That day, people on the foreign internet who had followed Xue Dili's account were bored, scrolling through TikTok.
"France's beauty contest champion announced, a contestant weighing 200 pounds, a black XXXX."
"The third 'Captain Crystal' is released, with a black female actress as the second lead XXX."
"My gender is Long Nose Enterprise!"
"A female weightlifter withdraws from the women's competition due to a cake-related injury..."
Such abstract videos, no matter how much you scroll, just make you feel awkward.
This bunch of foreigners couldn't help feeling cold and shivery on a hot day, questioning themselves, is it really my aesthetics that's the problem? What is happening to this world? Is there no normal aesthetic anymore?
Can't take it anymore, let's go look at the Goddess of Beauty and the Queen from Celestial Thunder Chronicles to cleanse the eyes.
However, when he casually flipped to the next video, the big title 'Celestial Thunder Chronicles 2 - Hero Fights the Demon' appeared before him.
"Don't tell me it's another low-quality AI-generated scam video," the foreigner scoffed.
Recently, there have been many videos riding the hype of Celestial Thunder Chronicles. If it's those cosplay videos, he would agree with both legs, but there are plenty of low-effort videos using Celestial Thunder Chronicles 2's name to bait clicks.
But this time, the first scene was an Otherworld under the moon, featuring a scantily-clad real-life young elf girl.
No good! It's the feeling of excitement!
All this seemed real; the little head wouldn't lie.
Then scene after scene of the Otherworld unfolded, and he was completely immersed, but suddenly, the young girl peeled off her skin and became a bug. This scene was as shocking and terrifying as discovering the goddess is Zeus after dropping your pants!
Zeus even flashed right behind you!
And then, he seriously watched the footage, and laughed out loud at the comedic behind-the-scenes at the end, with the title 'Celestial Thunder Chronicles 2 - Hero vs. Demon King' appearing.
He immediately went to the comments section, and sure enough, within just a few minutes, the comments had exceeded ten thousand.
But most of the comments were...
"Did Xediles betray the married-woman cult? What happened to the beautiful Goddess and Hera from before?"
"Xediles, damn it, this second part is full of girls whose chests are not even as big as mine, it's amazing!"
"Any boys?"
"Where did the priest come from!"
"Enough, when is the crew releasing the costume collection, take my money! Hurry up, take my money!"
...
In an instant, the foreign internet's buzz spiked again.
It's just a promotional video, not even the full movie, and those who were fed up were excited once more.
The goddesses in the Greek chapter were all married, big wave women, but this time all the female characters were sweet lolis.
In reality, viewers are quite forgiving of films; all they want is attractive men and women in bearable stories.
But now, they even long to see a character in a show with a normal gender and not-so-dark skin, which seems like a luxury.
And in such an environment, Xue Dili's self-edited short film seemed to provide them with an outlet.
They just wanted to tell Hollywood and all the idiots of the world, they like blonde big waves!
So, this promotional video quickly attracted a large number of shares, and this time Xue Dili didn't even pay for promotions, yet the promotional video and behind-the-scenes-style video were soaring with terrifying numbers of tens of thousands of concurrent viewers.
In just one night, it reached tens of millions of views.
Countless people worldwide are eagerly awaiting the free upload of 'Celestial Thunder Chronicles 2'.
To them, two days felt like two years of torment.
...
At this time, our "big star" Xue Dili, under the strange gazes of countless classmates, entered the classroom with dead fish eyes, sunglasses, and a mask.
"Xue Dili," the teacher called.
"Present..." he answered weakly.
In an instant, all eyes in the class turned to him.
Xue Dili had no choice but to turn his dead fish eyes toward the ceiling under his sunglasses.
This was not the college life he imagined...
That little brat with innate wickedness who opened the box...
Don't let me find you, or a big Greek man will humiliate you.
But fortunately, because the military training was only half a day, skipping the best opportunity to meet classmates, he had no impression of most of them, so he could easily isolate everyone.
And today's first class was taking the Hippocratic Oath under the statue.
Because disaster medicine was really unpopular, there were only three people in Xue Dili's grade, so all three of them blended into the clinical medicine class.
After all, most of the time, the disaster medicine major is not much different from clinical medicine, except disaster medicine has a small part of its curriculum to be learned from the teachers in the neighboring fire department.
After completing the first lesson of the school year, Xue Dili could finally put on his mask and sunglasses again under everyone's gaze.
However, the second class...
"Student, where is your textbook?" the bald teacher asked.
"Textbook?" Xue Dili kept rummaging through his backpack, while also sneakily observing the Consciousness Space.
Where did my Introduction to Ideological and Political Education textbook go?
This course, officially called "Ideological and Moral Cultivation and Legal Foundation," is the first political course in university.
However, at this moment, Xue Dili was sweating profusely.
Oh no, I think I gave my textbook to Fafnir and even asked her to memorize it entirely...
No, I also gave her my Ma Yuan textbook!
"I'll let you off this time, but if you forget your book next time, I'll have to deduct your marks," the political teacher said disgruntledly.
Xue Dili: "..."
The textbooks for Introduction to Ideological and Political Education and Ma Yuan at Ke University aren't standardized; the teachers compile them themselves.
Which means there's nowhere to buy them...
Even asking senior students for help, he had no idea where to start.
At this moment, the classmate next to him nudged him with his elbow, a skinny boy who seemed to be one of his roommates from the military training.
"These days, a lot of seniors in their final year hold a flea market over at the East Campus playground, the same place we had our military training. They sell some second-hand goods; you might try looking there for the textbook," the skinny classmate suggested.
"Oh, thanks!" Xue Dili replied gratefully.
"By the way, any inside scoop on the sequel of Celestial Thunder Chronicles?" His glasses were practically reflecting light, and he looked eagerly at Xue Dili.
"Don't get your hopes up; it's just a cliché story about a Hero battling the Demon King," Xue Dili said casually.
He had genuinely forgotten that he'd already tossed his textbooks to Fafnir. Then yesterday, he was too busy cleaning up the Consciousness Space and editing videos, and came to school without checking the schedule.
He thought all his textbooks were in the Consciousness Space, and that he could simply pick whatever book he needed for each class. Who knew... it was Introduction to Ideological and Political Education...
After enduring the morning classes, he was suddenly stopped by the department head.
"Xue Dili, come over for a chat,"
"Me?" Xue Dili pointed at himself, puzzled.
In the department head's office, the old gentleman even poured him a cup of hot water.
"Are you working with a foreign crew on a film?" The head got straight to the point.
"Uh, sort of," Xue Dili answered, holding the paper cup.
"You know, in these situations, the school should support you. But your major is disaster medicine. Are you considering a transfer by the end of the year? To the media studies department?" the head inquired.
"Not really..." Xue Dili thought it would be better to stay in disaster medicine than transfer to media studies.
Transferring would just be even more of a hassle.
"We're not forcing you; especially for professional courses, I'll make an exception here, but you must at least ensure you pass the political science part of the final exams, that's my only requirement."
"Uh..." Xue Dili didn't expect the department head to be so easy-going.
"If you need time off to shoot, don't bother with the counselor, just come to my office for a leave slip. I'll have them on the cabinet by the door. You can fill in however many days you want, then give it to the counselor."
"Thanks."
Xue Dili wondered why the department head was so accommodating. Logically speaking, Ke University, where the admission score is nearly 700 points, shouldn't be this lenient.
Also, he had only posted a few videos online, didn't even count as an "actor," so why was the school so attentive?
No matter, this way he could balance academics and still visit the Otherworld once in a while without worrying about the purgatory of failed courses six months later.
...
At that moment, on the playground, boys and girls were walking side by side.
Xue Dili held a bottle of soda in his hand.
A few days ago, he had made a bet with Uncle Brave using that soda; the loser would chug a whole can of soda in one go without burping.
Unfortunately, Uncle Brave left without fulfilling the bet.
He glanced at the progress within his consciousness, only a few minutes remained.
"Maybe I should tidy up the Consciousness Space a bit," Xue Dili thought finally.
He organized the piled-up items neatly, placing the Treasure in a separate area; however, the panel and Teleportation Gate couldn't be moved.
But during the tidying, for some reason, Xue Dili found an empty can hidden under the Teleportation Gate, with a note on it.
"I lost the bet; this is the whole can I chugged, but I couldn't help but burp twice."
Written in Uncle Brave's handwriting on the can, looking at the empty soda can, Xue Dili scratched his head and laughed.
He still remembered that joking bet.
Never mind, just keep it.
He planned to fill the can with soil and plant a small plant, maybe a cactus or an aloe vera.
Placing this soda can next to the altar, beside the uncle.
Consider it the last tribute to this idealistic warrior.
At this moment, the countdown reached zero.
Suddenly, Xue Dili felt an enormous shadow appear behind him.
He had to strain to look up and saw an unimaginably terrifying giant beast resembling a "dinosaur"...
No way... why is it something non-human this time?
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