A Grand Show (Part Two) (Thanks to Alliance Leader "Wu Zhi Shang")

"Why do you think it's this car and not some other car?" Tang Baona couldn't help but ask, because melodies are basically produced in relation to specific objects. Even the melodies of the same type of object will be slightly different between different individuals, and the melody she was humming was indeed that of the GL8 that was being driven.

Little Apple thought for a moment and said, "When I hear Sister Nana humming a song, I can imagine sitting in this car, feeling the seats, feeling the ups and downs of the road, and I can even see the scenery near our Chongyun Village outside the window."

Tang Baona felt even more amazed because Little Apple's description was very similar to her experience when she gained the perception melody of the car.

So she hummed another melody, still just a series of low, guttural sounds, sometimes melodious, sometimes gentle. After about half a minute, she stopped and asked, "Little Apple, what do you think this part represents?"

"It must be a tree. I can almost feel the leaves falling in the wind and the branches swaying. Hmm, it must be the kind of tree with a thick trunk, a large canopy, and dense foliage. It's an arbor, it's... it's a banyan tree, right? Yes, it's a banyan tree! And this banyan tree should be not far from our home in Chongyun Village. The smell is a bit familiar..." Little Apple murmured.

Tang Baona became increasingly surprised as she listened. A scent? This "Little Apple" thing was getting more and more outrageous! You could hear a scent in the melody?

"Yes! It's Chongyun Village. After we leave home, on the road to town, there's that huge banyan tree on the left. Gold Glitter especially loves to run and play in that tree with the other birds!" Little Apple suddenly exclaimed excitedly. "Oh my, Sister Nana, you're so amazing! Even a casual melody you hum is so interesting, so... how should I put it? So 'visual'! Sigh, although I haven't seen any of those scenes, listening to you hum that melody really makes me feel like I'm standing in front of that big banyan tree in front of our house!"

Tang Baona laughed and said, "Little Apple, you're the amazing one! I just hummed it casually, and you could tell so much from it. I didn't even sing a single word."

Both of them thought the other was amazing and incredible, but if a normal third person were nearby and overheard their conversation, they would definitely think both girls were amazing.

"Sister Nana, isn't that the big banyan tree you were humming about?" Little Apple said.

"You guessed right... Listen to this again." Tang Baona said, humming another melody.

This time, it hadn't even been ten seconds before Little Apple blurted out, "I know that too! It's the streetlight in front of our house in Chongyun Village! It's that streetlight where Egg Pie peed, and Little Bell scolded him, hahaha!"

"Listen to this, woo~~ la la~ woo~"

"This is a range hood! And it belongs to the Youlong Restaurant, not ours!"

"Then this, ee~~ ah~ ah~~~~"

"This is a bit difficult... Ah! I recognize it, this is Nana's phone, no, to be precise, it's something inside the phone... I don't know what it is, but there's a piece of metal, only a tiny bit big, I have to take it apart and feel it to find out." Little Apple rubbed her palms and said excitedly.

"It's my SIM card, no need to take the phone apart!" Tang Baona laughed. "Then listen to this..."

"This is the easiest! It's Coin! And it's a one-yuan Coin, the one that's yours, Nana!"

"And this..."

"Pfft! It's Zhen'er who's hungry, uncomfortable, and angry, hahaha!"

As Tang Baona pulled the car over to the stop line and waited at the red light, she couldn't help but turn back to look at Little Apple, who was sitting in the passenger seat, her fists clenched, her eyes sparkling, her face full of anticipation, waiting for her to continue humming the song to guess the answer. She reached out and pinched Little Apple's cheek, exclaiming, "Little Apple, you're like a tapeworm in my belly!"

Little Apple sat in the driver's seat, shifting slightly awkwardly, and whispered, "Sister Nana, roundworms aren't pretty. How about I be your liver instead?"

"You naughty girl!" Tang Baona gently patted her head.

Little Apple shrank her neck slightly and laughed, "Sister Nana, have you awakened some kind of superpower? You can turn everything into music?"

Both Little Apple, who said these words, and Tang Baona, who heard them, seemed quite natural, as if they both thought the topic of "superpowers" was normal.

"Yes, you want to learn?" Tang Baona said half-jokingly.

Little Apple nodded obediently.

"Even if you don't want to learn, I'll force you to learn. Otherwise, I'll confine you in Chongyun Village until you learn it, leaving you helpless and desperate. Hehe!" Tang Baona laughed.

Little Apple was both amused and exasperated. "Sister Nana, are you possessed by Zhen'er?"

"Damn it! You found out, so I have to shut you up!" Tang Baona said, mimicking Yang the Third's tone. She couldn't help but chuckle to herself. Then, hearing the car behind her honking, she realized the light had turned green. She stuck out her tongue, quickly stepped on the gas, and drove her GL8 happily towards Tongshi Town.

The ability of Little Apple to discern various Emotional Melody or the Item Melody gave Tang Baona the feeling that she had been swimming in the water for a long time, unable to distinguish east from west, north from south, and unable to find islands or ships, when suddenly a bright red, round mermaid swam over and pulled her to play everywhere.

Perhaps because she has relied primarily on sound to understand the world and build all her knowledge since birth, Little Apple has always had a special sensitivity to the information contained in sounds, and can hear things in these melodies that most people cannot perceive.

Tang Baona felt that she might be able to collaborate with Little Apple to understand and learn about the world through music and melody, truly turning everything into melody!

In time, she will help Little Apple better understand all things, and Little Apple will help her understand the essence of these melodies more clearly.

Little Apple and her ability are a perfect match!

Perhaps in time, Little Apple will also be able to discover the "Little Sprite" and even find a way to communicate and contact the "Little Sprite".

Who knows, they might be able to change the world with their melodies!

Haha! Following the "Bell-Apple Duo" and "Zhen-Bell Duo," they're going to have the "Nana-Apple Duo"!

Tang Baona, who was driving, squinted her eyes into crescent moons, looking quite pleased with herself.

After taking Little Apple to Youlong Restaurant for a hearty dinner, Tang Baona took her back to Chongyun Village.

Actually, Zicheng Chu Xiaoting originally wanted to invite the two of them to Xia Tianhuo, Liu Caifu, and Liu Feibao, but Little Apple kept urging them to go back to see a "big show," so Tang Baona had no choice but to drive her back first.

In fact, she herself was a little curious and expectant, hoping that Xiang Kun really had some "big show" to put on.

Back in Chongyun Village, as they passed the Research Base, Tang Baona stopped the car and called Lao Xia, asking if she wanted to come back together to see what kind of "show" Xiang Kun.

Lao Xia told her that he was already waiting at home.

The two returned home, parked the car, let Gold Glitter out, and went straight up to the rooftop. They found that Lao Xia had already moved a beanbag chair there and was sitting there. Next to it were two other empty beanbag chairs of the same kind, as well as a small coffee table with an induction cooker, kettle, tea set, tea leaves, and even a box of egg yolk pastries, a can of boneless chicken feet, and other snacks.

Tang Baona pulled Little Apple's hand and helped her sit down on a beanbag chair before exclaiming to Lao Xia, "Lao Xia, did you carry all of these up here by yourself?" She remembered that these sofas were still in their game room on the first floor before she left that afternoon.

Xia Libing said, "I had Liu Gaoshang bring people up here."

Tang Baona looked around, even craning her neck to look at the courtyard and surrounding area below, and asked, "Where's Xiang Kun?"

"In the mountains," Lao Xia said.

"No way, it's already dark and he's still not back? Has he had dinner? Is he really going to... put on some kind of 'big show'?" Tang Baona became a little uneasy. She had taken Xiang Kun's earlier comment about "a big show" as a joke. But Little Apple had also said there was a "big show," and Lao Xia looked so "ready for action," yet Xiang Kun still hadn't returned. Could there really be some kind of "big show" or "big drama"?!

Lao Xia nodded. "Yes."

"What exactly happened? Xiang Kun won't do anything dangerous or illegal?" Tang Baona, a little worried.

Lao Xia: "Don't worry."

Little Apple, however, touched the teacup and said, "Sister Bing, there's no tea."

Lao Xia said, "Sister Nana makes it, Sister Nana makes it so delicious." Then he started boiling water.

So, while making tea for Lao Xia and Little Apple, Tang Baona waited in bewilderment for Xiang Kun's so-called "grand show."

Gold Glitter landed next to Little Apple, chirping incessantly. Tang Baona could tell without even needing to sense the melody that it was hungry and begging for food.

"Didn't I feed you once in town before? And I also put bird food in your carrier on the plane." Little Apple stroked Gold Glitter's head with her finger. After receiving a few chirps in response, she frowned. "You said you're hungry again? Not full? No way, we agreed you're too fat and need to lose weight. You have to reduce your food intake a little bit each time you eat. You have to be good... What? Egg Pie is fatter than you? But you're a bird! You're comparing your weight to a cat, don't you have any ambition at all..."

Tang Baona found it perfectly natural for Little Apple to be lecturing Gold Glitter so earnestly; it seemed entirely justified.

While chatting with Lao Xia, she brewed tea for the two of them. After changing the tea leaves once, a deafening roar suddenly came from the distant Chongyun Mountain, startling her so much that her hand trembled and she almost dropped the teapot.

Tang Baona looked in the direction of the sound and saw flashes of lightning and booming thunder that shook the air from afar in Chongyun Mountain.

In a short time, a lightning storm had formed over there. Even from a great distance, one could still feel the violent and terrifying power, as if a god was wielding a divine hammer and frantically pounding the earth, trying to break through the ground.

Tang Baona stared wide-eyed at the mountains, her mouth agape. Could this be the "grand show" Xiang Kun had mentioned?

Thinking of what Xiang Kun had said that afternoon, she couldn't help but imagine a bald giant with lightning-fast eyes, wielding a hammer crackling with electricity, pounding the ground repeatedly. After a few blows, the giant looked up at her, smiling and shouting, "Nana! Happy birthday!"

The strangest thing was that when she looked up at the sky above their rooftop and above Chongyun Village, it was bright with stars and the sky was clear.

The lightning storm in the distant mountains seemed like a secluded "scene" isolated from the world.

This contrast gave her a strange sense of unreality.

But all her senses told her that it was real.

This feeling is so shocking, so magical, so wonderful.

She looked at Little Apple beside her and found that Little Apple's face was also turned towards the direction of the lightning storm, her big eyes wide open. In those bright, jewel-like eyes, the distant lightning and the shocking scene were reflected, as if she could see it herself.

She looked to the other side, where Lao Xia was also gazing into the mountains, but his expression was rather calm, as if he were watching a predictable "performance," and he even picked up his teacup and took a small sip.

Not far away, Gold Glitter, standing on the railing, also faced the distant power of nature, frozen in place, as if standing at attention and saluting, showing none of the cheeky attitude it had when it asked Little Apple for bird food.

Tang Baona's heart suddenly skipped a beat. She remembered that Xiang Kun was still in the mountains. What if he was in the area of the lightning storm? Would he be in danger?

"Lao Xia! Should we call Xiang Kun? Is he over there too? Is he in danger?" Tang Baona couldn't help but ask.

"Don't worry," Lao Xia replied, and Little Apple chimed in at the same time, "Don't worry, Sister Nana."

Why are these two so confident in Xiang Kun? Do they know something?

However, after hearing what they said, although they didn't explain in detail, she wasn't worried anymore, as if she had always thought that Xiang Kun would be fine.

"Little Apple, there's thunder and lightning over there, it's really... really scary, like some monster is undergoing a heavenly tribulation," Tang Baona described the scene she saw to Little Apple.

Little Apple laughed, "Hahaha, Sister Nana, I can tell that the lightning was super powerful. Sister Nana, do you have any new songs to sing about this monster undergoing its tribulation, since you heard that thunder?"

Lao Xia, unusually, chimed in, "Give me a song."

Tang Baona was about to say that she didn't feel anything for the time being, since Xiang Kun wasn't here now and she couldn't perceive other people's emotions or the rhythms shown by the objects around her like before, but she suddenly realized something and couldn't help but slap her thigh and hum softly.

Accompanied by the distant, dense thunder, the melody she hummed was surprisingly fitting, possessing a grand and inspiring quality, yet also shifting to a tragic and heroic feel.

Xia Libing raised her left hand, which was wearing the black wristband given to her by Xiang Kun, and shook it gently.

The next instant, Tang Baona and Little Apple simultaneously heard crackling sounds above their heads. They both instinctively looked up and simultaneously saw fireworks exploding one after another overhead. Of course, one saw it with her own eyes, and the other saw it with Alice's help.

They couldn't see how the fireworks went up into the sky; they only saw fireworks exploding one after another, becoming more and more numerous, denser and more beautiful and spectacular.

In the distance, in the Chongyun Mountain, lightning and storms unleashed the power of thunder and the might of nature, while in Chongyun Village, fireworks blazed brilliantly and beautifully.

Looking up at all this, Tang Baona was momentarily dazzled and mesmerized.

Especially when a line of words exploded simultaneously amidst the fireworks, I couldn't help but smile.

Happy Birthday, Nana!