Before Duanmu Qingchen had time to get nervous, he was already being controlled by the power of time without realizing it.
Seeing this, Fu Mingrui remembered the special reminder Lian Youyou had given him before, and immediately moved closer to her body. When he approached Lin Youyou and stood between Lin Tingjun and He Shiqi, he saw that there was an almost invisible thin layer of golden air around them, wrapping them up.
Outside this golden thin wall, the bodies of everyone, including Gu Changqing himself, slowly turned into tiny pieces of debris. In the bursts of piano music, they turned into tiny pieces of debris and began to swirl along the music.
Then, everything around began to turn into smoke and dust, and the whole world seemed to be reduced to ashes. Only Lian Youyou and others were standing in this world obliterated by time.
Fu Mingrui looked at the magical scene in astonishment, and suddenly everything became clear to him. Everything was so insignificant in the face of time. Time could wipe out everything in an instant, people, things, feelings, everything. Everything changed in the blink of an eye. People's life and death were even more insignificant. Power, money, selfish desires, grudges and love were all like dust in the face of time.
Suddenly, the sound of the piano stopped abruptly, just like a skilled pianist stopping his music when it was about to reach its most passionate and high pitch, or like a wave reaching its highest peak. All the scenes froze at this moment.
The world around him also paused during this pause. The next moment, a gentle and soothing sound flowed out like a mountain stream, and everything around him began to move again. The scenery gradually appeared, and everything slowly returned to normal, except that Patriarch Zhang, She Shuji, Lin Lu, Guo Xiaole, Concubine Jing, and Duanmu Qingchen were gone.
A stream of debris began to move toward the bed. Lian Youyou suddenly reached out, intercepted the debris, and turned to go to the piano room that was sealed by time.
Fu Mingrui was still following Lian Youyou closely, but just when Lian Youyou entered the thin red air, Fu Mingrui who was following behind her seemed to have hit a hard red stone wall, and he was unable to enter!
"You can't get in." Lin Tingjun leaned aside and looked at him indifferently, "None of us can get in, only Youyou can get in."
"You'll be fine as long as you stay with us." He Shiqi said on the other side.
Fu Mingrui looked at the two of them warily. He was very suspicious of what they said.
Lian Youyou entered this room full of time shackles. Here, everything seemed frozen and still. Every breath of air seemed to be solidified. There was no sound, no air, nothing here.
Lian walked slowly to the string that was connected to Gu Changqing's blood. The string was dyed red by the blood, and was as transparent and shiny as a red crystal.
Lian Youyou reached out her hand and gently touched the strings. In an instant, a huge picture emerged in her mind. She seemed to be pulled out of her original body and stood in the vast universe. In front of her was a huge, rotating black hole!
The black hole continued to expand and expand, and suddenly, the black hole exploded! A huge amount of energy surged out of the explosion of the black hole, and a piece of mysterious metal also flew out of the energy, flew past Lian Youyou, and flew towards the distant dark universe.
The surrounding scenery flew by quickly, and Lian Youyou followed the piece of metal. It became delicate under the grinding of the huge energy of the black hole, but it contained huge energy.
It was like a lonely wanderer in the universe. After wandering for a long time, it fell to the earth, just like a lotus slowly falling to the earth, burning the sky red, and fell into a vast lake on the earth, instantly burning the entire lake dry.
Hundreds of years later, a human discovered it and sold it to another person. After several passes, it fell into the hands of a luthier, who made strings from it into a zither, which was played in the palace and has been passed down to this day.
Lian Youyou raised her eyebrows and stroked the strings: "You have been wandering for too long and are lonely. But it is wrong for you to tie your master to yourself like this. Although you are also trying to fulfill his wish, you are also tearing him into pieces."
The strings of the zither trembled slightly in Lian Youyou's palm.
"Let him go before it's too late. If you delay any longer, he will be reduced to ashes."
The strings became quiet, and suddenly, the blood-colored shackles that had been solidified around them began to move. They began to rotate around Lian Youyou's body, shortening, and one by one they were retracted into the strings. The strings and Gu Changqing's blood were completely severed, and Gu Changqing's blood began to flow back into Gu Changqing's wrist.
At this moment, Lian Youyou threw away the fragments in her hand. The fragments flew into Gu Changqing's body and merged with Gu Changqing. The wound on his wrist also slowly healed.
He slowly woke up at the piano desk and was startled when he saw the piano in front of him. He immediately looked around and found that he was back in the piano room that he could never enter again.
"You can start now." Lian Youyou stood beside him and reminded.
Gu Changqing slowly came back to his senses in surprise, realizing that it must be Lian Youyou who brought him back to that moment. He calmed down and looked at Lian Youyou: "What should I do?"
Lian Youyou smiled at him and said, "Play the piano, just like that day, play it with all your heart. That time, you played the piano to go back to the past, today, you have to play the piano to go to the future."
Gu Changqing opened his eyes and regained his composure. He lowered his eyes to look at the shining strings and slowly raised his hands.
"slow."
Gu Changqing raised his eyes again.
A rare trace of pity and tenderness appeared in Lian Youyou's eyes: "There is something I must tell you. Because the time cycle here is caused by you, it is you who activated the time energy hidden in these strings..." Lian Youyou's fingertips fell on the strings and played them lightly.
"Cen—" The sound of the piano is clear and pleasant.
Gu Changqing looked at the strings and realized that the secret lay in these strings!
"So you have become a part of time. You have integrated into this cycle. Every day you repeat, you are torn apart by time. Now, you have actually become a pile of... time fragments. Once this closed loop opens, you will be washed away by time, and your fragments will be scattered in every corner of time."
Gu Changqing sat on the wooden bench in a daze. It turned out that the dream was not about Concubine Jing, but about... him.
It was he who turned into pieces and burst.
Lian Youyou raised her eyes to look at him: "Are you still willing to solve this time loop?"
Gu Changqing slowly came back to his senses in a daze, his expression became calmer and his eyes became more determined: "For Concubine Jing, what if I turn to ashes?" After saying that, he raised his hand and plucked the strings hard, producing a series of clear and powerful piano sounds! (To be continued)