Chapter 307 Encounter
The lights are coming on.
Chugo took a taxi to the opera house where Robin was performing.
Style is style. Other stars hold concerts in stadiums, but this one does it in opera houses.
This means that there are not many seats, and it also means that it is extremely niche. The people who come to listen to this kind of pure piano performance are a niche within a niche, and they are all "upper class people" or music literati.
Chu Ge is neither of the two. Since he has played the piano and flute together more often with Qiu Wuji, he can barely be considered the latter. But as Qiu Wuji said, if everyone wants to listen, they should go to a traditional Chinese music concert.
I don't really feel much when listening to a piece of Chopin or Mozart played on the piano.
The sun is shining and the snow is white...just take a break.
As expected, after checking tickets and entering the venue, the number of people was not full, with only about two-thirds of the seats occupied, which was already more than Chu Ge had imagined.
No wonder it was so easy for Long Feijia to get the tickets.
My seat was neither too far nor too far, and it was in a corner. There was no one sitting next to me, so I felt quite comfortable. Chu Ge leaned back in his chair and dozed off, recalling the feeling of peeking into time through the book.
Young Chu Tiange, swordsman Qiuqiu...
If we go further ahead, can we see Qiuqiu, the disciple of Yunji Sect, the young Qiuqiu who is just starting out, the immature girl Qiuqiu, the Qiuqiu with a runny nose and wearing open-crotch pants...
You still want to see me wearing open-crotch pants in old photos, it seems you need me to see you wearing open-crotch pants first, hahaha~
Just as he was thinking this, a fragrant breeze blew into his nose. Chu Ge subconsciously opened his eyes and was so frightened that he almost lost his soul.
Gu Ruoyan stood beside him and looked at him in surprise: "Why are you here?"
Chu Ge was even more speechless: "I am the one who is going to ask this question. Is it unusual for people from Nanjiang to come and watch Nanjiang's performance? Why are you, a Beijing official, here?"
Gu Ruoyan looked around, shook her head without answering, and sat down next to Chu Ge.
Chu Ge subconsciously dodged to the side.
Gu Ruoyan laughed instead: "Oh, am I some kind of monster?"
Chu Ge was about to cry: "My girlfriend is jealous. I didn't go to the concert with her, but I went to it with you. Don't cheat me, it will kill me..."
Gu Ruoyan said speechlessly: "I'm here on official business, or do you want to leave?"
Chu Ge: “…”
"With so many people listening to the concert here, can your girlfriend handle being so jealous? I never expected a tall and strong man like you could be so cowardly." Gu Ruoyan glanced at him sideways and didn't say anything else. It seemed as if her face showed that there was a reason why she looked down on you in the first place.
Chugo: "Fuck."
He sat back in his chair helplessly: "Is your seat here?"
"Yes." Gu Ruoyan said with a straight face: "Who is willing to sit with you?"
"What a coincidence, who arranged this?"
"That's not the case. I bought the ticket myself."
After a few words of conversation, the awkwardness between the two of them was relieved a bit. Gu Ruoyan continued, "After all, we are acquaintances. We can chat when we sit together. I am a woman and I am not afraid of gossip. You have too much trouble."
This punch... Never mind. It seems to be true. This is what it means to be truly innocent. Dodging it on purpose would mean you have something to hide.
Chu Ge took out his cell phone and started sending WeChat messages.
Gu Ruoyan asked curiously: "What?"
Chu Ge said: "I will report this to my girlfriend so that I can explain it later."
Gu Ruoyan: “…”
Both of them were extremely angry.
After Chu Ge finished his report, the two stared at each other for a moment before getting down to business. Chu Ge asked first, "You're here on official business. Does that mean there's something wrong with this Master Robin, or are you just collecting information on your abilities?"
"Have you forgotten? In the matter of Magic City, it was you who told us that the other party might be a musician."
Chu Ge almost forgot that it was himself who brought this upon himself.
Gu Ruoyan said: "Of course there are so many musicians, we can't judge. This one is delivered to our door, so we should observe it. I see you are here for this too?"
"Yeah." Chu Ge said, "I'm just an ordinary citizen, I can only observe secretly, why are you so cowardly?"
"We can't just arrest foreign guests and ask them, we can only observe them first. Our colleagues have also observed other foreigners, but Robin's case is more important, so I'll do it myself. Nanjiang Station is his first stop in China, and I may have to follow him and observe him for several more stops..."
"It's really troublesome. Why do you ask us directly? Foreign guests are so awesome, right?" Chu Ge said sarcastically.
"Be reasonable. When have we ever arrested anyone of yours and questioned them?" Gu Ruoyan said angrily, "Let's not talk about others. Just look at your girlfriend. She's been acting weird. Did we ask her? Ask those people in the black room. Have we ever investigated her? We didn't know about Zhu Mengmeng's ability before she showed it. On the contrary, we were more wary of these foreigners, and that's why I came here to keep an eye on them."
"Uh..." Chu Ge thought about it and it seemed that he was not objective.
Thinking of this, I felt a sense of civic responsibility, and said with my chest puffed out, "Then I'll help you. What's the use of a poor foreigner..."
Gu Ruoyan glanced at him with a smile but said nothing.
Chu Ge said, "You're alone? You're probably not a combat type. What if something goes wrong?"
Gu Ruoyan said: "The moon's shadow is in the dark."
Chu Ge: "...Yueying is your partner now? Is she your subordinate?"
"Actually, we are in different departments, but I was the one who brought Yueying into the industry, so of course I prefer working with her." Gu Ruoyan said, "Since you want to live a normal life, you should not get involved in these things too much..."
Chu Ge asked: "Do you consider this as concern or contempt?"
Gu Ruoyan smiled and said, "I'm afraid you'll be beaten by your girlfriend."
Chu Ge: “…”
As they were talking, the lights suddenly dimmed.
The theater, which was originally filled with whispers, suddenly became quiet. Chu Ge and the other man also stopped talking and looked towards the stage.
A beam of light shone on a corner of the stage, revealing a piano. A tall, handsome, middle-aged white man sat beside the piano and pressed the first note.
The fingertips bloomed, and a song "To Alice" flowed out smoothly.
The theater fell silent and began to listen.
Chu Ge and Gu Ruoyan stopped talking and leaned back in their chairs, listening quietly.
Regardless of one's stance or purpose, music itself is an extremely powerful weapon that can make people willing to feel and listen.
Especially for a classic piece like "Für Alice", when played by a world-renowned pianist, it only takes a few seconds to immerse yourself in it.
Chu Ge had to admit that this guy played the flute really well, at least better than his own clumsy flute playing that was scolded by Qiu Qiu every day.
But from Chu Ge's point of view, this guy may not be able to compare with Qiuqiu's guqin... after all, she is a thousand-year-old lady.
Of course, it is difficult to compare different instruments, and Chu Ge is naturally biased and cannot be objective.
In short, his level of immersion was much lower than others. When others were immersed in the music, he began to look at Daniel Robin.
A typical handsome white uncle, he actually looks a bit like Tom Cruise, and he is quite charming. Chu Ge subconsciously compared Michelle to him, to see if they were a good match, and then he burst out laughing. What was there to say about whether they were a good match? Even if it was really him, they were not a couple.
As for the supernatural fluctuations...
I didn't sense it.
Chu Ge turned his head and looked at Gu Ruoyan, who was looking at the stage with a frown, as if thinking about something.
"How is it?" Chu Ge asked in a low voice: "You have been doing this job for a long time and have a lot of experience. Have you figured out anything?"
"without……"
"What about mind reading? Can you read anything? If he is an extremely powerful psychic, can he block your mind reading?"
"Yes." Gu Ruoyan glanced at him: "Just like your girlfriend."
Chugo tilted his head.
Gu Ruoyan continued, "Whether he has special abilities or not, at least he is not blocking anything at the moment. I can tell that he is immersed in the music, and his mind is filled with soaring notes."
So this observation is like giving away the ticket money for free? Oh no, I didn’t spend any money.
Chu Ge stared at the stage in a trance, thinking to himself that I am a pseudo-god, so I should be stronger than Gu Ruoyan. If I can’t even see it, then there must be no problem?
Not necessarily...
From the experience of Qiuqiu's ensemble, Chu Ge knew very clearly that music did not necessarily require any special powers or techniques. As long as you immersed yourself deeply enough in it, music itself was a kind of ability that could trigger people's joy, anger, sorrow, and happiness, mobilize people's various emotions, and immerse them in various artistic conceptions.
So is there anyone who can brainwash and hypnotize people simply by using music itself?
Chu Ge looked around, not knowing whether he suspected his neighbor of stealing the axe, but he always felt that the people around him had a kind of fanatical and obsessed look.
(End of this chapter)
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