Chapter 211 How Can I Bear to Refuse (5K5)
Tick-tock…tick-tock…
Along with weak breathing, blood fell into the snow, and then slid down along the grooves in the snow little by little, soaking into the skin of the half-naked man lying in the snow.
And the golden notes on the man's skin, bound by silver threads, became brighter and clearer under the nourishment of the blood.
"You...will be punished." A weak voice sounded, "The Lord, the Lord will never forgive someone like you."
Caesar slowly opened his eyes and looked at the man and woman he had hung on a tree and were bleeding.
"Retribution?" Caesar chuckled and said, "Such naive words really don't seem to come out of your mouth, Mr. Zel."
"Ten years ago, you told me that the Lord would only value those who possessed absolute musicality, and that no matter what the rest did, they would not be recognized by the Lord... right?"
Zel slowly closed his eyes, and after a while he spoke: "Kill me."
Caesar smiled. He finally stopped lying down and stood up from the snow.
Beneath him was a magic circle in operation.
He walked up to Zell and looked up at his former teacher.
"Why would I kill you, Mr. Zeer?" Caesar said with a smile, "Didn't you tell me to make the best use of everything? I have always been following your teachings. In other words, everything I have now is because of you."
"Have you forgotten?" He pointed at his body, then at the magic circle under his feet, "Where did I get all this forbidden knowledge, the magic circle that collects all the scores and adds color to the notes?"
"I've always wanted to know, if you had known this would happen, would you still be so 'tolerant' to me ten years ago?"
Caesar's smile became brighter, while Zel kept his eyes tightly closed, but his trembling eyelashes still revealed his current mood.
“It hurts… it hurts so much…”
During the confrontation between Caesar and Zel, the female performer on the other side vibrated unconsciously.
Caesar turned his head and looked over.
The female performer's condition was already very bad. The only reason she hadn't died yet was because Caesar used healing music magic to keep her alive.
Of course, this is not because Caesar is so kind, but because he has not completed the absorption, so he cannot let the female performer die like this.
It was not so easy to plunder the notes of the Silver Score, especially the golden notes. The process was like bleeding, letting out all the blood with the notes, and then smearing it little by little on the body of the holder of the score, and then the plunder was completed.
During this period, neither the sound nor the score can die.
Caesar walked up to the female performer.
The female performer's consciousness had begun to blur, and she could only say instinctively: "It hurts... It hurts so much..."
Caesar slowly stretched out his hand, pressed the female performer's head against his own, and then said softly, "Be good, it won't hurt soon."
"If you really can't stand it, let me tell you a story."
He murmured.
"Once upon a time, in a remote seed area, there lived a pair of brothers."
…
"These brothers still have no lines, so let's get rid of them."
“Brother! Brother!”
"Let go of my brother! Asshole, let me go!"
"Wait, this guy has lines on his body"
…
"Brother." The little boy looked up at the boy who was a head taller than him, his eyes reddened, "Don't you want me anymore?"
"How could it be!"
Caesar rubbed his brother's head, then raised his head and looked at the "noble master" standing beside them, whose dress was out of tune with theirs.
"Mr. Rad, please don't touch my brother, no matter if he has musical notes or not. When I come back after graduation..."
"I know, I know." Rad waved his hands and said impatiently, "If you can really graduate successfully and become a qualified player to work for me, I will help you support this brother, but if not..."
Caesar could naturally hear Rad's subtext - you little brass, you should just worry about yourself.
“I’m sure I’ll graduate successfully.”
Caesar said this seriously, then leaned down and hugged the little boy, said "Wait for me to come back" and left. Even though the little boy burst into tears behind him, he did not look back and walked into the snow-covered world alone.
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"Bronze Sound?" The teacher from the Third Academy looked at Caesar sideways, "There are only so many courses that Bronze Sound can choose. 'Basics of Performers' is not something you can choose."
"Why!" Caesar was anxious, "I've already enrolled, why can't I choose?"
“Why so many whys?”
"How can I use the staff if I can't choose "Basics of the Performer"?"
"Staff?" The teacher sneered, "You still want a staff?"
"Without a staff, how can I become a player?"
Caesar's words amused the teacher. He turned to look at the other teachers in the office and pointed at Caesar's nose with a smile.
"Did you hear what this guy said? He doesn't understand anything."
Then, he slapped a form in front of Caesar.
"The courses at Tongyin are fixed. You can't choose. This is the only one you can choose."
Caesar lowered his head and saw that the options on the form were clearly work locations such as "restaurant" and "restroom", and his eyes widened immediately.
"Let me tell you." The teacher said leisurely, "There is only one reason why this academy recruits Tongyin. We do not allow ordinary people without musical notes to enter the academy, but there are indeed some jobs that need ordinary people to handle... that's it."
"You can certainly tell others that you are a performer of the academy, and we can also issue you a completion certificate."
"But internally, do you really think of yourself as a performer?"
"Um?"
Caesar understood everything.
He clenched his fists tightly and wanted to turn around and leave.
But he also knew that once he left, he would have no choice but to return to that place.
So he had no choice.
"I'm going to...the library."
…
"These are the rules of the library. Do you understand?" Zel looked at Caesar. "Anyone who is not a fool can understand, right?"
Hearing this, Caesar could only swallow back the unclear parts and said "I understand" with a stiff upper lip.
"Very good, then I'll leave it to you from now on... I'm busy."
Zel walked out, but before he left, he turned back and gave Caesar a meaningful look.
"You have to know which books you can't touch. Once you are found to have problems, you are finished. Do you understand?"
"Especially the magic books on the third-to-last shelf that have the information about 'leveling up', you know?"
Caesar was stunned.
By the time he realized what was happening, he was the only one left in the library.
Magic that can be upgraded?
Even though he knew it was dangerous, Caesar couldn't help but turn his head and look at the row of bookshelves in the corner.
…
Half a year passed like this.
Caesar spent most of his time in the library, especially at night, because only late at night would he be the only one in the library.
During this period, he greedily absorbed all kinds of forbidden knowledge.
He understood things that normal players didn't know.
Upgrade magic, music spectrum, and enhance color.
And various unpopular but powerful music magic.
He felt that one day he would master all the taboos in this library.
During the past six months, Zell, the nominal top manager of the library, has basically not shown up, which made Caesar, who was initially worried, feel relieved.
Until this day, when Caesar was returning to the library from the restaurant, he saw the janitor guarding there from afar.
A strong feeling of uneasiness came over me.
So he walked from the path in the Forbidden Forest to the window of the library and immediately heard the conversation between two people, one of whom was Zel.
"These banned books have been opened by someone," someone said, "but I haven't received any record of anyone applying to read them. Do you know why, Zel?"
"You know, Guchi, I have my own things to do. I have already handed over the job of managing the library to a student," Zel replied.
"Oh, really?" Gu Qi said, "Then I guess he doesn't know that these books are sealed with magic seals, and anyone who opens them without permission will leave fingerprints."
Caesar's body froze.
Then he heard the sound of pages turning: "Let me see... Oh, as expected, these books were opened by the same person. It seems that we should check your assistant."
"What a pity. I quite like him. He is a hard-working guy."
"Diligence is not an excuse for making mistakes." Gu Qi said calmly, "If it's confirmed to be his, follow the rules."
“Isn’t that too cruel?”
"It's not like he's going to die. We're just going to wash off the runes and expel him from the academy." Gu Qi said, "For Bronze Sound, this is just a small punishment. Their notes don't have much effect anyway."
"That's true."
"That's it." Gu Qi returned the book to Ze'er, and then said meaningfully, "As the nominal manager of the library, you are to blame. So, the seals of these books will be left to you to repair. Please don't let me down, Mr. Ze'er."
Zel took Guchi with a smile: "Don't worry, Professor Guchi, I will report to you personally when I am done."
Gu Qi led his men away with satisfaction.
Caesar hid under the window and kept trembling with fear.
Will my notes be washed away and I be expelled from the academy?
No, it's not possible!
He had finally mastered that knowledge and had the opportunity to change his destiny.
Is it going to go to waste like this? !
Is he going to return to the seed area as a stud? !
No, no! Absolutely not!
Caesar panicked.
He wanted to apologize to Zell.
If you are sincere enough, Mr. Zell will definitely...
Caesar subconsciously stood up and looked into the library.
Then, Caesar saw Zel flipping through the books he had read before, reading them leisurely while transcribing them with the magic pen.
He was stunned.
At this moment, he understood something.
…
After nightfall, when Zel finished copying all the forbidden books, he saw Caesar standing in front of him, soaked all over.
"Teacher Ze'er." Caesar said tremblingly, "I saw it all."
Zell raised an eyebrow, "What?"
"I saw everything you did," Caesar said. "You tricked me into helping you open these books, and then you took the fruits of your labor... I saw it all."
"Oh, what else?"
Caesar's eyes widened: "Aren't you afraid that I will report you? You are a teacher! A believer of the Lord! Will the Lord forgive you for doing this?!"
"Haha, Caesar. The Lord doesn't care about these things. The Lord only cares about those who have absolute musicality."
"…But I also know the forbidden knowledge!"
"Oh, so what?" Zel smiled nonchalantly, "What can you do?"
Caesar was suddenly speechless.
"This knowledge is only taboo for us." Caesar patted the books gently, "As for you... can you complete any of the above? The only thing you can use is the upgrade magic... But why don't you use it?"
Caesar's body froze.
"Don't dare to use it. After all, if you fail, you will lose your identity as a player." Zel said as if he saw through everything. "Even if you succeed, as a silver sound player, what do you want to do? What can you do?"
Caesar couldn't answer.
"You can't use this knowledge just because you have it. For someone like you, even if all the knowledge is placed in front of you, you won't be able to do anything." Zel chuckled and said, "You should be grateful to me for giving you the opportunity to access this knowledge. This is also my best use of your knowledge, isn't it?"
"Otherwise, try to use your forbidden knowledge on me."
"I'll do nothing but watch you."
"What can you do?"
Caesar was trembling all over.
He was angry, but also powerless.
Because he knew what Zel said was right. Even if he knew the forbidden knowledge, what would it matter? He didn't even have a staff.
Even with a staff, his bronze voice could not light up any forbidden music.
"Haha, since you helped me, I won't do anything to you." Zel said, "Run, run quickly. Wait until dawn, until you are caught by the janitor, and you won't be able to keep your broken copper musical note."
So, Caesar returned to his hometown.
During this period, Caesar thought countless times that someone from the academy would come to stop him and hunt him down.
So he was very careful along the way and didn't dare to attract anyone's attention.
But until he returned to his hometown, he did not find the people who came to hunt him down.
Even my hometown didn’t receive the news.
He returned "safely" to his small, shabby house and found his younger brother.
The academy ignored him.
Caesar held his brother in his arms, trembling continuously.
"Brother?" The little boy was very surprised, and then happy, "You are here to pick me up."
"Yes, I'm here to pick you up." Caesar decided to take his brother and escape from this place, the farther the better.
"That's great." The younger brother was very happy. "Mr. Rad said that he would come to find you when my musical notes are fully revealed. I didn't expect that you would come back to find me before I fully revealed it."
Caesar was stunned.
Brother... do you have musical notes too?
He immediately took off his brother's clothes and saw the silver spot on his back.
It turned out to be... Yinyin!
Caesar opened his mouth, and then an inexplicable emotion surged into Caesar's heart.
Why?
Why is my younger brother Yinyin?
Why is he Tongyin!
If, if he was also Yinyin! He would never have fallen to this point!
Why, he is not!
Why is his life the only one ruined!
Caesar held his brother's hand, and his weight increased involuntarily.
"Brother...it hurts." said the younger brother.
"Oh, sorry." Caesar immediately let go of his hand, and then forced a smile, "It's my fault."
"Brother is upset...why?"
"No... I'm very happy." Caesar took a deep breath, "You will definitely become a great performer."
"Will that make my brother happy?" the younger brother asked, "Can I help my brother?"
Caesar smiled bitterly and shook his head.
He knew that he no longer had the capital.
He didn't even dare to try upgrading magic.
So, let's leave this place.
As Caesar was thinking this, he caught a glimpse of his brother's back again and saw the silver lines, but found that they were not quite the same as the notes he remembered.
Because the lines are finer.
It doesn't look like notes, but more like... music score.
……etc?
Caesar's eyes widened little by little.
...Music score?
Caesar looked at his brother's back again, and after studying it carefully, he realized that it was indeed music score.
Silver...music score.
Caesar was stunned.
"Brother, what's wrong with you?"
Caesar looked down into his brother's eyes.
After reading the forbidden book for half a year, he deeply understood what the music score meant.
So a bold and terrifying idea began to grow wildly like bamboo shoots after the rain.
He couldn't control his body at all, and whispered, "Brother, you said you would help your brother, right?"
The younger brother nodded repeatedly: "Of course! I will help my brother!"
…
…
"Brother...it hurts..."
"it hurts……"
"good."
"Soon...it won't hurt anymore."
…
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"Be good...it won't hurt soon."
Caesar gently stroked the female performer's head.
But the female performer did not respond.
Because the other party had already shed the last drop of blood in his arms.
And the golden notes on his silver music score have also taken shape completely.
Caesar looked at Zel on the other side again, and Zel was also breathing out but not in.
He sighed softly, seeming to feel a little bored: "Look, brother, with your help, none of these guys who were once high and mighty can persist until I finish my story. It's really... ridiculous."
"No, I'm done."
Caesar's body suddenly stiffened.
Who is it? !
He didn't even notice?!
Caesar immediately turned his head and saw a graceful figure walking out of the woods while clapping her hands.
"...Hevinia?!" Caesar widened his eyes.
No...that's not right.
This playful expression, this look full of oppression.
This is not Helvinia!
No, that's not right, this body is clearly Hevinia! He couldn't be wrong!
Caesar's heart instantly rose to his throat.
Meanwhile, Hevinia was still speaking leisurely, "What I want to know is, did your brother just say that he would help you, or did you just remember that?"
Caesar narrowed his eyes: "What do you mean?"
"I'm just curious." "Hevinia" spread her hands and made a very unfeminine gesture. "When your brother was screaming in pain, did he ask you to stop? If so, could you really hold it in?"
"…Who are you?"
Helvinia sighed, "An elder who is just like you, not very willing to come out, but can't bring himself to do so because someone asked him to do so?"
"You might as well make your words clearer."
"I've made it very clear, right?" Bai Wei chuckled. "For the first time, such a strong child asked me to do something for her in such a tone..."
When Xi Ze saw Bai Wei's star-like left eye moving slightly, an unprecedented sense of crisis suddenly surged into his heart.
He stepped back immediately, but was still a step too late. The two corpses behind him suddenly moved, using their hand bones as spears, rushing up from both sides and piercing Xize's body in an instant.
“Ahhhhhhhh!” Caesar howled in pain.
Bai Wei smiled and said, "How can I refuse?"
(End of this chapter)
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