Elf: Start your slow-paced life after becoming a farmer.

Now, Karl has actually suggested going on a trip. Could it be because of Dr. Yamanashi's arrival?

Then Yeci rejected her idea. She could tell from Karl's tone that Karl had already planned his trip to the United States.

Just as Karl was pondering the reason for his trip to the Unova region, Professor Yamanashi, who had been lost in thought for a long time, suddenly spoke up: "Karl, this isn't the surprise you were talking about, is it?"

Upon hearing this, all eyes in the carriage turned to Karl. Karl paused for a moment, then smiled and said, "Of course not, what kind of surprise is this?"

However, Carl clearly didn't intend to reveal any surprise here. He simply winked playfully at Dr. Yamanashi: "Surprises are more interesting when they're revealed at the end, aren't they?"

Seeing Karl's familiar expression, Dr. Yamanashi subconsciously raised his hand and touched his smooth chin: "If this isn't a surprise, what could possibly surprise me? I'm really curious."

Dr. Yamanashi was very familiar with Carl's secretive personality, or rather, Carl's secretive personality was actually inherited from his mother.

Once upon a time, Carl's mother, as Dr. Yamanashi's most prized student, would often make this expression towards Dr. Yamanashi.

Unfortunately, the brilliant female researcher whom Dr. Yamanashi once regarded as his own daughter had left him in an accident more than ten years ago, leaving only Carl, an orphan, to be adopted by him.

Even more regrettably, although Carl inherited his mother's soft chestnut eyes, he did not inherit her ideals. Even though he had a talent for research, he wanted to become a trainer rather than a researcher.

As Dr. Yamanashi was reminiscing, the car they were in gradually slowed down and came to a complete stop shortly afterward.

"We're here now." Carl stretched, then pushed open the door and stepped out first. He then extended his hand to Dr. Yamanashi and said with a smile, "Come on, Doctor, watch your step."

Chapter 245 Dr. Yamanashi: I think it's only been a few months since we last met, right?

Upon arriving at their destination, Carl was astonished to discover that the restaurant that Zhu Lan had booked was the same one that Carl, Ye Ci, and Cattleya had previously visited.

Of course, this was just a coincidence, and not something that Zhu Lan did on purpose.

The meal was enjoyed by both host and guests, and unlike the last time Karl invited Cattleya to dinner, there were no conflicts.

After the meal, Carl marked the exact location of the secret seasoning on the map and then left with Dr. Yamanashi.

Watching Professor Yamanashi and Carl depart on Corviknight and Charizard respectively, Cynthia turned to her friend standing beside her and said affectionately, "Lia, let's go too. Last time I came to Padia, I didn't get to properly explore Brightlight City."

"Hmph, since you've put it that way, Zhu Lan, I guess I'll have to agree." Gadriya's lips curved into a smile, seemingly very pleased with Zhu Lan's invitation to go shopping together.

Meanwhile, after obtaining Carl's "treasure map," Ye Ci immediately arranged for her employees to plan a "treasure hunt" for Cattleya.

……

After several hours of flight, Dr. Yamanashi, led by Carl, finally arrived at the farm located on the outskirts of Little Key Town.

"Hmm, it seems you're really putting the farm into good care of, Carl." Dr. Yamanashi looked at the large expanse of cultivated land on the farm and said with some satisfaction, "I originally thought that with your restless nature, running a farm would be a difficult task for you, but it seems you have a talent for it."

After hearing Dr. Yamanashi's words, Carl chuckled and said, "Of course, but this is not the result of my efforts alone. Everyone in the team has also helped me a lot."

Shortly after the two landed, the Pokémon that had been waiting for a long time surrounded them, led by Urshifu.

Most of the Pokémon in Carl's team are very familiar with Professor Yamanashi. This seemingly serious old man actually has an extraordinary love for Pokémon, which is the key to Professor Yamanashi becoming a world-renowned Pokémon professor.

Every time Carl returns to Sandstone Town to rest, Professor Yamanashi treats Carl's Pokémon with the highest level of hospitality.

Of course, gathering information is an essential step, since it's quite difficult for Professor Yamanashi to find powerful Pokémon that can cooperate with his research.

However, most of the Pokémon who joined the team after Carl arrived in Padia were not too unfamiliar with Professor Yamanashi. After all, Carl's team implemented a "mentor-mentee" model, and most of the Pokémon who joined Carl's team had heard of Professor Yamanashi's existence from other Pokémon.

Just as Professor Yamanashi was greeting Carl's "old buddies," a certain "idiot" was hiding behind Metagross, too afraid to show his face.

"Huh? Charizard, what are you doing hiding behind Metagross? Come over here and say hello!" Carl shouted at Charizard after noticing its little actions.

Feeling a bit guilty, the Charizard turned its head away after hearing Karl's words, pretending it hadn't heard anything.

At this moment, Professor Yamanashi also noticed Charizard hiding behind Metagross. For Professor Yamanashi, Charizard was one of the Pokémon he was most familiar with in Carl's team.

After all, the Charizard was something Professor Yamanashi specifically traded for from his somewhat goofy junior.

"Huh? Charizard, come here." When Professor Yamanashi saw the size of Charizard, he thought he was seeing things. However, after confirming that he was not mistaken, his tone became serious.

Upon hearing Professor Yamanashi's "kind" tone, Charizard knew it couldn't escape, so it reluctantly walked up to Professor Yamanashi with a look of self-abandonment.

Looking at the Charizard standing in front of him, whom he hadn't seen for only a few months, Dr. Yamanashi first touched its belly, and then came behind it and pinched its tail.

"If I remember correctly, it's only been a few months since I last saw Charizard, right? How did it get so fat?" Dr. Yamanashi turned his head and looked at Karl with a shocked expression. "Although I knew before that Charizard's digestive ability was much stronger than that of its own kind, there's no reason why it would become like this."

"Heh, Doctor, you'll have to ask this guy yourself." Karl sneered, looking at the Charizard in front of him who was starting to act innocent. "Without my supervision, this guy just sleeps and eats all day, occasionally going fishing. He hasn't had any serious training in a long time."

After listening to Karl's words, Dr. Yamanashi looked at the Charizard in front of him with a serious expression: "This can't go on any longer. During my stay in Padia, I will be in charge of supervising the Charizard's diet."

Upon hearing this, Charizard's entire body turned gray. This wasn't because Professor Yamanashi's cooking was as bad as Carl's; after all, it would be very difficult to cook food like Carl's.

The reason Charizard looked so hopeless was because the food Dr. Yamanashi provided for it was not enough to satisfy its hunger.

From a young age, Charizard has a digestive capacity far exceeding that of other Charizards, which is a double-edged sword for it.

The advantage of having a powerful digestive ability is that as Charizard grows, it possesses a physique far superior to its peers, as evidenced by its height, which is two heads taller than that of an ordinary Charizard.

The downside of this abnormal digestive ability is that if Charizard doesn't control its almost bottomless appetite, it will have to spend more training time than other Pokémon to digest the energy it takes in every day.

Don't be fooled by the fact that all the Pokémon eat similar things to Karl every day. Karl eats rice, which is "low-sugar and low-fat" for Pokémon, while they eat "high-energy" food developed by Urshifu.

As for those delicious dishes, they're just for the taste of Pokémon; eating only those dishes won't fill their stomachs.

Since arriving in Padia, Carl has relaxed his "supervision" of the Pokémon. In fact, with the exception of a very few Pokémon, most of the Pokémon in Carl's team still maintain their daily training habits.

As for Charizard, it's one thing to be lazy during training, but the problem is that it eats a lot and trains little, which leads to a large amount of energy accumulating in its body.

If Carl lets Charizard continue like this, Charizard will most likely suffer from various diseases due to obesity in the future.

Some might say that Snorlax also eats a lot, so why doesn't it do this?

This is because storing fat is a "racial trait" for Pokémon like Snorlax, just like Tropius can store excess energy as fruit.

Charizard does not possess this "trait," so "obesity" is a very dangerous thing for Charizard.

Even without Professor Yamanashi, Carl had already planned to make Charizard lose weight, but Charizard was more "afraid" of Professor Yamanashi.

Chapter 246 Dr. Yamanashi: Could it be?

In short, apart from Charizard, all of Karl's "old buddies" in the team gave Professor Yamanashi a warm welcome at this meeting that had been several months apart.

If Professor Yamanashi hadn't taken on the task of getting Charizard to lose weight, Charizard would actually have welcomed Professor Yamanashi's arrival.

After greeting a group of familiar faces, Carl introduced all the Pokémon that had joined his team after he arrived in the Padia region to Professor Yamanashi.

"Hello, Tire Nyan." Dr. Yamanashi's expression softened when he saw Tire Nyan following closely beside Karl.

In a previous communication with Carl, Professor Yamanashi had heard Carl mention this little guy who had been abandoned in the wild by his trainer.

From the researchers' perspective, Tilly was well cared for by Carl. Both her size and the luster of her fur showed that Carl was indeed taking good care of her.

Professor Yamanashi remembers that Tiramisu is a Pokémon with a strong possessive nature towards its trainer, and it will only show this side of itself if the trainer treats it sincerely.

As the person who raised Carl, Professor Yamanashi knew very well that although his brat could be a bit crazy at times, he was indeed a trainer that Pokémon loved.

When Tilley saw the human she often heard her master mention showing her kindness, she placed her fluffy paws on the palm that Dr. Yamanashi offered.

After interacting with Tire Meow for a while, Dr. Yamanashi noticed the "Little Pot Lake Five Brothers" who were looking at him with curious eyes.

"Oh? These two little guys are the Padia region form of Ubo? They are indeed very different from Ubo." Dr. Yamanashi squatted down, skillfully took out a pair of protective gloves from his pocket and put them on, then reached out and stroked the sticky skin of the two little Ubo.

Thanks to Dr. Yamanashi's skillful "massage" technique, the two little Wobbles comfortably squinted their eyes.

Although Carl had massaged the two little guys before, Dr. Yamanashi's technique was obviously more professional than Carl's. To be more precise, Carl's massage technique was actually learned from Dr. Yamanashi.

"Hmm, the mucus on the surface of the Padia Upo is stickier than that of the ordinary Upo. Is this because it has poison properties?" Dr. Yamanashi rubbed his fingers together, feeling the slightly sticky texture, and muttered to himself.

Seeing that Dr. Yamanashi was about to enter research mode, Carl immediately interrupted, "Alright, Doctor, let's not think about research today. After all, the experimental equipment hasn't arrived yet."

"Sigh, that's true." Dr. Yamanashi sighed with some regret, then scratched the chins of the two little Wobbles before standing up and listening to Karl's introduction.

"These four Rock Salt Pokémon are the ones that triggered the Synergy Evolution," Karl said, patting Rock Salt's hard head. "So far, I haven't noticed anything unusual about the Synergy Evolution Pokémon. If I had to say something, maybe the rock salt they produce tastes better?"

Because of the evolution video that Carl had sent earlier, Professor Yamanashi had already collected information about the Salt Rock family of Pokémon. Therefore, he knew very well that Carl captured Salt Rock only because he wanted Salt Rock to produce rock salt.

This also means that Karl did not "seriously" nurture them from the beginning.

Of course, this refers to the fact that Karl didn't initially intend to train them for competitive play, not that Karl didn't take them seriously.

After listening to Carl's introduction, Professor Yamanashi began to carefully examine the four Pokémon in front of him that looked and were almost identical in size.

"Could it be that Synergy Evolution causes Pokémon that evolve together to have similar appearances?" Professor Yamanashi muttered casually, then greeted the four Salt Rock Pokémon in a gentle tone.

Perhaps sensing Professor Yamanashi's kindness, or perhaps having learned from other Pokémon that this human was Carl's elder, the four Salt Rocks exchanged glances and then simultaneously spat "rock salt" at Professor Yamanashi.

Dr. Yamanashi knew that Shioshirei would express friendliness by spitting out rock salt, so he took the opportunity to pick up a bit of the "rock salt" that had gotten on his clothes and put it in his mouth.

The moment the glistening salt grains entered his mouth, Dr. Yamanashi felt a warm current rising from his body, and only then did he realize something was wrong.

The four salt rocks spat out not rock salt, but the more precious "pure salt" at him.

Compared to the rock salt produced daily in Saltstone Fortress, Clean Salt not only tastes better, but also has a very famous property: it can remove all abnormal statuses, just like precious wood seeds.

From this point alone, Dr. Yamanashi could sense the goodwill of the four Salt Rocks, since producing clean salt was a considerable burden for the Salt Rocks, which had only recently evolved.

"It seems the Salt Rocks really like you, Doctor." After seeing the expression on Dr. Yamanashi's face, Karl realized that the four Salt Rocks had just sprayed out precious "cleansing salt".

Carl also knew that the reason why these four Salt Rocks did this was not only because Dr. Yamanashi showed them kindness, but also because Dr. Yamanashi was his elder.

After cleaning himself off the cleansing salt, Professor Yamanashi, under Carl's guidance, met the other Pokémon who had recently joined Carl's team.

After hearing about Gengar's bizarre encounter in the underground ruins, Professor Yamanashi visibly became interested in Gengar.

For a scholar who has been studying Pokémon evolution for many years, a ruin that allows Gastly to evolve into Gengar without the person realizing it after taking a nap is a subject worthy of study.

Although the Pokémon academic community has proven that Gengar can evolve through trade, there is still no unified answer to the underlying principles.

However, Dr. Yamanashi had no intention of setting off immediately, since the "main course" he was looking forward to had not yet been served.

After getting to know all the Pokémon, Professor Yamanashi finally couldn't help but say to Carl, "Carl, take me to see Kyurem! I can't wait!"

While the "Ancient Paradox" Majestic Fang that escaped from the Padia Crater is also very interesting, for Professor Yamanashi, or for any Pokémon researcher, the legendary Pokémon, which almost only exist in legends, are the most attractive.

Of course, Professor Yamanashi wasn't so arrogant as to think he could definitely learn something from the legendary Pokémon, but just taking a look, or even being able to touch it, was enough for him.

“I know you really want to see Kyurem, Doctor, but do you remember the surprise I told you I had prepared for you?” Karl didn’t immediately take Doctor Yamanashi to the ice cellar, but clapped his hands and said, “Gurrenton, Milton, you can come out now.”

The moment Carl landed, two large lizards, one red and one blue, appeared in front of Dr. Yamanashi.

"These are the surprises you mentioned, Carl?" Professor Yamanashi looked at the two Pokémon in front of him, whose imposing presence was in no way inferior to Zapdos, and stared at Carl with shining eyes: "Could it be..."

“Yes, Doctor,” Carl replied with a smile, “they are also legendary Pokémon.”

Chapter 247 On Why the Blazing Roaring Tiger is the Cutest Hatched Animal in the Universe

Upon hearing Carl's affirmative answer, Professor Yamanashi did not immediately look at the two legendary Pokémon named Gullardon and Milton. Instead, he carefully examined Carl, the young man he had watched grow up.

In the Pokémon world, legendary Pokémon are not like Pikachu from the Kanto region; they are not something just anyone can encounter.

In Professor Yamanashi's memory, only his dull-witted junior, Yukinari Oak, had encountered several legendary Pokémon.

(P.S.: Mew and Celebi should strictly be classified as Mythical Pokémon, but in the Pokémon universe, they are also considered Legendary Pokémon.)

As of now, based on Professor Yamanashi's knowledge, Carl has already established connections with four legendary Pokémon.

Of course, what Professor Yamanashi didn't know was that Urshifu, who had grown up with Carl since childhood, was also a legendary Pokémon. In addition to the five legendary Pokémon mentioned above, Carl also formed friendships with Mew, Mewtwo, and Reshiram.

From a researcher's perspective, Dr. Yamanashi naturally has a great passion for studying legendary Pokémon, but from the perspective of an elder, Dr. Yamanashi has some concerns about it.

Throughout history, "trainers" like Carl, who have forged bonds with multiple legendary Pokémon, have often been involved in extremely dangerous events.

For example, in the founding legend of the Unova region, there are the "Ideal Dragon" and the "True Dragon." Once chosen by them, one will be forced to participate in the ideological struggle between "ideal" and "truth."

As Carl's elder, Dr. Yamanashi did not want Carl to get involved in similar incidents, even though he knew that with Carl's current strength, there were only a handful of people in the world who could harm him.

This wasn't due to a lack of confidence in Karl's abilities, but rather purely out of concern for the younger generation.

Carl guessed Professor Yamanashi's general thoughts from the worried expression on his face. He then smiled and said, "Professor, don't worry. I'm the kind of person who wears a helmet when riding a flying Pokémon. I value my life very much. I won't take any risks without being absolutely sure of myself."

After hearing Carl's words, Dr. Yamanashi smiled, half relieved and half helpless: "Alright, it's good that you know what's going on."

Of course, if Dr. Yamanashi knew that Carl had taken a bungee jump without a rope when he entered the Padia Pit a while ago, he would definitely grab Carl by the ear and scold him.

However, Carl, who knows Dr. Yamanashi's personality well, naturally wouldn't tell Dr. Yamanashi about this, but others might not.

Putting aside his worries, Dr. Yamanashi turned his head and focused his gaze on the two large lizards, one red and one blue, in front of him.

Although Gullardon and Milton are completely different in appearance, Professor Yamanashi, as a Pokémon Professor, accurately captured a certain similarity between these two giant lizards.

Before heading to Padia, Professor Yamanashi had diligently studied the Pokémon of the Padia region. After a moment of contemplation, he turned to Karl and asked, "If I'm not mistaken, these two Pokémon, named Gullardon and Milton, should have some connection with the Motospi in the Padia region, right?"

“That’s right, as expected of Dr. Yamanashi.” Karl casually complimented Dr. Yamanashi, then turned to Gullardon and Milton and gave them the command: “Gullardon, Milton, switch to mount mode.”

At Karl's command, Guleton and Milton exchanged glances. Although they were still somewhat resistant to Karl's orders, they still transformed into their mount forms as instructed, in order to enjoy the delicious food every day.

Dr. Yamanashi watched this scene and exclaimed in amazement, "Pokémon are truly amazing!"

In Professor Yamanashi's memory, among all the Pokémon currently recorded in the Pokédex, very few Pokémon can transform into different forms, and some of them are passively transforming forms, like Darmanitan.