[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-the-kryptonian-slacker-in-marvel":3,"chapter-the-kryptonian-slacker-in-marvel-the-kryptonian-slacker-in-marvel-chapter-21":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"chinese","Marvel's Salted Fish Kryptonian",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":20,"prevChapterSlug":21,"totalChapters":22,"novelImage":23},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":16,"volume":17,"translator":18,"content_hash":19},2231215,4185,"Chapter 21: Piano Fingering","the-kryptonian-slacker-in-marvel-chapter-21",21,"\u003Cp>\"Is that fingering for a Liszt piece?\" a sailor who had wandered over asked.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2, a noisy classic, isn't it?\" Henry replied directly. He added, \"I've been reading books about the piano lately. It's a pity there isn't a piano at home, so I can only move my fingers and pretend there's one here.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Aha, your fingering and movement are quite standard, that's why I recognized it.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Have you been learning for a long time?\" There isn't a custom in America of handing out cigarettes to everyone you meet. But when starting a conversation, offering one to a fellow smoker is still a great opening. So, Henry pulled the cigarette case from his chest pocket and shook one out.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The sailor didn't refuse, took the cigarette, put it in his mouth, and lit it. After taking a satisfying drag, he said, \"I actually have an old piano at home. I love it very much and have been learning for a long time. I joined the military just to save up for tuition at a music conservatory.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Henry poured cold water on him, saying, \"If you joined the military because you needed money, can you really make it as a pianist in the future?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Can a child from a poor family learn to become an international piano master?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Keep dreaming!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The only thing that's certain is that you'll increase the employment opportunities for piano teachers.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The sailor, doused in cold water, smiled bitterly and said, \"You really aren't subtle at all.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Henry stretched out his fingers and said, \"To make it in music, either your family has money, or your parents are in the industry. Relying purely on interest to make it on your own isn't impossible, just extremely difficult. Only with that kind of realization can you take the money earned from the military and use it to study music.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Wow, you sound just like my mother. Did you two rehearse this?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Do you know Brian May, the guitarist for Queen?\" Henry asked.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The sailor nodded.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Henry said, \"He studied physics and mathematics in school and even taught. Music was just his interest; talent was the important factor that achieved his success today. Without music, he still had a path to a proper job.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"If you just want to spend money to study at a music conservatory because you like it, without considering how to make money in the future, then most of the people here are what you'll look like.\" Henry pointed to the extras chatting and goofing off in the break area.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Those lead actors who were worth mentioning, including the protagonist and supporting actors with lines, had their own break area, which was much more comfortable.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The sailor naturally recognized that there were few actors here he was familiar with. He asked curiously, \"Don't you guys make money? How come it's different from what I heard?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The ones making money are the big stars. The people you see here only get paid when they have a role. When there's no acting, they have to find odd jobs, otherwise, paying rent becomes a problem. You tell me if we make money.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Henry was describing the situation for most people, not including himself. With the salary from the crab boat as a base, Henry lived quite comfortably.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The sailor wasn't discouraged and said, \"I've thought about that, but the path of music isn't necessarily just being a pianist. The piano is the king of instruments; as long as I understand music theory, there are actually many things I can do, right?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Indeed.\" Henry didn't deny it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In today's global music scene, British and American music is the mainstream, followed by the music of various other countries.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The reason he dared to say this is that the markets in these two places are the largest, and they are where musicians get the most generous returns. There isn't a musician in any country who doesn't hope to squeeze into the American music hall of fame.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A huge market also means a huge job market. Otherwise, where would so many people producing music come from to satisfy everyone's auditory needs?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Henry turned his head and asked, \"Speaking of the piano, since I've just been reading books and learning on my own, is there a recommended learning sequence, or whose piano pieces must one practice? Can you tell me about it?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Whether in the East or the West, there is no one who doesn't like to teach. Since Henry asked sincerely, the sailor naturally spoke about his own experience learning the piano as if he were counting his family treasures.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Although his family wasn't wealthy, he had found a piano teacher and taken a few lessons. With that foundation, plus his own hard practice, and the fact that it's very easy to obtain classical piano scores in this era, these were the sailor's advantages in self-teaching the piano.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So when talking about these things, he had a whole set of theories. Henry could also occasionally hear piano pieces he had memorized from the sailor's curriculum, and the two of them demonstrated and discussed fingering right there on the spot.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But in reality, Henry tapping his fingers randomly on the battleship's railing wasn't to pretend he was playing the piano. He was using the principle of sonar to probe the entire structure of the battleship USS Missouri.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At first, he hadn't intended to do this. He was just tapping on the battleship's hull wall while smoking in the break area.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The returned sound waves, collected by his super hearing, were used by his super brain to construct a 3D model in his mind. This was the structure of the ship near his location.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Henry, in a playful mood, tried to optimize his method and make the structural diagram in his mind more complete.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For what reason, Henry couldn't say for sure. He just wanted to get himself a set of battleship blueprints, even if they weren't on paper.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Regardless, this thing was a military weapon, and the blueprints couldn't be found in a library.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even though the Iowa-class was designed during World War II, in the construction of warships, all countries capable of building them seemed to know how to keep a trick up their sleeves.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For example, during World War II, the Japanese Yamato, touted as the world's largest battleship, still has its true hull data as a secret to this day.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Of course, there is an official version released to the public. But voices claiming that data is fake have never ceased from the past until now.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Iowa-class under Henry's feet now seemed to have the same tradition of concealment.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>According to the technical data available in the library, the battleship USS Missouri has a standard displacement of 45,000 tons and a full-load displacement of 56,270 tons. The total length is 887 feet 3 inches, the waterline is 860 feet, and the full beam at the waterline is 108 feet 2 inches.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The thickest armor is the turret armor, at 19.7 inches. The side armor is 12.1 inches, the deck is 7.5 inches, and the bulkheads are 11.3 inches.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, according to Henry's judgment using echoes combined with his X-ray vision, all the above data is wrong!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This error isn't because of discrepancies caused by the Missouri's modernization refit compared to the original design. The numbers given at the very beginning were problematic!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The only thing that might be correct is the beam. Because it had to be convenient to pass through the Panama Canal to travel between the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans, the ships designed by the US Navy necessarily had to consider the canal's standards.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Other than that, as long as no one boards the ship to measure it personally, the true data will only lie in the piles of blueprints at the shipyard or in the military's database.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Knowing this isn't because Henry wants to disclose such intelligence or use this information for profit. He's just finding something to do to pass the time.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>To put it bluntly, he's bored.\u003C\u002Fp>",1348,"2026-06-18T01:36:48.144Z","2026-06-18T03:18:02.290Z",1,"Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite","23cafd063a2f95b114ac55adfdab2749d8e7e0b9c9bee0ada186b4ab2d1a264d","the-kryptonian-slacker-in-marvel-chapter-22","the-kryptonian-slacker-in-marvel-chapter-20",253,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fmarvel-s-salted-fish-kryptonian-cover.jpg"]