Pokémon League Chronicles/Farming, Pokémon Trainer!

Thunder roared, and when Nono came back to her senses, she saw the Gyarados, which had been so arrogant just now, like the God of Destruction descending from the earth, its whole body was charred on the outside and crispy on the inside, its eyes were like spirals of mosquito coils, and it was unconscious in mid-air. It passed by, fell freely under the influence of gravity, and finally fell into the river below the valley with a splash, causing a huge splash.

After Gyarados lost its fighting ability, the lightning, thunder and dark clouds in the sky all disappeared, and the entire mountain range suddenly returned to calm.

The dark clouds dispersed, the sun shone brightly, and the sea was calm. If the mountains and trees destroyed by Gyarados hadn't remained there, Nono would have thought that everything that just happened was a dream.

No, it should be...not a dream, right?

It seems like everything is fine now?

Nuonuo subconsciously put her hands on her chest and took a long breath. Only then did she realize that her chest was already soaked with cold sweat that had broken out all over her body just now.

She suddenly felt a sense of happiness about surviving the disaster, but then she felt more doubts and confusion.

What just happened?

Did a god come down to earth and use thunder and lightning to severely punish the arrogant Gyarados?

No, no, no, no matter how you put it, this is too ridiculous and does not conform to the spirit of science at all...

But in this case... what happened just now? !

--thunder--

"(Wait, wait, wait, give me a break for you two, Gardevoir and Variety.

I just asked you to go up and clean it up. I mean just throw two hundred thousand volts at random to drive it away. I don't want you two to have a set of immobilization methods + rain + trick + electrical field + charging + help + thunder. Use a long combo to do it!I'm afraid it owes you both a hundred thousand lives directly now, and it won't be able to pay it back in a few more lifetimes!

What?It’s been too long since you’ve had a fight, and your hands are itching and you’re experiencing withdrawal reactions, so you can’t help but hold it in?

... Putting aside the Variety Monster, where did you, a nanny like Gardevoir, get such a strong desire to attack?Have you reached the rebellious stage and want to change your image?

Forget it, if you want to fight so much, just pick work-study students from the village and beat them up.Anyway, in the eyes of those guys, Pokémon battles are basically similar to basketball games in after school hours. They are essentially sports competitions with more of a playful nature.As long as you can open your heart, it probably doesn't matter who your opponent is.

Anyway, now, you two teleport down below and throw a few healing wave life drops to the Gyarados and the Three Bees. If they hit the Magikarp in the lake, give the latter a mouthful of milk. When you're done Just come right back. )"

After ending the long-distance call with his Pokémon, Mingyao couldn't help but frown and sighed, causing Zhubei on the side to wonder:

"What's wrong? Did something happen?"

"It's nothing, I just lament that there seems to be something wrong with my education policy. How did my wife, a good national wet nurse, end up being raised by me to be such a violent maniac..."

Zhubei: "?"

Mingyao waved his hand, saying that he was just talking nonsense and there was no need to pay attention.

He turned his head and looked at the front of the tunnel. Juyi was half-kneeling on the edge of the wall, using a pickaxe to knock off a small piece of stone bit by bit. His sticky treasure was squatting aside, holding the flashlight given by Mingyao in its mouth. Come help with lighting.

Mingyao's Giant Pincer Mantis stood on the other side, using its huge pincers to help Juyi dig into the gravel from time to time - in terms of strength alone, it may not be the strongest in Mingyao's team, but with its giant metal pincers and With its strong grip, it is definitely Mingyao’s best mine.

The mining progress was smoother than Mingyao expected. Perhaps it was because the Black Gold Tunnel was originally rich in various ores and metals, or perhaps because Juyi's mineral knowledge was fully utilized with the help of the flashlight and the Giant Pincer Mantis. In short, it didn't take long before several kilograms of raw ore (Mingyao didn't know what to call this stuff covered in mud and rock debris) were dug out and neatly placed aside.

Mingyao knelt down, picked up a dark stone the size of a washbasin, played with it a few times, and asked casually: "This should be coal, right? If it is such a big piece, how long can it be used for cooking?"

Juyi stopped what she was doing, turned around, and looked at him with a very strange expression: "You want to use coal... to cook?"

"Uh, yes, is there any problem?" Mingyao was stunned: "Are you trying to say that if you burn coal directly, toxic substances such as carbon monoxide will be produced? Of course, it must be treated before burning."

"No, no, no, that's not the problem..." Ju Yi simply sat down on the ground: "Coal is such a precious energy, do you actually want to use it to boil water for cooking?"

"Well...what else?" Mingyao spread his hands: "I know that most people in the Xicui area are still at the stage of chopping wood and making fires, and cannot afford the cost of coal. But if we turn this place into a place that can produce stable output In coal mines, the price will naturally drop significantly, so it is normal for people nearby to use it for daily life, right?"

Juyi frowned, shook her head and said, "I don't know what Team Galaxy is thinking, but from my personal experience, that's impossible."

"Impossible? Why?"

"Because mining is different from chopping wood. It is a kind of... well, according to your Galaxy team, it is a kind of work with higher "labor cost"."

Juyi stretched out her hand and made two gestures: "Not only are coal mining places not as easy to find as firewood chopping places, but coal mining requires a lot of knowledge, and the working environment is also very difficult. Not everyone can dig coal.

For example, I am born with night vision and can see clearly in a dark environment, so I can move around in various caves; and because I am also the director of the farm responsible for taking care of the axe-splitting mantis, I often need to dig rocks. Come and offer it as an offering, so you can become proficient in mineral knowledge.

Ordinary people don’t have the conditions I have, so of course they can’t dig coal and use it back like they chop firewood, that would be unrealistic…”

"Wait a minute, you want ordinary people to follow your example of digging coal for use? Just like ordinary self-employed people who cut firewood and farm, use the idea of ​​​​a small farmer economy to mine?" Mingyao suddenly realized something was wrong after hearing this, and hurriedly Interrupting him: "Is that what you meant?"

"Right?" Ju Yi was confused: "Isn't that what you meant?"

Mingyao was silent for a moment, rubbed his brow vigorously, and showed a strange expression:

"Kiu Yi-san, I don't know, have you ever heard of a word called...industrialization?"

Chapter 24 Wow, what a wonderful mother-in-law. The following is a summary

Mingyao has roughly figured out the cognitive differences between him and Juyi.

Whether he is a member of Team Galaxy or a time traveler, his vision and vision are ahead of the times. The concepts of "industrialization" and "modernization" are basically as common to him as drinking water and eating.

In his opinion, Zhuqing Village has not yet implemented large-scale industrialization, purely because of insufficient personnel, facilities and other hardware conditions.In another ten to twenty years of development, all modern factories will be built naturally.

But Juyi, a "local" in the Xicui area, is different.

The Xicui area is a sparsely populated rural area with a primitive environment. It is hard to say whether the total population of such a large area can be [-]. The economic structure is naturally based on the traditional and single small-scale peasant economy, and has been since ancient times. That has never changed.

They do not know or understand the meaning of industrialization.I don’t know what kind of impact it will have on the original small-scale peasant economy, with individuals and families as the basic units, once the industrial system is established.

Sure enough, after hearing the word "industrialization", Juyi just shook her head in confusion:

"What is that? I haven't heard of it."

"It's a production system based on industrial production... Forget it, you probably won't understand if I explain it to you like this. If you have a chance later, I'll let you experience it for yourself."

Juyi nodded ignorantly, not taking Mingyao's words to heart, and turned around and continued to pick up his pickaxe and hit the rocks.

Mingyao stood up, shook his head slightly, and leaned against the wall, lost in thought.

As far as he knew, the development level of Zhuqing Village within a single village was basically in the saturation stage.

In order to further expand development, Magamu and other Galaxy Team senior officials have been meeting every day recently to discuss setting up a group of people to go out and build some new villages based on Galaxy Team's field investigation base.

Whether it is for the villages that have not yet been officially built, or the Zhuqing Village that is about to transition from a "town" to a "city", or even for the entire Xicui area, it is necessary to accelerate industrialization and modernization.

The black gold tunnel, which is rich in ore, may be a good springboard.

Thinking of this, Mingyao turned to look at Zhubei behind him and whispered: "Zhubei, I would like to ask, are there any villages near this black gold tunnel?

Well, or to put it more simply, whose territory is this land? "

Zhubei didn't answer immediately, but looked at him curiously and asked, "What's wrong? Why do you ask this?"

"Because I want to open this place as a mining farm... To put it simply, I want to organize a lot of people to come here to mine for a long time. Maybe I will also build some dormitories nearby to facilitate people to live in." Mingyao tried. Explain to her in as plain language as possible: "If there is an owner of this land, then of course you have to say hello to him in advance, so that he will not come to the door to cause trouble in the middle of the construction and delay the work."

"Oh, that's right..." Zhubei nodded: "This area is surrounded by mountains, and transportation is inconvenient and it is not conducive to farming, so there are no villages.

However, when it comes to the owner of this area...it's not like there are none. "

"Really?" Mingyao, who originally asked just in case, couldn't help but twitched, feeling that things would become very troublesome: "Who is that? I have to find a way to ask for his consent... …”

Unexpectedly, Zhubei just looked at him with strange eyes, and then silently pointed her finger at herself.

Mingyao was stunned: "...you?"

"That's right." Zhubei blinked: "Next to the Black Gold Tunnel is the Giant Wood Battlefield, and this has been a place for collecting black strange stones since ancient times, so in the eyes of outsiders, this place is basically tied to the Giant Wood Battlefield. It’s our Pearl team’s territory.”

"...You didn't say it earlier!"

Mingyao breathed a sigh of relief and waved his hand towards Zhubei: "If that's the case, then I'm welcome. I'll probably bring more people to survey and build a base in a few days. Is that okay?"

"Well, what's the deal with asking for permission?" Zhubei couldn't help but say.

"Can you still disagree?"

"Well, of course it won't..."

"Then I have to." Mingyao spread his hands: "Then I will accept this mine with gratitude, partner."

Zhubei struggled for a while and realized that with her relationship with Mingyao, it seemed like there was really no need to say anything...

But why do I feel a little unhappy?

She sighed, straightened her expression and said: "Things are not that simple. The Black Gold Tunnel is a place closely related to the Axe-Splitting Mantis. If we want to start construction here, I have to convince some highly respected old people in our Pearl Team to ask them to Just agree."

"Oh!" Mingyao continued to spread his hands and nodded: "But I believe you will convince them, right? Come on, I trust you very much."

"...That's right."

Zhubei sighed again. She didn't know why. Although Mingyao said that he trusted her, she was somewhat unhappy about it.

Girls are like this sometimes. Rather than trusting someone with a straightforward "How are you guys?" type of trust, they would prefer that the other party show a certain degree of care and greetings to them.

To put it more broadly, no matter whether it is a man or a woman, everyone will want to show their weak side in front of a specific person. This desire to be coquettish is a kind of nature of living things, engraved in the DNA.

After a sullen silence for a while, Zhu Bei seemed to have remembered something, tilted his head and said slowly: "So, Mingyao... where did you find Miss Nuonuo who is your assistant? "

"Huh?" Mingyao was leaning next to Juyi to watch him carefully digging stones. He replied nonchalantly: "It doesn't matter where she got it from. She is a scholar from the Patia area. Because of certain things, She has to stay in Zhuqing Village for half a year, so Boss Magamu assigned her to me to help."

"Oh..." Zhubei nodded silently: "I thought you picked this person from somewhere specially. I was too worried..."

Mingyao: "?"

Juyi, who was diligently digging stones, silently pricked up her ears and listened to their conversation, and gradually began to understand why Guana had specifically told herself in private that if she and Zhubei met Mr. Mingyao, they should try their best to Reduce your sense of presence and don't disturb her...

The daughter of a good mother-in-law is still my sister/leader, and now she has declined.

Chapter 25 I have a cold...

Things are simpler than Mingyao and the others thought.

In the end, only four hours after they entered the tunnel, Juyi dug out the black strange stone he was targeting this time, as well as various mineral stones that Mingyao needed, enough for him to give to Ma Jia Mu has made a mistake.

On the way back, Juyi seemed to be very satisfied with the excavation work. He was playing with the flashlight Mingyao gave him and seemed to be in love with this convenient and easy-to-use little thing. Thanks to this thing, he was able to dig out the original The mining mission, which was expected to take at least a week, was completed ahead of schedule.

After thinking for a long time, he turned to look at Mingyao and said humbly: "Mr. Mingyao, please, can you sell me this thing called a flashlight?"

Mingyao looked at him and shook his head gently: "It's a pity, no."

"Huh?!" Juyi suddenly showed a disappointed look, but still tried hard to say: "I know that this kind of Galaxy Team's technological products must be very expensive, but there is no problem. I am actually quite rich, and my family is also There are still many precious stones that have not been sold, and those who can definitely afford their prices..."

"You misunderstood, that's not the problem." Mingyao spread his hands and said, dumbfounded: "The cost of this gadget is actually not expensive. The material cost and labor cost together are probably only 50 yuan at most. When the technology matures, I'm afraid it will cost more. Then cut it off by a few percent, so it’s not a question of money.”

Juyi was stunned: "What's the problem?"

"Your Pearl Settlement...can't recharge."

Mingyao himself didn't know how to explain this principle to Juyi, so he could only shrug helplessly: "To put it simply, the energy of the flashlight is not infinite. Just like living things need to eat and drink water, it also needs regular charging to replenish energy. . And the equipment that can replenish its energy is currently only available in Zhuqing Village in the entire Xicui area."

"That's it..." Ju Yi could only show a look of reluctance in her eyes, and honestly returned the flashlight to Mingyao.

Mingyao looked at his pitiful look and couldn't help but shake his head and turned to look at Zhubei: "So, how about the thing I asked you to do before? It's the thing I told you last month. thing."

Zhubei thought for a while: "Are you talking about the distribution of the Pokémon League in Pearl Village, that is, the Pokémon Center?"

"That's right." Mingyao nodded: "If it is completed, our future infrastructure projects near Pearl Village will be much easier to progress. Maybe you will be able to use electricity earlier."

"...This, the progress is not ideal." Zhubei frowned with some distress: "I tried to ask some more influential old people. Although they would not exclude outsiders from stationing near the Pearl settlement for a short period of time, if If you want to build a house for long-term living, and if you want to carry out large-scale construction nearby, you will basically be opposed to it.”

"I think so. If the result is good, it won't be my turn to ask you..." Mingyao sighed: "Sure enough, Team King Kong should be ahead in terms of accepting new things?"

Zhubei immediately blinked sensitively: "Does it mean that the Pokémon Center at Team Kong has already been built?"

"It's not that fast, but the progress is indeed smoother than I expected." Mingyao nodded: "Gangshi quickly convinced everyone from the King Kong team. The members of the King Kong team basically have a positive attitude. , very cooperative with work such as the census. Huo Xia and Xiao Zhao went to the King Kong team half a month ago to do related preparatory work. Counting the days, it should be almost over. "

Zhubei snorted, nodded slightly, and said after a moment of silence: "I will try my best to convince those who object...it won't take long."

"Well, please."

During the conversation, the three of them had returned to the entrance of the tunnel.

Nono, who had been waiting at the entrance of the cave for a long time, ran over as soon as he saw them. The distance of tens of meters made him out of breath, and he stammered:

"Chairman! Something big happened just now! A Gyarados got into a fight with a bunch of buzzing yellow Pokémon, and then the Gyarados started wreaking havoc everywhere, and then it suddenly started raining. There was thunder, and then the Gyarados was scorched by electricity and fell down..."

"Okay, okay, I know what happened. You don't have to repeat every sentence to me with onomatopoeia." Mingyao waved his hand towards her to interrupt her, and lifted the storage bag filled with ores in his hand. : "We have finished the work successfully. How is your report going?"

"Ah...here." Nuonuo hurriedly handed the report she had written to Mingyao, but she couldn't help but wonder in her heart.

Any idea what happened?How did he know?

Mingyao glanced briefly and nodded: "Well, that's almost it. Anyway, we are just investigating as a previous unit, so there is no need to write too complicated."

With that said, he threw out Gardevoir's elf ball and waved to Zhubei and Juyi: "Then let's take a step first. Remember to let me know if there is any progress."

Zhubei hummed softly, and after watching Mingyao and Nuonuo disappear quickly after a flash of light, he suddenly couldn't help but sigh:

"Juyi, I suddenly had an idea."