Bales leisurely sipped his red wine, watching with satisfaction as the comments kept piling up.
That was money, after all.
But after more than ten minutes, the comments that had been growing at a furious rate suddenly stopped.
They came to a complete halt.
The count stayed at 137,523.
Bales was puzzled. Why had the comments, which had been refreshing nonstop just moments ago, suddenly stopped?
Had his computer frozen?
He refreshed the page a few times. The computer responded, but the comment count still read 137,523.
It wasn't going up at all.
He was baffled. Was his computer broken?
Following the principle of restarting first whenever there was a problem, he rebooted it.
But after it started up, the computer didn't load the desktop. The screen stayed black.
He was thoroughly confused. Was the computer really broken?
As he sat there wondering, a dagger suddenly appeared along the right edge of the screen. Shaped like a dragon, it looked both imposing and razor-sharp.
Then the dagger slowly moved from right to left. The black screen parted to either side like a piece of dark fabric being cut with scissors, revealing an image where it had opened.
It showed Wang Yi leaping over Wemby and dunking.
As Wang Yi soared over Wemby and slammed the ball home, the spectators erupted in a deafening roar.
The basketball Wang Yi had dunked was given a fiery special effect, blazing with flames. After he put it through the hoop, even the net caught fire.
At first, Bales didn't understand what he was seeing. He was simply astonished.
He'd saved plenty of videos of Wang Yi on his computer for research, but they were all genuine footage from live games.
He'd never seen one with a fire effect like this. Where had it come