Chapter 26: Iceberg and Chūdīn (Part 2)

  The riverbank's Jiang wind, moist and humid, the riverside path resting area is lush with trees, wafting with a refreshing scent. Although the air is still some distance from the clarity of nature in the mountains, it is also a rare quiet place in this bustling city...

  Muzi Qiu spent the whole day practicing dance at DSP, and only returned home at 5 pm to cook for Lee Hyori. After dinner, he put on the clothes carefully selected by "Mi Qi Jie" - a pair of high-top sneakers with a low heel, and headed to the grassy area where they occasionally practiced dancing. Lee Hyori had already taken away his large black-framed glasses, leaving Muzi Qiu feeling a bit disoriented. Without the glasses, he felt uncomfortable walking out the door, with his bangs covering half of his eyebrows and a few strands of hair covering his eyes, causing an itch that made him feel even more uneasy.

  "I should have let Miki sister cut this fringe earlier." Jin Xiao Yuan had not arrived yet, Mu Zi Qiu was leaning against the railing, gazing out at the bustling riverbank on the other side, the colorful lights dazzling his eyes; the river breeze blew through his hair, his fringe constantly touching his eyelashes, making him pucker up his mouth and blow it away.

  "Hey, I'm here!" Jin Xiaoyuan rushed over and plopped down on the grass, a thin layer of sweat slowly emerging from her forehead under the dim streetlight.

  Muzi Qiu was very strange, she didn't say what time to come or go, why was she in such a hurry, "what's the rush?"

  "I don't know either! I just found out that someone was following me and I'm afraid they're a bad person, so I ran over here! You, you look handsome today!"

  “……”

  "Let me take a break, we'll start again later! I've been practicing hard for tonight's match for a whole week, I don't want to lose because of exhaustion!"

  "Anyway, that one, beginner, have you found your best dance yet?"

  "Found it! I have a very clever friend and I just asked her one sentence, she helped me find the answer!"

  "What's your best dance?" Such a simple question, do you still need to think carefully? A person's energy is always limited, and being scattered will never be as good as being specialized! Like myself, I only learned two types of dances. My singing skills were taught by Yu Zhuoxuan, and in order to find time to learn these things, he often skipped school. Of course, in order to get first place in school, books still had to be read...

  "Hip hop and popping!" This time, Kim Hyo-yeon was very certain!

  "Hip hop? I only know some basic dance steps, and there are only two kinds of dances that I'm good at, popping."

  "Are these two styles all you're good at? If I said I wanted to have a freestyle match last time, could you beat me?"

  "If you were only competing with these two dances in freestyle, you would win."

  ……

  "Damn it, Kim Cho-rong! Running so fast!" Yuri was far away on a long bench, leaning against the chair, panting heavily. She just wanted to quietly follow Kim Hyo-yeon out to see that mysterious person, but unexpectedly, Kim Hyo-yeon ran so fast, and Yuri, who was following from afar, couldn't even call out to her.

  "Is she really here to dance? The two of them look more like they're on a date! That Hatsu guy, he's clearly on a date with a handsome guy and yet he lied to me about coming to dance!" From afar, Yuri only saw the blurry silhouettes of the two people, one standing by the railing and the other sitting on the grass, looking just like a couple who had gotten tired from strolling around and were taking a break.

  "I'd like to see what this guy who can't forget me has become!" After calming down, Yuri carefully and stealthily approached the two who were still chatting...

  ……

  "Alright, the other day I found a popping move online. Although I'm not very proficient at it yet, I think it's much better than the one you danced for the first time. Let's get started!" Feeling that his physical strength had recovered to about 80%, Jin Xiaoyuan couldn't wait to start tonight's dance battle.

  No music, no accompaniment, Kim Hyo-yeon's body started like a robot, starting the popping she had practiced for a week. This morning, she was still stuck on the first tilt step, and after thinking for a long time, she found a solution - not to jump, but to replace it with another step! So, she added a segment of popping from Jang Woo-hyuk's masked dance as the starting point of this dance...

  The twisting of the neck and shoulders is different, this difference makes it seem like Kim Hyo-yeon's body has been disassembled, with muscles that are constantly frozen in place, creating a series of shocks. The popping force and technique are all incorporated into this short opening sequence. Then, Kim Hyo-yeon starts to dance to the song she found online...

  "Wait, Jin Cho-ding!" Mu Zi Qiu had not noticed anything special about the dance that Kim Hyo-yeon was performing at first. He also recognized that one segment was Zhang Yu-he's mask dance. However, this next segment, just a single step, he suddenly realized was the same dance he had been practicing yesterday and today!

  "What's wrong?" Jin Xiaoyuan stopped his body from shaking and looked at Muzi Qiu with confusion.

  "Is this segment something you learned from a video uploaded by a black teenager named LeSEA (pronounced "Ray-suh") on YouTube, which only people in the group would understand?"

  "It seems so, I found this dance on YouTube and the person dancing is also black, how did you know?"

  "I'm also planning to dance this tonight! By the way, what about that initial incline?"

  "My physical strength is not enough, I couldn't jump high, so I borrowed a part from the masked dance."

  "I also couldn't jump out, so I've modified it too, you continue!"

  "Great!" Jin Xiaoyuan didn't expect that this guy with an unknown name would also be performing the same dance tonight! Jin Xiaoyuan seriously practiced the next part of the dance, which actually wasn't very visually appealing but had high technical requirements. The misalignment and twisting of the shoulders, waist, and knees were extremely frequent, although it was less impressive to watch, it required great skill. "I've finished, now quickly tell me how you modified that leaning move!"

  "Wow, the back jump is great! I modified it by lowering the angle of the front tilt and adding a mechanical shake like in popping. Like this!" Mokuzi Aki's right foot slightly opens up in front, hands forming a circle, with about 20 degrees of tilt leaning forward slightly, "Because I lowered the degree of the front tilt, it became very simple, but starting this dance step was a bit insufficient, so I added vibration." After finishing speaking, Mokuzi Aki's waist and shoulders exert force, shaking her body, while her lower body doesn't move at all.

  "How's this? I've modified it like this."

  "Your starting move is still insufficient, try again in reverse!" Kim Hyo-yeon immediately imitated Mokja's movement and did it once, then reversed and did it again.

  "Hmm, it seems much more complete!" Muzi Qiu had only started practicing this dance from yesterday, and being able to think of modifying the forward lean was already quite good. "How about we add some wave movements and try it out?" Influenced by Jin Xiaoyuan, Muzi Qiu continued to think about revising the starting part of the dance.

  "Wave?" Jin Xiaoquan looked at Muzi Qiu, who after two small inclines, turned his body straight, with both hands held flat and stretched out. Starting from the tip of his left hand, a current of electricity flowed through to the tip of his right hand, his body also twisting continuously along with this flow of electricity.

  "Your wave is really strong! Then I'll add a segment of the masked dance!" As for dancing, Kim Hyo-yeon always had an extraordinary sense of pride. If he could join in the dance steps, she certainly could too!

  "Popping machine!"

  "Beat your chest!"

  "Girls shaking their breasts look good, how about boys?"

  "I didn't want you to learn it in the first place!"

  "Alright then, I'll add you..."

  What Jin Xiaoyuan thought was a dance representing self-respect had slowly degenerated into a choreographed game of energy, with the two occasionally bursting out in laughter as they came from the grass...

  Jin Xiaoyuan and Mu Zi Qiu, two people, one you and one me, unknowingly, it seems that the entire dance has been compiled, without the popping dance steps from the online video, completely two people, one point each, randomly adding different dance steps to piece together.

  "Hey, this dance seems like it's ending soon? Want to go through it together?"

  "Alright!" Before he knew it, Muzi Qiu had completely lost his cold demeanor and couldn't help but chuckle as he gazed at Jin Xiaoyuan, who was also drenched in sweat. This girl truly lived up to her reputation as a beginner, having argued with him over dance steps, and yet he found himself arguing back at her too! Hehe, if they hadn't argued, how would they have come up with this choreography?

  "1, 2, start!" As soon as Kim Hyo-yeon finished counting, the two of them tacitly started jumping from the beginning with the segment they had just compiled. It was okay at first, but when they got to the middle, either Hyo-yeon forgot the dance steps or Muzi Qiu forgot the dance steps. After an hour of slow grinding...

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  This dance at the age of ten was not created by me. Where can I find this dance to watch? Of course, after joining the group, it's also possible to know...