Trainer? I'm just an ordinary hot spring owner.

What's going on? This novice mission is stuck?

Jiang Cheng was puzzled until he saw Gastly sleeping in the healing room. He suddenly woke up: "Damn, that's right, ghost-type Pokémon don't appear during the day!"

Ghost-type Pokémon generally prefer to be active at night, and daytime is their resting time. Jiang Cheng's healing gym has only one ghost-type room, and with the blessing of the two old masters, the ghost-type energy is quite strong, so naturally no ordinary Pokémon is willing to come in.

"It seems I'm really stuck..." Touching the back of his head, Jiang Cheng felt like he was shooting himself in the foot.

I had a sudden and brilliant idea at first, and pulled the old couple over to be used as atmosphere decorations and put them in the healing room to see the effect. Who knew that the old couple really did have an effect, but the effect was a little too good.

Now this healing room is like a small haunted house. Just by getting close to it, you can feel the temperature is one or two degrees lower. It's already hellish enough, and if a Gastly is added in, hey, that would really be the end of my old baby.

Regarding the current environment of the healing room, Gastly, a senior employee of the healing center, commented: "Ghosts!!"

Those two old men were really bad people. They tortured the original owner when they were alive and used zombie-like parenting. Having a child was like giving birth to a corn, and they just threw the child away after they were done. The original owner grew up with her grandmother, and after her grandmother passed away, she relied on herself and the government for relief. After she died, they tortured her and blocked her own golden finger!

Jiang Cheng threw all his own problems aside and put the blame directly on the two urns.

You see, sometimes the dead are more useful than the living, right? He has no problem with passing the buck without any pressure.

Rubbing his temple, Jiang Cheng decided to solve this problem.

The main problem is actually this couple. Just remove them. Even if Gastly is still the waiter, the atmosphere value will be in a relatively normal range. After all, Gastly does not stay in the healing room all the time. Except for necessary services, it basically will not show up in front of the guests.

For Gastly, even during working hours, eating well and sleeping well are much more important than working.

The first employee hired was a lazy guy, and Jiang Cheng expressed concern about the future of his hot spring center.

Clicking on the construction mode, Jiang Cheng saw the familiar healing room interface again.

He first clicked to store the two urns, and the atmosphere value in the house dropped by fifty points to thirty-one points. As for the remaining ten points, it was because Gastly was set up as an employee inside.

Some employees have their own atmosphere value. This is a hidden setting, which Jiang Cheng discovered after clicking on the small exclamation mark in the healing room.

Is the atmosphere of 31 considered a relatively safe range?

What about just one urn?

Jiang Cheng took out the urn and put it back, but was surprised to find that the urn only added 24 points to the atmosphere.

What's going on? Why is the atmosphere a little less?

There's a spoonful missing from my dad's ashes?

Jiang Cheng was a little confused, so he opened the urn and checked the information again.

[Jiang Mingjun's urn, due to the passage of time, the ghost energy has been slightly consumed]

Huh? The old man is still a consumable?

Surprised!

The ghost energy on this urn will be consumed? It was very powerful when it was just released a month ago, but now the longer it is stored, the less powerful it is. Is that what you mean?

Jiang Cheng suddenly felt that he was at a disadvantage. What if these two Lao Dengs were used up? He didn't have any Lao Dengs to use up.

But he quickly reacted and changed his mind. Now that it was added, the atmosphere value was less. Then why, during this period of time, the atmosphere in the healing room had not decreased at all?

He tried to cancel the construction mode, and the two urns returned to their original places. Jiang Cheng clicked on the atmosphere of the healing room again: "81"

"yeah?"

That is to say, the atmosphere furniture has been locked when it was originally set up. After setting it up, the atmosphere value is fixed. As long as it is not removed, its atmosphere value is permanently locked?

Jiang Cheng turned on the construction mode again and moved the urn to another place, but the atmosphere value on it did not change at all.

You can move things around and rearrange them inside, but if you put it away and redecorate it, will the atmosphere change?

It seems that it would be a big deal to move these two old men today...

Scratching his head in annoyance, Jiang Cheng decided to keep things as they were for now. As for business, he could just entertain ghost-type Pokémon at night. He would make plans after completing the novice mission and unlocking the second healing room!

Then during the day...let's go and take care of the problem with the Magikarp pond!

Jiang Cheng took action immediately. He picked up his fishing gear and planned to go fishing while going to the association to see if he could exchange some seaweed and landscape stones, and it would be best to see if he could get some suitable Pokémon.

The fishing association is right on the beach. As a coastal tourist city, the sea fishing culture here is very rich. Almost every local resident can cast a few rods to supplement their family income. The fishery resources here are indeed rich. Just relying on the small population on the island, we can make a lot of money!

When Jiang Cheng rode his bicycle to the familiar old place again, those old fishing friends who had met him once greeted him one after another.

"Hey, little brother, you are here to fish again today. Why didn't you come yesterday? We were looking for you yesterday."

"I was repairing the roof yesterday. It took me an entire afternoon to finish it. It was too late so I didn't come over." Jiang Cheng greeted him politely, but was a little puzzled: "What do you want me for?"

"Of course I'm asking you for advice. You kept catching fish that day and everyone was envious!"

The old man next to him spoke carelessly. As a fisherman, strength speaks for itself. Although Jiang Cheng had only been here for half a day, he had convinced these old men with his rich experience and professional knowledge in just half a day. When he first caught someone, no one took it seriously. The second one was a bit interesting. The third one, wow?

The fourth, the fifth... Later everyone was amazed. How did this guy do it?

I would like to call you the fishing fairy!

After finally parting ways with his buddies, Jiang Cheng entered the fishing association and explained his purpose.

"Water plants and coral stones? What do you want those things for?" The staff of the fishing association were a little confused. Some people came to them to ask for fishing rods, some asked for reels, some asked for fishing lines, and some asked for various types of baits, but they had never seen anyone asking for water plants and corals.

"It's like this..." Jiang Cheng briefly explained his situation: "In addition to these, I also want to find a chou chou fish, a lobster soldier, a gem starfish and a starfish. It would be even better if there are sun corals and heart fish."

Corals can be used as decorations, and they are also very effective in improving water quality. They are beautiful and easy to use, but they are difficult to grow. However, the Pokémon sun coral perfectly solves this problem.

Things always change. At the beginning, Jiang Cheng just wanted to make some Fengrong for Magikarp, but it was like entering the map with a budget of 3000, and then increasing the money to .

With aquatic plants and shelter, I want to add some aquatic benthic organisms to make sure that this space is not wasted. With benthic organisms, I want to enrich the hydrological content...

Finally, Jiang Cheng decided to turn his front yard into a large pond and built a stone corridor in the middle for people to enter. When customers come in, they will see blue water on both sides and a colorful underwater world below.

The Pokémon now live comfortably, and the hot springs center has gained a unique landscape.

Simply perfect!

However, those are still a bit far away, and we don’t have the ability to do that at the moment. We are just asking first and familiarizing ourselves with the relevant procedures.

After hearing Jiang Cheng's request, the person in charge shook his head and said, "We don't have water plants and sea stones here. You may want to go to the diving association to ask. As for the Pokémon you mentioned, we can't help you. You have to go into the water to capture them yourself. Or you can go to ask Dr. Kukui. He may have a way."

The humans in the Pokémon world are very serious about how to obtain Pokémon. They follow a central idea - Pokémon are partners and should never be traded.

If you want to get Pokémon, just go to the wild and capture them by fighting or persuasion. Or, if you aspire to become a trainer, you can go to the island king through the island trial and get your first Pokémon. Then, go back to the previous process.

The treasurers took this matter so seriously that it was even listed in the Union Law as a major criminal offense.

Any behavior involving the capture and trading of Pokémon will attract heavy blows from Interpol. Their logic is simple: if you can sell Pokémon, what else can't you do?

Okay, Jiang Cheng nodded. He had taken it for granted. He thought that places like the Fishing Association would often catch water-type Pokémon, and there might be some special channels to obtain them. It seems that he still has to go there himself.

As for Dr. Kukui... forget it, let's deal with the problems of aquatic plants and shelter first.

After knowing that Liliae had escaped from the Aether Foundation and the plot had already begun, Jiang Cheng had a...vague resistance to Professor Kukui.

This can be regarded as the thinking inertia of a small person. Although Jiang Cheng did a lot of things as a biologist in his previous life, when he came to the new world, he wanted to be an everyday person and live his own life steadily. As for fighting against the ultimate beasts and the confrontation between the sun god and the moon god, let the protagonist do it.

Not to mention that Dr. Kukui is also a masked philosophical wrestler Batman, which makes him even more resistant. You have too many complete elements, and I really can't stand it.

As for Lillie, even though Jiang Cheng called her "wife" when they were playing in his previous life, now that they really met, Lillie's appearance as a little loli made it impossible for Jiang Cheng, who has the heart of an uncle, to feel any feelings for her, otherwise he would feel like a beast.

For a man like Jiang Cheng, the ultimate secret of the beauty trap is not to put a beautiful woman in front of you, but to suddenly receive a phone call with a familiar, crisp and smart voice: "Hello, can you hear me? Really, why are you still so stupid like you were in high school?"

Jiang Cheng gave up the idea of ​​asking Dr. Kukui for help and decided to take a long-term view and look for aquatic plants and underwater shelters first.

For this purpose, he came to the diving club specifically.

The person in charge of the diving club is called Eddie. His full name is very long, with 42 characters, so we will just call him Eddie here.

When Jiang Cheng explained his purpose to him, Eddie said that their diving club could help with this. They would organize members to go into the water on weekends to clean up the aquatic plants and all kinds of debris under the seabed to ensure the cleanliness of the underwater environment, which is especially important for a tourist city. Jiang Cheng could go with them, and they would also help Jiang Cheng take some of the waste. These were originally supposed to be processed and used as feed, so it was completely fine to let Jiang Cheng deal with it himself.

But Eddie was puzzled as to Jiang Cheng's purpose.

Why do we need to provide Magikarp with such a rich environment? What is the use of water plants and shelters? Magikarp can't use them, they will just keep jumping on the water surface.

Jiang Cheng explained his intention, but Eddie still shook his head: "Friend, Pokémon need companionship more. It's more important for you to be together."

Jiang Cheng understood that this was the difference in concepts between people in the two worlds. Jiang Cheng's understanding came more from his past life experiences. In his breeding experience, wild creatures, including fish, are mostly very timid. Most of the time, they prefer to be alone, just like humans. They need a space where they can feel completely safe. This is especially critical in zoos or personal breeding. Shelters can greatly relieve the animals' anxiety, and abundance can make them feel like they are living in a familiar environment, making them more comfortable.

But people in the Pokémon world don't care so much about these things. It's enough for them to stay in the Poké Ball. What's more important is the bond, communication, and connection between them and Pokémon.

"This is my personal idea. As you know, I run a hot spring house. My job is to make the customers who come here more comfortable. So when it comes to breeding Pokémon, I also want to make their lives as comfortable as possible."

Jiang Cheng didn't want to argue about this. The world has its own rules, but as an adult, his thinking was not so easily changed. He chose to find a way for both parties to step down.

After finally finishing the run, Jiang Cheng happily discovered, haha, it was another day of doing nothing!

[The candlelight spirit has come to visit! 】

[Candlelight Spirit's Status: Curious/Tired/Hungry]

[Please provide healing services to the candlelight spirit to make it healthy and full of vitality! ]

Candlelight Spirit...

Finally it was night. Jiang Cheng lay down on the bed and started: "Hot spring, start!" Then he turned into a hands-off boss and threw the business to Gastly, while he prepared to fall asleep on the bed.

One should not be too Bruce Wayne. Besides, Jiang Cheng has been busy all day and he should sleep when it’s time.

Now that the program can run by itself, don't touch it.

Having said that, Jiang Cheng still plans to take a closer look at the process to see if it runs smoothly. If not, that's another matter.

It’s just a bit surprising that the Pokémon that came in today was this one.

The descriptions of the elves on this evolutionary line are quite scary. Legend has it that the flame of the Candlelight Spirit burns by absorbing the vitality of people and Pokémon, and the candlelight burning on its head keeps its body slightly warm. Its flame is usually extinguished, but as long as it absorbs the vitality of people or Pokémon, the flame will sparkle. The younger the soul absorbed, the more vigorous and weird the candlelight on its head will burn.

At this stage, it is actually relatively safe. It only absorbs some vitality. With the vitality of Pokémon and Pokémon, as long as it is not a bug-type, it will basically recover after a while.

In fact, in the latest settings, fire-type Pokémon can also directly ignite the flame on the Candlelight Spirit's head.

When it comes to the evolved lamp ghost, it becomes even more bizarre. It will appear at the moment of human death, and absorb the soul of the person as soon as it leaves the body. It usually hides in the town disguised as a lamp. Once it finds a person who is about to die, it will quietly follow behind and light the lamp by absorbing the soul. It will wander around hospitals and streets in search of the soul of the dead.

It has begun to look a bit like a murderous ghost, and the threat level is quite high. However, it still follows a rule at this time, which is not to attack living people, but only to attack souls. It is just like a vulture, waiting for its prey to die naturally.

When it comes to the third stage of the Crystal Lamp Spirit, the style of painting suddenly changes. It will absorb and burn souls, and will shake the flames on its arms strangely to hypnotize the opponent. If you are surrounded by the flames of the Crystal Lamp Spirit, your soul will be absorbed and burned, leaving only a walking corpse. The soul burned by the weird flame has nowhere to go and can only wander in this world forever.

At this part, it has begun to transform into a red-clothed evil spirit, and the prey it targets all suffer a miserable end.

In fact, it's not just the Candlelight family. Many ghost-type Pokémon are described as being quite terrifying. There are certain reasons why these Pokémon are disliked by people. After all, the instinct of living things is to seek benefits and avoid harm. Pokémon humans have high moral standards, but they are not saints.

Ignorance exists in every world, and the Pokémon world is not a perfect utopia, otherwise poaching would not have occurred.

It is human nature to choose to stay away from danger.

Just like Jiang Cheng now, he was still very glad at this moment that he chose to let Gastly to receive this customer, otherwise, if someone took a bite of him first when they met, he didn't know whether the store would reimburse him or not.

If he didn't report it, he would just lose a lot of vitality. Having died once, Jiang Cheng now cherishes this body that is full of energy and stands tall every morning when he wakes up.

"Candlelight~"

White, small, fragrant... cough cough, the little candlelight spirit walked into the healing hall and looked around curiously. This building looked very good and seemed to be a very good habitat. She could call all her companions over later.

It took a deep breath and there seemed to be the smell of human beings here. Doesn't this mean that it can have a good meal?

Little Candlelight's eyes lit up, and she walked towards the hot springs with her short legs.

But soon, it was blocked by a Gastly.

The little Candlelight Spirit is only 0.3m in size. Faced with the huge Gastly that is 1.4m in size, the little Candlelight Spirit was indeed frightened and prepared for battle immediately.

They are social animals, and they basically move in groups when facing foreign enemies. Now that they have encountered such a powerful enemy alone, the little candlelight spirit is extremely panicked.

"Candlelight candlelight!!"

"Ghost————" Gastly yawned loudly, forced a smile, then made way and continued to follow the old process, directing the way, waiting for customers to come in, get food, close the door, and then just wait until the time comes. When he is done, he will remind the boss to remember to clean the room, and then he can wait for the next customer to arrive and continue the above process.

In fact, showing up at the beginning is part of the process, which includes that smile that looks so awkward and flattering.

Jiang Cheng called him the number one official service person...ah...ghost.