500: Chapter 500 The Whale Song of the Isolated Island

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What a performance of "General"!

Fans: The hell? Isn't the MV just old men playing chess in the park? How is the concert this badass?!

Awesome, absolutely awesome.

The grand, majestic stage design combined with the "arrogant," "haughty," and "disdainful" air that Lin Chuyan intentionally projected made this live performance invincible.

In fact, in the eyes of the fans, this so-called "air" didn't even require any Acting—it was clearly just the outside world's impression of our idol, okay!

As for why "General" was chosen to start this chapter, there was actually a strategy behind it—it was a case of being polite before resorting to force, because the songs that followed were the real deal.

Things like "dragon fist" and "double blades"... that was where the real clash of blades happened.

Finally, ending with "in the name of the father" brought this chapter to a perfect close.

The only thing Lin Chuyan felt was less than ideal was that the intro to "in the name of the father" was indeed too long... He hadn't felt it much during rehearsals, but with so many audience members sitting below, the feeling was completely different.

Well, cutting the intro was impossible; it was a very important part of the song. Maybe he should discuss it with his girlfriend and try a "loneliness" x "in the name of the father" mashup?

That could work.

However, the fans in the audience didn't find it strange at all; they watched the whole thing, completely mesmerized.

It was cinematic, absolutely cinematic.

Is this the top-tier live performance of an Asian superstar? Thinking about it now, the ticket price was a steal.

Lin Chuyan's Singing Ability combined with this stage design... although the concert was only halfway through, as long as he maintained this standard for the rest of it, this was definitely the best concert of the year.

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The second half continued.

The third chapter was titled "Time Museum" by the stage design team.

There were love songs here, but more importantly, it recorded certain feelings—those moments and eternities that are remembered forever in the long river of time.

Without further ado, the first song was "lonely patient".

If the "clash of blades" in the previous chapter had everyone's emotions hyped up, then this song was a 180-degree turn.

In the center of the stage, a holographic image of a whale quietly emerged, its massive, translucent body beginning to invade everyone's field of vision.

What made people applaud was that the whale wasn't just simply floating in empty nothingness—the flowing deep blue projection on the gauze screen and the LED floor screen created a "deep sea," and the whale was swimming within this "deep sea"!

But that wasn't enough. When the audience shifted their gaze away from the whale, there was a "lonely island" on the ground surrounded by the deep sea, and Lin Chuyan was standing on this "lonely island"!

The massive whale and the tiny Lin Chuyan looked equally lonely at that moment.

But did you think it ended there? No, there was more.

Just as everyone in the audience was surrounded by a massive sense of loneliness, their glow sticks stopped flickering, and the auditorium suddenly plunged into darkness.

One second, two seconds, three seconds.

The next moment, tens of thousands of glow sticks lit up again, right in everyone's hands, blue points of light rising and falling like the tide.

On stage, off stage.

At this moment, the entire Birds Nest had become a part of the stage installation titled "lonely patient".

So this was the real "deep sea".

And as the glow sticks lit up, and as the true "deep sea" appeared, the whale suddenly let out a long, low moan...

Everyone was dazed for a moment by this low moan.

It was as if the sound didn't come from the speakers, but from the depths of the ocean floor.

Actually, the audience's feeling couldn't be said to be wrong.

In fact, it was indeed the sound of a real whale's mating call, just processed with reverb.

Just after this sound, the intro to "lonely patient" began... Yes, it was as if that low moan had been perfectly integrated into the song.

Just from the intro, everyone was drawn into the song.

This is the charm of a concert, the charm of stage design.

"Laughter, cheers, heating up the atmosphere, but my heart is cold."

"The spotlight, a kind of blessing, yet I cannot cry out, 'Wait a moment.'"

The singing began, and the whale started to turn toward the lonely island, approaching the island, and also approaching Lin Chuyan.

Yes, he was singing a song of loneliness, and the whale, as lonely as he was, seemed to be trying to get close to him.

Slowly, the whale's tail fin swept across the edge of the lonely island, stirring up a circle of golden ripples, as if caressing this "cage".

The LED screen on the ground instantly cracked with spiderweb-like blue patterns, the cracks spreading outward like a tide, yet never reaching the center of the lonely island.

The camera focused on Lin Chuyan.

At this moment, he had his eyes tightly closed, both hands gripping the microphone. His voice flowed slowly, carrying a kind of almost devout focus, each note sounding as if it had been dug out from the deepest part of his heart.

"I really admire myself, still able to be humorous."

"When shedding tears, masking them with a smile."

The whale was still approaching the lonely island, but the deep-sea undercurrents on the gauze screen suddenly turned into a whirlpool.

The whale was forced to swim against the current, each flick of its tail stirring up resonant ripples on the LED floor.

Its massive silhouette enveloped the lonely island, and also enveloped Lin Chuyan.

"I don't sing heart-wrenching love songs, it doesn't mean there aren't moments of heartbreak."

"I have never laid my wounds open to be butchered, healing, no one knows, my inner frustration."

After the struggle, the whale suddenly stopped and floated directly above the lonely island.

Its entire body was covered with fine, golden starlight projections, yet this starlight was not a warm light; instead, it looked as sharp as glass shards, even refracting the cracks in the warm light of the lonely island.

Yes, the whale's "starlight" symbolized "unspoken heartbreak," while the sharpness of the starlight hinted at "restrained pain." The warm light on the island's floor was at this moment cut into irregular patches by the starlight, which was the very evidence of heartbreak.

And in the audience, the glow sticks were also cut into two parts.

The audience on the left maintained a deep blue light, representing the "essence of loneliness," while the audience on the right switched to white light, symbolizing "extroverted disguise."

The two groups of light formed an opposition in the air, echoing what was happening on stage.

"Living like a lonely patient, pulling at myself."

"An extroverted lonely patient, needing recognition."

When Lin Chuyan's last line, "needing recognition," left his lips, the whale's low moan sounded again—

It came from the intro, finally becoming the entity of loneliness, piercing through everyone's chest at that moment.

The image of the whale completely disappeared, and the warm light of the lonely island also went out.

But the glow sticks in the audience changed from deep blue and glaring white to a warm yellow.

Yes, when everyone's lonely islands connected into one, the lonely island was no longer a lonely island.

In the audience, many people thought of this.

Thus, when Lin Chuyan finished singing this song, the whole venue suddenly had a moment of silence.

This kind of silence was more deafening than any cheering.

Because loneliness is not the end, but the starlight shared by billions of creatures in the deep sea—look, we are all in the darkness, emitting a faint light.

loneliness is no longer a disease that needs to be cured, but an eternal existence like the deep-sea whale song—it stings, but it also illuminates all silent souls.