Just before the Advancement Assessment began...
A new announcement suddenly appeared in the Sky Screen livestream.
[Sky Screen livestream: Lately, many of you have been expressing concern for one another's families in the chat.] [Sky Screen livestream: We have therefore decided to add a new feature.]
The announcement immediately sparked a flood of discussion.
[Ning Rongrong: A feature? What kind of feature?] [Xu Xiaoyan: No idea. Maybe it puts a few people in their own channel so they can yell at each other?]
While everyone was discussing it, the livestream interface changed before their eyes.
They noticed two new options below the chat: Add Friend and Invite to Spar.
[Xu Xiaoyan: We can add friends in the livestream now?] [Ning Rongrong: What does "add friend" mean?]
Just as Ning Rongrong was puzzling over it, a friend request arrived from Xu Xiaoyan.
Ning Rongrong: "??"
What was this now?
Without hesitation, Ning Rongrong accepted.
Once she accepted Xu Xiaoyan's request, a new, smaller chat box appeared beneath the main chat window.
[Xu Xiaoyan: Hello! Hello!]
Ning Rongrong saw the message, thought for a moment, and asked:
[Ning Rongrong: Hello. How is this different from the livestream's chat box?]
Xu Xiaoyan stared at the message. "???"
Isn't this just a normal friends feature? How does she not get it?
Though confused, Xu Xiaoyan explained it to her.
[Xu Xiaoyan: Of course it's different! Only the two of us can see messages here. Everyone can see what you say in the livestream chat!] [Xu Xiaoyan: Don't you know about the friends feature on Communication Soul Tools?] [Ning Rongrong: No.]
Xu Xiaoyan froze at Ning Rongrong's answer. *Is she really from the same era as me? She doesn't even know what a