The Rise of Otaku

Facing the broken tape recorder of the old village chief, Zhou Yu frowned for a long time. This kind of old antique, no matter how rich he was, he would still not be able to find a place to repair it. After all, the parts and components were no longer produced, unless he could find the original manufacturer and then ask for product and components information, then he could produce the components by himself. However, this seemed impossible to achieve.

What surprised Zhou Yu, even more, was that there was a mini person living inside this old tape recorder, but her condition was very bad. She looked like he was dying.

A tape recorder girl? Does it mean that the concentration of the ACG world force is so high that even the objective could be turned into an anime character?

Quickly calling the white witch Yuna to see if she could heal her. Because if he simply just repaired the tape recorder, he might not be able to complete the quest perfectly. Moreover, a mini girl was suffering in front of him, he couldn’t just ignore her. Maybe after saving her, he could have some surprising reward.

Yuna put her hand on the chest of the tape recorder girl. After a burst of white light, Yuna closed her hand and said: “She was heavily injured. I can only help her to relieve her condition. At most in three days, she will disappear.”

In the ACG world, disappearance means death. But clearly, this tape recorder girl looked like she just was born no long ago. It would be very sad that she disappeared three days later.

Yuna’s treatment was ineffective. The only way he could think of was to fix the tape recorder. Although this matter was difficult, Zhou Yu had a cheat. The existence of the electrician fox and the electrical appliance factory could solve this problem perfectly, but after using the components that had The ACG World attributes, the people in the ACG world could also interact with it. In the future, they might make mischief.

But that was the problem for the future. What he needed to do now was to save the tape recorder girl first. Calling over the electrician fox and let it check the tape recorder to see what materials were needed to make the required parts.

“There is no need to check, everything inside this old antique has to be changed except for the outer shell, otherwise it will have to be repaired once every three days.”

Oh well, as long as the shell was still there, the old village chief probably wouldn’t mind that much. So the electrician Fox quickly entered the electrical appliance factory to make parts, and then reassembled the tape recorder with Zhou Yu. Putting the tape in, Zhou Yu tried it. Not bad, it worked. However, the tape didn’t seem to be in a very good condition. After pressing the playing button, the sound was very hoarse.

After the tape recorder was repaired, a burst of white light floated into the body of the tape recorder girl, her body gradually recovered the healthy color. Within a few minutes, she stood up again and said in a hoarse tone, “thank you for saving my life.”

Hmmm, the voice of this tape recorder girl was really bad.

I guess that I have to fix her voice as well. Zhou Yu thought for a second and then decided to renew the tape.

It was not difficult to make the tape. He just handed it over to the animation company for production because a new talent has recently just joined the animation company. That talent used to be a criminal. But after serving his time in prison, he joined the animation company. He had a special skill called “renew”. With him, any old tapes could be renewed.

After taking out the renewed tape, the sound quality of the tape was improved tremendously. And the voice of our tape recorder immediately became sweet and mellow.

After getting the tape recorder, the old village chief was surprised. He had been to all the repair shops he could find nearby, none of them could fix it. But in just two days, it appeared before him again in a brand new condition. After putting in the tape, the sound quality was almost the same as when he just bought it. This was incredible.

When the beloved tape recorder was fixed, the old village chief was naturally very happy. He immediately returned to the tree with the new recorder and played the Chinese opera to his old pals. And Zhou Yu also saw that when the recorder was played, the recorder girl was singing loudly, attracting some mini people in the ACG World to stop and watch her singing.

The quest was completed perfectly. Not only did he receive the gratitude of the old village chief, but he also got a new citizen of the ACG world. However, the tape recorder girl seemed to live only inside the recorder all the time, and only when the old village chief pressed the start button, would she start singing, and she would ignore other people when they operated the recorder.

After completing the quest of the old village chief, although Zhou Yu didn’t get any useful rewards, he still found that this quest was very interesting. After all, having a dating sim like conversational dialogues with people in the real world, he could hone his conventional skills.

Therefore, in the future, Zhou Yu would not only take the daily quests from the NPCs of the ACG world, but he would also pay attention to the people in the real world. However, when Zhou Yu was addicted to the quests in the real world, he discovered a new change.

During daily lance practice with Lou Xiaobao, he actually saw Lou Xiaobao’s health bar and stamina bar, which made Zhou Yu almost lose the staff in his hand.

Damn, is the real world going to become the ACG world now?

The most direct reward for seeing a health bar was that he could see that Xiaobao didn’t use his full strength during the lance practice. Although his health bar and stamina bar were at least 60% or more, he would always declare his defeat. Clearly, he was scared that he would hit his senior brother and cause him to fall into a coma.

Needless to say, Zhou Yu liked this kind of change a lot. Because now he could see the other people’s level of trust, level of friendliness, and some other information.

Having this kind of ability was actually quite scary. As soon as he could use it properly, he would be able to do everything smoothly. Unfortunately, Zhou Yu was a simple person who didn’t want to jump into a complex society at all, so the function of this ability was at most to see whether he could proceed smoothly when talking with other people.

This dating sim-like dialogue was actually really useful. Sometimes when he didn’t know what to say, he could directly use the dialogue provided by the options. However, after using it for some time, Zhou Yu discovered that some of the options were traps. Some dialogue options would increase the friendliness level or push the quest progress forward, while some dialogues would decrease the friendliness level and delay the quest progress. It would take some experience to determine which one was correct.

In this way, this system was simply tailored for the clumsy otaku.

It was okay that Zhou Yu didn’t know how to talk, as soon as he knew that the option was correct, he could simply say out the lines that were provided by the options. Hardcore otakus may not know how to date girls in the real world, but they would definitely be very good at dating sims. So it was almost too easy for Zhou Yu.

If this is the case, maybe I can also rely on it to pick up some girls?

Zhou Yu’s imagination began to run wild.

However, after testing it, Zhou Yu found that it was not as easy as he thought it would be. There were too many dialogues and options for the girls in the real world, it was not like the dating sim at all. And the most important thing was that Zhou Yu didn’t have the courage like he had when he became a mini person.

Alas, I think it is better to let it be.