Pokémon: Starting as a Farmer Instead of a Trainer

Chapter 272 My First Time as a Pokémon: Eating My Way Through a Vending Machine (Seeking Monthly Tickets)

As compensation, Mingyou agreed to the synchronizer's experimental request, took the synchronizer, and examined it repeatedly with a curious expression.

The synchronizer's design is less like a keyboard and more like a Game Boy handheld console, with a simple screen and a few buttons that remind him of the days of playing Pokémon Red and Green.

Press the red button below, and the color screen lights up instantly, displaying a spinning Poké Ball icon. There are no other new icons.

Just as he was about to continue operating it, Synchronous stopped him, saying, "Wait a minute, let's talk about the synchronizer later, let me explain first!"

"Oh, then go ahead and tell me."

"Cough cough..."

Synchronizer cleared its throat twice, then began to speak with a serious expression: "Listen carefully, because the synchronizer is still in the development and testing phase, there could be some danger if you operate it improperly!"

"Of course I know that, please continue, teacher."

"Hmm! Pick up the synchronizer, do you see that blue button?"

Is this it?

Mingyou picked up the synchronizer, and Synchronizer nodded gently. Then he said, "Don't press it yet, listen to me... After you press this button, point the synchronizer's signal receiver at the Pokémon you want to synchronize. When the screen shows that the Pokémon's emotional message has been received, you can synchronize."

"It sounds a bit far-fetched...maybe it's because I'm a country bumpkin and don't understand technology."

Mingyou mentally scoffed, then asked, "So, what's the next step?"

"You can synchronize by pressing that blue button again. The process will take about three to five minutes. The synchronizer will receive your emotions and then transmit them to the Pokémon."

At this point, Synchronize emphasized, "And you need to be careful. You can't just pick any Pokémon to synchronize with. For emotional synchronization, the Pokémon must have a good impression of you. The higher the bond, the better the synchronization effect. Otherwise, the Pokémon's body might reject you."

"Once the emotions are synchronized, your body will fall into a deep sleep, and your mind will appear inside the Pokémon's body. You can give it simple guidance to control its body to walk and jump, or you can do nothing and simply stay inside it and experience its life from a first-person perspective."

"Of course, Pokémon can refuse your guidance. Once emotionally synchronized, your relationship is like that of two characters in a two-player game, but the Pokémon will always be in control unless it is willing to give you complete control of its body."

After hearing the details and instructions, Mingyou became even more curious and impatient. She then asked, "This life experience sounds pretty good, but is that all?"

Synchronize gently shook his head, picked up a synchronizer, and replied, "Of course not. The ultimate goal of the synchronizer I developed is to achieve true synchronization with Pokémon, allowing trainers to personally experience their Pokémon's feelings. Therefore, during emotional synchronization, you will also feel the pain caused by your Pokémon's injury, as well as physical feedback such as hunger!"

"Another very important point is that the synchronizer currently has an unavoidable side effect: it consumes a lot of energy during synchronization!"

"In other words, if you train in sync with your Pokémon for an hour, it's equivalent to the energy you'd expend training for three hours normally. So when you feel extremely tired, you must break the sync as soon as possible!"

At this point, SynchronMi also told him about two ways to unsynchronize.

The simplest way is to stay conscious and directly interrupt the synchronization to return to your body. The second way is to have someone else help you by pressing the red button on the synchronizer that synchronizes you, forcibly shutting it down to interrupt the emotional synchronization.

After listening, Mingyou nodded gently, keeping these thoughts in mind, and then asked with some curiosity, "What will happen if it's never lifted?"

"You will become so exhausted that you will fall asleep inside a Pokémon's body, which may cause some mental damage. When you wake up depends entirely on your will. The Pokémon will not be able to detect your existence, and to other people, your body will look no different from being dead. In short, it is very dangerous."

Synchronous Mi also emphasized that he should not do such a thing, but such a thing is unlikely to happen. At least she had asked many students and teachers to help with the test before, and many people could not last 5 minutes. The only one who lasted for two and a half hours was Teacher Xiao Zhao. In the end, she was worried that there would be problems with the other party, so she forcibly shut down the device, which separated Xiao Zhao and Soroya.

"Well, the side effects are a bit... but it's alright, within an acceptable range."

Compared to being tormented by Zhenyi's singing, this level of exhaustion is nothing. Then Mingyou continued to ask, "Are there any other problems? For example, potential side effects that haven't been discovered yet, such as suddenly being unable to desynchronize?"

"Hmm...maybe so, but I haven't found any yet. After all, the reason I asked you to do experiments was to find these problems and fix them."

"Alright!"

Having already mastered the basic operations, Mingyou decided to satisfy his curiosity and test it out. Anyway, with Tongbumi here to watch over him, the other party wouldn't allow anything to happen to him.

"Then let's begin!"

"Miroku~"

Meltan, who was crawling all over Mingyou, had no idea what was about to happen to her...

“Ding Di—”

Following the instructions of the synchronizer, Mingyou operated step by step, and the Poké Ball icon on the synchronizer's screen changed into a Meltan.

Then his consciousness gradually faded, and when he came to his senses, everything in front of him had changed. What came into view was his own body lying on the bench in the rest area. This was the first time he had seen himself with his own eyes.

"This person would look really good in women's clothing... But what's it like to become a Pokémon? The field of vision is so small, and only one eye moves around. It feels like piloting a Zaku. I'm really not used to it."

Mingyou made a slight complaint. This experience was indeed quite unique, but Meltan's body was too small, so it was inevitable that the experience would be poor. He would try it with Ponpon when he got back. He really wanted to know what it would be like to experience Ponpon's life for a whole day from a first-person perspective.

Seeing him fall and no one care about him anymore, Meltan immediately tried to eat the synchronizer in his hand. Fortunately, Synchronum picked up the synchronizer in time, thus preventing Mingyou from going offline instantly.

She placed Meltan on the ground and then asked, "You should be able to hear me, right?"

"Um."

Mingyou gave a soft "hmm," but the other party couldn't hear it. Not too worried about the synchronization, she continued, "This Pokémon isn't rejecting you, so try guiding it to move."

"move?"

Mingyou sensed it little by little. Fortunately, his mental strength was very strong, and he easily communicated with Meltan. Meltan was simple-minded and did not think too much before handing over his body to him.

It was only then that he suddenly realized that in this state, as long as the Pokémon completely opened its mind to him, he could know what the other Pokémon was thinking. For example, Meltan was thinking about eating right now.

"It's a bit more advanced than telepathy; it's more like the kind of waveguide that transmits emotions... I really don't know how they made this kind of device, and Synchrony seems to be unaware of it."

Mingyou noticed this, otherwise Synchronization Rice would have mentioned it before. It's likely that past test subjects didn't discover it, or it could be an unintentional addition of a function after the latest improvements.

Now that Meltan had handed his body over to him to control, he took over by instinct. But just as he was about to move, his head suddenly fell off, as if he had been beheaded, and his gaze drifted and turned...

Dang dang dang.

The nuts on Meltan's upper body, along with its eyes, rolled off, while its lower body, made of liquid metal, went out of control and collapsed into a heap, successfully separating its head from its body.

Synchronous Rice: "???"

"No... this is way too difficult to do!"

Mingyou complained wildly because Meltan's body structure is maintained by its own magnetism, and this was his first time being a Pokémon. He couldn't get used to controlling it with the habits of a fully healthy human, and had no idea how to use magnetism.

Fortunately, he was quite quick to learn. After some trial and error, he managed to reconnect the nut's head and body, but he still couldn't control the liquid metal body to move freely.

It could only wriggle slowly on the ground like a lame toad king, unable to jump.

But the feeling of hunger in Meltan was definitely there. He really wanted to eat something, not fruit or energy cubes. Instinctively, he focused his gaze on a vending machine standing in the distance.

"The vending machine...it's delicious!"

"No! You can't eat this!"

Sensing Meltan's thoughts, Naruyu panicked and shouted, but could only utter the sound "Meltan". Meltan, who also felt hungry, did not hesitate to regain control of his body and stood up like a "medical miracle".

Compared to the paralysis it suffered when controlled by Mingyou, it now moves with incredible speed, kicking up a cloud of dust as it rushes toward the vending machine.

Going to buy food?

No, the entire vending machine is its food; it wants to transmit the sensation of digesting the metal it has consumed to Mingyou.

But Mingyou wasn't Meltan; he didn't want that feeling of eating metal blocks. His first instinct was to run away, but Synchronize seemed to sense his thoughts and stood up, shouting, "Don't log off! You need to experience what the Pokémon are going through firsthand. That way, you can better collect this data!"

"I don't want to eat this... Ah!!!"

After a long while, Mingyou, who had returned to her own body, leaned against the bench in the rest area as if she had suffered some kind of humiliation, feeling utterly hopeless.

Just then, Rotom's phone rang. Realizing her inappropriate behavior, Xiao Zhao wanted to invite him to lunch and apologize for scaring him that morning.

"Come on, let's eat. It's on me today. Um... there's something else I want to tell you."

"No need, I'm full..."

"Isn't it just lunchtime? Ponpo and the others don't seem to be with you. I saw them run off to the music room. Did Dr. Vero invite you to lunch?"

"No, Sister Xiaozhao... there's something I'm about to tell you that you might not believe..."

"Um?"

"After living all these years, I finally know what it's like to eat from a vending machine..."

"???"

……

(End of this chapter)