Please ask the dream.

Chapter 130: Dice Lady, What Did You Give Me?

Feng Xue was suddenly in the predicament of having to fight the enemy with a fighting style that he was not good at, which made him want to curse in his hometown dialect, but he had to admit that in this seemingly artistic fighting style, his skill proficiency was improving to an incredible degree.

Although it sounds outrageous, the black man with long straight hair playing the erhu is not actually that threatening to Feng Xue. Even though he has the Dimension Slash and the Invisible Sword, they are essentially just long-range attacks. Facing Feng Xue's reaction speed that has been increased by 42%, if this battle had not limited most of the damage, he would have no problem winning, and he could have easily used his fighting skills to pin the opponent to the ground and play all kinds of games with him!
This resulted in Feng Xue, who was able to avoid every attack from his opponent, being naturally invincible, and the characteristics of the dream world itself also made him not as easily fatigued as in reality.

The only thing you need to be careful about is the opponent's "Demonization" which increases attack, defense, acceleration and comes with dominance.

Well, if we put aside the stereotype of the big ward, this image of growing wings of light, playing hymns, and even having a fluorescent tube on the head should be called "sanctification" or "angelization" or something like that.

For a moment, Feng Xue suddenly had a little bit of the feeling he had when he had fought with his cellmate with swords in Longchang. The passage of time, the numbness of the mind, and the chaos of consciousness seemed to no longer be important at this moment. He seemed to be trapped in an endless cycle of dodging and playing, using the melody of music to control the two puppets and complete all kinds of exquisite coordination.

At the beginning, he only used this power through the impression of his predecessor's ability, just like playing a game in "automatic combo mode". He didn't care about the combination of moves and just aaaaa and it was done.

But as time went on, Feng Xue gradually felt that he seemed to understand the connection between the opponent's piano music and the slashing attacks. He could even judge the opponent's attack method by just listening to the prelude of the melody without waiting for the slashing attacks.

Afterwards, the melody he played began to change. It was no longer a replica of the well-known music from his previous life, nor was it the tune of this world. Instead, he began to try to insert his own notes based on the melody and rhythm of the other party's erhu.

At the beginning, the effect of this behavior was not very good, and it even led to the embarrassing situation of the dolls being destroyed several times. Fortunately, Feng Xue's own hard power exceeded that of the girl. Even if there was no doll, he just couldn't attack. When the "reading bar" was completed, he could pull out a new doll into the battle.

As the puppets were destroyed time and time again, Feng Xue began to be able to insert several melodies from the initial few notes, and gradually he was even able to interrupt the opponent's performance.

It was not until this time that Feng Xue understood the essence of this musical interaction.

The puppets and sword energy on the battlefield are merely carriers of the rhythm of both sides. Neither the music nor the battle itself is the key. The key lies in the control of the battle rhythm by both sides.

Inserting your own rhythm at the point where the opponent's rhythm is connected and interrupting the opponent's rhythm is the key to this tug-of-war.

To put it bluntly, it's like playing a fighting game. The focus is not on how fast the operator's hand speed is, how high the character's attack power is, or how cool the ultimate move is, but on both sides' mastery of the connection between moves. As long as you can interrupt the opponent's rhythm, you can destroy the opponent's offensive. As long as you can maintain your own rhythm, you can combo the opponent to death.

The only difference is that the actions of tapping keys and turning joysticks are replaced by individual notes.

After understanding all this, Feng Xue was no longer in a hurry. He just kept calling up the knowledge about various musical instruments and music theory in his mind, comparing them with his own performance, and then edited a variation based on the melody played on the other side.

Improvisational performance is an act that tests one's skills, and Feng Xue's skills are improving at an incredible speed under the pressure of this beautiful girl with long black hair and a Yama beard.

Gradually, Feng Xue no longer needed to rely on his extraordinary reaction speed to dodge attacks, nor did he need to rely on his hand speed to forcibly insert melody. He could often improvise a melody following the opponent's rhythm to perfectly overlap the melodies of the violin and erhu. Then, with just a little bit of adaptation, he could easily lead the opponent's notes astray.

That feeling is like when the other person recites "I laugh out loud and go out", and you follow up with "No one knows that lychees are coming". As long as your connection is smooth enough, you will definitely make the other person increase their special defense by two levels (Pokémon stalk).

And during this little bit of competition, the piano playing of the girl with long black hair became more and more chaotic and more and more untuneable, while the one or two paragraphs inserted by Feng Xue from time to time gradually turned into a complete melody.

The switching between fast and slow beats, the smooth two-part variation, although there is only one violin, the rapid switching between finger-playing and bowing creates a wonderful sense of paragraphing.

The close combat magician puppet's moves are gorgeous, ostentatious and swift, and his various martial arts are smooth and fluent.

The killer who was keeping a distance was calm and indifferent. He would not take action most of the time, but every time he fired a shot, the rhythm would inevitably shift significantly.

The background music of the huqin came again, and the mournful singing with sacred meaning was like a vibrato playing forcibly inserted into the performance, just like a deus ex machina directly suppressing the rhythm that Feng Xue had already seized. But for Feng Xue, who had seen the "demonization" transformation several times, he had already made preparations!

“Hmm~! Hmm~! Hmm~! Hmm~!”

Four consecutive syllables with extremely high pitches, slightly harsh and very unproper, pierced directly into the mournful hymn. At the same time as the two puppets launched the attack, the violin on Feng Xue's shoulder also emitted a completely opposite joyful and decadent note.

However, Feng Xue did not have the benefits of transforming into a demon, but as his aura was completely suppressed, his transformation into a demon was no longer anything to be feared!

"Say it again, General!"

……

【Performance curtain call, perfect performance】

[Node settlement: Fantasy +4]

[The great being is very pleased with the sacrifice you offer]

[You obtained Yan Mo Hu (Orange)]

Name: Yamahu
Category: Multivariate Wonders

Quality: Rare Orange

Effect: A strange huqin with the power of "separation", its power depends on the user's musical attainments.

Note: Even if there is no sword in the zither, one can still sing along with the sword.

……

"Ah, this..." Feng Xue looked at the collection in a daze. A sense of unreality suddenly came over him. If he hadn't lost his body the moment the settlement interface popped up, he would have wanted to hit himself hard to see if...

Oh, this is just a dream, it’s okay.

Feng Xue, whose mind was in a state of confusion, stayed on this settlement page for a long while before finally coming to his senses. Looking at the settlement text that was different from the usual battle nodes, he couldn't help but frown slightly -

"What is this great existence? The creator of the golden finger? A 'god' living in the dreamland? Or is it just a 'game text'? The meaning of multi-dimensional mapping is to exchange existing collections for related multi-dimensional wonders?"

Feng Xue wanted to scratch his head, but he had no hands. Before leaving the settlement page, he glanced at the effect of the erhu, and a new doubt came to his mind——

"If I had chosen to sit on the chair, would I have gotten Dante's Harp with the ability to 'combine'? Damn, I suddenly feel that I, as the older brother, should sit while the younger sister plays the violin, and that would be more in line with the style of the painting!"

(End of this chapter)