The Rise of Otaku

Chapter 53 Sweet and Salty

Of course, there were also people wanted to see Zhou Yu’s embarrassed reactions. Little Rat was one of them. Little Rat really couldn’t bear to see the way that brother Yu grew the vegetable sloppily. Several times, he had offered his help to take care of those vegetables, but he was refused every time. Just wait until all his vegetable died, then he would know what regret was.

With this in mind, Little Rat checked out the small vegetable field much more often than Zhou Yu. However, the tragic situation he had anticipated, did not appear. All the seeds had germinated and their growing speed was not slow either. Although the shapes of each vegetable were different, all of them looked vigorous.

Among these vigorous seedlings, Little Rat had recognized some of them, such as cauliflower, broccoli, cabbage, and lettuce. There were also some that he had never seen before. The way that brother Yu grew vegetable plant was so ridiculous. He did not even categorize different plant. He just planted them all together. What was more surprising was that all of them still survived!

It was already the late autumn and the beginning of winter. It was a miracle that all of them survived without a greenhouse.

However, this miracle did not last long. After the last autumn rain, winter finally arrived. Little Rat, who had begun to like this strange little vegetable field, came to see the vegetables again early in the morning. But what he saw was that all the thirty vegetable seedlings in the vegetable field were frozen to death overnight.

This was how it should be.

Although Little Rat got the expected result, he was not happy at all. And a few little Lolis, who often came to the vegetable field together with him, even wanted to cry. This vegetable field was no longer an ordinary vegetable field, but another children’s playground. Now that all the toys were dead, it was natural for them to be sad.

However, the heartless Zhou Yu didn’t feel sad at all. He just said, “Ah, it was not in the right season...” After that, he dug out all the frozen vegetable seedlings and threw them away.

Zhou Yu had overestimated the ability of the seeds of the ACG world. He thought that they would break the conventional seasonal restriction of vegetables. But he did not expect that none of them were able to live through winter. This could only be said that he had bad luck. When he used the Gashapon machine, it was already at the end of autumn, so all he got were the seed that was suitable to be planted in autumn. If he could wait for a couple of days, then he would have been able to get the seeds that were suitable to be planted in winter.

Welp, since it had already happened. It was time to planted the winter vegetable seeds.

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After a period of advertising, the online game “The War Of Soybean Pudding” officially launched its closed beta. The players who got the Closed beta code quickly entered the arena and began to battle each other to determine the taste of soybean pudding.

Even the thread that had over a hundred replies, could not decide the winner. This time those keyboard warriors could finally use “real guns and real knifes” to fight each other. How could they not play it? The slogans like “The Sweet Party will win, burn The Salty party” and “Long live The Salty Party, Die you The Sweet Party” soon flooded the chat window of the game. The level of excitement was simply astounding.

After the training tutorial, those, who started to familiar with the basic controls of the game, began to enter the map and start the real match. Those, who had mics, would turn on their mics. Those, who without mics, would type fast on their keyboards. No matter what, they could not lose morale. The winners would often shout, “My party is invincible.” The losers would often blame that their teammates suck and then wait for the next round.

Three types of classes fought endlessly in different maps. And the chats were constantly flooded with messages. Because it was just closed beta, so the current battle mode wasn’t that many. The campaign mode had not been opened yet, but in the future, when the players’ levels were increased, there would be more updates.

However, the speed of the players leveling up their characters was incredible. In just a week, they reached the level requirement of the new mode, so the story mode was finally activated.

Chapter one – The Opposition Between Salty And Sweet.

A long time ago, there was a country with a long ancient history. People in this country liked to eat soybean pudding. One day, two very special young people met each other at a soybean pudding stall. The bald one ordered a bowl of sweet soybean pudding and the one with the slick back hairstyle ordered salty soybean pudding. It was at that moment, the fire of their passions towards soybean pudding sparked between them.

And henceforth the history of that country began to change rapidly.

Several years later, the tall, rich and handsome bald guy inherited his father’s career and began to lead The Sweet Party, while the slick back headed guy manage to gather many people, and eventually formed The Salty Party. The two parties were strongly against each other. In the beginning, they just hurled invectives at each other. But eventually, it evolved into a war of armed conflicts. And their first battle was in Vermicelli City.

The content of the CG was roughly like that. In terms of how the story would progress, it would depend on the players’ performances in the game. If The Sweet Party won, then story A would be activated. If The Salty Party won, then story B would be activated. The CG of both stories had already been produced by the Penguin Operating Team of the game company. So Zhou Yu did not need to worry about anything.

Originally, Zhou Yu wanted to have a battle that involved ten thousand people attacking the city. This kind of scene must be amazing. However, later on, he learned that it was impossible for so many players’ data to be imported into the same map, which would cause so many latencies on the players’ side. So in the end, only the top ten players in each class could enter the campaign.

Each party had three classes, and each class had ten people. So in total, sixty people were able to enter the campaign. It was actually already a quite big battle.

In order to be qualified, players were even more enthusiastic, and the fights in the game became even more fierce.

After a week of bloody battles, the contestants of both parties were finally decided. And the first major war between Salty and Sweet had officially begun.

Gao Shu worked very hard for this final battle. He even invited some popular game commentators to live stream the campaign and broadcast it on several gaming sites. In order to make sure that the numbers of the players would not be dropped by accidents during the competition, he also arranged some backup players to be ready to fight in the campaign at any time.

Of course, all kinds of awards could not be shabby either. After all, all the cost would be reimbursed by the company as an advertisement fee.

On the day of the final battle, many people were attracted by this strange online battle. Seeing the battle mode was no longer vehicle-to-vehicle, ship-to-ship, and aircraft-to-aircraft combat mode, but the join operation mode, many people felt the game was even more interesting.

Before the campaign was even started, the screens of all the streamings in different streaming sites were already flooded with bullet comments. There were also some strange groups, such as the spicy party, the coriander party and other minorities, who were unwilling to stay silent, all came to I am crazy over otaku gaming portal, demanding for new factions.

The vehicles and ammunition used in the campaign were provided by the game company, so there would be no pay to win situation. Everything would depend on the players’ skills and teamwork.

However, because it was the first campaign for everyone, no one was experienced in it. So it the end, the battle became very chaotic. Apart from a few people that actually worked with each other, most people were basically playing on their own. The final result was that The Sweet Party won but only by a nose.

And the campaign, the name of “The War Of Soybean Pudding” began to rise rapidly on the internet. Seeing the number of online players kept raising, Gao Shu smiled all day, as if he had won a million.

However, the current situation still could not satisfy him fully. He even wanted to take advantage of this popularity to make an Esports tournament out of this game and push the game to a higher level.

Zhou Yu, as the designer of the game, was also playing the game. However, he, who was like a handicapped player, couldn’t even reach the top 100, let alone the top 10.

However, Zhou Yu was still very happy to see so many people liked the game.

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