I run an orphanage in the Pokémon world.

"Phoenix King? What are you doing here?" Teng Shu was a little surprised. Phoenix King had always met him outside before, but now it appeared here, which was really surprising.

However, looking at Ho-Oh in front of him, Teng Shu also had some admiration. Ho-Oh was wearing a unique outfit and looked like a young lady from an anime, but her blonde hair was still very eye-catching.

"That guy Ifilthal came all the way here, of course I had to come and check it out," Ho-Oh said matter-of-factly, glancing at Tengshu as she spoke. Tengshu, hearing this, understood that Ifilthal's arrival had indeed caused the commotion...

Teng Shu's lips twitched. Luckily, Ho-Oh had arrived, otherwise he would have almost forgotten about Ifiltal. If he had forgotten, something terrible would have happened. Thinking of this, Teng Shu's expression became much more serious. He hurried to the kitchen, where Ifiltal was already sitting, playing a game console. Teng Shu glanced at it and saw that it was the latest NS2 game console.

"Isn't this the latest NS2? Iveltal, you play this?" Teng Shu was a little surprised. In the world of Pokémon, the NS is not a strange thing. Even the earliest Game Boy had one. After all, every Pokémon game has the latest handheld console from Nintendo at the time. Iveltal nodded after hearing this.

"This game console is not bad, it has been upgraded a bit, but the battery life is terrible. When I play games, it only lasts for about two and a half hours." Iffertart curled his lip in disdain. Teng Shu agreed wholeheartedly. So this is probably why Nintendo later released a version with longer battery life. After that, they launched an OLED game console. Anyway, there were basically some upgrades.

Teng Shu understood, but he had been busy with the orphanage lately and had lost much interest in the game. He was already exhausted from dealing with life every day.

Upon arriving in the kitchen, Teng Shu began to ponder what to have for breakfast. After much thought, he decided to simply make a bowl of beef noodles, since beef noodles were his specialty.

While Tengshu was busy cooking, Ho-Oh arrived at the cafeteria and chatted with Iphilt. Tengshu didn't pay much attention and focused on cooking noodles. After making the beef noodles, he could then entertain these two special guests.

However, we also need to take care of those little guys.

So Tengshu rang the bell, and soon after, Forsaken was the first to rush in, followed happily by the other Pokémon. Murkrow didn't seem as lively as before. When Tengshu handed Murkrow noodles, he noticed that Murkrow's claws had a trace of dirt on them.

It seems the Murlocs have been busy planting berries lately.

"Little Black, you don't need to plant too many tree fruits," Tengshu reminded Dark Raven. He had to remind him, otherwise Dark Raven might not remember this.

During this time, Tengshu also took a look and found that the number of berries in the Murkrow area was really increasing. If they were all ripe, there might not be enough berries to eat in the future, unless the number of Pokémon in the orphanage increased. However, Tengshu thought that was impossible, since the situation in Viridian City was relatively stable.

Iffertal seemed quite satisfied with his meal, but Tengshu noticed that Iffertal was adding sugar to his noodles—a lethal amount that was almost suffocating.

Teng Shu remained silent for a long time. He had an urge to rush up and punch someone, but after taking a few deep breaths, he calmed himself down. Teng Shu felt that he might be overthinking things. After all, there was indeed a way of eating sugar noodles these days, so Teng Shu felt that he could accept it.

After Iffertar finished eating, he left behind a gift: a dark jade pendant. Teng Shu held it in his hand; it was cool and refreshing, quite comfortable.

"Thank you." Teng Shu was very happy. He was quite accepting of this kind of jade pendant. After all, this kind of jade pendant gave people a very good feeling. However, holding the jade pendant in his hand, Teng Shu also had some curiosity.

What effect will Iffer's jade tablet have? After all, Iffer can absorb the life force of other creatures.

"Don't overthink it. It's just a pretty jade pendant made of decent material. It's not very useful." Iffertar seemed to have seen through Teng Shu's thoughts and reminded him. Teng Shu coughed awkwardly. Had he been overthinking things? Not at all!

After finishing their meal, Ifiltal left, but before leaving, he reminded Tengshu to remember to tell Huayeti. This made Fengwang a little curious, wondering what had happened.

"It's like this..." Teng Shu briefly explained his situation. After hearing this, Feng Wang paused for a moment, and then a look of understanding flashed in his eyes.

"So it was her. I didn't expect she still hasn't gotten over it." Phoenix King shook his head regretfully. Immortality, something so many people dream of, but for Flower Leaf, it has become a sin. It's suffocating. But this is a shackle that Flower Leaf has put on herself.

"Phoenix King, do you know about this too?" Teng Shu asked curiously. Phoenix King nodded naturally and told Teng Shu that when the biological weapon was activated, Phoenix King went to take a look. It was indeed very tragic, but it was the humans' own choice, so Phoenix King didn't interfere. After all, sometimes, even divine beasts can't just clean up after humans.

Otherwise, if humans discover that no matter how recklessly they act, divine beasts will always be there to protect them, they wouldn't even dare to imagine what these people would do in the future.

Teng Shu felt that what Feng Wang said made sense. After all, if someone always covered for you when you made a mistake, the trouble would only get bigger and bigger and eventually become unmanageable, which was understandable.

“But I remember this matter, it seems to have happened many years ago, so Phoenix King, your age…” Teng Shu noticed a suspicious point, how long ago was this matter, but Phoenix King’s phoenix eyes widened.

"Age is always a secret, okay!" Phoenix King stormed off in a huff. Teng Shu's lips twitched; he hadn't expected Phoenix King to have this side to it.

For some reason, a sentence came to mind.

A woman three years older than her husband is said to be blessed with wealth; a woman three thousand years older than her husband is said to be among the immortals.

Phoenix King's age must be at least three thousand years old, right?

Just as he was thinking this, Teng Shu felt something being thrown at him. He instinctively raised his hand and grabbed it. It was a tree fruit, thrown by Ho-Oh. Seeing Ho-Oh's deadly gaze, Teng Shu coughed and went to his office.

"You mean, a batch of Pokémon are going to be sent to my place to retire?" Teng Shu was typing away at his office when he received a call from Officer Jenny in surprise.

However, after listening to Officer Jenny's words, Tengshu was a little confused. But after confirming, he realized that there was indeed something he needed to deal with, and it was a problem of a large group of Pokémon needing to retire. This problem made Tengshu's scalp tingle.

Teng Shu had thought that he probably wouldn't encounter any problems in Changqing City, but he didn't expect that not only would he not encounter any problems, but that he would be in big trouble. Teng Shu was a little helpless, but he still came to the entrance of the welfare home and called Xingfudan along the way.

"How many Pokémon typically need retirement care services?" Teng Shu looked at Blissey curiously. After hearing this, Blissey typed a message, which Teng Shu glanced at.

The total number of members in the alliance is multiplied by four.

Tengshu gasped, but thinking about it, it seemed quite normal. After all, Pokémon are very popular in this world, and many people raise their own Pokémon. Among them, apart from a very small number of Pokémon that do not suffer from the problem of aging, most Pokémon still have this concern.

In such a situation, how many Pokémon would need to retire? That would naturally be an astronomical number. In this world, humans are truly the minority, while the number of wild Pokémon is enormous.

"Now that you mention it, it's actually quite slow that Pokémon are only being delivered now," Teng Shu sighed, then he saw Officer Jenny and a car following behind.

"What's the deal with this time's retirement Pokémon?" Teng Shu couldn't help but ask while the driver was still reversing.

"These are all Pokémon that meet the criteria for retirement, but we were just compiling statistics before. And as you know, because of what happened at the previous welfare home, the League is now putting some requirements on your eligibility review." Officer Jenny said earnestly, and Teng Shu understood.

Because of the incident at the previous nursing home, the Changqing City Alliance has become somewhat wary of new things, which is why the situation has been stalled for so long.

"So how many Pokémon were sent over this time?" Teng Shu knew that since it met the League's retirement requirements, the situation must be quite special.

The Pokémon League has strict requirements for retired Pokémon, since the League has always supported the concept of "each person takes care of their own partner". Simply put, it means that each person takes care of their own elderly Pokémon.

However, there are some special circumstances, such as when the trainer dies, there are no immediate family members, and the extended family members are unwilling to adopt the child, or the child is abandoned and cannot find the trainer, or the child gets lost and cannot find the trainer.

That's not surprising, since Pokémon these days can also suffer from diseases like Alzheimer's.

So sometimes, when someone does find themselves in this situation, you'll see missing person notices posted, and people looking for their lost Pokémon.

“Twelve.” Officer Jenny’s words delivered a devastating blow to Teng Shu.

Twelve? That's quite a lot.

Teng Shu glanced at the car, where Lucky Egg was busy. Teng Shu felt that he might need to find Lucky Egg a helper, otherwise Lucky Egg might not have the time to take care of these old Pokémon.

"It seems we still need to find a way to solve this problem." Teng Shu thought to himself. He planned to go to Baocai Market again. Fortunately, he had money now, so he wouldn't be so strapped for cash when recruiting this time.

Thinking about this, Teng Shu felt that having twelve Pokémon to live out their retirement wouldn't be a problem.

Chapter 570 Feeling down? Let's blow this up.

Having just finished cooking, Teng Shu left the orphanage. He planned to go to the Pokémon Market to recruit some Pokémon and then help Blissey look after the retired Pokémon. Otherwise, Blissey alone might not be able to handle the workload.

When Teng Shu arrived at Baocai Market, he found that it was still the same as before, and it seemed that nothing had changed.

"However, there must have been quite a few things that Pokémon went through to get into human society and work." Teng Shu stroked his chin. He was still quite curious about how Pokémon got into human society and what role the League played in it, but now was not the time for Teng Shu to focus on those things.

Once in front of the computer, Teng Shu typed in his requirements, and a long list immediately popped up.

“Easy to Keep...Hypnos...Alakazam?” Teng Shu looked at these Pokémon that could be hired, lost in thought.

That's pretty much what he thought.

The responsibility of caring for elderly Pokémon is generally difficult for ordinary Pokémon to handle. Only those Pokémon that work with Nurse Joy and her friends can do this job, and then there are Psychic Pokémon.

It has to be said that Psychic Pokémon are indeed very strong in terms of employment. From Tengshu's own perspective, the employment opportunities for Psychic Pokémon are very broad, and there are even many unique aspects to them.

Other types of Pokémon have relatively limited career options.

“Assassin…” Tengshu was somewhat tempted. Assassin can be said to be the most unique Pokémon, because there is a big difference between male and female Assassins, and they are good at different things. At the same time, Assassin is also a very unique Pokémon, good at being a butler and maid-like, so it is welcomed by many families.

However, while Indeedee is a useful Pokémon, it also has high requirements. Usually, two are hired together, one male and one female. So, although Tengshu was very interested before, he did not hire them. But now, Tengshu's pockets are full, so he has chosen to hire two Indeedee that have obtained the skill of Nurse.

In addition to being top-tier nurses, these two little ones also possess other qualifications and certificates, making them veritable champions of academic achievement.

Although Tengshu has already hired Lucky Egg, the League's regulations still apply, so after the two Constables arrive, Tengshu still needs to obtain their approval.

However, this was not a problem for Tengshu. After all, after obtaining the Heart of Everlasting, Tengshu had a special affinity bonus for Pokémon. After Tengshu explained the situation, the two Constables agreed to take on this important task.

"Your names are... Jin Yin?" Teng Shu's expression was a little strange when he heard the name, but looking at the smug servant in front of him, Teng Shu couldn't help but laugh and accept the name.

Pokémon Gold and Silver brought back some memories for Teng Shu. However, looking at the two Constables in front of him, Teng Shu felt that the problem of elderly care in his orphanage could probably be solved. After all, with these two Constables, his work would be much easier.

“Actually, the work at the welfare home is quite simple, just a few minor troubles. You only need to take care of those elderly Pokémon,” Teng Shu said to the two Pokémon as he drove.

Regarding the issue of elderly care in the welfare home, Teng Shu felt that it was somewhat forced upon him, but after taking over, he found that the job was actually quite simple.

Pokémon have an easier time getting old, as they mostly do their own thing, but the frequency of these activities decreases significantly, and their movements become listless and weak, giving them a frail and aged appearance. This is a prominent characteristic of Pokémon as they age.

When Tengshu returned to the orphanage, he saw the twelve Pokémon that were there to help people retire. They were of various kinds, but most of them were quite normal. In short, they fit Tengshu's stereotypes. He thought it was acceptable for these Pokémon to be retired. But then Tengshu saw two Pokémon.

A mischievous lightning bolt, a rumbler.

"No, you stop right there!" Teng Shu couldn't hold back any longer and grabbed Jun Shaguang, who was about to make a run for it. Jun Shaguang turned her head away, her eyes darting around, but she didn't dare to look Teng Shu in the eye.

"Tell me why? Look me in the eye! What's going on with these two?!" Teng Shu grabbed Officer Jenny's clothes, pointing at the two Pokémon behind him with a trembling voice. The moment Indeedee saw the two Pokémon, he silently used a protective field to shield Teng Shu.

Officer Jenny coughed, somewhat speechless. After all, with Golem and Razor, it was a case of "those who know, know."

In the magical world of Pokémon, most Pokémon are living beings who cherish their existence. However, Pokémon like Electrode are not among them. In fact, Electrode is quite rare, since most of the time, Electrode will self-destruct before it even evolves into Electrode.

Voltorb and Electrode are two Pokémon that are frequently sighted in the wild, but they are also the Pokémon that cause the most damage. The reason is that these two Pokémon like to self-destruct, and because they are Electric-type, they naturally like places like power plants, and sometimes their self-destruction will cause power outages.

These are arguably the most annoying Pokémon. The Pokémon League even has to spend manpower and resources to balance the numbers of these two types of Pokémon and restrict their activity areas, etc.

There were people who loved Pokémon before, and they felt that the League's actions were an abuse and extinction of Pokémon. They even launched protests, and the League arranged for Pokémon professors to persuade and educate people, but it was no use. One angry Pokémon enthusiast (who called himself) started cursing, using censored words and swearing a lot.

Then the other party suddenly stopped moving, and even apologized, calling for restrictions on the activity area of ​​Electrode and Voltorb, because her house was blown up by a wild Electrode.

A big explosion.

The mischievous bomb was gone, and so was her house.

That's why the League limits the number and activity area of ​​Electrode and Electrode. I've heard that before the restrictions, Electrode could randomly spawn anywhere, which is a real horror story.

However, these problems are gone now. Thanks to years of management and handling by the League, Electrode and Voltorb are basically confined to specific areas. Trainers who want to go there need to be careful, because these two Pokémon can self-destruct at the slightest provocation. Therefore, bringing a Pokémon with the Humidity ability is the simplest way.

This is why Tengshu feels his defenses are breached when he sees Naughty Raikou.

And the Rumblebee...

Sometimes these things are blown up for fun when they're bored, which is just as dangerous. They also have a habit of rolling down the mountain on their own. The depressions in the mountains of the Kanto region are designed to provide a path for the golems to roll down, so that they don't crash into the houses below.

"I can't help it, those two really do meet the criteria for retirement." Officer Jenny said helplessly. Teng Shu now understood why Officer Jenny was so slow in getting the Pokémon out this time. Teng Shu had already gone to the Pokémon Market and returned by the time Officer Jenny finished. It turned out that these two were dangerous individuals.

Teng Shu's lips twitched, and the contents of the "Pokémon League Pokémon Welfare Plan" flashed through his mind.

[Pokémon applying for public welfare-based elderly care Pokémon welfare programs must meet the following conditions.]

[1. Non-wild Pokémon whose trainers have passed away or cannot be contacted]

[2. Meets the elderly criteria for Pokémon, unable to care for themselves]

3. Those who lack relatives to care for them and cannot receive proper care.

[4. Meeting the special conditions of the alliance]

In most cases, meeting the first two conditions is enough to qualify, since the League's benefits only apply to non-wild Pokémon. If a Pokémon is wild, there will be no benefits or policies available, which is very strict.

However, most people who manage to raise Pokémon into old age have developed a deep bond with their Pokémon and naturally wouldn't abandon them easily. Therefore, meeting the first two conditions is actually quite difficult.

So, does that mean both of these Pokémon are elderly Pokémon from the Electrode and Golem groups, and are non-wild Pokémon whose trainers have passed away or cannot be contacted?

Tengshu walked over, and at that moment, Abbott was working with Blissey to take these Pokémon to the nursing home.

Upon seeing the Vinewood, Blissey and Absorbent handed over Electrode and Golem to it, as they needed to settle the Pokémon and didn't have time for the moment.

Looking at Tengshu, Electrode had a strange smile on its face, but Tengshu wasn't surprised. Electrode is just like that, always wearing a smile, so it wasn't strange at all.

"There really aren't any." Teng Shu looked at the Pokémon in front of him. None of these Pokémon had any stats. Teng Shu even thought he might be seeing things, but when he looked at other places, there were stats. Only these Pokémon didn't have any.

Tengshu's first reaction was that there was something wrong with these Pokémon, but after asking Officer Jenny, Tengshu was certain that there was nothing wrong with them. These Pokémon were all normal, but their trainers had all passed away due to accidents or illnesses, so no one was taking care of them.

So does the death of a trainer mean that Pokémon are abandoned?

A thought flashed through Teng Shu's mind. He looked at the Pokémon in front of him, his eyes filled with an indescribable emotion. Although these Pokémon were forced to separate from their trainers, their trainers had not abandoned them.

"Naughty Thunderbolt, Golem, your rooms are over here, and there are places around the nursing home that are suitable for you to relax." Teng Shu introduced Naughty Thunderbolt and Golem. Officer Jenny had said that Naughty Thunderbolt and Golem were very well-behaved at Officer Jenny's place and had never exploded. Teng Shu was skeptical of this, after all, Golem was alright, but Naughty Thunderbolt was different.

That's the kind of person who'll explode at the slightest provocation.

There was once a game where you could catch and level up Pokémon, similar to the Pokémon games of the past. It was very popular because it was so realistic, with each Pokémon striving to perfectly recreate the real world.

As a result, an unorthodox strategy emerged: find the gathering place of Electrode and Voltorb, then run like crazy. Electrode and Voltorb will eventually self-destruct as they chase you. Once one self-destructs, the others will follow suit, and the map will be cleared in no time. This allows you to level up many times instantly and is very popular.

However, the game company later fixed it, because according to them, while these upgrade methods were realistic, they would disrupt the game's balance.

The most outrageous thing is that people actually agree with it, after all, Electrode is a Pokémon that explodes at the drop of a hat.

Someone stepped in with their left foot first today, so annoying! Let's blow this up!

I'm in a bad mood today, let's explode!

Today... never mind, I don't care about this or that, let's just blast it!

Electrode looked around curiously. Tengshu could sense that Electrode's emotions were very stable, which relieved Tengshu. Although he didn't know how the trainer did it, since the trainer had raised Electrode and prevented it from exploding, then the trainer was quite good.

Not every trainer is capable of catching Electrode, nor can every trainer prevent Electrode from using moves like Self-Destruct and Explosion.

Tengshu had heard of some battle methods that involved using a big explosion to defeat opponents, but because this method was unstable and there were many strong Electric-type Pokémon, it didn't attract much attention.