16: Chapter 016: A Fifteen-Second Dance Shocks the Entire Internet

Yan Yu successfully added Guan Heng on WeChat, and the original-quality video was sent to her phone.

But she didn't need to post it herself at all.

The more than 30,000 viewers in the livestream had already shared the screen recordings.

Some quick-handed editing bloggers directly cut out the conversation and countdown at the beginning and end, keeping only the segment where Su Chen started with the music and ended with a snap of his fingers.

A full fifteen seconds.

This fifteen-second video directly detonated the entire internet.

...

Douyu Livestreaming Platform.

PDD, a tens-of-millions-level gaming streamer, was playing ranked matches.

The character he was controlling had just been ganked to death in the middle lane, and the screen turned grayscale.

Old Piao picked up the thermos cup beside him, took a sip of water, and glanced at the chat assistant widget on the side.

The entire screen was filled with the exact same sentence.

[Teacher Piao, stop feeding! Go watch the fifteen-second divine moment!]

[Search for "Fifteen-Second Divine Moment" on Douyin! You'll regret it for the rest of your life if you don't watch it!]

[Your positioning isn't even worth a single hair of Su Chen's—go raid his room already!]

[Why aren't you capitalizing on such high hype? Were you possessed by someone else?!]

[...]

Old Piao put down the thermos and scratched his belly.

"What fifteen-second divine moment? A newly released game cinematic?"

He tabbed out of the game screen, opened the web version of Douyin, and typed those five characters directly into the search bar.

He pressed the Enter key.

The video ranked first had already broken 800,000 likes, and the number was still jumping crazily.

"Damn, is the hype really this high?"

"Who on earth is this?"

Normally, streamers from their own platform were not allowed to broadcast things from competing platforms. However, PDD was massive in scale, and coupled with Douyu's decline, they could no longer control these streamers. As long as you were still on their platform, everything else had to be left to take its course.

PDD fearlessly clicked open the video.

Inside the video was a man wearing a gray short-sleeved shirt.

Heavy bass drumbeats sounded.

The man's chest suddenly vibrated, followed by three consecutive ultra-fast isolations of his shoulders and hips, and finally, a current of energy conducted from his fingertips all the way down to his ankles.

The movements were clean and crisp.

There was not a single superfluous shake.

Finally freezing with a finger snap, the man's gaze was indifferent.

Old Piao's mouth widened, and the mouse in his hand slid straight to the edge of the desk.

"Holy shit."

The two words slipped out of his mouth.

Old Piao didn't understand dance at all; he couldn't even do broadcast calisthenics properly.

But he could understand visual impact.

This explosive sense of power directly broke through the limits of the screen and smashed into his face.

"Did this brother stuff a motor in his chest?" Old Piao pointed at the screen, his voice rising, "Is this fu*king a movement a human can make? This point of force application is way too exaggerated!"

The chat in the livestream instantly filled the screen.

[Teacher Piao is dumbfounded too!]

[This is called muscle control! Do you understand the gold content here?!]

[Hahaha, when I saw it back then, I was even more shocked than Shao Zhu!]

[This brother is a brick mover! Would you dare believe it?]

[...]

Seeing the chat, Old Piao's eyes widened even more.

"A brick mover? Don't mess with me. If this guy is a brick mover, those who dance Street Dance in the country can directly go into the factory to screw nuts."

Old Piao dragged the progress bar back directly and watched it again.

He watched it five times in a row.

There were also some netizens who had just watched it but didn't understand how impressive it was.

"With this expression and movement, if this isn't a professional dancer, I'll eat this table right now!"

[Shao Zhu is trying to get free food and drinks again.]

[Pay back what you owed before first.]

[There is video evidence; not only has he moved bricks, but he has also fed pigs and farmed land...]

[F*ck! The video I just went to check out is real!!!]

[...]

PDD was dumbfounded.

He completely didn't believe that this man had also moved bricks, but looking at the chat in the livestream...

There was actually video evidence for this matter???

PDD subconsciously clicked open the search and typed the keywords in.

The resulting videos shocked his worldview.

"F*ck! F*ck!!"

PDD grabbed his head with both hands: "It's actually real!!! This guy is too fake, right? How can a brick mover's movements be this awesome???"

[Hahaha, PDD got scared!]

[What's so special about this? It's not like they don't exist on Douyin.]

[Bullshit! Although those workers on Douyin dance well, they're just better than us. Compared to real professionals, they get completely crushed, okay? But look at this guy named Su Chen; how many professionals have come out to judge him now? That's the gap!]

[Hiss~~ Now that you mention it, it really seems to be the case!]

[Wuwuwu, are even brick-moving jobs this cutthroat now? What are we civil engineering majors going to do in the future!~~]

[As fellow civil engineering bros, let's encourage each other!~]

[...]

...

The exact same scene was happening in major livestreams.

Hua Xiaolong, a million-follower Big V in the fitness section, was co-hosting a livestream for teaching.

Fans were frantically spamming the screen, asking him to analyze Su Chen's muscle force exertion.

Tie Nannan watched the video once, and his expression turned extremely serious.

He directly paused the video, dragged the progress bar frame by frame, and pointed at the muscle contours of Su Chen's chest and shoulders.

"Look at this," Tie Nannan used a red pen to circle the location on the screen. "When ordinary people do chest pops, they rely on the spine to drive the chest cavity forward and backward. But he doesn't."

"His spine didn't move at all. He solely relied on the instantaneous contraction of his pectoralis major and intercostal muscles to create this explosive sensation."

[Brother Long talks with great logic, but the guy used to be a brick mover!~]

[Yeah, Brother Long, a brick mover's physique is even better than yours. Doesn't that sting?]

[Haha, has Brother Long's Dao heart shattered again?!~]

[...]

Tie Nannan clutched his head with both hands and shouted.

"Impossible."

"Without more than ten years of extreme targeted training, muscle separation simply cannot reach this level. This requires an extremely low body fat percentage and extremely strong neural control."

"You're telling me he usually carries cement at the construction site?"

"This is simply too outrageous!"

From this day on, Hua Xiaolong's Dao heart shattered once more.

...

The long-absent female streamer from the beauty section, Daimoer, blushed directly.

Cupping her cheeks, she stared at the screen showing Su Chen freezing with a finger snap, her eyes sparkling with infatuation.

"This temperament is absolute. That casual yet arrogant-to-the-heavens feeling is something those heavily edited male stars in the Chinese Entertainment Industry simply cannot compare to."

"Family members, who has his WeChat? I'll offer ten Super Fires as a bounty for his contact info!"

...

Gaming bloggers, fitness Big Vs, comedy bloggers, beauty streamers—

major traffic nodes across all circles on the entire internet were all hard-controlled by these fifteen seconds.

People who usually didn't pay attention to the dance circle at all stepped into the fray to repost and comment.

The data increment brought by cross-industry traffic generation was extremely terrifying.

Eight o'clock in the evening.

The short-video platform's trending search list refreshed on time.

The entry #Fifteen-Second Divine Moment# directly airdropped from outside the top fifty into the tenth place on the trending search list!

Furthermore, its ranking was climbing upward at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Ninth place.

Seventh place.

Fourth place!

Clicking into the entry, it was entirely filled with that fifteen-second unedited performance video.

In just three hours, the view count directly broke through three million.

The comment section completely fell.

[The whole internet is looking for this man!]

[I watched the fifteen seconds 130 times, and I simply can't stop.]

[I heard he also casually taught five delinquent youths, completely transforming those five people in just three hours.]

[I also checked out the Bengshan Brothers' account, and those five guys are acting all arrogant and cocky now, all thanks to the foundation Su Chen laid for them.]

[Who on earth can dig out this deity?!]