In the conference room of the Twin Dragon Mount fort…
“Pei Xingnu?”
Elder Meng searched his memories.
“Huh, that’s the name of the ‘pipa woman’ in ‘Tears of the Frustrated Scholar in Jiangzhou’, a zaju written by Ma Zhiyuan, who was one of the four most famous zaju writers, based on Bai Juyi’s poem, ‘Pipa Verse’.”
“The pipa woman?
“That can’t be right, Elder Meng. How can the pipa woman be a little girl?”
Mister Bug’s eyes were covered by a piece of black cloth.
He had drawn a Ninja Turtle whose eyes were also covered on his arm.
His talent skill had finally reached Extraordinary, and the ability he got from the tattoo was finally no longer completely useless.
“I’ll buy it if you say that the adult female hero is the pipa woman. How can such a little girl be the pipa woman?” Mister Bug was rather confused by what Elder Meng said.
“You know the pipa woman too?”
Qin Yueyu, who was wasting no time making arrows with the Infinite Quiver, looked at Mister Bug in surprise.
“Hey, can you show me some respect?
“All middle-school students are obliged to recite Bai Juyi’s Pipa Verse, alright? ‘When I saw a friend off at a dock on the Xunyang River, leaves and flowers fell gloomily… Who shed the most tears? The frustrated scholar of Jiangzhou had wet cloak’!”
As if he felt he was insulted, Mister Bug quickly recited the whole Pipa Verse quickly without missing a word.
“How about it? I was the representative of the Chinese subject in my class back in high school,” he gloated after reciting the poem.
“Tsk, I was the Commissioner of Studies back in middle school!”
Qin Yueyu wasn’t really impressed.
“But you can’t recite the Pipa Verse right now, can you?”
“…”
Qin Yueyu didn’t want to talk to Mister Bug anymore.
Because Mister Bug often asked stupid questions, everybody had almost forgotten that when he first arrived, he claimed that he could recite the titles and nicknames of dozens of the 108 heroes of Water Margin and that he could draw a different tattoo each day depicting the characters from various cultures of Earth.
That might be the reason why he received a talent skill in the first round!
Just because a man’s life attitude wasn’t serious didn’t mean that they were uneducated!
“Okay, enough rambling… Elder Meng, are you saying that this little girl is the ‘pipa woman’?”
Ji Ye shook his head and interrupted their argument. He then looked at Elder Meng and asked, “Well, I’m not sure…”
“Bai Juyi didn’t write down the pipa woman’s real name. It was not recorded in history books either. Ma Zhiyuan lived in the Yuan Dynasty, which was a long time away from the Tang Dynasty. He couldn’t have known her real name either.”
Elder Meng shook his head.
Then, Elder Meng looked at Ji Ye and said, “However, in the preface of the Pipa Verse, there’s this quote, ‘I asked her, and she replied that she was a performer from Chang’an and she learned her skills from Mu and Cao, two great musicians’. Master, you mentioned that the woman in green clothes was addressed as ‘Musician Cao’, then it’s very likely that this ‘Pei Xingnu’ is the pipa woman.
“If she is really the ‘pipa woman’, she’s probably even more valuable than the Cao-surnamed hero!”
A character’s potential on the Land of Inheritance was based on their popularity. Real historical figures had additional buffs.
The pipa woman, who was from real history and had been sung over because of the famous poem, definitely had great potential. She was probably as promising as Nie Xiaoqian.
“So, should I try raising the girl into a hero?”
A weird thought popped up in Ji Ye’s head.
Exactly at this moment, a soldier suddenly walked in and reported quickly, “Master, the guests that Chief Yan brought back were blocked at the entrance of the fort!”
“Huh, by whom?”
Ji Ye was a little surprised.
“By Ms. Chu!”
“Chu Yin?”
…
At the entrance of the Twin Dragon Mount fort, which was defended by multiple Yue soldiers and snipers, the Musical House players, led by Yan Qing, couldn’t make it further anymore.
It was because Chu Yin was standing in their way. With her usual reticence, she gazed at the newcomers in silence with a Topaz Pipa in her arms.
To be more precise, she was gazing at “Boss Zhong”!
“Why is she here?”
“She’s been in the Twin Dragon Mount fort?”
Quite several players from the Musical House changed their expressions.
“Those Musical House players know Chu Yin?”
“Are they acquaintances in reality?”
“Unlikely. Quite a few of them showed obvious reactions after seeing Chu Yin. You can’t have so many acquaintances from reality in one settlement, can you?”
The leaders of the Twin Dragon Mount had all made use of resources that enhanced their body attributes. Even though they never practiced True Seer, they were able to hear what the Musical House players said in shock.
It was needless to mention the obvious surprise on their faces.
“Chu Yin isn’t from Yang City. She had died once before she was reborn in our settlement. Could it be…”
Qin Yueyu thought of something and remarked in a low voice. Ji Ye’s expression slightly changed after he walked out and heard that.
Boss Zhong, who had appeared calm and in control of every conversation, put on an awful look for the first time.
“Chu Yue, you were reborn in the Twin Dragon Mount fort!”
Boss Zhong spoke gravely while staring at Chu Yin.
“Are you surprised?”
Chu Yin sounded rather calm.
But she gazed at him coldly with her eyes that were extremely beautiful even though she didn’t wear any makeup.
“Indeed I am.
“I’m surprised because I didn’t expect to meet you here, and because you chose ‘pipa’ again after your rebirth!”
Boss Zhong looked at the Topaz Pipa in Chu Yin’s arms and took out a purple box.
He opened the box, and an item flew out. It quickly expanded as it was covered in purple light.
In the end, Boss Zhong was holding a pipa that appeared to be made of purple stone but had metal strings!
The dozen players from the Musical House used almost all the famous classical music instruments, but nobody used pipa, which was known as the king of stringed musical instruments.
What happened here might be an explanation for that.
Considering what the player on the guqin ship said, this Boss Zhong was clearly best at pipa, rather than the bells!
“Traitor!”
At this moment, a rather juvenile voice suddenly echoed.
The pale pipa woman in green clothes quickly walked out of the fort with Pei Xingnu’s support. Both of them were holding pipas!
“Are you here to fool more people?”
Pei Xingnu stared at the players of the Musical House with hatred in her eyes.
“Another two pipas?”
“Who are those two girls? I don’t remember seeing them before. They don’t look like Chosen Ones.”
“Traitor? I feel that there’s a story behind that!”
There were four people who were holding a pipa each, and based on their conversation, they clearly had a history, which was rather intriguing.
As a matter of fact, a lot of people had been gathered at the entrance of the fort. Apart from the natives, many new players were here too!
“What’s going on? Why is she here?”
“Hasn’t the settlement core already been destroyed by the Magma Monsters? How did they escape?”
“They’ve even fled to the Twin Dragon Island? They came even earlier than we did!”
Unlike the new players who were observing the fuss curiously, the Musical House players were truly panicked to see the green-dressed woman and Pei Xingnu.
They subconsciously clenched their musical instrument tightly!
“Sister Cao…”
Chu Yin’s eyes became less cold after seeing her.
“Chu Yue, I didn’t expect to see you here. Earlier, they claimed that you ran into a beast and were chased into the sea and killed by the mermaids!”
The green-dressed female was obviously shocked to see Chu Yin when she turned around.
“Musician Chu!
“Were you reincarnated on this island after you fell into the sea?” Pei Xingnu, who had been filled with rage, called her respectfully.
“My name is Chu Yin now. I’m no longer Chu Yue!”
Chu Yin shook her head.
“I fell into the sea? So to speak, I was thrown into the sea after I died… My death was indeed an accident, but the accident was manipulated, wasn’t it?”
She then turned around and looked at Boss Zhong who was holding the pipa with an awful look.
