In the familiar print shop, Xue Dili took out a black-and-white photo of Uncle Brave.

"Boss, can you laminate this and put it in a solid wood frame, like a photo frame?" Xue Dili said.

"Sure..." The boss took the black-and-white photo, glanced at Xue Dili sideways, and asked, "Is it for a funeral?"

"Yeah." Xue Dili watched as the boss took out a standard wooden frame and started smoothing the edges.

It was hard to tell if it was wax or some kind of insect-repellent oil applied to the frame. Once it solidified, it gave off a solemn and serious color.

"My condolences. You came here last week for something similar. Was that for an elderly person, perhaps your grandfather?"

"It was for the mentor who taught me my skills."

"My condolences..." The boss seemed like he wanted to say some comforting words, but after thinking for a while, he remained hesitant and silent.

Finally, the brand-new, handcrafted solid wood frame was completed. The boss placed the laminated photo inside the frame, carving and coloring white chrysanthemums into the corners.

In this place, white chrysanthemums generally symbolize a farewell to the deceased.

"588, I'll charge you the cost price." The boss didn't intend to make a profit. Considering the prices in Jiang City, this really was just a cost price for a solid wood frame with hand carving and anti-corrosion, insect-proof treatment.

Watching Xue Dili carefully pack up the spiritual image, the boss couldn't help but ask, "Young man, who is this person?"

"An old street uncle, I had a pretty good relationship with him. He didn't have other family, so I'm helping take care of his affairs." Xue Dili's words were half true, half false.

According to himself, this might just be nonsense, and he had been running wildly down the path of a King of Nonsense, unable to stop.

After leaving the print shop, Xue Dili headed to the supermarket.

The first thing to do after saving the world was to go home and buy oil, rice, and vegetables.

There was also the consciousness space; Uncle Brave had drunk more than half of the cola, a bunch of emergency food was mostly gone, and some umbrellas, clothing for changing, white trench coat hoods, and various miscellaneous items needed replenishing.

After organizing the consciousness space, he suddenly felt that it didn't much resemble a space for extraordinary people but rather a small convenience store.

Feeling like he needed a bit of everything, he bought a little of everything, from a large UAV and complete photovoltaic equipment from Da Jiang to packs of tissues and ballpoint pen refills costing a dollar for two packs.

And to be honest, when he went to other worlds, opened his consciousness space, and said, "Do you need goods? My stuff is crafted with top-notch magical techniques, very authentic."

He would be the strongest middleman in history, indeed. If there were troublemakers, summoning the Greek Security Corps could kick out any rogue spirits in no time with ten strikes per second.

If ten strikes per second weren't enough, then the troublemaker must be unusual and would require a hard punch, probably solving the issue with a half-unleashed Savior Holy Sword.

...

At home, beside the shrine, Uncle Brave's memorial was also placed.

An interesting idealistic warrior, it's a pity the idealistic warrior encountered a scam in the Otherworld.

Even the most important communication device was lost, and he never managed to contact headquarters until his death.

This disaster shouldn't have happened; it is said that the emergency communication device used some subspace technology that Xue Dili couldn't understand, which was precious to the point that Uncle Brave would rather risk everything than use it directly.

Unfortunately, the communication device was exiled to an unknown Otherworld. If it could have been used, perhaps the Interstellar Corps could have found a way to preserve Uncle Brave's soul.

Even if he couldn't be resurrected, living in a state similar to the Undead, attached to the Birdman Armor, like he was before, should be no problem.

Even if this idealistic warrior hadn't taught Xue Dili much, Xue Dili still respected him.

At the very least, he learned that there indeed exists a group of people in this cosmos who fight purely for their ideals, needing no reasons and seeking no rewards, appearing wherever there's disaster, consistently and without regret.

Perhaps it's precisely this mindset that gives them unparalleled strength.

Even if the paths are not entirely the same, perhaps he could get along well with those people.

He bought the fourth electronic incense, plugged it in, and placed it before Uncle Brave's memorial.

Their family conditions didn't allow for burning incense continuously, so electronic incense had to do.

...

Five days passed, and sitting in front of the computer, browsing his phone, his inbox was long filled to capacity.

Over these five days, the previous film finally reached a stage of continuous fermentation, and Xue Dili saw the figures on his dashboard, 310 million genuine views...

A bit surreal, although a lot of people watched it twice, three times, or clicked a dozen times just to see a certain scene.

By the way, because he was outed, his account is now virtually equivalent to real-name registration online.

From a modern perspective, he is both the director and main actor of this film, but it's a first-person movie while also handling the function of a camera.

Because of the first-person view issue, this is probably the limit of its popularity, as first-person perspective is far less popular than third-person, and it's impossible to accommodate multi-threaded narrative structures.

The only benefit of the first-person view is that it fits with VR glasses, creating an indescribable immersive experience, resulting in a different kind of authenticity.

This sense of realism leads spectators, when seeing Greek gods and goddesses, to have their lesser head ruling their greater head right there and then.

The Ancient Greek gods, regardless of gender, dressed quite skimpily.

They wore "chitons," which, simply put, were a piece of cloth wrapped from the shoulders to the lower body, with a short skirt added, leaving most of the body exposed.

For goddesses, the exposure was even greater; two slender chitons wrapped around their shoulders and chest, exposing large areas of the collarbone, shoulders, and entire abdomen. And as you know, female chiton attire tended to be rather thin, so in reality, goddesses exposed the eastern hemisphere, western hemisphere, and a vast majority of the northern hemisphere.

With his abs and slightly muscular yet harmonious body, this level of exposure would be 16+ on foreign websites.

And with over three hundred million views now, Xue Dili thinks this might be the limit.

As the original video reached its limit in views, a large number of clip videos, edited videos, and commentary videos unexpectedly became popular.

A random Easter egg analysis video that Xue Dili stumbled upon had seven million views.

And a student of archaeology published a detailed study of the Ancient Greek architecture and costumes depicted in "Celestial Thunder Chronicles," lavishly praising the movie for its immersive restoration of Ancient Greek architecture, minor character details, language, text, symbols of city-states, and beliefs.

Xue Dili: "..."

He did shoot it in Ancient Greece, but it was in the parallel world of Divine Era Greece. Due to different development, it might have quite a few differences from Blue Star's Ancient Greece, uh...

But fame brings trouble, and besides that, he also found a lot of criticism aimed at this movie and himself.

Things like exposure, catering to tastes, objectification comments, leading to low ratings for his free movie on various review sites.

Xue Dili could only helplessly spread his hands like a bear.

Exposing was a habit of Ancient Greece, perhaps due to Zeus, that Old Deng's XP system, where both men and women wore minimal clothing, making it easy on his eyes.

As for objectification and pandering... go talk to Old Deng Zeus about it.

Just don't come back with a sore butt or a big belly after meeting Old Deng Zeus.

Ignoring the blood and thunder on the internet, he looked at the trending list:

1. A professor from Zhongguan Village Vocational College severely criticizes "Celestial Thunder Chronicles" for being historically disrespectful and pandering to the crowd.

2. Mr. Wang freely performs his new song "Autumn" on stage.

...

Wow, Mr. Wang got bumped off the headline again, so brutal!

As for that professor's criticism, he didn't pay it much attention either.

Glancing over the recent news and the response to "Celestial Thunder Chronicles," it seemed to be caught in mixed reviews domestically, but on foreign sites, audience reviews were almost unanimously positive, though media reviews were mixed.

During the days when he was away, Hollywood released a super hero blockbuster, with the protagonist being a black auntie.

As expected, it flopped, and then a ton of comments came back to Celestial Thunder Chronicles beneath, to cleanse their eyes with the Goddess of Beauty and Hera.

Ha, those people controlled by their other head.

Xue Dili opened the editing software, ready to start cutting the next film.

But this time the journey is a bit different because it's crossing to another world, not a fixed point in history, so the prequel is important.

But this time, he doesn't plan to push himself into overclocking mode, instead slowly editing and properly making a trailer.

He pushed the timeline to the back again and saw that hard-to-stifle scene with his old friends.

Emm, turned out back then they charged so eagerly, so recklessly, each looking so noble and selfless, disregarding life and death…

But if you carefully strip away the audio, you can hear them all desperately trying to grab screen time.

Some even started to get angry because others were trying to steal their spotlight, and some wanted to die in the coolest, most eye-catching, and heroic way.

Xue Dili once again showed the metro, prison, phone.JPG expression.

Indeed, he didn't mishear yesterday; these guys' fiery and storming posture was to steal screen time, to go down most heroically.

Well, in the real world "gaining followers"…

Xue Dili seemed to see a group of actors desperately fighting for the spotlight in front of the camera, struggled to hold back, but couldn't.

Forget it, cut the original audio and content, but these could be turned into a little behind-the-scenes blooper reel to make everyone laugh.

The Greeks value their fame more than anything…

Given this, let's cut a trailer and funny blooper reel to warm things up first.

...

That night, a video named "Celestial Thunder Chronicles 2 - Hero vs. Demon King (Trailer)" was released on international websites, the same account, familiar update time, at this moment, countless bored foreign netizens exploded.

The summoning of the otherworld, the cool Elf Maiden, the clingy Princess of the Kingdom, and the horror of insect organs emerging from underneath human skin.

Amid the rain, a grand escape, amidst the storm, the Demon King descends.

Finally, a duel with the Evil God at sunset, and the scene that even Xue Dili couldn't keep a straight face for.

"Don't steal my shot!"

"We agreed, I would sacrifice myself in the most heroic image, don't block my shot from behind."

"Don't say more, let's duel, the camera is ruthless, only the victor can snatch the screen time!"

A group of Greek heavies, fighting for the spotlight amidst the sea of flames.

"Celestial Thunder Chronicles 2 - Hero vs. Demon King," to be released for free in two days, stay tuned.

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