Zongman: Please stop destroying the worldview!

What clothes should I change into?

Where have spring and autumn gone?

Is this how Pochi feels? No, not just hers, but also Kita's, Nijika's, Ryo's,

At this moment, music became a bond. Starting from a dark and inferior heart, it connected three shining hearts, and finally turned into a colorful light, which was transmitted to the heart of the only listener at this moment.

The suffocating pressure of the information age

In this dizzy spiral

Where am I?

There are obviously so many

So much breathing

The strange thing is that the world is silent

After the band finished rehearsing, the members looked at each other in surprise. It was obviously the first time they practiced this song together, but there was no sense of awkwardness or sluggishness at all.

There were more than one mistakes during the ensemble, but these mistakes did not interrupt the smooth flow of the performance. Even if there were regrets and sadness, they had to continue - just like the daily life after this miraculous encounter.

After a moment's pause, Kita's voice rose to a high pitch, and the sounds of the instruments resonated at this moment. Lightning ripped through the clouds, and thunder roared across the earth. In this boring world in the rain, a cry suddenly rang out, and then everything began to bloom with color:

Not enough, not enough

I haven't been noticed by anyone yet

Like a chaotic melody

Screaming silently

The "true self"

To let someone see

I am ignorant and can only sing loudly

Tell everything to the stars

Yes, that's right. I heard and understood your cries.

A ball of four-colored light shone, and a warm feeling filled Chen Mo's chest. Finally, he received the first gift given to him by this world.

In this impoverished world cut off by the earth veins, he gained a bit of incomparably brilliant mana from a miraculous bond.

-

Shimokitazawa Stars

The bitter wine went down the manager's throat, causing him to feel a pain in his heart. After finally finishing half a bottle of wine, he felt a little dizzy and slammed his fist on the table.

"That bastard Chen Mo! I knew he had bad intentions! I should have kicked him out of Fanxing!"

Miss PA no longer had a smile on her face. She put on a serious expression and advised the store manager, "Xingge, I think we should talk things over properly."

Ichichi Hoshige, this is the full name of the store manager. I have to say that both sisters have enviable beautiful names.

Xingge blushed and slurred her words as she retorted, "What? What can I say to that bastard who kidnapped a young girl? And, call me the manager in the store."

Miss PA sat next to her and reached out to take the bottle away. "I'm not talking about Chen Mo, I mean, Hong Xia. Don't force yourself to be upset and not say it, Xingge. What's the point of doing this other than making both you and Hong Xia sad?"

Xingge: "Hongxia? What are you talking to Hongxia about? Is there something wrong with what I said today?"

PA: “No problem, but you forgot to say that you actually care about her and told her that you would reserve performance time for her no matter what the music was like.

More importantly, no matter what, the stars are her home."

Xingge was silent for a moment, the alcohol wearing off a bit, and he murmured in response:

"You dote on her too much, this is not okay.

That kid was influenced by me, always thinking about forming a band and becoming famous and successful just for fun, but you know that's not possible. The music industry is not that easy to get into. Those without talent will only end up with nothing left. You and I should know this best.

Among us, Hiroi is still in the band. Although he is a little famous now, can't he live without drinking every day?

I have to be serious. Either I can prove that I have the ability to make it in the music industry, or I can just treat the band as a hobby and live my life well."

PA: "That's too cruel. Can't you be a little more lenient towards your sister?"

Xingge: "It's because she's my sister that I have to be extra strict. You know, our parents left early, and Hongxia has been living with me. She's so clingy to me.

If it were someone else who wanted to just live a life of idleness and waiting to die under the stars, I would just turn a blind eye.

But Hongxia, she should go out and have her own life. She shouldn't stay in my starry sky forever and be a child who never grows up. "

Ms. PA returned to her teasing tone: "But Hongxia went somewhere else today, and the petty store manager couldn't stand it anymore."

Xingge argued, her face flushing, "That's because I'm worried! Her skills are so poor right now, her bandmates aren't reliable, and that jerk Chen Mo, who calls himself a fan, keeps leading them astray! I'm just worried that she'll get wronged by RING and come back to act like a spoiled brat!"

PA: "Okay, okay, I'll listen to your manager. But there's one thing I hope the manager will remember.

There is no spiritual connection between people. If you don’t express what’s in your heart, others won’t be able to hear it. Even sisters are like this!

"Stop making so much noise, I get it! And give me back my wine!"

-

The next morning, at Hanasakigawa Girls' College, during class break

Lixi sat at her desk, her fingers rhythmically tapping the table. This was her way of practicing as a drummer. After all, she hadn't played in almost a year since her last band disbanded, and besides going to the practice room, she wanted to use this method to quickly regain her touch.

Hailing came over from the back seat and placed a box of milk jelly on Lixi's desk. "Hey, playing air drums so early in the morning. It seems Lixi is also very concerned about the affairs of the Three Musketeers of Flower Girl."

Li Xi nodded: "After all, I promised someone else something, I want to do my best."

Chu Hua, who was sitting at the back, also came over and asked, "So, what song should we play for this performance?

Sumimi will be very busy with work recently, so we should prepare as soon as possible while we have more free time now."

Hailing took out her phone and pulled out the songs from various bands she had saved. She flipped through them but still wasn't satisfied:

Li Xi and I have known each other for a long time, but we have never really collaborated and are not familiar with each other's playing habits.

Although they were a temporary band formed by Chen Mo, the three of them were music lovers after all, and they would never mess around in the performance.

Hailing was even more delighted to be in the same band with Lixi this time. Even if it was temporary, she had to seize this opportunity that might not appear again for an unknown period of time.

From this perspective, she should be even more grateful to Chen Mo.

So, which song is the right one to choose?

Li Xi made up her mind. She took out her phone, found the sheet music lying deep in the folder, and said to Hai Ling and Chu Hua:

"Let's play this piece. It's the one I know best and feels most expressive."

Hailing Chuhua came over and saw the music score that Lixi solemnly showed. Its name was -

Spring Shadow

-

In Chen Mo's mage tower in a low-rent apartment building in Tokyo

A huge map of Tokyo was spread out on the low table, and Chen Mo was painting on the densely lined map with five-colored paints.

After these days of hard work, he had initially grasped the general direction of Tokyo's ley lines. They crisscrossed like roads, and just as a transportation network had hubs, the structure of the ley lines also had important nodes. To investigate any anomalies in the ley lines, examining these nodes was the most effective method.

Five-colored lines intertwined on the map, revealing dozens of important nodes. If they were to check each one individually, it would take a long time to complete.

Fortunately, after the last exorcism incident, Chen Mo had some extra clues.

A piece of paper was thrown onto the table. Chen Mo had found it in the activity room where the "Mind Game" demon resided. It looked ordinary, just a red paper note with a small bell attached, like a souvenir you could find at the stalls around the shrine.

But Chen Mo could sense a hidden message from it, engraved on the back of the paper with a faint magical power. It was a wish made by someone many years ago:

My Lord, I hope everyone in the board game club can be happy forever. I am so lucky to have like-minded partners like you.

Oh, I really want to play happily with everyone in the board game club, but we will graduate soon and everyone will go their separate ways, so it will be difficult to see each other again.

Since we have to say goodbye, I hope the junior schoolmates who inherited the board game club can have as much fun as we do!

It was a very ordinary wish, a very gentle prayer—just looking at the content, it was like this. However, when this message was perceived, it conveyed a cold and crazy emotion. It was howling, screaming, twisting, and going crazy, just like the crazy evil spirit in the abandoned activity room.

It’s a curse disguised as a blessing.

Japan is said to have eight million gods, and its countless shrines, large and small, are difficult to count. In Japan's dark and gloomy urban legends, the line between gods and monsters is thin, and blessings and curses are often conflated. While enjoying the incense, the gods enshrined in shrines may harbor a deep and intense malice toward the world.

Chen Mo stared at the map and circled several shrines built on ley lines. "The land that refuses to communicate, the shrines built on the ley lines, the evil gods that disguise curses as blessings, the curses hidden in the shrine's paper, and—the abnormal number of evil spirits in Tokyo."

He smiled excitedly: "No matter who you are, I've caught you now!"

Chapter 33 Encounter with Ai Su

In the morning, Chen Mo packed up and prepared to leave: "I'm getting ready to go out, Ailu cat, remember to walk the dog."

Felyne: "Got it, Boss!"

Bruce lay on the ground and whimpered twice, but still did not follow and bite Chen Mo's trouser leg. He also knew that now was not the time to delay important matters.

After Chen Mo left, Ailu Cat took out the saddle he made and said to Bruce excitedly:

"Bruce, do you want to go for a ride?"

"Wang!"

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"Go, Bruce, speed up!"

"Wang Wang!"

Felyn is racing on the road.

Although the task was to walk the dog, with Bruce's terrifying physical fitness and energy, Felyn estimated that he would be exhausted before Bruce even started sweating.

But how could such a small problem stump the clever and dexterous Felyne? It quickly made a saddle and put it around Bruce's neck, sat on it, grabbed Bruce's ears with its two paws as a steering wheel, and started racing like a motorcycle.

-

At this time, the drag racing gangs in Tokyo started to party, ignoring the shouting of the surrounding residents, and the screams of engines came one after another.

The five bikers of "Bear Bear Special Attack" sped along in a serpentine formation, their special attack uniforms rustling in the wind, and flames from their exhaust pipes illuminating the roadside guardrails.