time."

He put out the cigarette on the ground, breathed intently for five seconds, and gently grasped the first chord.

The sound of the piano slowly flowed from Mu Kang's fingertips, and flew into the distance with soothing power.

Schubert's soul, Liszt's flesh and blood.

Mu Kang's playing method is completely different from Lin Yan's, domineering and stubborn.

Just like Lin Yan, the distant and sacred voice from heaven.

In the mournful world above the flood, there seems to be a ray of light from heaven, trying to save the endless sufferings of the world.

Louis murmured, "It's beautiful."

Sushil clenched her hands and became anxious.

After all, she is Lin Yan's junior student. Although she can only play and sing the necessary simple pieces, she also knows that this piano piece adapted by Liszt is very technically demanding.

She didn't hear a single wrong note.

She belatedly realized that the contempt she had given the nuisance before might be a big mistake.

The music was gradually laid out under Mu Kang, and Sushil became more and more anxious: My German pronunciation is very inexperienced, and the intonation is only so-so. I hate ghosts so fierce, will I be scolded?

The little girl was so nervous that sweat dripped from her head, and she didn't dare to open her mouth after the piano was finished.

Mu Kang stopped: "Why don't you come in?"

"I...can't sing well." Sushiil said, "You promise not to scold me."

"I know your level." Mukang said, "Don't be afraid, come on."

Sushil had no choice but to say, "Okay."

She forced herself to relax her abdomen, breathed in sync with the pre-music, and sang loudly after five bars.

Although Sushiil's intonation is not fine, but the timbre has not yet passed the period of voice change, which is slender and moving, which is pitiful.As soon as she finished the first two lines of "AveMaria! Jungfraumild, Erh? Reeiner JungfrauFlehen", everyone couldn't help but want to applaud her.

It's a pity that the accompaniment is not flattering at all. Before Sushil started to sing the third line, the full piano harmony stopped abruptly.

Mu Kang looked at Sushil expressionlessly: "You didn't practice well."

Sushil took a small step back.

Mu Kang: "Is it because of illness?"

Sushir whispered, "No."

"Evan must have told you." Mukang said, "There is no need to deliberately pursue the pitch, but the resonance of each note must be as good as possible."

Sushiil said softly: "Yes."

"Your resonance has regressed a lot." Mu Kang said bluntly, "How long have you not practiced?"

Sushil turned her head and remained silent.

"If Evan comes, you're just wasting his time." Mu Kang didn't intend to be polite to her, "You know Evan is busy, right?"

Tears started to glisten in Sushil's eyes.

Mu Kang: "Speak."

Sushiil murmured, "I know."

Mu Kang: "It's not easy for him to come here."

Sushil: "...Yes."

Mu Kang: "Then why don't you practice well?"

Sushil couldn't help sobbing: "Evan hasn't been here for a long time, I thought he..."

"You thought he wouldn't come again." Mu Kang interrupted Sushil, "Is this your excuse for not practicing?"

Sushil shook her head desperately, her tears fell to the ground one by one like broken beads.

Mu Kang was unmoved: "Who are you singing for? For Evan?"

"I like Evan!" Sushil's girlish heart was crushed by the hater, and she cried, "What's wrong?"

"It's right to like Evan, but it's wrong if you don't practice singing." Mu Kang said seriously, "There is no shortcut to learning music other than practicing day after day."

"Have you ever heard a saying: If you don't practice for one day, you know it; if you don't practice for two days, the teacher knows..."

Sushil choked and read along: "... if you don't practice for three days, the audience will know, if you don't practice for four days, the whole world will know."

"That's right," Mukang said, "Evan said that too, right?"

Sushiil lowered her eyes and nodded with tears in her eyes.

Mu Kang said in a deep voice, "You just said that you were born to be Evan's Soulmate."

Sushil: "..."

Mukang: "Do you think the 'Born to be a Soulmate' thing is cool?"

Sushil looked up helplessly, as if asking Mu Kang with his eyes, "Isn't it?"

Mu Kang said seriously: "You misunderstood the meaning of Soulmate, little girl. No two people are born as Soulmates to each other."

"Evan, whom you like, has studied hard for 30 years and has not stopped until now."

"me too."

"Everybody affirms that Evan and Iare soulmates. We were not born this way, we made it."

"This is the season why I am qualified to be his partner."

"Little girl, you can't even practice singing every day, you are still far behind."

"You have no chance at all." Mu Kang crossed his arms and said proudly, "Evan can only be mine."