Chosen Evolution: I can load the protagonist template

Chapter 865: Tian's Ambition: Establishing a Base for Collecting Old Games

The Chosen Space has indeed become the focus of Cheng Tian's life, but he still needs to deal with and pay attention to things in the real world from time to time.

As mentioned briefly before, Cheng briefly gained popularity because of his life-size sugar sculpture. Whether from the perspective of gaining attention and traffic or from any other angle, he became the focus of discussion in the gaming community during that period.

It even led to Bazett being dragged into the discussion more than once.

Cheng Tian didn't care at all. Moreover, he knew the nature of the internet well. Even if you became a sensation, as long as you didn't have any other big projects to follow and didn't have any scandals, you would quickly fade back into obscurity and return to a peaceful life.

That's exactly how Cheng Tian handled it – by giving it the cold shoulder.

With his sugar sculptures, Igniz cosplay costumes, and real-life Bazett becoming wildly popular, people quickly began to "open boxes" (i.e., investigate Cheng Tian's past) of his work.

For modern people, even if they don't show their faces in public, they will still leave various traces, let alone Cheng Tian, ​​who sells sugar paintings at a stall.

Whether it's pure malice or disguised as goodwill, in this diverse world of humanity, there will always be people who can't stand others, so they started trying to find dirt on Cheng Tian.

Hey~ Guess what? They couldn't dig it up!

Background? An orphan who only had to worry about himself!

Background? Just some old, smelly man who's a master of intangible cultural heritage!
Livelihood? Before the beginning of the year, I was still regularly selling sugar paintings at my stall!

Consumer philosophy? Saving money brings happiness! Consumerism, get out!

Entertainment? I don't smoke or drink, it's all games!

Although Cheng Tian has been online for many years, it is clear that he has his own way of thinking. However, it is almost impossible to find any messages from him online, whether in posts, comments, or bullet comments. He only posts about 10 times a year, and they are mostly meaningless. He is a typical example of the "silent majority".

Moreover, the most frequent comment was "May good people have a peaceful life!"—something everyone understands.

Even if you wanted to smear them, it would be hard to find any fault with them.

It's worth mentioning that when these people discovered that Cheng Tian had rented a house in Tianjin just to enjoy playing old-fashioned arcade games, spending every day in the arcade from opening to closing, without doing live streams or making videos of himself playing, they knew that there was really nothing more to dig up from Cheng Tian.

Oh! No, wait! There's another big problem!

How did this guy, who's a complete shut-in except for selling sugar paintings and only likes playing video games, end up with that short-haired beauty who seems to have jumped out of a computer screen?!
Is the knowledge hidden in those corners of the internet really useful?!
If we had to find a suspicious point, it would probably be the Batmobile that appeared briefly and never actually left the frame...

In short, although Cheng Tian managed to keep a low profile as he wished, he left an even more mysterious impression in certain special circles.

In particular, after the game O-learning that they had collaborated on once went viral, they tried to contact Cheng again to continue their collaboration. However, Cheng's attention was drawn to the space and he didn't pay much attention to it. As a result, they actually came to Cheng again.

Although the old man, who wanted to keep up with the trend but could never quite catch up, was a little confused, he was genuinely happy when he heard that his suddenly mysterious apprentice had successfully spread intangible cultural heritage and that he had also seen a video of Cheng making sugar sculptures with the help of others. Although he was unwilling to admit it, he was actually quite happy inside.

It was for Cheng Tian's sake, and also for the sake of cultural preservation. It was because of this incident that he realized why there had been a sudden surge in people inquiring about learning sugar painting recently.

Even if most people are just enthusiastic for a short time, it doesn't matter. The fact that this gradually disappearing craft can be known to more people again has already given the old man a lot of comfort.

The internet is truly amazing.

When Cheng, the unfilial disciple, got through to his master on the phone, he unsurprisingly received a new invitation, which was a combination of work and travel, but required him to go abroad.

I'm going to the neighboring island nation to attend the Tokyo Game Show.

Mr. Cheng immediately stood at attention!
If you say it's just a regular comic convention, Cheng Tian really isn't interested; that one event was already quite exciting.

But if you mention a game expo, Cheng Tian gets all excited.

He had even prepared to secretly fly there if he couldn't get there through normal means... *cough*
Now, Cheng truly deserves to be a citizen of the motherland.

However, the more unrestrained he is in the Chosen One instance, the more orderly he is in reality, because only an orderly source Earth can continuously generate materials for the Chosen One instance.

Cheng Tian accepted the invitation and brought Bazett along. After sending out the materials, he began preparing for the trip.

Aside from the game expo itself, this invitation was actually a prelude.

As the country with the most developed gaming industry and an independent system for secondhand recycling, Japan has a large number of secondhand shops, especially for old games and consoles.

There are quite a few physical stores that are comparable to museums in terms of their collection of antique items, similar to Tianjin XX Bear.

Thinking about this, Cheng Tian even felt a little anxious.

As times and industries develop, old things inevitably disappear into the long river of history.

Some went bankrupt and disappeared due to exorbitant rents, while others were burned to the ground due to years of disrepair. It's a matter of time; if you don't go now, it will be very difficult to see them again in the future.

This is an unavoidable tide of the times, which cannot be resisted by human effort alone.

Moreover, Cheng Tian's fondness for old objects is largely due to his childhood nostalgia. If children who are now used to mobile phones were asked to pick up a controller and play games like Contra again, only a minority would be willing to accept it.

Liking something is inherently a very subjective ideology; does that mean we should try to control and dominate others?
Cheng Tian understands this very well, and he would never force others to accept his preferences.

Just as Cheng Tian realized that if he didn't pay attention, the old object would disappear on its own, an almost uncontrollable and intense thought suddenly popped into his mind.

He wants to collect all these old objects that are about to disappear into the annals of history, and build a game collection base that belongs only to him!
(End of this chapter)