In the afternoon, dense clouds filled the sky without bringing rain.
Vehicles rumbled across the construction site, while Bullet Screen messages flew through the Live Stream Room. Everything was vivid and alive, moving in interwoven paths to its own rhythm without interfering with anything else.
In such an environment, even though Long Qi's reply paused for an instant, it still sounded much the same as always. "Hahaha, what I mean is, no one standing beside this kind of puddle would ever say they can swim..."
Raven said nothing more. She only looked at him.
Long Qi was startled. "You don't really want me to go down there, do you?"
"..."
"Uh... how about I think about it? Can I wear a helmet?"
Raven shifted her gaze away, returning it to the little stone at her fingertips. A few seconds later, she raised her eyes again and stared at the lifeless Stinky Puddle before them, filled with rotting filth.
Long Qi laughed a few times to himself and was about to say more when a call came in. He did not avoid the camera, maintaining his posture as he answered it directly. However, the seemingly carefree smile on his face faded.
That entire sequence of words and actions had been far too ordinary, completely fitting the impression Long Qi had given viewers ever since joining the program.
So it was only when this brief pause gave them room to think that most people in the Live Stream Room suddenly realized:
What had those two just said?
By then, those with quick hands had already sent out Bullet Screen messages: "And you said you don't know each other?"
Then someone expressed their feelings with a string of question marks:
"Is that the point?????????"
"Let me ask instead: what does 'sniping' mean?"
Led