Pokémon: Trainers Start as Bounty Hunters.

Brock silently put the old-fashioned Poké Ball into his inventory.

"What, aren't you planning to replace it?" Tetsuya said.

The old-style Poké Balls, unlike the current ones that can be shrunk or enlarged, were somewhat inconvenient.

Xiao Gang shook his head: "Never mind, we'll talk about it later."

Inconvenient as it may be, what matters most is that the spirit likes it.

Tetsuya walked towards where he was cooking: "That's all for now, goodbye~"

He was incredibly fast at chasing people away.

Xiao Gang was speechless: "You're being way too natural."

"Besides..." he paused, "this place is mine, so if anyone should say goodbye, it should be me saying goodbye to you."

"what?"

Tetsuya turned around and tilted his head in disbelief.

Xiao Gang elegantly spread his fingers and pointed around: "On the way here, I had the dojo buy this place."

God knows why the League has records of this manor, but the fact is that this land now officially belongs to Pewter City Gym.

Although he's not as rich as Daigo, Takeshi is still a powerful and wealthy second-generation heir.

"Depend on."

Tetsuya expressed his dissatisfaction with rich people with a sense of indignation.

“I won’t rush back to Nibi for now. You’re going to Yanmo’s place, right? I’ll travel with you for a while.”

As Tetsuya tidied up the equipment, Kogoro said this.

Tetsuya tilted his head: "Okay."

He certainly had no objection; traveling with friends wasn't anything shameful.

Besides, Xiao Gang is also very good at taking care of elves, so he can have a slightly easier time.

"Then I'll go retrieve the Sun Rock and the fossil pterosaur first," Xiao Gang said as he walked out.

Blaziken watched Brock disappear and poked Tetsuya's kidney with its claw.

"Boss, are you going to die before me?"

"Fuck off!"

Zhe, annoyed, kicked it.

Instead of learning anything good, all they do is curse their trainers.

He understood that this was an association that Blaziken had made after learning about Nine-Tails' experiences.

But that's way too far off; he's not even eighteen yet.

Although the average lifespan of humans in the Elf World is not as long as that of most elves, it is still considered long.

Barring any major accidents, he should be able to live to be seventy or eighty years old.

Zhe didn't say much.

You can't understand something like this without experiencing it firsthand.

Instead of thinking about these useless things, you should think about how to become stronger.

Xiao Gang returned quickly.

After a brief exchange, the two embarked on their journey.

"There seems to be a canyon ahead, with a small village inside."

Xiao Gang compared the terrain with the map in his hand.

After a short trip, Tetsuya clearly understood one thing.

That means Ash and his friends will definitely get lost in the future because Ash is running around everywhere.

Even Xiaogang's excellent sense of direction couldn't save him.

"Want to go take a look?" Tetsuya casually picked two tree fruits and handed one to Tsuyoshi.

He wouldn't go there according to his usual practice; he would just go around it.

But since it's not a solo trip now, we still need to consider Xiaogang's thoughts.

"Let's go take a look," Xiao Gang said with great interest. "It's said that a hundred years ago, a natural bird there foretold that a flood would break out."

Tetsuya rolled his eyes: "And then nothing happened for the next hundred years, right?"

After his previous divination experience, he was already very skeptical of these things.

Come to think of it, even the strongest superpowers wouldn't be this exaggerated, probably.

However, he did not object to Xiao Gang's idea of ​​going, and casually changed his direction.

"How did you do that?" Xiao Gang asked curiously.

"Huh?" Tetsuya was stunned.

Xiao Gang pointed to the map: "You can find your way even without looking at the map."

He was quite certain that Tetsuya hadn't even glanced at the map.

“One is using your brain,” Tetsuya replied lazily while munching on an orange. “The other is that the villagers are not trainers after all; they left behind many traces of ordinary people in this forest.”

Xiao Gang paused for a moment.

In his eyes, the surrounding environment was no different from a normal jungle.

He also knew that this was the biggest difference between himself and Tetsuya.

Having lived in the Tokiwa Forest since childhood, Tetsuya's sensitivity to his environment is something that most people can hardly match.

The two soon arrived at the canyon marked on the map.

This is a very secluded spot. At the bottom of the canyon, a stepped viewing platform has been built by human hands, and many people are sitting on the steps, nervously staring at the other side of the canyon.

"What are you doing?" Tetsuya asked Tsuyoshi curiously.

"I don't know," Xiao Gang shook his head.

The map doesn't show such details.

A villager turned around and answered their questions with a devout look: "We are waiting for the natural birds to predict the weather."

"That's it?"

Tetsuya was full of questions.

Is it really necessary for an elf to make such a big fuss about predicting the weather?

Chapter 429 The Divination of the Natural Bird (As usual, half an hour for revision)

Perhaps because every trainer who passes by and sees this scene asks about it, the villagers have become accustomed to it.

"People here really believe in natural bird divination."

Moreover, the natural bird divination is remarkably accurate; listening to its divination has been a tradition in our village for hundreds of years.

He said so.

Tetsuya astutely grasped the key point in his words: "You mean that the natural bird that divines has never changed since hundreds of years ago?"

If that's the case, how old must that wild bird be?

Although a Pokémon's strength is not directly proportional to its age, for Psychic-type Pokémon, the longer they live, the stronger their psychic abilities will become.

It may be limited by physical weakness or aging, making it impossible to maintain continuous output, but it is a real existence.

"Of course not," the villager quickly waved his hand. "But the oldest natural bird that can perform divination now is said to be eighty or ninety years old."

"I see," Tetsuya and Kogo nodded in understanding.

Even so, the age of this wild bird is still quite astonishing.

Don't be fooled by the fact that the Nine-Tailed Fox was still full of energy after living for two hundred years. In reality, even for Pokémon, their lifespan is only limited compared to humans, at least for most of them.

The proverb "Nine-tailed Fox lives for a thousand years, Wartortle lives for ten thousand years" is enough to illustrate the lifespan of these two types of Pokémon.

Besides, Absol, which can live for 100 years, has already been recognized by humans as a long-lived Pokémon and has even been included in the Pokédex.

Generally speaking, a healthy Pokémon without too many injuries or illnesses has a lifespan that is not much different from that of a human, and may even be shorter.

From this perspective, Blaziken's worries are largely unnecessary.

Judging from their lifespans, if everything goes smoothly, they'll be close together, one foot in front of the other.

Strength can only slow down the aging process to a certain extent, but it cannot grant immortality.

In the Pokémon world, probably only those creatures called legendary Pokémon, who are actually embodiments of the world's rules, can possess the almost bug-like ability of immortality.

This is why almost every household in the Pokémon world has Pokémon as family members, with their growth lines almost completely overlapping.

Take Fighting-type Pokémon, which are most similar to humans, as an example.

When a person starts cultivating wrist strength from the age of sixteen to the age of seventy or eighty and is old and frail, their strength or superhuman strength is basically in the same situation—either they have a bad lumbar spine or their legs and feet are not agile.

Many fighting-style dojos have gradually declined for this reason.

Who can blame them when their own leader and his Pokémon's strength have been declining over time? Nurturing an outstanding successor is an extremely difficult task.

Schools like Tetsuya's "Severing the Formless Style" that can continue to develop are quite rare.

Of course, there are also Pokémon with ridiculously long lifespans, such as Ninetales and Wartortle, for example, Ghost-type Pokémon.

Humans still don't know exactly how long they can live, but what is certain is that they are not truly immortal, just have an exaggeratedly long lifespan.

After all, their food consists of human emotions and even souls, so it's normal for them to live a long time.

Just as Xiao Gang was preparing to ask more questions with great interest, the resident suddenly became agitated.

He quickly returned to his seat and sat down, his eyes fixed on the opposite side of the cliff.

The divination by the natural bird has begun.

Several birds flew out of a cave on the opposite side of the cliff and landed on a platform.

Immediately afterwards, a middle-aged woman emerged from the cave and came onto the platform.

"Ladies and gentlemen, today's divination is about to begin. Please be prepared."

Let's do a fortune telling for today's weather. What will it be like?

After the middle-aged woman finished speaking, she looked at several wild birds. These birds looked up at the sky and then began to flap their wings.

"This is... Pokémon semaphore?"

Tetsuya, who was well-versed in all sorts of obscure knowledge, quickly understood the meaning of the natural bird's action: "It probably means that the weather is turning cloudy but there will be no rain?"

"You can do this too?" Xiao Gang's mouth dropped open in surprise.

It's a little embarrassing to admit, but he didn't even know that Pokémon flag signals existed.

Tetsuya nodded: "I know a little bit."

He gestured slightly with his right thumb and forefinger.

"This method of transmitting information is usually used in maritime navigation. On the mainland, the only one I know of is that Pidgey shops have their own set of Pokémon flag signals."

He gave an explanation.

Most forms of communication, including but not limited to language, actually require the highest level of memory.

If you can remember it, then you'll most likely be able to use it.

This is quite favorable to him.

During his school years, he learned quite a bit of similar things from the library, and it wasn't tiring at all.

At this moment, the middle-aged woman above also spoke up: "Today is a sunny day, not a cloudy day. Even if it were cloudy, it wouldn't rain, so there's no need to bring an umbrella."

Xiao Gang nodded slightly: "Has it been processed? No wonder the accuracy rate is so high."

"The priestess is very powerful." The villager proudly raised his head. "However, this young trainer is also the only one in recent years who can understand Natu's divination."