Chapter 27: Scallion Roast Duck
Look at that item lying in the red box!
This black and gold design exudes nobility and luxury no matter where you look at it.
Taking one out and holding it in his hand to examine it, it shimmered with a low-key and restrained light under the sunlight. The sphere was also inlaid with a circle of gold trim, paired with a touch of red that had an extremely charming national style flair. Wasn’t this the legendary Luxury Ball, limited to 30,000 nationwide, 50,000 per ball?
Awesome!
At this moment, Li Wei’s mind could hold nothing else besides these two big words.
Li Wei, who had no idea what to say, could only sigh and silently take out his mobile phone to snap a photo and send it to his mother.
Li Wei: 【Picture】
Li Wei: Mom, is this it?
Mother: Yes√
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Li Wei: Got it, going to toss the ball now.
Mother: Go ahead.
Mother: 【WeChat transfer 100,000 yuan】
Li Wei: ????
Mother: When you go to the Pokémon Center to register, pick up some things while you’re at it. You might not be used to the stuff in the training area.
Li Wei: ······
Mother: Even if you don’t need anything, get something for Eevee and Riolu.
Li Wei: Oh.
Mother: Forget it, you’re unreliable. Spend this money however you want.
Mother: Have Mime Jr. WeChat me. I’ll have him prepare your luggage.
???
It had to be said that every time he chatted with his own mother, countless question marks would always appear above his head.
Whether it was the sudden transfer or the fact that Mime Jr. could send WeChat messages, both had a huge impact on him.
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Speechless, Li Wei silently pocketed his mobile phone, holding one ball in each hand, and walked out of the warehouse to find Riolu and Eevee.
This belated capture had absolutely no sense of ceremony.
Watching Riolu and Eevee calmly tap the balls on their own heads and disappear in a flash of red light right in front of him filled him with a sudden sense of boredom.
At a time like this, if he raised the ball and shouted “Pokémon, get da ze!”, would his own Pokémon despise him?
Li Wei didn’t know.
Sighing, he released the two Pokémon again. Looking at the shrunken Poké Balls, Li Wei felt that buying a few suitable waist pouches was an urgent matter.
Otherwise, fiddling with two balls in his hands wasn’t very appropriate. Each ball cost 50,000—what if he lost one······
“Sigh.”
Sighing, Li Wei went to convey his mother’s decree to Mime Jr.
After watching in the living room for a while as Mime Jr. performed the magical act of sending WeChat messages, Li Wei silently returned to his room to continue studying, waiting for Tian Bai to finish packing the luggage so they could go to the Pokémon hall to handle the registration procedures.
Although he could look up a tutorial online and handle the procedures himself now, if he stood Tian Bai up again, she would be too pitiful.
He wasn’t some devil; he was a person with a conscience. He still wouldn’t do something so excessive.
Thinking this way, Li Wei opened the fifteenth volume of the Pokémon League textbook with a face full of despair and began reciting the relevant history of the Pokémon World.
At 12:30 noon, amid Mime Jr.’s cries of “Bali bali!”, Li Wei and the others’ lunch time began.
And as luck would have it, Tian Bai arrived at just that moment.
After opening the door, Li Wei saw an Indeedee following behind her, carrying a large suitcase and greeting the Pokémon inside the home.
“Looks like I came at the perfect time!” Tian Bai said, unceremoniously sitting down at the dining table and humming a tune as she waited for her share of lunch.
Lunch was Mime Jr.’s confident creation—roast duck.
To be fair, if Li Wei hadn’t misheard, Mime Jr. had even given this meal a very apt name: Scallion Roast Duck.
If the words “Scallion Roast Duck” were rearranged, it would be the rhythm where League officers would come knocking to check the meter in minutes.
This was about the early last century, when laws regarding inedible Pokémon were not yet sound, and Farfetch’d, a Pokémon that came with its own ingredients for marinating, was once eaten to near extinction.
According to the information in the textbook, the surviving Farfetch’d worldwide numbered only about 1,300 and had been listed as a nationally protected animal prohibited from purchase.
What made Li Wei both amused and exasperated was that there were many similar cases.
Due to the infinite regeneration ability of octopuses, octopus buckets were once kept captive by various octopus enthusiasts.
After all, they would regenerate even if cut off, so······ it should be fine to eat some.
Budget-conscious takoyaki fans rejoiced, okonomiyaki stood up, and teppanyaki octopus joined in the fun······
After sweeping the globe for a while, it was immediately strictly prohibited by the Pokémon League, which promptly issued related laws.
Even so, it couldn’t stop everyone’s love for Pokémon.
The launch of Wishiwashi canned goods nearly starved a bunch of marine life.
After almost eating up an entire ocean ecosystem, people gradually realized that eating Pokémon was not advisable.
Finally, a group of devils turned their sights to Slowpoke Tails.
“Anyway, its tail falls off on its own, so it should be fine if we pick it up and eat it, right?”
Thus, Slowpoke farms began.
To be fair, the breeding licenses were issued by the League, and the pond owners, in order to make their Slowpoke tails more tender and delicious, didn’t abuse the Slowpoke. It could be said that this group of seemingly foolish but actually possibly brainless dummies lived a palace-level life far more comfortable than in the wild.
With that, this gluttonous feast revolving around Pokémon finally came to a curtain.
In the time it took to zone out briefly, they finished lunch.
Eevee still had Li Wei’s specially made “great tonic type” vegetables and fruits dish. Seeing her teary-eyed pitiful look, Li Wei still tore off a bit of duck meat for her.
Riolu ate a whole roast duck, paired with the doctor-recommended calcium tablets and mixed fruit juice—it was so satisfying.
All little Pokémon, yet watching Riolu feast, Eevee could only note that she remembered this grudge.
Though “hating” it, she still obediently ate the food in her bowl.
After all, she could feel that although these things were hard to eat, the energy in her body was indeed more abundant.
Thus, to satisfy her appetite, Eevee had one more reason to become stronger.
The steps to register with the League were simple: just recall the Pokémon into Poké Balls, hand them to the front desk staff, and show your League ID card.
After successful online registration, the registered Trainer would also receive a paper certification.
This outing was a full family mobilization.
Li Wei, Tian Bai, Eevee, Riolu, and Dragonair went to the Pokémon League to register, while Mime Jr. went out to procure items.
The reason Dragonair was going with them was that training area training allowed one “Guardian Pokémon” to accompany.
As the name implied, this was to prevent underage children from training alone unsafely, so the Pokémon League allowed everyone to bring along one Pokémon with “Guardian Pokémon” qualifications for accompaniment.
This humane setup left Li Wei, who was reading the training rules, stunned.
While handling identification at the Pokémon League, seeing Dragonair drag its tail to hand a small card to the front desk staff, which beeped after scanning and produced a “Senior Guardian Pokémon Qualification Certificate,” left Li Wei completely dumbfounded.
Look at that—this two-year-old Pokémon had been forced by life to learn what?
In comparison, Li Wei felt he was truly a conscientious Trainer.
At the very least, his Eevee and Riolu were growing happily without a care.
After Li Wei embellished this story and told it to Riolu and Eevee, on the way home, the looks these two little ones gave Dragonair were filled with deep sympathy.
With Mime Jr. helping pack the luggage, Li Wei naturally wouldn’t interfere anymore.
It wasn’t that he didn’t know how, nor that he hadn’t looked it up online—what to bring—it was really just one word: lazy.
It had to be said that having Pokémon serve was addictive. If he could have a personal Pokémon secretary, that would be even better.
The secretary handles things when there’s work, and when there’s none? As long as it’s not illegal.
Hehe.
Just like the silly boy who once looked forward to military training, Li Wei now stared at the two large suitcases packed at the door, full of expectation for tomorrow’s training.
Riolu and Eevee felt the same.
These three, theoretically, had never left home and hadn’t seen much of the world. Tomorrow’s “outing” really had them full of anticipation.
The three excitedly infected each other with emotions, to the point that Li Wei ended up telling stories to Eevee and Riolu all night. He and the two Pokémon stayed awake until the sun rose.
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So, with panda eyes and surviving on caffeine, the three little ones’ group boarded the car together under Tian Bai’s idiotic gaze, heading to their good buddy’s home to gather.
Of course, due to extreme fatigue, Li Wei still didn’t know who this mysterious good buddy was.
“You three······ what exactly did you do last night??”
Tian Bai looked at the three little ones who squeezed into the corner to sleep together right after getting in the car and asked helplessly.
“Probably stayed up all night.”
“Bu Yi.”
【Listening to stories】
“Ruru······”
【Too excited to sleep······】
After that, throughout the entire journey, these three made no sounds except breathing.
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“Hey!”
“Get up!”
The one mercilessly waking them wasn’t Mom, but Tian Bai.
By now, they had driven to some bustling area in the center of Magic City.
Their car was parked in the underground garage, and their destination was the rooftop of this building—specifically, the rooftop helipad.
When he first heard this news, Li Wei thought there was something wrong with his brain.
After Tian Bai knocked on his still-dazed head and repeated it word for word, he finally realized it wasn’t him who had a problem, but this world.
Good grief, he had this kind of rich friend who flew helicopters from home?
Awesome!
Full of anticipation, Li Wei dragged his fatigued body onto the elevator.
Looking at his reflection in the elevator door, Li Wei once again regretted not transmigrating as a Pokémon.
Right now, hanging on him wasn’t some pretty girl or girlfriend, but the so-called Guardian Pokémon Dragonair.
He didn’t know what was up with this Dragonair. It wasn’t even in last night’s story session, yet it stayed up all night too, coiling around him and falling asleep.
A 4.2-meter big kid draped over him—this weight was like weighted training; every step Li Wei took was torture.
And because Dragonair’s big head was on Li Wei’s shoulder, Eevee had shifted to the top of Li Wei’s head.
This also meant Li Wei couldn’t lower his head right now.
Don’t lower your head, or Eevee will fall.
Riolu was the most worry-free for Li Wei; he lay on the suitcase being dragged behind, adding only a bit of dragging weight—otherwise, the most conscientious.
“Sigh.”
Looking at his fatigued reflection in the elevator door, Li Wei felt he had given too, too much to this family.
Why was it like this?
Shouldn’t Pokémon be solving his problems?
Hadn’t these guys mixed up their roles and status???
Just as Li Wei was questioning life, the elevator doors opened.
Appearing in Li Wei’s view were two very familiar “good brothers.”
“Yo! Isn’t this the big shot Li Wei?”
“Yo! Isn’t this the Li Wei who needs an appointment to meet and even requires a driver to come invite him personally?”
One sentence each from the two, opening with sarcasm.
“Damn! Speak like humans!!”
Looking at the two sarcastic brothers in front of him, all his previous fantasies of rich friends, beautiful little wishes, and leg-hugging diary vanished into smoke.
Even after transmigrating, these bad friends were indeed a set with Tian Bai!
The first sarcastic good brother was named Zhou Fengjue, and the one following suit was Yu Yixian. If Li Wei guessed right, he’d soon meet a girl named Tu Xiaomi.
The five of them were elementary school classmates with a great relationship. Even after not attending the same junior or senior high, they still hung out together during holidays.
What sustained his friendship with Zhou Fengjue and Yu Yixian was comic cons and anime, while what kept them connected to Tu Xiaomi relied entirely on Tian Bai.
Different genders, but united by shared hobbies and easygoing personalities, their weekend holidays were lively and fun. Not normies, but better than normies.
“Turns out they’re all acquaintances.”
At this moment, the slightly socially anxious Li Wei let go of his reservations, immediately channeling his decade of old Pantheon skills to fire back at this wave.
The group chatted and laughed their way to the top floor, boarded the helicopter, and headed to Training Area One.
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Today’s py: 《Douluo of Nuclear Explosion Douluo》, a boy transmigrates to Douluo, his Sharingan martial soul mutates into a radiation eye, becoming a high-concentration radiation source—what path will he take?
If you like it, grab the link in the comments as you please~
Timo’s Flop Diary
July 1st, clear
Actually, sometimes······ the most sorrowful thing isn’t anything else, but when you’ve already planned what to write in today’s diary, you forget because of excessive tension from Speed of Life and Death.
I cracked.
Oh right, the link thing is half-solved.
Because of fixing typos, this dumb assistant refreshes the link, so from now on, I’ll post the link half an hour after uniform updates.
I’m enlightened.
Other people’s assistants solve problems—need something, find the assistant; nothing, still find the assistant. Mine? A pure artificial retard.
Crying crying crying.
Today’s performance will decide next week’s recommendation.
To be honest, panicking like hell yet also super chill.
Sigh.
Sigh.
Sigh.
Sigh.
That’s it, done, end.
