bookbashuk Chapter 642 The new song seems to hold a secret.
Chapter 642 The new song seems to hold a secret.
Singing can indeed contain mysterious magical power.
After experiencing a deep, peaceful sleep that could continue even in a noisy classroom, Karin has personally verified the authenticity of this urban legend.
This rumor is actually true!
Standing in front of the sink, gazing at her radiant reflection in the mirror, Karin's mouth agape. As a genius magical girl, she immediately realized what she had just experienced:
It can no longer be called an urban legend; it's a completely new kind of magical power!
Using music and song to guide magic, creating wondrous musical magic—this unprecedented magical ability, which only existed in theory, was actually realized silently by Xin Yuehu right in front of everyone… It’s simply unimaginable.
Hua Ling suddenly felt a deep sense of horror.
Since Heart Moon Fox can use lullabies to deliver magic that allows people to enjoy peaceful sleep, could it be used in the same way to deliver other, more dangerous magic...?
The girl felt a chill run down her spine, but then she suddenly felt fortunate that it was Xin Yuehu who possessed this strange magical ability. If it had been controlled by other people with ill intentions, it might have silently triggered a terrible crisis.
However, the value of magical girls as guardian stars is self-evident, and such a crisis may ultimately only exist in theory.
"This Heart Moon Fox... is more insidious than we thought..."
At lunchtime, Nan Xiaofeng said this to Hua Ling, who was sitting at the dining table.
"She devised this sound-based magic without saying a word; she's definitely planning to use it on us later when she's looking for trouble!"
"...Actually, this Lullaby series has been going on for quite a while now, and it's been released regularly since last year," Karin replied helplessly. "If she really intended to use this kind of magic for pranks, she probably would have used it in regular battles already."
"Even if you say that, then... well..."
Nan Xiaofeng opened his mouth as if to say something, but suddenly realized that he seemed to have forgotten something. The words he was about to say were swallowed down with the food in his stomach.
It seems that what Hua Ling said is actually true. Memory Center Moon Fox always ends her nightly live streams with a lullaby. Recently, due to a series of events, she has been unable to broadcast late at night, but she has maintained a regular schedule of broadcasting the lullaby every three days.
"Oh dear, next time we have the chance, we can just ask Xin Yuehu in person. This music magic is very dangerous, and I reckon she knows it herself."
Nan Xiaofeng waved the chopsticks in his hand, then took out his phone from his pocket, which had been ringing with notifications, and curiously opened the status bar.
Then the girl's eyes lit up, and she swallowed the food in her mouth in a few bites, gesturing excitedly at Hualing:
"Oh my god, Hana Rin, look! Aki and the others released a new song!"
"A new song?" The girl curiously peeked at the phone screen that Nan Xiaofeng was showing her.
The screen showed a post with likes and comments skyrocketing. It was posted by [Magical Girl☆Autumn Osmanthus], and the link included a brand new music video. It had only been posted for less than a minute, but the post was already flooded with excited fans.
The signal in the cafeteria was already bad, and the two of them used magic to create a cognitive shield, which also affected the cell phone signal to some extent. That's why they had to restrain their magic and prepare to listen to the music properly.
"This is Qiu Gui and the others' first new song this year, it's going to be amazing!" Nan Xiaofeng said with great anticipation as she watched the music video loading.
Karin naturally knew how much Minami Kofuku loved Aki-Kiri as a magical girl enthusiast. This idol group had a huge fan base worldwide, and their new song releases were always a grand event.
The song's title is also quite interesting—"The Last Singer of the Apocalypse." Judging from the synopsis, the setting is a metropolis in the aftermath of the world, where the last idols fight amidst ruins, bringing new hope to a civilization on the verge of extinction.
"Qiu Gui and her group have a wide variety of musical styles, and each new song they release is a pleasant surprise, like the one they released last time..."
Nan Xiaofeng started chattering away, rattling off Qiu Gui's songs and concerts with ease, clearly a loyal fan who had never missed a new song release.
Once the video finished loading, Nan Xiaofeng quickly closed the comments section and shared the Bluetooth earphones in her pocket with Hua Ling, listening to the idol group's new song.
The prelude is low and soothing, with a hint of depression, but gradually rises after the vocals and percussion accompaniment, as if to bring a new dawn in this somber apocalypse.
Nan Xiaofeng listened intently, swaying from side to side with her eyes closed. Although Hua Ling also thought the song was quite nice, she didn't have Nan Xiaofeng's strong fan filter and focused more on the video footage of the music video.
Even with the video quality set to 2K, the picture quality on a mobile phone isn't that great, but you can still tell that a lot of effort was put into the background design.
The hazy city ruins and sky in the background don't look like they were created with special effects. Each ruin has a remarkably realistic texture, which is amazing and makes one marvel at the sheer scale of the idol group.
But as she listened, when the uplifting chorus came on, Karin suddenly caught a fleeting shadow in the background of the screen.
"...?"
The girl frowned slightly, thinking it was just video interference from a poor cell phone signal, but the enhanced vision granted by her magic told her that what she had just seen was definitely not an illusion.
The background of the music video is an urban ruin, but in the middle of that ruin, a black shadow that flashes by doesn't seem to be a scene created with special effects.
It's a bit strange.
Thinking this, Hua Ling wanted to drag the progress bar forward a bit to see if it was just her imagination, but seeing Nan Xiaofeng immersed in the music, she couldn't bear to disturb her, so she could only wait silently for the music to end.
"It's definitely Qiu Gui's style! The chorus is so good!" Nan Xiaofeng exclaimed excitedly.
"Yes, it does sound quite nice," Hua Ling nodded in response.
The rest of lunchtime was filled with discussions about Qiu Gui. Nan Xiaofeng introduced her favorite idol group as if they were old friends, while Hua Ling acted as a gentle listener. After they parted ways in front of the library, she took out her phone and opened the music video she had just watched.
The rebuilt Rongcheng College of Arts and Sciences library now has a very high-bandwidth WIFI, so even 2K quality videos won't lag. The girl plugged in her Bluetooth headphones, found her favorite window seat, and dragged the music video to the position of the progress bar where the dark shadow had been flashing.
Then, the shadow hidden in the building ruins reappeared on the screen.
This time, I didn't block the comments, and many of them noticed the shadow. They speculated about how the shadow was created as a special effect, whether it was an Easter egg or camera interference.
But Hua Ling had a bad feeling...
Is this shadowy figure really a special effects Easter egg?