Chapter 250 [(*^▽^*)]
Lin Leyou began to play the piece slowly, combining it with the sheet music placed above the piano. As she played, she actually began to find a sense of rhythm.
If you couldn't feel your fingers playing the piano at all at the beginning, now you have a general understanding of what the piano keys represent and some playing techniques and methods.
Lin Leyou even forgot about the time. Just as he was engrossed in the piano, there was movement outside the door that he had been staring at.
Lin Leyou felt the disturbance from the noise, snapped out of his reverie, and stopped playing. At that moment, the sounds outside became even clearer.
Someone is talking; there's no mistake, the players have arrived. The only question is how many have come this time.
He subconsciously rummaged through his backpack. The cold weapons inside were really good. The most powerful ones were purple-grade weapons: the Tang Mo Dao, the cursed dagger, and a blue-grade thorn whip.
Fortunately, even with only these weapons, it's enough.
The Tang Mo Dao and the Thorn Whip are not suitable for the music room, so the only thing that can be used is this cursed dagger, which affects his immersion in the music.
Lin Ying, who was extremely passionate about the piano, was furious at the players who disturbed her. She drove the players mad with her crazy piano music and then killed them one by one with a knife.
Lin Leyou stopped playing. He sat quietly in his chair with his back straight, staring blankly at the piano in front of him, as if he were daydreaming.
About ten minutes later, the door opened and several players walked in. Lin Leyou glanced at them out of the corner of his eye; there were about seven players.
I dared not linger my gaze there for too long, for fear of being recognized, since there must be some highly skilled players among them.
There were indeed seven players. After they entered the music room, the door behind them slammed shut, startling everyone, who turned around to look.
The door simply wouldn't open, at which point the players received a system notification.
"System prompt: Please solve the puzzle in the music room to obtain the quest item, and you can leave after obtaining permission from the music room owner."
"Note: Do not provoke him, do not provoke him!"
The players all received this system notification: there are quest items that players must obtain in this music room, so they have come to the right place.
"What do we do now? Should we go ask this NPC? The system said not to provoke him, is this the same person?"
"He looks so weak, can he really beat us?"
"As expected of a newbie, I really don't know what nonsense they're spouting. This NPC is the owner of the music room, which means he's a mini-boss. Do you think you can judge a boss or elite monster's strength by its appearance?"
The other person was taken aback and realized they had said something wrong, so they stopped talking.
"Alright, stop arguing. Is it okay to say that in front of him? Let's hurry up and find the puzzle, solve it, find the quest item, and then leave. Let's not cause any more trouble!"
"If we anger him, we don't know how many of us will survive."
The moment the veteran players saw Lin Leyou, they knew that this NPC was absolutely not to be provoked; if they were, they might all die here.
The two veteran players huddled together and walked to the corner behind the bookshelf, where they whispered to each other.
"Hey, look at this NPC, he's not moving at all. Do we have to talk to him first before he'll react?"
"That's definitely true, but who's going to talk to him? What if the first person to speak to him gets killed?"
"I'm not going!"
"I'm not going either!"
"What if no one goes? Even if we successfully decipher the mystery and get the quest item, won't we still have to talk to him and get his permission to leave the music room?"
"Then what should we do?"
"How would I know? We'll see. We should look for the quest items first."
"This quest item is hidden in this music room. Maybe we don't need to solve the puzzle; we can find it just by searching?"
"Maybe it's inside that piano."
The other person paused for a moment, then said softly, "Then go look for it near the piano?"
"I'm not going!"
"If you're not going, then shut up. Let's search around here and see where the clues to solve the mystery are."
Suddenly someone shouted, "Over here, over here! I found something!"
Everyone crowded around, and there it was—a floorboard! Something was wrong with the floorboard; they reached out and tapped it with their fingers, and heard a strange sound.
"The bottom is empty, want to open it and take a look?"
"Okay, okay."
Just as they were about to open the floorboards, a voice came from behind them, "What are you doing?"
Everyone was stunned. Seven players were gathered here, so what was that strange voice coming from behind them?
What else could it be? The NPC who was just sitting in front of the piano, lost in thought, was talking to them!
"What should we do? It seems to be the owner of that music room. Should we answer now?"
"What should we say? That we're going to tear down the floorboards of his music room?"
"Then what do you suggest we do?"
"What else can we do but play dumb!"
Lin Leyou did not get up and remained seated in front of the piano. However, instead of staring blankly at the piano before, he was now staring at them with dark, unfocused eyes, as if he were gazing into the darkness within their hearts.
Everyone subconsciously swallowed.
The players felt their scalps tingle from being stared at, and some of them stood up unsteadily, retreating to positions against the wall, still quite close to the entrance.
Even if you can't get out, you can still find some comfort in it.
Lin Leyou received no answer from them, so he asked again, "What are you doing?"
Seeing that Lin Leyou had no intention of attacking them, the players breathed a sigh of relief. "Let's find something."
Lin Leyou was somewhat surprised. "What are you looking for in the music room? Are you looking for an instrument? There are indeed many instruments here. What instrument are you looking for? Maybe we have one!"
"This...we...we don't..." He could barely speak, and his mouth was even covered halfway through his sentence.
The person covering his mouth chuckled and said, "Oh, we really are here to find musical instruments. We just want to practice a bit and become more artistic."
"We just didn't expect there to be so many musical instruments here, we don't even know where to start choosing!"
Lin Leyou's eyes lit up. "In that case, we can choose the piano!"
"The piano is excellent. People who study piano have artistic talent and an artistic temperament. You made the right choice to come here to find a piano. I have high hopes for you!"
The player receives a message that this NPC is particularly fond of the piano. To communicate with him, all you need to do is praise the piano and the beautiful music. Just keep praising him!
Sure enough, the more they said nice things, the more Lin Leyou felt that these players were really good, and there was even one time when he subconsciously wanted to release them.
Fortunately, I regained my composure at the last moment and didn't say those words to them.
Time flies, and with the constant praise from the players, Lin Leyou, following the nature of his personality Lin Ying, began to become much more cheerful and talkative.
"In that case, would you like me to teach you? There are three pianos I used to use in that corner over there. Although they can't compare to the one in front of me, they are still very good pianos. You won't mind, will you?"
Players would never complain!
"Of course we don't mind. Since you used it before, that's enough to prove the value of this piano. We have no doubt about that."
Lin Leyou's expression improved even more. "I knew you all knew your stuff. In that case, come with me, and I'll show you the piano over there."
He got up and walked over there, and the countdown stopped as he stood up. But it didn't matter, since he only needed to sit for twelve hours a day anyway.
It's been several hours already, there's still plenty of time, so there's nothing to worry about!
The seven players followed him to the place where three pianos were placed and began to learn to play the piano with Lin Leyou. As time passed by, almost half an hour had gone by, and they still hadn't found anything.
Could it be that the clue to finding the quest item isn't on this NPC?
If that's the case, why are they wasting so much time on this person?
Several players didn't want to continue learning and showed some reluctance. Lin Leyou was very perceptive and quickly noticed their distractedness.
Lin Ying's somewhat obsessive love for the piano made him unable to tolerate any disrespect towards it. Seeing their expressions, he immediately asked coldly, "What kind of attitude is this?"
"If you don't want to learn, then get out of here right now and don't waste my time teaching these students who want to learn!"
As it turned out, these players really did turn around and leave without any hesitation. Of course, when they went to look for clues, they didn't search the music room thoroughly in front of Lin Leyou, the NPC.
Instead, he chose a corner with many books, making it appear as if he were reading.
Lin Leyou didn't keep staring at them. In any case, given Lin Ying's personality, the three students who stayed behind would definitely be more important.
unless……
Unless those four players messing around over there cause trouble and alert him, like right now.
With a loud crash, the four people on the piano side all looked over and saw a player staring blankly at the bookshelf that had fallen to the ground.
He looked at Lin Leyou in a panic and hurriedly explained, "I...I didn't mean to! I just wanted to take a book from the top, but I didn't expect the bookshelf to fall over!"
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