306 Looking Back in the Pas (1/2)

Chapter 306: Looking Back in the Past

Translator: Nyoi-Bo StudioEditor: Nyoi-Bo Studio

After combing his hair, Zhang Zian also adjusted his collar and sleeves. He looked so refreshed, as if he was going to appear on TV.

Zhao Qi was really embarrassed by him. Luckily, other than them, there was no one in the pet shop, or she would really have pretended that she didn’t know this person.

Song Bai unfastened a shoulder bag from his back, and pulled out a strange-looking thing from inside, which Zhang Zian had never seen before. It kind of looked like a selfie stick, but was much shorter, and much fancier.

”What is this?” asked Zhang Zian curiously.

”A handheld pan-tilt-zoom (PTZ) device,” explained Song Bai, ”To enhance stability when capturing videos.”

”Oh,” Zhang Zian asked Zhao Qi, ”Have you seen it before?”

”No,” Zhao Qi shook her head.

”Buddy, you are really professional,” admired Zhang Zian sincerely.

The only network anchor he knew was Snowy, who usually held a mobile phone and a selfie stick to record videos. Compared to Song Bai, who was using a digital camera and a handheld PTZ, Snowy was just too much of an amateur. But the amount of tipping and rewards that Snowy received from her viewers during live broadcasts…Gee, what an envy of all!

”No, I’m not.” said Song Bai modestly, ”These are very common devices for vloggers.”

Song Bai adeptly put his digital camera and handheld PTZ together. He raised his camera, lens aiming at himself, smiled and said, ”Hello, everyone!”

”Cut!” Zhang Zian drew a pausing gesture, ”Why are you speaking English?”

”Because I am going to upload the video to YouTube, which is accessible to audiences all over the world, so of course I should speak English,” explained Song Bai.

”Well... then…is it okay that I don’t speak English?” Zhang Zian clearly showed that he was poor in English.

”It doesn’t matter, I'll add English subtitles to our dialogues before the final rendering anyways,” said Song Bai. He paused, and then continued embarrassedly, ”But you’d better not expect too much, because few people usually watch my vlogs.”

Compared with live broadcasting, one of the advantages of vlogging was that vloggers could add subtitles to their videos later so that their content could transcend linguistic boundaries and people around the world could watch and understand the videos.

Zhang Zian held up a young black Dragon-Li among the kittens and brought it in front of Song Bai, ”You can start shooting now, just turn off the flashlight.”

The Dragon-Li kitten was very lively and energetic. It kept struggling and wriggling in Zhang Zian's arms, with its four small paws stroking forwards, like it was swimming. Its body bent like a bow, showing a good waist and abdomen strength. With its yellow-green eyes wide open, it was staring curiously at Song Bai’s camera lens, sticking out a small forepaw and trying to touch it.

Zhang Zian quickly pulled it back a little bit before its paw almost rubbed the lens.

”Is your camera all right?” he asked. Zhang Zian heard that camera lenses were very expensive. Some might even cost tens of thousands of RMB. If the cat really had left some scratches on the lens, how many Dragon-Li cats would he have to sell before he could compensate for the damage?