Wait, you actually brought Hearty Grains with you when you crossed over? And seeds, no less?
No, seriously, why did you bring something like that?
Hold on! If you brought this stuff with you, why didn’t you take it out earlier? If you’d taken it out sooner, would we have needed to go hungry for so long?
Under the uniform stares of the Alakazam crowding around him, the young Alakazam felt a chill run down the back of its neck and its scalp go numb.
“Seniors, what are you all doing?” the young Alakazam asked nervously.
The elderly Alakazam said faintly, “Do you realize that if you’d taken out the Hearty Grains on the very day we arrived, we might already be eating them by now?”
Hearty Grains were a staple food in the Pokémon world and contained extremely rich nutritional value. More importantly, they could be harvested four times a year and were also extremely easy to grow.
If Grass-type Pokémon helped accelerate their growth, Hearty Grains could even be harvested once a month.
“Well… I forgot,” the young Alakazam explained simply.
Upon hearing this, the elderly Alakazam’s expression instantly became complicated. The laboratory fell silent for quite a while before the elderly Alakazam finally asked faintly, “You b*stard… you aren’t some fake that a Ditto has transformed into, are you?”
Alakazam had IQs as high as 5,000 and possessed super brains that made all living creatures envious.
What did an IQ of 5,000 even mean? The highest IQ currently known among humans was only 276.
So why did this guy look so dumb? Could Alakazam mutate so badly that even their super brains disappeared?
“But I didn’t bring many seeds with me. Just this one packet,” Alakazam said weakly.
The elderly female Alakazam asked curiously, “Speaking of which, why were you carrying seeds around in the first place?”
“Wasn’t the organization trying to research a plant virus specifically targeting Hearty Grains? These were experimental materials I’d prepared,” the young Alakazam explained somewhat sheepishly.
Upon hearing this, the other Alakazam became anxious again, especially the elderly Alakazam, who hurriedly asked, “These things aren’t infected with a virus, right?”
“No.” The young Alakazam shook its head.
Only then did the Alakazam breathe sighs of relief.
“Forget all that for now. Go find Pokémon that know Growth and Rototiller. We’ll plant the Hearty Grains as quickly as possible,” the elderly Alakazam swiftly arranged.
The elderly female Alakazam added, “And Berries. Don’t forget those either.”
“Humans should be pretty good at farming. When the time comes, we can enslave those fake humans and make them work for us,” an Alakazam filled with malice toward humans added from the side.
Another Alakazam also chimed in and echoed: “Right, and we can’t treat those fake humans too well.”
“Then make them work eight hours a day and only allow them two days off each week. As for their treatment, we’ll have to feed them well enough. After all, if they don’t eat their fill, they might not have the strength to work.”
“Then let’s temporarily settle on three meals a day. Once the Hearty Grains are growing properly, we can feed them some too. To those lowly fake humans, Hearty Grains are already divine treasures they could hardly dream of obtaining even across eight lifetimes.”
“We should also pay attention to their mental health. These fake humans are structured almost the same as real humans, so they’re very prone to psychological problems.”
“And the environment too. We need to consider that as well. If they don’t sleep well, they won’t have the energy to work.”
“And also…”
The Alakazam, who believed themselves to be evil, discussed how they should enslave the humans while still getting them to work obediently.
How could Alakazam who lived in a utopia possibly understand the lives of modern wage slaves?
The conditions they regarded as harsh would already be a perfect job in the hearts of ordinary wage slaves.
…
Lu Li had no idea that something capable of pushing the entire world’s development forward was taking place in another region.
Having just finished training, Lu Li took out an intact red-and-white Poké Ball.
After getting a toolbox from Fatty Lei, Lu Li began skillfully dismantling the red-and-white Poké Ball in his hands.
He did not brute-force it open. Instead, he first carefully examined its structure before taking the Poké Ball apart layer by layer.
Once the Poké Ball had been dismantled, Lu Li fell silent.
He discovered that the Poké Ball’s core component was actually the button controlling its size, whose function was precisely to enlarge or shrink the Poké Ball.
More importantly, this switch also involved certain composite metals and some extremely intricate components.
This red-and-white Poké Ball was clearly a product of modern industry, but in the current environment, whether a Poké Ball had this function or not made no difference.
Thinking this, Lu Li carefully placed the button to one side and did not take it apart for inspection, because he had no need for the Poké Ball’s enlarging and shrinking function.
Lu Li shifted his attention to the Poké Ball’s spherical shell.
The Poké Ball’s outer shell was actually made from the shell of a Red Apricorn. The manufacturing process here should be the simplest part: cut open the Red Apricorn, clean it out, and then install a special device inside.
Aside from that, the outer shell of the Red Apricorn also had a special coating, but whether or not that coating was present did not affect the Poké Ball’s basic functions, so Lu Li skipped over it entirely.
Lu Li then examined the remaining components. Their structures were simple and did not require a high level of industrial technology, which was an unexpected pleasant surprise.
After working for nearly two hours, Lu Li finally reassembled the dismantled Poké Ball completely.
Good news.
If he were still at Juzi University right now, he could absolutely use Apricorns to make a simple ancient-style Poké Ball.
Bad news.
He was not at Juzi University right now, and Juzi University was roughly three kilometers away.
Before the apocalypse, that distance would have been nothing. A taxi could get there in just over ten minutes. But now it was the apocalypse, and a journey of three kilometers was enough to make people shrink back at the thought.
“Looks like making Poké Balls will have to be postponed.” Lu Li sighed.
Still, Lu Li did not feel particularly regretful about it. After all, Dawn Camp would eventually have to move to Juzi University. The reason was simple: the mall was not suitable as a long-term base.
Once they made it through the early stages of the apocalypse, even if he did not bring it up, Jun Shutong and the others would consider relocating the camp.
One month at most.
If Jun Shutong and the others still did not find a better base after one month, everyone in Dawn Camp would die.
“Little Beauty, we don’t have much time left,” Lu Li said softly to the Feebas in the tank.
Lu Li decided to train for a week first, then take Feebas out to capture a new Pokémon.
But before that, he still needed to discuss something with Indeedee—namely, asking Indeedee to help him scout out a sufficiently outstanding Pokémon nearby whose strength was still weaker than Feebas.
That condition was actually pretty excessive, but there was no helping it. Feebas really was too weak.
Even a Level 15 Feebas might not be able to beat a Level 10 Caterpie. There was no way around it—the gap in their base stats was right there. Feebas was called one of the most useless Pokémon for a reason.
But looking at it another way, if Feebas were stronger than Caterpie, Lu Li would never have gotten the chance to pick up such a bargain in the first place.
As the saying went, every gain and loss was ordained by fate. Lu Li did not dare ask for too much.
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