"Does it really work?"
Ciri was lying in the grass in the Garden of Skeletons, looking at the fountain in the center of the garden.
"This... Elder Enya, are you sure that the Grand Duke of Blood said that he only needs to calm down his emotions?"
Josh was lying in the grass in the garden like Ciri, and Elder Enya was lying next to Josh.
The elf elder always felt that the action of lying on the ground was crowded, so he kept adjusting his posture.
"Lord Ridley has been eroded by the gray fog for too long, and many of its emotions have been swallowed by the gray fog. We have to try to awaken some of its positive emotions."
In the end, Elder Enya could only choose to lie on his side, while giving Qiao Xiu an explanation.
"Is this the late symptom of being corroded by the gray fog?" The judges Joshua met were basically the early stages of being corroded by the gray fog.
Their fragile spirits can't resist the manic influence of the gray fog, so they will be transformed into an inhuman monster by the gray fog.
This black dragon was the guardian of the holy tree before, and it has the power to suppress the gray fog in its body.
In the disaster when Arthur Kroe was destroyed, the black dragon chose to devour its core in order to eliminate the gray fog that enveloped Arthur Kroo...
The so-called core Joshua could vaguely guess that it was similar to the "door" on the Frost Plains.
After swallowing the core, the black dragon began to fight against the gray fog in its body.
Whether it was a success or a failure, Joshua is not clear, but one thing is certain, this black dragon once fell into a frenzy because of the gray fog, just like those judges.
The impression of Duke Black Dragon's cruelty and tyranny is estimated to have been left during that time.
But now the black dragon's "anger" and "hatred" and other emotions seem to be "eaten" by the core of the gray fog.
The consequence is that its mind gets younger and younger, and it may eventually become like a baby, and then... disappear completely.
"It's Alzheimer's!"
After listening to Elder Enya talking for so long, Joshua still felt that the black dragon had severe Alzheimer's disease, even though it now appeared to be a young high elf.
"It really came out!"
Ciri's voice interrupted Joshua's thoughts. At the fountain in the middle of the garden in the distance, a young high elf appeared on the edge of the garden.
In the center of the garden is a huge white screen and the original spar. The original spar is playing a sample of the cat and mouse that Joshua just completed.
"Is Lord Ridley interested in that?"
Elder Enya looked at the black dragon from a distance, it approached the white screen cautiously, glanced left and right to confirm that Mr. Skeleton was not there, then sat directly under the white screen and stared blankly at Tom and Jerry's performance.
"Children will definitely be interested in cats and mice."
Joshua slowly got up from the ground.
The black dragon only fled in panic when it saw the skeleton man. Judging from the magnitude of the tremor of its long pointed ears, Joshua's approach should have been detected long ago.
But it didn't respond, and Elder Enya also followed Qiao Xiu all the way to the black dragon's side.
"Lord Ridley?"
Elder Enya greeted the black dragon in a low voice, but he ignored Enya and kept his eyes on the love and killing between Tom and Jerry.
Joshua couldn't see any expression on its face...
"Does this… really work?"
Elder Enya also turned her attention to the white screen, and she admitted that the cats and mice on the white screen were really interesting.
But wanting to regain the black dragon's mood with this short animation, Elder Enya felt that it was an unrealistic thing.
"I don't know, the advice of the Grand Duke of Blood is correct, the piano of the skeleton can resonate with emotions, the words of cats and mice..."
The original purpose of Joshua making cats and mice was to heal the soldiers in the Demon Fortress who had fallen into autism and mania because of the gray fog.
But the condition of this black dragon is far more serious than those of the soldiers, and it now looks more like a puppet with its own instincts.
The butler of the castle appeared in front of Joshua at this time.
"His Royal Highness Qiao Xiu, the Duke said that the previous soundtrack was not perfect." The butler bowed to Qiao Xiu and explained his purpose.
"Not perfect? I've got a sample to take back to the concert hall if it's going to be done again."
Qiao Xiu really can't give any advice to the bone man in terms of soundtrack. The bone man said that it is not perfect, and Qiao Xiu couldn't refute it.
"No, the Duke said that it's fine to be here."
The butler took a step back and ascended into the sky. Thirty-six ghost musicians had appeared around with their instruments at some point.
At this moment, Qiao Xiu understood what Duke Bone meant, and directly picked up the original spar on the table.
When Qiao Xiu stopped playing the cat and the mouse, the black dragon instinctively wanted to step forward and compete with Qiao Xiu, but its height in the high elf state was too short, even if it jumped up, it couldn't take it. to the original spar in Joshua's hands.
Just as it was about to change back into its own identity, Joshua played a voiceless version of the cat and the mouse again.
The Ghost Orchestra, which had been rehearsed before, played the soundtrack of Tom and Jerry directly, and Joshua found a suitable place to sit down and watch this scene.
"Maybe there will be a cat and mouse concert in the future," Joshua said.
"I'm definitely interested in this concert."
Ciri had always disliked classical concerts. To be precise, she didn't like anything in aristocratic form, but Joshua's cat-and-mouse-themed concert immediately aroused her interest.
"Now enjoy it quietly."
Joshua and Ciri were holding hands and bathed under the notes played by the Ghost Band, and Tom and Jerry were still stomping on the tune of the notes.
The black dragon sat blankly on the ground and watched the white screen, and the nine-minute performance gradually drew to an end without lasting long.
The final picture ends with the victory of Jerry the Mouse.
When the music died, Joshua stared at the black dragon sitting on the ground.
There was a new look in his eyes.
"Lord Ridley!"
Elder Enya stepped forward excitedly and found that the black dragon was trying to say something with his own mouth.
"What do you want to say?" Elder Enya leaned down excitedly and listened to the gradually formed syllables in the black dragon's mouth.
Qiao Xiu also came to the side of the black dragon. It was gradually recovering its consciousness, at least it began to regain the ability to speak.
But Qiao Xiu now inexplicably has a feeling that his daughter is about to learn to say the first sentence.
According to normal circumstances, the first thing a baby learns should be the words "Dad" or "Mama".
But this black dragon...
"next episode."
It said this sentence clearly with a crisp and immature voice.