On the phone’s notepad, a new message appeared, containing someone’s unique verbal tic.
“New Champion ~ The Dragonite is holding Silph Co.’s newest ~ nutritional fluid! While it’s a ~ little expensive, the effects are immediate ~! Please refer to the instruction manual for detailed effects. That’s all (<ゝω·)~☆ kira”
Some people’s personalities can be roughly discerned just from text, like this New Champion of Luminose City, who had only been in office for a year.
Luo Mu wouldn’t have lost his composure just from this note, but after checking his bank balance, he couldn’t help but feel a pang of sadness.
After purchasing several bags of experimental crop seeds, some fertilizer, and enough pasture seeds to cover the ranch area, Luo Mu still had 210,000 alliance currency left.
However, the bank card balance clearly showed that the 210,000 was now only 60,000 alliance currency.
In other words, this box of incubation fluid cost him a whopping 150,000 alliance currency.
What kind of incubation fluid sells for 150,000? Even the incubation fluid used for Dragonite back then only cost 50,000.
Now his savings were completely in deficit!
With a feeling of indignation, Luo Mu fiercely tore open the box, muttering threateningly, “Once your fans exceed a thousand, I’m going to drag you over here to do live stream sales for me!”
The box wasn’t big. After opening it, three bottles of emerald-green solution, well-wrapped in foam and undamaged, along with their containers, came into view.
Luo Mu didn’t even look at these liquids; he just felt that they were now the embodiment of money, and even a glance brought him heartache.
He snatched up the instruction manual and began to read. A moment later, his anger slowly dissipated, and all his emotions turned into a sigh.
Qi Shu had put thought into this.
This incubation fluid was Silph Co.’s latest product, specifically designed to address issues like innate deficiencies and inability to Shell Smash in Pokemon eggs. It could effectively replenish lost nutrients for the Pokemon inside the egg and improve problems such as innate deficiencies and weakness after hatching.
This box of three bottles of solution was to be used one bottle per week, with three weeks (twenty-one days) constituting one course of treatment.
Finding such an incubation fluid showed that the little girl Qi Shu was indeed seriously considering the Pokemon egg.
Forget it, he’d exploit her a little less when he made her do live stream sales.
Luo Mu put down the instruction manual, opened his phone, and scrolled through his contacts, muttering, “I almost forgot. While I still have power, I should call Dr. Olin to let her know I’m safe. Her and Fu Tu must be worried sick.”
But no matter how many times he scrolled, he didn’t see any missed calls from Dr. Olin. Luo Mu’s brows furrowed deeply as he looked at Pai Pa, who stood behind him with a hesitant expression. He immediately understood what had happened.
It seemed Dr. Olin probably didn’t even know Pai Pa had left home, did she?
Luo Mu almost laughed in anger. He had been completely fooled by Pai Pa, this half-grown boy. This kid hadn’t just spontaneously decided to come play with him.
Clearly, his parents had broken their promise, and in his sadness and confusion, he happened to meet Luo Mu, a person who didn’t exist in the original storyline. That’s why he ran to Luo Mu like a small animal to lick his wounds.
And Dr. Olin and Fu Tu were probably away from home due to some urgent matter these past few days, which was why they hadn’t noticed Pai Pa hadn’t returned home late at night.
Luo Mu looked at Pai Pa, whose expression was cautious, as if afraid Luo Mu would kick him out. He recalled the hidden melancholy of Senior Pai Pa in various details when he played violet, and his anger subsided. He sighed, “Never mind. Tell me what your parents went to do. Were they already gone last night?”
“Yes.”
Pai Pa nodded almost imperceptibly, recounting everything that happened after Dragonite took him home last night: the empty house, the uncleaned and unassembled ingredients on the dining table, and the note.
Luo Mu crossed his arms, leaning against the wall, and asked, “So, they were forced to break their promise due to an urgent work matter?”
Pai Pa nodded with a muffled sound, as if he had just cried, “Mm.”
“I’m telling you, Pai Pa,” Luo Mu pulled a hand away to rub his forehead in exasperation, trying to clear his thoughts, “But your parents, even in such a hurry, still made sure to leave a note explaining the situation to consider your feelings, instead of just leaving like before. Doesn’t that just show how much they care about you?”
Pai Pa blinked, not speaking.
Dududu—
The phone Luo Mu had been trying to call Dr. Olin on gave a busy signal, indicating they had probably reached a place with no signal.
Coupled with their rushed departure this time, it was highly likely to be related to the Paldea Great Crater.
Luo Mu glanced at Pai Pa and decided not to take him back to South Area One. He suggested, “Never mind. You can just stay and sleep here tonight. We’ll figure out the rest tomorrow, okay?”
Pai Pa nodded vigorously. He hated his empty home; staying at Luo Mu’s house was better than going back.
“Then it’s settled.”
Luo Mu didn’t try to change Pai Pa’s mind further. Haste makes waste; such things could only be taken one step at a time.
The next morning.
Luo Mu, who was used to waking up early for training, got up promptly at seven.
Luo Mu threw off the covers, looked around, saw nothing, and nodded with satisfaction.
Good. It seemed Serperior, Mimikyu, or Dragonite hadn’t secretly snuck into his bed last night.
However, Mimikyu should still be out in the wild looking for a suitable Pokemon with the Flame Body ability, so it was normal for it not to be home.
This three-story villa, with his continuous additions and renovations during this period, had begun to feel like a cozy home.
On the bedside table, the Pokemon egg, which had been soaking in Silph Co.’s incubation fluid, lay quietly in the incubator. Overnight, the emerald-green solution had already changed color slightly.
Luo Mu remembered the instruction manual said that once the solution turned from emerald green to transparent, it meant that all the energy in the solution had been absorbed by the Pokemon egg.
“Isn’t this change too fast?”
Luo Mu was a little confused, realizing he couldn’t figure it out with his own intelligence. So, he asked in his mind, “Yuanfang, what do you think?”
“My lord, I’m sitting and watching.”
“Stop messing around. All you do is play on words. Quickly tell me why?”
“Host, did you misunderstand the scope of the hint system’s function? You’re treating me like a search engine and an omniscient book.”
Luo Mu tried to confuse the system: “...We need to learn to innovate. Who says a hint system can’t become a search engine? You have to think, once this child in the Pokemon egg hatches, won’t I have an extra combat power?”
“The accumulation of strength is a slow and steady process.”
“Damn it, Host, what you said makes so much sense.”
“This is a Pokemon egg from the distant past. Its talent is excellent, and the energy present in the Pokemon egg itself is insufficient for hatching. Suggested hatching methods: 1. Provide enough energy. 2. A powerful Pokemon with Flame Body assists in hatching.”
Luo Mu was silent for a long while, his mood incredibly complex. He poked his own head and asked himself, “Why didn’t I ask you in the first place?”
“Perhaps... you have amnesia?”
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