The Rise of Otaku

Chapter 45 Missing Person Quest

‘Hmm... It seems like the Quest – The Return Of The Old Dragon King needed to wait for the second architect. But when who knows when the second architect will appear.’

Originally, Zhou Yu was confused about why Beaver couldn’t build a house for them. Since it also lived near the river. The wooden house it built should be fine. But later on, Beaver explained, “although my house was mainly made of wood, some areas required metals and rocks as building foundations. I used to build houses with my senior brother. But one day, he suddenly said that the world was such a big place, he wanted to go out and see the world. Since then he never comes back.”

‘Er... his senior brother was truly something else.’

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Zhou Yu’s flower greenhouse was very popular. Especially amongst the little girls in the village. They would always lean against the tempered glass wall and looked inside. Almost everywhere in brother Yu’s house was free to enter. But the flower greenhouse was always locked. So they could only look at those pretty housing models through the glasses while biting their own fingers.

Maybe those little girls felt that the way that Zhou Yu arrange those housing models were very pretty, so they also took out their housing models from the toy house and began to arrange their own small village, under the banyan tree. However, this type of work requires both patience and skills. Besides, while they were trying to arrange the housing models, many naughty boys would come to their places causing troubles.

On the next day, Zhou Fu also came over to have a look at the completed greenhouse. Although he did not like it, it was indeed very pretty. However, as he turned around and was about to speak to Zhou Yu, he saw the dilapidated house that Zhou Yu lived in, it instantly made him speechless. He did not know what Zhou Yu was thinking at all. If he had money, why didn’t he fix his own house first? Spending so much money on a flower greenhouse and placing it next to an old house? No matter how he looked at this yard, it was extremely weird.

“Boy Yu, it is time to refurbish your house as well. Before elder Li left, he told me that if you want to build a new house as well, he will give you a discount.”

Hearing what Zhou Fu said, Zhou Yu gritted his teeth and went back to his room to get the new housing model, “uncle Fu, how much do you think a house like this will cost? Are 90 thousand Chinese Yuan enough?”

The carpenter beaver’s design was definitely the best. However, it would cost him a lot of money if he really wanted to build one. Although Zhou Yu did not know about the exact price, he was sure that 90 thousand Chinese Yuan were definitely not enough.

Seeing the model, Zhou Fu was shocked.

It was so pretty!

Not only the house was pretty, but the whole scenery in the entire yard also could be clearly seen. It was just like a tiny mansion with a small garden. With all kinds of beautiful decorative landscapes laid out in the yard, it even made Zhou Fu also want one as well. However, if Zhou Yu wanted to make the real house look exactly like the model, 90 thousand Chinese Yuan was definitely not enough.

“Boy Yu, wanting to build this kind of house is a good thing. As long as you work hard, uncle believes that you will definitely be able to build this kind of pretty house. Our village does not have any beautiful landscapes, if you really built one, then this will be our village’s landscape.”

Zhou Fu liked the housing model a lot. His life had already settled down now. It was time for him to enjoy his life. If he could build a house like this, then he would have no regrets in his life. However, he had heard from his old classmate elder Li said that the cost of designing a new house would not be cheap. Especially for the good architects like Boy Yu’s friend.

Having thought it repeatedly, he could not help but ask, “Boy Yu, could you ask your friend to design a house for me as well. Of course, I will pay for it.”

Zhou Yu did not reject. After all, uncle Fu had also helped him a lot with the flower greenhouse. In terms of designing fee, although he did not want to take it, he still needed to. Otherwise, it would only raise suspicions.

Zhou Fu left happily after he got the model and blueprints from Zhou Fu on the next day. If Li Hansheng was here, he would definitely be shocked. What kind of person would design a house so fast? No to mention that how did that person get all the measurement data for the designs? It was not some kids’ drawings, there was no way a normal person would complete a housing design in just one day.

In just one week, Uncle Fu began to build his new house. And it was still done by Li Hansheng’s construction company. But this time, they found an open area in the village, setting up some simple tents to construct a temporary living area. It seemed like they were going to stay here for a while. Having thought about it again, it was actually quite reasonable. Although uncle Fu’s yard and house were not as big as his, he, who was the richest person in the village, would not be stingy when it comes to building his own house. Therefore, he definitely preferred the quality of the house over the speed of building the house.

Li Hansheng was an expert socializer. Every time when he came to the village to monitor the progress of the construction, he would spend some time in Zhou Yu’s family to chat with him. He was extremely curious about both Zhou Yu and his architect friends.

However, from what he had gathered from Zhou Fu, Zhou Yu was not only just a simple-minded otaku, he was a game developer as well. The game he developed could easily be sold over one million Chinese Yuan. So it was not the type of person he could afford to hire.

Although he could not hire Zhou Yu, he could still make him become his friend. Every time he would discuss some architecture designs or landscape designs with Zhou Yu. And every time he would spend some time in the flower greenhouse to study the building models inside. The building model he liked the most was not the game company’s skyscraper-like building or the elegant animation base. It was the simple but tranquil Taoist temple.

Li Hansheng specialized in modern architecture designs. He had only learned a superficial knowledge of ancient architectures from some of his teachers. But even with just a superficial knowledge, he still felt that this Taoist temple had an unmatched grandeur. This was clearly the work of a talented master. It was very hard for him to imagine that it was a work that was done by a young man.

What was even more strange was that Zhou Yu did not seem to like to talk about the architecture design. He only occasionally made some toys for little kids. Most of the time, he would spend in front of computers or go fishing or plant some flowers. He lived exactly like a retired old man.

It was truly a strange young man.

They had two completely different types of personalities. So even if Li Hansheng wanted to become Zhou Yu’s friend, Zhou Yu did not want to get too close to him. Especially Li Hansheng always liked to talk about architecture designs in front of him, it made Zhou Yu very nervous every time, since he did not know anything about it. Luckily, Li Hansheng was a busy man. He only came by occasionally. Moreover, he had also told the kids in the village to watch out for him. Every time when he wanted to come over, the kids would inform him first. And then, he would immediately run away, leaving Li Hansheng waiting for him in his yard alone.

As time slowly passed, there would always be some unexpected events.

When Zhou Yu was watering the potted plants in the flower greenhouse early this morning, he saw Beaver suddenly ran into the greenhouse hurriedly.

Seeing a butterfly was on its head, Zhou Yu almost laughed out loud.

“Something happened to my senior brother!”

‘Oh... so the citizens of the ACG world use butterflies to deliver mail,’ seeing Beaver took out a piece of paper from a small cylinder on the back of the butterfly, Zhou Yu suddenly realized.

However, the words on the paper were too small, so Zhou Yu could only ask beaver to read it out, “To my junior brother, this senior brother has heard that in the mountain that is in the north of Shang Yuan village, there is a strange rock. This senior brother is going to have a look and will be back by tomorrow. Please do not worry.”

It seemed to be a normal letter. However, the problem was that the letter was sent to Beaver three days ago. And Beaver had not heard anything from its senior brother since. Therefore it came to seek help from Zhou Yu.

It was at this moment, a line of text appeared before Zhou Yu.

“Missing Person Quest activated, do you wish to accept?”

What else could he do? Of course, he would accept it.