The Rise of Otaku

Chapter 195  The Relics Of The Senior

Edited by: Still waiting for the editor to get back to me

After hearing the folktale, which was told by Xia Huan, Zhou Yu felt that there was too much information to take in.

It turns out that the existence of the chaotic zone wasn’t something new; it was just that in the past, there were so many limitations. So many aspects of the ACG world couldn’t be revealed to the real world. And the only medium in the past were pictures. At that time, the person who had the eyes of the ACG world could be very good at drawing, and in terms of games or videos, the people in the past probably couldn’t understand them.

This senior sealed the items that could not be used at that time, on some objects, and left them to the people in the future. But finding the relics of this senior may not be an easy task. The documents in the library only recorded the story about this folktale, there wasn’t even a treasure map. So it was basically without any clues.

At this time Xiao Huan continued, “After our detailed investigation, the chaotic zone doesn’t just appear once. But every time it would appear in Luhua village, and then after several decades, it would disappear mysteriously. In terms of the specific reason, it is still unknown. Both the Starlight knight’s regiment and the fallen knight’s regiment have investigated numerous times, but nothing was found.”

It seemed like this ability could still exist for several decades, Zhou Yu didn’t need to worry that the ability would suddenly disappear.

So the chaotic zone existed a long time ago, it was just that the location hasn’t changed. That is to say that there was a possibility that the relics might still be in Luhua village. But probably because it has been a very long time, many of them were already destroyed. Only those that survived to this day, could still be used.

“It’s a pity that whenever the chaotic zone closed, the Starlight knight’s regiment and the fallen knight’s regiment would come here and take them all away. Even if there are some things that were missed by them, it would be split between the adventurers that came to Luhua village to seek for treasures. Perhaps, not many would survive to this day.”

After pouring a bucket of cold water, Xia Huan continued, “but after investigation, the 3d chip indeed wasn’t found out by anyone from the ACG world. So if you can find the treasure that is hidden in Luhua village. The 3D chip should be sealed in here. Maybe there will be other surprises.”

A treasure hunt? I don’t even have a treasure map. How can I find it?

However, little Muli, and the other kids, seemed to be very interested, especially Firefly. Her eyes were glowing with excitement as she approached Zhou Yu and said that if she found it, she wanted half of it.

Half my ass. You little miser.

The relic of the senior was very likely a real object because the document in the library said that the 3d chip was hidden in a vessel. But if she could really find a clue, Zhou Yu didn’t mind giving her some Moe Coins as a reward.

Since there was a money reward, Firefly naturally was very energetic. She quickly took Little Muli and dragged Kaka and Benben away. While running, she also shouted loudly that she would find all the treasures that were hidden in Luhua village.

If they were going to find treasures like this, the chances of finding something would be very low. You always need a plan before you move.

Since it was a treasure hunt, it was natural to collect information first. The most senior villagers in the mini Luhua village were the old dragon king and the carpenter beaver, so Zhou Yu’s first step was to ask them for clues.

The old dragon king stroked his long beard and recalled his memories, but even he did not know that there were other humans, who could see the ACG world like Zhou Yu. He only knew that Luhua village used to be a small county, but as time went on, the population gradually decreased and people all moved to the city, and then it became a place that no one wanted to visit.

The beaver recalled something similar, but he offered a clue, “one of the adventurers, who came to Luhua in the past, asked me and my brother to make a strange item called “South-pointing chariot”, which was said to be used to find the treasure in Luhua village. I was also very curious about what kind of treasure there was in Luhua village, so I asked him casually, but he did not say, and later, I also did not know whether he found it or not.”

At least, it was a clue, and now the carpenter beaver and the stonemason monkey were in Luhua village, and perhaps this was also a kind of luck, so Zhou Yu said, “well, build a south-pointing chariot first. Maybe we can use it later.”

He didn’t have a lot of clues from the ACG world, so now he had to depend on the real world.

In the “senior leisure center” of the amusement park, Zhou Yu found the old village chief, who was playing cards with his old friends, and asked him about the history of Luhua village. “Old village chief, do we have any famous historical figures in Luhua village? Like a painter, or a carpenter, or some other famous talented people?”

The old village chief thought for a while and said, “There is no record in the official history, but in the unofficial history, which is filled with all kinds of folktales and legends, there was indeed a very strange man. Speaking of that man, he was a lot like you.”

Hearing this, it instantly attracted Zhou Yu’s attention, because the strange man that the old village chief talked about might be his senior.

So, the old village chief began to talk about the past –

“It was during the reign of Emperor Qianlong. There was a scholar named Zhou Miao in our village. After failing to pass the exam to become an official, he gave up studying and returned to live in the village. He was down and out but suddenly one day, when he was selling a basket of calligraphy and paintings on the street, he was noticed by the county magistrate. The county magistrate was so impressed by his talent at that time that he treated him like his most important guest. After that, Zhou Miao became famous for his calligraphy and painting.”

After hearing this, Zhou Yu was eighty percent certain that this Zhou Miao should be his senior. It was just that his senior used his ACG world ability on paintings. With the ability of the ACG world, it was not difficult to paint the best paintings of that era, and the quantity of those paintings definitely wouldn’t be small, but how could there be that no paintings that survived to this day?

“Zhou Miao’s reputation didn’t get bigger after that, but that’s not surprising. After all, it’s normal for a scholar to know how to draw. The only strange thing was that when Zhou Miao died, all his paintings disappeared, whether the paintings at his home or those that he had sold, they all disappeared overnight.”

Well, that’s easy to explain. They all got recycled by the people from the ACG world. Ordinary paintings couldn’t be touched by the people from the ACG world, but Zhou Miao’s paintings must be attached to the ACG world’s attributes. So no matter how people guarded those paintings, they would not be able to block the invisible thieves.

Without the paintings, Zhou Miao’s story could not be verified. As times passed, his story gradually became a folktale, which became contaminated with some supernatural elements. For example, some people thought Zhou Xiao was a worshiper of an evil spirit, so his painting skills improved rapidly, and he became famous overnight. But when he died all his work disappeared, and then he was forgotten by other people.

“So, did Zhou Miao leave anything at all in this world?”

Zhou Yu did not care about the paintings; even if the value was very high, they were still useless to him. The only thing that would be useful to him would be the ACG items that he left behind.

Unfortunately, the old village chief shook his head and replied, “How could there be anything to pass down? After Zhou Miao’s descendants lost all their wealth, they left the village with nothing. Oh right! There is another interesting story about Zhou Miao. It is said that he once buried treasure in the village and waited for people to find it. But after all these years, I haven’t seen anyone dig up the treasure. It’s probably a wild rumor.”

Damn you, Zhou Miao, after burying the treasure, you didn’t even leave a single clue. Luhua village is such a big place, how do you expect people to find it? Digging every inch of the land I can see?