The Rise Of Otaku - Chapter 14

Chapter 14: Chapter 14 Send-off
Translator: Doggotranslation Editor: Doggotranslation

An airship appeared in Zhou Yu’s yard. It had a medieval European-style sailboat structure. It was clearly a classic traditional airship from fantasy stories. It was merely two meters long in length, and looked a bit like a drone. A captain-like person was talking to the beaver. Apparently, he had already been waiting for some time.
Seeing Zhou Yu, the captain flew over and said, “Hello, my name is Mike, I am the exclusive airship Captain for Beidou management company. My boss is interested in signing up Mr. Li Weinian. So I am here to pick him up.”
Zhou Yu didn’t know what Beidou was, but if this company was interested in signing up an idol with such bad attributes, it meant that the company was not doing very well. Then again, a good company would probably not want little Niannian. Zhou Yu hesitated for a long time, and still couldn’t make a choice. In the end, he decided to just let little Niannian choose his own future path.
But what else could little Niannian say? After all, he was born to be an idol. There was no way that he would want to give himself up because of some failings on his part.
So eventually he signed the contract. The captain gave little Niannian one day to say goodbye to the people he knew. The ship would leave for the next day.
Although Zhou Yu didn’t like boys, Niannian was still the kid he had spent a lot of effort raising up. So he was a bit low-spirited, despite the contract fee he was given was as high as 5000 Moe Coins.
Gathering all the villagers of the ACG world, Zhou Yu threw a farewell party. However, there was nothing good to drink or eat at the party. Even if he went to buy the roasted meat, the villagers of the ACG world could only see it, but would not be able to eat it.
The next day, little Niannian got on the ship and left, only taking the first toy car with him that Zhou Yu made for him.
Then the camellia flower began to wither.
Strangely, seeing the withered flower, the person who felt the most sorrow was He Yuanyuan. She was not interested in any other pot plants, but whenever she came to visit Zhou Yu, she would spend some time looking at the Camellia flower.
She immediately urged Zhou Yu to look at it when she first noticed the withering flower.
Of course, Zhou Yu knew why it would wither, the farmer Tian Niang said that once the flower fairy left the flower, the flower would not live long. But this kind of Chunibyo answer would definitely make He Yuanyuan think that he wasn’t serious. So he could only say, “No one can save the flower, it is dying of natural causes.”
It was true. However, He Yuanyuan didn’t believe him. Seeing as Zhou Yu didn’t plan to do anything, she angrily took the dying plant away with her, planning to take care of it herself.
Two days later, she came back with a sad face, holding a completely dead Camellia in her hands. Just as Zhou Yu said, no matter how hard she tried to save it, the plant kept on withering. She’d even asked her grandpa for help, who was very good at all kinds of agricultural activities, but he also couldn’t stop it from dying.
Because of this, He Yuanyuan was in a sad mood for several days.
Compared to her, the heartless Zhou Shuyu didn’t care about the death of the Camellia at all. She often spent her time around the Taoist temple, looking at the temple while muttering under her breath. It even made Zhou Yu silently question what her problem was.
According to the little she knew of wood identification techniques she’d learned online, Zhou Shuyu was certain that the principal material of the Taoist temple was the Phoebe zhennan wood.
There was another type of wood, which also looked very expensive. It would not be a regular wood if it was used together with Phoebe zhennan wood.
After Zhou Shuyu’s post became widespread, a few old men couldn’t help but want to see it in person.
It could be seen that the materials of the temple had been carefully selected. The design of the model also had a strong look of antiquity. As such, it had a very high ornamental value. The most precious thing was the person behind the creation, this type of traditional wood craftsmanship was very hard to see nowadays.
After confirming the value of the temple, Zhou Shuyu slowly gave up the idea of doing business with Zhou Yu.
If it was just a good carpenter, of course, they would want to sell the good stuff they made. But if it was a rich guy? Selling their creations would be humiliating!
After calculating a rough estimation of the price of hiring a rich carpenter to make miniature buildings for her, Zhou Shuyu instantly had a cold shudder. Her enthusiasm for working with Zhou Yu quickly decreased.
It was such a rare business opportunity, but there was no way she would be able to take it. Disappointment befell her, and in the end, she was almost as gloomy as He Yuanyuan.
The two pretty girls were constantly sighing when they came to visit Zhou Yu, filling his house with a gloomy atmosphere as if it was going to rain at any time.
The awkward atmosphere made Zhou Yu feel extremely uncomfortable. He felt the compulsion to do something.
One afternoon, Zhou Yu took out all the toys that little Niannian had left behind: one fairy tale style house, twenty-three toy cars, a full set of Chinese J-series jet fighters, and a full set of Chinese tanks. Laying them out on the ground, it was like a tiny military equipment exhibition. It was a nice sight.
“Shuyu, could you help me sell these toys? You can set the price yourself. They take up too much space in my house.”
It was useless to leave those things at home. Even if he might need to raise other idols in the future, he wasn’t even sure if he would still be able to use those secondhand toys. Besides, they were made from cheap wood, and it didn’t cost many coins to make them. So he wouldn’t mind creating a new set of toys next time.
Cars, tanks, and jet fighters, they were the toys boys liked. Moreover, it was obvious that those toys were made recently.
‘He is truly a skilled otaku. The toys crafted by him are all very good. Only that fairy tale house has a completely different style from the rest of the toys.’
Seeing the fiary table house, Zhou Shuyu couldn’t help but think that Zhou Yu might have liked Barbie dolls, and this thought instantly made her shudder. However, her attention was soon attracted by those “goods” again. In order to determine the value of the goods, it was necessary to carefully inspect them all. And soon, the price of each toy quickly began to increase again and again.
All the toys had been handcrafted with meticulous attention to detail!
One toy car had a length of about 30 cm, and its doors could be opened, and the interior of the car was the same as a real car. It even had all kinds of micro-carved instruments. Details determine the success or the failure of a scale model, and those toy cars had clearly reached the peak of hand-made scale models. In fact, because they were handicrafts, their prices would be doubled.
Looking at the jet fighters and tanks again, they were also beautifully crafted to an incredible degree. To military enthusiasts, those models clearly had great collection value. However, a full set of models was often hard to sell. Selling them individually would make them lose some value, but selling them in one big package would be too expensive. It would be great if there was a long-term supply of each individual model.
Having thought of this, Zhou Shuyu looked at Zhou Yu, who was only focused on surfing the internet and seemingly did not care about these things at all. She immediately knew that this kind of ambition was not realistic. Maybe he only wanted to sell the things he was no longer interested inn There was no way he would want to turn it into a business.
Anyway, it was still better than nothing.
“Oh right, what kind of material do you use to make these scale models?”
Zhou Shuyu was scared that those toys were also made of Phoebe zhennan wood. If that was the case, then the price would only scare many people away.
“Birch wood and some Madhuca pasquieri wood.”
Fortunately, although it was also a good wood material, it was not as expensive as the previous one.
After confirming the material, Zhou Shuyu quickly brought over the camera and began taking pictures of each one of the models excitedly. Of course, pictures of full set models was also necessary. They were going to be the main product! It was truly a shame that she could only do it once. Who knows when would be the next time.
Especially, after she went back to the university, this otaku probably would not even bother shipping out the product.