Chapter 43: Preparing To Crush Us Bloody······
This unit mainly covers what needs to be done during the Growth Period and Pokémon food.
In other words, once Pokémon officially enter the high-speed Growth Period, what they should eat to grow stronger and healthier.
Constantly eating human food won’t do, and constantly eating Berries won’t do either.
As everyone knows, Pokémon also have their own cruel ecosystem.
But after a large number of Pokémon were tamed by humans and involved in environmental management, the wild areas near cities are no longer as terrifying as they once were.
It’s said that in the past, dragon groups would regularly come to the city to plunder.
There were humans who ate Pokémon, and Pokémon who ate humans.
But most humans don’t have special abilities and aren’t nutritious to eat, so unless they were starving or had nothing else to eat, wild Pokémon rarely attacked humans.
And now, in this era where Pokémon and humans basically coexist peacefully, Trainers and researchers, to ensure Pokémon get the nutrition they need for development and maintain body health, have scientists using their omnivorous Ability, as well as genes from certain ‘delicious’ Pokémon, through cloning technology, without violating basic ethics, cloning only specific body parts’ meat, mixing it with nutrient-rich Berry extracts or Miltank Milk and other highly nutritious things, processing it into ‘Pokémon-edible artificial meat’ to supplement the energy and nutrition needed during Pokémon’s growth.
And now, this ‘Pokémon Nurturing Meat’, is strictly graded based on the nutrition value and taste it contains, and sold as Trainers’ ‘essential item’.
Gene research and cloning technology involve many ethical issues, and there are many lawbreakers engaging in various shady businesses by skirting the edges, but as for subsequent regulations and detailed rules, ordinances, and countermeasures, the book says ‘currently only to be understood as extracurricular knowledge’, not something Trainee Trainers need to understand, so Li Wei didn’t even glance at it.
The current Li Wei is very pragmatic; if it’s not in the exam syllabus, he won’t look at it twice.
No need, wastes time, wastes brain cells.
As long as he doesn’t break the law, doesn’t violate discipline, eats regular meat, doesn’t participate, and immediately reports any bad deeds he encounters, being a qualified enthusiastic resident of Chaoyang City is enough.
In the Training Camp, with not high ideological awareness, he just wants to get excellent grades, a written exam over 85% isn’t embarrassing, that’s all.
The class has no jokes, no gimmicks, no funny elements, just listening to the instructor on the podium rambling nonstop, Li Wei’s hand, driven by instinct, like it’s rented, frantically and mechanically copying the inscrutable board notes Instructor Wang writes on the whiteboard.
Hand moving, while the person is AFK.
In this long and boring class, Li Wei’s only fun is, when seeing Eevee on the desk about to fall asleep, ruthlessly tapping her twice with the pen.
This isn’t him being petty, not sleeping himself so Eevee can’t either; he’s tempering Eevee’s willpower.
Whether others believe it or not, Riolu believes it anyway.
He, who firmly believes ‘Li Wei is forever god’, even during the five-minute break between classes encouraged Eevee to use Psychic Power to control the pen to take Notes, to train her willpower.
“Sigh, excellent Trainers can often lead by example to train excellent Pokémon.”
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The three-hour class passed just like that in Li Wei’s frantic skating.
Lunchtime nap can be called Li Wei’s highlight moment.
Excellent cooking skills directly made others envious; when everyone was saying ‘edible is fine’ about the canteen’s subtle food, the wonderful food aroma wafting from Li Wei’s table drew envious gazes from those around.
“That······ excuse me, where did you buy this bento?”
While a few were chatting, a Passerby A suddenly came over and asked their table.
“Hm? Not bought, we made it ourselves.” Li Wei put down the Jolly Water in his hand and answered the Passerby A next to him.
“Oh! Then the ingredients and bento box and such, are they bought from the supermarket next to the dormitory?” After getting Li Wei’s answer, Passerby A continued asking.
“Yes.” Li Wei nodded.
“Got it! Thanks! Helped a lot, won’t disturb your meal then.”
Then this super soldier Passerby A returned to his little group and spread the news.
What Li Wei didn’t know was that because of these few extra words he said today, it would lead to the Training Camp canteen suffering losses, and the supermarket sales hitting new highs.
Of course, this isn’t entirely Li Wei’s fault.
It’s just the right time, place, and people.
Just happened that everyone had just arrived at the training base and hadn’t adapted to the not-so-tasty food yet.
And it so happened that today’s first class topic was ‘Nutritional Needs During Pokémon’s Growth Period’, and ‘Reasonable Allocation of Meat Foods’, how to ‘maximize the nutrition from Berries’.
For most boys, their first Pokémon is the stepping stone to starting their Trainer career, the touchstone for getting into good schools; under this class’s influence, they already wanted to properly nurture their first Pokémon, and the canteen food was subpar, then they saw Li Wei’s appetizing bento.
This association, this comparison, this thought······
Ah this·······
Most people aren’t delicate young ladies who never lift a finger; who can’t cook?
The Pokémon League has many cooking recipes publicly available on the Internet; just follow them.
Eating canteen food costs money, buying ingredients to cook yourself also costs money; weighing the pros and cons, isn’t cooking yourself the best?
Thus, the future canteen aunties have very easy work, even not shaking when serving food.
At three in the afternoon, the group arrived at the Training Ground on time for assembly; after the routine roll call, they were taken away by squads for individual training as usual.
Today’s Instructor seemed high-spirited, not sure what happened after Morning Exercise; Li Wei didn’t even need Aura to probe, just looking at his expression revealed the unconcealed happiness and expectation.
“Today is practical simulation training. I observed your strength yesterday; continuing basic training would waste your potential, so today’s task is······”
The Instructor dragged out the tone while taking out a Poké Ball and releasing a Pokémon.
With a fierce roar, the Pokémon’s huge and terrifying figure appeared before everyone.
“Your task is to battle it.”
Saying that, the Instructor took that burly Pokémon to the other side of the Arena, waiting for everyone to accept reality and react accordingly.
Obviously, his action did shock everyone.
What is that?
Covered entirely in armor, sturdy limbs, body mainly black and orange-red, sharp drill on top of head; judging by appearance, definitely a ‘villain’ series decade-old veteran.
“Rhyperior????”
Tu Xiaomi covered her mouth and couldn’t help calling out this Pokémon’s name.
This····· how to fight?
Even in a group battle, they couldn’t think of how to fight.
Felt like their own Pokémon could be torn in half barehanded by that colossal beast······
The calmest was Li Wei; he waved his hand signaling Eevee and Riolu to go to the Arena themselves, while he stood at the command position pinching his chin thinking of countermeasures.
This Pokémon, this aura, no matter how you look, seems like this instructor’s ace Pokémon.
Guessing the Instructor’s position and age, Li Wei made a preliminary judgment.
‘Starting with ace Pokémon, preparing to crush us······’
Li Wei twitched his mouth, considering this battle might have to center on ‘escaping’.
But······
He won’t.
The Instructor’s smile felt off, seeming to have some ulterior motive.
As the king of bastards, Li Wei fundamentally doesn’t want others happier than him, so he plans to make the Instructor flip the car again.
Thus, he needs information.
Info that can quickly judge that Rhyperior’s strength and skillset.
Skills definitely known after clashing, but strength······
Judging by appearance and aura, can roughly estimate.
Take his father as reference.
Aggron < Instructor's Rhyperior < Swampert.
After Aura probing, looking at energy body concentration, roughly this conclusion.
So this Rhyperior at most looks very fierce, far from that slamming Dragonair, sweet-faced but actually brutally vicious Delibird Master.
With this deduction, this Pokémon’s strength should be around high Professional Level, a Level 5 Pokémon.
Hm.
Though much weaker than his dad, still not something he can beat.
Hard fight impossible.
But trolling, as old schemer, he still has a chance.
And among these vicious schemes, first up is the out-of-bounds plan that failed last time against Onix.
What one Riolu couldn’t do, plus Eevee, plus potentially useful teammates, has theoretical success probability.
Slightly curling his mouth, at this instant Li Wei also realized the blood of Li Yuan Sheng flowing in him.
Bellicose! Wanting to be reckless! If I could go on field with one, I could carry too!
This is the most real thought in Li Wei’s mind right now.
‘Isn’t this a level-up challenge??’
‘Isn’t this what those geniuses in fantasy novels love doing most?’
Since it’s what geniuses like, he Li Wei definitely likes it too!!!
Has the heart for challenge, and perfect retreat strategy.
Can’t win then run, can’t run then run out of field, still can’t then jump on Instructor’s face! No way Rhyperior doesn’t recognize family and beats its own Trainer?
Thinking this, Li Wei’s mental burden lessened a lot, full heart only ‘slaughter Instructor · second round’ idea.
Li Wei’s action made his good brothers who were still building mental fortitude suppress their ‘this round we’re done’ cowardly thoughts, similarly commanding their Pokémon to form up in the formation decided last battle and stand in the field.
“Let my Riolu go to the front, Eevee and Morpeko stand in front of Whimsicott, I feel this will be better.”
Looking at Morpeko who dropped the snacks in hand and automatically switched to Hangry Mode, Li Wei suggested to Mo Jiu.
Electric-type against Ground and Rock-type is way too disadvantageous.
“Okay.”
Mo Jiu didn’t refuse, nodded crisply in agreement.
This Rhyperior looks ‘super tanky’, whether the vanguard’s attacks on it will work is debatable.
No Referee, just pure 1v7, or rather their seven Pokémon getting gangbeaten by Instructor’s one Pokémon.
Under absolute strength gap, even battle-loving Riolu who desires challenge against everything couldn’t help being a bit panicked.
“Then let’s start!”
After Instructor casually said start, this Rhyperior moved.
It first roared to the sky, just the roar’s shockwave made the field Pokémon and off-field Li Wei group instinctively cover their ears.
“Stomp.”
Instructor struck first, issuing the command.
Just lift foot, Charge, drop; this three-step action, boosted by Rhyperior’s strength and power, surprisingly stomped out an Earthquake effect.
At the instant of its footfall, the already fragile Arena cracked instantly; shaking ground, upheaving rock chunks easily disrupted their team’s formation.
Without giving any buffer, Instructor issued another command.
“Rock Blast.”
Unlike normal Rock Blast, gathering massive Rock-type energy into a giant stone to attack.
For this skill Rock Blast, Rhyperior has its unique release method.
Saw Rhyperior slowly raise both hands, Rock-type brown energy massively gathered in hands, then with a ‘boom’, massive rocks burst from the rock cavities in its hands, and the launch direction was exactly where Riolu and others were.
“Dodge!”
Unsure of power, purely from aura Li Wei judged this isn’t a move Riolu or Eevee can tank.
But in not even a second after Li Wei shouted, massive rock chunks smashed into the field.
Accompanied by a few sharp screams, Li Wei admits he panicked.
When even Li Wei panicked, the nearby bad friends’ expressions weren’t good either.
Zhou Fengjue face dark, lips pursed.
Tu Xiaomi sucked in a cold breath.
Yu Yixian was about to rush to the field for his Ponyta, no backbone at all.
And Tian Bai lived up to good brother, her expression identical to Yu Yixian’s.
Among all on-field Pokémon, her Mime Jr. has the largest size and slowest speed.
In large-area indiscriminate attack skills, most likely to get hurt is her Pokémon.
Her ugly face is totally understandable.
At this point dust settled, field a mess.
The originally flat Arena was bombed by Rhyperior’s one Stomp and one blast into uneven, high-low rocky terrain filled with dust and rock chunks.
Where Rock Blast hit, there are giant craters.
Meaning, even if luckily dodged the rocks, inevitably affected by its massive carried energy.
Sudden big move made on-field Pokémon look quite disheveled.
Eevee and Riolu together on higher rock pile, bodies just dusted, no real damage, still decent.
Treecko, Whimsicott, Morpeko relying on small size hid in ground fissures from the Stomp.
But due to Rock Blast bombardment, massive rock debris nearly buried the three Pokémon; now they’re frantically digging to get out from underground.
Worst off are Yu Yixian’s Ponyta and Mime Jr.
Due to larger size and relative inflexibility compared to other Pokémon, few skills mastered, even with Rhyperior deliberately targeting the field, these two Pokémon’s condition still very bad.
In less than half a minute of battle, Instructor used two skills to break their formation and hit their weaknesses.
High evasion can only self-rescue; theoretical outputters powerless against field attacks; slow ones without dodge space also have shaky defense.
Looking at the messy scene in the Arena, Instructor on command stand satisfactorily curled his mouth.
As expected, this is the normal way to open newbie training!
He could already imagine in a few minutes, himself high-spirited reading today’s cheat sheet ideology education and training plan.
But.
Just half a minute after he sighed like this, under Li Wei’s command, Riolu and Eevee suddenly moved.
Timo’s Flop Diary
July 16
【July 15, 1061 votes, add 1 chapter】
Today ah, today······· slept very soundly.
Updated the blurb.
Because I found, you cuties, most of the time only count chapters not pages or word count.
Kinda frustrating.
Except occasional slacking, during New Book Period I daily update 4k+, some days 6-8k.
But I only post one chapter, then some start.
Mostly well-intentioned, just hoping I update more, but occasionally run into idiots.
Um······
Thought about it, marked it in the blurb.
Hehe.
One more chapter yay, just need a chapter title, and attentive you might notice, every chapter title can be recovered in the text.
From Daily Life series it’s been like this.
I really, can’t name things.
Once even side characters were Lu Renyi, Lu Ren’er, Lu Ren, spare me on naming?
Make me post that many chapters a day, really lose a lot of hair.
Pear Paste, just one more chapter okay? Word count same anyway?
Drained.
o(╥﹏╥)o
Tomorrow Lu Ge to show off, physics cooks rejoice.
Hehe~
That’s it, look forward to tomorrow’s update.
Slipping away.
Above.
（Wait, clearly Li Wei made the plan, why say Lu Ge showing off??）
