Aunt Wei!
She had finally arrived!
Lan Qiao and Mia nearly cheered aloud, nearly jumped from their seats, but that hoarse, weary voice was like a vast, heavy net spreading over them, pressing down their emotions and movements.
The chorus, the boos, and the scattered laughter from before all sank away at this moment.
Most of the lights dimmed at the right time. Sound and light alike receded, and apart from the singing onstage, there was no other noise. What little remained was swallowed by the venue, which had sunk into Dark Seclusion along with everything else.
The sound of heavy rain battering the roof and outer walls of the venue could faintly be heard from outside. It replaced the earlier boos as accompaniment... and was strangely fitting.
Backstage, Ronan looked at Wei Su Yi's back and subconsciously shook his head.
His experiences in the "Boundary Curtain" district had left too deep an impression. It was already difficult for him to regard the woman onstage as merely a singer.
Yet during the journey to the "Qiankong Star System," the other personality on the opposite side seemed to have swelled with the wind, scattering his impressions of "Lady Fire," "Evil Cult priestess," and "political mouthpiece" into pieces.
Ronan lowered his head and searched for the lyrics of the song.
Some of its core imagery involved things unique to the "Central Star Zone," so if he had only listened to it, he really would not have been able to make them out.
After searching and matching them with roughly similar things on Earth based on his own understanding, he finally figured out the song's name.
Mm, it could probably be translated as Ants and Dandelions.
The singing smoothly transitioned into the chorus, a part everyone had already grown familiar with from singing