When Lu Ban woke up again, he saw an unfamiliar ceiling.

Lush climbing plants, dilapidated European-style domes, and stagnant air with a smell of decay.

A ray of warm golden sunlight shone through the spacious hole onto Lu Ban's face, causing him to slowly open his eyes.

"Um……"

Lu Ban sat up.

He found himself holding a suona in his right hand, a flashlight on the ground, and the stage was shabby, dusty and dirty.

The piano next to it had no strings left, leaving only a heavy and difficult-to-move stand, which had rotted due to years of rain and grew mushrooms and moss.

For some reason, Lu Ban survived.

"The effect of a great success?"

Recalling last night's experience clearly in his mind, Lu Ban remembered the 1 point thrown by [All in One Throw]. It seemed that under this rule, this was a very successful throw.

With extreme luck, Lu Ban was able to grasp the last bit of rationality, picked up the suona and started playing.

Although I don't know what kind of power is behind this suona, it seems that the one who is fighting against Du Danping is not on good terms.

Perhaps it was this last bit of luck that allowed Lu Ban to survive.

As he was thinking, the dust accumulated on the stage gathered automatically as if it had its own consciousness, forming a bland system of text.

【Congratulations on completing the task】

【Start settlement now】

[Mission Exploration Degree: 90%]

[Task completion: Amazing]

[You witnessed an anonymous martyr in the theater that night, and you remember his melody in your heart. There are always some people in this world who will play these melodies when they are most needed. Everything seems beautiful, but the seeds of disaster have already been planted. ]

[Silence Points Obtained: 700 Points]

[Obtained career reward: Skill: Midnight Piano Sound]

[Obtain career reward: Item: A Night in the Theater]

【Settlement completed】

[Maintaining a high level of creative enthusiasm and continuing to create is the foundation of a creator]

[Choose to complete career development tasks and receive career rewards]

[The novice guide has been completed, and the self-selection mode is turned on]

【Welcome to the quiet place again】

"700 points..."

The first thing Lu Ban noticed was the reward.

In the last mission, his exploration degree was only 30%, and he was evaluated as “mediocre”. But this time, his exploration degree was 90%, and he received a higher evaluation of “amazing”.

However, the increase in silence points is not as high as expected.

Perhaps Lu Ban has become spoiled by the 2,000 silence points he earned from watching short videos.

I worked so hard and almost faced an alien monster that came from nowhere and almost made my brain explode, but in the end I only got 700 silence points, which is not even enough to earn back the money I spent on buying a crowbar.

This system is really stingy.

"Maybe it's because of the difficulty of the mission?"

Lu Ban guessed.

The difficulty of this task is [Mortal], which is the easiest at first glance. In fact, if Lu Ban did not have so many useful things at the time and could not break free from the shackles of melody to smash Du Danping's head, he might have just been a puppet for a night, watching those model dolls walking around in front of him. It would be a little scary, but at least not that dangerous.

Therefore, the upper limit of a task of this difficulty may be one thousand silence points.

In comparison, it is still better to make points by making videos.

Lu Ban suddenly felt a little ironic.

This is somewhat similar to today's society. The money earned from working hard at scientific research and exploring the world may not be as much as what an actor can earn from an advertising endorsement.

In any case, seven hundred points is still seven hundred points, at least I got some back.

Lu Ban was not a greedy person, and he had no intention of questioning the system.

He is an ordinary mortal who is content with what he has.

He then checked the other harvest.

【A Night in the Theater】is all video footage, all in the mobile phone, which almost filled up Lu Ban’s mobile phone memory.

He flipped through it casually. It was basically a video of his activities for the whole night from multiple angles. It was very long and needed to be edited before it could be watched.

According to the career plan given by the system, this should be the material he needs to make short films in the next stage.

As for [Piano Sound at Midnight], it is a melody.

It does not exist in Lu Ban's mobile phone, but in his mind.

Unlike the techniques of crowbars and suona, which cling like spider webs to the grooves of the cerebral cortex, this melody is directly engraved in the brain stem and spinal cord, and in the DNA.

In other words, Lu Ban can play this melody anywhere and with anything that can make a sound.

He picked up the phone and turned on the touch tone.

Tick-tick-tick——

His fingers moved at a speed beyond Lu Kan's comprehension, producing this complex and varied melody filled with discordant sounds.

If there was a piano now, even if Lu Ban had no idea how to play it, he could still play it according to his instinct.

This feeling is more like fear than wonder.

Just like that, some knowledge that he had never been exposed to appeared out of thin air, and Lu Ban had an uncomfortable feeling as if his brain was being spied on.

This melody...

Although he had never tried it, the knowledge in Lu Ban's mind told him that this melody had some kind of resistance effect against unclean things, which was commonly known as a song to ward off evil spirits.

Maybe if you play it with your own suona, the effect can be doubled?

Lu Ban thought about it.

He put down his phone, closed his eyes, and recalled what he saw and heard last night.

When he saw the dark yellow planet and the marvelous light of Aldebaran, Lu Ban knew that certain knowledge that he should not have obtained, like this melody, had also flowed into his brain.

But this knowledge was fragmented and unsystematic. He could only vaguely judge that the two indescribable great beings were now in an inactive state, and could only influence and interfere with the outside world under certain extremely special circumstances.

Thinking of this, Lu Ban materialized the silver revolver in his right hand.

He saw that a dark yellow bullet appeared in one of the six-round magazines.

“It was recorded.”

Lu Ban was a little surprised. He just instinctively filled the last empty space in the magazine of the verbal bullet with the mumbling. In fact, he didn't remember what he did at all.

But I didn't expect it to be successfully included.

Raising the [Last Word], Lu Ban pulled the trigger at his own temple.

Next, open your mouth and try to make a sound.

“■■■■■■”

A sound that did not belong to this world sounded. No living being on Earth could and should make such a sound. A grand, indifferent, distant, foreign whisper echoed in the theater hall.

The moment he heard this sound, Lu Ban's brain also made a buzzing sound, and the feeling of a red-hot iron rod churning in his brain came up again, but soon the feeling subsided. Lu Ban began to feel that this sound was as pleasant as the sound of nature, and he even wanted to sing along to the melody of a Christmas carol.

Lu Ban closed his mouth and stopped repeating.

"...It's terrible. Just listening to this makes me feel like I'm losing all my sanity... That's right."

Lu Ban, who said it was terrible but actually had no expression at all, suddenly remembered that after what he had experienced last night, he must have lost a lot of sanity and didn't know what the situation was now.

He opened his personal panel.

[Name: Lu Ban]

【Occupation: Director】

【Education: Bachelor’s degree】

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[Strength: 55]

【Constitution: 65】

[Size: 60]

[Agility: 70]

[Appearance: 90]

[Intelligence: 65]

[Willpower: 80]

[Education: 70]

[Lucky: 20]

【Sanity: 0】