The Rise of Otaku

The first day’s game was a game about police catching thief.

It was an old game with a slightly different name. The background of the game was: the fantasy city is attacked by Boboer Thief Gang. Their target is the secret treasure of fantasy city – The Space-time Magical Mirror. The guards of the fantasy city must protect it at all costs.

Each member of the thief gang started with 10 gold coins, while the guards had 0, but the guards would be rewarded if they caught the thief gang member. Every time a member of the thief gang was arrested, they would lose a gold coin, which became a reward for the guards.

There were 93 players, but only five guards, and within two hours, the more members of the thief gang were caught, the more gold coins they would earn. The members of the thief gang were allowed to re-join the game after spending 10 minutes’ rest in the cell if they still had gold coins. However, if they did not have any, they had to wait for the coins that were given to them by the group reward. After the game ends, the gold coins would be counted, and they would still belong to players.

In addition to the simple hide and seek game, there were also some temporary tasks. Guards had the advantage of being able to capture a large number of people for rewards, but a large number of thieves could rely on the completion of the tasks to reduce the guard’s gold coins. If the space-time magical mirror was taken away by Boboer Thief Gang, the guards would lose a lot of coins.

The guards were not decided by drawing lots, but selected in advance. They were the students who were good at sports in Luhua primary school, including Zhou Hao, the fifth-grade sprint champion in the city’s primary school sports competition.

The students howled at disappointment when they heard this. ‘Are they joking! Who could outrun that wild monkey?’

Fortunately, the field was very big, at worst, they could find a safe place to hide for a period of time, as long as they could survive two hours, 10 gold coins would fall into their pockets.

The game time was 2 hours, and each capture would make the children, who played thief, lose 1 gold coin and rest for 10 minutes. If their luck was not that bad, they would at least get a few coins in the end.

Everyone was gathered together at 2 o’clock. After the rules of the game were explained, the thieves were given 10 minutes to hide, during this time the five guards could discuss how to allocate the areas to search.

It wasn’t until 2:30 that the game really began.

The playground was very big, they could hide anywhere inside the whole fantasy city. So there were many options available. When the “invasion alarm” went off, all the children who played thieves disappeared in the fantasy city. There were no tasks at the moment, so the first priority for the thieves was to hide.

However, as soon as the guards searched the city area by area, some of the students, who were not good at hiding, were quickly found. Then screaming and shouting, they began to run away in panic. Unfortunately, police were played by those students, who were good at sports. Wanting to escape from their hands was not an easy task.

The captured thieves could only walk dejectedly to the prison by themselves, where no guards were allowed to guard it and no uncaptured thieves were allowed to stay. Here, the scorekeeper would take points off the captured thieves and give points to the guards who caught them. Getting in and sitting down for 10 minutes, after ‘serving their time’, they could rejoin the game.

For the first thirty minutes, it was very obvious that the guards were controlling the situation. It could be easily told from the clear children’s screams. Apart from a few children, who were good at hiding, most of the children were caught once or twice. There were also unlucky ones, who were caught after they just got out of the cell and before they even found a hiding place. In the end, they could only go back to the cell dejectedly again.

The turning point came after three o ‘clock when the tasks began to appear.

The Princess Of The Fantasy city had just sneaked out of the castle to play, and city owner Grodo, asked the guards to find her and return her safely. If she was caught by the thieves first, the guards would lose 10 gold coins each, and the lost gold coins would be gained by the thieves who took part in the capture of the princess.

Notice like this should have been issued through earphones and something like that, but at the moment, it was repeated several times by some loudspeakers that were spread all over the fantasy city. It seemed very low in taste.

In the Wizard tower, with a pair of binoculars, Zhou Yu was watching the whole process of gameplay. From time to time, he would let out silly laughs. A gang of thieves, who were blinded by 50 gold coins, finally left the safe hiding points and began to sneak around looking for the fantasy city princess.

But the princess was not easy to catch. She knew how to elude guards and thieves, so it was not easy to catch her. After all, she was played by an adult, and the chosen princess was not a weak woman. If she really wanted to run, those children would not be able to catch her.

A battle for finding the princess soon began.

The children in the Fantasy city were running breathlessly, and as the cameramen, Zhou Shuyu and He Yuanyuan were also very tired. They weren’t very good at running, but now they also needed to carry cameras with them. it was truly a tiring job for them. However, after a day of filming, they would have a lot of good footage, that they could edit. Or course, if there were more cameras, it would be even better.

Eventually, the princess eluded the guards, but was a swarm by the thieves. In the end, each guard was deducted 10 gold coins and was punished to face the prison wall to think about their mistakes. But before the thieves could cheer loudly, the loudspeakers began to announce something that made those thieves, who captured princess, complain constantly.

“Congratulations to Li Shan, Huang Miaoer, Yang Yihang, Gao Bu, Gao Quan, Li Hong for successfully catching the princess. The leader of the Boboer thief gang appreciates all of your efforts, and now all of you are promoted to elite thieves and receiving 8 gold coins each. Note that elite thieves can only hide in area C3 and will lose 5 gold coins to the guards if they are caught. The elite title will then be stripped.”

“Oh no!”

“This is not fair! We don’t want this title! We were set up”

“I don’t want to be elite!”

However, there was no place for negotiation. Those children, who had been set up by adults, could only wait there unwillingly while adults put elite labels on them, and then quickly ran to the C3 area, looking for a safe place to hide.

The guards in the prison were very sad when they heard that they had lost ten gold coins. Their half an hour’s effort had been almost in vain. But when they heard this announcement, they immediately became very excited.

Five gold coins! They would be able to get back all the coins just by catching two of them. It was much faster than catching regular thieves!

So the five guards began to focus on searching the area C3. Ordinary thieves were finally able to relax in other areas for a while.

The intense chase between the guards and thieves continued. There was even once, one of the thieves had completed an Offensive And Defensive Reversal Task, then the five guards were chased back and forth by 88 thieves, which was a spectacular scene.

At last, in the last half hour, the final fight was finally here.

Zhou Yu, who had been watching the children playing from the Wizard tower for a while, would join the fight as the leader of the Boboer Thief Gang.

“The evil leader of the Boboer Thief Gang has appeared! He has successfully obtained the space-time magical mirror, and he is going to A1, B1, C1, and D1 to set up mirror points. When he completes the ritual, he will become immortal, and everyone in the fantasy city will be sacrificed in the ritual. So, both the thieves and the guards will need to work together. Catching him will get 100 gold coins!”

Here comes the big fish!