Pokémon: I picked up a reborn Eevee at the start of the game.

Will I finally be able to feel his warm embrace again, one that makes me forget all my troubles?

The thought of that feeling—a feeling he could never forget in this lifetime, no matter how many times he reincarnated—made Ibu's body tremble slightly.

I'm back, Xia Chen. This time, I'm going to make up for all the regrets of my past life and climb to the highest peak with you.

Ibrahimovic's thoughts gradually drifted away, and his memories returned to the day he was reborn.

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The Zhijiang Elf Breeding Base is the largest artificial breeding center for elves in Zhijiang City.

It is also the best way for students and citizens of Zhijiang to obtain their favorite sprites.

It covers an area of ​​several thousand hectares, and the number of elves in it is countless, with each area containing tens of thousands of elves.

On an ordinary spring day, a group of cute and ordinary Eevee hatched from their eggs.

As the most popular Pokémon breed, the Zhijiang Breeding Base hatches tens of thousands of Eevee every year.

There's nothing unusual about this.

What's unusual is that one of these Eevee pigs showed outstanding qualities from birth.

They eat the most, run the fastest, have the most active athletic abilities, and display the most amazing intelligence.

The qualities and potential shown by this Eevee earned her better treatment at the breeding center.

Breeding bases also need to make a living, and such an excellent Eevee can easily fetch a good price.

The investment you make now will be recouped many times over the moment she is chosen by a trainer.

Without a doubt, she became the best Pokémon on the breeding base's sales list.

After she passed through the infancy period, staff members led one customer after another to visit the area where she lived every day.

Clearly, the breeding center believes it's time to reap the rewards of their investment in her.

But something strange happened: whenever a guest passed by, this normally lively Eevee would become depressed.

Many customers even directly ask questions like, "Does she have 'jade syndrome'?"

Or it will act extremely irritable and unfriendly, looking more like a monkey monster than an Eevee.

Undoubtedly, Ibrahimovic's unusual behavior deterred wave after wave of guests.

The staff were also helpless, simply assuming that this intelligent Eevee didn't want to leave the place where she was born and raised and her companions.

But how could they have imagined that this seemingly ordinary Eevee, aside from having a bit more talent, actually harbored the soul of a second-generation Eevee?

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Eevee doesn't know if Xia Chen will choose him again from among the many Eevees in this life.

So from birth, she chose a different path from her previous life, striving to improve herself and become the one who stands out from the crowd of Eevee.

This wasn't difficult for her, given her previous life's Heavenly King level strength; the challenge lay in the subsequent changes brought about by her flapping the butterfly's wings.

Her outstanding qualities quickly made her a hot commodity among the Eevee group in the eyes of the breeding base staff, and she experienced for the first time what it felt like to be so popular.

But for the first time, she also realized that by doing this, she might never be able to meet Xia Chen again.

Therefore, whenever someone comes to choose Eevee, Eevee behaves in a very unusual way.

The crisis of being picked by someone else was quickly overcome.

But the clever girl thought of another problem.

At its current price, it seems Xia Chen, that poor bastard, can't afford it.

But words spoken are like water spilled; the same goes for talent.

If I try to play dumb now, it will definitely be seen as hiding my true abilities, and the breeding base will certainly not lower the price.

There's only one way out: escape from prison!

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Without hesitation, Ibrahimovic quickly began preparing his escape plan.

The management of the breeding base is not so strict. Firstly, the place is too big and there are too many Pokémon, so there will always be oversights in the management.

Secondly, no baby elf in the breeding base would be so foolish as to leave this place where they have plenty of food and clothing to become a helpless wild elf.

There is at least no precedent for this.

So Eevee's escape plan went smoothly; she secretly hitched a ride on a large truck that was being distributed to ordinary Pokémon breeding shops.

A dozen or so Eevee clones, all with similar appearances, managed to escape by taking advantage of the chaos.

Once outside, for Eevee, who has lived for a total of ten years in two lifetimes, it's like being able to leap across the vast ocean and soar through the boundless sky.

Even if his strength is not yet as good as those little Radas living in the sewers.

But with his cleverness in manipulating mice, Eevee arrived safely at the place where Xia Chen lived in his memory.

Looking at the bluestone slabs under his feet and the white walls and black tiles above his head, Ibrahimovic seemed to have returned to his most carefree time.

Every weekend, Xia Chen would leave home and go to the market to buy groceries.

Xia Chen would satisfy all her cravings.

By the way, why don't I just wait for Xia Chen on the road he always takes to buy groceries!

Ibrahimovic immediately thought of the best way to arrange a chance encounter.

Given Xia Chen's personality, he definitely wouldn't sit idly by and do nothing about it.

The more he thought about it, the more reliable it seemed, so Ibrahimovic rolled around in the muddy water that hadn't dried after last night's rain.

She then had the little Rada, who had already pledged allegiance to her, scratch several bloody marks on her body. Afterward, she lay down on the only road leading from Xia Chen's house to the vegetable market, waiting for the person she had been longing for to arrive.

Then the scene from earlier happened.

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Xia Chen stopped two or three meters away from Eevee, not rushing to help it.

Having been in this world for almost a year, the first thing he learned from the wandering elves in the city was not to impose his own ideas on them.

Others are hell.

In his eyes, this was a pitiful little Eevee waiting to be rescued.

But in Eevee's eyes, who doesn't know what kind of harm he has suffered or what kind of attitude he has towards humans, he might be a perpetrator with malicious intentions.

The observant Xia Chen noticed that as he approached, Ibu's body trembled even more violently.

It became resistant to being approached?

This was Xia Chen's initial assessment, which made him even more hesitant to approach the Eevee.

As someone with a very clear plan for his life, Xia Chen doesn't like unexpected things happening in his life.

Just as he had many routes to take from his home to the market, Xia Chen would only choose this one small path whose scenery he was already tired of seeing.

He often sees a seemingly unfriendly elf, and he usually calls the neighborhood committee aunties here. They are responsible for rescuing wild elves in the city.

But for some reason, this Eevee Xia Chen felt a strange flutter in its heart the moment it saw it.

As if possessed, Xia Chen squatted down and asked a question in a soft voice that would change the course of his life.

"If you need my help, just nod gently, okay?"

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Chapter 3 My Childhood Friend is Mei

As an ancient city with a history of thousands of years, Zhijiang has its own principles and pride, one of which is to preserve the original flavor of the ancient city area as much as possible.

But perseverance always comes with sacrifices; the antique-style architecture means it's difficult to build the kind of advanced modern buildings here.

Therefore, there are no Pokémon Centers near Xia Chen's home, which are already common in most cities. This Mingyi Clinic is the first choice for the residents here.

Xia Chen held Ibu, who seemed very docile in his arms, while waiting in line for his turn to be seen.

Most of the people ahead of him in line were elderly people holding pet-type Pokémon like Cheetah and Yonex.

Only they have the leisure to line up early in the morning at this small elf clinic to see their precious elves, who may have just sneezed.

Xia Chen is a well-known handsome young man in the ancient city area. The elderly people queuing up for treatment chatted warmly with him and showed concern for Eevee in his arms.

"Xiao Chen finally got a Pokémon! Oh my, it's an Eevee! The little guy is so cute."

"Eevee is great! There are so many evolution types, and I can get any type I like. It's just that the evolution stones are a bit expensive."

"How much money do evolution stones cost? If Xiao Chen comes to our family as our son-in-law, we can support an entire Eevee family without any problem."

"Grandma Lu is keeping this in mind. If you say something like that again, Mingyi will get angry."

In this area without skyscrapers, the neighbors get along quite well. Xia Chen had to deal with the concern and jokes of the old folks while also keeping an eye on Eevee's condition in his arms.

"Buyi."

Little Eevee seemed to sense Xia Chen's concern and snuggled closer into his arms.

The other person being teased, a young girl sitting behind the reception desk, blushed slightly.

With feigned composure, she observed the incoming caller on the table, who seemed to be struggling to breathe and whose body was twitching occasionally, pretending not to hear the neighbors' good-natured teasing.

By flipping her eyelids, Mingyi roughly figured out the cause of Lai Dian Wang's symptoms.

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She picked up the dog from the table and said gently, "Dumpling, come down and walk around a bit."

"Woof."

The dog named Dumpling stretched its four short legs with difficulty and slowly paced around the open space.

Mingyi crossed her arms and nodded thoughtfully. "Dumpling, try wagging your tail at Chansey again."

With its tongue lolling out, the electric dog's short, yellow, lightning-shaped tail swayed back and forth as it released an invisible energy wave toward the Chansey beside Mingyi.

"Lucky~" Chansey nodded to Mingyi, sensing its own condition.

"Wag your tail again," Mingyi commanded Lai Dianwang once more.