ECG -Chapter 130 Black Fox’s First Public Appearance

However, Xia Yumeng was not some ignorant young girl. Every move he made was completely visible to her. Even though he had tried creating all kinds of personas—the honest type, the sunny type, the hardworking type…—he still had never been able to move her heart.

Who would have thought that she had actually found someone who played music, and not only that, someone from outside the school!

The viciousness in Chao Bin’s eyes flashed briefly, but Lin Hao still caught it immediately. He was stunned for a moment, then glanced at Xia Yumeng’s pretty, fair profile and instantly understood the reason.

Two male students shouted:

“Hey, what kind of song are you guys singing?”

Then someone started booing:

“Exactly! It’s way too noisy!”

“Change to another one, it sounds terrible!”

“…”

Chao Bin quickly returned to his usual expression and ignored the commotion below. Smiling into the microphone, he said:

“Just now was the first heavy metal rock song after our Stone Band’s transformation. It fully embodies the spirit of—”

Before he could finish, a girl’s voice rang out:

“Play something pop!”

“Yeah, sing After the Rain Blue Porcelain!”

“It’s f***ing awful!”

“Get off the stage!”

“I want to hear pop songs!”

“I want to hear folk songs!”

“What the hell is this heavy metal stuff?”

“Get lost…”

“…”

The noise and curses below the stage instantly became a chaotic mess.

Chao Bin raised both hands and pressed downward, but when he saw that the students were still shouting, his face turned cold.

“Everyone, ever since our Stone Band changed into a heavy metal rock band, we swore that we would never play pop music again! In our eyes, pop music is nothing but a pile of trash! It’s vulgar! Unbearably vulgar! It is—”

“Smack!”

Before Chao Bin could finish speaking, a white sneaker flew up and hit him directly on the left side of his face.

“Who was it?”

Chao Bin was completely enraged and roared.

Lin Hao secretly laughed in his heart.

This guy really didn’t know when to stop. You can like any type of music you want, but you absolutely cannot look down on other genres. The musicians who had done that before probably had weeds three feet tall growing on their graves by now.

Wu Xiaozhou and the others burst into laughter. They never expected someone would actually throw a shoe onto the stage. They felt that coming here had really been worth it—it was way too entertaining.

At this moment, Wu Xiaozhou heard Bai Zhitao beside him also make a dissatisfied sound, so he became even more enthusiastic. He stood up and shouted:

“Get off the stage!”

The small auditorium instantly fell silent. Everyone turned to look at him.

It wasn’t because Wu Xiaozhou’s voice was especially loud, nor because his position was particularly noticeable. It was just that all these events had happened at the perfect moment.

First, Chao Bin got hit in the face by that shoe. Then he loudly demanded to know who did it. Immediately afterward, Wu Xiaozhou jumped out and shouted those words.

That was why the entire auditorium became quiet.

Wu Xiaozhou touched his chin, secretly feeling proud.

No matter where Master Wu goes, I’m always the one who stands out from the crowd!

Bai Zhitao also hadn’t expected that Wu Xiaozhou’s shout would actually silence the entire auditorium. She quickly reached out to tug at him, but Wu Xiaozhou was already fired up. He lifted his chin and looked toward Chao Bin on the stage.

Chao Bin’s handsome face was as cold as ice. His first reaction was to glance at Xia Yumeng and Jiang Rong.

Beside Jiang Rong sat a thick-browed, big-eyed guy. If nothing unexpected happened, this tall guy and these people should be together.

He grinned, his eyes full of gloom, and pointed at Wu Xiaozhou.

“Tell me to get lost? Do you even know where you are?”

He wanted to stir up all the students at Normal University and make them unite against an outsider. But clearly, he had miscalculated.

Everyone in the auditorium stared wide-eyed at the scene before them. Not a single person supported him.

After all, what this big guy said was completely right—the song really was terrible.

Chao Bin used his hoarse, angry voice to cover up his embarrassment and shouted toward the audience:

“Don’t come here acting tough at Normal University! If you’re so capable, come up here yourself!”

Even at this moment, he still tried to use the reputation of the university to back himself up.

“Holy crap! Sure!”

How could Wu Xiaozhou tolerate that? He immediately rushed onto the stage in one step.

Lin Hao couldn’t help but smile bitterly.

This guy never stayed out of trouble no matter where he went. He was truly a troublemaking treasure!

Wu Xiaozhou was slightly taller than Chao Bin. He stretched out his hand.

“Hand it over.”

Chao Bin was stunned.

“What?”

“An electric guitar!” Wu Xiaozhou said, looking extremely displeased. “You can’t even play it. What the hell are you doing bringing it out?”

“You?!” Chao Bin’s face instantly flushed red. It wasn’t that he couldn’t play—playing and singing with an acoustic guitar was no problem for him, but his electric guitar skills were indeed poor.

He had brought the electric guitar on stage purely to look cool. Although his right hand was holding a pick and strumming along, the actual guitar sound was coming from the skinny long-haired guy behind him. His own guitar volume wasn’t even turned on.

Lin Hao was extremely surprised. He almost wanted to shout: Not bad, Master Wu, your ear has improved! You can actually tell that?

Since he had been the one shouting for them to come on stage, there was no way he could back out now. Chao Bin took off the electric guitar and unhappily shoved it into Wu Xiaozhou’s hands.

Wu Xiaozhou held the guitar and turned around, smiling warmly at the four members of the band.

“Brothers, since your lead singer wants us to come up and have some fun, we’ll respectfully accept. Mind if we borrow your instruments?”

The four band members looked at each other.

Originally, they had prepared five songs, and they had only performed one so far. Actually, they had been mentally prepared for this situation. They had repeatedly warned Chao Bin that if the audience didn’t react well, they should just sing a few folk songs instead. They had even specially told him to bring an acoustic guitar too.

But they never expected that after only one song, Chao Bin would get hit by a shoe sole. This was truly an unlucky start!

Judging from the students’ reactions below, their attempt at changing styles seemed to have a bit of a problem. The four exchanged glances and felt that using this big guy as a way to step down wasn’t a bad idea. They could go below the stage and discuss things among themselves.

Once this big guy finished performing, they could come back up and sing a few popular songs. That should be enough to turn things around.

It was just that Chao Bin shouldn’t have insulted pop music earlier. This guy was sometimes too arrogant—he really didn’t know how to control his mouth!

The four of them understood each other without words. They put down their instruments one after another and walked off the stage. A wave of boos immediately erupted from below.

Wu Xiaozhou rolled his big eyes toward Lin Hao and the others. The meaning was obvious: What are you waiting for?

Old Gao, Fatty Meng, and the others also got excited. They were all young men full of energy, and especially with the entire audience below watching—along with so many youthful and beautiful girls—they each looked as if they had been injected with adrenaline. One by one, they stood up and went onto the stage.

Lin Hao had no choice. With a helpless expression, he leisurely walked up last.

Seeing that there was no saxophone on stage, Lin Hao said to everyone:

“We’ll do two songs. The first one is Old Cui’s ‘Fake Monk’, and the second one is my ‘Nowhere to Hide’. Then we’ll see how the audience reacts. If they don’t let us leave the stage, Old Cui will sing another one, ‘Rock on the New Long March Road’. Got it?”

Chu Xiaomei’s two songs hadn’t been arranged yet. Cui Gang’s two songs were already very familiar, but Lin Hao’s ‘Nowhere to Hide’ had only been practiced for a few days and still had some minor flaws. His other song, ‘Don’t Break My Heart’, hadn’t been rehearsed yet.

The people below had already started booing because they had been waiting so long without them beginning.

Lin Hao said to Old Gao again:

“Old Gao, if we sing the third song, use the synthesizer to replace the saxophone solo.”

Old Gao first glanced at the synthesizer nearby. Seeing the Roland logo, he felt reassured and nodded.

After giving his instructions, Lin Hao casually walked off the stage and sat back down beside Xia Yumeng.

Chao Bin and the four band members were standing against the wall on the left side of the stage. Chao Bin stared at Lin Hao with eyes that seemed to be spitting fire.

Seeing that everyone was ready, Cui Gang stood in front of the microphone stand in the center of the stage. He opened his mouth and softly said three words:

“‘Fake Monk’.”

A boy in the audience stood up.

“Damn, where did these outsiders come from? Get lost!”

His shout caused several other boys to start yelling too, cursing loudly.

“Exactly, why did they let them come up here?”

“Damn it, are they looking down on our Normal University because we have no one?”

“Look, there’s even a girl playing guitar!”

“Yeah, she’s pretty!”

“Get off!”

“Get lost!”

“……”

Chao Bin smiled and put his phone back into his pocket. Just now, he had sent a text message, which was why some people had suddenly stood up and started cursing.

The people on stage ignored them. The accompaniment began, gradually growing from soft to powerful…

Old Gao used the guzheng tone on the synthesizer to play the opening melody, perfectly expressing that carefree yet dark, cold, and sorrowful feeling…

“I want to walk from south to north,
I also want to walk from white to black…”

Cui Gang’s voice rang out, and the small auditorium quickly fell silent.

“I want everyone to see me,
but not know who I am…”

This was Black Fox’s first public appearance. Although it was extremely rushed, the moment Cui Gang sang the first line, more than eight hundred people at the scene were already completely stunned.