Chapter 112 Unravel

(BGM of this chapter: "Unravel", tk from Rin として Shigure)

["Coming of Age" global sales reached 7.68 million copies, the mission was completed, and the mysterious grand prize was won! ]

Luo Quan's eyes were a little wet when he heard the long-awaited mission completion notification: "It's finally over, please open it for me!"

[Open the mysterious prize...

Obtain an intermediate attribute improvement card ×1

Random reward pack×1

Skin quality enhancement potion × 1]

Luo Quan was a little disappointed: "This reward sounds a bit bad."

[The intermediate attribute improvement card is one of the most practical props at this stage. It can improve any of your attributes with a level below SS-. Although the level improvement is random, it can be guaranteed to increase by a small level! ]

"How good is my appearance?"

[SSS]

"Does that mean this thing is no longer useful?"

[Isn’t there a bottle of skin-improving potion? Although the medicine is not very effective for a face of your level, it can at least make your skin more tolerant to extreme environments. ]

"Does it make me thicker-skinned?"

[It can also be understood this way. ]

"………………"

I have never seen such a stingy system. I worked so hard to complete a task and only gave such a small reward at the end. It’s so cool!

"Forget it, add attribute cards to my singing skills. If I'm lucky, breaking through the A+ threshold will be considered a good harvest."

For singers, the gap between A+ and S- is larger than the gap between A+ and D-. The former can only be said to be a capable female singer. Her pitch and breath have reached the level of proficiency. She is not prone to making mistakes on the spot, so she cannot be called a singer. So brilliant.

S-level female singers have the ability to dominate the stage. Even if their songs are not that good, they can still make fans scream with their singing skills.

A female singer of this caliber can easily break into the top five in the China Youth Song Competition!

Breaking through the S-level threshold is Luo Quan's expectation, but her character has never been good. She is obviously a quarter of European blood, and her face is so pale. I don't know if she can do it this time.

[Use the intermediate attribute improvement card…………

Congratulations to the host, you are extremely European and have improved your singing skills by five levels! ]

"Hiss!" When Luo Quan heard this, he took a breath of surprise, and then his whole heart was filled with surprise and happiness.

Her original singing ability was A-, but she improved it by five levels, crossing A, A+, S-S, and directly reached S+!

This is an out-and-out qualitative leap!

At this moment, Luo Quan suddenly felt that the condition of her voice was different. She wanted to sing a song loudly to see what level she could show.

"By the way, if my singing skills reach S+, then I can try that song!" Luo Quan suddenly remembered something, something that might be able to reverse the unfavorable situation of this singing competition.

After Miss Dongda finished, Luo Quan immediately went to the activity room of the Philharmonic Club.

The result of the midday game severely dampened everyone's confidence, and everyone, including Akira Kumoi, had serious doubts about their own strength.

The songs are all good. There hasn't been an album that can get such a favorable review from Jushi Magazine in several years. The reason for their unpopularity can only be that they are not as good as the Super band.

"We will rock you" is the band's best song. If it can't beat Super, then it probably won't win the third round no matter what it sings.

And to be honest, with their current state, it is already good to be able to complete the game.

"Everyone, I have thought of a way to win this game!"

Luo Quan happily ran to everyone, with a look of joy on his face.

"Is there a way?!" Yunjing Xiao suddenly raised his head, and the eyes of the others suddenly shone with light.

If anyone can create a miracle at this moment, it is only Luo Quan!

"You don't know how to play the song "Unravel" yet, right?"

The Tokyo Ghoul crew previously invited Luo Quan to re-record this song. In order to make the overall song sound better, Luo Quan asked the band members to use physical instruments to play it.

In order to help Luo Quan, everyone took time to practice this song.

"Of course I still remember the melody. Are you planning to sing this song?" Yunjing Xiao asked curiously.

Luo Quan nodded: "I sang the real version. Because my singing skills were not that strong before, I lowered the key and slowed down the rhythm when singing, but this is actually not the best version!"

Amuro Yu asked: "Does that mean the key will be raised this time and the tempo will be sped up?"

Kamiya Suzune was worried: "But time is so tight, can we make it in time?"

Luo Quan wiped the sweat from the tip of his nose: "The general direction has not changed. It's mainly a matter of rhythm. It's three-thirty now, and the third round is at eight-thirty. Five hours should be enough!"

Kumoi Akira's eyes were solemn: "You first play the original guitar of this song, up to three times, and I can remember it."

Amuro Yuya smiled and said: "Drumming is the easiest, just follow the melody and find the rhythm."

"You can record it and play it in a loop later. It doesn't have to be good, just that it can be played completely!" Luo Quan said, immediately picked up the guitar and started playing.

Yunjing Xiao hugged his arms on one side and stared at Luo Quan with all his attention.

In nature, every sound has its own pitch. Some people can accurately distinguish the specific pitch of the sound they hear just by relying on their ears. What's more, they can even use musical instruments to play it accurately!

This ability is called absolute pitch. It is an acquired ability of human beings, but not everyone can develop it, so it is not unreasonable to call it an innate talent.

Kumoi Akira has such an ability. As long as it is not as complicated as a concerto, he can memorize it up to three times and then reproduce it almost perfectly.

It's just that he only mastered this ability in recent years. If he had developed it a few years earlier, he might have become a famous guitar genius in Asia.

After playing it once, Luo Quan looked at Kumoi Akira, who had closed his eyes at some point and his fingers were trembling. It was obvious that he was playing the guitar out of thin air!

Soon, Kumoi Akatsuki opened his eyes and said, "Remember! I'll practice right now!"

"Okay!" Luo Quan exhaled, then turned to look at Kamiya Suzune and Miyano Natsuko, "I will write the piano and violin music for this song right now!"

What Luo Quan said was true immediately. No one expected that someone could memorize the music score of a song to this extent.

I saw Luo Quan's pen dancing rapidly on the staff, the speed was simply faster than copying. How skilled must one be to reach such a point!

Four minutes later, Luo Quan handed the two scores to the hands of Kamiya Suzune and Miyano Natsuko, and said: "The scores are similar to the ones I gave you before. You can remember them after playing them a few times!"

Without delay, the two women got the score and immediately started making suggestions.

And Yu Amuro also followed Luo Quan and started the first rehearsal.

The drum beats need to be struck according to the overall rhythm of the song. There is no fixed score, and it basically relies on the drummer's improvisation, so you have to listen to the song before you can beat it.

After listening to Luo Quan sing the real version of this song, Amuro Yuu was almost dumbfounded. Such a song is not generally difficult. No wonder Luo Quan said that she couldn't sing it before.

But perhaps only this kind of song can turn their votes into victory. I don't know why, but Amuro Yuu feels that there is still hope for everything as long as he sees Luo Quan's confident look!

Five hours passed quickly. Everyone tried their best and finally memorized its melody and rhythm before the competition. However, we only conducted less than three complete rehearsals, and there were still some flaws in some places. .

But there is no other way. In this situation, we can only bite the bullet.

When everyone came to the competition site, the female host came over anxiously and asked in a low voice: "Why are you here! The competition has already started, and the music you played has not been reported yet!"

Akira Kumoi bent down: "Sorry to keep everyone waiting, our performance this time is "Unravel"!"

"The OP of Tokyo Ghoul?" The female host is also a fan of this anime, so naturally she has heard of this song.

Speaking of which, this anime has been updated to ten episodes, and the first season will end next Saturday. It is currently very popular in Japan, and singing this song may have a miraculous effect.

"Go to the back and get ready. It's probably too late to put on makeup. At least fix your hair!" the female host pointed to the backstage and said.

Because the third round of competition is broadcast during prime time in the evening and is broadcast by several TV stations, the school attaches great importance to it and all contestants must put on makeup before going on stage.

Everyone has already put on makeup, but Love Music arrived too late, so it’s too late to put on makeup now.

Fortunately, this time the lead singer is Luo Quan. With her good looks, she can still hold the audience even without makeup!

Before going on stage, Luo Quan went to the stage lighting engineer to discuss with him what kind of lighting effects they would need for their performance later.

Originally, these had to be reported to the program team in advance, but now they were added temporarily, which really made it difficult for the lighting engineer. Fortunately, Luo Quan's requirements were not complicated, and there were not many changes.

After hearing this, the lighting engineer thought about it for a while and felt that there was no problem.

All is ready except for the opportunity.

The Super band, who came on stage before them, had already begun to greet the cheers of more than 5,000 spectators in the audience.

There were a lot of students coming for the third round, which was considered the highlight of this Komaba Festival.

As expected, the Super band came up with their trump card in this final round of competition, which was the "Re:make" that Luo Quan gave them before.

This song is very popular in Japan and is very popular among young people. At least half of the male audience present have heard this song.

As soon as the prelude sounds, the place becomes excited.

The Super band performed a wonderful performance for the audience with their extremely skillful performance. Even after they had finished and left the stage, the audience's applause was still endless.

This time, the pressure came to the Love music band.

The male host walked onto the stage: "Next up is the Love Music Band from the University of Tokyo. The song they bring to you is "Unravel", the theme song of the popular anime Tokyo Ghoul. Please give it a round of applause!"

"It's actually this song?"

"I finally know how to sing Japanese songs."

"I really like this anime, and the lead singer seems to be Luo Quan this time. I'm looking forward to it!"

"But this song is so soft, isn't it suitable for this occasion?"

"Listen first and then speak."

This time the band Love Music chose the right theme. Tokyo Ghoul has been very popular recently, and the theme song "Unravel" and it have achieved mutual success, and both have brought a lot of fans to each other.

After learning that Luo Quan would be the lead singer this time, the audience gave a rare shout of support from the fans, which had not happened in the previous two performances.

The band went on stage and checked the instruments. After confirming that there were no problems, they made an OK gesture to the back.

Afterwards, the lights in the entire venue were turned off, and only the stage was surrounded by a dark purple and dark red beam of light. Luo Quan's face was looming in the dim light, and everyone could only see the perfect curve of her jaw like an ice sculpture.

The atmosphere at the scene was rendered very gloomy by this dark tone, and many students held their breath nervously. They had the impression that the style of this song was not so dark.

In the silence, Luo Quan's performance began.

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"Please tell me, please tell me, the conspiracy."

"Who exists in my body?"

"It's broken, it's going to be broken, this world is broken"

"You are smiling, but you can't see anything."

With every line he sang, Luo Quan let his breath easily pass through the microphone and reach everyone's ears.

This voice seemed to have a kind of magic, and an indescribable sadness filled their hearts in an instant. They were confused, helpless, desperate, and countless negative emotions slowly fermented in the darkness.

Luo Quan's voice paused, and the rapid and messy electric guitar sound mixed with the crisp piano suddenly burst out in the interlaced lights. The originally sad and dark atmosphere suddenly became exciting!

At this moment, Akatsuki Kumoi, Suzune Kamiya, Yu Amuro, and Natsuko Miyano buried their faces deeply in the dark purple light, playing with all their heart, leaving all the stage to Luo Quan.

"Please let me, who is about to break down, stop breathing."

"It can't be solved. It can't be solved anymore. Even the truth has been frozen."

"What is broken, what cannot be broken"

"Those who are crazy, those who cannot be crazy"

"I want to find you"

The singing and drumbeats gradually became more rapid, and everyone felt that their heartbeats were also speeding up. The rapid flow of blood seemed to make their body temperature begin to rise.

This song is not the gentle version before at all!

After so much preparation, the song finally reached its first climax, and Luo Quan's voice suddenly rose, rising by a full two octaves!

"I stand in this turbulent and twisted world"

"Gradually nothing can be seen clearly through the gap."

"Don't find me! Don't look at me! Don't look at me!"

“In this world I don’t know who painted it”

"I really don't want to hurt you"

"Please remember my existence, remember me"

"This distinct presence"

The fierce singing gradually subsided, and everyone gained an unprecedented tranquility at this moment, a tranquility as if their hearts were as gray as dead water.

The sadness that came from nowhere was like a pair of big hands, tightly grasping their hearts. They began to question themselves and examine their hearts as in the song:

Who am I? Is there another me lurking in my heart? What do I mean to this world?

No one could have expected that a song would bring such a shock to them.

However, the calm only lasted for a few seconds, and the drum beat and guitar hit like a storm again.

"Infinite loneliness spreads around me

"Your innocent smile in my memory hurts my heart."

"Can't move, can't move, can't move, can't move"

“Unravel ghoul (Unleash the devil in you)!!!”

The continuous, gradually increasing shouts finally led to this crazy roar that changed everything.

At this moment, everyone only felt their scalps numb, as if a big stone was pressing on their chests, making them breathless, as if a devil was strangling their throats, making them unable to move.

Akatsuki Kumoi started his performance at this moment. The scarlet light swayed between his right hand and the guitar. The intense guitar sound was manipulated by him as if it had an echo. It kept stimulating the eardrums of the audience, making it so exciting. They seemed to be in a rotating, upside-down, broken, and bizarre world!

At this moment, Akira Kumoi finally showed off his unparalleled fingerstyle skills. As the youngest tenth-level guitarist in Japan, his skills have long been comparable to those of first-class professional guitarists, and this solo solo made him even more... Show off your skills to the fullest!

"What has changed cannot be changed"

"Two people are linked to each other, and two people are destroyed together."

"What is broken, what cannot be broken"

"Those who are crazy, those who cannot be crazy"

"I really don't want to pollute you!"

"I stand in this turbulent and twisted world"

"Gradually nothing can be seen clearly through the gap."

"Don't find me! Don't look at me! Don't look at me!"

"Who set up this conspiracy and fell into a trap of loneliness?"

"If I don't escape in the future"

"Please also remember me, remember my distinct existence."

Luo Quan's S+ level singing skills finally helped her survive this most difficult part. In order to show the singer's inner pain, her voice kept switching between real and falsetto, and at the end of each line of lyrics, Accompanied by a clear gasping sound.

This is a huge test for ventilation and lung capacity, and most songs will not be sung in this extremely weird way.

A normal person would be dizzy due to lack of oxygen due to rapid deep breathing when singing like this, but Luo Quan not only has S+ singing skills, but also has the expertise of iron lung. It is this expertise that has allowed her to endure until now.

It is this almost crazy singing method, combined with her wide-open mouth when breathing, that creates a scene where she sings with life and soul.

"Please do not forget!"

"Please do not forget!"

"Please do not forget!"

"Please do not forget!"

A series of songs were sung by Luo Quan in a pleading and almost begging tone. She shook her head as if refusing, and her closed eyes seemed to be trying her best to suppress the tears that were about to well up.

Emotions have brewed here, and people's emotions finally inevitably exploded.

At this moment, I don’t know how many people burst into tears, or even burst into tears. This was the most sincere expression of emotion, just because the singing touched the softest place in their hearts.

Perhaps they had also said Luo Quan's plea: Please don't forget me, please don't leave me, please don't abandon me.

At the beginning, their postures were as low as dust, and they were all as desperate as in the song, but in the end they were helpless.

"Numbered by the fact that things have changed"

“In a paradise filled with things that cannot be changed”

"Please remember me"

The song finally comes to an end. No matter how grand and intense it was just now, it has come to an end now. The guitar, drums, violin, and piano all have returned to peace.

Only Luo Quan was still holding the microphone tightly with both hands, closing his eyes and murmuring the last time:

"Please tell me, please tell me"

"In my body"

"Who exists?"

The lingering sound is like smoke, enough to linger around the beam for three days.

After a while, the lights in the entire venue were brightly lit, and Luo Quan was kicking and breathing loudly on the stage, feeling a little swollen in his chest for a moment.

It's not that there are any fluctuations in my heart, it's just a literal meaning.

At this time, everyone in the audience was surprised to find that many people around them had tears on their faces, as if they had just cried.

Wiping the corners of their eyes again, it turned out that they themselves had shed tears unknowingly.

Everyone in the Love Music band walked to the stage hand in hand, bowed to the audience, and then walked off the stage.

Without anyone's intervention, thunderous applause erupted from the audience and lasted for nearly half a minute. The applause continued until the female host came on stage to inform the next group of contestants to come on stage.

At the same time, the real-time comment area on Twitter has completely exploded. Countless Japanese comments are scrolling crazily on the screen. All Japanese viewers are trying their best to express their inner excitement and shock in their own words.

This performance was simply astonishing. Before this, there had never been a singer or a song in Japan with such a style and such a singing method.

With desperate and sad lyrics, a weird and dark stage, and crazy and intense singing, lead singer Luo Quan and her band brought an auditory and visual feast to everyone.

That's right, it's Luo Quan and her band.

Obviously the lead singer has always been Kumoi Akira before, but everyone always felt that something was wrong. Until now, everyone finally understood that Luo Quan was the soul of this band.

With her as the lead singer, they are the real Love music band!

With such a shocking performance in front of them, the contestants from the following groups seemed boring no matter how they performed.

Before the game is over, the audience already has the answer to the question of who to vote for.

The performances are all over and the voting begins immediately.

The result was basically not what everyone expected.

The band Love music received 10,963 votes, while Super only received more than 600 votes.

After falling behind in votes for two consecutive games, the band Love Music performed undisputedly in the third round and received more than 90% of the votes, winning the first place in the National College Student Singing Competition. name!

(This is a 6000-word chapter, please give me a recommendation~~)