Not a trainer this time

June 23, 1999 in the alliance calendar.

The Padiya region has ushered in the hottest midsummer season.

The heat was rising in the air, and because it was too hot, all the Pokémon including Baboo, Eevee, and others ran to Ice Eevee's ice cave to escape the heat.

Because the fur on their bodies is thick and dense, if you run outside in this kind of weather, you will accidentally get hot and sweat profusely.

In this kind of weather, even traveling trainers stay in towns and only rush to the next town after the temperature is not so hot in the evening.

For a while, there were no trainers coming to challenge the trial at the ranch.

After all, the weather is too hot and no one wants to run around in the wilderness...

Zhi Shu was happy to be free, so he simply finished the work in the ranch before the temperature rose in the morning, and then stayed at home.

The sun was shining brightly outside the house, and one could vaguely hear the chirping of cicadas coming from the mountains behind.

The air conditioner is on in the room, Lei Guanwang is watching TV on the first floor, Baboo and Eevee have just been invited to the ice cave by Ice Eevee.

My younger sister, Iris, and my brother, my brother, Ister, helped tidy up the living room that was messed up by other Pokémon.

Naoki sat in front of the computer on the second floor, checking the post he had made before to see if anyone wanted to sell the ancient Padian gold coins.

Over the past month, he has successively acquired some scattered ancient gold coins from other people on the forum.

Including what he had saved previously, Suo Cailing's gold coin collection progress has now reached 230/1000.

"There are still 20 coins left, and the progress has reached a quarter. If we can keep it up, we should be able to save enough by this time next year." Naoki did a little calculation in his mind.

But he couldn't guarantee it, because the process of acquiring gold coins was not smooth.

In addition, there are many antique enthusiasts lurking on the forum. Whether it is ancient crowns or ancient gold coins, they are all included in their collections.

Those people have become Naoki's powerful competitors, and even a few days ago they were competing with him on the forum for those gold coins at a higher price.

This gave Naoki a headache.

Although the current income from the ranch is not bad, it is not enough to support his lavish spending.

At this time, a message popped up on the private chat interface.

Naoki opened it and found it was Reiha.

[Ancient Explorer: How is it? Is the acquisition process going smoothly? ]

Lei He had just finished lunch at this time.

She didn't have a class in the afternoon, so she simply returned to the dormitory, turned on the air conditioner, and chatted with Naoki while browsing the forum to see if she could find some information about ancient legends and ruins.

[King Yi: It’s not going well. A few days ago, someone offered a higher price and snatched away the sellers who contacted me. ]

[Ancient Explorer: This kind of thing is normal. After all, if these antiques are circulated on the market, most of them will be sold through auctions, and only the highest bidder can buy them. ]

Naoki naturally understood this truth, and he couldn't help but sigh. Just as he was about to reply, he saw a message from Lei He sent over.

[Ancient Explorer: Are you thinking about any other ways to get more gold coins? If so, I might be able to help you here! ]

Naoki was stunned for a moment, and then an incredible idea came to his mind.

His hands were typing on the keyboard for a while, and he replied: [...You are not asking me to go tomb robbers with you, are you? ]

[Ancient Explorer: Yes, that’s it! Want to go? If you're lucky, you might be able to get a lot of gold coins at once! ]

To be honest, Naoki was a little moved, but his reason told him that this behavior was impolite.

After struggling for a moment, he gave up the idea of ​​following Lei He to rob the tomb: "Forget it, robbing other people's tombs is too immoral." ]

However, the other side responded quickly.

[Ancient Explorer: Cemetery? It’s not a cemetery this time! This time my destination was an ancient ruins buried deep underground. ]

Padiya College, in the teachers’ dormitory.

Lei He pressed the send button and then turned her attention to the ancient book on the computer table.

Her eyes flickered slightly, revealing excitement.

She found this ancient book deep in the library.

As one of the few ancient schools in the world, Padilla College has a very long history and profound heritage.

There are many books stored in the library here, including many ancient books handed down from ancient times.

One of the reasons why Leihe came to this college to be a history teacher was to borrow the library here.

And now, she finally found information and materials about the Disaster Treasure.

This ancient book records in detail the great disaster that occurred thousands of years ago.

Although all the characters used are ancient characters, this is not a problem for Lei He at all, because she is in this field and is very good at interpreting ancient characters.

The book said that four Pokémon that caused disaster destroyed the royal city. In order to protect his country, the king called the famous Pokémon Messenger.

The Pokémon Messenger fought fiercely with the four disaster Pokémon and successfully sealed them away.

However, at the moment when it was about to be sealed, the "Tripod" in the Treasure of Disaster used all its strength to cause a terrifying earthquake.

The earth cracked open, and the destroyed royal city was buried deep in the earth due to the earthquake, without a trace.

After that, the king gave up on the old royal city that had been destroyed, and instead chose to build a new royal city somewhere else.

But this time, Lei He's goal is the ruins of the royal city, and she plans to go there to investigate the treasure of disaster.

As for why she asked Naoki for help, it was because from the chats over the past month, Reiha learned that he was a very powerful trainer.

The ruins of the royal city deep underground are inhabited by some powerful Pokémon. If a powerful trainer is nearby at this time, her investigation will go more smoothly.

Um? Not a cemetery?

Seeing the message from Leihe, Naoki immediately became interested.

[King Yi: Tell me in detail. ]

[Ancient Explorer: It was the ruins of an ancient royal city. It was once buried deep in the earth for some reason. Before the disaster occurred, the people there had no time to pack up and evacuate.

At that time, as long as you find the castle's treasure house, you will definitely be able to collect a lot of gold and silver treasures there, and maybe you can get hundreds or thousands of gold coins at once! ]

The treasure trove of the Kingdom Castle?

Hundreds or thousands of gold coins?

Naoki was very touched in his heart. If this was true, wouldn't it mean that he could make Suo Cai Ling evolve into Sai Fuhao in one go?

Reiha was also very sincere and directly told her why she wanted to find Naoki.

[Ancient Explorer: There might be some powerful Pokémon living in that kind of place. If there is a champion-level trainer present, my investigation will be much easier. ]

Naoki was slightly startled when he saw this news.

After a while, he replied: [How do you know? ]

[Ancient Explorer: Zhishu, Zhishu Ranch, Zhiqin Town, that magical ranch is also somewhat famous in Padia College. I once heard my students discuss it.

Although I didn’t realize that you were Naoki from Naoki Ranch at first, but later! You told me that you run a ranch in Zhiqin Town, plus the mysterious Gulton, so I guessed it! ]

[King Yi: Okay, then when do we set off? ]

[Ancient Explorer: Next month, July 20th, Padia College will have a two-month summer vacation. I don’t have to stay in school as a teacher, and I can go out to investigate the ruins. How about it? ]

July 20th...there are still twenty-seven days from today.

He did it for the birth of Saifuhao!

Thinking of this, Naoki immediately agreed.

Leihe also expressed her gratitude to him.

[Ancient Explorer: Thank you very much. If you can't find gold coins in the treasure house by then, I will try my best to help you collect gold coins from other tomb robbers when I come back. ]

[King Yi: I feel reassured by your words. ]

Double insurance, he won’t lose anyway.

And by agreeing to help Lei He, he might be able to gain her trust and get information about the Disaster Treasure from her.

Seeing that no one contacted him to sell ancient Padian gold coins, Zhi Shu simply turned off the computer and went downstairs.

In the living room downstairs, Lei Guanwang was watching TV and sipping black tea in an elegant posture.

Seeing Naoki come down, Lei Guanzhong cast his eyes over.

Naoki looked at Lei Guanwang who was addicted to TV, and thought that if this continues, Lei Guanwang will be myopic, right?

But then again, can Pokémon be nearsighted?

After thinking for a while, Naoki asked: "King Lei Guan, do you feel any discomfort in your eyes?"

King Lei Guan was a little confused: "What do you mean?"

Naoki gestured: "My eyes are sore and I can't see things in the distance clearly. I can only see a blurry scene."

Hearing this, King Lei Guan pondered for a moment, as if feeling something, and then shook his head gently: "I have never felt this way before."

Naoki: "..." It seems that the Pokémon will not suffer from myopia.

Naoki glanced at the clock on the wall and found that the time had reached eleven-thirty noon before he knew it.

It's time to start preparing lunch.

Naoki stretched, then went to the kitchen, took out the ingredients from the refrigerator, and started preparing today's lunch for the Pokémon.

"Love~"

Seeing this scene, his sister Ai Guanshi also stepped forward to help Naoki.

The weather is hot today, so Naoki plans to cook a refreshing mung bean soup for the Pokémon to drink.

He soaked the mung beans for ten minutes, then took them out, washed them, put them into a pot, added water and started to boil them.

There are no mung beans grown in the pasture. These mung beans he bought in the town before.

Under the stove, when Naoki was about to cook, the lava worm that lived in the heating pipe crawled under the stove early.

Seeing this scene, Naoki smiled slightly, then took out a few berries and knelt down to feed them to the lava worms.

The lava worm happily ate the fruit into its stomach, and then concentrated on releasing the heat from its body to help make soup.

After practicing day after day, this lava bug has become very proficient in controlling temperature.

Now, it has become a good helper in the kitchen, helping my sister Ai Guansi and Naoki a lot.

While the mung bean soup was being cooked, Naoki began to fry steaks for the three carnivorous Pokémon: Gullton, Motozord, and Fluttershy.

Naoki has already become proficient in this technology.

When the steak was fried until golden, he raised his hand vigorously. The few pieces in the pan were charred on the outside and tender on the inside. The golden and attractive meat fell into the white porcelain plate beside it.

Then, Naoki started steaming sea bass for Kuailong and making sandwiches for Eguifen...

By the time all Pokémon food was prepared, the mung bean soup was ready.

Naoki put the pot aside, then squatted down and began to use an iron hook to clean the coke chunks from the lava bug's body.

These cokes are made from tree fruits eaten by lava worms. The pulp inside is digested by the lava worms, and the fruit core is converted into coke blocks by the magma-like high temperature and is expelled from the body.

Lava bugs don't have hands, so it's hard to clean up after themselves.

Therefore, every time Naoki helps it clean up, the lava bug will make a happy cry, which means that it feels very comfortable.

After the cleaning was completed, Naoki asked the Biker to go to the ice cave to call the group of Pokémon over for lunch.

The Motorcycle Lizard ran out of the door obediently.

After a while, with a burst of lively shouts, a large group of Pokémon ran into the house.

Naoki brought the food to the table, and at the same time lowered his head to take a look at the effect of the mung bean soup, and then regretfully discovered that the effect of this thing was really refreshing and relieving the heat.

Yes, that's what it means literally.

[Mung bean soup (C): Cooking effect, cooling and relieving heat. After eating it, humans and Pokémon will feel cool and avoid heatstroke. It is very suitable for drinking in hot summer. ]

At the dinner table, the Pokémon had happily begun to eat the food Naoki prepared for them.

While eating, Naoki looked at the group of Pokémon in front of him apologetically.

In his previous life, he was not a chef, he was just a social worker who worked overtime until late every day.

Due to his limited cooking skills, the food he always cooked was the same.

Sandwiches, fried steak, steamed seabass, and occasionally home-cooked dishes such as chicken stewed with mushrooms, braised pork, braised eggplant, pork rib soup, pork stewed vermicelli...

At this moment, Naoki regretted that he had not gone to New Oriental to further his studies in his previous life.

However, Guluton and the others didn't feel that way at all.

Because as long as it is food cooked by Naoki, they will eat it happily, and they will never get tired of eating the same dishes even if they are repeated.

After all, life now is countless times better than it was in the wild.

There is no one in the wild making delicious food for them every day, except for tree fruits.

Zhi Shu also rotates their recipes every day. In addition to food, there are also delicious poffins and sweet energy cubes to eat.

At four o'clock in the evening, the temperature slowly dropped and it was not as hot as noon.

Taking advantage of this time, Zhi Shu came to the pasture and began to inspect the crops in the field.

Nearly a month has passed, and all the green onions he planted for the Green Onion Duck last time have grown.

I don't know whether it was because of absorbing the energy of the grass from the goat, or because of mutation, but the size of these green onions soared to two meters, almost several times the size of normal green onions.

This reminded Naoki of the Shandong green onions that grew taller than humans in his previous life...

When he came to the green onion garden, the green onion duck was carrying the original spring onion and patrolling the fields with enthusiasm.

It looked at the green onions that were taller than it, and its eyes were filled with unprecedented excitement and excitement.

If these green onions are used as weapons... then the power of its moves will definitely be greatly improved!

[Super Green Onion: A special crop, a green onion that has been mutated after being cultivated by the energy of the grass of the mount goat. It grows to two meters in length, and its toughness has been greatly improved. It is a veritable super green onion, and can be regarded as a treasure by a certain Pokémon. It can be used as a weapon or used to stew soup. It tastes very delicious and is still 1 day away from being fully mature. ]

"As expected..." Looking at these green onions, Naoki didn't know how to complain.

With such a big green onion, can Green Onion Duck really use it as an ordinary sword?

Or is Green Onion Duck planning to change weapons and use this super green onion as a long gun or a big sword?