Pokémon development strategy

The Rockets' uniforms come in black and white versions. Shen Qi originally thought that they had left a combat uniform here, but after picking it up, he discovered that it was a torn black cloth bag.

The dirty black cloth backpack was missing its lower half, and the contents inside were nowhere to be found, but its tough texture could be felt, and it seemed to be waterproof.

In games and anime, no matter which evil organization it is, they want to print their logo everywhere. For example, Team Rocket’s “R” logo is on all their ships and vehicles, as if to alert the police to come and catch them.

Of course, this is not possible in reality. The professional adventure backpack in Shen Qi's hand does not have any logo, and I don't know whether it belongs to Team Rocket.

First collect and seal them in plastic bags, then continue towards the lake.

Pushing aside the gradually sparse vegetation, a bay of blue comes into view.

Under the not-so-bright sunshine, the water surface was shimmering with hazy ripples.

"Shen Qi." Jilidan turned around and asked, "Is this the place you are looking for?"

"This... needs to be looked at again."

It's a bit embarrassing to say that Shen Qi explained the acupoints in the valley of ruins in great detail, but when you get to the corresponding location, you really have to observe it carefully.

After all, I have only experienced the 6th island in pixel mode as a player before, and it was very simple.

The lake covers an area of ​​approximately 100 square meters and its boundaries are very blurred.

The explosion center of the super storm is roughly here. The original lakeshore terrain has been destroyed and the vegetation is in a mess. The fallen old plants have not completely decomposed and degraded, and the new plants have barely covered them. The overall environment exudes the anxiety and disorder after the stock market crash.

The water area should be larger than before, because the super storm caused terrain destruction and water overflow, reducing the original scale and making it difficult for Shen Qi to judge its original appearance.

"Are all the surrounding terrains so low?"

It didn't take long to walk around the lake, and I didn't see any place that was obviously higher than the ground.

The game features a mountain rock mass of considerable height. Comparing it with the character's proportions, it must be at least three meters high, the size of a small house.

But the lake is surrounded by normal hillsides.

Miss Skirt had just returned from a stroll in the nearby forest.

She found that the original water level was much higher than it is now, and dead branches of aquatic plants could be found two meters above the shore.

"The water level is two meters higher than it is now?!"

That's a pretty astonishing drop in height. The higher the lake water goes, the larger the space volume is. I don't know how many cubic meters of water there are at a height of two meters. Maybe it's even more than the amount of lake water left.

There were no breaches in the surrounding hillsides, so the lake water wouldn't leak out like a barrel with a weak board.

It's just a super storm. It won't generate high temperatures to evaporate the water. Even if the lake water is blown away by air currents, the water level should return to its original level in three months.

There are no new drains around, so... a new drainage path must have been created under the lake.

The acupoint is underwater!

After a brief thought, Shen Qi felt that the possibility was very high. In the game, only the exit part of the cave was wrapped in rocks and exposed above the water, and the rest of the space was under the water.

"Jildy, ask Wubo if there is a drainage channel like an underground river under the lake?"

After the exchange, Jilidan expressed helplessness.

For purely wild Pokémon that rarely come into contact with humans, words like "dark river" and "drainage channel" are too advanced.

Previously, Wu Bo invited everyone to go to the lake to play in the water, and his meaning was very vague and simple.

In addition to Wubo, there are also some goldfish and carp giants in the lake. They have no chance to go outside and contact humans, and their level of communication is limited to eating, drinking, defecating and urinating, which are necessary to maintain life.

"Ask if there is a hole underwater that's big enough."

Jigglypuff got the answer and said no.

"So...are there a lot of big rocks?"

This was the last question Shen Qi could think of.

The original entrance of the Dian Point must have been higher than the water surface, and the lake water flowed back after it collapsed due to some powerful attack.

After the super energy storm incident, the Security Agency investigated deep into the valley of ruins and was certain to have found the center of the storm.

They didn't find any clues, which meant that the acupoint was either not here or some extremely hidden changes had occurred.

auspicious!

Jigglypuff waved excitedly.

Because Wubo has the habit of stacking stones underwater to build its nest, he actually paid extra attention to the piles of stones.

Chapter 146: Chain Poké Ball

"It's too secretive..."

Stepping into the waist-deep lake water, Shen Qi felt the rocks beneath his feet become loose.

This is Wubo’s latest discovery of a good place for nesting and collecting materials.

There weren't so many suitable large rocks available in the lake originally. After the Psychic Storm, there were a bunch of rocks. Thanks to the underwater buoyancy, water Pokémon could move them very easily.

The large amount of new stones that appeared would be enough for the Wubos to use for a long time.

They didn't think about how the stones were produced, Shen Qi had already guessed it.

This should be the cave point we are looking for on this trip. Judging from the approximate distribution range of the stones, it is indeed the scale of the foundation of a small house.

It could be an attack from the Psychic Pokémon that launched the Psychic Storm, or a fight between Team Rocket and other trainers, causing the Point to collapse from the inside, allowing the lake water to flow back in, seeping into the ground or flowing into deeper cracks.

So much so that three months after the super storm, the lake water still remained about two meters below its original water level.

"Did Ubo and the others pick up anything strange?"

Shen Qi soon regretted asking this question, as this question was also unanswerable for the wild Wu Bo.

They only maintain the level of communication required for normal survival, and at most have a simple curiosity, and are simply unable to distinguish so-called "strange things".

Generally speaking, we just divide the dead objects in nature into two categories: usable and unusable, and we don’t specifically remember what we got today.

auspicious…

The answer that Jigglypuff got was the same. Wubo would push aside the unwanted things and take away nesting items such as stones.

"no solution anymore…"

Shen Qi gritted his teeth and took out a pack of unopened elf rations.

"Tell the Pokémon in the lake to find something beautiful among these rocks. If you find it, I'll give you a ration!"

Using the power of local Pokémon to search, Shen Qi should actually describe what he is looking for as:

1. Different from natural objects;

2. Looks strange and rare;

3. There are traces of human activity.

Considering that there are only wild Pokémon here, they cannot understand how to add a prefix to the search, so Shen Qi can only express it as "help find beautiful things."

Wild Pokémon still have basic judgments about beauty and ugliness, and they would never consider broken stones or balls of water grass to be "beautiful".

Shen Qi thought so, but reality gave him a severe beating.

Gulu gulu…

The horned goldfish floated up, blowing bubbles, with a large bunch of water plants on her horns.

The reason why water plants are beautiful is that they can serve as food for goldfish and also provide a good environment for them to rest and sleep.

That makes sense... and Shen Qi didn't want to attack the first Pokémon that came looking for something, so he gave the Goldfish a food.

But I have to remind you not to bring duplicate items.

A Goldfish has already come to bring water plants. If other Pokémon bring water plants here, they will not get any rewards.

With that said, the other Pokémon became even more nervous. Not being able to pick the same thing meant that if they were slow they would have no choice.

Woo~bo!

Wubo lifted up a triangular stone, which was very stable for building a nest and was considered "beautiful" in their eyes.

"this…"

Shen Qi didn't know whether to laugh or cry, "This doesn't look good."

Woo…

Wu Bo looked at the ration bag with a disappointed look and pitiful eyes.

Shen Qi really couldn't bear it, so he took out a ration and gave it to Wu Bo.

"Not next time!"

Over the next half hour, the Pokémons caught all sorts of random things.

Beverage bottles, palm-sized snail shells, and a half-finished fishing rod covered with algae...

Shen Qi sent out most of the bag of food, but didn't get anything useful.

Oh, that's a little wrong.

Halfway through, Mukher passed by, joined in, and brought back a big fish.

These days, Shen Qi only ate the dry food and wild fruits he brought with him. It was rare for him to have meat. It was worth it to exchange an elf ration for a big fish in the wilderness.

Warm yellow lights flickered in the water.

Two long parabolic whiskers extend from the blue, oval head of the fish, each with a light bulb-like sphere on the top.

Lantern fish.

This is a Pokémon that can communicate through flashing light and has a strong ability to understand information.

After the lantern fish learned about this activity, it dived for a long time before floating up.

A broken grey sphere sat on top of his head.

"It looks like... a Poké Ball!"

It is different from the classic red and white ball, nor is it an upgraded super ball or advanced ball.

The ball is gray on top and white on the bottom, more like the "heavy ball" used to catch medium-sized Pokémon, but it's darker.

Even without taking a closer look, I can tell that this thing must be something extraordinary.

Shen Qi directly gave the lantern fish two grains of elf food, and then took the sphere to observe it carefully.

It is indeed a special type of Poké Ball, half gray and half white, with a big hole in the bottom and a chain-like design on the upper half of the shell, which makes people feel that the ball has a strong confinement force.

"Great! You found something amazing."

Jigglypuff translated the words of praise, and the lantern fish was very proud.

He could glow, and thought glowing, reflective things were the most beautiful, so he started by diving into the lake and swimming around, looking for reflective things in the area Shen Qi requested and bringing them up.

"awesome."

Shen Qi was generous with his praise.

Gently move the chain on the Poké Ball, and at the intersection of the two chains, just above the ball shell, there is a letter "R" deeply engraved.

That is the Rockets' logo, the initials of Rocket.

The ball was developed independently by them, and the Security Agency will lock onto the Rockets after picking it up, so it doesn’t matter to the Rockets whether the R logo is marked or not, but it is very important to Shen Qi.

This is the kind of thing we're looking for in the Valley of Ruins, Team Rocket's special Imprisonment Poké Balls.

Bringing this thing back, and linking it to the fact that Shen Qi received a special phone call during the Super Energy Storm incident, and adding some exaggeration, would be enough to make the Security Agency believe that Shen Qi had contact with Polygon-related incidents, which would be more or less beneficial to the progress of the investigation.

When Shen Qi sees Porygon, he can pretend to communicate with him and directly tell him what he learned from the [Memory Image]. This will greatly advance the progress of uncovering the truth.

If Porygon is cleared of suspicion, Team Rocket will not attack the police station just for Porygon.

This would eliminate the tragic consequences of a failed strategy.

"I'm so awesome, please don't let the police station down."

If Team Rocket catches Porygon first, the emotional script will be over, and Shen Qi will no longer have a new [Script Detector].

Thanks to the Pokémon for helping today, Shen Qi broke up the remaining Pokémon rations and divided them evenly.

Woo…bo.

Wubo, with mud all over his face, leaned to the water's edge. It was the same Wubo who had just received Shen Qi's reward with the stone.