Being an otaku in the world of American comics

#106 - The Beginning of Civilization

Time flew by, and the morning's classes passed in a blink.

After a hearty lunch, Sam, Holland, and the others were completely let loose.

Due to a last-minute adjustment by the teacher, the remaining class in Liang Yue's class that afternoon was unexpectedly changed to a P.E. class.

Even more coincidentally, Elizabeth's senior year cram school class was also having P.E. at the same time, and both groups' activities were confined to the school's gymnasium.

Liang Yue's P.E. teacher was a middle-aged fat man who, it was said, used to be a professional player in the NBA when he was young.

But now, times had changed, and due to a long-term lack of regular exercise and competitive enthusiasm, all that remained of this middle-aged man was a body of fat and a slightly decadent and listless spirit.

Soon, with no intention of teaching, he simply directed the class to run five laps around the basketball court before announcing the dismissal, allowing the students to engage in free activities.

In comparison, Elizabeth's senior class seemed to have been dismissed even earlier.

When Liang Yue, holding his notebook, came to the edge of the court to find her, the little girl had already bought a sugary soda and was sitting aside, waiting for him with a beaming smile.

"I haven't seen you for just one night, and you seem to have changed a lot again? What exactly happened to you last night?"

Elizabeth leaned against Liang Yue's side, and her slender little hands subconsciously pinched his arm, and a look of surprise suddenly appeared on her beautiful face.

However, the gymnasium was crowded after all, not like the combat training room where only the two of them were alone, so the little girl naturally couldn't do a full-body check for him as she had done before.

"Want to know what I did last night? Just come to my house tonight."

Liang Yue glanced at the little girl when he heard this, and a charming smile curled up at the corner of his mouth, implying something.

However, the feedback he received was only Elizabeth's charming roll of her eyes, plus a light but not too gentle flying elbow to his waist.

Liang Yue didn't care about this, enduring the other party's seemingly flirtatious attack, while his hands kept fiddling with the notebook on his lap.

At this moment, a detailed construction diagram of classical Chinese architecture was displayed on his computer screen.

"You seem to still have a faint plant fragrance on you."

Unwilling to give up, Elizabeth put his arm in her arms, then raised her cute nose and sniffed lightly at his shoulder, and a look of surprise flashed in her crystal-clear blue eyes.

"Well~ The secret technique I practice does require the use of medicinal baths."

This little girl's nose is really sensitive; I estimate it's much better than a dog's.

Liang Yue had indeed taken medicinal baths very diligently when he was practicing the "Golden Bell Cover," but after he had finished practicing only the first three layers of this divine skill.

At least a month ago, he had already stopped this routine…

"Is this the legendary medicinal bath of you Easterners?"

"Yes~"

"But I've seen that kind of thing before, and the effect has never been as good as on you!"

"That's because I'm exceptionally talented, and my absorption ability is better than others."

"Hmph~!"

"Hmph hmph~!"

"You're looking at classical architectural structures? Why are you suddenly interested in this?"

"I want to buy a piece of land and build a house for myself."

"With the money you earned from your novel? Wouldn't it be better to just hand it over to professionals?"

"I am the most professional architectural talent~"

"Tch!"

…

With the backing of the MC game character, Liang Yue naturally dared to boast like this in terms of construction.

It's just that he really didn't need to explain it to this little girl.

The reason why he suddenly became interested in architectural structures and classical architecture was naturally not a whim of Liang Yue's; he wasn't that idle.

In fact, as early as in the New Shaolin Five Ancestors world, this guy had already begun to research and explore this field.

Task Name: "The Beginning of Civilization (Architecture Chapter)"

Task Requirements: Establish a village that can accommodate multiple residents, and requires functional buildings such as a blacksmith shop, a breeding farm, farmland, a library, an enchanting table, arrow towers, a warehouse, a bar, housing, and walls.

Task Rewards: Equally divided, 10 villager recruitment quotas.

…

This task was the new stage upgrade task that appeared after Liang Yue completed the animal collection chapter for the upgrade of the stronghold world.

Originally, in the New Shaolin Five Ancestors world, the task panel had already been issued by the system long ago.

But unfortunately, Liang Yue at that time was still on a journey of training in the heavens and worlds and could not enter the stronghold world, so he could only put it aside for the time being.

However, after this task appeared, Liang Yue never stopped thinking about the content of the task requirements.

After all, that was a village to be built within his own stronghold world!

If it couldn't be built beautifully, grandly, and up to standard, how could it be worthy of his own elegant and high-class personality?

Moreover, the task reward had already clearly stated that he would be given ten villager recruitment quotas afterward.

According to the information Liang Yue had previously obtained from the system, the selection of these quotas could all be selected from within the worlds of the heavens.

Although it had to be a world that he had experienced before, after all, there was still a long way to go!

With these ten quotas, Liang Yue could also fulfill the promise he had made to Dokushima and Kirikawa Shizuka, summoning the two women to his side as villagers.

So that they could completely escape the world under the crisis of the apocalypse.

Moreover, in this way, within the vast MC world, Liang Yue would no longer be alone.

It's better to have two beautiful women by your side than to be lonely alone~

Furthermore, even without the requirements of the system task, Liang Yue himself seemed to be planning to build a sturdy and beautiful building somewhere suitable.

And the starting point for this guy was to build a library that could hold all the books and classics he had scavenged from the imperial history of the Five Ancestors world!

Invisibly, Liang Yue's idea coincided with the library in the functional buildings of the village required by the system.

Then, here comes the question~

What kind of existence is a library that can hold a collection of books on the scale of the imperial history, plus the various classics that Liang Yue scavenged from the Shaolin Library Pavilion and other Manchu nobles and the eight great imperial merchants?

Answer~ That must be another imperial history with a larger scale and a more magnificent and broad architectural area!

So, then there is another question~

That is, since there is such a huge library in his village that is even larger than the imperial history of the Chinese imperial capital.

Then, in order to be worthy of the scale of this magnificent building, to what extent should he build the other buildings in his village?

"…Probably, just make them a little smaller for the time being, and leave some potential for improvement. After all, even after the village is established, the system will only give me ten quotas…"