The Rise of Otaku
chapter-170

Edited by Esperanza

It has been two years since the day he got the power, the current size of mini Luhua village was also about to reach a limit, but how to upgrade it, there was no guide or instructions at all, so Zhou Yu could only slowly move forward step by step as if he was feeling the stones across the river.

Speaking of bigger cities, he had also been to quite a few places, there was obviously much more variety of buildings of the ACG world in cities and their levels were much higher. The interesting thing was that in the real world restaurant, there would be an ACG world restaurant, a real-world hotel would have an ACG hotel, and it seemed that the two were closely related.

It made Zhou Yu wonder, if the building of the real-world closed, or was forced to be demolished, would the building of the ACG world suffer from the same disaster? The strange thing was that now there was an amusement park in Luhua village, and there was also a gourmet street, but there were no corresponding street food vendors of the ACG world.

Was it the lack of necessary conditions, or did he need to personally find those vendors? Could it be that only when the real world Luhua village was included in the municipal administrative region, could the mini Luhua village be upgraded?

However, this was just not possible at all. Although the villagers of Mini Luhua needed to be found by him one by one, if it was a city, god knows how long it would take him to find all the citizens. At least, he needed to have a way to increase the number of villagers quickly.

Zhou Yu had thought a lot, but he still couldn’t find a quick way to do it, so he could only care about the present.

To upgrade the animation base, it didn’t require anything more than enough Moe Coins, but the comic studio needed the creative tree, which was already acquired before the peerless Moe battle. At the moment, it was growing under the care of the little farmers.

In Zhou Yu’s yard, originally, there was a beautiful flower bed, however, it was destroyed by Zhou Yu. Then he transferred all the potted plants into his yard and planted all of them directly on the ground. Because they were all Mini plants, so after they were planted, the flower bed now looked like a mini forest.

The farmers, who took care of this area, were those, who liked to take care of trees. Every morning, watching them trim the trees in the small forest, it felt like there was a group of little aliens living there.

The creative tree was also planted here, and unlike the other potted plants, it looked more like a real tree sapling. The fast-handed Wang would come to see the tree every day, but although the creative tree was growing faster than normal saplings, it was not as rapidly as the other potted plants. It seemed like it would take a while to produce the leaves of creativity.

It was not clear what kind of tree the creative tree was, at the moment, but according to how the things normally go in the ACG world, it would probably be a common tree in the real world, but in the ACG world, it would be a very charming and precious tree.

Saying it was charming, was because early this morning, Zhou Yu saw a man standing under the creative tree, playing the guitar and singing a song affectionately, dressed like a minstrel.

Mini Luhua village often had some travelers passing by, but most of them would not stay. They often only offered some strange quests or sold some strange items and then left the village very soon. Those items all looked very strange, and their usage was not clear, but during an important moment, those strange items could save lives. For example, the ‘infinite hourglass’ he used. So Zhou Yu liked to collect those items, even if they might look useless, Zhou Yu would still keep them in the storeroom.

“Won’t a guest from afar come and have a drink?”

After many times of interactions with travelers of the ACG world, Zhou Yu found that it was best to use alcohol as a gift, especially these wanderers, as long as he used those ACG world’s alcohol, they would definitely be attracted, then after eating and drinking, they would give him some quests or show him some items they were selling.

However, this wanderer was not quite the same, he ignored Zhou Yu’s invitation, and continued singing love songs affectionately to the creative tree, which was not completely grown.

‘Er... There is no Juliet living in the tree, and you are not Romeo, why are you singing love songs to a tree.’

The king of thieves was Zhou Yu’s most loyal knight. Seeing this person’s strange behavior, he wanted to approach him to check what happened. If he was trying to steal the creative tree, then he would just put him in jail and punish him to do some soul-searching.

“Stop pretending to be an artistically-minded traveler in front of my lord, otherwise, I’ll still strip you naked, and let you face nature with your true body!”

After all, he had been trapped in the infinite hourglass for too long, so the temper of the king of thieves was a little bit explosive. However, his rogue temperament was very useful for dealing with this type of person.

The affectionate ‘Romeo’ finally stopped and came to Zhou Yu under the angry stare of the king of thieves. He bowed politely and said, “I didn’t expect to see a divine creative tree in such a remote countryside. I’m sorry for my rude behavior earlier. I was lost in its beauty. My name is Oba, I’m a wandering producer. How may I address you?”

“My name is Zhou Yu. This is the 37th king of thieves. But I also don’t know his real name.”

After introducing himself, this guy finally started to behave like other travelers. But after he had eaten and drunk enough, instead of showing his merchandise or giving out quests, he burped and said, “I have been wandering around for a long time, looking for a place to live in. I am most satisfied with the forest and the creative tree here. I hope Mr. Zhou will accept me, this idler, and build a forest hut in the middle of the forest for me.”

Plant a Firmiana tree, and a phoenix will eventually show up. Zhou Yu did not expect that this ancient Chinese proverb was true. (Note)

Producer was an interesting profession. It could make variety shows, guide idols, direct them to the best development path, and it could even help idols to develop their special skills. However, all producers were very arrogant and undisciplined, they were unwilling to bear the burden of hard work like other professions, instead, they only worked when inspiration struck and often made a lot of demands.

In short, it was a profession that was very hard to please.

No wonder Oba would be attracted by the creative tree. It turned out that he lived on creativity. But even though he was already a villager in Luhua village, he was still a ‘wandering producer’, which meant he was not under Zhou Yu’s control.

It was entirely up to him whether he wanted to work or not.

Maybe one day he would feel like doing a big show, or would suddenly want to give some personal intensive training to an idol. On other days, he would just stay in his hut in the forest, or walk in the forest to seek inspiration.

The artistically-minded traveler was indeed troublesome.

Just when Zhou Yu was about to build a forest hut for Oba, the fast-handed Wang came to see the creative tree again. When he saw Oba, his eyes immediately became sharp, as if he had met a lifelong enemy.

“Damn you, parasite, It was clearly me, who noticed this divine tree first, and also me, who accompanies it first, who do you think you are, that you want to take this thing away from me?”

“For such a graceful tree, everyone has a right to chase it. it is not up to you to decide!”

Oba was an artistically-minded person, and the fast-handed Wang was also an artistically-minded martial arts master, so when they met each other, they instantly started to argue with each other.

As the argument escalated, they even started to fight each other. In the forest, they were doing all sorts of ‘crouching tiger hidden dragon’ moves and the fight was so fierce that, it was very hard to tell who would be the winner at the moment.

Seeing the fight, the king of thieves, also became very excited. He said to Zhou Yu, “my lord, do you want me to stop them?”

“No need, when they are tired, they will stop eventually. Let’s go to the gym to practice lance technique first, later on, if Bubu wants to kick my ass, please help me to stop him.”

He, who was already accustomed to the daily fight between Jack and Bubu, did not think that this fight needed to be stopped. Instead, he felt like it was quite nice to see the villagers of the ACG being so energetic.