Chapter 135: 135 Reassuring Lines
As soon as they entered the Recording Studio, Han Yixuan felt like the young girl beside her had become a different person.
According to Pei Ningle, she had never been to a place like this before either, but for some reason, she wasn’t nervous at all. Her exchanges with the Arranger and Recording engineer were full of confidence.
This Recording Studio was hidden in an ordinary Office Building, with a very small area, only consisting of the control room and Sound Field these two rooms. Even going to the Toilet required going out to find the public restroom in the Office Building. But the interior decoration and equipment appeared very professional. The walls were covered with sound-absorbing foam, and more than a dozen Microphones were set up in the Sound Field.
However, for Pei Ningle, she only needed to use one of them.
First, they had to record the Song’s Accompaniment, and different Musical Instruments needed to use different Audio Tracks, recorded separately. Fortunately, Pei Ningle had decided to keep it as simple as possible, with the Accompaniment only using the most basic Piano. This made the Recording much simpler.
However, though simple, discovering problems during Recording, solving them, and trying different approaches still took quite a bit of time. Han Yixuan found a Chair, moved it to the brightest spot, took out her Review materials, and started looking through them.
After a few hours, when Han Yixuan felt she had almost finished reviewing this subject, Pei Ningle finally walked out of the Sound Field.
The petite young girl exerted force to stretch, then let out a long breath, as if a heavy burden had been lifted.
Han Yixuan put down her Notebook and book, went over to her, and asked, “Have you finished Recording already?”
Pei Ningle hesitated for a moment, then shook her head: “It’s not that simple. What I finished today is just a demo. I’ll take it back to think about it, and might still need to adjust it some more. And even if no adjustments are needed, there’s still Post-production to do.”
Han Yixuan suddenly became a bit curious: “Can I listen to your demo then?”
Pei Ningle: “Of course you can.”
At this time, the Recording engineer nearby said: “Come over here, listen through these Headphones.”
Han Yixuan came to the console, put on the Headphones.
In the Headphones, after a Piano prelude, the young girl’s ethereal voice sounded.
“I step onto a road in the desert,
See myself dusty in the mirror,
Hesitate silently at every dusk,
Light a Candle for myself…”
In an instant, Han Yixuan was Immersed in it. That ethereal Voice formed a subtle balance with the melancholic and wandering Melody. And the pure Piano Accompaniment made the Song’s Atmosphere like a hazy poem, unfolding gently.
Three and a half minutes later, the Music ended.
Han Yixuan took off the Headphones, stared at the petite girl less than two meters away, her expression somewhat Complex: “Did you write this yourself?”
Pei Ningle tilted her head: “Is there a problem?”
“I originally thought the Song you wrote would be more girly, more fresh, more youthful…” Han Yixuan tried to describe the impression in her mind, “But I didn’t expect the Song you wrote to actually be… how should I put it?”
The Recording engineer nearby smiled and chimed in: “So artistic?”
Han Yixuan tugged at a Strand of Hair by her ear, pondering: “Can’t really say artistic. Among my classmates, there are many artistic girls, but the Feeling they give me is completely different from Xiao Le.”
Recording engineer: “Because that’s fake artistry, right? This Song has poetry coming from the bones, like Gu Chen’s poetry.”
Han Yixuan reminded: “That great poet’s ending was killing his wife and then committing suicide. It’s not good to say it like that.”
The Recording engineer immediately burst into laughter: “Just a little Joke, hahahaha…”
“Hey, it’s just a Song, you’re making it more and more outrageous!” Pei Ningle protested.
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The Final Exam finally began.
For the other Roommates, this was a heart-pounding moment. But for Wang Heng, who already had a Foundation and hadn’t fallen behind in his Studies, it was very relaxed.
He finished the entire Test Paper and even had time to look around.
In the vast Lecture Hall, many unfamiliar Classmates were seated. His Roommates were all assigned to different corners, and the only familiar person around Wang Heng was the Vice Class Monitor Feng Jia Miaomiao sitting diagonally behind him.
Out of boredom, Wang Heng wrote the four characters Han, Pei, Lu, Ye on his Scratch Paper and calculated his situation and safety.
Horizontally, they were the surnames of those four girls, and vertically, they were three Standards—Favorability, Intimacy, Corruption Level.
Based on practical Experience from the First Playthrough, supplemented by the Second Playthrough’s practice and Contemplation, he felt he had found some Knack. The attitudes of the four female Assassins toward him could perhaps be analyzed using these three Standards.
A bit higher Favorability, no problem.
A bit higher Intimacy might create a Hidden Danger.
High Corruption Level… no need to say more, must be vigilant.
But the current problem was that the Hamster was just a Hamster, not an all-powerful System, and didn’t have a Game panel like in galgames telling him the three Numerical Values for each girl.
He filled Numbers in each Blank Space, but recalling everything that had happened recently, he crossed them out one by one. After pondering for a long time, he still couldn’t arrive at a definite Answer.
“The most unpredictable thing in the world is the human Mind…” Wang Heng muttered.
Just like that, after dawdling for a while, the time to hand in the papers finally arrived.
Wang Heng sat in his Seat, waiting for the Invigilator to collect the Test Papers, then he heard the Class Monitor Sun Xing Si’s voice: “Teacher Wang, want to compare Answers with me?”
“Why compare Answers?”
Sun Xing Si, holding his Scratch Paper filled with Answers to many Problems, had just walked up to him. Hearing this, Sun Xing Si was stunned.
“Isn’t comparing Answers normal?”
Wang Heng shrugged: “The Test Paper is already handed in, not a single character can be changed, so what’s the Meaning of comparing Answers?”
Sun Xing Si: “To make myself feel more at ease…”
Wang Heng: “Then I can’t help it. I didn’t write a single Answer on my Scratch Paper, and I’ve forgotten most of the specific Answers. Sorry.”
What a Joke, how could he let anyone see the things on his Scratch Paper?
Helplessly, Sun Xing Si turned to Feng Jia Miaomiao nearby.
Feng Jia Miaomiao: “What are you looking at?”
Though the words were a bit blunt, there was no malice in her tone. It was just that slight subtle accent, combined with those three words “What are you looking at,” that made Sun Xing Si instinctively shiver.
“Nothing, nothing.” Sun Xing Si retreated.
Seeing this, Wang Heng couldn’t help but complain inwardly—Hey, hey, hey, you’re the Class Monitor, is it really okay to be so straightforward?
Glancing at Sun Xing Si’s back, Wang Heng turned his head to look at Feng Jia Miaomiao.
Feng Jia Miaomiao glared back: “What are you looking at?”
“……Nothing.”
Wang Heng suddenly had an impulse to shed hot tears.
Han Yixuan, Ye Xun, Pei Ningle, learn from this! Look at her! This is the reassuring correct Attitude toward an ordinary Opposite Sex with no intimate Contact!
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