Pokémon, but cultural invasion.

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[Beep—Game starts, writing data...]

A deep darkness descended, and his consciousness momentarily wavered.

The next second, the blinding light and the noise around him pulled Quanshu back to reality.

He opened his eyes, and a gray-white, ring-shaped building resembling a rocky mountain blocked his view.

The stone tablet at the entrance of the hall is inscribed with the words: Shenhui City Science and Natural History Museum.

At this moment, the flow of people at the entrance is constant, and some people slow down their pace slightly, casting curious glances at the spring tree that has appeared out of nowhere.

"This is... Dark Grey City?!"

Izumi's eyes widened. Standing at the highest point in the city, he looked back and could even see the lush and verdant Tokiwa Forest in the distance.

I waited in place for a few seconds, but nothing unusual happened.

"...That's it?"

Chapter 2 At worst, we'll sink Kanto.

Fukahashi City is located in the northwest of the Kanto region, nestled between the Viridian Forest and Mt. Tsukimi.

The nearby massive rocky mountains produce a variety of minerals, attracting stone enthusiasts from all over the world.

It is also the first stop for many novice trainers in the Kanto region.

Because Psychic-type Pokémon can teleport, Izumi's sudden appearance did not cause panic.

"From a game perspective, could this be considered a beginner's village?"

Quanshu moved to a glass door in the museum, wearing the jacket he had chosen when creating his character and a red baseball cap.

"But this seems to be more than just a game..."

The people around me spoke a language with a strange tone but which I could understand. A gentle breeze carried the aroma of food simmering in the food street below. The glass felt cold and real through my fingertips.

Most importantly... Quanshu raised his hand, and the palm-sized handheld console was firmly gripped in his hand.

[Game in progress...]

The screen was completely black, with only one "Exit" option lit up at the bottom.

Does exiting the game mean returning to Earth?

As Quanshu looked at the handheld console that had taken him through two time travels, immature conjectures surfaced in his mind.

However, there's no rush to verify the conjecture, since we're already here.

He carefully checked his entire body and found several banknotes in his jacket pocket, as well as a metal card that appeared to be identification.

There is nothing else besides that.

I've never seen banknotes like this before. They have the Pokémon logo from the game printed on them. They total three thousand yuan.

"There's still some initial funding, it's a pity that no PhD sent me the three starter Pokémon."

Quanshu muttered something, then, unwilling to give up, continued to test the handheld console.

"Deep Blue, give me some points!"

"System, I want to sign in!"

“Shrabah, stop hiding, I know you’re in the handheld console.”

"Chat group, Game Master, I want the Multiverse Chat Group!"

After all his attempts failed, Izumi's heart finally died; it seemed his handheld console really only had the function of time travel.

However, he noticed two locked boxes on the right side of the black screen: [Backpack] and [Friends].

Quanshu tapped the backpack button, which prompted that unlocking the feature would cost 100,000 Pokémon.

A friend would need one million.

Two seemingly ordinary features in the game require an exorbitant amount of money to unlock.

Izumi fell into deep thought. Unless the inflation in the Pokémon world caught up with the Zimbabwean dollar, it would be impossible for him to collect the money through legitimate means in the short term.

Even if you want to do something illegal or criminal and take risks, you have to have the ability to do it.

As Quanshu pondered, he walked down the stone steps into the city.

As far as he knew, there were actually quite a few overpowered characters in the Pokémon world. The anime was alright, but if you included the protagonists of the special episodes and games, then there were practically human-sized cheat codes everywhere.

In other words, even if Izumi uses the information gap from his past life to create an extremely strong team, he would still be easily defeated by Akane.

In this world where people shout about friendship and bonds and combat power can break through the sky, what's the difference between a transmigrator without cheat codes and a stray dog ​​on the street?

From another perspective, being an angel investor before these human cheat codes grow up seems like a good idea?

If you really want to invest, you should definitely choose the one with the most potential, and there are two such high-quality stocks in the Kanto region.

First is Xiao Zhi, and second is Chi Hong.

The former was eliminated by Izumi, and by the time Satoshi finishes his travels through the eight regions, Izumi's son might be able to take the college entrance exam.

Even if Crimson were to start from Pallet Town today, she still has a chance to break through the Kanto Alliance and reach the summit of Mt. Silver within a year.

If I work hard, I can catch up with Quanshu in the district-wide unified exam on Blue Star next year.

However, it remains unknown whether these two people actually exist.

As for the common trope of using the advantage of foresight to seize opportunities, Izumi has not thought of any yet.

Unlike cultivation of immortality, certain opportunities in the Pokémon world are predetermined and cannot be forced.

The greatest help this world can offer the Izumo Tree right now is probably the abundant and readily available cultivation resources.

Unlike the deliberate blockade by the Blue Star Federation, the training of trainers in the Pokémon world is utopian.

Berries are available for people to pick along the roadside; you might encounter strange people giving away TMs; Gym Leaders offer free advice to new Trainers; and there are Pokémon Centers open 24 hours a day...

On this fertile land, bonds and passion can indeed easily blossom into magnificent flowers.

It was noon, and the sun was shining brightly.

Three blue orange trees are interspersed among the green plants along the street.

Blue Orange has a slightly astringent taste and can restore a Pokémon's stamina, generally used for recovery after intense training.

The blue oranges on the tree, about the size of a bottle cap, are hidden in the gaps between the branches and leaves, looking especially tempting in the sunlight.

"Three hundred yuan a pound, if I could take some back with me I'd be rich."

He casually picked a tree from the spring and put it in his pocket.

He gazed at the clean streets and the tranquil city, a stark contrast to the Blue Star, filled with messy advertisements and light pollution.

Thinking of the simple and honest customs of the Pokémon world, Izumi actually thought it wouldn't be bad to live in this world forever.

After a moment, he gave up the idea.

After all, there are still parents, relatives and friends on Earth whom they cannot part with.

As I was lost in thought, a rare vertical banner advertisement caught my eye.

This is the main entrance to the Dark Grey City Game City.

Unlike the famous Yuhong Game City, the people of Shenhui also have their own entertainment needs.

A half-person-wide vertical banner advertisement bore four large characters: "Positive and Negative Patting".

Below the text is an image of Positive and Negative Paddles running in a large machinery factory.

On the right side, there is a line of smaller print: "Best two-player puzzle game of the first half of the year, highest-selling two-player game on the Gear platform."

This short sentence piqued Izumi's curiosity: what would a game in the Pokémon world be like?

Without hesitation, he strode into the arcade.

The building's interior was larger than I had imagined, with the front half filled with all sorts of magnificent machines that shimmered under dazzling, ever-changing lights.

The back half is rows of seats, more like some high-end internet cafes from my previous life than an arcade.

After passing several lottery machines with flashing lights and deafening noise, Izumi walked to the innermost seating area.

As a popular game, he glanced at it and noticed that several devices were running similar scenes from the advertisement.

Quanshu randomly picked someone and stopped to watch from behind him.

The young man wearing glasses seemed to be enjoying himself with his girlfriend, completely unaware of the spring-covered trees behind him.

After watching for a few minutes, he didn't find anything special about the game.

Aside from its beautiful graphics, support for remote online play, and the cute positive and negative patting feature, it has no other highlights.

The gameplay involves two players controlling their respective pat-and-stalkers to solve puzzles and overcome obstacles, but the difficulty and gameplay seem to be inferior to the Forest Fire and Ice Man game on 4399 in its previous life.

Ironically, a lot of people in the game store chose this game.

Quanshu glanced around at the rows of seats, and an absurd thought popped into his head:

"Has the cultural and entertainment level of this world become so impoverished that even forest, fire, ice and man can kill each other indiscriminately?"

Chapter 3: Giving the natives of this other world a cultural shock

The idea is too absurd and sounds extremely unreliable at first glance.

But when Izumi set aside her preconceived notions and thought about it carefully, she realized that it was not entirely impossible.

First of all, the focus of the Pokémon world is almost entirely on battles.

When everyone reaches a certain age, they will choose to travel or attend a trainer school, with the ultimate goal of participating in the regional league competition.

Only after ending their journey and realizing they can no longer continue on the path of a trainer will they consider pursuing other careers.

Therefore, the regional league competitions and world championships are extremely popular and firmly occupy everyone's attention.

In comparison, people in this world are remarkably backward in terms of entertainment.

Profiles of games, movies, and anime are extremely rare.

For example, in the movies, Izumi remembers that there are cities similar to Hollywood in the Pokémon world, where Meowth from Team Rocket used to wander.

But when Meow Meow revisits the city, it has become utterly desolate due to the decline of the film industry.

Black & White 2 features a movie studio where players can participate, but the plots of those movies are so simplistic they're hard to describe.

If this is the case for films, which have a longer history and a wider audience, then it goes without saying that it's the case for games and animation.

Thinking of this, Izumi's heart suddenly raced.

He knew that entertainment in this world was just developing slowly, not that people didn't have a need for it; otherwise, arcades wouldn't exist.

But his mind is filled with all sorts of classic works from his previous life.

If we slightly localize those critically acclaimed works and transplant them to the world, wouldn't that be like blindly destroying everything?

The amount of money these works will earn at that time is probably unimaginable to Izumi now.

Unlocking the two functional modules of the handheld console will also be a breeze.

The more he thought about it, the more feasible the idea seemed. He couldn't just have a bug that he couldn't use forever, could he?

It's impossible to accumulate a million in savings by simply working.

Quanshu asked with a hint of suspicion, "Is this game console tempting me down a path of no return, a path where I'll end up hanging by a lamppost?"

If you have an idea, just do it.

He slapped a banknote on the counter of the arcade and stuffed the change into his pocket.

Quanshu wasn't sure if five yuan an hour was a fair price.

I eagerly turned on a device and clicked on the browser on the desktop.

He was slightly taken aback.

"I can't understand these words."

The oddly shaped fonts on the webpage are undoubtedly from the Pokémon world.