The Rise of Otaku

Chapter 285: Chapter 285 Before the event

The matter of the spirit beast could be put aside for a moment. Let’s return to the construction of the building of wonder. Now that it was already winter vacation, the long-lost little Rat and other kids had returned home for the Chinese New Year, and as soon as he got home, he ran to the construction site of the building of wonder with a bunch of his old friends. When they saw the building “Vermilion Bird”, their mouths were wide open with amazement.

“Brother Yu, this model is almost taller than a house!”

The little Rat exclaimed in amazement while wanting to touch it. But he was stopped by Zhou Yi, a supervisor, and a live broadcaster at the scene. The significance of this model to the amusement park was extraordinary, so it was impossible to let children play it like before.

Unexpectedly, after the little Rat murmured, “penny-pincher”, they started to watch his live broadcast. They kept running around in front of the camera and doing all kinds of silly actions. This was a construction site. It was very dangerous for them to run around, what if they bumped into something, the entire project might collapse, so Zhou Yi could only take those kids out of the construction site helplessly.

Only during the break time did Zhou Yu see those kids in the rest area again.

Recently, the number of times children of Luhua Village visited the amusement park was the same as before. However, Zhou Yu’s free time became less and less. If he hadn’t kept the little weekend cinema open, probably he wouldn’t have had time to play with children during weekends.

Probably their parents had also told them not to disrupt Zhou Yu while he was working in case they would delay the construction progress. After all, this was a design that was used by the provisional government, and for Luhua village, its significance was far greater than its economic value.

But in fact, Zhou Yu was using every opportunity possible to loaf around during the construction period. It was originally scheduled to be completed in one month, but now one month later, only around 80% of the progress has been completed. Even if he had been beaten up by the beaver and the monkey together once, he still did not make him change much.

Oh well, although he also liked to play Lego and Minecraft, it was a bit too much for him. Especially, he had to repeat the same activities every day. After all, it was not as simple as playing a game. It took a lot of effort to move the materials, not to mention all kinds of installing works. It made his wrist hurt a lot.

“Hey guys, you all got nothing to do during the holidays, right? Later on, report to your Uncle Xiaobao in Zen Villa. This is the old village chief’s instruction.”

As soon as they heard about Zen Villa, many kids showed gloomy faces, only those kids who had left the village to study in the city were confused about who uncle Xiaobao was, and what happened to Zen Villa. After all, they had been there before and it used to be a very interesting place.

In the afternoon, Little Rat finally understood why other kids were having gloomy faces.

They did not need to read Buddhism scriptures in Zen Villa, but they had to memorize Chinese poems in the morning and English words in the afternoon. It was not fun at all. The only interesting activity was learning martial arts. It was just uncle Xiaobao’s face was very cold, and whenever they did not perform a correct move, they would be hit with a long ruler. It made all of them feel that this place was much scarier than the school’s storeroom.

Apart from the old village chief’s instruction, the reason why Zhou Yu was doing this to the children of Luhua village, was because of two important discoveries.

First, Zhou Yu found that the otaku power of Luhua village’s kids was increased much faster than other people. Little Rat’s otaku power was now raised to 5.2. He did not know if it was because of him or if it was because Luhua village was a place that existed between the real world and the ACG world, the kids of Luhua village gradually became otaku as they grew up.

But regardless of the reason, Zhou Yu felt that he needed to take responsibilities, so he must teach those kids lest they would become NEETs.

Second, after becoming the Lord of Luhua City, the eyes of the ACG world actually added another function. But because it was not particularly obvious, he did not notice it before. That was, on every kid, there would be different levels of ‘fantasy fruits’.

This kind of fantasy fruit was very valuable. Each mature fruit could be sold at 200 Cost coins. And its role was to enhance animation, comics, and games’ fantasy element, and increase their literary significance.

Interestingly, there was basically no such fruit on any adults, but there was one exception. If someone could still maintain a young and youthful heart as a child. Regardless they were men or women, as long as they did not lose that heart, there would be fantasy fruits growing on them. The sad thing was that Zhou Yu has already harvested three fantasy fruits from his own body.

The growth rate of fantasy fruits depended on the host’s learning progress, and it did not matter what kind of learning it was. Zhou Yu’s daily learning activities were not a lot, so only a few fruits became mature on his body, but if it was those children, Zhou Yu could harvest almost every month.

Especially for children that were under special training, Zhou Yu was even able to harvest one every week.

The reason why Zhou Yu needed fantasy fruits was because of the throwing embroidered ball event that was going to be held soon. In this event, some big figures of the ACG world would also come to Luhua city. In order to welcome them, he needed some special delicacies. In Luhua City, only fantasy fruit could be regarded as a rare delicacy.

Not only that, but the rainbow dragon ball was actually a living creature. At first, it was only the size of a fist. In the past, people gave away idols because they were poor, and using the rainbow dragon ball already cost people a lot of money, so normally people would not feed the rainbow dragon ball. But Luhua City was different. This was a grand event. If they did not show something impressive, it would not deserve to be called a grant event, so they must feed it until it evolved.

Surprisingly, the food of the rainbow dragon ball actually contained fantasy fruits, and it must eat at least one fruit per meal, which gave Zhou Yu a lot of headaches. It was still okay some time ago. After searching the children in the elementary school, Zhou Yu was barely able to support it. But during the winter vacation, everyone was playing, not a single kid was willing to learn anything. Helplessly, he had to find a way to make those children study.

In order to compensate for those children’s study efforts, after the Vermilion Bird project was completed, they became the first visitors.

After completion, the stadium ‘Vermilion Bird’ was more like a magnificent giant beast, sitting in the amusement park. Through the main gate, little Rat entered Vermilion Bird’s sports ground and looked around. Suddenly, he felt like he was a giant. Moving cautiously inside the stadium, he and other kids were afraid that they might break something.

And the Vermilion Bird stadium also had a second form – concert. With a flip of a switch, a stage could be quickly laid out on the field. The incredible mechanism design made children’s eyes wide open. At night, when all the lights of Vermilion Bird stadium were turned on, and it became even more resplendent and magnificent. Soon, it became another scenic spot of the amusement park.

And in a world invisible to tourists, this building was even more incredible. After the rainbow dragon ball successfully evolved, it hovered in midair above the stadium. The light emitted by it would make people feel like they were in a dream world, it was so wonderful and beautiful.

With such a great effect, the effort of feeding it so many fantasy fruits really did not go to waste.

Anyway, the preliminary preparations for the event were finally over.