Supporting Character Appears

After returning, Xia Yu came to his room to conduct an experiment.

None of the existing songs could make them stand out, so it was time to create a new song that didn't exist yet.

Since Music Lv5 could replicate songs from his past world, could he also replicate the music tracks from the past world?

How about a Symphony of Destiny?

However, Xia Yu quickly gave up on this idea as the Symphony of Destiny required the use of piccolos, flutes, trumpets, trombones, and various string instruments, which was too complicated.

As for other songs, they were either piano solos or violin solos, and none of them in Xia Yu's memory could satisfy the needs of An Siyao and Liu Manman.

Crossing out the written songs one by one, Xia Yu twirled his pen while thinking.

Music was a vast category. If skills like violin, piano, guzheng, and bamboo flute were represented by tree branches, then music would be the tree root, reaching all the branches.

One of these branches belonged to music as well, and that was music composition.

Since no suitable songs existed in this world or in his past world, he would create one himself.

Music Lv5 meant that his composition skills could also reach Lv5, and creating a new song wouldn't be difficult.

However, composing a song could not be done in one or two days; at least a month was required, and now he only had five days left.

Time could be solved by using experience cards to shorten it, but composing music still needed one more thing - inspiration.

Without inspiration, there was no starting point.

Speaking of inspiration, there seemed to be someone who had such a boost.

Who was it?

After thinking for a while, Xia Yu finally remembered - Wen Ziying, his novelist junior.

After packing up his things, Xia Yu went downstairs.

He met Liu Manman.

"Where are you going?" Liu Manman asked, grabbing his arm.

"I have something to do, and I plan to return tomorrow morning," Xia Yu replied.

"Wait a minute, what about the song matter? Are you giving up on the third song?" Liu Manman was still troubled by this, "If we knew earlier, we wouldn't have brought An Siyao along, and it could just be the two of us."

"If that were the case, we might not even have the chance to get on that stage. There are better groups performing Chinese music in our country, and if our styles overlap, we could be eliminated," Xia Yu replied.

"I was just asking, what do you intend to do?" Liu Manman asked again, "If it's a solo, you should be the one performing. Only the E ending has the possibility of a solo."

"Let's talk when I get back," Xia Yu replied.

"Wait a minute, when you return tomorrow morning, we have to finalize the song. Tell me your thoughts now, so I can be prepared," Liu Manman insisted.

Xia Yu had no choice but to reveal, "I want to play a song that has never appeared before."

Liu Manman was stunned, "You're composing it yourself?"

"Let's talk about it tomorrow." Anxious to catch the high-speed train, Xia Yu hurriedly left the building.

"Compose a song by himself? How is that possible?" Liu Manman didn't believe it, as she pursed her lips.

Although famous musicians in the past were basically capable of composing, that was only in the past. Nowadays, composing and playing are separate fields.

Sighing again, Liu Manting lamented her own troubled fate.

One of her teammates was trying to achieve something nearly impossible like a solo performance, while another teammate wanted to compose, something that was simply impossible.

The only normal one was her.

Standing by the window, Liu Manting watched as Xia Yu got into a taxi and left the villa.

Xia Yu's luck was good; he just happened to catch a high-speed train to Ziling. In just over half an hour, he arrived at Ziling High-speed Railway Station.

Taking the subway, Xia Yu arrived near Wen Ziying's home.

It was already late at night, so Xia Yu avoided the security cameras and came to the building where Wen Ziying lived.

Fortunately, Wen Ziying lived in an ordinary community. If it were an upscale community, Xia Yu would have had to put in more effort to sneak in.

Looking up, he saw Wen Ziying's home on the fifth floor, where the lights were already out.

Taking a breath, he changed his voice using his singing technique and called out, "Wen Ziying, Wen Ziying!"

The sound echoed through the empty building at night.

Wen Ziying, lying in bed, opened her eyes. She got up and went to the window.

"Who is it?" she looked down.

No one answered her.

Feeling troubled, Wen Ziying prepared to go back to grab her phone to take a look, but she found that she couldn't control her body.

She suddenly remembered an urban legend.

If someone calls your name outside the window, you must never answer, or you'll be possessed by a ghost.

How was that urban legend supposed to be resolved?

There's no need to panic; that's just an unhappy ghost. As long as you make it happy, it will leave. Generally speaking, letting it play computer games for a few hours should do the trick.

Is it really just playing games?

At this moment, she heard her own voice, which was coming not from her, but from another creature inside her body at this time.

"Hey," Xia Yu greeted Wen Ziying casually, "Sorry to bother you again. In return, if you ever need help in the future, you can place an ad in the North Star Daily to find my cousin Liu Changgui, I will come to help."

"Oh, it's you," Wen Ziying breathed a sigh of relief, she had just been quite frightened, "What are you doing here again? Did that gibberish monster destroy your language again?"

Wen Ziying mentioned their last encounter.

"No, this time it's a European seal attack." Xia Yu said casually, "Today's time is a bit tight, so I won't talk to you."

After that, he went to the dark living room, sat on the sofa, and began to think.

He still had ten experience cards left, which, when combined with his basic eight hours, totaled eighty-eight hours.

Eighty-eight hours may seem like a lot, but he wasn't confident that he could come up with a brand new piece of music.

So, he decided to adapt an existing piece.

In his mind, he went through the many pieces he knew.

Stinger, Sparrowhawk, Shadow of the Night, Lost Soul...

Guda's Exercise, Bridge of Decay, Echoing Reed, Red and White Windmill...

White Wolf, Yennefer, Triss, Wild Bee...

He sifted through the memories one by one. After an hour, Xia Yu found a suitable piece to work with.

The Palace of Origin.

Originally, this was a modern piano piece. In Xia Yu's mind, its notes changed and intertwined.

Arriving at Wen Ziying's bedroom, Xia Yu tossed her clothes hung on the chair aside and sat at the desk, using horizontal and vertical lines to represent the musical notes and deducing them in his mind.

Seven hours later, Xia Yu had completed the draft. This was just an inspiration; turning it into a piece of music required a long journey.

He jotted down the manuscript and burned the paper he had used to record it.

"Are you done?" Wen Ziying asked.

Looking at the slightly brightening sky outside the window, Xia Yu nodded.

"Can you return my body now? And what did you write just now?" As a fantasy novelist, Wen Ziying wasn't afraid at all and even found it somewhat exciting.

"That's not for you to know."

"What's the harm in telling me? Who are you?" Wen Ziying's heart itched like a cat's scratch.

Checking the time and seeing that there were still more than twenty minutes before the eight-hour deadline, Xia Yu looked up at the sky at a 45-degree angle and slowly said:

"It began in 1978 when eleven explorers and a black cat went to Greenland to detect mineral resources. Over there, they discovered a meteorite..."

Successfully eliciting a dumbstruck expression from Wen Ziying, Xia Yu returned to his own body with satisfaction eight hours later.

At this point, Xia Yu had already gotten in a car and returned to Rattle Lights.

He identified his current location, ate breakfast, and then caught a cab to An Siyao's house.

On his mobile phone, Xia Yu left instructions for Manager Yu and logged into An Siyao's body again.

In order to use the experience card to compose music, he needed the music bonus from An Siyao; without the bonus, the experience card couldn't be used.

He pretended to ask An Siyao about forming a team, and then let An Siyao hand everything over to him.

In the practice room, he exchanged glances with Manager Yu, and the two of them began their performance.